Note: This is a tentative conference schedule. Further time, location, and program details will be posted here closer to the conference start date.
Monday, June 1
- Doctoral workshop: 9:00am-4:00pm (accepted students only)
- ISIC Steering Committee Meeting: 4:00pm-6:00pm (by invitation only)
Tuesday, June 2
- Conference: 9:00am-5:00pm
- Poster session and conference reception: 5:00pm-6:30pm (all attendees invited)
Wednesday, June 3
- Conference: 9:00am-5:00pm
- Conference dinner: 7:00pm-9:30pm (all attendees invited)
Thursday, June 4
- Conference: 9:00am-1:30pm
- Conference workshops: 2:00pm-5:00pm
Keynote Speakers
Sara M. Grimes
Sara M. Grimes is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, Director and Founder of the Kids Play Tech Lab, and a Full Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Her research centers on understanding emerging trends and issues related to the technologization of childhood and supporting the development of ethical designs, business practices, and policies that advance children’s rights and wellbeing in the digital games and across the digital environment. Her current and upcoming projects include examinations of age-appropriate design in games, the legal and ethical dimensions of algorithmic marketing to children, as well as an upcoming study of children's creativity, play and emerging parasocial relationships with AI in digital platforms. She is the author of the award-winning book, Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games, and the upcoming Kidfluenced: Children’s Digital Media-Making, Content Creation, and Cultural Rights. She was also the lead author of the recently published CIFAR AI Insights Responsible AI and Children policy brief, a critical review of the literature and best practices for regulating and developing data-centric and AI technologies for children that advance a rights-based approach to AI governance.
Nadia Caidi
Dr. Nadia Caidi is a Professor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Trained in Linguistics and Communications, she also holds an MLIS and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Caidi’s contributions aim to inform and promote a critical LIS lens and a public interest approach to the information fields. She has published extensively in the areas of information behaviour, socio-technical practices of marginalized communities, digital diasporas and techno-religious practices. She sits on several journal editorial boards and has been recognized with numerous research grants and awards. In 2019, the Association of LIS Education awarded her the Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award.
Dr. Caidi is committed to community-engaged research and has been academic lead on recently-funded research by the Public Health Agency of Canada examining misinformation in newcomer digital spaces (with partner Refugee613) ; Workfinding and Immigrant Women’s Prosperity in STEM (with partner TechGirls Canada) ; Reading as Belonging in multilingual youth (School of Cities), and the intersections of pilgrimage and data in Securitizing the Sacred (funded by SSHRC). Dr. Caidi was the the 2016 President of the International Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), and the 2011 President of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS).