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2026 EVENTS

Save the Date: 2nd Annual General Meeting (Hybrid) Friday, March 27, 2026 | 5:00 PM

2025 EVENTS

22. 2025-10-24: IEEEXtreme 19.0 24-hour programming competition at Okanagan College (OC and UBCO IEEE Student Branches) and at Thompson River University (TRU Student Branch), and LMs Mentoring Session
21. 2025-10-17: IEEE Day Celebration with OC IEEE SB and Thompson Okanagan Section
20. 2025-10-17: IEEE Thompson Okanagan Section Young Professionals Affinity Group Inauguration
19. 2025-09-24: Kristina Cormier (OC), Helana Jaraiseh (UFV), and Dr.Youry Khmelevsky. IEEE Thompson Okanagan Section, Okanagan SB, and Systems Council Chapter: Data Warehouse Workshop 2025
18. 2025-09-22: ANIS BEN ARFI, PHD, SMIEEE. Signals & Slices: An evening of pizza and conversation on RF, wireless, and communication tech with Rohde & Schwarz at OC
2025-09-12_14: IEEE Canada Students and Young Professionals Congress 2025 such a success!
17. 2025-08-21: COSC 448/COMP 440 Capstone Project Final Presentation: Enhancing Hospital Navigation – A Wayfinding App Prototype
16. 2025-08-24: S. Carl Zanon, Vishal Balasubramanian, Kristina Cormier, Youry Khmelevsky. IEEE Thompson Okanagan Section Life Members Summer Social 2025
15. 2025-08-12: Dr. Thomas Johnson, Dr. Youry Khmelevsky, Dr. Vishal Balasubramanian, Dr. Mohammad Zarifi , Dr. Kambiz Moez, Dr. Rashid Mirzavand, Dr. Thomas Jones. Emerging Developments in GHz Engineering (EDGE) 2025: IEEE Thompson Okanagan Section MTT-S Chapter Inauguration & Tech Summit
14. 2025-07-10. Wolfram Lunscher, Carl Zanon, and Ljiljana Trajkovic: IEEE Thompson-Okanagan Life Members Affinity Group Inauguration
13. 2025-05-05: Dr. Bowen Hui. Women in Computer Science and Technology
12. 2025-04-23: Joshua Padron-Uy. Testing Data Pipeline Limits for Stock Market Forecasting with Machine Learning Integration
11. 2025-04-23: Dylan Huitema. Case Study for Gamification for Cybersecurity
10. 2025-04-23: Kristina Cormier. Data Warehouse Design for Multiple Source Forest Inventory Management and Image Processing
9. 2025-04-23: Ajitesh Parihar. Diagram Annotation and Classification for Visually Impaired People in Higher Education
8. 2025-03-23: Matt Fritter. Hardware Workshop at Okanagan College
7. 2025-03-23: Ajitesh Parihar. Cybersecurity Workshop
6. 2025-03-22: 2025 Okanagan Innovation and Technology Expo
5. 2025-03-22: IEEE Thompson Okanagan Section Elevation Celebration & Annual General Meeting
4. 2025-03-22: Ajitesh Parihar & Dylan Huitema. Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Digital Resource Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Workshop
3. 2025-02-20: Ajitesh Parihar. Digital Research Infrastructure Workshop: Research Data Management (RDM) and High Performance Computing (HPC) Resources for Researchers
2. 2025-01-24: Kristina Cormier, Ajitesh Parihar, Joshua Padron-Uy, Dolcy Sareen, Keona Gagnier, Digital Research Nd Charlotte Ford. Alliance of Canada’s Digital Research Infrastructure Workshop
1. 2025-01-02: The First Open Meeting of the Thompson-Okanagan Section and Student Branches

2024 Events

- Okanagan Subsection Applying for Elevation to Section Status
8. 2024-12-19: IEEE Okanagan Section Year End Winter Social Event (Thurs Dec 19 from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.)
7. 2024-10-25: Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch and Okanagan Subsection are hosting IEEEXtreme 18.0
6. 2024-10-09: Kristina Cormier, Ajitesh Parihar, Fernanda Alves, Dolcy Sareen and Alex Ross. IEEE Day at Okanagan Subsection
- 2024-09-17. Call for Capstone Projects at Computer Science Department, Okanagan College.
5. 2024-08-09: Troy Berg, David Birch, Ajitesh Parihar, Kristina Cormier, Siarhei Fedarovich, Julia Kanaikina, and Lapko Tsimafei. Cybersecurity Workshop at Okanagan College
4. 2024-07-29: Dr. Albert Wong, Dr. Gaétan Hains, Ajitesh Parihar. Algorithmic Trading and Short-term Forecast for Financial Time Series with Machine Learning Models Implementation and Testing
3. 2024-07-20: Kristina Cormier, Ajitesh Parihar, Mohamad Khajezade Computer Science, Okanagan College and Sergey Zlobich, IBA Group. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) for Small Industry in BC
1. 2024-05-02&03: WCCCE 2024 Conference
-- Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (previous years)
1. 2024-01-30: Dr. Lucas Hui. Innovation to shape future: A.I. and Quantum leap
- “The Best Papers” awards at IEEE The 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Cybernetics Technology & Applications 2023

