It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the 2017 conference proceedings are now available online. The conference, An Opportunity to Excel: Advancing Canada’s New Innovation Agenda, took place April 4-5 2017 in Ottawa.
Created by the excellent Tim Lougheed, the conference proceedings provide a comprehensive overview of the entire conference including every panel, speaker, and Q&A session. Some of the panels and speakers include:
Budget 2017 and Innovation: Where do we go from here?
- MODERATOR: ARVIND GUPTA, Former CEO and Scientific Director, Mitacs; Former President and Vice-Chancellor, UBC
- JACQUES BERNIER, Managing Partner, Teralys Capital
- MARTHA CRAGO, Vice-President (Research), Dalhousie University
- TERRY STUART, Chief Innovation Officer, Deloitte Canada
Supporting global science excellence
- MODERATOR: BERT VAN DEN BERG, Director, Colleges, Commercialization and Portfolio Policy, NSERC
- ALLISON BARR, Director, Ontario Office of the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science
- RÉMI QUIRION, Chief Scientist of Quebec
Building world-leading clusters and partnerships
- MODERATOR: IAIN STEWART, President, National Research Council of Canada
- RORY FRANCIS, Executive Director, PEI BioAlliance
- LAURA KILCREASE, CEO, Alberta Innovates
- EME ONUOHA, Vice President, Global Government Affairs (Canada), Xerox Corporation
Innovation challenges and opportunities: Views from the C-suite
- MODERATOR: LARRY LAM, Partner, Industrial, Clean and Energy (ICE) Technology Venture Fund, BDC Capital
- TABITHA CREIGHTON, SVP, iQmetrix; CEO, InvestNextDoor
- JASON FLICK, Co-Founder & CEO, You.i TV
- VICKI SAUNDERS, Founder, SheEO
Inside the policy trenches: Priorities and external collaboration opportunities
- MODERATOR: TOM CORR, President and CEO, Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)
- RICHARD BOTHAM, Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance Canada
- LAWRENCE HANSON, Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Innovation Sector, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)
- DAVID MANICOM, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Download the Proceedings for free now
Keynote presentation slides are also available here