Presentation Archive

Blood on the Tracks: 6 Years of Technical Entrepreneurship in Ottawa

Lessons Learned Running a VC-backed Company
Brian Hurley, CEO, Purple Forge

Ready, Set, Grow: Practising with VC Money
Dave Vicary, CEO, Surve

Venture Capital Activity in Ottawa: 2002-2008
Debbie Weinstein, Partner, Labarge-Weinstein

Success Without Selling Your Soul: Lessons Learned Starting and Operating a Privately-held Company
Jerry Everett, Director of Sales and Founder, onconference Inc.

Attracting Your First Money
Rainer Paduch, Ottawa Angel Alliance and Band of Scoundrels

Shelter from the Storm: VC Independent Business Models
John Callahan, Associate Professor, Carleton University

How NRC-IRAP can Stretch Your VC Investment
Llynne Plante, Regional Director, NRC-IRAP

Beyond LTW: Ecosystem Approach to Start and Grow Innovative Technology Businesses
Tony Bailetti, Associate Professor, Carleton University

Threshold Value Issues for Innovation Companies: Intellectual Property, Open Source Software, R&D Tax Credits and Financing

Making Sense of Joint Ownership of Intellectual Property
Marc Babinski, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Open Source Software – Recent Developments
Bernadette Eischen

SR&ED Update
Mel Machado and Kent Smith, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Private Placement Considerations
Jeremy Farr, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Getting to Market

TCS Innovation & Monetization Aspects
Mukesh Gupta, Director of Strategic Relations, TATA Consultancy

Getting to Market starts at the beginning!
Gary Gudbranson, Director, Marketing and Communications, Precarn Inc.

From Intrapreneurship to Independence
Brian O’Higgins, CTO, Third Brigade

Effective Sales and Marketing in early stage companies
Andrew Penny, President, Kingsford Consulting Ltd

Delivering "Clean" Software: Ensuring Clean Intellectual Property in Software Products That Include Open Source and Other Third Party Components

Software IP Management: Prevention is the Best Medicine
Mahshad Koohgoli, CEO, Protecode Inc.

Clarifying the IP Trail
Janet Campbell, Legal Counsel and Manager of Intellectual Property, Eclipse Foundation Inc.

Open Source and Opening Industry - Building Canadian IT Through Flexible Arrangements
Christine Piché, Patent Agent, National Research Council

Best Legal Practices for Open Source Software
Eugene F. Derényi and Luis Estable, Stikeman Elliott LLP

Developing an Open Source Adoption Policy
Mike Michalyshyn, General Counsel, QNX Software Systems

Trolling for Trouble - Commercial Software, Open Source and Patents
Michael Morgan, Lawyer, LaBarge Weinstein

Truing the Spokes: Best Practice Based Planning for Open Source Initiatives
Thomas Prowse, Counsel

Business Implications of Clean IP
Kamal Hassin, Talent First Network, Carleton University

The Alchemy of Open Source Businesses

Value Derived from Open Source is a Function of Maturity Levels
Peter Carbone, Chief Architect, Nortel

The Eclipse Open Innovation Network
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

What You Should Know About Open Source Businesses
Scott Lake, CEO, Jaded Pixel

Making Money With an OSS
Douglas Inkster, Architect, Ingres Corporation
Andrew Ross, Senior Software Engineer, Ingres Corporation

Open Source Software (OSS) Drivers and/or Emerging Commercial Opportunities
Peter Hoddinott, Resident Entrepreneur, Talent First Network

Blindside Project and the Commercialization of Open Source Software
Richard Alam, Open Source Project Lead, Blindside Project

Open Source Software Deployment
Dwight Deugo, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Carleton University

OpenMEDIA: An Open-Source Environment for Multimedia Education and Research
Ali Arya, Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology, Carleton University

Collaborative Projects: Is There a Better Way?

