PROGRAM

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Monday, April 12, 2010 6:00 PM ORION Awards Presentation and Summit Reception • Atrium The ORION Awards recognize individuals and groups who have led and championed the use of advanced and collaborative technologies supporting research, education and innovation in Ontario or on the global stage. Winners will be announced and presented with the ORION Leadership, Learning and Discovery Awards. Presented by: Reza Moridi, Parliamentary Assistant, Ministry of Research and Innovation Maxim Jean-Louis, ORANO Chair and President & CEO, Contact North/Contact Nord Phil Baker, President & CEO, ORION Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast • Lower Concourse 8:30 AM Welcome • Auditorium Dr. John Evans, Chair, MaRS Board of Directors Maxim Jean-Louis, ORANO Chair and President & CEO, Contact North/Contact Nord Phil Baker, President and CEO, ORION 9:00 AM Opening Keynote • Auditorium Tom Jenkins, Executive Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corp. 9:45 AM Session 1 • Auditorium Broadband - Today's Critical Infrastructure Jurisdictions around the world are moving aggressively to implement broadband initiatives in communities --- the links between economic, cultural and social are now well established. Research and education networks are playing a key role in many regions and countries. As ultra-broadband networks, they have the knowledge and experience to help push broadband out to the wider community. In this session, we look at the status of expanding access to broadband in Canada, barriers and opportunities, and what other jurisdictions are doing. Merit, Michigan's research and education network, is one of those leading the charge in the United States. Presenters: Phil Baker, President and CEO, ORION Dr. Donald J. Welch, President and CEO, Merit Network Session 2 • Collaboration Room 2 A "place to grow" a global-scale digital media hub In today's world, everything is digital. New investments and visionary initiatives are poised to put Ontario on the map of global digital media creation and innovation. In this session, we look at the Waterloo region's digital media creation and innovation corridor, and the shaping of a vision for Canada 3.0. Presenters: Ian Wilson, Executive Director, University of Waterloo Stratford Institute Session 3 • Collaboration Room 3 Extracting the full value of ORION ORION is introducing new services that can leverage the unique capabilities of the network, including data storage and backup, videoconference support and options for a new interactive media platform, among others. ORION has already introduced the new O3 professional networking and collaboration platform for Ontario's research and education community. It is now working with its user institutions and service partners to roll out a number of pilot projects. In this session, we will hear from ORION on the status of the services and from the institutions involved in the pilots. Introduction: Blair Brenot, Technology Innovation Leader, ORION Presenters: Sean Reynolds, CIO, Queen's University Chris Russel, Director, IT Infrastructure, York University 11:00 AM Coffee & Networking 11:15 AM Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network - CANARIE • Auditorium Jim Roche, President and CEO, CANARIE, Inc. Project Showcase - Dr. Rachel Ellaway, Assistant Dean, Education Informatics, Northern Ontario School of Medicine The Health Services Virtual Organization (HSVO) Project has developed a network-enabled platform (NEP) consisting of a messaging specification, a collection of devices, a bus interface architecture and a middleware hub (SAVOIR) that can support the authoring execution and tracking of multiple independent and integrated simulation activities. The HSVO NEP allows web devices to be coordinated, to talk to each other, to control each other, to use services from elsewhere, to use each other as services. This means that instructors and learners can have access to any services and devices at any time and location thereby supporting both scheduled and on-demand practice or instruction. This presentation will discuss the HSVO Project, provide a number of examples and demos and profile the contribution of ORION and CANARIE to this groundbreaking work. 12:00 PM Buffet Lunch - Sponsored by Ciena • Auditorium Welcoming Remarks - Rodney G. Wilson, Director, Advanced Technology Research, Ciena Special Presentation - Maxim Jean-Louis, President & CEO, Contact North/Contact Nord; Chair, ORANO Board of Directors 1:30 PM Session 4 • Auditorium Defining the New Collaboration Experience Collaboration is driving the next wave of business growth, innovation and productivity. There are four key trends driving business complexity and making collaboration more critical than ever, including: global value chains, consumerization of IT, information overload and worker mobility. For organizations everywhere, these realities are forcing a shift in the nature of work: how we work, who we work with, when we work, and where we work. Organizations need a new collaboration experience that is human-centric; that connects people, information, and teams; that leverages text and document based solutions, but dramatically transforms the way we collaborate with real-time voice and video interactions. Presenter: Jeff Seifert, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Canada Session 5 • Collaboration Room 2 Perfect Match - Ontario colleges & industry research collaboration From aerospace, to environmental technologies, to digital and interactive media, Ontario colleges of applied arts and technology provide a virtual R&D platform for applied research, bringing critical mass and momentum to new and innovative ideas, products, processes and services. In this session, we explore the phenomenal partnership between colleges, industry and the Ontario Centres of Excellence and take a look at specific examples and success stories that are making an impact here in Ontario and potentially around the world. Introduction: Dr. Jeff Zabudsky, President of Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Presenters: Dr. Darren Lawless, Dean of Applied Research, Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Beat Raemy, CEO, Spatial View John Hoicka, Senior Research and Policy Advisor, Colleges Ontario Bob Civak, Managing Director, Materials & Manufacturing Ontario (MMO), a division of the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Session 6 • Collaboration Room 3 Delivering Federated Access Management Services As the requirement to collaborate continues to grow within the Canadian research and education community and beyond, the demand for federated access management services grows with it. As an initiative of the Canadian University Council of CIO's (CUCCIO-CDPIUC), the Canadian Access Federation was created to provide a sustainable national production environment for the delivery of federated access management services federation to participating colleges, universities and service providers. Through membership in the federation member institutions can provide their individual users with the ability to access other institutions' protected resources, including networks, data sets or computing resources, using their home institution's identity and access privileges. From inception as a good idea amongst a small number of universities and passionate believers in the need for a federated approach to its current status as an enabler of collaboration this session will not only provide an update on the activities of the CAF but will also provide the audience with an opportunity to see why they should participate either as users of the current services or in helping to identify and define future services. Introduction: Blair Brenot, Technology Innovation Leader, ORION Presenters: Lori MacMullen, Executive Director, CUCCIO-CDPIUC Kent Percival, Manager, Research Partnerships, Computing & Communications Services, University of Guelph Alan Darnell, Manager, Scholars Portal 2:45 PM Coffee & Networking 3:00 PM Plenary • Auditorium High Performance Computing - Who's using it, who should be and should you? If Google is a search engine for all that is known - then HPC is a search engine for all that is unknown. From researching the beginning of the world to understanding climate change to safeguarding us from pandemics, High Performance Computing and advanced networks are tools of the trade for Canadian researchers and their international collaborators. Should high performance computing be in your toolbox? Learn what can be done, how it is done and who is doing it. SHARCNET, HPCVL and SciNet are the Compute Canada partners in Ontario building a national high performance computing platform. Together, they will show the innovation enabled by HPC and will tell you what you need to know to get started and what they can do to help. Introduction: Susan Baldwin, Executive Director, Compute/Calcul Canada Dr. Hugh Couchman, Scientific Director, SHARCNET Dr. Paul Maxim, Associate Vice-President, Research, Wilfrid Laurier University Presenters: Susan Brown, Associate Professor, Literary Studies and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph Tom Woo, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa 3:45 PM Closing Keynote • Auditorium Dave Williams, Astronaut; Director, McMaster Centre for Medical Robotics 4:30 PM Closing Remarks • Auditorium Phil Baker, President and CEO, ORION