Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference 2005

Hisham Al-Shurafa writes "The 6th Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (CUTC 2005) is all about linking university students with top notch tech leaders and expanding education beyond the confines of the classroom. Held in downtown Toronto on Jan 20-22, this con will have seminars, workshops, interviews, and more on everything tech-related, from biotech to quantum computing. Speaker lineup looks amazing and includes Alan Ganek (VP Autonomic Computing, IBM), Joel Spolsky (joelonsoftware.com), and Allan Vermeulen (VP Web Services, Amazon). This student run event has won the favour of many universities across Canada, offering to cover as much as 100% of registration, travel and hotel costs for their students to attend this 3-day event."

I attended last year

[Tr0mBoNe-]

Myself and a small contigent from Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia attended this conference. I must say that between the great social aspect, the networking with big-wigs from large companies, and amazingly interesting talks on new and innovative topics make for three of the best days of your year.

I was supposed to go this year, and had been registered (and probabally still am) until I recieved my current co-op position at RIM.

The attendees range from hardcore computer programmers and engineers, to buisness students working on an e-commerce degree. I totally reccomend this conference, but you may have to wait till next year to attend. I hear this one filled up extra quick. I will be attending next year if all goes well.

The lecutre of Quantum Cryptography last year was amazing. I still remember the whole thing... especially when he had one of his laptops break into the other laptop using different techniques and operating systems. None were sacred... He managed to crack all versions of windows and a couple UNIX boxes. Just to proove a point: Quantum Cryptography is the way to go.

Good times

[illusion_2K]

I think I was probably one of the only people to go for the first four years, and every time I thought it was awesome. The majority of the talks were interesting, the activities were fun and (most) of the delegates weren't overly nerdy (in the bad way).

Thank god they moved it to downtown Toronto though. It used to be hosted out by the airport in the middle of nowhere, which even though it was probably better for everyone else, sucked royally for me (being at York U, a Toronto based university) at the time

US Equivalent?

[LightForce3]

Is there an equivalent or similar event for undergrad students in the US?

Re:Bad contact?

[shurafa]

Hey, the conference is open to all university students. You might have not heard about it because no Ambassador from your university stepped up, check out http://www.cutc.ca/2005/ambassadors/ [www.cutc.ca] if you're interested in getting your school represented.

Great Conference!

[MilaThePlaidHalfling]

This is a great conference filled with lots of great information. Its lots of fun and you learn a lot of people. There is great speakers and great information.