IT Shared Services Organization and the Approach to Delivering Excellence.
Maurice Chenier, Director General, Service Management and Delivery, Public Works & Government Services Canada

Stakeholders and HR in Collaborative Projects
Doug Lloyd, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

International Development Projects - Stories from the Field
Larry Meek, Meek & Associates

Complex High Tech Projects in Government
Imran Mirza, Senior Director, Infrastructure Services, Public Works & Government Services Canada

Just-In-Time Partnering
Jason Mawdsley, Macadamian Software Engineering

Collaborative Projects - Why They Succeed or Fail
Harish Sharma, President & CEO, NexProject Solutions Inc.

Inshoring to Canadian High Tech Firms, Are We Missing the Boat?

Globalization: Canadian Opportunity or Threat
Michael Rodger, Director, Accenture Inc.

Bucking the Trend
Ravi Parmasad, Vice President, Customer Support & Services Business Unit, Alcatel

Partnering for Competitive Advantage
Dave Berry, Vice President, Operations, CSC's Technology Management Group (TMG)

In-shoring to Canadian firms - Focusing on the Right Work - Where We Add the Greatest Value
Ted Burnett, VP of Business Development, bitHeads inc.

Five Common Misconceptions About Asian Manufacturing
Ken Toews, President, BCTINT

Solving the puzzle to winning R&D outsourcing business
Alex Berlin, President, CEO & Founder, AFORE Solutions

The Art of Early Stage Investments

Building a Company with Outside Capital: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Charles Cazabon, Vice President, Venture Capital, Business Development Bank of Canada

Angel Capital. The Dark Matter of Private Equity?
Irving Ebert

Financing the Start-Up:“Ingredients for Success” or “Recipe for Disaster”?
Michael W. Dunleavy, Partner, LaBarge Weinstein PC

Picking the Right Investors
Raj Narula and Mike Manson, Partners, TaraSpan Group

Venture Capitalists - Why don’t they just give us the money and leave us alone?
Lessons on getting your company up and running, learnt the hard way
Mahshad Koohgoli

Raising Venture Funding for Fun and Profit. A Repeat Entrepreneur's Perspective on Dealing With VCs
Jim Hjartarson, CEO, OneChip Photonics Inc.

Computer and Network Security - What is State of the Art Now?

How the Hackers Keep Breaking In
Mike Sues, CEO & Ethical Hack Specialist, Rigel Kent Security & Advisory Services

Keeping the Hackers Out – What Works in Intrusion Prevention
Brian O’Higgins, CTO, Third Brigade

Internet Law Update: Focus on Security
David Fewer, Legal Counsel, CIPPIC, the Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic

User Authentication and its Evolution
Chris Voice, Chief Technology Officer, Entrust

Windows Vista Security
John Weigelt, NTO, Microsoft Canada

VoIP: Managing Your Way Through the Technology Maze

What Wi-Fi Networks Need to Support VoIP
Marcel Chenier, VP of Engineering, BelAir Networks

Giving Customers Content, Flexibility & Choice!
Art Howarth, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems

What Maze? Partnerships and Channels - Look Again.
David Cuddy, Chief Technology Officer, Natural Convergence Inc.

VoIP: Past, Present & Future
Robert Mimeault, CEO, Hullo.com

Convergence of VoIP, Mobility and Enterprise
Vish Raju, Vice President of Product Line Management,FirstHand Technologies

Advanced Services in VoIP
Luigi Logrippo, PhD, Professor Université du Québec en Outaouais
Tom Gray, PineTel

Driving Business Process Improvements & Competitive Advantages Through IP Communications
Stephen Beamish, Director Global Solutions Marketing, Mitel

Open Source Licenses and Business Opportunities

Open Source Licenses - Choosing a License to Achieve Your Objective
Bernadette M. Eischen, Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

It's Not All About the License/Who Wrote This Stuff?
Adrian Cho, Manager, Intellectual Property, IBM

Mutiny of the Bounty: Confessions of an Open Source Lawyer
Thomas Prowse, Senior Counsel, Nortel

Business Lessons Learned from Open Source Licensing - Practices in the Mapping Industry
Dave McIlhagga, President and CEO, DM Solutions Group Inc.

How to Make the Most From Your Community
Pierre-Paul Lemyre, LexUM, International Projects Manager, Université de Montréal

Preserving Commercial IP in Open Source based Embedded Systems
Don LeBlanc, President and CEO, Business Accelerators

There Is No Such Thing As Open Source Software
Marcus Bornfreund, Co-Director, Creative Commons Canada

The Challenges of Outsourcing: The Roadway to Success

Building the Roads to Global Sourcing Success: Applying Canadian Advantages in a Global Competitive Environment
Kevin Wennekes, VP, Research, Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA)

Outsourcing to Vietnam
Dr. Nguyen Huu Le, President, TMA Solutions Canada; Chairman, TMA Solutions Vietnam

Outsourcing - The revenge of the knowledge worker
Ravi Parmasad, Vice President, Global Support & Services Business Unit IP Division, Alcatel

Trends in the Call Center and Outsourcing Industry
Jeffrey Shave, Executive Director, Bell Canada Site Selection Services

Outsourcing: The World of Opportunity
Tony Gaffney, Executive Director, Outsourcing and Managing Director, Toronto, Accenture

Outsourcing innovation and insourcing strategies
Silvia Ponce, Professeure agrégée, Service de l'enseignement de la gestion des opérations et de la logistique Membre du Centre humanismes, HEC Montréal

Outsourcing R&D: Lessons Learned in The Field
Frédéric Boulanger, President and Co-founder, Macadamian Software Engineering

Rolling Out a New Technology: VoIP

The Future is Already Here
Alec Saunders, CEO, Iotum

Making VoIP Easy for SMBs
Tim Welch, Vice President Sales, TalkSwitch

Business Opportunities in an immature VoIP Market
Kevin Ford, CEO, Parliant Corporation

Managed Business Communication Services Deliver Enterprise Value
Rob Hemmerich, Director, Solutions Marketing, Alcatel

VoIP: No Longer Telecom As Usual!
Mirko Bibic, Chief, Regulatory Affairs, Bell Canada

A Converged Communications Service for the Government of Canada
Tom Wilson, Product Manager - Network Applications and Services, Information Technology Services Branch (ITSB), Public Works and Government Services Canada

IT Telephony - Changing the Way We Think of Convergence
David Levy, President and CEO, Objectworld Communications Corp.

Competing With Open Source Software

Lessons Learned at the Competing with Open Source Conference
Tony Bailetti, Technology Innovation Management Program
Carleton University

Open Source: Catalyzing Innovation for Competitive Advantage
Marcellus Mindel, Program Director, Centre for Advanced Studies,
IBM Ottawa Software Lab

Open Source: Power to the Technology Consumer
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director,
Eclipse Foundation

QNX and Open-Sourced Tooling: A Case Study
Mark Roberts, Director, Product Management,
QNX

Insights From Research on Competing With Open Source
Peter Carbone, CTO (Acting),
Nortel

Move to the Middle
John Weigelt, National Technology Officer,
Microsoft Canada Co.

Open source IP-PBX
Stephan Monette, President,
Unlimitel

Using Linux in Embedded Systems - Where and When Does it Apply?
Don Leblanc, President and CEO,
The Business Accelerators Inc.

Support For Collective Evolution of Assets That Are of Interest to The Government (Français)
Joseph Potvin, Senior Economic Analyst, CIO Branch, Treasury Board Secretariat,
Government of Canada

Why are soft skills important to project management?

Soft Skills in Project Management
Ravi Kumar, CEO, Krinta Inc.

Preparing for, and Managing Shared Accountability Programmes with Soft Skills
Douglas M. Lloyd, Executive Director, Information Management, Technology and Services, Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat

The Soft Skills that Deliver Hard Results
Susan Kemp, Manager, Project Management Office, Public Works & Government Services Canada (PWGSC)

Leadership and Communications - Are They Key Project Management Skills?
Thomas Burnie, Senior Associate, DAMA Consulting Services Ltd.

Soft Skills - The Magic Pill of Trainer and Project Manager
Harish Sharma, CEO, NexProject Solutions Inc.

