"Are Canada's Business R&D Incentives Working?"
| 7:30 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks: Jeffrey Crelinsten, Publisher and Mark Henderson, Managing Editor, RE$EARCH Money |
| 8:10 a.m. | Industry Keynote, Kirk Mandy President and CEO, Zarlink Semiconductor Market Insight, Key to Business Success |
| 8:45 a.m. | Featured Speaker, Jacek Warda, Managing Principal, JPW Innovation Associates Inc. In search of a balanced system of innovation incentives: Trends and Issues |
| 9:15 a.m. | Panel 1: Incentives for Start-up Firms
Lisa Crossley, President & CEO, Nysa Membrane Technologies Molly Shoichet, Professor and Director, Undergraduate Collaborative Bioengineering, Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering, University of Toronto Dan Trepanier, Strategy Officer, AMCC Moderator: Mark Romoff, President and CEO, Ontario Centres of Excellence |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Panel 2: Incentives for Established Firms
Garth Issett, VP, Manufacturing Development Operations, IBM Canada Ltd. Dave Jaworsky, Director, Goverment and University Relations, RIM John Wood, Senior Advisor, Science and Technology, General Motors Canada Moderator: Lynda Leonard, Senior VP, ITAC |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch
Luncheon Speaker: Stewart Beck Assistant Deputy Minister, Investment, Innovation and Sectors, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada The International Commercialization of Canadian business R&D |
| 1:30 p.m. | Featured Speaker, Iain Gillespie Head, Biotechnology Division, OECD International Trends in Industry Research Incentives |
| 2:15 p.m. | Panel 3: The Future of Incentives for Knowledge-based Business
Bob Fessenden, Deputy Minister, Alberta Advanced Education and Technology Alastair Glass, Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Innovation and Research Geneviève Tanguay, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministère de Développment économique, Innovation et Exportation, Québec Moderator: Peter Calamai, Science Writer, The Toronto Star |
| 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:45 p.m. | Panel 4: Wrap-up
Jim Roche, Acting President & CEO, Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Retired President & CEO, Tundra Semiconductor Corporation Janet Walden, VP, Research Partnerships Programs, NSERC Clive Willis, Consultant Moderator: Paul Johnston, President, Precarn Incorporated |
| 4:45 p.m. | Closing remarks
Ron Freedman, co-publisher, RE$EARCH MONEY |
| 5:00 p.m. | Reception |