Let’s Put Our Minds Together

2009 Annual Symposium

2009 Annual Symposium

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Prompt has one focused and important mission:

to build university-industry R&D partnerships that

give ICT companies a competitive edge in the

global economy. This non-profi t corporation is

adding value to companies of all sizes, from large

multinationals such as Ericsson, to medium-sized

enterprises and emerging start-ups. Prompt

not only funds new industry-academic R&D

partnerships—providing signifi cant leverage on

every dollar invested—Prompt facilitates new

partnerships. This brokering role is invaluable to

industry, as it enables companies to identify and

work with the ‘right’ partners in a highly cost-

effective and effi cient way.

The creativity that drives the many actors in our

community and their desire to cooperate with

one another will play a key role in our sector’s

development. It is with this in mind that Prompt

chose the topic for its next annual symposium

scheduled for November 18, 2009, in Montreal.

The theme, Let’s Put Our Minds Together,

refl ects our public- and private-sector partners’

will to consult and cooperate in order to identify

new challenges for the ICT sector and help

our community to meet them through R&D

partnerships.

PrOuD PArtnerOF PrOMPt

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Pierre BoucherDirector, Research and Innovation,Ericsson Canada

Charles DespinsPresident and CEO

Prompt

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International panelICT Challenges and opportunities: Quebec, Canada and the world

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ICT in Healthcare: the USA perspective

Creativity: the engine of innovation

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ICT in Public Safety

Charles Despins

Atul Asthana, RIM (Canada)

Yang Yang, WiCo (China)

Peter Vesterbacka, Mobile Monday (Finland)

Bruno Charrat, CEA (France)

John Reid, CATA, moderator

John Crumbliss, Cornerstone

Michael Gelb, Creativity and innovation expert

Kevin Winter, SRA International

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The Green ICT challenge:zero-carbon data centers

Public R&D Structure in ICT in Quebec

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TechnoMontréal

Panel : Tackling ICT challenges through Quebec’s university R&D strategic clusters

Interactive session

End of Symposium

Brian Fry, Rackforce

Charles Despins

Martin Duchaîne

Christophe Caloz, CREER, École Polytechnique

Réal Vallée, COPL, Laval University

David Plant, SYTACOM, McGill University

Mohamad Sawan, ReSMiQ, École Polytechnique

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Charles Despins

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Atul Asthana serves as Vice President, Global Standards for Research

In Motion, Limited (RIM), makers of BlackBerry®. As the head of Global

Standards, Mr. Asthana is responsible for overall standards strategy,

identifi cation of strategic research areas, establishment of collaborative

research projects with Advanced Research and R & D teams, as well

as strategic technology partnerships for future standards. Mr. Asthana

works closely with many Standards Defi ning Organizations and serves

on the boards of 3G Americas, ATIS, OMA and Waterloo Institute of

Nanotechnology.

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Atul Asthana, RIM

Yang Yang, WiCo

Yang Yang is currently the Assistant Director

and Vice CTO at Shanghai Research Center

for Wireless Communications (WiCo), Chinese

Academy of Sciences. Prior to that, he served

the Department of Electronic and Electrical

Engineering at University College London (UCL),

United Kingdom, as a Senior Lecturer from 2005 to

2009, the Department of Electronic and Computer

Engineering at Brunel University, United Kingdom,

as a Lecturer from 2003 to 2005, and the Department of Information

Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Assistant

Professor from 2002 to 2003. His general research interests include

wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, wireless mesh networks,

beyond third generation (3G) mobile communication systems,

cognitive radio, green and cooperative communications.

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Peter Vesterbacka is the founder / co-founder

of several companies including Some Bazaar,

ConnectedDay and Wreckamovie. He is also active

as an advisor to several startups in Europe.

Prior to his life as an entrepreneur, Mr. Vesterbacka

worked for HP in several communications

industry related roles. While at HP, he founded

the HP Mobile E-Services Bazaar, a global

innovation & corporate partnership program

that BoozAllenHamilton declared an industry

benchmark. Mr. Vesterbacka is also co-founder

and the original initiator of MobileMonday, one of

the most succesful mobile industry communities

globally.

Bruno Charrat has joined the Laboratory of Electronics and Information

Technology (LETI) after more than 17 years in the semiconductor industry.

Located in Grenoble LETI is a one of the main European applied research

centres in electronics and nanotechnologies. Prior to his current position, Mr.

Charrat spent eight years in ATMEL, the last three years as the director of the

Biometrics Business Unit where he was managing the marketing and product

development team. Before that he held various management positions within

operations at Philips Semiconductors (now NXP).

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Peter Vesterbacka, Mobile Monday

Bruno Charrat, CEA

John Reid is President and CEO of the Canadian Advanced Technology

Alliance (CATA).

