Events
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Past Events
UBC CIC Hackathon 2024
Saturday, March 2 | 8am to 8pm
In-person delivery
Registration link: Qualtrics Sign-up Form
The UBC CIC is hosting its inaugural hackathon! Dive into an exciting day of innovation and creativity. March 2nd is your opportunity to leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ideate, collaborate, build, and present solutions that can make a real-world impact.
Discussion Panel with Co-op Students
Tuesday, January 25 | 2 to 3 pm
Delivered virtually on Zoom
UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) invites you to our Discussion Panel with Co-op Students on Tuesday, January 25 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm PT. Join our panel of student developers and project assistants and learn about their experiences working at the UBC CIC and their thoughts about the program.
Student Workshop: Server-less Data Integration with AWS Glue
Thursday, September 23rd | 1pm to 3:30pm
Delivered virtually on Zoom
UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) invites students to our Student Workshop: Server-less Data Integration with AWS Glue webinar and live lab on Thursday, September 23 from 1:00 to 3:30 pm PST. In this session, student developers at the CIC will be introducing you to AWS Glue, a service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. We will walk you through all the capabilities that AWS Glue has so that you can start analyzing and using your data in minutes instead of months. We will cover the development and deployment of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) jobs, data discovery with Glue data catalog, as well as some data visualization.
Student Workshop: AWS RoboMaker: Building robotics applications from zero to hero
Thursday, July 22nd | 1pm to 3:30pm
Delivered virtually on Zoom
UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) invites students to our AWS RoboMaker: Building Robotics Applications from Zero to Hero webinar and live lab on Thursday, July 22 from 1:00 to 3:30 pm PST. In this session, special guest Alex Coqueiro, will introduce you to AWS Robomaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale. We walk through the features of integrating key components into robotics, deploying a single solution, and discuss the uniquely designed models that allow for optimized robots use cases to get you to production fast. We will cover use cases, implementation, simulation, and deployment. Demos will be implemented using Python.
Student Workshop: AWS IoT Analytics
Thursday, May 20th | 1pm to 3:30pm
Delivered virtually on Zoom
UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) invites students to an AWS IoT Analytics workshop on Thursday, May 20th from 1:00 to 3:30 pm. The workshop will cover how to configure AWS IoT components, visualize the IoT data using AWS analytics tools, and will include a presentation by AWS experts and a live lab led by student developers at the CIC! The presenters assume that the audience has some familiarity with CloudFormation templates, JSON format, SQL, and Python.
Student Workshop: AWS Amplify: The Full Picture
Thursday, March 18 | 1pm to 3pm
Delivered virtually on Zoom
UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) invites students to an AWS Amplify workshop on Thursday March 18 from 1 to 3 pm. The workshop, led by AWS Solutions Architect Artur Rodrigues, will cover how to build a full stack cloud application with React, GraphQL, & Amplify. The presenters assume that the audience has some familiarity with the topic, but may or may not have direct experience implementing a similar solution.
Student Workshop: A Serverless Journey: Serverless Data Processing with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Thursday, Nov. 26 | 1pm to 3pm
Delivered virtually on Zoom
UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) invites students to a serverless data processing workshop on November 26th from 1pm to 3pm. The workshop, led by UBC CIC’s Artur Rodrigues and Scott McMillan, is designed to illustrate how to use AWS services to process real-time data streams without managing servers. A basic understanding of Cloud Processing and AWS is helpful, but not required.