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Monday, June 4th at 11:15 am Speaker, CANARIE National Showcase  Andrew K. Bjerring President and CEO CANARIE Andrew Bjerring was a founding member of the Board of CANARIE Inc. and has been the President and CEO since October 1993. Over the past two decades, Mr. Bjerring has participated on numerous other boards and councils dealing with networking and related applications. He is currently active on the boards of the Communications Research Centre, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and the C3.ca high performance computing initiative, and is chair of the advisory committee for NRC's Institute for Information Technology. He was also a member of the National Broadband Task Force and chair of the economic benefits working group, chair of the national advisory committee for the Community Access Program and a member of Health Canada's Advisory Council on Health Infostructure. He also participated in the Information Highway Advisory Council process. Prior to his appointment at CANARIE, Mr. Bjerring spent eighteen years as a faculty member and then senior administrator at the University of Western Ontario. He obtained his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. |
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