Brian Watkinson
Principal
Strategies 4 Impact! Inc.
Topic: Building Information Modelling-Technology Supporting a Brand New Method for Design and Construction

Brian Watkinson is an architect and former Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Architects. He leads Strategies 4 Impact! Inc., a company that provides strategic support and advice to businesses in the design and construction sector, their associations and their clients. Strategies 4 Impact! Inc. also offers a range of related consulting services to help clients put their plans into action.

We´ve been designing and constructing big things like buildings and bridges the same way for centuries ­ poorly. Inefficiently. For example, studies show that 1/3 of the energy and resources we invest in these projects is wasted. That´s right ­ 1/3! Finally, a completely new method has arrived ­ Integrated Project Delivery. And technology is the key to making it work successfully on your project.

Participants in this session will:
* understand some of the problems with our current method for design and construction
* learn the principles underlying Integrated Project Delivery and how it will solve those problems
* get an overview of how Building Information Modelling software is key to the Integrated Project Delivery model

Eric Jervis
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Waterloo
Topic: Stem Cells - Developing Technologies for the Manufacture of Cells for Transplantation

Professor Jervis is a member of the Canadian Stem Cell National Centers of Excellence and currently serves as Chair of the Training Committee and as a member of the Research Management Committee.

Amar Varma
Founder
Extreme Venture Partners
Topic: Entrepreneurship

Amar is a Founder of Extreme Venture Partners, a newly formed venture capital firm that focuses on the web and mobile arenas. Prior to founding Extreme Amar spent 5 years at VenGrowth Capital Partners a prominent $1B+ North American venture capital firm where he focused on investments in the Technology sector. Prior to VenGrowth Amar worked at a number of private and public technology companies in Silicon Valley in Marketing and Engineering roles (Alcatel, AMD, Nortel, Cypress, Zhone). While in the Valley Amar worked intimately with leading edge technologies, domestic and foreign customers and was instrumental in raising >$120M in venture capital financing. Amar is a First Class Honours graduate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute sponsored by the NVCA.

John Elder
Director Automation & Power Systems
Siemens
Topic: Totally Integrated Automation

Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) provides a distinct advantage in all phases of theproject lifecycle. From concept design through to maintenance and operations, TIA incorporates innovative technologies that result measurable business value. This presentation will highlight the Siemens TIA concept and outline some of the incorporating products and solutions.

Sylvain Duford
Director, Canadian Lead Architect
Avanade Canada
Topic: Disruptive Technology and Trends

Sylvain Duford is a director at Avanade Canada where he works for the CTO and leads the Solution Architecture group. Sylvain has been with Avanade for 4 years and for the first three years he was leading the Enterprise Integration practice. Prior to Avanade Sylvain worked as a consultant for Cactus Commerce (Hull, QC) and BEST Consulting (Seattle, WA). He has done architecture and consulting work for many large enterprises including Boeing, Microsoft, RBC, Purolator, the Washington State Government, and the Government of Canada. In his previous career Sylvain worked as a pilot in the Canadian Air Force where he flew C-130 cargo planes all over the world and performed many search & rescue and United Nations' missions.

Disruptive Technology is defined as a technology trend that eventually overturns the dominant technology in the market. Disruptive technologies are innovations that cause disruption in daily life, business process, or global economies. Disruptive in this context is not necessarily a bad thing, but rather an agent of change that forces individuals and companies to adapt. One example of this is the movement from film-based photography to Digital Photography, allowing consumers more choice and freedom and forcing companies who make Cameras and Film products to adapt their business model. The presentation will focus on current trends in technology and will demonstrate some forward thinking on how companies and individuals may take advantage of these disruptive innovations.

Michael Cohen
Senior Security Consultant
Cigital
Topic: Threat Modeling - Connecting Attacks, Security and Software Design

Michael Cohen is a Senior Security Consultant at Cigital where he is responsible for leading, assessing, architecting and implementing secure software for Fortune 500 companies. He also works with Cigital teams on enterprise-wide security solutions intended to improve an organization´s security posture and help them meet audit and regulatory requirements. Michael holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo.

When considering securing an application, one is frequently led to solutions such as firewalls, secure operating systems and use of encryption. But are these common approaches sufficient? What does it take to assure that security has been well thought-out and built-in? What are the ways we can leverage software engineering concepts like requirements and architecture to decide where attacks may occur?

This seminar is for those with an interest in software security and/or software engineering who want to learn how to build security in. We will learn about contributors to an application´s insecurity, who the threats are and how attacks occur. Techniques for armoring application design and implementation will be discussed - threat modeling and misuse/abuse case activities which tie threats and attacks to requirements and design.

Jeet Hothi
Director of Technology Transfer Office
Canadian Research Council
Topic: Protecting Intellectual Property

Jeet Hothi is the Director of Technology Transfer Office at CRC and is responsible for IP protection and commercialisation through technology transfer and collaborative research with industry. Jeet was responsible for leading and winning a patent interference legal case against two multinational companies, Corning and Lucent. This was the first time for the Canadian Government to ever fight and win such a case. Mr. Hothi has won numerous awards including four awards for his work in technology transfer: two President Awards, Queen´s Jubilee Award and Federal Partners in Technology Transfer Leadership Award which recognised CRC as number one public lab in North America in terms of IP management and technology transfer to industry.

