Thank you to our Program Committee:

Chair:

Susan Baldwin, Compute Canada
Susan Baldwin has recently been appointed Executive Director of Compute Canada. Before then she was with CANARIE for eight years and most recently held the position of Chief Administrative Officer. Prior to joining CANARIE she held senior executive positions at the CRTC, Canadian Heritage, and Industry Canada in a variety of fields including broadcasting, new media, telecommunications, information highway, spectrum management and R&D. She has extensive experience in international negotiations on behalf of the Government of Canada.

Andre Quenneville, ORION
As Director of Public Affairs, André Quenneville has overall responsibility for promotion and marketing of the ORION network and ORANO programs and initiatives. A journalist, editor and communications professional for over 25 years, André is a veteran of several public affairs and marketing campaigns. He led communication departments in such portfolios as Economic Development, Trade, Culture, Citizenship and Tourism. He was most recently head of Marketing for Ontario Exports Inc., the Ontario Government’s lead trade agency.

Members

Hugh Couchman, McMaster University and SHARCNET
Hugh Couchman is professor of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at Cambridge University, receiving his Ph.D. from the Institute of Astronomy in 1986. Following postdoctoral work at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, he held faculty positions at the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario before moving to McMaster in 1999. Dr. Couchman has been involved with the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) since its inception and has been the Scientific Director since 2003. He has been involved in many activities to help develop high-performance computing (HPC) in Canada including co-authorship of the Long-Range Plan for HPC and of the recent national proposal for HPC to the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Dr. Couchman's research interests are in the numerical modelling of cosmic structure in the post-recombination universe (from 10^5 years after the Big Bang to the present, 10^10 years later). He uses large-scale simulation to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the distribution of matter on the largest scales in the universe. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Cosmology program.

Ken Hewitt, Cybera
Ken Hewitt is Past President and CEO of Cybera Inc., a non-profit Alberta organization mandated to develop cyberinfrastructure throughout the province. Cybera is funded by its members as well as the Alberta Government’s Ministry of Advanced Education and Technology and CANARIE. Previously, as President of Netera Alliance, Ken worked with a provincial task force to examine research infrastructure in Alberta, and to align infrastructure development with developing global trends in e-science, grid computing and cyberinfrastructure. He was also Chief Administrative Officer for WestGrid, a $60 million project that operates high performance computing, storage, visualization and collaboration infrastructure across western Canada. He is former Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre at the University of Calgary, a post he held while also Executive Director of Netera and, for a period of overlap, Manager of Theatre Services at the University of Calgary. He worked in arts administration and theatre management positions at the University of Calgary for twenty years. He is a past-president of the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology. From 1988 to 1992, Ken Hewitt was also president of the Alpine Club of Canada, and served on its board of directors for more than ten years. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Drama (1971), and Masters degree in Business Administration (1983) from the University of Calgary.

Jana Makar, Cybera
Jana Makar is the Communications Manager for Cybera Inc., a non-profit organization that collaborates with public and private sector partners to develop, integrate and leverage cyberinfrastructure technologies in Alberta. Jana oversees all external communications and marketing for Cybera, including the coordination of Cybera's Cyberinfrastructure Lunch 'n Learn Series and annual Cyberinfrastructure Summit in Banff. In addition to her work with Cybera, she also coordinates overall communications activities for WestGrid,a $60 million project that operates high performance computing, storage, visualization and collaboration infrastructure across western Canada. Prior to Cybera, Jana was Communications Manager with Netera Alliance (which expanded and transitioned into Cybera in July 2007). Before joining Netera Alliance, Jana worked as a journalist for various newspapers across western Canada.

