| 8:00-8:30 | Registration and breakfast |
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcome and opening remarks
Jeffrey Crelinsten and Mark Henderson, Co-publisher and Managing Editor, Research Money |
| 8:45-9:30 | Opening Keynote
Jerry Byrne, CEO, DFB Group |
| 9:30-10:30 | Panel 1: Research Collaboration and Regional Business Successes
Jock English, President & CEO, InteliSys Aviation Systems Derrick Rowe, Chairman, Marport Deep Sea Technologies Michael Scott, President, Precision Biologic Inc Moderator: Glenn Janes, CEO, Research and Development Corporation |
| 10:30-10:45 | Networking Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Featured Keynote: Paul Mills, VP, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Atlantic Canada’s More Innovative Economy – A Work in Progress |
| 11:30-12:30 | Panel 2: Building an Applied Research Infrastructure
David Finn, President, Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada Marli MacNeil, CEO, BioNOVA Leslie O’Reilly, Executive Director, OceansAdvance Moderator: David Shindler, Executive Director, Springboard Atlantic Inc. |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch and Networking Break |
| 14:00-15:00 | Panel 3: Entrepreneurship and business building
Marcel Gervais, President, DDx Health Strategies Inc Stephen Hartlen, VP, Mentoring, InNOVAcorp Nancy Mathis, Founding Executive Director, G. Wallace F. McCain Institute for Business Leadership, UNB Moderator: Douglas Robertson, Director of Innovation Policy and Research Projects, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency |
| 15:00-15:45 | Closing Keynote: Noel Botha, Founder and Partner, Orion Innovations, U.K
Lessons in Success for International Innovation |
| 15:45-16:00 | Conference Close
Ron Freedman, Co-publisher, Research Money |
| 16:00-17:30 | Reception |