"Building Climate Resilience Using Software and Data" Ottawa unconference

Friday May 23, 2025

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About the Event

The event was held at Carleton University, in 2305 Health Sciences Building, Room HS 1301. Directions and transportation options to Carleton Campus: https://carleton.ca/campus/directions/ Please note that parking is not free. More details on parking are here: https://carleton.ca/parking/

Schedule

Based on your survey feedback, the most popular session types are: Lightning talks, building Ottawa-Gatineau community; simulations/scenario planning. We plan to group these into topics based on hazard type (as voted on tomorrow, by you). Here's the draft Agenda, apart from the 9 am start time these are estimates and will be determined by all of us tomorrow.

• 9:00 Welcome
• 9:15 Icebreaker/goals & objectives
• 9:30 Top Hazard #1 -- Examples/scenarios -- Simulation/scenario planning -- Building a hazard-resilient community in Ottawa-Gatineau
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 Lightning Talks #1
• 11:15 Top Hazard #2 -- Examples/scenarios -- Simulation/scenario planning -- Building a hazard-resilient community in Ottawa-Gatineau
• 12:15 Lunch
• 1:15 Top Hazard #3 -- Examples/scenarios -- Simulation/scenario planning -- Building a hazard-resilient community in Ottawa-Gatineau
• 2:30 Break
• 2:45 Lightning Talks #2
• 3:15 Theme-based Open Agenda
• 3:45 Recap/lessons learned
• 4:15 Wrap-up and next steps

What to Bring:

• A laptop, smart phone, or tablet so you can interact with the online Slido polls we'll be using.
• A lunch / snacks or money for the Carleton vending machines and food courts
• (Optional) A PDF/PowerPoint slide deck and a USB key if you want to present a Lightning talk
• (Optional) Business cards if you want to network during or after the event
• We'll have sharpies, pens, paper and poster boards

Food and Snack Options:

Carleton has numerous restaurant and snack bar options, listed here: https://dining.carleton.ca/locations/food-court/. There's also Billings Bridge shopping mall nearby. And, you can bring your own food but remember to be clean and courteous to your fellow participants and our gracious venue host