2023 Events

3. 2023-12-06: Dr. Josh Mutus. Quantum computing with superconducting qubits
2. 2023-11-08: IEEE Okanagan College Student Branch Annual General Meeting
1. 2023-10-24: Dr. Fatemeh Hendijani Fard. Unleashing Potential: Harnessing Foundation Models (Large Language Models) in Business and Research
1.1. Unleashing Potential: Harnessing Foundation Models (Large Language Models) in Business and Research (Slides)

2022 Events

4. 2022-10-14: Emilio Sagre, Gustavo Dutra, Niha Siddikha Sachin and Steven Whang. Creating Accurate Predictions in the Stock Market
4.1. Creating Accurate Predictions in the Stock Market Presentation Slides
3. 2022-04-27. Evan MacKinnon and Dakota Joiner. An approach towards generating k-leaf powers for phylogenetic tree construction
2. 2022-03-29. Dr. Albert Wong and Youry Khmelevsky. Algorithmic Trading and Short-term Forecast for Financial Time Series with Machine Learning Models
1. Dennis Estacion. The need for a Corporate Endpoint Security System (cancelled)

2021 Events

3. 2021-11-25. Clifford Smith VP, CIO Kal Tire. How technology megatrends affect the future of work
2. 2021-10-29. Dr. Youry Khmelevsky and Keegan Pereira. Data Warehousing Workshop II
1. 2021-10-08. Dr. Youry Khmelevsky. Data Warehousing Workshop I

2020 Events

3. 2020-07-12: Yuliya Varonina and Tatiana Ihnashchenka. DevOps for Mainframes
2. 2020-10-21: Francis Bailey. Tips for Entering the Industry as Computer Information Systems New Grad
1. 2020-03-16: S. Carl Zanon. Presentation of IEEE Vancouver Life Member Affinity Group

2019 Events

5. 2019-11-08: Daniel Rozek, Jesse Ayers, Jack Humphrey, Aubrey Nickerson, Chris Mazur and Helder Necker. Machine Learning and Neural Networks with R and Tensorflow Workshop
4. 2019-10-25: Jack Humphrey, Chris Mazur and Aubrey Nickerson. Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket: A Beginner’s Approach to SW Project Management
3. 2019-10-22: Jack Humphrey, Chris Mazur and Aubrey Nickerson. Getting Started with LaTeX Workshop
2. 2019-10-09: Dr. Youry Khmelevsky. Towards Formal Methods and Software Engineering for Deep Learning: Security, Safety, and Productivity for DL Systems Development
1. Dr. Julian Cheng. 80 Years of Research on Sum of Lognormal Random Variables: Recent Breakthroughs and Applications in Wireless Communications (cancelled)

2018 Events

2018: International "Sensor and Measurements" Student Contest Award (2nd Position)
2. 2018-03-29: Dr. Nghi Tran. Artificial Intelligence, AlphaGo, and Computer Hex
1. 2018-03-26: Dr. Ryan Hayward. Fundamental Limits and Coding for Additive Gaussian and non-Gaussian Channels

2017 Events

7. 2017-06-08: Dr. Norman Beaulieu, Beijing University of Postal & Telecommunications. A New Cramér-Rao Bound for White Gaussian Noise
6. 2017-06-01: Professor Norman Beaulieu Beijing University of Postal & Telecommunications. The Absolute Error Power Detectors
5. 2017-06-05: Dr. Julian Cheng. How to Write an IEEE Style Paper and Get it Published?
4. 2017-03-20: Dr. Kenichi Sugihara Gifu Keizai University Gifu Pref. Japan. Automatic generation of 3D building models
3. 2017-03-17: Dr. R. Zoughi Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory (amntl) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Missouri University. Evolution of Microwave and Millimetre Wave Imaging for NDE Applications
2. 2017-02-16: Md Shahrear Iqbal. Secure Context Detection in Smartphones
1. 2017-02-02: Paige Tyler and Tim Sayler. Machine Learning Workshop

2016 Events

- Okanagan College's "unstumpable" team is 2nd top Canadian team in @ieeextreme prog competition!
11. 2016-10-21: IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition, 21 October 2016 at Okanagan College
10.1. 2016-10-18: Sergii Baidachnyi, Principal Technical Evangelist Microsoft Canada. Introduction to Microsoft Azure @ Okanagan College
10. 2016-10-18: Sergii Baidachnyi, Principal Technical Evangelist Microsoft Canada.Introduction to Microsoft Azure @ UBC Okanagan
9. 2016-06-21: Lee Vishloff, PEng, IEEE WCP. Your First Wireless Product: Essential Things You Need to know
8. 2016-04-27: Ben Ward, Parker Brown, Garfield De’Pluzer and Tyler Sutherland. Jira: A Beginner’s Approach to Project Management
7. 2016-04-25: Daniel Atkinson and Martin Wallace. Learning to Use Git, SourceTree, and BitBucket
6. 2016-04-06: Scott Fazackerley. Getting Started with LaTeX Workshop
News: 03/24/2016: IEEE Okanagan subsection was recognized as the Outstanding Small Technical Chapter in 2016
5. 2016-02-18: Dr Brian Bersheid, Senior FPGA Developer and Mr. Colin Howlett, VP Architecture Vecima Networks, Victoria, BC, Canada. DOCSIS 3.1 – 10 Gbps over Coaxial Cable - Overview and OFDM Profile Optimization
-- 2016-01-29: Global Game Jam, organized by Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch (supported by Computer Science Department, OC).
3. 2016-01-27: Valentin Koch, Principal Research Engineer Autodesk, Inc. Rotations in 3D Graphics Programming and the Gimbal Lock.
--> Gimbal Lock Slides
2. 2016-01-27: Bryan Gardiner, former Googler. There and Back Again: Life at Google.
1. 2016-01-27: Annual General Meeting: Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch.