What the federal government is doing for the high tech industry

How to best profit from existing tax programs designed for the tech industry
Paul LaBarge, Founding Partner, LaBarge Weinstein

NRC/IRAP - Guiding Innovators to Success
Bogdan Ciobanu, Executive Director, NRC-IRAP Quebec

Investing in High-Tech Companies
Charles Cazabon, Vice President, BDC Venture Capital

Export Development Canada - Our Mandate and Our Expertise
Michel Villeneuve, Senior Business Development Manager of Eastern Ontario, Export Development Canada

Serving Canadian Business in Canada and Abroad
Robert Déry, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Business Development and Chief Trade Commissioner, International Trade Canada

Managing the Turnaround

Turnaround at the Start-Up Stage
Raj Narula, Co-Founder, TaraSpan Group

Turnaround Implementation
Russell Newbury, Vice President, Sales, Iotum Corporation

Mid-Course Corrections
Frédéric Boulanger, President, Macadamian Software Engineering

Preventing the Turnaround Crisis
Ted Burnett, Vice President of Business Development, bitHeads Inc.

Globalization and Canadian Companies

So you've decided to go global: Lessons learned from a 30 year old start-up
Steve Spooner, Chief Financial Officer, Mitel

Global trends in manufacturing
Jayson Myers, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist,
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME)

Relationships driving globalization
Constantin Loudiadis, Senior Vice-President, TKC Global Solutions

A pragmatist's view of globalization
Allan Martel, President, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Canada

Globalization, corruption, and procurement fraud
Ian Lee, Eric Sprott School of Business, Carleton University

The sustainable software imperative
Dave Thomas, Chairman, Bedarra Research Labs

Commercialization Strategies

Changing how commercialization is approached
Brian Hurley, CEO, Liquid Computing

Building Canada’s technology commercialization highway
Kalai Kalaichelvan, CEO, EION

The path to Oracle - Lessons learned from a startup
Donald Smith, Director of Technology Evangelism, Oracle Corporation

Business decisions in an uncertain world – can we do better?
Bruce Wallace, Director Advanced Systems and Solution Engineering, Advanced Technology Research, Chief Research Office, Nortel Networks

Product commercialization - A start-up's perspective
Rowland Few, Manager Product Integrity, Tropic Networks

Biotech firms and their founders
Kelley Porter, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Queen's University

Technology vision and vertical market reality
Henry Tang, Invotrax, won the Carleton Wes Nicol Competition

Commercialization strategy in early stage, open environments
Tony Bailetti, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and Eric Sprott School of Business, Carleton University

Process and Project Management

Lessons learned and new techniques in project management
Doug Lloyd, Executive Director, Public Works and Government Services Canada

The Critical Success Factor in IT Projects - Nailing the Requirements
Glenn Brulé, Practice Leader, North America Business Analysis & Consulting CDI Education

Project Management Office (PMO) No-No's
Phil Keast, President, PKPM Inc., Project Manager, GoC Data Centre Co-location Project

How to Assess the Value Delivered by a Project End-Product: The Earned Quality Method
Jean Paul Paquin, Université du Québec en Outaouais

A New Approach of Project Cost Overrun and Contingency Management
Said Boukendour, Professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais

Consultative Project Manager – What PMBOK Didn’t Teach You
Andrew Thomas, Managing Director, BrandActive

The Use of Methodologies in an IM/IT Project
Christian Dussault, MScL, BAA, OMM, PMP, Senior Partner, LMS - Logistics Management System Inc.

Emerging Company Markets

2005 Trends in Financing Companies
Deborah Weinstein - Founding Partner, LaBarge Weinstein

Growing a Company – 1995/1999/2003
John Ogilvie - CEO/CTO, Hyla Corporation

The Weakest Link
Dave McFaul - Director, Product Management, Spotwave Wireless Inc.

Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create alignment and Focus
Henri Van Rooyen - President and CEO, Pinpoint Selling

Differentiating in a Crowded Market
Joe Aragona - Director of Marketing, BelAir Networks Inc.

