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The Emcee for Canada 3.0 2010
| Kevin Newman, Anchor and Executive Editor, Global National Covering stories around the world for more than 30 years, Kevin Newman is Canada's most watched national news anchor. He has anchored live coverage of the September 11 tragedy, Papal Funeral Coverage from Rome, and the Canadian Elections in 2004, 2006 and 2008. Not only has he worked for CBC and CTV National News in Canada, Kevin also worked for ABC News in New York alongside Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel, and was co-anchor of Good Morning America. Since 2001 he has been the founding Anchor and Executive Editor of 'Global National with Kevin Newman'. He also owns the video production company 'NewMan Media', is an Honourary Ambassador for the MS Society of Canada, a Director of the Kamloops Firefighters Foundation, and a member of the Digital Media Network. His journalism excellence has been awarded with several Emmy Awards, Gemini Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Western Ontario. |
Keynote Speakers
| Tony Chapman, CEO, Capital C Tony Chapman is a passionate Canadian, entrepreneur, and the Founder and CEO of Capital C, Marketing Magazine's Agency of the Year 2006 and one of Canada's most respected branding and advertising agencies. Tony is also one of the youngest individuals to be inducted into the Marketing Hall of Legends, and is a frequent contributor to the mainstream press on topics including consumerism, brand-building, and business strategy. His thinking has been featured in television documentaries in England, Australia and Canada, and in webcasts around the globe. Tony is also a sought after speaker and a keynote at major conferences throughout North America. He is currently finishing his first book, The RecoEconomy™ with Bennett Klein, Partner and Creative Director of Capital C. | |
| Minister Tony Clement, Minister of Industry Tony Clement was re-elected to the House of Commons in 2008, representing the Northern Ontario constituency of Parry Sound-Muskoka. On October 30, 2008, he was appointed Minister of Industry, with responsibilities for competitiveness, innovation, sectoral strategies, and economic development in Northern Ontario. He currently chairs the Cabinet Committee on Economic Growth and Long-term Prosperity, and sits on the Cabinet Committee on Priorities and Planning. Minister Clement was first elected to Parliament in 2006 and was appointed Minister of Health and Minister responsible for FedNor. Prior to this, Mr. Clement was a member of Ontario's provincial legislature from 1995 to 2003. In 1997, Mr. Clement was appointed Minister of Transportation of Ontario. In 1999, he became Minister of the Environment and, later, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. In 2001, he was appointed Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and, during this time, provided leadership for the country during the SARS outbreak. Prior to his election to Parliament, Mr. Clement was counsel to a national law firm, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, and a small business owner. On February 3, 2007, Tony Clement was awarded the Courage in Public Policy Award from the Canadian Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute of Canada. The award was given to Mr. Clement to recognize his leadership in supporting the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Corporation. Mr. Clement holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a law degree from the University of Toronto. He was born in Manchester, England. Mr. Clement is married to Lynne Golding and is the father of three children. He resides in Port Sydney, Ontario. | |
| Joseph Iuso, CEO, UseMyBank, a product of UseMyServices Inc Joseph has worked in the fields of e-Commerce and EFT integration before starting UseMyBank in 2002. His extensive experience over the past 20 years within the realm of self-service banking integration has helped many clients provide online, real-time transaction processing within the EFT community. Clients in the past have included CIBC, ISM, IBM, ACI, ING Direct, Canadian Tire, and Royal Bank. With his understanding of the complex technologies involved in self service banking, he was able to create the technology and vision to launch UseMyBank. | |
| Brian Crozier, Global Business Development, UseMyBank, a product of UseMyServices Inc Brian has over 15 years experience providing international ecommerce payment solutions to payment processors and online merchants. He has been the driving force behind developing business and marketing strategies for the company. His was President of NetPayment Solutions and head of Global Business Development for Digital Courier Technologies, both major ecommerce processors. He was also involved with the launch and business development for other successful online payment methods. Brian has primary responsibility for developing new markets, banking, and government relations. | |
| Sarah Prevette, Founder, Sprouter Sarah Prevette has captured attention as a passionate and pioneering web entrepreneur - an exciting voice from inside the online community revolution. Sarah's untraditional and multi-faceted approach to branding and promotion provides actionable insight to those looking to build communities, truly engage their audiences and leverage the full power of the web. Currently, Sarah is the founder of Sprouter, an online collaboration tool facilitating knowledge exchange between startups and business leaders. An entrepreneur long immersed in the startup community, Sarah has robust familiarity with the common pitfalls of early stage startups and the tips and tools that foster success. Prior to starting Sprouter, Sarah built the tween pop culture community Upinion and held various strategic positions in the recently acquired Cyberbahn Group as well as at Info~Tech Research Group. Sarah is passionate and knowledgeable on the subjects of social media, startups, usability, advocacy on the web and community building and has been interviewed and profiled numerous times in the media - from IT Business to Wired, and CBC to Global TV. | |
Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation | |
Mark Ruddock, Serial Entrepreneur |
Main Plenary Panelists
| Tom Jenkins, Chair, CDMN Advisory Board & Chair, Open Text Recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential People" in the world of Knowledge Management by KMWorld for five years in a row, Tom Jenkins has been involved with the Internet since it emerged as a major public network in the early 1990s. He has held executive positions at Open Text Corporation since 1995 and was instrumental in the creation of one of the first Internet search engines used by Netscape®, Yahoo!®, and IBM®. Tom went on to direct the development of the first Internet-based Document Management system, as well the earliest versions of Internet-based workflow, portal, and online meeting software. All of these component technologies are early forerunners of current Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology. Today, Open Text is the largest independent provider of ECM software and solutions worldwide and where Tom resides as Chief Strategy Officer. | |
| | Gerri Sinclair, Executive Director of the Masters of Digital Media Program, Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus |
| Helen McDonald, Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Industry Canada HELEN MCDONALD is Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications at Industry Canada. Helen McDonald has held various positions at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, at the former Department of Communications, and at Industry Canada and Treasury Board Secretariat. As Treasury Board Secretariat, Ms. McDonald was responsible for articulating a strategy for the on-line provision of government services. As Assistant Deputy Minister at Industry Canada, Ms. McDonald oversees Canada's transition to a network economy by promoting the development and use of world class information and communications technologies for the economic, social and cultural benefit of all Canadians. Responsibilities include the Communications Research Centre Canada, spectrum management, advocacy and support to the ICT industry, the rural broadband program, and policies in support of electronic commerce. | |
| | Richard C. Alvarez, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Health Infoway Mr. Alvarez is a leader in Canadian health care. He is known for taking on challenging mandates and building successful organizations. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada Health Infoway, he has been a catalyst for accelerating the development of electronic health records in Canada. He has established strong, collaborative relationships with the federal, provincial and territorial governments and other stakeholders as the foundation for solid progress. He has articulated a broad national vision for reforming Canada's health care system through innovation and technology. On the international front, he has helped to position Canada as a world leader in health care renewal. Recently, Mr. Alvarez was recognized at the 2007 National Builder Inductee to the Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) Hall of Fame for the leadership he has exercised throughout his career (with the Government of Alberta, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and at Infoway) in promoting the application of innovative technology to improve health care delivery for Canadians. |
Sandra Pupatello, Minister of Economic Development and Trade | |
| Clément Gignac, Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade/MNA for Marguerite-Bourgeoys, Liberal Party of Québec Until recently, Clément Gignac was Senior Advisor to the Deputy Minister, Department of Finance Canada, after serving for 20 years with National Bank Financial. Clément Gignac is widely recognized for his knowledge of financial issues and has ranked constantly over the last decade amongst the top strategists and economists in the country before becoming a public servant. In light of the important challenges facing the financial system, both in Canada and internationally, the Department of Finance Canada appointed Mr. Gignac to represent Canada on a G-20 working group after the leaders' summit in Washington. Prior to his appointment as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Minister, Clément Gignac was Senior Vice-President, Chief Economist and Strategist of National Bank Financial. Mr. Gignac graduated from Université Laval with a Master's Degree in Economics in 1980. That same year, he began his career as an economist, joining the Confédération des Caisses Desjardins. In 1984, he accepted a new challenge moving to the Quebec Department of Finance in Québec City, where he held various positions in economic forecasting and the realm of federal transfers. |
Revolutionizing Stream
| | Daniel (Dan) Larocque, Vice President, Canadian Public Sector, Open Text Corporation Dan Larocque, VP, Public Sector is responsible for managing the Canadian Public Sector line of business for Open Text that includes federal, provincial, and local-level governments. With two decades of experience managing projects for the Canadian Government, he has acquired extensive experience in Enterprise Content Management Solutions and is a leader for Open Text's Public Sector Centre of Excellence. Dan's accolades include a GTEC Gold Medal; an e-Government National Award in the category of Strategic Information Management; an industry-sponsored Canadian Information Productivity Award; a Customer Success Award for the Canadian Federal Government's RDIMS initiative; and a nomination for a national Agatha Bystram Award for Leadership in Information Management. |
| | Jeff Nesbitt, Vice President, Government Relations & Strategic Programs & Executive Chair, Waterloo R&D Site, Agfa Healthcare |
| Richard Alvarez, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Health Infoway Mr. Alvarez is a leader in Canadian health care. He is known for taking on challenging mandates and building successful organizations. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada Health Infoway, he has been a catalyst for accelerating the development of electronic health records in Canada. He has established strong, collaborative relationships with the federal, provincial and territorial governments and other stakeholders as the foundation for solid progress. He has articulated a broad national vision for reforming Canada's health care system through innovation and technology. On the international front, he has helped to position Canada as a world leader in health care renewal. Recently, Mr. Alvarez was recognized at the 2007 National Builder Inductee to the Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) Hall of Fame for the leadership he has exercised throughout his career (with the Government of Alberta, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and at Infoway) in promoting the application of innovative technology to improve health care delivery for Canadians. | |
| Dennis Giokas, MSc, Chief Technology Officer, Canada Health Infoway As Chief Technology Officer for Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and head of the Solutions Products and Services group Mr. Giokas is responsible for overall electronic health record (EHR) business and technical solution architecture, as well as the health IT standards agenda. This entails integrating and harmonizing the architecture, privacy and security, and standards activities for greater coordination and collaboration on products and services delivery. It also entails increasing the emphasis on the implementation and client-focused service support of EHR solutions. Mr. Giokas has nearly three decades of experience in the information management and information technology field, having held positions at Sapient Corporation, notably as Vice-President and Managing Director of its Canadian subsidiary. He has held senior positions with Digital Equipment Corporation, including those of Consulting Engineer and Group Technical Director. And he has consulted on IT strategy in a number of industries including health care, financial services, insurance and energy services. | |
| Mike Barron, B.Comm.,MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Newfoundland & Labrador Centre for Health Information Mike is Chief Executive Officer with the Newfoundland & Labrador Centre for Health Information and a passionate proponent of the electronic health record agenda in Canada. As CEO of the Centre, Mike is responsible for leading Newfoundland and Labrador's EHR development as well as providing leadership in data quality, standards, and EHR evaluation. The Centre is also actively involved in applied health research activities with a view to building health research capacity in the province. Mike is also a Director on the Centre's Board as well as a Board member of COACH and the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research. He currently chairs the Technical Advisory Committee for the national Health System Use of Data initiative. Mike has 26 years experience in health information management and technology. Mike holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Masters in Business Administration from Memorial University of Newfoundland. | |
| Gary Higgs, CIO, St. Mary's Hospital | |
| Diane Beattie, President, D.L. Beattie Consulting D.L. Beattie Consulting is focused on consulting in the areas of: strategic leadership in health information management and information technology focusing on the development of a clear vision and strategy. The recent teams, led by Diane in London and South Western Ontario, have successfully implemented national and provincial pilots in Health Care, in the areas of Diagnostic Imaging and Electronic Patient Record. Both patients and providers are now benefiting from this ground breaking work. To foster the development of e-Health within Ontario, Diane has been a member of many advisory boards and committees including, co-chair of the Regional e-Health Steering Committee, member of the Ontario e-Health Council and Chair of the Governance Committee for the Ontario Telehealth Network. On a national bases, she is one of the initial members of CHIEF - Canada's Health Informatics Executive Forum. Previously, Diane has served with several major corporations in the insurance, food processing and gas distribution industry and health care. Prior to joining the London Hospitals, 9 years ago, as the Integrated VP of Health Information and CIO, she held senior positions with Union Gas in South Western Ontario. | |
| Laurie Rogers, Canada Health Infoway | |
| Linda Duffet-Leger, University of New Brunswick | |
