8:30        Welcome- Judith Chadwick, Director, GRIP and Connaught Programs, Office of VP Research, University of Toronto and,
                John Evans, MaRS Board Chair

8:45        FP7 Overview, Janet Panford, Director, ERA-Can

9:00        ICT and its 7 Challenges, Corinna Flöck, Ecole Centrale Paris

9:15        Canada-EU Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) National Contact Point (NCP)
                Eric Tsang, Business Development Director, Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC)

9:30        Directorate General Information Society & Media—Q & A’s

               -    Tom Mckinlay, Planning & Programming Officer, ICT Operations Unit

               -    Eric Badiqué, Research Programme Officer, Strategy for ICT Research & Development      
 

10:30       ERA-Can (European Research Area-Canada) Overview, Janet Panford, Director, ERA-Can
    
10:45        Canadian Funding Organizations

                 -    Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) John MacRitchie, Business Development Manager

                 -    NRC/IRAP, Doug Colley, Industry Technology Advisor

                 -    NSERC, Sandra O’Connor, Program Officer, Life Sciences & Special Research Opportunities Division

                 -    Going Global, Jim Burt, Trade Commissioner, DFAIT

                 -    Ontario Ministry, Director, Research Branch, Ministry of Research & Innovation, Allison Barr

11:35        Q&A’s

13:00        EU’s COST (Cooperation in Science & Technology) Program
                  Dr. Afonso Ferreira, COST ICT Scientific Officer

13:30        CANARIE (Canada’s Advanced Internet Development Organization) and How it’s Infrastructure Works in Europe
                  Bill St. Arnaud, Sr. Director, Advanced Networks

13:50        IST-EC2 (Information Societies Technologies – Europe-Canada) Overview
                  Mounib Mekhilef, IST-EC 2 Project Coordinator

14:10        Ideal-ist, The Worldwide ICT Support Network
                  Concettina Larosa, Italian Ideal-ist Representative and Technical Officer


14:30        Q&A’s and Wrap-Up