Gale Moore, Knowledge Media Design Institute
Professor Gale Moore is the former Director of KMDI, a leading trans-disciplinary institute and intellectual incubator at the University of Toronto that has been engaged in digital media research and postgraduate education for over a decade. Gale is a member of the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Communication and Culture at the University of Toronto - Mississauga. As a sociologist-designer, her primary interests for the past 15 years have been the social impact of information and communication technologies in everyday life, and on bringing an understanding of peoples’ experience into the design of technology and technology-mediated interactions. She is a co-inventor of KMDI’s ePresence Interactive Media, an interactive webcasting, archiving and media production system, the academic lead on KMDI's Project Open Source | Open Access and co-founder of MediaGenerator, a student-led, faculty-supported initiative to imagine and create the student media of the future. She is also a member of the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group on Understanding Scholarly Outputs in a Digital Age. Her current research interests are in the phenomenon of openness, including open innovation, video as knowledge media, design research, institutional innovation and the changing nature scholarly communication across the disciplines.

Kent Percival, University of Guelph
Kent Percival reports to the CIO at the University of Guelph providing input on strategic and tactical planning. Kent has spent many years supporting enterprise IT at the University of Guelph and with projects linking Canadian universities. He provided strategic insight for a leading campus network infrastructure, including VOIP telephone service, supporting world-class scholarship at Guelph. Participating on the EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group and at the Canadian University Council of CIOs (CUCCIO), Kent has an understanding of the complex middleware technologies that are needed to support the 21st century globally-connected advanced research and learning enterprise. Kent leads a national project team implementing the Canadian Access federation, an access trust federation for Canadian higher education. In the past, Kent provided leadership for the first national university network - NetNorth and was on the Board of ONet. Kent has a Masters in engineering and is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).

John Sherwood, Dalhousie University and ACORN-NS
John has been Executive Director of University Computing and Information Services (UCIS) since 1998, overseeing all information services for Dalhousie University. John lectures on networking and telecommunications topics, including advanced computer networking. He currently chairs ACORN-NS, the regional R&E network for Nova Scotia, and serves on the board of the Canadian University Council of CIOs (CUCCIO). John received his BSc in Engineering Physics from Dalhousie University in 1968. He served as a Biomedical Engineer at Dalhousie where he designed and implemented communications systems for early time sharing computers and local networks.

Walter Stewart, Toronto Region Research Alliance
Walter Stewart is an independent consultant in technology, organization, and strategic planning. His clients include organizations in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. His major client at present is the Toronto Region Research Alliance whom Walter serves as Senior Advisor Research Capacity Building. On TRRA’s behalf Walter works with private and public organization to build synergies among the research entities within the region. Walter Stewart also serves as a consultant to CANARIE, Canada’s high-bandwidth network for Research. As a consultant at CANARIE, Walter is styled as Senior Advisor e-Research and Network Enabled Platforms. Walter is a former Chair of the Board of CANARIE. Walter serves as CANARIE’s representation to Open Grid Forum (OGF) the international organization for standards for Grid Computing. With OGF, Walter functions as an area director for marketing and as a member of the Grid Forum Steering Group. Walter is a member of the Board of the Canadian Mathematics Society; he is also a member of the College of Reviewers of the Canada Research Chairs Program. Walter Stewart was formerly with Silicon Graphics for eight years as Director of Business Development for SGI in Canada and Co-ordinator of SGI’s Global Grid Strategy, SGI Director of Global Marketing for Research and Education, and Manager of Market Development for Education and Research for SGI Canada. Before joining SGI, Walter was the second president of SMART Toronto. Prior to SMART Toronto, Walter was the Dean of Communications and Development at Centennial College. Walter has taught and been an educational administrator in British Columbia, the central Arctic, Japan, and Ontario. He holds an honours degree in history from Simon Fraser University and a Masters Degree in Adult Education from the University of British Columbia.

Rod Wilson, Nortel Networks
Rod Wilson is currently Director of Strategic Technologies at Nortel. In this role, Mr. Wilson is focused on driving Nortel’s technology leadership by transitioning early prototype and emerging advanced technologies from concept to full business implementation. A key vehicle for this is via research and experimental networks that are constructed and operated in partnership with leading research organizations around the world, including CANARIE (Canada), SURFnet (Netherlands), Internet 2 (USA). Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Wilson was director, global product marketing for Nortel’s broadband switching portfolio, which includes the world-leading Passport multiservice switch. Mr. Wilson has been with Nortel for 12 years and is based in Nortel’s largest and most important R&D facility, located in Ottawa, Canada.