P. Thomas (Tom) Jenkins
Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer
Open Text Corporation

Opening Keynote Speaker

P. Thomas Jenkins is Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the largest independent software company in Canada. Mr. Jenkins has served as a Director of Open Text since 1994 and as its Chairman since 1998. From 1994 to present, Mr. Jenkins was President, then Chief Executive Officer and then Chief Strategy Officer of Open Text. Mr. Jenkins has also held several executive positions with DALSA Inc., an electronic imaging manufacturer based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Prior to these positions, Mr. Jenkins was employed in technical and managerial capacities at a variety of information technology based companies in Canada.

In addition to his Open Text responsibilities, Mr. Jenkins is the Chair of the federal centre of excellence Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN). He is also an appointed member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), past appointed member of the Government of Canada's Competition Policy Review Panel which reported in June 2008, and past appointed member of the Province of Ontario's Ontario Commercialization Network Review Committee (OCN) which reported in February 2009. Mr. Jenkins is also a member of the board of BMC Software, Inc. a software corporation based in Houston, Texas. He is also a member of the University of Waterloo Engineering Dean's Advisory Council, a director of the C.D. Howe Institute, a director of the Canadian International Council (CIC) and a director of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE).

Mr. Jenkins received an M.B.A. in entrepreneurship & technology management from Schulich School of Business at York University, an M.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a B.Eng. & Mgt. in Engineering Physics and Commerce from McMaster University.

Dave Williams
Astronaut
Director, McMaster Centre for Medical Robotics

Closing Keynote Speaker

Dave Williams joined an exclusive club when he blasted into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, and again on Shuttle Endeavour where he walked out into the great beyond. Having also lived and worked in the world's only underwater ocean laboratory, he became Canada's first dual astronaut and aquanaut.

An emergency doctor and neuroscience researcher, Canadian astronaut Dave Williams was one of four Canadians selected for the Canadian Astronaut Program in 1992. He became the seventh Canadian in space when he flew as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle Colombia in 1998. Williams also flew on a second space mission in August 2007, when Space Shuttle Endeavour delivered a truss system and gyroscope to the International Space Station. Williams performed three spacewalks on that mission, a record for a Canadian astronaut.

A true Canadian hero, Williams is one of the NASA space program's most accomplished astronauts, setting records in spacewalking. The veteran of two space shuttle missions has logged more than 687 hours in space, including three spacewalks, the highest number ever performed in a single mission. His work with NASA also continued on the ground when the space agency appointed him as director of the Space and Life Sciences Directorate, making Williams the first non-American to hold a senior management position.

He was part of the NEEMO 1 mission in 2001, a training exercise held in Aquarius, an underwater research habitat in Key Largo, Fla., which allows astronauts to train for the International Space Station and also to test technologies before they are used in space.

In 2006, Williams was the crew commander of the NEEMO 9 mission, which assessed methods of delivering medical care to a remote location, much like it would be done on a long flight in space.

With a passion for healthcare and risk management, prior to entering the Canadian Space Agency's program, Williams worked as an emergency room doctor and later as director of emergency services at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Williams continues to be an adjunct professor of surgery at both the University of Toronto and McGill.

Today, he is director for the new McMaster Centre for Medical Robotics, leading a team dedicated to developing innovative technologies to assist the development of local and remote patient care.

Jim Roche
President and Chief Executive Officer
CANARIE Inc.

Jim was appointed President and CEO of CANARIE in Feb. 2010. He is a successful entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of leadership experience, having been a founding member and General Manager at Newbridge Networks Corporation (now Alcatel-Lucent), a co-founder and CEO of Tundra Semiconductor (now IDT), the CEO of CMC Microsystems and the founder and CEO of Stratford Managers, a company he continues to lead. In addition to his corporate duties, he also serves on numerous boards and committees including the ICT Advisory Board for DFAIT, the Committee of Research Partnerships for NSERC, the Expert Panel on Business Innovation for CCA and others. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and is frequently called on to speak about entrepreneurship, commercialization of innovation, and strategy development.

Jim holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University, where he graduated at the top of his class and won multiple scholarships. He has added to his management skills through intensive programs at Stanford, Ivey, Queen's and elsewhere.

Jeff Seifert
Chief Technology Officer
Cisco Canada

As Chief Technology Officer for Cisco Canada, Jeff Seifert is responsible for driving innovative solutions and customer success through the promotion of the network as the platform within Canadian businesses, service providers, government and consumers. In this role he provides technical guidance and direction in key advanced and emerging technologies.

In August 2003, Seifert was appointed a Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco's highest technical distinction.

Seifert joined Cisco in 1995 and has supported customers and partners across all verticals and market segments and has been an integral part of the introduction and success of Cisco's entry into new technologies and markets.

Prior to joining Cisco, he held financial, management, and technical positions at Bell Canada, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and IBM Canada.

Seifert has achieved double CCIE certification. He holds a Bachelors in Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Ian Wilson
Founding Director, Stratford Institute
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus

In 2004, Mr. Ian E. Wilson was appointed Librarian and Archivist of Canada. In his former position as National Archivist of Canada, appointed July 1999, he and National Librarian, Roch Carrier, developed and led the process to create a new knowledge institution for Canada in the 21st century. Mr. Wilson had previously served as Archivist of Queen's University, Provincial Archivist of Saskatchewan and Archivist of Ontario.