The Importance of Proximity to Key Business Stakeholders
Mark Farrell - CEO and co-founder of the KidsFutures Rewards Program

Building an Exit Strategy

Exit Strategies - a Lifecycle Perspective
James Supple - Phd Candidate, Carleton University; President of CDNameSearch

Tax Planning Considerations for Your Exit
Paul LaBarge - Founding Partner, LaBarge Weinstein LLP

Quality - The New Old Standard
Mario Di Pietro - Vice President, Orion Securities

The Life Cycle of Marketing in High Technology

Sprint Marketing Game Plan
Robert Tansony, Director Enhanced Voice Solutions,
Sprint Canada Business Services

Cognos Corporate Performance Management
Karen Williams, Vice President Product Marketing, Cognos Inc.

Marketing Device and Bridging Strategy
Ed Myers, Director of Marketing, Galaxy Canada

Marketing to Giants
Steve Adams - Vice President, Marketing - Protus IP

Marketing SMB to SMB
Chris Ellsay, MBA - President, Workshift

Product Life Cycle Marketing: a Pharmaceutical Brand Case Study
Victor Varona, B.Sc., M.B.A. - President Bisson Varona and Associates

Selling and Adopting Innovation in Industry and Government

Practical comments on creating footprint in the market
Paul Dietz, Vice President and Founder, Photonics Control

The dark days and nights of innovators – overcoming adoption barriers
Chuck Colford, CEO and Founder, Trigence Corporation

All aboard with wireless – innovating in a vertical market
Shawn Griffin, President and CEO, PointShot Wireless Inc.

Launching Sales in an early market – money making disciplines
Eliot Burdett, Vice President, Business Development, PointShot Wireless Inc.

Strategies for selling new products to the fast paced consumer electronics industry
Simon Morris, Vice President, Atsana Semiconductor Corporation

How to work with universities to spinout companies and technology
Luc Lalande, Director, Technology and Research Development Office, Carleton University

Strategies to obtain acceptance of a common application in federal government departments
Peter Cowan, Director, Web Innovation and Technology, IT Services Branch, PWGSC

The challenge of developing a single federal government on-line authentication system for use by all Canadians
Brenda Watkins, Director, Strategic Infrastructure Policy, IT Services Branch, PWGSC

Commercialization of Technology Products and Services

The Importance of Customer Input in the Development of Very New Products
John Callahan, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the School of Business, Carleton University

Bringing technology innovation to market - a telecom player perspective (PDF)
Peter Carbone, Vice President, Nortel Networks, Networks' Strategic Planning

Attaining product momentum (PDF)
Douglas Frosst, Senior Manager, Cisco Systems Inc., Executive Thought Leadership

Innovation and commercialization
Eli Fathi, CEO, OrbitIQ

ICT Commercialization –From Knowledge to Wealth Generation
Jeffrey Dale, President and CEO, OCRI

A pragmatist's view of product commercialization
Rick Cuthill, Manager, Wireless Business Segment, Neutronics Components

Selling technology in foreign markets
Matt Ebbs, Director of Business Development, WorldHeart Corporation and Managing Director of WorldHeart (Europe)

Canadian Life Sciences Companies: Going Global

Overview of the Canadian Life Sciences Sector
Ken Lawless, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ottawa Life Sciences Council

Issues Facing Canadian Life Sciences Companies in the Global Marketplace
Keith A. MacMillan, Ph.D., former Director of Legal Affairs, Monsanto Canada

Intellectual Property Considerations in the Global Context
Martin J. Szczepaniak, Senior Partner, McFadden, Fincham

Let There Be Light
Pierre A. Beaudry, President and Chief Executive Officer, Quantum Biomedical Inc.

China - Opportunities for Canadian Life Sciences Companies
Glen Hodgson, Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist, Export Development Canada

Sales/Marketing Start-Up Strategies for Global Export Markets
Toby Shannan, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, DNA Genotek Inc.

