Program
Program
NanoTEC for Smart Communities
Nano-micro materials, devices and systems for transportation, energy, connectivity and health.
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TEXPO Competition
and Exposition
and
NanoCanada
Poster Session
More than six
scheduled
networking breaks
Vendor
and
Startup Exhibits
Marie D'Iorio, President, NanoCanada
Gordon Harling, President and CEO, CMC Microsystems
Keynote Speaker:
Colin Earp, Partner, National Head of Transport,
KPMG Canada
Chair:
Marie D'Iorio,
NanoCanada
The Supercluster Opportunity:
The superclusters are beginning to operate and 5 years is not a lot of time to produce innovations which will bring lasting competitive advantage. How are the superclusters engaging with researchers to fast-track useful inventions? What are the barriers to collaborative, ‘open’ innovation and how are the superclusters dealing with them? This session will introduce you to the leaders of the superclusters and an opportunity to understand their challenges.
Panelists:
Sue Paish, CEO,
Digital Technology Supercluster
Jayson Myers, CEO,
Next Generation Manufacturing
Tristan Mallet, Acting CEO,
SCALE.AI
Moderator:
Gord Harling,
CMC Microsystems
Connectivity is key to the intelligent community. Data must be captured in sensors, evaluated via computation (using Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning) and then applied directly to obtain a result or presented to citizens to obtain their input. Connectivity is much more than just 5G – it is the sum of interconnections of all of the components in the intelligent community from autonomous vehicles to energy harvesting motes to satellite links.
Speakers:
Catherine Gebotys, Professor,
University of Waterloo
Douglas Beckett, VP, Optical Technologies,
RANOVUS
Karl Allen-Muncey, Lab director,
Digital Kitchener Innovation Lab
Session Chair:
Kelly Lyons, Associate Professor,
University of Toronto
Keynote Speaker:
John Schlueter, Program Director DMREF,
National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research
Session Chair:
Ye Tao,
National Research Council Canada
Keynote Speaker:
Umberto Berardi, Associate Professor,
Ryerson University
Chair:
Ye Tao,
National Research Council Canada
Energy will require a new paradigm for the intelligent community. Energy will be generated in many different places and distributed and managed using more versatile approaches and energy sources, and consumption will be highly variable in time and location. Energy storage will be a new challenge requiring breakthroughs in algorithms, electronics, and nanomaterials.
Panelists:
Michael Pope, Assistant Professor,
University of Waterloo
Isaac Tamblyn, Research Officer,
National Research Council of Canada
Luc Fréchette, Professor,
Université de Sherbrooke
Umberto Berardi, Associate Professor,
Ryerson University
Moderator:
Karin Hinzer, Professor,
University of Ottawa
Keynote Speaker:
Michael Pope, Assistant Professor,
University of Waterloo
Chair:
Ye Tao,
National Research Council Canada
Keynote Speaker:
John Jung, Chairman & Co-Founder,
Intelligent Community Forum
Chair:
Ye Tao,
National Research Council Canada
TEXPO 2018 – Innovate, demonstrate, celebrate!
This annual competition offers graduate students across Canada’s National Design Network a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications of microsystems and nanotechnologies to industry and academic representatives while competing for a total of $12,500 in prize money.
NanoCanada Poster Session - Showcasing excellence in nano-innovation
Students and researchers can submit posters highlighting their original contributions in the fields of nanomaterials, nanodevice fabrication, characterization and nanomanufacturing.
Masters of Ceremonies:
Lynda Moore,
CMC Microsystems
Gino DiLabio,
University of British Columbia
Banquet Speaker: 
Nicole Verkindt, Founder, OMX | “Dragon”, Next Gen Den
Nicole Verkindt is passionate about technology. She’s a Dragon on the tech-focused web series NextGen Den, she’s the technology columnist for Vanguard magazine, in addition to being the founder of tech driven company OMX. In this riveting talk, Nicole explains how investment in technology can drive competitive growth, and shows audiences how to leverage technology as a competitive advantage.
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel or is that a car headed straight for us? The automobile industry is undergoing massive change, and the way we use cars could become antiquated in a very short period of time. For better or for worse? Cars have influenced economic development in cities, contributed to urban sprawl and greenhouse gas emissions, and been part of culture and national ambition for decades, so where we go from here (and how we get there) is crucial to understand. What lies ahead?
Keynote Speaker:
Jean-François Barsoum, Senior Managing Consultant,
IBM
Session Chair:
Marie-Pierre Ippersiel,
PRIMA
Transportation will involve improved sensing, communication, energy efficiency, and logistics for a bewildering variety of mobile elements from pedestrians, and cyclists to self-driving drones, robots, cars, trucks, and aerial vehicles. This will involve artificial intelligence and machine learning to implement algorithms for safe, high speed, low latency transportation of goods and people.
Panelists:
Jérôme Le Dall, Consultant
Jalon Montréal
Peter Frise, Professor & Director,
Centre for Automotive Research & Education
Kody Baker, Founder, CEO,
VeloMetro Mobility
Moderator:
Josipa Petrunic, Executive Director and CEO,
Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC)
Currently, we treat symptoms of disease. Imagine if, instead, we could stop disease progression and even reverse it. This is the promise of regenerative medicine and the focus of the Shoichet lab. I will describe our innovations in materials design that enable us to harness the power of stem cells for applications in cancer, blindness and stroke.
Keynote Speaker:
Molly Shoichet, Professor,
University of Toronto
Chair:
Lori Sheremeta,
Alberta Innovates
Safe and ethical deployment has been a prime consideration since the emergence of nanotechnology as a cross-sectoral enabling technology. While materials properties change drastically with particle size below 100 nm, so can the material’s potential toxicity. While Canada is well equipped with state-of-the-art materials characterisation facilities thanks to the CFI, do we have the appropriate tools to assess toxicity of materials? Can we thus support industry appropriately in commercialising their products while responding to government regulations? What is needed to address these issues?
Panelists:
Jo Anne Shatkin, President,
Vireo Advisors
Kevin J. Wilkinson, Professor,
Université de Montréal
Warren Chan, Director, Distinguished Professor,
University of Toronto
Moderator:
Lori Sheremeta, Executive Director, HQSP and Centres,
Alberta Innovates
Keynote Speaker:
Gilbert Walker, Professor,
University of Toronto
Nanomaterials and their associated microsystems offer new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment of disease by enabling machines from the size of a bacteria to large room-sized imagers. Looking further though, sensors and communications present opportunities for better prevention of illness through use of big data and algorithms to recognize incipient symptoms before they are evident. How can these developments maintain our privacy and improve our quality of life?
Panelists:
Kenneth P. H. Pritzker, CEO,
York Medtech Ventures Inc.
Claude MH Demers, Professor,
Université Laval
Ruth Merrifield, Field Application Scientist,
PerkinElmer
Moderator:
Dan Gale
Keynote Speaker:
Geneviève Tanguay, Vice-President, Emerging Technologies
National Research Council Canada
Pure science often results in discoveries which, while they expand our knowledge, are not immediately useful to industry. How do we fine-tune the relationship between scientific research and industrial collaboration?
Keynote Speakers:
Eric Fournier, Director General S&T Strategic Decision Support,
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)
Rob Lamb, CEO,
Canadian Light Source
Session Chair:
Geneviève Tanguay, Vice-President, Emerging Technologies
National Research Council Canada
Marie D'Iorio, President, NanoCanada
Gordon Harling, President and CEO, CMC Microsystems