Events
We Count has a lot of things on the go. You can learn and co-create with us and earn micro-badges to show your effort. Here are some of our upcoming and ongoing learning activities.
All We Count/Digging DEEPer workshops and webinars are accessible, free and open to the public. We welcome people from all backgrounds and experience levels.
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Designing Proof and Evidence with Minorities and Outlier Data
In preparation for our Minority and Outlier Data Co-design, we’re encouraging everyone to think about the challenge of proof for a small group, even a group that is just one person: you.
Think of something you experience in your life that is difficult to demonstrate. Perhaps it’s an emotion you feel, a value you hold, or a pain you experience. How might you go about proving your experience to someone else? How might you document or demonstrate it? What kind of proof could you produce to convince someone about the validity of your experience?
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)
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 a critical analysis of this increasingly pervasive phenomenon.
April 28, 2021, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (EDT)
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)
Available badges: Learner
Inclusive AI with nugget.ai
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)
Inclusive AI for HR
Panelists Shea Tanis and Rich Donovan 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)
Available badges: Learner
Bias in Candidate Selection
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)
Coding to Learn and Create
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)
AI Hiring System Policies
Panelists Alexandra Reeve Givens and Julia Stoyanovich 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)
Available badges: Learner
AI Employment Systems
Expert panelists Anhong Guo, Shari Trewin, Ben Tamblyn and Chancey Fleet give an introduction to AI and machine learning with a focus on how AI creates both barriers and new opportunities for persons with disabilities in the hiring, training and retention of employees.
November 3, 2020, 1:30 AM – 3:00 PM (EST)
Available badges: Learner
AI and AT Apps
Artificial intelligence 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
Accessible Surveys
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)
Bias In, Bias Out
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)
Available badges: Learner
Coded Bias
Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately and her journey to push for legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Date: TBC