Building Global Competence
Laraine Kaminsky, Executive Vice President, Graybridge Malkam

The State of Innovation in the Technology Industry

Scrapping the Canadian Software Industry - Before Others do
John Ogilvie, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Hyla Corp., one of three Ottawa software firms to raise first-round VC funding in 2003

Innovation in Technology Start-ups
Dave Vicary, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nakina Systems

Execution in Innovative Technology Companies
Damian Hanel and Roy Sunstrum, Sunstrum Hanel and Associates

Innovation in Technology Companies Built-to-Last vs Built-to-Flip
Sorin Cohn, President, OrbitIQ Global Portfolio

Innovative Methods to Raise Funds in an Up Market
Debbie Weinstein is a co-founding partner of LaBarge Weinstein LLP

Companies that rely on Ottawa's R&D for their Worldwide Product Leadership Positions
Tony Bailetti, Director of the Masters of Engineering program in Telecommunications Technology Management, Carleton University

Doing Business in China

CATA Survey: Are you Ready for the China Marketplace?
co-authored by Tom Koplyay and Jean-Paul Paquin,
Anki Le Gall - presenter and principal author of CATA Survey

The Key to Success in China: Being Prepared!
William Meng, President, MapleLeaf Bridge Group

Tips on Doing Business in China
Eugene Huang, Customer Service Officer-Special Accounts
Business Development Bank of Canada

Intellectual Property Rights in China – Enforceable? Exploitable!
Wing Yan, Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP

Business in China - Small Business Perspective
Yves Grandmaitre - Powerbase Automation Systems

Hong Kong: Bringing You to China's Markets
Ken Fong, Marketing Manager, Hong Kong Trade Development Council

Doing Business in China: The Role of DFAIT
Mike Wylie, Trade Officer with the China and Mongolia Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT)

Project Management

Horizontally Managed, Vertically Accountable: A Unique Perspective on Project Management
Imran Mirza, DG IDSI, Telecommunications and Informatics Program Branch, Public Works and Government Services Canada

PMI and ITIL - Interdependencies
Chris Hamad, President, enTyre Networks

Forging a High-Performance Training Program Through a Continuous Improvement Process
Tom Hodge, Director, Certification and Training, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA)

Emerging Project Management Best Practices
Michael Appleton, BEng, MBA, Managing Director, DAMA Consulting

Project Management Standards: A Difference of Opinions
Doug Lloyd, Senior director of Service Delivery and Client Engagement, Chief Information Officer Branch of Treasury Board Secretariat

Project Management in a Defence R&D Environment
Guy Vézina, Director, Science and Technology C4ISR, Defence R& D Canada

Project Management in Startups
Dave Brown, Vice President and General Manager, MKC Networks Corporation

IT and Productivity

Improving Maintenance Operations through Innovative Use of Information Technology
Michael Halasz, NRC Institute for Information Technologies

IT That Goes Bang:A Shot Heard Around the World
Andrew Young, Vice President, DYI Technologies

Business Intelligence & Web-Services – A Visual Combination
Pejman Javaheri, Product Innovation & Technology, Cognos

Canada-U.S. Productivity Performance in the Information Age
John Baldwin, Director of Microeconomic Analysis Division, Statistics Canada

The Photonics Conference

Trends in the Photonics Business / Markets
Marc Wickham, Ventures West

Managing University Research in a Changing Industry: The CIPI Challenge Programme / CIPI's Challenges to Photonics Researchers (PDF)
Ian MacDonald, CIPI

Biophotonics: Challenges for Ottawa
Michael Davies, Co-chair, ABC Working Group: ABC & Asulkan Consulting

Co-presentation - Photonics Vision in Canada and Ottawa / Value Chain Project
Ruth Rayman, Executive Director, Canadian Photonics Consortium (CPC)
Ray Novokowsky, Chair Ottawa Photonics Cluster, CEO CTD Photonics

Perspective on sourcing alternatives for photonic functions - cost-effective decisions
Paul Jay, Chief Technology Officer, Intelligent Photonics Control Corp.

From the SME point of view
Ömür Sezerman, Oz Optics

Building a Commercially-viable Photonics Business
Lance Laking, BTI Photonic Systems

Technology for the current telecoms environment (PDF)
Rick Clayton, Bookham Technology

Nurturing and Feeding a BioPhotonics Company
David Armstrong, Executive Vice President, IatroQuest Corporation

Photonics Industry - Is there Light at the End of the Tunnel
Maike Luiken Miller, National Capital Institute of
Telecommunications

Re-skilling as an Effective Model to Meet the Photonics Industry's Skill Needs (PDF)
Arvind Chhatbar, Vitesse Re-Skilling Canada Inc.

