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PROGRAM

Monday, April 18, 2011
12:30 PM Registration • Lower Concourse
1:30 PM Welcome • Auditorium
  • Dr. Darin Graham, President & CEO, ORION
  • Anne Sado, President, George Brown College; Chair, ORION Board of Directors
1:45 PM Opening Keynote • Auditorium

Peter Nowak, award-winning technology journalist and author
2:45 PM Coffee Grab & Go • Lower Concourse
3:00 PM
RESEARCH TRACK • Auditorium

Colleges & Applied Research: Key to Innovation Success in Ontario

Colleges play a key role in helping to develop new products and services that drive innovation in Ontario through applied research and working in close collaboration with industry. Each panellist will speak about their experiences with the start-up nature of college applied research, success factors and industry engagement, and the role of engaging students and mobilizing our institutions for a future workforce enabled by innovation literacy. The session will end with a discussion about virtual research clusters, such as can be enabled by ORION, that would address industry needs where and when needed through advanced collaboration and communication technologies.

Chair: Robert Luke, Assistant VP, Research & Innovation, George Brown College

Panel:
  • John Breakey, CEO, Unis Lumin; Chair, Industry Advisory Committee, CONII
  • Darren Lawless, Dean, Applied Research, Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
  • Ken Ono, Vice President, NexJ Systems
  • Dan Munro, Principal Research Associate, Conference Board of Canada
 DIGITAL MEDIA TRACK • CR-2

The ORION Media Community

The R&E community's requirements regarding the creation and use of digital media represent an ever-changing set of challenges. Scalable and flexible solutions are needed, and ORION has been working on behalf of its membership with solutions provider Filemobile to develop prototype technology to address these objectives. Join us to learn more about the status of the digital media platform project, including an evaluation of the ORION Media Community prototype from one of the schools testing it out.

Chair: Owen Deveney, ORION

Panel: 		EDUCATION TRACK • CR-3

New Frontiers in Online & Virtual Learning Environments

Ontario's postsecondary institutions are among the most successful in the world, but they face growing challenges in supporting a teaching and learning technology environment that is being transformed virtually overnight. This session will look at successful examples of how postsecondary institutions in Ontario and the United States are adapting to engage increasingly tech-savvy students and introduce new technologies for learning.

Chair: Laurie Harrison, Director, IT, OISE and Manager, Online Learning Project, University of Toronto

Panel: 		PARTNER SHOWCASE • Cafe

O3: Online Collaboration Spaces for Research & Education Teams

Join four O3 Collaboration group space managers representing university and college researchers and K12 users to learn more about how they are using ORION's online collaboration service and creating a culture of sharing information, as well as a look at the future of the IGLOO platform that powers O3.

Chair: Gary Hilson, O3 Community Manager, ORION

Panel:
  • Vanessa Williamson, Executive Director, CONII
  • Debbie McKee Demczyk, Director, Office of Research Services & Innovation, Durham College
  • David Phipps, Director, Research Services & Knowledge Exchange, York University
  • Dan Latendre, CEO, Igloo Inc.
4:15 PM Coffee Grab & Go • Lower Concourse
4:30 PM ORION Awards Presentation • Auditorium

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.
5:30 - 7 PM ORION Summit Reception • Lower Concourse

Tuesday, April 19, 2011
8:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast • Lower Concourse
8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks • Auditorium
  • Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS
8:40 AM ORION - Ontario's Innovation Backbone • Auditorium
  • Dr. Darin Graham, President & CEO, ORION
9:00 AM Morning Keynote • Auditorium

Daneal Charney, Gen Y Guru and Author, Hitting StrYde

Gen Y Calling: 3 Strategies to Harness the Most Underutilized Generation Ever
Organizations obsess about how to coax their young workers into higher productivity and engagement. Gen Y workers demand that organizations respect their skills, knowledge and time or they'll vote with their feet. In reality their goals are exactly the same, so why do they often feel worlds apart?
9:45 AM Coffee Grab & Go • Lower Concourse
10:00 AM
RESEARCH TRACK • Auditorium

Up in the Clouds: How Research and Innovation Are Migrating to the Cloud
Facilitator: Eyal de Lara, Associate Professor, Computer Systems and Networks Group, University of Toronto

Panel: 		INNOVATION TRACK • CR-2

Ontario's New Strategy for Commercializing Innovation
ONE - Ontario Network of Excellence - and stories from the innovation trenches... This session will feature presentations from some of the 14 regional innovation centres across Ontario that make up ONE. Plus, a discussion on Ontario's strategy for bringing innovative ideas to the marketplace - such as new ways to treat disease, cleaner ways to produce power and next-generation digital entertainment - and for cultivating a globally-competitive knowledge economy in Ontario.