The participants will gain an appreciation of different methods for protecting intellectual property including patents, copyright, and trade secrets. Patents will be discussed in considerably more detail including the advantages and disadvantages of patenting, criteria for patentability, structure of a patent application, patent filing and prosecution.

Paul Doherty
Director
The Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology
Topic: Start It Up!

Dr. Paul Doherty is the Director of the Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (CBET) at the University of Waterloo. He currently teaches Entrepreneurial Applications of Business Technology for the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) program which has been specifically designed to address Canada’s pressing need for more innovators. His areas of specialization include; business ethics and strategy, environmental science, energy and energy management and innovation and entrepreneurship. Dr. Doherty holds a Masters degree in Corrosion Science and Engineering and a PhD from the University of Manchester as well as an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr. Doherty is heavily involved in developing innovative ideas and accelerating business opportunities he is the founder/co-founder of several start-up companies. He is currently examining industrial clusters in North America and how innovation and entrepreneurship can be encouraged in South-Western Ontario.

Thinking about starting your own business? Starting a business can be exhilarating, challenging, and sometimes overwhelming. Dr. Paul Doherty, Director of the Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (CBET) at the University of Waterloo will discuss how to develop a solid foundation for your business and help you move your ideas forward. Drawing on his extensive experience in starting companies, Dr. Doherty will provide you with practical steps to starting a business. Whether you're new to business or have been struggling in an existing business Dr. Doherty will help you Start It Up!

Igor Benko
Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Topic: Concurrency ­ Essential and Accidental Complexity

Igor Benko is a staff scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Menlo Park, CA. He holds Dipl. Eng. from the University of Ljubljana, and MMath and PhD from the University of Waterloo. He has been wrestling with concurrency for most of his adult life: He wrote three theses on concurrency topics, worked on multithreaded software products, and managed people and projects. Lately, he has been exploring radically parallel processor architectures.

Concurrency is a central problem in today's programming languages and execution environments. At the same time, many of us have little experience in dealing with concurrency, so we commonly state that concurrency is hard. We will discuss what makes concurrency hard and will outline a better handle on concurrent programming.

Zekeriya Aksoy
Senior Systems Engineer
Raytheon
Topic: Advanced Surveillance Technologies

Zekeriya Aksoy is a Senior Systems Engineer at Raytheon Canada Limited. At Raytheon, he leads Modeling and Simulation related projects for advanced radar systems. In addition to his daily tasks, he manages Raytheon's Co-op program. Prior to joining Raytheon, he was involved in the design, construction and operation of one of the first Passive Radar Systems in Canada. He is a recipient of Raytheon's Network Centric Systems (NCS) prestigious award for outstanding individual technical contributions. Zekeriya holds a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario.

Gino Brancatelli
CTO's Office
Nortel
Topic: Hyperconnectivity

Gino Brancatelli has worked for Nortel for over 15 years in a variety of technical support, marketing, network architect and business development positions in both the carrier data networks and carrier voice organizations. He is currently in the CTO office in the areas of portfolio management and strategic planning.

Hyperconnectivity is what we at Nortel define as the state in which the number of devices, nodes, and applications connected to the network far exceeds the number of people using the network ­ is fast becoming a reality. It´s an unstoppable force of change that is demanding action now to rethink the way networks and applications are built.

Anita Gatti
Senior Consultant
Brock Solutions
Topic: Manufacturing Execution Systems

Anita Gatti is a Senior Consultant at Brock Solutions Inc. Brock Solutions’ helps our manufacturing clients improve their performance through the identification and implementation of automation and manufacturing IT solutions. Prior to joining Brock, Anita spent over ten years in management consulting, assisting clients in improving their operational effectiveness through the implementation of leading improvement methods including: lean, six sigma and the theory of constraints. Anita is a professional engineer, and also holds a MMath in applied statistics, both from the University of Waterloo.

Participants in this session will learn about:
* The type of information and execution systems manufacturers need for world class performance
* What Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are and how they help manufacturers excel
* Real examples of MES solutions implemented in different industries

David Hansquine
Vice President of Technology
Qualcomm
Topic: Qualcomm ASICs and their Challenges

David Hansquine has worked at Qualcomm for 12 years doing ASIC design in San Diego, CA then Raleigh, NC. During his career there, he led 10 projects and earned 9 patents. He is presently responsible for nextgen computing & consumer products. He has a BASc in Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo and a MSEE from UCSD.

For people interested in doing something other than programming after earning their degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, come learn what´s involved in designing and producing ASICs for mobile handsets (the little devices that control & power that phone you´re holding in your hand right now).

