Speakers and Panels Speakers & PanelsView this year’s presentations onlineKeynote Speakers Nicole Verkindt Founder, OMX | “Dragon”, Next Gen Den Molly Shoichet Professor University of Toronto Jean-François Barsoum Senior Managing Consultant Smarter Cities, Water and Transportation IBM John Jung Chairman & Co-Founder Intelligent Community Forum Gilbert Walker Professor University of Toronto John Schlueter Program Director National Science Foundation Eric Fournier Director General, S&T Strategic Decision Support and IDEaS Defence Research and Development Canada Umberto Berardi Professor Ryerson University Rob Lamb CEO Canadian Light SourceInvited Speakers & Panelists Sue Paish CEO Digital Technology Supercluster Michael Pope Professor University of Waterloo Jo Anne Shatkin President Vireo Advisors Kevin J. Wilkinson Professor Université de Montréal Catherine Gebotys Professor University of Waterloo Doug Beckett VP, Optical Technologies RANOVUS Claude MH Demers Professor Université Laval Luc Fréchette Professor Université de Sherbrooke Kelly Lyons Professor University of Toronto Speaker & Session Chair Kenneth P.H. Pritzker CEO York Medtech Ventures Inc. Josipa Petrunic Executive Director & CEO Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) Session Chair Isaac Tamblyn Research Officer National Reseach Council of Canada Warren Chan Director, Distinguished Professor Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto Geneviève Tanguay Vice-President, Emerging Technologies National Research Council Canada Kody Baker CEO VeloMetro Mobility Jayson Myers CEO Next Generation Manufacturing Peter Frise Professor and Director Centre for Automotive Research & Education Ruth Merrifield Field Application Specialist PerkinElmer Karl Allen-Muncey Innovation Lab Director Digital Kitchener Civic Innovation Lab Jérôme Le Dall Consultant Jalon Montréal