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Doug Cooper
Country Manager
Intel Canada

Doug Cooper is the Country Manager for Intel of Canada Ltd. He reports into the Americas Sales and Marketing Group. He has been with Intel since 1983.

Cooper graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1981 as an electrical engineer. He began his career with Intel as an applications engineer, working to help engineers at companies across Canada incorporate Intel technologies into their products. With Intel´s acquisition of the Sarnoff Labs in Princeton, New Jersey, Cooper expanded his scope, helping to take Intel Digital Video Interactive technology (DVI) to broadcast and multimedia organizations across the country.

Cooper also helped create an Intel FP500 program in which he served as the technology liaison to the IT departments of some of Canada´s most influential companies. His engineering background and knack for simplifying the inherently complex has allowed him to develop strong business relationships with the IT managers of top corporations.

In 1995, Cooper took over responsibility for all of Intel Canada´s marketing activities. In 2000, he was appointed Director of Marketing for both Canada and Latin America assuming the challenge of developing marketing directions for both these regions. Today he assumes a broader role as Intel´s Canadian Country Manager expanding the company's Sales and Marketing activities as well as developing the role of Government Affairs liaison.

Professor John Polanyi, P.C., C.C., F.R.S.

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John Polanyi, educated at Manchester University, England, was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, U.S.A. and the National Research Council, Canada. He is presently a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. His research is on the molecular motions in chemical reactions in gases and at surfaces. He is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Canada (F.R.S.C.), of London (F.R.S.), and of Edinburgh (F.R.S.E.), also of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Rome and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (P.C.), and a Companion of the Order of Canada (C.C.). His awards include the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London, and over thirty honorary degrees from six countries.

He has served on the Prime Minister of Canada's Advisory Board on Science and Technology, the Premier's Council of Ontario, as Foreign Honorary Advisor to the Institute for Molecular Sciences, Japan, and as Honorary Advisor to the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany.

He was a founding member of both the Committee on Scholarly Freedom of the Royal Society, and a further international human rights organization, the Canadian Committee for Scientists and Scholars, of which he is the current President. Additionally he was the founding Chairman of the Canadian Pugwash Group in 1960, and has been active for 40 years in International Pugwash. He has written extensively on science policy, the control of armaments, and peacekeeping. He is co-editor of a book, 'The Dangers of Nuclear War', and was a participant in the recent 'Canada 21' study of a 21st century defence posture for Canada. He was co-chair (with Sir Brian Urquhart) of the Department of Foreign Affairs International Consultative Committee on a Rapid Response Capability for the United Nations.

Rick Bergman
Senior Vice President, General Manager - Graphics Product Group
AMD

Rick Bergman is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Graphics Product Group (GPG), a cornerstone of the Visual and Media Businesses of Advanced Micro Devices.

Rick is responsible for the worldwide management of discrete graphics products, including the company's industry-leading Radeon family of graphics processors for the desktop, workstation, notebook, multimedia and game console markets. In this capacity, Mr. Bergman oversees business operations, engineering and marketing.

Mr. Bergman came to AMD via the acquisition of ATI in October 2006. He joined ATI in January 2001, from S3 Graphics, a division of SonicBlue Inc., where he served as Chief Operating Officer. Over the past 15 years Rick has served in a number of marketing and management roles within the North American technology industry, including Vice President of Marketing at Exponential Inc. and Marketing Manager at Texas Instruments, Inc. He began his engineering career at IBM Corp.

Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado.

Peter Hortensius
Senior Vice President - Notebook Business Unit
Lenovo

Dr. Peter D. Hortensius, joined Lenovo in May 2005 as Senior Vice President for worldwide product development and was appointed Senior Vice President for the Notebook Business Unit of Lenovo in October 2005.Before joining Lenovo, Dr. Hortensius was the Vice President, Products and Offerings, for IBM´s Personal Computing Division. He spent 17 years with IBM and has extensive expertise in product and technology research and development.

Before moving to Raleigh, North Carolina, he spent 10 years working at IBM´ renowned T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and is the holder of 10 patents. He holds a doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba in Canada, which he received in 1988.

Roger Skubowius
Engineering Manager
Google

Roger Skubowius received his M.Math, Universitty of Waterloo, 1994, B.Math, University of Waterloo, 1991. Roger came to Google through the acquisition of Reqwireless - a wireless software company he started in 2001. Roger currently manages Google's engineering office in Waterloo, Canada.