Canada's Innovation Agenda — Building on our Natural Resources Advantage

March 31 - April 1 2015

National Arts Centre, Ottawa

The 14th Annual RE$EARCH MONEY Conference will expand and deepen our analysis of implications of recent federal budgets for business innovation support. This year, we will also examine Canada's innovation agenda through the lens of Canada's traditional areas of strength, the natural resource sectors.

Speakers and panelists include:

Catherine Beaudry

Canada Research Chair in the creation, development and the commercialization of innovation Professor, Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, École Polytechnique

Gary Bunio

General Manager, Technology Development, Suncor

Mark Dietrich

President and CEO, Compute Canada

Javier Gracia-Garza

Deputy Chief Scientist and DG, Science Program Branch of the Canadian Forest Service, NRCan

John F. Helliwell

Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia

Pierre Lapointe

President and Chief Executive Officer, FPInnovations

John R. McDougall

President, National Research Council of Canada

Pierre Meulien

President and CEO, Genome Canada

Dirk Pilat

Deputy Director Directorate for Science, OECD

Dr. Trevor Raymond Stuthridge

Executive Vice President, FPInnovations

David Watters

President, Global Advantage Consulting Group Inc.

Visit http://researchmoneyinc.com/conferences/201503 to learn more or to register