Library and Archives Canada gathers and preserves Canada's multi-media documentary heritage, with a unique collection spanning fragile maps dating to 1508 to the extensive official records of government, books and newspapers, over 22 million photographs, portraits and documentary art, films and the personal papers of Canadians in all walks of life. More recently, the LAC has been developing a trusted digital repository, acquiring digital publications and preserving web sites of enduring interest to Canadians. This national resource is increasingly available online.

On his retirement at the end of April, 2009, he was named Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus. He has recently accepted a new challenge as founding director of the Stratford Institute, an initiative of the University of Waterloo, Open Text Corporation and many other partners to develop graduate studies and advanced research in digital media. The intent is to bring together the arts disciplines with government, the universities and the private sector to foster innovation and creative use of the new media.

Ian Wilson was named to the Order of Canada in 2002 and both York University and Queen's University have recognized his work, conferring honorary doctorates. In 2003, he was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France. He is the President of the International Council on Archives.

Donald J. Welch, PhD
President and CEO
Merit Network, Inc.

Dr. Donald J. Welch has been the President and CEO of Merit Network, Inc. since joining Merit in July 2006.

Prior to his arrival at Merit, Don was the Director of Enterprise Technology (CTO) and Merchandising Applications for H-E-B, a $12B retailer in Texas and Mexico. He had responsibility for enterprise architecture, integration, infrastructure and security as well as delivering and supporting merchandising applications. In addition, he created H-E-B's Technology Innovation Store, where new technology was developed and piloted in a working store.

Before joining H-E-B, he served for 25 years in the U.S. Army attaining the rank of Colonel and earning the Legion of Merit for his service. His last assignment was as the Associate Dean for Information Technology (CIO) and Professor of Computer Science at West Point. He was responsible for the computer operations and infrastructure used to educate future Army officers. He built West Point's wireless network, one of the first large and secure wireless networks, which was the recipient of a Computerworld "best practices in mobile and wireless" award for security. He has managed information technology support for the Department of Computer Science at West Point and a branch of the Army Human Resources Command. While at West Point, he taught computer science, information technology, and international relations at the undergraduate level.

Dr. Welch received a B.S. from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, an M.S. in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and he earned the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. Paul Maxim
Associate Vice-President, Research, Wilfrid Laurier University
Chair, Ontario High Performance Computing Council (OHPCC)

Paul Maxim is Associate Vice-President: Research, and Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. Prior to joining Laurier, he was a Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Western Ontario. Paul is currently Chair of the SHARCNET Board and Chair of the Ontario High Performance Computing Council. He also serves as Chair of the Provincial Relations Committee of the Ontario Council on University Research. A quantitative sociologist by training, his area of research is population economics. Specifically, he uses census and large-scale survey data to model the socioeconomic integration of immigrants into Canadian society, and human capital formation and labour force participation among Aboriginal peoples. He has authored several books including the text entitled Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences.

Dr. Hugh Couchman
Scientific Director, SHARCNET
Professor, Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University

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.

Susan Baldwin
Executive Director
Compute/Calcul 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.

Lori MacMullen
Executive Director
CUCCIO-CDPIUC

Lori MacMullen is the Executive Director of the Canadian University Council of CIO's (CUCCIO-CDPIUC). Prior to becoming its first Executive Director, Lori was the Associate Vice President, Integrated Technology Services at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). Before joining UNB Lori was the Chief Information Officer for the Government of New Brunswick.

CUCCIO-CDPIUC is the Canadian University Council of CIO's - Conseil des dirigeants principaux de l'information des universités canadiennes. Established in 2006 to serve as the national voice for IT-related issues in Canadian universities, CUCCIO-CDPIUC's membership currently stands at 49 and includes small, medium and large institutions from across Canada. CUCCIO-CDPIUC not only provides a forum for members to keep abreast of new technologies and best practices, share information, accomplishments and ideas but also facilitates and enables members to work with colleagues across the country on collaborative projects to solve common problems. The creation of the Canadian Access Federation is an example of this collaboration.

Kent Percival
Manager, Research Partnerships, Computing & Communications Services
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).

Tom Woo
Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Modeling and Computational Chemistry
Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Chemistry
University of Ottawa

Tom Woo received his Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Calgary, where his thesis on computational catalyst modeling was awarded the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies National Dissertation prize for 1999. He spent a year as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, after which he accepted a Faculty position at the University of Western Ontario in 2000. Since 2005 he has been at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa where he is currently a Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Modeling and Computational Chemistry. Tom has published over 100 peer reviewed articles in which computer simulations have been applied to study a variety of important chemical phenomena at the nano-scale and smaller.

Professor Woo will speak on how his research group has used HPC to simulate Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies. CCS represents a serious strategy to reduce green house gas emissions that is now the topic of intense study. CCS involves scrubbing CO2 from a generating source, such as a coal burning plant, and permanently storing it. In the first part of this presentation, a discussion of how computer simulation has been used to study deep sea storage of CO2 will be given. This will be followed by a presentation of how HPC has been used to simulate advanced materials for the energy efficient capture CO2.

Phil Baker
President and CEO, ORION

Phil Baker, one of the architects of Ontario's broadband and networking strategies, has played a central role in developing the groundbreaking Telecommunications Strategy for Ontario. Over the years, Phil has coordinated the development of several broadband initiatives, including the ORION project. In January 2002, Phil joined ORANO as President/CEO to lead the implementation of the ORION network across Ontario.

Phil obtained his advanced education at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Toronto.