Future of Environment Workshop

November 10, 2023, 11am-12:30pm EST

Agenda

1.5 Hours Total

  • 40 mins of discussions with expert panelists + finalize challenge statements
  • 30 mins of group work to build pitch
  • 20 mins for team presentations

Prizes

For 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, the total prizes are:

  • 1st place $500 Visa gift card/ $300 in Linux course credits / $1000 PreprLab kit/ Chance for internships at Prepr and network of partners
  • 2nd place $250 Visa gift card/ $300 in Linux course credits $1000 PreprLab kit
  • 3rd place $125 Visa gift card/ $300 in Linux course credits / $1000 PreprLab kit

This Year’s Winners

1st place

Rabiya Azeez

 

Check our their work here: Rabiya Azeez- IFC Live Challenge 2023 – Environment

2nd place

Oluwayemisi Adedeji

 

Check our their work here: Oadedeji – IFC Live Challenge 2023 – Environment

3rd place

Cindy Tran

 

Check our their work here: Cindy – IFC Live Challenge 2023 – Environment

**Please be advised that while participants are welcome to enter the Challenges, it should be noted that individuals who have previously won are ineligible for further awards.

Please be advised that all cash prizes will be awarded in CAD.**

Our Expert Panelists

Cheryl Evans

Director, Flood and Wildfire Resilience

Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation

University of Waterloo

Cheryl Evans leads the Intact Centre team that works across Canada with residents, businesses, governmental and non-governmental organizations to co-create flood and wildfire-ready risk assessment tools, training programs, and community-partnered resilient retrofit education programs. Cheryl has over 20 years’ experience facilitating multi-stakeholder, climate-ready initiatives across the country. Cheryl holds a B.E.S. in Environment & Resource Studies from the University of Waterloo and starts her Master’s Degree in Disaster and Emergency Management at Royal Roads University this fall.

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Mike Flannigan

Research Chair for Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson Rivers University

Professor Emeritus at University of Alberta

Dr. Mike Flannigan is a BC Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science, Faculty of Science as well as the Science Director of the Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science (Canada Wildfire) located at the University of Alberta. Dr. Flannigan’s primary research interests include fire and weather/climate interactions including the potential impact of climatic change, lightning-ignited forest fires, landscape fire modeling and interactions between vegetation, fire, and weather. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wildland Fire (2002-2008) and has taken on leadership roles with the US National Assessment on Global Change, IPCC, IGBP Fire Fast Track Initiative and Global Change Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) efforts on the global impacts of fire.

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