2015 Events

11. 2015-10-23: IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition at Okanagan College
10. 2015-08-19: Dr. Di Niu, UBC O: Reducing Access Latency in Erasure Coded Cloud Storage with Local Block
9. 2015-07-16: Md Shahrear Iqbal School of Computing Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Towards a Secure Anti-Malware Framework for Smartphones
8. 2015-07-14: Ekram Hossain, IEEE Fellow Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba (presented at UBCO). Evolution toward 5G cellular: Key challenges and enabling technologies.
7. 2015-07-13: Ekram Hossain, IEEE Fellow Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba (presented at OC). Evolution toward 5G cellular: Key challenges and enabling technologies.
6. 2015-05-26: Dr. William J. Blanke Nok Nok Labs, Palo Alto, CA USA. iOS Interprocess Communication Security and the Universal Authentication Framework Protocol
5. 05/14/2015: Addressing Spectrum Scarcity through Optical Wireless Communications
4. 2015-05-11: Dr. Sabbir Ahmad, P.Eng. Manager of Engineering, Transmission & Distribution Amec Foster Wheeler, Vancouver. Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges Sabbir Ahmad, Ph.D., P.Eng. Manager of Engineering, Transmission & Distribution Amec Foster Wheeler, Vancouver
3. 04/29/2015: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. Next Generation of Aviation Vehicles
2. 04/27/2015: Exact Positioning Systems using Ultrawideband Technology Exact Positioning Systems using Ultrawideband Technology: XCo has developed Gauge, the first performance wearable to precisely measure your location, speed and acceleration. Built for sport and healthcare applications, it is the first wearable to fully integrate precise movement metrics with other body sensor data such as heart rate monitors and concussion sensors.
1. 02/06/2015: Wearable technology devices - market opportunities in augmented reality applications Wearable technology devices - market opportunities in augmented reality applications

2014 Events

7. 12/08/2014: Bonding and Grounding - What, Why and how?
6. 12/05/2014: GPN-Perf: Investigating Performance of Game Private Networks
5. 11/19/2014: Agile project management techniques used at Disney Interactive
4. 11/05/2014: The Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, and Exploration of Future Topologies
3. 10/09/2014: Codec Enabled Audio Communications over IP/Mobile Internet Dr. Gaoyong Luo, Chair Department of Electronics Information, Guangzhou University, China
2. 08/25/2014: Scalable parallel programming: hardware, algorithms and applications
1. 08/11/2014: Chasing Channels- Adaptive Codebooks for Limited Feedback MIMO

2013 Events

11/26/2013: Clustered File Systems for High Performance Computing and Big Data
11/13/2013: An Introduction to Investing Outside the Box
11/14/2013: (Cancelled) The Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, and Exploration of Future Topologies
06/24/2013: New Transform Domain for Exact Analysis of Wireless Cooperative Networks
06/11/2013: Power Line Communications Reloaded
06/03/2013:Fundamentals of Holography, Fast Computation of Computer-Generated Holography and Super-Resolution in Digital Holography
05/28/2013: Improving the Spectral Efficiency of Communication via Relays
04/04/2013: Trends for Head-Up Displays in Automobiles
02/06/2013: Big Data, the Cloud, and Smart Mobile: Big Deal or Not?

2012 Events

11/28/2012: Fun with Interdisciplinary Nanoscience
11/21/2012: Alternative Energy: Today and Tomorrow
06/21/2012: Improving Your Presentation Skills
06/05/2012: Reducing Water Usage With Sensor Networks and Data Analysis
05/09/2012: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Technology: Theory and Application

2011 Events

11/16/2011: Matlab Object Oriented Programming
05/11/2011: Radio Frequency Power Amplifier Technology: Past, Present, and Future
02/25/2011, 03/14,11,18/2011: A Short Course on Analog Circuit Design

2010 Events

11/30/2010: Phased-Array Feeds for Future Radio Telescopes
10/14/2010: Dr. Jonathan Holzman. Digital Microfluidic Architectures for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
09/23/2010: Radio Telescopes: How they Work and the Technical Challenges of Building the Square Kilometre Array
07/13/2010: The Next Wave in Wireless Technology: Challenges and Solutions
06/16/2010: Commercializing an IP Based Wireless Product Line
05/31/2010: Negative Light Pressure on a Left-Handed Metamaterial