| | Oz Huner, Vice President, NexJ Systems Inc. As Vice President at NexJ Systems Inc., Oz Huner is responsible for product strategy, marketing and sales of NexJ eHealth Solutions. Oz has over a decade of experience applying information technologies in health care and life sciences. Previously, Oz was a health IT management consultant with Deloitte Consulting, where he was responsible for advising government and healthcare organizations on electronic health records and consumer health and translational research. Prior to Deloitte, he was the Director of Research Informatics at the University Health Network, where he led a team responsible for development of an integrated clinical and research informatics platform for Canada's largest network of academic medical centres. His experience also includes work with the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, where he led several initiatives focused on the development of software for clinical trials and cancer registries. In addition to his experience in software, Oz has been responsible for enterprise-wide information management strategies and policies for academic health sciences environment. |
| | Kevin J. Leonard, MBA, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Kevin Leonard has Crohn's disease and has had frequent and extensive interactions with the healthcare system. He is a strong believer in patient empowerment and the critical role patients play in deciding about their care in consultation and collaboration with their health providers. Through Patient Destiny, he is working to expand the voice of the consumer in healthcare - the patient voice. The first step is to develop an effective eHealth system where patients have access to advanced health informatics tools. Kevin is Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and the Founding Director of Patient Destiny. He is also Executive Director of the IMPROVE-IT Institute - Indices Measuring Performance Relating Outcomes, Value and Expenditure from Information Technology and a Research Scientist with the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network. Kevin is a member of the Advisory Board for the Canadian Association for People- Centred Health. |
| Shirley Fenton (BES, MA), VP and Director, National Institutes of Health Informatics Shirley Fenton is VP and Director of the National Institutes of Health Informatics, a Canada-wide, virtual institute of institutes bringing together experts in Health Informatics. As well, she is the Managing Director of the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research, a Research Associate of the Computer Systems Group and Program Manager for the Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests are Communities of Practice, innovative intelligent communities, Community Information Utilities/Portals, Informatics, Health Informatics and Workflow. She is involved in research programs related to technology and its deployment. She is active in building research and technology transfer relationships with healthcare providers, government and companies providing services and technology to the healthcare system. She is a member of the Intelligent Waterloo Steering Committee. Shirley Fenton is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, where she obtained her BES and MA degrees. | |
| Michael Bidu, President, DigiBC Michael Bidu is the President of DigiBC - The Digital Media + Wireless Association of BC, a not-for-profit association representing more than 1,000 companies generating more than $3B annually. He is a strategic thinker, conceptual marketer and an entrepreneur at heart, who sees the convergence of wireless and digital media as a powerful medium for people and companies to connect and interact with each other to create meaningful mass collaboration and smart communities at local level on a global scale. In July, 2009 he launched BC's Wireless Health Initiative to put a spotlight on BC's wireless health companies, the convergence of wireless, video games, life sciences and serious research, and the tremendous global opportunities that wireless health offers. Michael is a serial entrepreneur who founded or co-founded ventures in fashion, Internet adventure travel, interactive marketing, software and Web 2.0/wireless. He is a director in the board of the Canadian Interactive Alliance (CIAIC). He is the executive producer of Vancouver Interactive Digital Week 2010, VX 2010 Showcase, PNWS 2009 and 2010, and a co-founder of Mobile Monday Vancouver. He was featured for his views on innovation, technology, and convergence on Global TV, CBC News, Vancouver Sun, Business in Vancouver, Suite101.com and others. | |
| Ryan Graham, BBA, MASc, Manager Hospital Informatics, St. Mary's General Hospital As manager of hospital informatics at St. Mary's General Hospital, Ryan works closely with Decision Support and Information Systems to extend the hospital's e-Health Strategy and spearhead various Business Intelligence and Clinical Decision Support Systems. Mr. Graham started his I.T. career in 2001 at Microsoft Canada, as marketing manager of the Microsoft Developer Network while completing his Masters of Applied Sciences. Upon completion of his Masters he transitioned to public health care, working first at the University Health Network in Medical Informatics, and then later at St. Mary's General Hospital as a dedicated Cardiac IT Developer, Project Manager, and interim Director of Decision Support. | |
| Steve Rankin, Founder and President, Client Outlook Inc. Steve Rankin has over 15 years experience in the IT industry. Steve moved from IT to Health IT in 1998 and has worked as a technical product manager for a variety of healthcare IT companies. His passion to work directly with health professionals to ensure health IT meets their needs led him to found Client Outlook. Client Outlook develops software solutions to make inter-professional collaboration and medical image and information access an integrated and seamless part of care delivery. Their initial offering, eUnity, is a server-based product. Once installed, health professionals can access medical images using eUnity's zero footprint client using their favourite web-browser; regardless of their location and with no client software to manage. eUnity does this real-time and keeps medical images where they belong, with the archive they reside on. This ensures clinicians are viewing the most up to date medical data. | |
| Dr. Joseph Cafazzo, Lead for the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation Dr. Joseph Cafazzo is Lead for the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, a state-of-the-art research facility devoted to the evaluation and design of healthcare technology, hosting sixty researchers and staff. Dr. Cafazzo has been an active researcher of the use of technology to facilitate patient self-care of complex chronic conditions such as diabetes, end-stage renal disease, and congestive heart failure. He is also active in ethnographic research related new modes of patient care mediated by technology, such as the Hospital-at-Home, and the Personal Health Record (PHR). He has advised and conducted research for public sector policy makers and private sector medical technology companies on the design and safety of technology in healthcare. He is co-founder of the Healthcare Human Factors Group is the largest group of its kind devoted to the application of human factors engineering to problems of healthcare delivery and patient safety. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, where he teaches in the areas of human factors, clinical engineering, and health informatics. | |
| Rick Stroobosscher, Founder and President, Karos Health Prior to founding Karos, Rick Stroobosscher served as the CTO of Medicalis of Waterloo between 2002 and 2004, where he led engineering and architected integration and clinical decision support solutions for large healthcare enterprises. From 1993 to 2002 he worked at Mitra Imaging in Waterloo. As CTO of Medicalis and Mitra, he developed innovative and standards-based technologies to enhance the integration of disparate clinical systems and the communication of medical data across the healthcare enterprise. Rick Stroobosscher was one of the primary industry architects developing solutions for archiving and distribution of image data, as well as integration of image and information systems. At Karos, Rick Stroobosscher is focused on developing products that enable the sharing of clinical information across enterprises. Using innovative technology based on open standards and supported by a team with decades of experience in Healthcare interoperability, Rick Stroobosscher's goal is to elevate the quality of patient care by facilitating collaboration between healthcare providers and the patient. Rick Stroobosscher is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, where he earned his Master of Mathematics degree in Computer Science. | |
| Alex Martinez, Open Text | |
| Rick Skinner, Vice-President & CIO, Cancer Care Ontario Rick is a healthcare IT Executive with over 25 years' experience in healthcare information systems, including positions as the CIO for health systems, a medical research laboratory, independent consulting and as project manager for the development and implementation of the Department of Defense's global medical information system. Rick is currently the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Cancer Care Ontario, responsible for providing information technology and information management for the Province's cancer, chronic kidney disease and access to care programs and services. Rick was formerly a Director at Navigant Consulting, a global professional services firm specializing in healthcare and litigation support. Rick was responsible for the healthcare IT practice. Rick was also Vice President for First Consulting Group, a healthcare IT focused firm active in helping its clients in provider, health plan, government and life sciences organizations achieve their goals through the use of information technology. He led the outsourcing business unit for FCG. | |
| Charles Parker, Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance Charles (Chuck) Parker is the Executive Director of the Continua Health Alliance - a membership-driven company focused on developing an eco-system of interoperable personal health devices. Through working with Standards bodies and industry experts, Continua publishes certification standards built upon international criteria from IEEE, HL7, Bluetooth, USB, and others. Chuck leads the many workgroups and day-to-day operations of the Alliance. Mr. Parker has over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology, policy, and the strategic design of evaluation and measurement strategies. He has led national programs for practice transformation and has served on national committees for assessing adoption requirements. Mr. Parker holds a Master of Science degree in Healthcare Informatics from Northeastern University. He earned his BA in Communication Studies and Business Management at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. | |
| Brendan Seaton, President, Health Division, Information Technology Association of Canada Brendan Seaton is the president of the Information Technology Association of Canada's Health Division - ITAC Health. ITAC represents more than 300 companies across Canada, almost half of which provide ICT products and services to the health sector. Prior to joining ITAC Health, Brendan was VP of Privacy, Security and Risk Management for the Ontario Smart Systems for Health Agency. He has held executive level positions in both the private and public sectors. Brendan is an instructor at the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research, leading workshops in eHealth privacy, security and risk management and contributing to WIHIR's Health Informatics Bootcamp Program. | |
| J. Wayne Gudbranson, President & CEO, Branham Group Inc. J. Wayne Gudbranson is President & CEO of Branham Group Inc. an independent global industry analyst and strategic marketing consulting firm focused on assisting Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies achieve market success. Since establishing the firm in 1990, Wayne has positioned Branham as a leading provider of custom consulting services, assisting ICT companies in areas of planning, marketing and partnering. In 2004, Wayne expanded Branham's business by creating the multi-client subscription and data products divisions. The multi-client subscription division provides timely industry analysis, including monthly reports, detailed bi-monthly reports and telephone inquiry services in areas of eHealth and Green IT. Branham's eHealth NOW subscription program produces timely data on the state of eHealth deployment across the continuum of care. Branham also tracks well over 450 eHealth vendors offering products and services to the Canadian Healthcare industry. Wayne actively promotes the capabilities of Canada's ICT industry on a global basis and is frequently a keynote speaker at global ICT events. He is a regular technology analyst for CTV and its affiliate stations. He also sits on numerous boards and committees such as ISTP Canada and ITAC Health. Wayne has an Honours B.A. from the University of Guelph and a Master of Arts from the University of Western Ontario. He resides in Ottawa with his wife and four children. | |
John Hendriks, B. Comm., CHE, Senior Vice President, Health Industry Leader, Sierra Systems | |
| Dr. Ian McKillop, Executive Director, Health Research, University of Waterloo Dr McKillop is the Executive Director, Health Research at the University of Waterloo. His office fosters linkages between industry, government, and UW researchers who share a common goal of using science and technology to advance health and health care. Ian is jointly appointed to UW's Public Health program and the David R Cheriton School of Computer Science. He works in the field of information management with a particular focus on data quality, incident response and performance management issues found in high-availability, mission-critical systems. As a specialist in financial systems, Ian is well versed in healthcare funding and financial decision-making processes. He was a co-lead for Ontario's Hospital Report project - one of the largest, publicly-available, hospital performance enhancement projects in the world. He has served on national and provincial committees with mandates related to information systems and funding in Canada's health system, and has worked internationally. At UW, Ian helps lead the ideas for Health informatics lab and is a member of the university's Cryptography, Security & Privacy group (CrySP). |
Empowering Stream
Rene Barsalo, Director - Research and Strategy, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] | |
| | Michele Perras, Director, Mobile Experience Innovation Centre, Office of Research & Graduate Studies, OCAD Michele Perras is a designer and researcher focusing on digital strategy, collaborative innovation and human-centred foresight. She is the Director of the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre, a non-profit organization dedicated to design leadership, experiential and applied research in Canada's mobile industry. Over the past decade, Michele has worked with a wide range of organizations in the educational, non-profit and private sectors. She sits on the Board of Directors for Wireless Toronto, a community-driven initiative dedicated to providing open wireless access in urban Toronto. Her background is in material culture and goldsmithing, and she is sessional faculty at OCAD. Michele is a co-founder of the Toronto chapter of O'Reilly Media's acclaimed Ignite! speaker series, and has produced conferences across North America. |
Christopher Labrador, Vice President of Advanced Research, RIM | |
| Honourable John Milloy, Minister of Research and Innovation, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities The Hon. John Milloy was first elected Member of Provincial Parliament for Kitchener Centre in 2003. He was re-elected in 2007 and appointed Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities on October 30, 2007. In June 2009, Milloy was also appointed Minister of Research and Innovation. Milloy's political interest began at age 13 when he worked as a Queen's Park page and continued as he worked in political offices at both the provincial and federal level. From 1997 to 2002, Milloy served as Legislative Assistant to Prime Minister Jean Chretien. In his first term as MPP, Milloy held the position of Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and to the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities. He also served as Chair of the Federal Interprovincial Municipal Relations Cabinet Committee. In November 2007, he was appointed to the provincial government's anti-poverty committee. Milloy is past Director of Public Affairs for the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Kitchener-Waterloo. He has written on both international history and governance in the information age, recently publishing The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1948-1957: Community or Alliance. | |
