The 5th Annual Science & Policy Exchange:
The State of Innovation in Canada
October 3rd 2014 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM
New Residence Hall
3625 Parc Avenue
Montréal, QC H2X 3P8
| 08:30 AM-09:30 AM: Breakfast and Registration |
| 09:30 AM-09:45 AM: Welcome Address |
| 09:45-11:15 AM: The State of Innovation in Canada: Are we lagging behind? |
 Jeff Kinder, Manager, Office of the Chief Scientist at Natural Resources Canada |
 Michèle Beaulieu, Associate Director Commercialization at McGill University |
 Xavier-Henri Herve, Director & Founder, District 3 Innovation Center at Concordia University |
 Janet Bax, Program Director, Council of Canadian Academies (moderator) |
11:15-11:45 PM: Special Keynote: Rosemarie Truman, Founder and CEO, The Center for Advancing Innovation. “Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation” |
| 11:45 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch |
1:00 PM-1:30 PM: Special Keynote: Scott Findlay, Co Founder, Evidence For Democracy. “Governing in the dark: evidence, accountability and the future of Canadian science” |
| 1:30-3:00 PM: Intellectual property and new technology: The impact of patents on innovation |
 Mathieu Miron, Patent Agent at Benoît & Côté |
Hugh Mansfield, CIPO affiliate and patent agent, lawyer, and partner at GGD |
 Aled Edwards, Founding Director, Structural Genomics Consortium |
 Carmela DeLuca, Partner at Bereskin & Parr LLP (moderator) |
| 3:00-3:30 PM: Coffee Break |
3:30-5:00 PM: Bioethics and law: hindering or helping innovation? Ma’n Zawati, Lawyer and Academic Associate at Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University |
 Eric Racine, Director, Neuroethics Research Unit at IRCM |
Marc Saner, Director at Institute for Science, Society and Policy |
 Bartha Maria Knoppers, Full professor; Director, Centre of Genomics and Policy (moderator) |
5:00-5:30 PM: Special Keynote:  Virginie Hotte-Dupuis, Manager External Communications & Philanthropy at L’Oréal Canada. “L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women on Science : Changing the face of science” |
 5:30PM-06:00PM: Closing KeynoteJean-Claude Bastien, structural stress engineer at Bombardier Aerospace |
| 6:00PM-08:30PM: Networking reception |
> also available in French