CMC and NanoCanada brought together over 250 of Canada’s industry, government and academia to examine the barriers in bringing emerging technologies to the marketplace. (September 2017, Montréal, QC) - - Innovation 360, 2017 and 2018 announcements and updates are available at http://innovation360.ca
Presentations
Select presentations are added here as available - - downloads are complimentary with a CMC Account.- Keynote Session: Nanomaterials
Chairs: Marie D'Iorio, NanoCanada, and Michael Jakubinek, National Research Council Canada- Keynote: Michael Pambianchi, Research Director, Glass Research Corning Incorporated
- Nanoscale Material Challenges in Specialty Glasses - Keynote: Mario Leclerc, Canada Research Chair on Electroactive and Photoactive Polymers, Université Laval
- Nano Composites for Green Energy - Keynote: Jonathan Veinot, Professor, University of Alberta
- Group 14 Nanomaterials: Complex systems with vast fundamental and commercial potential
- Keynote: Michael Pambianchi, Research Director, Glass Research Corning Incorporated
- Keynote Session: Digital Manufacturing
(Presentations not available)
- Session: Nanotechnology Standards, Regulations, and Health and Safety
Chair: Kimberly Ong, Vireo Advisors
- Invited Speakers:- Brent Bryant, Manager, Environmental Health and Safety, Xerox Research Center Canada
- Health and Safety Considerations for Nanomaterials in a Research Environment - Shaun Clancy, Director - Product Regulatory Services, Evonik Corporation
- Consumer and Societal Dimensions of Nanotechnologies - Brian Haydon, Senior Project Manager, Health Care, CSA Group
- Nanotechnology Standards - An evolving set of tools for commercialization - Myrian Hill, Section Head, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada
- The Regulatory Landscape for Nanotechnologies in Canada - Haridoss Sarma, Consultant, GO 2 SCOUT 4 R&T
- Using the Nano Electrotechnology Standards in Your Innovation Process
- Brent Bryant, Manager, Environmental Health and Safety, Xerox Research Center Canada
- Session: Quantum and Microelectronics Systems Integration
Chair: Michel Pioro-Laxrière Boursier, Université de Sherbrooke
- Invited Speakers:- Paul Barclay, Professor, University of Calgary
- Quantum Nanophotonics: Opportunities and Challenges - Jonathan Baugh, Professor, University of Waterloo
- Semiconductor-based Quantum Information Processors - Stefan Filipp, Research Staff Member - Quantum Technology IBM Research – Zurich Laboratory
- Coherent Quantum Computing with Increasingly Many Superconducting Qubits - Gabriel Poulin-Lamarre, Experimental Physicist, D-Wave Systems
- Building a Superconducting Quantum Processor at Scale
- Paul Barclay, Professor, University of Calgary
- Panel: Barriers to Commercialization
Moderator: Lorraine Sheremeta, Alberta Innovates- Graham McKinnon President and CEO Norcada
- Graham McKinnon President and CEO Norcada
- Panel: Collaborative Innovation in Nanotechnology
Moderator & Invited Speaker: Marie-Pierre Ippersiel, PRIMA QUÉBEC
- Overview of Québec’s Nanotechnology Ecosystem
- Innovation Pitches - Looking for R&D Collaborators
Chair: Jeff Young, University of British Columbia- Michael Pambianchi, Research Director, Glass Research Corning Incorporated (see above, Keynote)
- Gord Harling, CEO, INNOTIME Technologies
- Florina Truica-Marasescu, Director of Technology, ALCERECO (Grafoid Inc.)
- Normand Bourbonnais, President, CEO, C2MI - MiQro Innovation Collaborative Centre
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Program Committee, 2017
- Gino DiLabio, University of British Columbia
- Robert Gauvin, Québécois sur les Matériaux Fonctionnels (CQMF)
- Sabina Halappanavar, Health Canada
- Hooman Hosseinkhannazer, Norcada
- François Lagugné-Labarthet, Western University
- Marie D’Iorio, NanoCanada
- Dan Gale, CMC Microsystems
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