| | Hélène Joncas, Chief Strategy Officer, Canarie Hélène Joncas joined CANARIE as Chief Strategy Officer in May 2009. As CSO, Ms. Joncas works directly with CANARIE's CEO to develop and execute the strategic plan and define the organization's next mandate in support of research and innovation. She is also in charge of developing national and international stakeholder relations and overseeing the company's strategic communications activities. Ms. Joncas has a wealth of experience in the high-tech sector, where she has held senior roles in strategic planning and analysis as well as business development and communications. Most recently at Nortel, Ms. Joncas was responsible for the Nortel-Microsoft relationship and the development of Unified Communications solutions for the Carrier market. Prior to that, she founded several companies including imGenie and SIPquest (now CounterPath). She was a principal at Inside Edge Consulting during which time she worked with Cap Gemini, Mitel and Enfotec Technical Services. Ms. Joncas has co-authored several papers on successful strategic alliances and she holds an Honours BA in psychology and a Masters of Business Administration, both from the University of Ottawa. |
| Zouheir Mansourati , Ph. D., Vice President, Technology Strategy, TELUS Zouheir joined the TELUS team in November 2006 as vice president in Technology Strategy with a focus on developing and commercializing technology. Before joining TELUS, Zouheir was CTO and vice president, product management at Olympus Microsystems America, Inc. (OMI) with responsibility for product marketing, business development and sales. Zouheir has 22 years experience in the telecommunications industry with expertise in the areas of voice switching systems, data communications, and optical networking. Prior to OMI, Zouheir helped to launch Movaz Networks where he was CTO and VP, Product Management. He began his career at Bell-Northern Research (BNR) where he spent 13 years. Zouheir holds a Maîtrise ès Sciences Mathématiques from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in mathematics from Queen's University. He has authored numerous papers on optical networking and has been published by the Quarterly of Applied Mathematics and the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society. Zouheir is a member the American Mathematical Society and the Optical Society of America. | |
| Rodney Wilson, Director, External Research, Ciena Communications Rod Wilson is currently Director External Research at Ciena communications corporation. In this role, Mr. Wilson is focused on driving Ciena's technology leadership by transitioning early prototype and emerging advanced technologies from concept to full business implementation. A key vehicle for facilitating research technology transition is via research and experimental networks that are constructed and operated in partnership with leading research organizations around the world, including CANARIE (Canada), SURFnet (Netherlands), Internet 2 (USA) . He is also responsible for Ciena's numerous strategic collaborations with Universities around the world. He is well known in the Research and Education networking community and continues to contribute to several Boards and Committees. He currently serves as a Board Member of Canada's CANARIE network, the SC2010 High Performance Computing conference committee, and Internet 2's Architecture and Operations advisory committee. Prior to joining Ciena, he held a similar position with Nortel Networks. Previously he was vice president technology for Toronto, Canada based Niburu Corporation and was involved in business incubation and venture capital technology assessments for emerging high technology businesses. He has held technology and business positions with Motorola, University of Toronto, Bell Canada and Gandalf Technologies. He is a graduate of Ryerson University in Ontario and Stanford in California. | |
| Duncan Stewart, Director, Deloitte Canada Research Duncan Stewart is the Director of Deloitte Canada Research in the areas of Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Life Sciences and GreenTech. He is a member of Deloitte's national TMT executive team, is a co-author of Deloitte Research's annual Predictions report on trends in TMT, and is one of Canada's leading futurists. Duncan has two decades of experience in the TMT industry. As an analyst and portfolio manager, Duncan has provided research or made investments in the entire Canadian technology and telecommunications sector. He has written research on names such as Nortel and Celestica, and been a venture capital investor in Research in Motion among others. | |
| Wade Oosterman, President Bell Mobility and Chief Brand Officer, Bell Canada As President of Bell Mobility and Channels, Wade Oosterman leads Bell Canada's wireless business, retail and distribution channels. As Chief Brand Officer, Mr. Oosterman leads the strategy and direction of one of Canada's most trusted and recognized brands. A 20-year veteran of the telecom industry, Mr. Oosterman began his career in telecommunications as an executive with Bell Cellular Distribution Services Inc., which became the largest sales agent for Bell Mobility's predecessor company, Bell Cellular. Mr. Oosterman was also instrumental in the national build outs of two fast-growing wireless carriers, Clearnet and Telus Mobility. He served as Executive Vice-President of Sales and Marketing and was a Board member at Clearnet communications until 2000, when the Company was acquired by Telus Corp. He then became Executive Vice-President, Sales and Marketing for Telus Mobility and Chief Marketing Officer for Telus. | |
| Laura Bradley, Principal, Actionable Intelligence Laura Bradley is a professional engineer with over 20 years in the Industry in Canada. Laura has worked with major carriers and service providers as well as equipment manufacturers. Laura's responsibilities have included network implementation and planning, strategic network planning, industry analysis and competitive intelligence. Laura founded Actionable Intelligence in 2001 and has been working on initiatives in rural broadband for the past eight years. Laura has worked with the Province of Ontario, projects for Industry Canada and with many municipalities in Eastern Ontario. Laura has been involved in the deployment of rural broadband infrastructure throughout areas in Eastern Ontario. For the past 20 months, Laura has been supporting the Eastern Warden's Caucus of Ontario with their Eastern Ontario Regional Network. This initiative focuses on bringing to fruition a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network throughout Eastern Ontario that will enable ISPs to deliver 10Mbps to residents. | |
| Rachel Helen Ellaway, PhD., Assistant Dean and Associate Professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine Dr. Ellaway is the Assistant Dean and Associate Professor for Education Informatics at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Visiting Professor in Education Informatics at St Georges University of London. Dr Ellaway is the author of the OpenLabyrinth virtual patient authoring and delivery system and chair of the AFMC Informatics Resource Group. Her work in developing and implementing profession-focused educational systems was recognised in the award of a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education to the University of Edinburgh in 2005, the first such award given to work involving learning technologies. | |
| | Brady Gilchrist, President and Founder, Admodo Group Brady Gilchrist has been in the digital business from the beginning. Brady is a sailor, pilot, photographer, writer and entrepreneur. His first business was creating mobile applications - before mobile was a buzz. The technology he created was sold and a non-compete brought him into the internet business in the early 90s. His second business venture was one of Canada's first online agencies - Intermagic. In his professional life he has been a Senior Vice President at GJP advertising, Executive Vice President and CSO at Fuel Industries and is the President and founder of the Admodo group. His responsibilities these days include inventing, investing and evangelizing very new things. Brady is a mentor who advises and bootstraps new startups, innovators and marketers looking towards the future. |
| Rick Otway, Vice President, Central Canada Public Sector Operations Rick Otway is Vice President of Central Canada Public Sector Operations for Cisco Canada. In this position he is responsible for business development and sales operations for the Government, Health, Education and Municipal marketplaces. A 25 year veteran of Canada's high tech community, Rick joined Cisco in 1994 and has held various leadership positions in Optical sales, West Coast Operations and most recently Central Enterprise operations. Prior to joining Cisco Systems Rick held various sales and technical leadership roles with IBM Canada and is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario. | |
| | Avi Pollock, Head, Applied Innovation and Strategic Planning, Royal Bank of Canada As Head of Applied Innovation and Strategic Planning at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Avi Pollock leads a team with an enterprise-wide mandate to stimulate innovative activity. With a view to "what's next," "what's new" and "what's different," his Applied Innovation team identifies and validates emerging technologies and opportunities that have the potential to drive client value and differentiate RBC from its competitors. He also is head of strategic planning for RBC's Technology & Operations organization. Avi is a frequent speaker on innovation as well as mobile and enterprise social media strategies. Prior to joining RBC, Avi provided interim executive management services in sales, business operations and acquisition strategy to technology companies in start-up and growth phases. He previously held the position of EVP, Professional Services for a TSX-listed technology company. Avi currently serves as Industry Chair on the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre, a non-profit focused on developing Ontario's role in the mobile economy. He has a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from University of Western Ontario, is a graduate of the joint LLB-MBA program at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business and is a member of the New York State Bar Association. He resides in Toronto with his wife and 2 sons. |
| | Charlotte Burke, Entrepreneur in Residence, BDC Venture Capital Charlotte Burke is a high energy executive with 25 years experience in operating technology businesses in the Internet, mobile and computer industries. She currently serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence within BDC Venture Capital, is an Advisor at MaRs Innovation Centre and serves on a number of boards. She also has a successful consulting practice, the Stanhope Group, focused on providing companies with expertise in commercializing new technology and driving business expansion. Previously, Charlotte was SVP and Business Unit Leader of Bell Canada's Consumer ISP and the Sympatico portal. During her 12 year career with Bell she lead three major technology transformations; the launch of digital cellular, wireless data services, and the roll out of residential broadband. Under her leadership Bell received a number of Innovation Awards including 3 CTIA Awards for Best PCS Launch Campaign 1997; CDG Award for Most Innovative Wireless Carrier WW 1998; Ranked #1 Wireless Innovator N.A. 2000 ; North American Online Safety Leadership Award. Prior to joining Bell she spent 13 years building businesses in the computer industry where she joined the start-up team for Compaq Canada and later built Sony's computer division. Charlotte holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Acadia University (1983), where she also serves on the Board of Governors and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1992). |
| | David Crow, Microsoft David Crow is an emerging technology and start-up advocate/evangelist. At Microsoft Canada, he is responsible for helping Canadian start-ups gain access to software, support and visibility in the Microsoft ecosystem through programs like BizSpark. David helps companies understand emerging technology, business models and design practices for creating compelling digital experiences. David focuses on helping build healthy, vibrant ecosystems enabled by next generation technologies. Prior to joining Microsoft, David did product development, marketing and business development for startups in Toronto, Austin, TX and Silicon Valley. He has a Masters from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo. He has been named Toronto's Best Web and Tech Evangelist for his efforts in DemoCamp, BarCamp Toronto, Founders & Funders and StartupEmpire. Follow him on Twitter @davidcrow or at http://davidcrow.ca/ and http://startupnorth.ca/ |
| Marlon Rodrigues, Director of Business Development, Polar Mobile Marlon Rodrigues is the Director of Business Development at Polar Mobile, the cross-platform smartphone app producer of choice for some of the biggest media brands in North America. Prior to Polar, Marlon spent time in the mobility space at Ericsson, Bell Canada and RIM. His primary responsibilities include evaluating new mobile partnerships, informing the product roadmap, and working to develop the mobile businesses of existing customers. | |
| | Ken Seto, Co-founder and CEO, Endloop Studios As the Co-founder and CEO of Endloop Studios, a leading mobile applications development studio, Ken leads a growing team of designers and developers in building some of the most entertaining and innovative iPhone and iPad applications on the market, garnering media attention from Wired, CNN, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, Mashable.com, Engadget.com, TUAW.com and many others. Prior to starting Endloop Studios, Ken served as the Manager of Web Services at OntarioMD and was responsible for launching OntarioMD.ca, the official physician portal for the Ontario Medical Association. He joined OntarioMD from Telepresence Systems, where he was a senior consultant specializing in front end development, interaction design and usability. During his time there, he helped launch AT&T's first VOIP service, CallVantage. Ken is well regarded for his passion and expertise in mobile, social media and user experience design. He has been interviewed and profiled many times in the media - from TechVibes and Unlimited Magazine to the CBC and The National Post. |
| | David Kruis, President & CEO, Metranome David is President & CEO of Metranome, an award-winning mobile media solutions company that develops engaging mobile experiences with its patent-pending advanced mobile technology. Metranome works with content producers and leading brands throughout North America and Europe to create, distribute, and monetize digital media across multiple smartphone platforms. Popular mobile application features include video-on-demand, live streaming, GPS-based directions, and click-to-call. Metranome's platform includes a Web-based content management system for easy content updates and valuable built-in performance analytics. Clients include The New Yorker, Dilbert, Gong, Peace Point Entertainment, and Tricon Films. Before co-founding Metranome, David was Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Tech Capital Partners, an early stage Venture Capital firm. Prior to that, David was Director of Retail Product Planning at Research In Motion, where he led the development and expansion of BlackBerry into the global market. |
| Jim Roche, President & Chief Executive Officer, CANARIE Jim was appointed President and CEO of CANARIE in Feb 2010. He is a successful entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of leadership experience, having been a founding member and General Manager at Newbridge Networks Corporation (now Alcatel-Lucent), a co-founder and CEO of Tundra Semiconductor (now IDT), the CEO of CMC Microsystems and the founder and CEO of Stratford Managers, a company he continues to lead. In addition to his corporate duties, he also serves on numerous boards and committees including the ICT Advisory Board for DFAIT, the Committee of Research Partnerships for NSERC, the Expert Panel on Business Innovation for CCA and others. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and is frequently called on to speak about entrepreneurship, commercialization of innovation, and strategy development. | |
