Bill Gates' February 2008 visit to the University of Waterloo

Bill Gates is back. The founder and current chairman of Microsoft made his second visit to the University of Waterloo — one of only five university campuses on his 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 UWs 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.