Where
In person, Campus MIL
Price
Free — $50$
Want to review presentations from previous editions? Nothing could be easier!
Language
Bilingual event.
Description
IVADO Digital Futures, our flagship event promoting student research, returns for its fifth edition next October. This event offers you the opportunity to present your work and discover that of IVADO’s student and postdoctoral community.
The 2025 edition will also allow you to showcase your research to the entire artificial intelligence community, both academic and industrial. Special attention will be given to scientific communication as well as to the concrete applications and societal issues related to your research projects. Don’t miss this chance!
IVADO Digital Futures is the opportunity to:
- Present your research project without the pressure of a formal conference;
- Get professional support in scientific communication
- Network with hundreds of students interested in AI, professors from the IVADO community, and members of our academic and industrial community
- Win numerous prizes!
Call for papers: present your research project
Would you like to showcase your work at Futurs Numériques? You are eligible if you are a student or postdoctoral fellow and meet at least one of the following conditions:
- You are a student or postdoctoral fellow of IVADO professors under R³AI (2023 – );
- You are a postdoc funded directly by IVADO;
- You are an IVADO postdoctoral entrepreneur or a student from IVADO’s Scientist in Residence and Scientist in Action programs;
- You are a student or postdoctoral fellow involved in a collaborative research project with an IVADO industrial member;
- You are a student or postdoctoral fellow funded by IVADO within its Research Regroupements or Exploratory Projects;
- You are a student or postdoctoral fellow in one of IVADO’s research chairs.
Once again this year, there are two presentation formats to choose from:
- A short, accessible oral presentation highlighting the applications, advances, and societal issues surrounding your research project (5 minutes)
- A poster presentation intended for a multidisciplinary audience
Prizes will be awarded to the best presentations of the day. Don’t miss your chance!
Come and attend the presentations
Anyone interested in artificial intelligence is welcome; interested to discover new areas of research, get to know our student community better, or network? Join us!
Registration will open at the beginning of September.
Resources and preparatory workshop on science communication
In mid-September, take advantage of a free preparatory workshop, open to all IVADO student and postdoctoral community members and highly recommended for event speakers. You will learn from a professional in the field how to better reach your target audience, while taking a practical look at your presentation at Digital Futures!
Details to come
Also check out these preparatory documents and training sessions, which will help you perfect your presentations:
- Promoting your Research Through the Media
- Structuring and Scripting an Academic Oral Presentation
- Making a better research poster (AJE – American Journal Experts)
- Astuces pour une présentation par affiche dynamique! (Réseau de l’Université du Québec)
- Conseils en communication scientifique (Acfas)
- Les 10 RaccourSci de la communication scientifique orale (Acfas)
- L’affiche scientifique : Maximiser l’impact de sa présentation (Sentinelle Nord)
To listen to the oral presentations that stood out at the 2024 edition and better prepare your presentation for this year:
- First prize from the Ericsson jury – best oral presentation: Georges-Philippe Gadoury-Sansfaçon
- Second prize from the Desjardins jury – best oral presentation: Imane Chafi
- Third prize from the Fastercom jury – best oral presentation: Benjamin Nguyen
- Ericsson Audience Award – best oral presentation: Imane Chafi
October 22 - IVADO Digital Futures Event
The schedule will be revealed at the beginning of the fall 2025 semester.
Prizes for the best presentations
Once again this year, prizes will be awarded to the best presentations of the day, thanks to our sponsors (details to come)!
Guidelines for oral presentations
- Presentations must be given in English or French and must not exceed 5 minutes;
- The presentation must be based on a maximum of 5 slides, without animation or video;
- The slides must be integrated into the following template
Evaluation criteria for oral presentations
Jury members will evaluate presentations according to three criteria:
1. Speaking talent and involvement
- Clear, confident voice, rhythm and stage presence;
- Makes the audience curious about the subject;
- Able to make connections between his/her research project and its applications, advances and societal issues.
2. Science communication skills
- Ability to summarize and use accessible language for every public;
- Use of humor, figures of speech, relevant examples.
3. Presentation structure
- Sequence of ideas to facilitate understanding of the subject;
- Balance between the different parts of the presentation (introduction, development, conclusion).
Guidelines for poster presentations
- Maximum poster dimensions are 120 cm high by 240 cm wide.
- Your poster will also be evaluated on the basis of a three-minute pitch from you.
Poster presentation evaluation criteria
- Ease of reading (coherent structure, legibility of text and graphics, overloading, color contrast)
- Accessibility of the research project for the public, both on the poster and orally (3-minute pitch)
- Highlighting of main results and scope of research
- Clear, short, catchy title and conclusion
- Student presence during poster session
Organized by
The IVADO team, in collaboration with the IVADO intersectoral student committee.