| Byron Holland, President & CEO, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Byron G. Holland is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), a position he has held since January 2008. His focus is on security, stability and resiliency of the .CA domain name system (DNS) and sound operation and policy development that supports the .CA registry. In striving for operational excellence, Holland provides sound financial management, ensures exceptional customer service, and observes and implements globally recognized best practices at CIRA. He also represents Canadian interests in numerous international fora, including at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Prior to that, Holland was a founding partner and the COO of Futura Rewards, the third largest coalition loyalty program in Canada. At Futura, Holland oversaw the development and growth of the company from a small upstart to a publicly traded company with more than 100 brand partners and 400,000 members. Holland, maintains a blog called Public Domain, in which he discusses issues of interest to the Canadian Internet community, including Internet governance and technology. He can also be found on Twitter at @CIRA001. | |
| Dr. David H. Jacobson, PhD, BSc (Eng), Director - Emerging Technologies, Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Toronto He works with clients on the discovery and evaluation of emerging concepts and technologies, including their commercial applications and prospects. Currently he focuses on Digital Media and unlocking and sharing Tacit Knowledge in business and society using Social Networking. David's comprehensive technology and business experience as a former professor at Harvard University, senior executive in the international multimedia, telecoms, electronics and ICT industry, in venture capital, and in advisory services, is of particular benefit to clients in his bringing a refreshing thought-leadership perspective to discussions on concepts, technologies and their development and implementation. David has published 5 books and numerous papers on optimal decision making. He is recognized internationally as founding the field of risk-sensitive decision making with exponential performance measurement and for major contributions to Differential Dynamic Programming for optimizing system performance. | |
| Alan Sawyer, Principal, Two Solitudes Consulting Alan Sawyer is the principal at Two Solitudes Consulting. Two Solitudes focuses on the changing face of media in the borderless digital world. Alan has spoken on the need to address the cultural and economic implications of digital content and our increasing reliance on foreign-based infrastructure as a panelist at the 2009 Insight Telecommunications conference and as panel moderator for the Canadian Film and Television Production Association's National Digital Strategy panel at its 2010 conference. Alan works with broadcasters, associations, government organizations and companies up and down the media industry value chain to develop strategies and policies that address life and commerce in the 21st-century global village. Alan also works with producers to create innovative transmedia projects that take Canadian creativity to the world. Alan is a frequent commentator on media and telecom in print and on radio and television and is a frequent participant at media and media-related conferences. | |
Michael J. O'Farrell, Country Manager for Mobile Marketing Association, Co-Founder of the MMA Canada Council; Founder of The Mobile Institute; Board Member of the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre; and Co-Author of Mobile Internet For Dummies | |
| | Terry Ansari, Vice-President Federal Public Sector / Canada, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Terry Ansari is Vice-President Federal Public Sector / Canada for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), Cisco's global, strategic advisory organization. He has more than 30 years experience in the technology industry with recognized pioneers and visionary organizations such as Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and Accenture. Terry has led and overseen numerous initiatives in support of the public sector, and is regularly called upon to provide industry perspectives. Public Service organizations recognize that more than ever, governments must be driven enablers of innovation in the 21st Century. Terry is working with these organizations to help address the reality that 21st Century innovation demands 21st Century government processes, practices and new approaches to collaboration. |
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| Gary Maavara, Vice-President and General Counsel, Corus Entertainment Inc. Gary A. Maavara is Vice President and General Counsel for Corus Entertainment Inc., overseeing all legal and regulatory affairs associated with the Company's extensive operations in radio, television, programming, films, books, music, toys and websites. Prior to joining Corus, Gary was employed in a variety of executive and operating roles with CanWest Global Communications Corp. His career includes 10 years with CTV in senior level positions including Group Vice President, Programming; Vice President Sports, Chief Legal Counsel and Vice President Operations and Engineering. Prior to joining CTV, Gary practiced intellectual property and communications law at a major Bay Street law firm, with a client roster that included CTV, Standard Broadcasting, several NHL clubs and Loblaw Companies Limited. Gary is a graduate of Boston University (B.Sc. 1977 summa cum laude) and the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University (J.D. 1982). He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1983. Gary Maavara sits on the boards of Food Network Canada Inc., Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN), Mississauga Twins Baseball Club and the YMCA of Greater Toronto and is a member of the ICT Advisory Board of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. | |
| | Jerry Brown, Associate Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Jerry Brown is an Associate Partner working with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Jerry has an impressive background in the Media sector, Jerry was recently one of the introductory keynote speakers at the Canada 3.0 conference launching the Stratford Institute speaking on the emerging issues related to the transition to Digital media. He has also spoken recently at Nextmedia in Banff and at a The World Association of Newspapers conference in Barcelona Jerry has also presented to The CRTC on the future of digital media. His clients include Freedom Communications, CanWest Global, Torstar Corp, CTV Globemedia, Film Ontario, Canadian Press, Readers Digest, Magazines Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Media Development Corporation, O Dia (Newspaper -Brazil). Jerry is a core member of PwC's Global Centre of Excellence in Publishing and was on the editorial board of our recently released global studies on the future of the Magazine and Newspaper Industries. He has specialized in Process Redesign and Operations Performance Improvement in Canada, the US and around the world. Jerry is a frequent speaker at international media conferences. Jerry holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked on every continent and lived and worked in the U.K. Portugal and Switzerland in addition to Canada. |
| The Honourable Konrad W. von Finckenstein, Q.C., Chairman, CRTC THE Honourable Konrad W. von Finckenstein, Q.C., was appointed as Chairman of the CRTC on January 25, 2007. Over the course of a career in the public service that began in 1973, he has held a number of senior positions and acquired broad experience in the areas of trade, commercial and competition law. Before joining the CRTC, he served as Justice of the Federal Court. Previously, Mr. von Finckenstein acted as Commissioner of Competition and head of the Competition Bureau of Canada between 1997 and 2003. During his tenure, he led important reviews of proposed mergers between companies, including those in the banking and airline sectors. He also investigated a conspiracy affecting the sale and supply of an additive widely used in the animal feed industry, which resulted in one of the largest fines in Canadian history. Moreover, he led the drive to establish the International Competition Network, the umbrella organization for all competition authorities from around the world, and became its founding chairman, a position he held until his appointment to the Federal Court. | |
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| | Peter Lyman, Senior Partner, Nordicity Group Ltd. Peter is Senior Partner of Nordicity Group Ltd. (NGL), and one of the founding principals of the company. In 1998, Nordicity merged with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (PWCC), and Peter became national partner responsible for the Information, Communications and Entertainment& Media (ICE) practice in Canada. Following IBM's acquisition of PwC's consulting arm in 2002, Peter spun-off Nordicity, and has led its growth in the media, entertainment, broadcasting, and communications since that time. Peter is an internationally recognized expert in the media, content, and communications sector with some 30 years of consulting experience. He has been engaged in all facets of regulatory proceedings, policy formulation and evaluation, and business strategy and analysis with respect to the telecom, broadcasting, cable, satellite, and content industry in Canada and abroad. |
| | Lawson A.W. Hunter, Q.C., Stikeman, Elliott Lawson Hunter is one of Canada's pre-eminent regulatory and government relations counsel, drawing on a wide range of experience in business, government and private practice. Formerly Canada's senior civil servant in charge of competition policy and enforcement, Mr. Hunter was primarily responsible for the drafting of the federal Competition Act. From 1993 to 2003 he was a partner of Stikeman Elliott and head of the firm's Competition Group. From 2003 to 2008 he served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Corporate Officer of Bell Canada and BCE Inc., where he was responsible for overseeing regulatory, governmental relations and corporate affairs. In September 2008, he rejoined the Ottawa office of Stikeman Elliott as Counsel. He recently co-authored a paper titled: "Scrambled Signals: Canadian Content Policies in a World of Technological Abundance" published by C.D. Howe Institute, January 2010. |
| | Pamela Dinsmore, Vice President, Regulatory, Rogers Communications Inc. Pam Dinsmore is a lawyer and is Vice President, Regulatory at Rogers Communications Inc. Pam joined Rogers Cable in 1995 as Director, Regulatory Affairs and was promoted to her current position in 1997. Prior to joining Rogers Cable, Pam spent 8 years at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission where she was first Legal Counsel then Chief of Staff to the Chair of the CRTC. Pam holds a B.A. in Political Science and French from Middlebury College (1981) and an LLB from Osgood Hall Law School (1985). She had been a member of the Ontario bar since 1987. Pam is responsible for managing the regulatory relationship between Rogers and the CRTC and other federal government departments, boards and agencies, providing advice on regulatory issues to Rogers divisions. Her areas of expertise include copyright, internet policy, television and distribution policy and regulation (CRTC), and the negotiation of municipal access agreements and agreements for access to telephone and hydro poles. Pam has had extensive experience in leading RCI panels of executives before the CRTC in major policy and licensing proceedings. She has also appeared before Parliamentary Committees on a number of occasions. |
| | Jason J. Kee, Director of Policy and Legal Affairs for the Entertainment Software Association of Canada Jason J. Kee is the Director of Policy and Legal Affairs for the Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC), the not-for-profit trade association that companies in Canada that publish and distribute video and computer games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers and the Internet. Among other things, he monitors and analyzes issues and legislation affecting the video game industry in Canada (both domestically and internationally), and regularly works with both government and partner organizations on matters such as intellectual property policy and enforcement, international trade, tariffs, ratings, funding and tax incentives and any policies and/or legislation affecting the development, sale and marketing of entertainment software products in Canada. Prior to joining the ESAC, Jason practiced intellectual property, information technology and entertainment law (with an emphasis on Internet, e-commerce, gaming and interactive media-related matters ) at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. He also acted as legal and policy counsel to the Canadian Interactive Alliance / Alliance Interactive Canadienne (CIAIC), an alliance of provincial new media associations that represents the interactive media industry at a national level. He is the founder and former chair of the interactive media committee of the Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can), on the executive of the Entertainment, Media & Communications Section of the Ontario Bar Association, and an active member of numerous other legal associations. |
| Jean-Michel Texier, Nstein Technologies Inc. Jean-Michel Texier has been building digital solutions for media companies since the early days of the Internet. He founded Eurocortex, in France, where he built content management solutions specifically for news and media industry. When the company was acquired by Nstein Technologies in 2006, Texier took over as CTO and chief visionary, helping companies organize, package and monetize content through semantic analysis." Mr Texier graduated as an Engineer from National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (France) in "Computer Sciences & Applied Mathematics" (in 1993). | |
| Gordon Castle, Senior Consultant, Earley & Associates Gordon Castle is a visionary executive with expertise in business and technology planning, change strategy, and developing ideas that shape the future of the Media & Entertainment industry. He has a proven track record as an innovative and insightful leader, with a capacity to generate ground-breaking ideas and facilitate implementation and training efforts to capitalize on emerging technologies and business opportunities. As a Senior Consultant, Gordon helps media and entertainment producers, distributors, and solution providers create sustainable value by employing innovative processes that balance business goals, improve operations, and leverage technology. Previously, he was the Senior Technology Fellow for Production at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), serving as an internal advisor and strategist on production and acquisition systems. Prior to this appointment, Castle was Senior Vice President of CNN Technology, directing the overall management of technical content projects for CNN. Castle was responsible for the analysis, acquisition and implementation of technology that CNN employs for the gathering, production and distribution of news. During his tenure at CNN, he led initiatives to move CNN to an integrated digital workflow, build one of the largest digital media archives, and implement low cost field production and acquisition systems. | |
| | Sandra Macdonald, Vice-Chair, ISAN Canada |
| | Anthony Gallo, VP, Social Media, Open Text Anthony Gallo is driven by a passion for innovation. Anthony began his career as a bricks and mortar Architect where he applied technology in unconventional ways in the practice of forming the physical world. He was inspired by the possibilities of the Internet and decided to leap into the virtual world of technology. Anthony founded Vizible Corporation more than 10 years ago with a vision to humanize the way people interact with digital information. Vizible grew into a recognized innovator and won several awards for both business achievement and technology innovation. Recently Vizible was acquired by Open Text Corporation and Anthony began initiatives to bring the next generation of user experience to Open Text ECM Products. Today Anthony is Vice President Social Media at Open Text and is developing next generation Social Technologies for companies that want to leverage the emergence of Social Networking, and Web 2.0. Anthony asserts that these new technologies while popular have yet to take full effect. As Marshall McLuhan explained, "We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us." |
