Digitized Is back for 2021
High school teachers and students across Saskatchewan are invited to register for Digitized by May 5, 2021. The event runs May 11 to 14 online.
Digitized is the largest one-day technology career event for Saskatchewan high school students. In 2019, more than 350 students attended Digitized.
This year, we are taking Digitized online! By signing up for Digitized, you will have exclusive access to our content between May 11 and 14, 2021 including:
- Keynote Speaker Linda Carmichael
- Tech Talks by Usask professors and alumni
- Career Panel featuring local tech leaders
Keynote Speaker Linda Carmichael
Linda is a graduate (BSc, Distinction, 2003) of the Department of Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan. She was born, educated and gained much of her professional experience in Saskatoon. After launching her career by participating in the Computer Science Professional Internship Program in 2001, she worked as a software engineer for a Saskatoon startup.
In 2006 she transitioned to the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency to advance healthcare technology in the province. During her tenure at the Agency she obtained her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2009 and was awarded PMI Sask Chapter’s Project of the Year in 2009 for applying agile methodologies to project management. Linda also supported her professional community by teaching project management theory and application with EXP Consulting.
In 2013 she was promoted to Provincial Manager of Application Services, and in early 2014 she was recruited by Stanford Healthcare in sunny Palo Alto, California and emigrated to Silicon Valley. Her unique skills and experience were needed to build a new state-of-the-art hospital on the Stanford University Campus as the Senior Manager of Technical Programs.
In February 2017 she accepted an offer from Google as a Program Manager of Cloud Infrastructure. Since joining Google she founded a program to monitor optimization of compute resources across the globe, and then joined Machine Learning software engineers and researchers to scale some of the world's fastest supercomputers for products like Google Translate, Assistant, YouTube Safe Content, Vision API, Waymo Driverless Cars, TensorFlow, and AlphaStar.
When she’s not working with the Google ML team, she’s partnering with Saskatchewan artists on an e-commerce startup. Linda lives in downtown San Francisco where she enjoys being near the ocean and mountains and training for Ironman triathlons. In 2018 she fulfilled a personal dream to support women who pursue Computer Science by creating the Linda Carmichael Recognition Award for Women in Computational Sciences.
What's new this year?
- Instead of attending a full-day event, the content for this year’s event will be available online between May 11 and 14, so teachers and their students can participate whenever their Computer Science course is scheduled.
- The content will be the same each day, so if you have classes where students are attending every other day, one group won’t miss what the other is doing in class.
- It will be hosted in our own virtual space on Gather. Your avatar will be placed on the map and you will have the opportunity to explore the resources we have prepared for you at your own pace.
- Teachers who register below will receive a link to the Gather platform that will be good from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM on the date that their class(es) will be participating. A new link will be sent each day for security purposes.
- Students who are not participating in Digitized with a class can register on the student form on the website.
- Go live! An online Technology Sector Career Pathways Panel will be held live on May 11th from 10-11 AM. If you and/or your class are able to attend live, you will be able to pose questions to our panel of leaders in Saskatchewan’s Technology sector! If you’re not able to attend this event, a recorded version will be available in Gather starting on May 12.
Watch the trailer below to get a taste of what we have planned for this year!