The 50th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC 2023) will be held at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario from Sunday, May 28 to Wednesday, May 31, 2023. As in the last few years, the Canadian Statistics Students Conference will take place on the Saturday (May 27) before the annual meeting, also at Carleton University. The SSC 2023 local arrangements co-chairs, Shirley Mills and Yiqiang Q. Zhao of Carleton University and the program chair, Sévérien Nkurunziza of the University of Windsor have organized an exciting conference. As this will be our first in-person meeting since 2019, we are hoping to welcome many individuals to the campus of Carleton University for these events. The Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend has just been announced for May 27–28 and that event brings tens of thousands to Ottawa, so we encourage you to book your travel and accommodations as soon as possible. Our banquet will be on Tuesday, May 30 at the Museum of History across the Ottawa River in Gatineau; seating there is limited to 600 so we encourage you to register early for the conference as late registrants cannot be guaranteed a banquet ticket. For registration information and information on travel and accommodation, please check https://ssc.ca/en/meetings/annual/2023-ssc-annual-meeting-ottawa. A first look at the events and sessions is now available at https://ssc.ca/en/meetings/annual/2023-ssc-annual-meeting-ottawa.

OVERVIEW OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

A number of workshops organized by the sections of the Society will run concurrently on Sunday, May 28. The first plenary session starts Monday morning with the presidential invited address, this year by Pierre Del Moral. That evening there is the welcome reception in Richcraft Hall atrium and patio located on the 2nd floor of Richcraft Hall on campus and overlooking the Rideau River. The scientific program features both committee- and section-sponsored invited sessions, sessions with contributed papers and posters, as well as a Case Studies Competition. 

WORKSHOPS

Five workshops are organized for Sunday, May 28. For a detailed description of these training activities, which are open to all meeting registrants including students, see Workshops on the meeting website

https://ssc.ca/en/meeting/annual/ 2023-ssc-annual-meeting-ottawa/workshops-2023

Actuarial Science Workshop
Title: Machine Learning and Data Mining in Insurance and Finance 
Speakers: Emiliano Valdez (University of Connecticut, USA), Xiaofei Shi (University of Toronto, ON, Canada), Arthur Charpentier (Université du Québec à Montréal, QC, Canada), Ben Feng (University of Waterloo, ON, Canada).

Biostatistics Workshop
Title: Design, Analysis, Conduct, and Reporting of Pragmatic Trials Including Controversies and Confusions about Them 
Speakers: Lehana Thabane (McMaster University, ON, Canada), Kevin Thorpe (University of Toronto, ON, Canada).

Business and Industrial Statistics Workshop
Title: Using R on HPC Clusters
Speaker: George Ostrouchov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA).

Data Science and Analytics Workshop
Title: Introduction to Machine Learning in Python with Scikit-Learn
Speakers: Varada Kolhatkar (University of British Columbia, BC, Canada); Joel Ostblom (University of British Columbia, BC, Canada).

Probability Workshop
Title: Stochastic Modelling of Financial and Energy Markets Data
Speaker: Anatoliy Swishchuk (University of Calgary, AB, Canada).

Statistical Education Workshop
Title: Developing Students’ Communication Skills in Statistics
Speakers: Omidali (Omid) Aghababaei Jazi (University of Toronto Mississauga, ON, Canada), Katherine Daignault (University of Toronto, ON, Canada), Chelsea Uggenti (University of Waterloo, ON, Canada).

Survey Methods Workshop
Title: Statistical Methods for Handling Missing Data 
Speaker: Jae-Kwang Kim (Iowa State University, Iowa, USA).

INVITED ADDRESSES

SSC Presidential Invited Address:

Pierre Del Moral, 
Institut national de recherche en informatique 
et en automatique                                         

SSC Gold Medal Address:

David A. Stephens, McGill University

SSC 2022 Impact Award Address:

Lehana Thabane, McMaster University

Business and Industrial Statistics - Isobel Loutit Invited Address:

Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University

Survey Methods - Presidential Invited Address Session:

Mike Brick, Westat

COMMITTEE-SPONSORED INVITED SESSIONS

COMMITTEE/SECTION	TITLE	ORGANIZER	AFFILIATION
New Investigators	Recent Advances by New Investigators across Canada	Kevin McGregor	York University
CANSSI PDF Showcase	Spotlight on CANSSI Postdocs	Andrea Benedetti	McGill University
ICSA–Canada Chapter (International Chinese Statistical Association)	New Advances in Statistics and Data Science	Dehan Kong	University of Toronto
Accreditation Committee	Early Career Mentoring through the SSC Accreditation Program	Fabrice Larribe and   Beatrice Baribeau	UQAM and Statistics Canada
Actuarial Science	Stochastic Optimization in Insurance and Finance	Jean-François   Renaud	UQAM
	Mortality Modelling and Longevity Risk	Hong Li	University of Guelph
	New Developments at the Interface of Finance and Pension	Jean-François   Begin	Simon Fraser University
	Model Uncertainty in Insurance and Finance	Fangda Liu	University of Waterloo
Biostatistics	New Approaches to Genetic and Genomic Problems by Young Canadian Researchers	Lei Sun	University of Toronto
	Statistical Modelling and Computational Intelligence for High-Dimensional Biological Data	You Liang	Toronto Metropolitan University
	Advances in Spatial Epidemiology	Rob Deardon	University of Calgary
	The Collaborative Statistician: Learning the Tricks of the Trade	Tolu Sajobi	University of Calgary

COMMITTEE/SECTION	TITLE	ORGANIZER	AFFILIATION
Business and Industrial Statistics (BISS)	Isobel Loutit Invited Address	Reza Ramezan	University of Waterloo
	Statistics in Transportation	Aurélie Labbe	HEC Montréal
	Recent Advances in Mixture-Model Based Classification	Ryan Browne	University of Waterloo
	Recent Developments in High-Dimensional Inference	Farouk Nathoo	University of Victoria
Data Science and Analytics	Reproducibility in Machine Learning and Statistics	Tiffany Timbers	University of British Columbia
	Statistical Modelling and Data Science in Industry: A Showcase	Matthew Greenberg	University of Calgary
	Data Science Ethics and Fairness	Joel Ostblom	University of British Columbia
	Data Science and Analytics Section Keynote Lecture	Nathaniel Stevens	University of Waterloo
	New Tools in Teaching Statistics	Wanhua Su	MacEwan University
Probability	Stochastic Spatial Models for Vegetation	Priscilla Greenwood	University of British Columbia
	In Celebration of 50 years of Research in Stochastics at Carleton University: Session in Honour of Miklós Csörgő	Barbara Szyszkowicz	Carleton University
	50 Years of Stochastics at Carleton University: Session in Honour of Donald A. Dawson	Bouchra Nasri	École de Santé Publique de l'Université de Montréal
	Statistical Inference in Stochastic Models	Natalia Stepanova	Carleton University
Statistical Education	SES President's Invited Address	Wesley Burr	Trent University
	Maximizing Learning Capacity in a Joyful Environment in Statistical Education	Suborna Ahmed	UBC
	Statistics in Schools	Samantha-Jo Caetano	University of Toronto
Survey Methods	SMS Presidential Invited Address	Wilson Lu	Acadia University
	Statistical Inference by Combining Information from Multiple Sources	Changbao Wu	University of Waterloo
	Recent Advances in Small Area Estimation	Mahmoud Torabi	University of Manitoba
	Some Recent Research Contributions at Statistics Canada	Jean-François   Beaumont	Statistics Canada