| | Casey Chisick, Partner, Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LL.P. Casey Chisick is a partner in the Entertainment Law Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, a leading Toronto law firm. Having worked as a law professor, a jazz promoter and a musician - and even as artistic director of an internationally-renowned folk dance company - Casey offers his clients a rare combination of recognized expertise in copyright law and other intellectual property and first-hand experience in the business of entertainment. His diverse practice spans a number of related areas, including intellectual property, entertainment law, communications, advertising and marketing and fashion and apparel. Casey provides transactional advice and litigation counsel to clients in the film, television, music, broadcasting, theatre, advertising, literary, visual arts, new media and fashion industries, as well as to general business clients with intellectual property needs. He also consults on negotiation strategy for businesses of all kinds. Casey was the gold medalist in law at the University of Manitoba, earned a Masters of Law as a Fulbright and Frank Knox scholar at Harvard Law School, and served as law clerk to The Hon. Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada. He began his professional career as a law professor, first at the University of Manitoba and later at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he taught copyright, intellectual property, corporate law, negotiation and dispute resolution to hundreds of students and was recognized by National magazine as a leader in introducing technology to the Canadian law school classroom. Through numerous writing and speaking engagements in Canada and internationally, Casey became, and remains, one of Canada's best-known authorities on digital copyright issues. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Toronto and is a frequent commentator on copyright and entertainment issues for CBC television and radio. |
| | Grace Westcott, Barrister & Solicitor Grace Westcott is a commercial lawyer focusing on copyright, media and the cultural industries. She has acted for a number of trade associations and organizations in those industries, as well as for a corporate and individual clientele in book publishing, digital publishing, and collective management of copyright. As Executive Secretary and now Vice Chair of the Canadian Copyright Institute she has been actively involved in matters of copyright reform. |
| | Ruth M. Corbin, ICD.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., LL.M., Managing Partner, CorbinPartners Inc |
| | William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Inc |
| Scott Dyer, Chief Technology Officer, Corus Entertainment Scott Dyer is Chief Technology Officer for Corus Entertainment Inc., responsible for leading all of the Company's divisional and corporate technological undertakings. In this role, Scott has operational and strategic responsibility for the hardware, software, personnel and technical resources of Corus' core and new media businesses. Prior to this position, Scott was Executive Vice President, General Manager, Corus Kids. Scott began his tenure at Corus as Executive Vice President, Production and Development at Nelvana, which produces internationally renowned and award-winning children's animated content such as Babar and Franklin. At Nelvana, Scott helped guide the creative vision and technological development of Nelvana's high-calibre team of animators, developers and producers. Trained as a mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University, Scott entered the animation business after spending three years in Utah working on visual systems for flight simulators. His first entertainment industry career saw him producing commercial effects for television at Cranston/Csuri Productions, one of the first computer animation companies in North America. | |
| Richard Kydd, Managing Consultant, Global Media Consulting Richard heads the Media Production team within the Global Media Consultancy. Providing established expertise in all aspects of Digital Production from tapeless workflow to large scale media asset management, the team has been instrumental in the design, build, delivery and ongoing exploitation of leading edge production platforms in use by programme makers and broadcasters across the globe. Richard currently leads the Siemens team that is delivering the end to end content and broadcast platform for Corus Entertainments new facility Corus Quay in Toronto. Richard has over fifteen years of experience in the media, telecommunications and digital TV industry ranging from research technology roles in Telecoms, through CTO in interactive media organisations to senior executive positions in the UK's largest cable operator. Richard is the published inventor of over 20 Patents in the field of digital TV technologies. | |
| Bob Lamb, Founder & CTO, Pilat Media As CTO of Pilat Media, Bob Lamb is the Chief Architect of Pilat Media's Media and Entertainment set of solutions. He is nvolved in all aspects of Pilat Media's set of solutions for the Broadcast media and advertising space. | |
| | Karen Thorne-Stone, President & CEO, Ontario Media Development Corporation Karen Thorne-Stone was appointed President and CEO of the Ontario Media Development Corporation in July 2007. The OMDC is a provincial agency which supports economic development in Ontario's cultural media industries. In this capacity, Karen is responsible to promote growth and investment in the province's entertainment and creative industries including: film and television, interactive digital media, music, book and magazine publishing. Previously Karen was with the city of Toronto, where, for over 18 years, she served in a variety of roles, including film commissioner and executive director of economic development. As film commissioner, Thorne-Stone supported successful negotiations for a new state-of-the-art film studio complex on Toronto's waterfront, developed an innovative economic development strategy for the screen-based sector and worked with the OMDC on the development of a new brand positioning and marketing materials to promote film and television production. |
| | Doug Murphy, President, Nelvana and General Manager, Corus Kids |
| | Steven DeNure, President and COO, DHX Media Steven DeNure, President and Chief Operating Officer of DHX Media, is responsible for overseeing overall operations of DHX Media and its subsidiaries. He also serves as Executive Producer on many of the company's television and interactive media projects. Mr. DeNure co-founded Decode Entertainment in 1997 and, in 2003, merged the operations of Decode with Halifax Film to create DHX Media, which has become a leading international producer and distributor of television programming through its production companies, Decode Entertainment, Halifax Film and Studio B Productions, and an award-winning, industry leader in game development and interactive content through DHX Interactive. Prior to founding Decode, Mr. DeNure was at Alliance Communications Corporation for more than 10 years and served in a number of senior positions including President of Alliance Productions and President of Alliance Multimedia. During his tenure at Alliance Communications Corporation, he was involved in the development, financing and production of all television and feature film projects, and was responsible for the animation division, music-publishing division and for merchandising and licensing. |
| Ken Stein, Senior Vice President of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs, Shaw Communications Inc. | |
| | Norm Bolen, President & CEO, Canadian Film & Television Producers Association Norm Bolen is currently the President and CEO of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA), based in Ottawa. The CFTPA represents Canada's independent film, television and interactive producers. Norm is the former Executive Vice President, Content, for Alliance Atlantis Communications. At Alliance Atlantis he had overall programming responsibility for thirteen Canadian specialty networks: Showcase, History Television, Slice, HGTV, Food Network Canada, BBC Canada, BBC Kids, Discovery Health Channel, National Geographic Channel, Independent Film Channel, Showcase Action, Showcase Diva and Fine Living Television. Norm was also responsible for Alliance Atlantis' web based and emerging new media content and all Broadcast Operations. Prior to joining Alliance Atlantis in 1997, Norm spent 21 years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a journalist and executive. In his last position at the CBC he was the head of Network Television Current Affairs. In that role, he had overall responsibility for CBC Television's Documentary Department. Norm is a current Board member and past Chair of the Banff World Television Festival and the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, a Director of the National Screen Institute and a Director of the ACTRA Fraternal Benefit Society. Until recently, he was also a Director of mDialog, a web-based high-resolution video distribution platform that's optimized for the iPhone. |
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| Tim Jackson, Partner, Tech Capital Partners Tim Jackson is a founder and Partner of Tech Capital Partners where he focuses on investment opportunities in the wireless, communications, new media and internet sectors. Prior to partnering with Andrew Abouchar in 2001 to create Tech Capital, Tim was CFO and CEO at PixStream, a technology company focused on distributing and managing digital video across broadband networks. At PixStream, Tim successfully raised over $60 million in equity capital and negotiated the $550 million sale of the company to Cisco Systems, one of the largest technology company acquistions in Canadian history. Experienced in executive leadership roles, Tim has acted as CFO, CEO or board member for numerous technology companies, including AideRSS, ecobee, FibreTech Communications, LiveHive Systems, Metranome, Q9 Netowrks (TSX:Q), Sandvine (TSX:SVC; AIM:SAND), and Video Locus, a developer of next generation video compression technologies and solutions (acquired by LSI Corporation- NYSE: LSI). Tim also sits on and chairs several local boards in both the education and not-for-profit sectors, and has been honoured with several awards. | |
| Kevin Newman, Anchor and Executive Editor, Global National Covering stories around the world for more than 30 years, Kevin Newman is Canada's most watched national news anchor. He has anchored live coverage of the September 11 tragedy, Papal Funeral Coverage from Rome, and the Canadian Elections in 2004, 2006 and 2008. Not only has he worked for CBC and CTV National News in Canada, Kevin also worked for ABC News in New York alongside Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel, and was co-anchor of Good Morning America. Since 2001 he has been the founding Anchor and Executive Editor of 'Global National with Kevin Newman'. He also owns the video production company 'NewMan Media', is an Honourary Ambassador for the MS Society of Canada, a Director of the Kamloops Firefighters Foundation, and a member of the Digital Media Network. His journalism excellence has been awarded with several Emmy Awards, Gemini Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Western Ontario. | |
| | Valerie Creighton, President and CEO, Canada New Media Fund Valerie Creighton has over thirty years of experience in leading cultural organizations. Since joining the corporation in 2006 as President and CEO, Ms. Creighton's focus has been to position the CMF as a responsive and effective organization with funders, clients, and other stakeholders, to enhance relationships with national and international interests, and to support and promote Canadian media content. Ms. Creighton successfully managed two major organizational events in the history of the corporation, including the transition of the Canadian Television Fund's program administration to Telefilm Canada and the creation of the Canada Media Fund. She developed a national stakeholder outreach program and restructured the organization to focus on policy development, research, and communications. Previously, Ms. Creighton was the CEO and Film Commissioner for the Saskatchewan Film and Video Development Corporation and Manager of the Arts Section for the Province of Saskatchewan. She has produced radio dramas, sat on numerous CBC juries, won several awards, has participated in trade missions led by the Prime Minister of Canada and Premier of Saskatchewan, and sat on 12 boards from 1979 to the present and currently serves as a volunteer Chair of the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts. |
| | Karen Thorne-Stone, President & CEO, Ontario Media Development Corporation Karen Thorne-Stone was appointed President and CEO of the Ontario Media Development Corporation in July 2007. The OMDC is a provincial agency which supports economic development in Ontario's cultural media industries. In this capacity, Karen is responsible to promote growth and investment in the province's entertainment and creative industries including: film and television, interactive digital media, music, book and magazine publishing. Previously Karen was with the city of Toronto, where, for over 18 years, she served in a variety of roles, including film commissioner and executive director of economic development. As film commissioner, Thorne-Stone supported successful negotiations for a new state-of-the-art film studio complex on Toronto's waterfront, developed an innovative economic development strategy for the screen-based sector and worked with the OMDC on the development of a new brand positioning and marketing materials to promote film and television production. |
| | Dominique Sebastien Forest, Vice-President Digital, Transcontinental As Vice-President Digital, Dominique-Sébastien Forest is responsible for Transcontinental Media digital media strategy, including the diversification of their product offering and the acceleration of the growth if the New Media and Digital Solutions Group. His mission is to create the most compelling and efficient online echo-system for Transcontinental clients. Mr Forest was previously Vice-President Digital Media and E-Commerce, at Quebecor Media, Vice President, Business Development at Puretracks, he was also editor of MSN Canada and founded Creative Research and Technology, Canada's first company specialized in advergaming. Mr Forest is recognized for his ability to market innovations and develop effective commercialization strategy with emerging products. He has been a speaker in numerous events in Canada, the United States and Europe on different topics including the future of music, mobility, television and e-commerce. He is also member of the board of directors for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) of Canada, co-chair of the Emerging Products Council for the IAB as well as an advisor for organizations like the Mobile Experience Innovation Center and NextMedia. |
| | Wilf Dinnick, Founding Editor, OpenFile.ca Wilf Dinnick is the Founding Editor of Openfile, (Openfile.ca) a news website built for the digital age. Dinnick has worked as a reporter for all three Canadian TV networks before Peter Jennings hired him away to be the ABC News Middle East Correspondent. Most recently he was a CNN International Correspondent because in the Gulf, responsible for covering the region that includes Pakistan, Afghanistan, parts of Africa and the Middle East. Dinnick has covered many stories including the war in Iraq, Afghanistan's first democratic elections, the tsunami in South Asia, the death of Pope John Paul II and the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. His reporting has taken him to several places around the world including Pakistan, Kuwait, Haiti, Iraq, Poland, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and the Ukraine. Dinnick has won several awards including best continuing coverage of America's War on Terror, chosen by the news directors of Canada. |
Craig Silverman, Managing Editor, PBS Media Shift & IdeaLap | |
| David Gratton, Work at Play David Gratton has been working in digital media since 1999 developing innovative social media technologies, utilizing cutting-edge digital design techniques and building engaging digital experiences. A Canadian New Media Award Winner, David has a proven record for developing technologies for the deployment and distribution of media on the web and he has been a trusted online strategic advisor and developer to some of the world's most famous brands including Apple, Disney, Ford, Fox, PBS, Mattel and MTV. Realizing the growing convergence of digital and social media, David guided the evolution and rebranding of his digital web company into Work at Play: A Digital Agency in 2009. It was recently recognized for its tremendous corporate growth in Business in Vancouver's fastest growing company list as well as this years Profit 100. | |
