Digging DEEPer Events
Since 2020, the conversations have been coming to you online in our Digging DEEPer events with We Count Initiatives and Future of Work and Disability projects. This year we’re going to Montreal for a special edition of DEEP 2023: IDRC’s Accessible World – Accessible Canada Conference at Concordia University on May 27 & 28, 2024. We’ll be sharing the conference site and registration link soon.
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Upcoming Events
Digging DEEPer Events
Integrated, Diverse Living Solutions for Persons with Memory Decline
We are investigating bias in AI-based hiring algorithms in a new co-design. Participants who have experienced barriers to employment because of a disability will create resume and cover letter information for imaginary individuals.
April 12, 2022, 1–3 PM ET
Disability Bias in AI-Powered Hiring Tools
We are investigating bias in AI-based hiring algorithms in a new co-design. Participants who have experienced barriers to employment because of a disability will create resume and cover letter information for imaginary individuals.
1. Creating Resumes: March 23, 2022, 1–3 PM ET
2. Creating Cover Letters: March 30, 2022, 1–3 PM ET
3. Resume Tips Seminar: April 13, 2022, 1–3 PM ET
Learn how to complete a sentiment analysis and build your own data set in this free, accessible workshop.
Session 1 Getting Started: February 22, 2022, 1–3 PM ET
Session 2 Practising: March 1, 2022, 1–3 PM ET
Session 3 Analysis: March 22, 2022, 1–3 PM ET
Sentiment Analysis Workshop video
Available badges: Learner
Designing Proof and Evidence with Minorities and Outlier Data
In a fall 2021 co-design, stakeholders address the challenge of working with small group and highly diverse data for evidence-based decisions.
Designing Proof and Evidence workshop video
Available badges: Learner, Brainstormer
AI and Disability: A Double-Edged Sword
To celebrate one year of We Count, we’re bringing you a special webinar with Wendy Chisholm and Jutta Treviranus that looks at the complex relationship between AI and disability.
July 22, 2021, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (EDT)
AI and Disability webinar video
Available badges: Learner
The Metric Society and the Unmeasurable
In today’s world, numbers are in the ascendancy, and everything and everybody is measured and evaluated. Join Steffen Mau, Virginia Eubanks and Jutta Treviranus in conversation for an analysis of this pervasive phenomenon.
April 28, 2021, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (EDT)
The Metric Society and the Unmeasurable webinar video
Available badges: Learner
Building Indigenous Future Imaginaries
Based on Jason Lewis’s research-creation work, this webinar will explore the concept of the future imaginary and make an argument as to why it is important that Indigenous people engage in creating them.
December 9, 2020, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
Building Indigenous Future Imaginaries webinar video
Available badges: Learner
Participants will have the opportunity to gather insights from previous modules and apply them to thinking critically about nugget’s operations as a skills measurement technology company.
December 8, 2020, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM (EST)
Panelists will highlight some of the potential problems that arise from AI in the hiring process and brainstorm ideas to make this process more inclusive for persons with disabilities.
December 1, 2020, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (EST)
Inclusive AI for HR webinar video and webinar transcript
Available badges: Learner
Participants will explore policy through a co-design activity with Abhishek Gupta, working in groups to co-create approaches to AI and ML challenges in employment systems.
November 24, 2020, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (EST)
Looking for something exciting and creative for your kids in November? Coding to Learn and Create is offering a two-day workshop.
Part 1: November 18, 2020, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
Part 2: November 25, 2020, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
Panelists will discuss how machine learning models can carry bias when selecting candidates, affecting persons with disabilities and other individual differences.
November 17, 2020, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (EST)
AI Hiring System Policies webinar video and webinar transcript
Available badges: Learner
A group of expert panellists will give an introduction to AI and machine learning with a focus on concerns for persons with disabilities and employment.
November 3, 2020, 1:30 AM – 3:00 PM (EST)
AI Employment Systems webinar video and webinar transcript
Available badges: Learner
AI is rapidly advancing to think like us and to deep dream through machine learning, so how can it be used to improve accessibility? This three-part workshop will dig deeper into the possibilities of AI-powered assistive technology mobile apps.
Part 1: September 23, 2020, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
Part 2: October 7, 2020, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
Part 3: October 21, 2020, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
Available badges: Learner, Brainstormer, Communicator
A conversation on accessible survey platforms, hosted by the Inclusive Design Research Centre. Join the discussion with David Berman, Roland Van Oostveen, Pina D’Intino, Julia Foster, Sarah Stadder Wise, Michelle Borgal, and members of the inclusive design community.
August 4, 2020, 2:00 – 3:30 PM (EST)
Dr. Toon Calders (University of Antwerp) explains how predictions made using data mining and algorithms can affect population subgroups differently.
July 8, 2020, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (EST)
Bias In, Bias Out webinar video
Available badges: Learner