CPFC: Lighting the Future (PDF)
Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre

Ceyba: Last light (PDF)

Corporate Financing in Today's Challenging Environment

Driving Better Business Management and Performance
Vijay Jog, Professor of Finance, Eric Sprott School of Business, Carleton University and President of Corporate Renaissance Group (CRG)

Legal and Business Aspects of Today's Financing Transactions: Shortcomings of the "Business-as-Usual" Approach
Mike Dunleavy, Partner, LaBarge Weinstein LLP

Practical Aspects of Obtaining Angel Financing Today
Coralie Lalonde, CEO, Katsura Investments

Factors Influencing VC Financings
René Seguin, Director, BDC Venture Capital

The Role of Investment Banking in Corporate Financing
Scott Davis, Director, Technology Investment Banking, CIBC World Markets

Tackling the Public Markets: A CEO's Perspective
Bernie Ashe, General Manager, 3M-AiT, Ltd.

Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance: A Biomedical Perspective
Paul Bisson, founder, ex-CEO, and former Board member of ART Advanced Research Technologies

A Working man's Understanding of Governance and What it Means for Calian
Larry O'Brien, CEO, Calian

Life Without the Board
Mark Edwards, Amberwood Productions

ENRON: A Silver Lining?
Ken Cancellara, Chief Legal Officer, Biovail

Corporate Governance, Plain and Simple
Lili-Ann Foster, President and CEO, Renaud Foster

Intellectual Property Management - The Strategic Landscape

Intellectual Property Environmental Scan
Jim Supple, CDNameSearch Corp.

IP Rights Exploitation and Enforcement in China and South East Asia - A Canadian Perspective
Wing T. Yan, Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP

Capturing Intellectual Property Value for Financing or Selling the Company
Michael Dunleavy, Partner, LaBarge Weinstein

Strategic Importance of Intellectual Property: A Biomedical Perspective
Victor Varona, LSMS LifeSciences Management Services, Inc.

Recent Developments of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution System in Canada
Dr. Micheal Geist, University of Ottawa

Intellectual Property Strategies for High Technology and Biotechnology Markets
Dr. Tom Koplyay, Université du Québec

4th Annual Innovation Report (2002)
The Conference Board of Canada

The Promise of e-Government: Expectations meet reality

Information Management Capacity Check
Raheel Zaman, BearingPoint

Public Service and e-Government
Larry F. Meek, Meek and Associates

e-Government Transformation: Challenges and Solutions
Ravi Kumar, Oracle Corporation Inc.

Alcatel's eBusiness Transformation Project
David Mather, Alcatel Canada

Shared Accountability in Project Management in an e-Government Context
Implementing a Government-Wide Common Infrastructureto Support e-Government Services
Doug Lloyd, Cambrian Consulting and
Michael Turner, Public Works

Information Management: The Key Enabler for e-Government
Ian Wilson, National Archivist of Canada

The Future of the Telecommunications Industry

Venture Capital Investment in Ottawa’s Telecom Sector
Rick Cornwall, Managing Director, Venture Capital, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)

Linking Research Investment to Value Creation
Robert Crawhall, President, National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT)

Leadership Presentation Archive

The Soul of Innovation: Mastering the Dark Art

Competing in an Open Environment
Tony Bailetti, Professor, Carleton University

The TCS Co-Innovation Network (COIN)
Ajoy Mallik, Global Head – Venture Capital, TATA Consultancy Services (TCS)

NRC’s Role in Canada’s Innovation System
Richard Normandin, Vice President, NRC

A Practical View of Innovation
Brian Hurley, CEO, Liquid Computing

Why Are We Canada’s Innovation Capital?
Jeffrey Dale, President and CEO, OCRI

Innovation Within an Established Business
Jim Davies, CTO, Mitel

Delivering Innovation through Industry-University Research
Grant Thomas, Vice President, Precarn Incorporated

Building Silicon Valley North; Bit by Bit

The role of Venture Capitalists in the creation of clusters
Antoine Paquin, Managing Partner, Rho Canada Ventures

NSERC: Powering Clusters Through Partnerships
Janet Walden, Vice President, Research Partnerships Programs, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council