| Kirk LaPointe, Managing Editor, The Vancouver Sun Kirk LaPointe is Managing Editor of The Vancouver Sun, responsible for the day-to-day print and online operations of western Canada's largest newsroom. He is also the Executive-in-Residence and an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of British Columbia, where he teaches Integrated Journalism. In addition, Kirk blogs daily on news industry change at themediamanager.com and is active in social media as a Canadian digital news pioneer. He has held several leadership roles in Canadian media including, Senior Vice President of news for CTV News, the Southam News agency as Editor in Chief and General Manager, and The Hamilton Spectator as Associate Publisher and Editor in Chief. Kirk has also run the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press, been a host on CBC Newsworld and is a frequent commentator on CBC, and writes extensively on media, communications and music. | |
| David Usher, Singer/Songwriter David Usher, one of Canada's most recognizable singer‐songwriters and music icons is set for the release of his 10th album in September of 2010. After three albums with his rock band Moist and six solo albums, the multi‐platinum artist has sold over 1.3 million albums around the world which include an impressive list of radio hits in Canada and across Europe and Asia. David is the recipient of 5 Juno Awards and many SOCAN and other industry awards for #1 radio and video hits and top selling singles. His songs have been recorded, performed and remixed around the world in many different languages and used for campaigns over the past decade for Amnesty International, Warchild and Make Poverty History. David is heavily involved with social media and the web and he regularly speaks at conferences and to companies about Web 2.0, community building and engagement. He is co founder of the web startup Deqq, a realtime platform with clients including: the Vancouver Canucks, Nelly Furtado, Universal Music, Amnesty International and Emily Carr University. | |
| Craig Thompson, Producer, Writer & Director, Ballinran Productions Limited Craig Thompson is an accomplished producer, writer and director whose television and media career has spanned more than 25 years. He is a four-time Canadian Gemini Award and Irish Academy Award nominee whose background as a journalist and a foreign correspondent created the foundation for his thriving television production company. Recent credits include the acclaimed docudrama DEATH OR CANADA for History Television, History Channel and RTE Ireland on the Irish famine and its impact on North America in 1847; HANGMAN'S GRAVEYARD which followed an archaeological team as they investigated the forgotten prison graveyard behind Toronto's Don Jail; and A LIFE IN STAGES, a profile of Jersey Boys and Stratford Festival Artistic Director Des McAnuff for Bravo! Thompson is also the driving force behind DocFest Stratford, a documentary and digital media festival that takes place each October and No Boundaries, a digital media workshop program for high school students across Southern Ontario. | |
| Jeff Craib, Senior Vice-President, S.L. Feldman and Associates Jeff has travelled globally as part of his position at Canada's leading full service agency, but it's his role in developing Canadian talent who find success nationally and internationally that makes him most proud. With more than 20 years experience rising from agent to director to VP and now senior VP at SLFA, Jeff's enthusiasm has always stemmed from his work as an agent, while adding operational responsibilities to his role at S.L. Feldman & Associates. "I'm really interested in developing bands and artists, all kinds and genres. My roster is all over the place - pop, hip hop, rock, singer‐songwriters, which keeps things exciting" says Jeff. He cites his key clients as The Tragically Hip and Nelly Furtado amongst many more. Jeff is also very active in music marketing, talent buying, corporate alliances, new revenue streams and is often engaged in music consulting by a variety of companies due to his vast industry experience. | |
| Chul Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Thoora Thoora is next generation real-time news aggregation platform which was recently selected as a TechCrunch50 finalist last year. Chul is Thoora's chief technology officer, and responsible for leading the team that has developed the company's proprietary's algorithm, clustering and ranking technology. Chul started Thoora in 2007 with some students at UofT after they couldn't find a good way to effectively aggregate and search blogs to provide a complete view of what was happening within the blogosphere. Before starting Thoora, Chul worked as an applied research scientist with Brandimensions where he focused on various algorithmic approaches to the creation and evolution of online communities. He was also director of research and development with Genieknows building vertical search engines from scratch. Chul, who was raised in Mexico, has a B.Sc from the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, and a M.Sc/Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. | |
| | Carol Leaman, CEO, PostRank.com Founded in 2007 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, PostRank monitors and collects social engagement events correlated with online content in real-time across the web. PostRank monitors over 20 social networks and millions of websites to gather where and when stories generate comments, bookmarks, tweets, and other forms of interaction with readers. Online Publishers, PR firms, Ad networks and News Aggregators use PostRank Data Services and Analytics to gauge the reach of content and its influence with the audience. |
| Melissa Schenk, Entrepreneur, TV Personality, MS2 Productions, /A\ News London You might remember her from Tourism Queensland's "Best Job in the World" Competition. She was in the TOP 50 out of more than 35,000 entries. Melissa Schenk is a motivated, creative and successful entrepreneur / tv personality who speaks from experience. She will have you rethinking the traditional, exploring the new, and experiencing the unknown when it comes to Social Media. Originally from Stratford, Melissa's career began in broadcasting at 1240 CJCS. A graduate of Fanshawe College's Television Broadcasting Program, Melissa interned with CNN in Uganda. A love of travel, lead her abroad working as a Port Lecturer on cruise ships. She later returned to Southwestern Ontario and began working as a Weather Announcer for CTV, as well as launching her own Production Company - MS2 Productions. Melissa is passionate and knowledgeable on the subject of social media and wears a variety of hats currently as a Business Owner, Weather Anchor on /A\ News in London and part-time teacher at Conestoga College. | |
| | Antoni Cimolino, General Director, Stratford Shakespeare Festival 22nd season: General Director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Stratford: Mr. Cimolino works with the Artistic Director to head North America's leading classical theatre, producing a 12-play season in four theatres with more than 1,000 employees and an annual budget of $57 million. He was instrumental in establishing the Stratford Festival Endowment Foundation, which has raised more than $58 million to date, as well as in the renovation of the Avon Theatre and the building of the Studio Theatre. His directing credits include Bartholomew Fair, Coriolanus, with Colm Feore and Martha Henry, As You Like It, featuring original music by Barenaked Ladies, King John, with Stephen Ouimette, Love's Labour's Lost, with Brian Bedford, Twelfth Night, with William Hutt, Night of the Iguana, with Seana McKenna, and Filumena, with Richard Monette. |
| | Jacob Glick, Canada Policy Counsel, Google Canada Jacob Glick is Google's Canada Policy Counsel. He is part of a global policy team, working with academics, civil society, industry and government to keep the Internet awesome. He regularly writes, presents, blogs and tweets on issues related to privacy, intellectual property, telecommunication and broadcasting regulation, online advertising, and innovation policy. Jacob studied Political Science and Law at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Google he was General Counsel and Director of Policy Development at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Jacob enjoys Mel Brooks movies and biking along the Ottawa River Parkway. If he could throw, run, catch, and hit better he would have been a relief pitcher for the Blue Jays. |
| Paulette Bourgeois, Author Paulette Bourgeois is best-known for creating Franklin the Turtle, the character who appears in picture books illustrated by Brenda Clark. The books have sold more than 60 million copies around the world and have been translated into 38 languages. An animated television series, merchandise, DVDs and full-feature movies are based on the character. She is also the author of award-winning books for children including Oma's Quilt which was developed as a short film by the NFB, and more than two dozen non-fiction science books. Blush Productions in Vancouver has optioned her full-length feature film, Loving Mrs. Twiggy. She is a member of the Order of Canada, received an honourary doctorate degree from UWO and most recently graduated with an MFA from UBC. | |
| | Denis Dyack, Founder and President, Silicon Knights In this capacity, he oversees the creation and development of games, and continues to further the growth of the company. Dyack is a noted authority on interactive software development and offers valuable insight into the process of designing next-generation games that appeal to the masses. Under Dyack's direction, Silicon Knights has evolved into one of the world's largest independent interactive software developers. Dyack (B. Phed, H. B.Sc, M. Sc.) founded Silicon Knights in 1992 after publishing "Cyber Empires" in 1991. Since that time, Silicon Knights has moved from creating PC games to premiere AAA console titles, such as "Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain" for the original Playstation. Working with Nintendo as a second party, Silicon Knights created the critically acclaimed "Eternal Darkness". Together with Nintendo, Silicon Knights worked with Konami to create another critically acclaimed game, "Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes. In 2008, Dyack and his team released "Too Human™" for the Microsoft® Xbox 360, which was published by Microsoft. |
| Wojtek Kawczynski, Managing Director, Transgaming Wojtek runs the Studio division at TransGaming Inc., with responsibilities for growing the studio, setting strategy and overseeing day-to-day operations. The Studio division is TransGaming's internal game development group focused on original game development for GameTree.tv, Mac and PC platforms. Wojtek joined TransGaming in 2009 bringing over 10 years of early stage technology company operations experience from a variety of industries. Prior to TransGaming, Wojtek headed-up the game division of SilverBirch Inc setting strategy, overseeing the operations of the publishing and development groups, identifying M&A opportunities, and leading the integration efforts within the division. Wojtek also directly ran the operations of SilverBirch Studios, the development studio that was the founding group of the game division. Wojtek is an avid gamer with a passion for growing businesses. His professional experience includes venture capital investments and technology startups. Prior to SilverBirch Studios Wojtek spent close to 3 years running the product management group at Avokia a venture-backed startup in the database market. Prior to Avokia Wojtek spent 5 years at Ventures West, one of Canada's oldest venture capital firms, focused on investments the technology sector. |
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Ken Coates, Dean, University of Waterloo, Faculty of Arts | |
Sara Diamond, President, Ontario College of Art & Design | |
The Honourable Diane Finley, P.C., M.P., Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, Member of Parliament for Haldimand-Norfolk L'honorable Diane Finley, C.P., depute, Ministre des Ressources humaines et du Développement des competences, Députée de Haldimand-Norfolk | |
| Janet Murphy, Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program for York University's Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation and York Region District School Board Janet Murphy has over 30 years of varied teaching and leadership experience and she currently has the unique position of having responsibility in both K-12 and post secondary education. Janet currently leads and manages the Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program for York University's Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation and York Region District School Board. She is also the Manager of Innovative Learning Solutions with Curriculum and Leadership Development for the YRDSB. In these positions, Janet provides leadership in the implementation of broadband and digital resources to students, staff and community. Janet has received provincial and national awards recognizing her leadership in the use of information communications technology for education, including: two ORION awards for Learning and for Leadership (2006); Learning Partnership Technology Innovation Award (2005 and 2003); the Information Highways e-Content Award for Education (2002); the Prime Minister's Award of Excellence (2001); and, the Roberta Bondar Millennium Award of Excellence, (January 2000). Janet has presented papers on the effective use of technology for teaching and learning at conferences and events around the world. | |
| Tim Workman, Project Manager for Strategic Partnerships, National Research Council Institute for Information Technology Major (Retired) Timothy Workman served in the Canadian Forces for 19 years, most of which was spent at CFB Gagetown in support of Army Individual Training; during this time, he fulfilled many educational roles such as instructor, course/curriculum designer, learning project and program manager, and senior staff officer for training enhancement. During the last five years of his military career, he was tasked with developing innovative training delivery programs as part of a broader Land Force initiative for Training Modernization. As the head of the Training Enhancement Branch within the Army Individual Training Authority Headquarters, he led numerous efforts to exploit existing and emerging technologies, learning theories, and educational practices within the field of individual training & education. His is currently working with the National Research Council Institute for Information Technology as Project Manager for Strategic Partnerships. A focus of his current efforts within NRC is to establish a national Centre of Excellence for Advanced Learning and Technology in conjunction with partners from government, academia, and industry. | |
| Ryan Nadel, Digital Media Producer and Strategist Ryan Nadel (http://ryannadel.com) is a digital media producer and strategist. He is a graduate of the Masters of Digital Media program in Vancouver, BC and is currently working on a digital learning strategy for an international education company. He brings the experience of a writer for traditional print media publications and a digital strategist and producer for the US Government and various new media companies. His journalistic work has been published internationally on topics ranging from arts and culture to Israel's high tech scene. He has worked with clients such as the Vancouver Olympic Committee, the US Department of Energy, and The Associated Press. Most recently he was working in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest designing and developing interactive educational activities for the local communities in the region. | |
| Gerri Sinclair, Executive Director of the Masters of Digital Media Program, Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus Dr. Gerri Sinclair's cross-domain career includes more than 20 years' experience spanning the fields of internet and new media technology, entrepreneurial business, academic research, and government policy. Sinclair is currently the Executive Director of the Masters of Digital Media Program at Vancouver's Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus. As the former chair of The Telecom Policy Review, she advised the Federal Government of Canada on the policy and regulatory environment required to support an advanced telecommunications framework. She was also the General Manager of MSN Canada, as well as the founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, an Internet web content management company spun out of Simon Fraser University in 1996 and acquired by Microsoft in 2001. She is currently a director of the Toronto Stock Exchange, Ballard Power, the, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Advisory Board on Canada's Digital Economy Strategy. She is also the Executive Director of the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence in Games, Animation and New Media, that was recently awarded $23M from the Canadian government and brings together 50 researches at 19 universities across Canada to investigate new applications in the emerging field of digital media. | |