John Reid, CATA (moderator)

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John Crumbliss joined Cornerstone in 2004. Since then, he has represented

an expansive client portfolio that includes many prominent hospitals and

universities. As the lead of a diverse range of projects, he has devised

and implemented strategies that have resulted in federal support for the

organizations represented, including signifi cant funding for research programs

and facility expansion.

Prior to joining Cornerstone, as a key member of one of Washington’s largest

public affairs fi rms, Mr. Crumbliss developed and implemented creative and

effective solutions for over 20 clients, in fi elds such as telecommunications,

defense, education and health in addition to his work at one of Washington’s

largest government relations fi rms and the largest membership organization

for charitable foundations.

Michael J. Gelb, is the world’s leading authority on the application of genius

thinking to personal and organizational development. He is a pioneer in the

fi elds of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership.

He brings more than 30 years of experience as a professional speaker,

seminar leader and organizational consultant to his diverse, international

clientele.

A passionate student of the Renaissance and the nature of genius, Mr. Gelb

ignited the current fascination with all things Da Vinci with his How to Think

Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day.

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Kevin Winter is the Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at SRA International.

Kevin has worked in the information technology industry for 18 years

including 9 years in cyber security. His experience ranges from leadership

positions with high tech startups in Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia,

to operational cyber security positions in the United States Military, and

consulting roles helping guide United States cyber operations and policy.

Mr. Winter has also served as a Communications Offi cer in the United

States Marine Corps.

Brian Fry is a driving force behind the development of Canada’s fi rst truly

“green” datacenter, RackForce’s GigaCenter™ in Kelowna, BC. This

facility, engineered with input from IBM’s Big Green team and powered

by a hydro-electricity, delivers large-scale, technologically-advanced

infrastructure for disaster recovery, colocation, and cloud/virtualization

computing demands, and it sets the standard for green datacenters.

Mr. Fry became a partner in PowerLink Internet Services, which quickly

grew into one of the largest ISPs in British Columbia, and was sold to

Internet Direct in 1999. A short time later, Mr. Fry co-founded IPWorld

Networks with Tim Dufour. This established a successful partnership, and

in 2001, they co-founded RackForce.

Brian Fry, RackForceKevin Winter, SRA International

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The Centre de Recherche en Électronique Radiofréquence

(CREER) provides a unique platform for putting together

all professors/researchers of Quebec in the field of applied

electromagnetics and RF technologies (300 MHz-300 GHz).

CREER has five principal research axes: 1) radio-communication,

2) teledetection 3) innovative materials, 4) antennas and

propagation, and 5) new RF Components. The main objectives

for the CREER are: - Foster interactions and collaborations

between researchers in RF technologies, stimulate technological

innovations; - Sharing and optimizing RF research infrastructures;

- Attracting and educating young researchers in our fields of

interest; - Enhancing the visibility of our researchers in the world.

Christophe Caloz, CREER, École Polytechnique

Réal Vallée, COPL, Laval University

The Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL)

groups together professors and researchers from five

Quebec universities working in unison to develop the

enormous potential in optics-photonics for the world of

tomorrow.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the COPL

continues to follow its mission of training highly qualified

students and professionals, undertaking primary and

applied research and contributing to socioeconomic

development.

The international renown of its researchers, state of the art

facilities and comprehensive scientific program position

the COPL among the world’s leading optics-photonics

research and training centers.

Quebec’s university r&D clusters

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The Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec (ReSMiQ) is an interuniversity

research center bringing together 45 professors and more than 250 other

researchers. The ReSMiQ, being supported by eleven Quebec universities,

aims to be at the cutting edge in the fi eld of information technology to improve

the collective well-being. In order to accelerate discovery and innovation,

ReSMiQ promotes collaboration between its members, maintains cooperative

relations with many researchers at national and international levels, and

counts on the support of many industrial partners. Through his several

achievements dedicated to biomedical, telecommunications and optics

applications, ReSMiQ has become one of main center of microelectronics and

Microsystems in the world.

Quebec’s universityr&D clusters

Mohamad Sawan, ReSMiQ, École Polytechnique

The Centre for Advanced Systems and Communications

(SYTACom) was founded in 2004 by virtue of a ‘Regroupement

stratégique’ award from Quebec’s Fonds québécois de la

recherche sur la nature et les technologies. The ‘Regroupement

stratégique’ program aims to create or strengthen poles of

research excellence in the province (http://www.fqrnt.gouv.qc.ca)

As of December 2004, the Centre has been formally recognized

by McGill University as a University Research Centre.

The mission of the Centre is to increase collaborative

communications systems research in Quebec via advanced

research and training of highly qualifi ed personnel. To mobilize

distributed expertise and promote a ‘systems’ approach,

the Centre has formed inter-disciplinary teams of university

researchers in intelligent signal processing, networking, wired

and wireless transmission technologies, optical networks, and

communications software engineering.

David Plant, SYTACOM, McGill University

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