Sat, Nov 02
|The Dunes at Kamloops
The Future is Now - BIG Little Science Centre
An evening of fun awaits you at this incredible gala event. Join us for an excellent meal, silent auction, and guest speaker Mateen Shaikh discussing Artificial Intelligence. It’s guaranteed to be a night to remember and tickets are only on sale until October 18th so purchase yours today!
Time & Location
Nov 02, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
The Dunes at Kamloops, 652 Dunes Dr, Kamloops, BC V2B 8M8, Canada
About the event
The BIG Little Science Centre runs on community support. Join us for our Fundraising Gala with dinner, a guest speaker, and silent auction. All funds raised at this event will go directly towards empowering a child, student, or a parent to discover a world inspired by curiosity.
Dinner, Drinks, Auction, Speaker, an Evening of Fun!
Our Guest Speaker is Mateen Shaikh discussing Artificial Intelligence. Mateen Shaikh earned his PhD at the University of Guelph in 2013 and was a postdoc in biostatistics at McMaster University. He was hired by Thompson Rivers University in 2017 as part of the University’s plan to deliver Data Science. Mateen was instrumental in the development of the Master in Data Science scheduled to launch in Fall 2020 and is working on developing undergraduate degree in Data Science. He current holds funding from the federal government for methods in optimization and statistical machine learning used in data science.
We look forward to you joining us!