| Jeannette Kopak, Director of Business Development and Operations, Centre for Digital Media Jeannette Kopak holds the position of Director of Business Development and Operations at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver. In that capacity she managed the renovation of a 40-year-old tractor factory, transforming it into a digital media graduate facility, and the home of the Masters of Digital Media program. Jeannette is responsible for ensuring the Centre continues to adapt to the needs of the students and the digital community. Jeannette is a digital media veteran with 16 years of experience at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, in roles that ranged from designing and implementing the CBC Vancouver TV newsroom editorial system to facilitating the re-use of broadcast content for the early websites such as the Atlanta Olympics and the 1997 Federal Election. The highlight of her CBC career was leading a multi-million dollar, multi-year project to catalogue, restore, digitize and preserve the CBC radio and television archives across Canada. | |
| Sean Van Koughnett, Founder and Director, VeloCity Sean Van Koughnett is the founder and director of VeloCity, a student residence-based incubator for digital media start-ups at uWaterloo established in 2008. In 2006, Sean led the "media and mobility network project", which succeeded in bringing an IPTV pilot of commercial broadcast television content to uWaterloo's student residences, the first pilot of its kind in Canada. Sean has served the University of Waterloo in five different roles since 2001, and has been a staff member or student in five of uWaterloo's six Faculties. While a student at uWaterloo, he was an academic All-Canadian and a member of Canada's national basketball team. As a graduate student in the mid 1990's, Sean's research centred on the impact of university innovation and commercialization on local economic development. Prior to joining uWaterloo, Sean spent five years in the private sector in marketing and corporate communications. | |
| | Greg Van Alstyne, Director of Research, Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab), Ontario College of Art & Design Greg Van Alstyne is Associate Professor in Design and Director of Research, sLab at OCAD. He is Principal Investigator for 2020 Media Futures, an ambitious, multi-industry strategic foresight project funded by OMDC that asks what media will look like in 2020, and how Ontario firms can take action today to capture and maintain positions of national and international leadership. Greg's theoretical research looks at innovation as a form of emergence in complex systems. He has developed graphic, environmental, interaction and experience design for international publishers, agencies and brands. Prior to his OCAD appointments Greg was inaugural director of the innovative Institute without Boundaries (IwB), where he led student teams in the conception, design and production of Massive Change: The Future of Global Design. His past industry posts include Creative Director at IconNicholson NY, and founding head of the Department of New Media at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) is a centre of excellence at Ontario College of Art & Design that develops and applies design research, innovation and strategic foresight methods -- a growing community of scholars and practitioners, design, business and policy professionals, teachers and students, who are passionate about envisioning possible futures. |
| Tracey Levison, Co-Founder, Above & Beyond Learning Company Tracey Levison has been in the business of leadership for 12 years. Her and her brother Andrew opened a state of the art training facility in 1997 called The Centre for Adventurous Learning. It was the first of it kind in North America and attracted clients like Compaq, Investors Group,HBC and 724 Solutions. After 4 years of teaching people leadership skills experientially, through adventure based simulations, Tracey and Andrew realized there was a more sustainable way to create lasting change. They opened their boutique firm, Above & Beyond Learning Co. and started to 'go deep' with fewer clients. Tracey has designed curriculum, facilitated and led long term strategic initiatives in leadership development, change management and talent management both domestically and internationally with senior leaders at American Express, Marketing Drive, Yellow Pages Group, Gap and Aveda. She has a passion for understanding the changing world and how employee expectations and leadership competencies are constantly changing. She brings a refreshing approach to understanding leadership and is fascinated with what makes people tick. | |
| Andrew Levison, President & Founder, Above & Beyond Learning Company Andrew Levison is the President and Founder of Above & Beyond Learning Company which is based in Toronto Canada. He has been facilitating and training for over 15 years. He started his career working for training guru Larry Wilson, the founder of Wilson Learning. Using his experience with Wilson and a degree in Urban Planning, Andrew opened a first of its kind, experiential learning facility in Toronto called Above & Beyond - The Centre for Adventurous Learning. Andrew's areas of focus and expertise include designing and facilitating leadership development, employee engagement, and helping people and organizations manage growth and change. Andrew also speaks on the topic of Web 2.0 and Social Networking and it's impact on the way we need to lead our companies. He has an impressive client list that runs the gamut of CEOs, senior leaders, and employees working for both "for profit" and "not for profit" companies. Some of his current clients include American Express, The Yellow Pages Group, Brinks Inc., Purolator, and the Perimeter Institute. Andrew is also a part time faculty member at the Schulich School of Business - Executive Education. | |
| Dana Morningstar, Chair of The School of Contemporary Media, Fanshawe College Dana Morningstar is the Chair of The School of Contemporary Media at Fanshawe College. The Contemporary Media area has 18 cluster programs including radio, TV, multimedia, animation, filmmaking, photography, music industry arts, theatre, fine art, public relations and journalism. From 1996 to 2009 she was the Program Coordinator for a post graduate certificate in Corporate Communication and Public Relations. She has an ongoing interest in social media, public relations, popular culture and student/client projects. Dana was instrumental in launching the Collaborative Fanshawe/Western Media Theory and Production degree/diploma program and in launching the Theatre Arts - Performance programs in 2002. She served for several years as a board member of the London Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators and now serves on the Fanshawe College Program Approval Committee (PAC) and the Research Ethics Board (REB). Dana's M. Ed. thesis was on collaborative programming in Ontario colleges and universities. She also has a B.Ed. and an honours degree in English and art history. | |
| | Kevin Weaver, Chair for the School of Information Technology, Fanshawe College |
| Mihaela Ulieru, NSERC Canada Research Chair, Adaptive Information Infrastructures for the eSociety Professor Mihaela Ulieru has held the position since 2005 when she also established at the University of New Brunswick (with Canada Foundation for Innovation funding) the Adaptive Risk Management Laboratory (ARM Lab). Researching Complex Networks as Control Paradigm for Complex Systems Professor Ulieru and her group shed light on the vulnerabilities arising from the interplay between social organization factors and interdependent physical infrastructures targeting the increase in effectiveness of public safety and security operations through the deployment of digital ecosystems. Professor Ulieru obtained her PhD (1995) in computational intelligence applied to systems diagnostics at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Her academic career started as Lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems at Brunel University, London, UK. A postdoctoral fellowship at Simon Fraser University brought her to Canada in 1997 and in 1998 she was awarded the Junior Nortel Chair at the University of Calgary where she founded in 2002 (under contract of international cooperation with Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing) the Emergent Information Systems Laboratory. | |
| Cara Greyeyes, SK First Nations Schoolnet Program Manager for KCDC My name is Cara Greyeyes; I am the SK First Nations Schoolnet Program Manager for KCDC. I have 15+ years experience in the IT industry. I have been with KCDC since Sept 2003. KCDC is the Saskatchewan Regional Management organization - RMO for INAC's National First Nations SchoolNet program and works with 96 Saskatchewan First Nations Schools to provide Internet connectivity and IT educational resources in SK First Nations schools. | |
| Emma Westecott Emma Westecott has worked in and around the game industry for over 17 years. She achieved international recognition for working closely with Douglas Adams as producer for the best-selling CD-ROM Adventure Game, Starship Titanic (1998, Simon & Schuster). Since then, Emma has built up a worldwide reputation for developing original as well as popular game projects and products, securing development funding for arts-led independent games practice with partner Alex Mayhew. During this time she has established herself as a figurehead and spokeswoman for a more artistic approach to gaming. Emma has been invited to present her vision and philosophy at many prestigious venues including BAFTA, the Tate, the Banff Centre and the Interactive Entertainment Conference LA. She has spoken alongside the Obig players¹ of the industry such as Peter Molyneux (Lionhead) and Will Wright(Maxis) of The Sims fame. Emma directed the zerogame studio for The Interactive Institute in Sweden, where an impressive body of applied research was created under her leadership. More recently she has been Games Research Fellow at NSAMD, UWN where she ran both Synergy and organized 2007¹s Women in Games conference. | |
| Jennifer Jenson, Associate Professor, York University Dr. Jennifer Jenson is Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Technology in the Faculty of Education at York University. Her work includes, gender and digital gameplay, designing games for education, and she is currently President of the Canadian Game Studies Association and co-editor of its journal Loading. | |
| Dr. Rick Miner, President Emeritus, Seneca Dr. Rick Miner, Seneca's President Emeritus, served as Seneca President from August 2001 to July 2009, at which time he retired from that position. Prior to joining Seneca, he was Vice-President, University of New Brunswick for seven years. Before his term at UNB, he was at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia where he served as Director of the Canada/China Language and Cultural Program from 1989 to 1993, Dean of Commerce from 1982 to 1987, and MBA Director from 1978 to 1981. Dr. Miner has also held faculty positions with the University of New Brunswick, the University of Toronto and Saint Mary's University. He has written books and papers on the subjects of management and organizational behaviour, and has spoken extensively in Canada and abroad on these and related topics. Dr. Miner works closely with various federal government departments on issues that impact on immigration, the skills shortage, innovation and commercialization. | |
| Suzanne de Castell, Simon Fraser University | |
| David Ticoll, Executive Director, Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow's ICT Skills David Ticoll is Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow's ICT Skills. Founded in 2007 by Bell Canada, the CCICT is an industry-led, multi-stakeholder initiative whose mission is attracting young people to participate in a competitive 21st century technology-capable talent force. David has authored several bestselling business books, including Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs, and The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency will Revolutionize Business. He has been a Director of the Information Technology Association of Canada since 1998. Previously, David chaired the Expert Panel of the Information & Communications Technology Council and served as Senior Vice President of Research at New Paradigm Corp. He was founding CEO of the international think tank and consulting firm, Digital 4Sight, from 1994-2001. He was a business columnist for the Globe and Mail and tele.com and has published in Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. David founded the Canadian program of Gartner Group in the early 1980s. | |
| Jane Tallim, Media Awareness Network A former secondary teacher, Jane first joined Media Awareness Network (MNet) in 1995. She has also worked in strategic education and youth engagement within the child and youth mental health sector. An internationally recognized specialist in media education and digital literacy, Jane has been part of MNet's groundbreaking research on Young Canadians in a Wired World and has developed many of its award-winning media and digital literacy resources and programs. Believing in the importance of equipping young people with the necessary tools and critical thinking skills to participate fully in digital society as users, creators and innovators, Jane has extensively promoted an educational approach to addressing issues relating to children, youth and digital media. | |
| Paul Davidson, President, AUCC Paul Davidson has played leadership roles in government, the private sector and the voluntary sector. He has been named president and CEO of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, for a five-year term beginning May 11, 2009. Mr. Davidson was appointed executive director of World University Service of Canada (or WUSC) in October 2002. At WUSC, Mr. Davidson has pursued strategic partnerships with the Centre for International Studies and Co-operation (or CECI) and Farm Radio International that are attracting national and international attention for their innovation and impact. WUSC is now active on more than 70 campuses across Canada and in over 17 countries. Prior to joining WUSC, Mr. Davidson spent seven years in Canadian book publishing including five years as executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers. In the early 1990s, Mr. Davidson led the Toronto office of the government relations firm S.A. Murray Consulting following three years at Queen's Park, where he served as a political advisor to Ontario's Leader of the Opposition, Treasurer and Deputy Premier. | |
| Robert Crow, RIM | |
| Martha Ladly, Associate Professor, Ontario College of Art & Design Martha Ladly is an associate professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) in Toronto, Canada. She is the director of the OCAD Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Art, Media and Design, and the Chair of the Research Ethics Board. Martha specializes in technology in art and design, and she is a senior researcher with the OCAD Mobile Experience Lab. She was formerly the Director of HorizonZero (www.horizonzero.ca) the Canadian digital arts and culture website. Martha also had a prominent international recording career as a musician, performer, and writer. She earned two certified gold discs, numerous top-ten singles and albums, and a Juno award. Throughout the 1990s Martha worked with artist Peter Gabriel and Real World, leading design teams for award-winning interactive arts and entertainment projects. Martha is an author and the co-editor of the anthology Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms. | |
| Valerie Fox, Director, Ryerson Digital Media Zone & Innovative Technology Solutions Valerie Fox is helping foster digital innovation within Canada, as the Director of the newly formed Ryerson Digital Media Zone (DMZ), a collaborative innovation accelerator space that helps bring students' innovative ideas to life. Valerie is responsible for attracting students to the multi-disciplinary space to successfully launch products and services, and is focused on making connections with industry and other academic institutions to partner and collaborate with the DMZ. In addition, Valerie is the Director of Innovative Technology Solutions at Ryerson, and uses a combination of creativity, process, and technology to design and implement inside-out/outside-in approaches to create more integrated and collaborative working relationships. | |