Peter Finn
IBM Certified Senior Project Manager
IBM
Topic: Virtual Worlds

IBM is currently leveraging virtual world environments for research, collaboration, education and commerce. Peter Finn will provide a unique overview of IBM´s initiatives in virtual worlds. Peter has over 22 years of IT industry experience and is responsible for the development IBM´s Virtual World and 3D Internet Strategy. He is an IBM Senior Project Manager and manages a portfolio of projects supporting IBM's internal initiatives and customer facing projects. Peter is one of IBM thought leaders and is the founder of IBM Virtual Universe Community, IBM´s Web 2.0 community and IBM foresight community of practice. Throughout his career Peter has managed a wide variety of projects ranging from $500K to $100M. The projects span multiple countries and industries including initiatives in IT, Media and Entertainment, Retail, Insurance, Finance and the automotive Industry. Peter hold's multiple patents in the areas of virtual worlds and 3D Internet, media and entertainment as well as electronics and computing. Prior to Peter´s current role he was responsible for IBM North America services strategy developing and deploying the tools and technology for supporting IBM and customer service environment.

Rob Harrap
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Enginering
Queen's University

Rob Harrap teaches in the GIS Laboratory and the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering at Queen's University. He is a geologist with wide ranging interests, including early-Earth evolution, the applications of technology to geological mapping, urban mapping, and laser imaging of geological and urban targets.

Matt Lato
Graduate Student, GeoEngineering Center
Queen's University
Topic: The Application of LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) to Engineering Problems - Rocks, Buildings, and Gigabytes

Matt Lato is a graduate student in the GeoEngineering Center at Queen's University researching the applications of laser imaging to geological risk analysis.

LiDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) allows accurate models of the three-dimensional geometry of structures to be rapidly sensed into digital form; constructing engineering drawings or models from the millions of measurements a LiDAR scanner makes of a target is a daunting task. Despite this, the use of LiDAR from ground-based platforms has grown dramatically over the last few years since this technology can deliver centimeter accurate models of large features from a considerable distance in global coordinate systems. This is a feature no other method can deliver given the same time window. We will provide an overview of LiDAR concepts and technology, a live demonstration of LiDAR dataset manipulation, and a discussion of the application of LiDAR to urban planning, civil engineering, and internet mapping.

Manoj Choudhary
Student Liaison Coordinator
Professional Engineers Ontario
Topic: Professional Engineering

Upon graduating from the University of Toronto, Manoj was employed for four years as a Manufacturing Engineer with a defense company in Toronto, Ontario. Most recently, Manoj was an instructor of Information Technology and Computer Information Systems Programs, Coordinator of CIS program and Chair of IT program for 12 years with a post secondary institute in Toronto, Ontario. Joined PEO Licensing and Registration Department since September, 2006, as a Student Liaison Coordinator. Currently, Manoj is acting as a Manager of the Prelicensing programs at PEO. Manoj is responsible for the management of the Student Membership Program (SMP) and Engineering Intern Training (EIT) programs.

Participants in this session will learn about:
* What is Professional Engineering?
* How does PEO regulate the Profession?
* What are PEO’s Licensing Requirements?
* Why do we have SMP and EIT Programs?
* Mobility of P.Eng Licence

Andreas Binnewies
Dr. Debugger (It has a brake?)
meebo

Andreas majored in Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. After school, he went to work for Thuridion where he learned the ins and outs of AJAX. When not working on exciting new features for meebo, you might catch him flying (the speed limit) down the freeway on his motorcycle or meditating by the water in Santa Cruz.

Danny Bernstein
Marketing Dude (Phone sewn to ear)
meebo
Topic: Synchronous Platform Design from Start to Finish

Danny majored in Political Science at UC Davis. He then worked at Bite Communications, spending half his time in BD and the other half consulting to technology companies. When he´s not talking up meebo to potential partners, you can usually find him heckling the Dodgers, teaching himself guitar or reading a geeky business book.

meebo launched the meebo Platform API in late October 2007 to enable the development of synchronous applications inside the instant messaging experience. Enter hundreds of developers of third-party multiplayer games, communication services, collaboration tools, and so on. This session will go into depth in describing the process that meebo took in creating a software platform for third-party developers. This is no easy feat for a service that reaches over 20 million people every month. The net: it´s not as simple as saying, "Come on in!"

Denis J. Gendron
Founder, Director
Claire Lasers
Topic: Industrial applications of high-power lasers

Denis J. Gendron, Ph.D. founding Director Claire Lasers Corporation. Prior to his duties as President and Technical Director, Denis has gained over 15 years of experience in developing laser systems and of experience in developing laser systems and application in world leading organizations. Dr Denis J. Gendron developed numerous laser systems over his R&D experience, in the capacity of a senior engineer, project manager and a R&D director. Dr Gendron obtained his Physics Ph.D. in laser spectroscopy from University of Waterloo in 1997.

Claire Lasers has developed and commercialized the ClearMark laser marker, and the Laser-in-motion (LIM) application for inline laser marking in the metal forming industry, and numerous laser metrology products for industrial applications.

Recent advances in laser technologies and motion control is enabling breakthrough in automated industrial systems. Industrial applications includes advance metrology for feedback systems and high-throughput laser material process for a new generation of engineered systems. Laser can measure space to submicron resolution, identify chemical species, and transform material at speed unmatched by traditional thermodynamic processes. We will present general fields of application and identify a few specific applications where Claire Lasers contributes to advancement in automation in manufacturing processes.