Speakers schedule for the 24th annual WaterHCI (de)conference

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022, times indicated in EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, e.g. Toronto time):

Morning Session intro, 9:30am - 9:45am, Video streaming (YouTube)

9:45am Premiere release of Time (music video shot at the TeachBeach at Ontario Place), song by Monique Barry, video by Dan Bowman.

10:00am Stephen Diamond, Chair, Waterfront Toronto: Parliament Slip (WaveDeck with waterfront swimming pools, floating restaurant, kayak+canoe launches, etc).
10:30am Pierre Lafontaine, National Swimming Coach & CEO, 2012 Canadian Olympic and Para-Olympic Team, Director, Therme Group Canada, Inc.

11:00am Mike Layton, City of Toronto stormwater plans
11:30am Mark Mattson, Swim Drink Fish, Making world-class swim piers that are free and always open 24 hours a day

12noon-2:00pm Break for Spirtual Healing with water, led (remotely) by Youngblood (Mohawk) and Candyce (Missisaugas of the Credit): travel to TeachBeach™ at Ontario Place. For location, see swimop.com/where
1:00pm Ancestral spiritual warrior cleansing ritual and icewater swim: Icewater immersion begins.
1:30pm Return from Ontario Place

2:00pm Steve Hulford, Swimming over 200km in Lake Ontario... and the Smart Buoy Project
2:30pm Prof. Chris Houser, University of Windsor, Smart Beach Project
3:00pm Dr. Newell, Ellis Aquatic Vigilance System (EAVS)
3:30pm Chi Nguyen, Ontario Liberal candidate for Spadina Fort-York (where Ontario Place and Toronto Islands are also located), An accessible waterfront for Toronto: equity & public space on the lake
4:00pm (1pm in California) Dr. Seung-min Park, Stanford University, World's most advanced water-saving and covid-preventing toilet
4:30pm Jason Baerg and Ana Klasnja, %ᐅᐢᑳᔨ ᐊᐢᑮᕀ Oskâyi Askîy (New World)
5:00pm Fadel Adib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bringing the Internet of Things to the Underwater World

6:00pm (8:30am Thu. Mar. 31 in Monash), Prof. Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Director, Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and Christal Clashing, Designing for Interactive Aquatic Recreation
6:30pm Madeline Leblanc, Surf the Greats, SUP surfing on the Great Lakes
7:00pm (7am Thu. Mar. 31 in China), Yu Yuan, IEEE Standards Association President-Elect, Standards for WaterHCI