| | Roel Vertegaal, Associate Professor, Queens University Dr. Roel Vertegaal is one of Canada's leading designers of future interactive technologies. Roel is Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he directs the Human Media Laboratory. He is also founder and CTO of Xuuk, Inc., a startup that develops attention sensors for interactive, real-world viewing statistics gathering (www.xuuk.com). Roel's first degree was in Music from Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands, prior to which he studied Visual Arts at The Hague's Free Academy. The musical user interfaces he worked on are now featured on equipment designed by Apple and Korg. He studied Computing in Britain, and holds a PhD in Computing from Twente University in The Netherlands. Since then Roel has become one of the world's experts on eye communication between humans, first demonstrating the function of eye contact on human group communication. He developed the world's first long range eye trackers, which operate beyond 10 meters, and their application in Attentive User Interfaces, for which he received the Premier's Research Excellence Award. His work featured in media across the globe, from Good Morning America to Fox News, Discovery Channel, Wired, Scientific American and Businessweek. Roel has given invited presentations at Philips, Samsung, Microsoft Research, Xerox PARC, Stanford University, Changing the World, MIT Media Lab, Delft University and Sequioa Capital, amongst others. He helped create the first North-American conference on Eye Tracking (ACM ETRA), and developed alt.chi as an artistic alternative papers venue at the annual ACM SIGCHI conference, for which he served as Associate Papers Chair. He advised the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC., and has been a member of the NSERC Network of Excellence NECTAR. |
| | Michael Longford, Associate Chair, Department of Design, York University Michael Longford is the Associate Chair in the Department of Design at York University. He is Co-Director of the Mobile Media Lab (MML), which is made up of an interdisciplinary research team exploring wireless communications, rich media content development for mobile technologies, and locative media practices. He was a founding member of Hexagram: Institute for Research and Creation in Media Arts and Technologies in Montreal, and served for three years as the Director for the Advanced Digital Imaging and 3D Rapid Prototyping Group. His most recent project, Tentacles, co-developed with the Ontario College of Art and Design and the Canadian Film Centre uses the iPhone/iPod touch to create a multi-user ambient gaming experience projected into public spaces. |
| Patrick Crowe, President, Xenophile Media Inc. A producer, writer, filmmaker and game designer, Patrick is President of Xenophile Media, a Toronto-based cross platform production company with clients ranging from Disney to Cartoon Network and BBC. Xenophile Media first won international acclaim for the Primetime Emmy ® Award-winning Fallen Alternate Reality Game and the International Emmy ® Award-winning ReGenesis Extended Reality Game, though the company is currently seeing commercial success in kids' interactive productions. | |
| Jutta Treviranus, Adaptive Technology Research Centre Jutta Treviranus' research and academic agenda are to make sure that our emerging information and communication technology systems and practices do not exclude anyone who has a disability, speaks another language, or has different cultural preferences. She passionately believes that designing for diversity leads to innovation and creativity and that diversity and inclusion are Canada's greatest assets. She established and directs the Adaptive Technology Research Centre (ATRC), an internationally recognized centre of expertise on inclusive design of emerging information and communication systems and practices. She also heads the Inclusive Design Institute a multi-institutional research initiative. She has led a large number of national and international multi-partner research networks (including Fluid, TILE, CNICE, CulturAll, Stretch and the Barrierfree project), that have produced a range of broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She plays a key role in pivotal accessibility standards efforts (e.g. chair of W3C Authoring Tool Working Group, chair of IMS AccessForAll Specification Working Groups, Project Editor within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36). She is a member of many advisory panels and task forces relevant to IT policy, strategy and design internationally. Jutta holds faculty appointments at both the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Toronto. | |
| Philippe Le Roux, Founder, Pheromone Since the early 1980s, Philippe Le Roux's involvement in data communication pilot projects in Europe and North America have allowed him to develop a vision of user-centred online services and the study of their behaviour. Philippe has made a name for himself on the international scene through conferences, consulting mandates on three continents, the publication of reference books in the United States and France and teaching at the Université de Paris-X and the Université de Montréal. From 1987 to 1994, Philippe was the president of the online services and technology R&D company Servacom America. He then founded VDL2 (now Pheromone) with four partners who share a vision: a web that is defined by Internet users and not by the latest technological advances or trends. At Pheromone, Philippe is the visionary who shakes up the present to prepare the company and its customers for the challenges of tomorrow. | |
| Atul Asthana, RIM | |
| | Dr. Soumyajit Ghosal, Acting Dean, R&D Campus, National Institute of Design at Bangladore Dr.S.Ghosal is currently the Acting Dean of the R&D Campus of National Institute of Design at Bangalore. He joined the National Institute of Design in 1987 in the Faculty of Industrial Design. His parent subject being Ergonomics / Human Factors, he has worked in almost all areas of design. Dr. Ghosal was in charge of NID's training activities as Vice-Chairman, Training during the period 1996 - 2000. During the period 2000 - 2002, he was in charge of NID's Outreach Activities as the Activity Chairman. Till date, he has been the recipient of a number of international scholarships from the World Health Organisation, British Council, International Council of Societies of Industrial Design etc., Dr. Ghosal holds a Ph.D from the University of Calcutta, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management of Technology from the All India Management Association, New Delhi and he has about 20 publications, nationally and internationally. Dr. Ghosal's areas of interest range from User Interface Design, Management of R&D and Product Innovation, Strategic intervention of design in new business developments, systems development and integration. Dr. Ghosal is a member of the Advisory Council to the top management of LG Electronics India Limited, Edumedia, Bangalore and Member of the Editorial Board of the 'Journal of Technology Management for Growing Economies'. |
| Tracey Jennings, Canadian Entertainment & Media Practice Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Tracey is the Canadian Entertainment & Media Practice Leader in Canada and a corporate tax partner in Toronto. Tracey works extensively with clients in the broadcasting, film production and distribution, digital media and newspaper sectors. She has extensive experience providing advice and is frequently sought out for perspectives of the industry. Tracey has extensive experience in the tax planning, compliance, and international tax issues of entertainment & media companies from large multi-nationals to smaller emerging companies. Tracey frequently speaks on a number of topics relevant to the Entertainment & Media Industry including presentations of the key trends as outlined in the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook and tax incentives available to production and new media companies. Tracey is a graduate in Business Administration and became a Chartered Accountant in 1989. She became a partner in PwC in 2000. | |
| Tim Jackson, Partner, Tech Capital Partners Tim Jackson is a founder and Partner of Tech Capital Partners where he focuses on investment opportunities in the wireless, communications, new media and internet sectors. Prior to partnering with Andrew Abouchar in 2001 to create Tech Capital, Tim was CFO and CEO at PixStream, a technology company focused on distributing and managing digital video across broadband networks. At PixStream, Tim successfully raised over $60 million in equity capital and negotiated the $550 million sale of the company to Cisco Systems, one of the largest technology company acquistions in Canadian history. Experienced in executive leadership roles, Tim has acted as CFO, CEO or board member for numerous technology companies, including AideRSS, ecobee, FibreTech Communications, LiveHive Systems, Metranome, Q9 Netowrks (TSX:Q), Sandvine (TSX:SVC; AIM:SAND), and Video Locus, a developer of next generation video compression technologies and solutions (acquired by LSI Corporation- NYSE: LSI). Tim also sits on and chairs several local boards in both the education and not-for-profit sectors, and has been honoured with several awards. | |
| Dean Prelazzi, Director of ICT & Digital Media, B.C. Innovation Council Dean is Director of ICT & Digital Media at the B.C. Innovation Council and authored a paper in 2009 in support of the BC Business Council's Outlook 2020 project entitled "Innovation & Commercialization: Rising to the Challenge through a Business Acceleration Ecosystem". The paper describes recent work by the OECD to define entrepreneurship performance indicators and establishes a definition for entrepreneurship infrastructure. Dean has been working and consulting in the technology industry in Canada & the U.S. (Silicon Valley) for the past 15 in sales, marketing, and product management, primarily with startups, and has a diverse technology background spanning telecommunications, networking, enterprise and business productivity applications, digital media/social networking, and SaaS applications. He has spoken at technology events around the world and is a member of the B.C. Institute of Technology's Commercialization Assistance Program Advisory Committee and the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance's Action Committee for Entrepreneurship. He earned an Executive MBA from the University of Ottawa specializing in high technology sales and marketing strategy and is a volunteer business mentor with New Ventures BC and SFU Technology Mentorship Program. Dean is also a technology marketing instructor at the B.C. Institute of Technology and Board Member with the Kids Up Front Foundation in Vancouver. | |
| Stan M. Shapson, Ph.D., Vice-President Research & Innovation, York University Dr. Shapson's research and innovation interests have spanned the fields of technology enhanced learning, bilingual and multicultural education, and the development of innovative programs and policies. He has published widely; his research and publications have received awards from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Canadian Journal of Education (CJE). He has been awarded numerous grants and contracts for his research totalling over $6 million and has directed large-scale, externally funded, national and provincial studies. He has been a principal researcher for a variety of national studies such as the NCE - TeleLearning, the SSHRC Strategic Theme (Knowledge-based Economy), the CANARIE funded broadband learning program ABEL (Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning), and the federal Tri-Council IPM/Knowledge Mobilization initiative. In his administrative role at York, Dr. Shapson's strategy has shifted from his own individual research to focus on building institutional R&I capacity collaboratively with municipalities, community hospitals, and private sector companies on economic and social innovation cluster initiatives. |
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| | Tom Jenkins, Chair, CDMN Advisory Board & Chair, Open Text Recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential People" in the world of Knowledge Management by KMWorld for five years in a row, Tom Jenkins has been involved with the Internet since it emerged as a major public network in the early 1990s. He has held executive positions at Open Text Corporation since 1995 and was instrumental in the creation of one of the first Internet search engines used by Netscape®, Yahoo!®, and IBM®. Tom went on to direct the development of the first Internet-based Document Management system, as well the earliest versions of Internet-based workflow, portal, and online meeting software. All of these component technologies are early forerunners of current Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology. Today, Open Text is the largest independent provider of ECM software and solutions worldwide and where Tom resides as Chief Strategy Officer. |
| | Gerri Sinclair, Executive Director of the Masters of Digital Media Program, Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus Dr. Gerri Sinclair's cross-domain career includes more than 20 years' experience spanning the fields of internet and new media technology, entrepreneurial business, academic research, and government policy. Sinclair is currently the Executive Director of the Masters of Digital Media Program at Vancouver's Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus. As the former chair of The Telecom Policy Review, she advised the Federal Government of Canada on the policy and regulatory environment required to support an advanced telecommunications framework. She was also the General Manager of MSN Canada, as well as the founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, an Internet web content management company spun out of Simon Fraser University in 1996 and acquired by Microsoft in 2001. She is currently a director of the Toronto Stock Exchange, Ballard Power, the, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Advisory Board on Canada's Digital Economy Strategy. She is also the Executive Director of the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence in Games, Animation and New Media, that was recently awarded $23M from the Canadian government and brings together 50 researches at 19 universities across Canada to investigate new applications in the emerging field of digital media. |
| | Ian Wilson, Director, University of Waterloo - Stratford Initiative Ian joined the Stratford Initiative as Director in 2009. When he retired from his post as Librarian and Archivist of Canada in 2009, he became the Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus. Ian's career spans many areas, including archival and information management, university teaching and government service. He has worked diligently to make archives accessible and interesting to a wide range of audiences. While helping to safeguard the integrity of archival records and library services, he has encouraged public involvement and outreach. He has published extensively on history, archives, heritage and information management and has lectured nationally and internationally. Ian holds honorary degrees from both Queen's University and York University, is a Member of the Order of Canada, holds an appointment of Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France, is a recipient of the 2005 Award of Merit from the Association for Canadian Studies. He is also a fellow of the Association of Canadian Archivists, the Society of American Archivists and the Archives Association of Ontario. |
Recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential People" in the world of Knowledge Management by KMWorld for five years in a row, Tom Jenkins has been involved with the Internet since it emerged as a major public network in the early 1990s. He has held executive positions at Open Text Corporation since 1995 and was instrumental in the creation of one of the first Internet search engines used by Netscape®, Yahoo!®, and IBM®. Tom went on to direct the development of the first Internet-based Document Management system, as well the earliest versions of Internet-based workflow, portal, and online meeting software. All of these component technologies are early forerunners of current Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology. Today, Open Text is the largest independent provider of ECM software and solutions worldwide and where Tom resides as Chief Strategy Officer.
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