| 8:00-8:30 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30-8:40 | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Crelinsten, Co-publisher, and Mark Henderson, Managing Editor, Research Money |
| 8:40-9:15 | Opening Keynote: Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Canada’s Policy Conundrum |
| 9:15-10:30 | Keynote: Fred Gault, Professorial Fellow, United Nations University MERIT, Professor Extraordinaire, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Canada’s Industrial R&D Performance |
| 10:30-11:00 | Networking Break |
| 11:00-noon | Panel 1: The Changing Nature of Industrial Research
Raymond Leduc, Director, Bromont Manufacturing, IBM Canada Nolwen Mahé, Director for Montreal, Office of the Chief Scientist, SAP David Miller, Senior VP, The Woodbridge Group |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch and Keynote |
| 13:30-14:00 | Keynote: H. Douglas Barber, Distinguished Professor-in-Residence, McMaster University and former CEO & Co-Founder, Gennum Corporation
Why Firms Do R&D |
| 14:00 -15:00 | Panel 2: Industry-University Collaboration
Tom Corr, President & CEO, Ontario Centres of Excellence Inc. Robin Harkness,Associate VP, Program Leader, Sanofi Pasteur Janet Walden, Vice-President, Research Partnerships, NSERC Moderator: Penny Park, Executive Director, Canada Science Media Centre |
| 15:00-15:30 | Networking Break |
| 15:30-16:30 | Panel 3: Policy Implications
Morgan Elliott, Director of Government Relations, Research in Motion Jim Roche, President and CEO, Stratford Managers Corporation Samuel Stevens, Executive Director, Ontario Region, NRC-IRAP Moderator: David Crane, Columnist, The Toronto Star |
| 16:30-16:45 | Conference Close
Ron Freedman, Co-publisher, Research Money |
| 16:45-18:00 | Reception |