However, I felt like we needed men in the conversation as well, and all genders, so that was the thought behind the Better Together event where we invited leaders from all genders to come together and talk about gender equality. And one of the things I noticed is that we were hearing some great women leaders, but often the audience was all women, which is great, I think there are times when women need safe spaces to discuss their ideas and to feel heard. I've been attending a lot of women in tech events, around Ottawa. You organized the event of Better Together, why did you do that and what did you get out of it? So Thusha, you've been involved very recently. We've been talking with some of our students and some very recent graduates about what their perspectives are on what's going to happen in the tech industry, and what their hopes are and their aspirations, so we thought it would be really interesting to have a conversation with Thusha Agampodi, who's the Engineering Manager at Magnet Forensics, to join me for some conversation with some really insightful and interesting people. We feel that it's important within our faculty, in the way we train young people, but it's also extremely important and we're concerned about when they go and hit the job market afterwards, what's going on in industry, in organizations, these are really important issues and they're starting to reach a critical point right now where we need to be very active to find solutions to help out on that.Īnd in the Make the Future podcast, it is intending to be looking at where we're going down the road the next few years, what are the lessons learned by our alumni and friends out in industry. We need to make it.Īs for many Faculties of Engineering across the country, equity, diversity, and inclusivity, are really important to us. To own the future, we need to do more than just see it. How will we live in this future? How will we make sense of it? To define our course, we need a new perspective. It's not going to wait for you to catch up. They say the future is coming, but that's not true. Let's explore the future of technology and innovation and how through creativity and collaboration we can make the future. Join us as we have conversations with different thought leaders about current issues facing the engineering industry. I'm your host, Jacques Beauvais, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa.
Welcome to the second season of the Make the Future podcast.
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