FPTT 2009 National Meeting

"Marketing and Mobilizing Your Technology"

June 16-18, 2009
To be held at

Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel
101 Lyon Street
Ottawa, ON
K1R 5T9

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Presentations

Day 1 – June 17, 2009

Keynote Speaker

• Eli Fathi, Chief Executive Officer, OrbitIQ - Keynote Presentation

Knowledge Mobilization for Technology Transfer Professionals - Panel Discussion

• David Phipps, Director, Office of Research Services, York University - Presentation
• John Biles, Director, Partnerships and Knowledge Transfer, Metropolis - Presentation
• J. Craig McNaughton, Director, Knowledge Mobilization and Program Integration, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - Presentation
• Peter Levesque, President, Knowledge Mobilization Works - Presentation

New Models for Commercialization - Panel Discussion

• Mark Romoff, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Centres of Excellence
• Rui Resendes, Director, Commercial Development, PARTEQ Innovations, Queen's University - Presentation
• John Culley, Director, Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Presentation
• Tom Corr, Associate Vice President, Commercialization Office of Research, University of Waterloo / Accelerator Centre - Presentation

Our Love Affair with Inter-institutional Agreements: Panel Discussion

• Glenn Carroll, Technology Transfer Advisor, Intellectual Property Office, Strategic Partnerships and Heritage Branch, Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Presentation
• Pierre Meloche,Industrial Technology Advisor, Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada - Presentation
• Ron Brunet, Intellectual Property Advisor, Strategic Partnerships and Heritage Branch, Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Presentation
• John Molloy, President and Chief Executive Officer, PARTEQ Innovations, Queen's University - Presentation

Innovative Market Analysis and Business Intelligence - Panel Discussion

• Julie Tan, Senior Advior, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office, Health Canada - Presentation
• Elsie Quaite-Randall, Executive Director, Office of Research Contracts and Intellectual Property , McMaster University - Presentation
• Amy Lemay, President, VISTA Science and Technology Inc.
• Usha Srinivasan, Director, Market Intelligence, Market Readiness Program, MaRs Discovery District (Ontario) - Presentation

Day 2 – June 18, 2009

FPTT Annual General Meeting and Activities Report

• Claude Morasse, Director, Federal Partners in Technology Transfer - Presentation

Advancing Technology Transfer in Today's Economic Environment - Panel Discussion

• Sandra Schillo, President, Innovation-Impact - Presentation
• Janet Scholz, Managing Director, Alliance for Commercialization of Canadian Technologies - Presentation
• Tom Brzustowski, RBC Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa - Presentation
• Mike Walker, Director, Business Services Group, Central Business Support, National Research Council Canada - Presentation

e-Tools for Marketing Technology Opportunities - Presentation

• Conrad Melanson, President, Image Tree - to come
• Jeff Braybrook, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Canada, Chief Information Officer Branch, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat - Presentation

Benefits of Taking an Integrated Marketing Approach - Presentation

• Jim Mintz, Director, Centre of Excellence for Public Sector Marketing - Presentation

Licensing and/or Sponsored Research: Conjunctive or Disjunctive? - Presentation

• Marcel Mongeon, Intellectual Property Coach, Mongeon Consulting Inc. - Presentation

The Future in Collaborations and Partnerships - Town Hall Discussion

• Robert Walker, Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology, National Defence and Co-chair, ADM S&T Integration Board
• Cyril Gibbons, Director, Commercialization - Physical Sciences, The Innovations Group, University of Toronto - Presentation
• Roman Szusmki, Vice-President, Life Sciences, National Research Council Canada - Presentation
• Jean Marion, Director, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies - Presentation