WeaveSphere

All women in tech do not look the same or do the same type of job, explained Jillian Shealy, Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Talkdesk, during 's panel. She encourages young to find a mentor that exemplifies the type of work they're interested in.

And to combat imposter syndrome, added digital executive Sumika Singh, be your own "inner champion," rather than an inner critic. Coach yourself through career challenges the way you would support a friend.

Jack Baker of Agnostiq, which develops software for the quantum era, met lots of students in 's Innovation Valley — and they brought plenty of great, insightful questions 🙌

Data centres worldwide consume 200-250 TWh of energy, says Marcel Mitran, IBM Fellow and the CTO for Cloud Platform for zSystems and LinuxONE. "Digital transformation strategies amount to compute-intensive, AI workloads."

What does that mean for companies? It translates to energy-intensive businesses.

Mitran shared data that showed 51% of CEOs have named sustainability as the greatest challenge to their organization over the next 2-3 years. But only 40% have identified initiatives to close their sustainability gaps or sustainability drivers for change.

Shout-out to presenter Sonia Singh for channeling The Thirteenth Doctor from Doctor Who, during her session titled '(Doctor) Mx Who - Building Out-of-this-World Leadership Capability' 🙌

A PhD student in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, Priyanka Verma came to to network and connect with people in the space.

"I have research ideas," she says.

"We need to create STEM learning environments that are messy. You may not know exactly what students will learn, but whatever it ends up being will offer tremendous value." — Marcellus Mindel, head of at IBM Canada.

Nancy Chahal, a Master's student in Computer Science at University of New Brunswick, shared her research at , which looked at how we can increase the efficiency of autoscaling decisions for Node.js applications.

Responsible computing is a systemic approach addressing current and future challenges in computing including sustainability, ethics, and professionalism.

It is a holistic approach to redefine how businesses approach IT, by ingraining sustainable impact in architectural thinking, technology and innovation.

Responsible computing advances the quadruple bottom line, explained IBM Canada's Marcel Mitran, opening Day 3 of WeaveSphere with a keynote:

👩🏽👦🏻 People
🌏 Planet
📈 Prosperity
🤝 Participation