Bill Gates' visit to UW (Feb. 2008) | Communications and Public Affairs

Bill Gates' February 2008 visit to the University of Waterloo

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Bill Gates addresses UW and local high school students.

Bill Gates is back. The founder and current chairman of Microsoft is today making his second visit to the University of Waterloo — one of only five university campuses on his current tour and the only one in Canada.

Gates was greeted by UW senior administrators, joined a group of academics for a roundtable discussion and talked to the media. But the main event was a talk to a group largely made up of students. Close to 200 high schoolers, many of them participants in math competitions run by UW’s Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, joined 475 students from across the UW campus and a few dozen guests for his talk in the Humanities Theatre.

The talk began at 9:45 and covered topics ranging from software and innovation to entrepreneurship and philanthropy. He spoke for a half hour, then took questions from the audience.