Commercialization: What's Working, What's Not

8:30 a.m.	Opening Remarks Jeffrey Crelinsten and Mark Henderson, Co-Publisher and Managing Editior, RE$EARCH MONEY
8.00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:40 a.m.	Keynote Mike Lazardis, co-CEO, Research in Motion
9:15 a.m.	Commercialization Overview Laura Kilcrease, Managing Director, Triton Ventures
9:45 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	How industry views commercialization Business leaders discuss how commercialization works in their business, what policy obstacles exist in Canada, and new policy areas that need to be addressed. Panel: Mark Chamberlain, former CEO, Wescam Frank Maw, President, Motorola Canada Brian McFadden, CTO, Nortel Networks Moderator: Janet Walden, VP Industry-University Programs, NSERC
11:15 a.m.	The investors view of commercialization Investors and intellectual property specialists describe problems facing early and later stage knowledge-based firms and identify areas where public sector commercialization policy is helping or hindering and where it must improve. Panel: Catherine Eckenswiller, Associate, Smart and Biggar Robert Inglese, VP Technology Seed Investments, BDC Jim Murray, Senior Advisor, WestLink Moderator: Shawn Gervais, Corporate Development Manager, Alberta Research Council
12:15 p.m.	Lunch and Speaker Arthur Carty, National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
1:30 p.m.	The role of universities in supporting successful commercialization University executives and their external partners discuss ways in which universities are planning to increase their commercialization activity, based on what’s working and what’s not. Panel: Lorne Babiuk, Director, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) Hany Moustapha, Director Technology Development, Pratt & Whitney Canada Howard Alper, Vice Rector, University of Ottawa Moderator: David Brener, Director of Research Translation Programs, CIHR
2:30 p.m.	The role of governments Executives from different levels of government outline effective ways for governments to stimulate knowledge-based commercial activity and describe successes and failures of current and past initiatives. Panel: Gilbert Drouin, President, Valorisation Recherche Québec David Fransen, ADM, Policy, Industry Canada Andrew Woodsworth, Vice-President (Acting), Research (Life Sciences and Information Technology), NRC Moderator: Jeff Parker, Canadian Consul General, Seattle Washington
3:30 p.m.	Break
4:00 p.m.	Wrap-up A panel of experts review the day’s proceedings and recommend next steps. David Crane, Columnist, Toronto Star Brian Guthrie, Director, Innovation & Knowledge Management, Conference Board of Canada Claire Morris, President & CEO, AUCC Moderator: Bob de Wit, Director of Licensing, Flintbox
5:00 p.m.	Closing remarks Ron Freedman, Co-Publisher, RE$EARCH MONEY
5:15 p.m.	Reception

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