Chair: Mark Roseman, Manager, Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE)

Panel:
  • Don Duval, VP, Business Services and Practice Lead, Life Sciences, MaRS (Toronto)
  • Pam Banks, Executive Director, Research Innovation Commercialization Centre (Mississauga)
  • Jeremy Laurin, President & CEO, ventureLAB (York Region)
  • Avvey Peters, VP, Operations, Communitech (Waterloo Region)
 EDUCATION TRACK • CR-3

Latest Tech Trends in the Classroom

School boards across Ontario are continuing to explore ways of enhancing learning through the use of technology. This session will look at some of the latest learning technologies being deployed and piloted at some of Ontario's schools.

Chair: Tim Kim, Business Development Consultant, ORION

Panel: 		PARTNER SHOWCASE • Cafe

Size Does Matter: 100G and What You Can Do with It

ORION is leapfrogging from 10G to 100G capacity in key parts of the network. Recently, ORION turned up its first segment of the network to 100G in production, part of a major technology upgrade to deploy a 100G operational network in Canada and the first R&E network in the world to deploy a 100G production network to support research and education. Learn more details about the network deployment and hear from ORION's selected vendors for the project, Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco.

Presenters:
11:15 AM Plenary • Auditorium

Jim Roche, President and CEO, CANARIE Inc.

Digital Infrastructure - The Catalyst for Digital Innovation
11:45 PM Buffet Lunch • Auditorium
12:30 PM Lunch Keynote • Auditorium

Dr. Gilles G. Patry, President and CEO, Canada Foundation for Innovation

1:15 PM
DIGITAL MEDIA TRACK • Auditorium

Building a Digital Media Juggernaut - It's All in the Network

Ontario's stature as a global player in digital media is growing. Advanced and virtual networks are providing the innovation and collaboration backbone to support new and innovative ideas, new commercialization opportunities, and growing new companies with an eye on global success. In this session, we learn more about what Ontario postsecondary institutions are doing to support their digital media students and graduates and to nurture this burgeoning industry.

Chair: Valerie Fox, Director, DMZ (Digital Media Zone), Ryerson University

Panel: 		RESEARCH TRACK • CR-2

Supercomputing & Advanced Networks: The Roads & Cities of the 21st Century

From climate modelling, to advanced visualizations in medical research, to solving the cosmic mysteries - High Performance Computing resources and capabilities are part of Ontario's big science infrastructure. Learn more about HPC and its capabilities for research in Ontario, Canada and beyond.

Chair: Dr. Hugh Couchman, Scientific Director, SHARCNET

Panel: 		EDUCATION TRACK • CR-3

Roundtable on Online Learning: Dealing with Dichotomies
Experts in education and learning technologies will explore the nature of online learning and consider some of the dichotomies faced in developing online programs and courses. With different types of learners and different learning and teaching styles how do you find the right balance between individual and social aspects of learning, between self-paced discovery and more structured, traditional approaches, and independent versus interactive activities, or between openly accessible and proprietary educational resources? How formal/informal should evaluation be? What helps guide these decisions?

Moderator: Dr. Gale Moore, Senior Fellow & former Director, KMDI; Member, Graduate Faculty, Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronto

Panel:
  • Rob Horgan, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, Queen's University
  • Stian Haklev, PhD Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
  • Zoe Branigan-Pipe, Teacher, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board / Brock University
  • Dr. Camille Rutherford, Asst. Professor, Education, Brock University
 		PARTNER SHOWCASE • Cafe

Cloud-Based Email for R&E

The University of Guelph is in the process of migrating over 60,000 mailboxes to the Scalar-managed Zimbra productivity suite. The Zimbra solution, including email as well as collaboration tools will be hosted in an offsite model by service provider Scalar Decisions. Check out this session to get an inside view on why the University of Guelph went from their on-premise email system to the cloud-based service, why they chose the Scalar-managed Zimbra solution, and how the Ontario research and education community will be enabled to take advantage of opportunities in the ORION cloud to enhance service and further capitalize on cost savings, efficiencies and the increased availability and security that cloud deployment offers.

Chair: Jim Lennie, Associate Director, Information Infrastructure Services, University of Guelph

Panel:
  • Drew MacPherson, IT Manager, University of Guelph
  • Fiona Griffiths, Senior Account Executive, Scalar Decisions Inc.
  • Neil Longmuir, Cloud Expert, Scalar Decisions Inc.
2:45 PM Coffee Grab & Go • Lower Concourse
3:00 PM Plenary: Innovation Needs a Backbone - The Ontario Challenge • Auditorium

Moderator: Dr. Darin Graham, President & CEO, ORION

Presenters:
4:00 PM Closing Keynote • Auditorium

Dr. Aled Edwards, Chief Executive, Structural Genomics Consortium

Pre-competitive science in the drug discovery sector
Ontario has been driving cultural and business change in the drug discovery sector - leading public-private partnerships that over the past decade have been pushing the pre-competitive barrier downstream. The newly formed "open access" business space is creating new opportunities for commercialization - ones in which Ontario and Canada have an unique opportunity to lead. This new economic wave will rely on data sharing, the analysis of large datasets and patient engagement foreshadowing an interesting convergence of drug discovery, IT and social media.
4:45 PM Closing Remarks • Auditorium
  • Dr. Darin Graham, President & CEO, ORION




 
 
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