| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:00AM - 6:30PM | External Event, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue-Asia Pacific Hall 580 W Hastings Street Vancouver, BC |
A G E N D A – DAY 2
Thursday, April 26, 2017
08:30 – 09:00 Coffee – Atrium
09:00 – 09:05 Welcome
09:05 – 10:20 Session 1 – Does Canada Have a Role in East Asian GPNs?
Joe Wong /w Doug Fuller, George Poulakidas, “Canadian ICT Firms in East Asia”
Dan Breznitz, “Alfred Marshall, Alive and Well? The evolution of innovative integrated industrial districts in a global economy”
Deanna Horton /w Chadwick Meyers “Answering the Siren’s Call: Canadian micro-multinational tech companies in the USA and Asia”
Catherine Beaudry /w Georges Hage and Pierre Therrien, “The Local Context of Advanced and Digital Technology, and the Impact of its use on Firm Performance”
10:20 – 10:40 Refreshment Break – Atrium
10:40 – 11:55 Session 2 – The Evolving Local Context for Digital Firms (15” each/15” questions)
Shiri Breznitz /w Doug Noonan, “Does Crowdfunding Flatten Regional Advantages?”
Darius Ornston, “When Flagships Fail: Comparing Finland and Waterloo.”
Steven Denney /w David Wolfe, “Birth of a Startup Ecosystem: The gradual transformation of Toronto’s ICT cluster”
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, /w Hamed Motaghi “The Transformation of the Taxi Industry: The case of Teo Taxi, Montreal-based taxi service”
11:55 – 13:00 Group Lunch – Concourse
13:00 – 14:00 Session 3 – Digital Mining and Oil and Gas (15” each/15” questions)
Ray Gosine, “Digitalizing Extractive Industries: The state-of-the art to the art-of-the-possible”
Peter Warrian, “Digitization of Ore Bodies and the Inversion of Industry 4.0”
Peter Phillips /w Brian Wixted, “Ripples On The Pond: Beyond the mere roboticisation of ag and mining”
14:00 – 15:15 Session 4 – Can Canadian Cities be Smart and Inclusive? (15” each/15” questions)
Shauna Brail, “The Urban Economic Geography of Ridehailing: Global Prospects? Canadian Prospects?”
Allison Bramwell, “Expanding Digital Opportunity? Inclusive innovation in the ‘ordinary’ city”
Betsy Donald, “Sharing Economies: Moving beyond binaries in a digital age”
Nicole Goodman /w Zac Spicer, “The Administrative Gap in Smart City Design”
15:15 – 15:45 Refreshment Break – Atrium
15:45 – 18:00 Session 5 – Student Research Presentations (15” each max)
15:45 Anthony Frigon – University of California Los Angeles – “Client Interactions and the Use of Information and Communication Technologies as Drivers of Innovation in Knowledge-Intensive Business services”
16:00 Graeme Jobe – University of Saskatchewan – “Governing Off-Farm Disruption: Does endowment affect data valuation?”
16:15 Discussant – Catherine Beaudry, Polytechnique Montréal
16:30 Stéphane Dauphin-Pierre – Polytechnique Montréal – “A look at the impact of the research intermediary operating in the ICT industry of the province of Quebec”
16:45 Susan Flavelle – Ryerson University – “DUI (Doing-Using-Interacting) Innovation and Actionable Knowledge: Exploring the competencies that individuals use and develop when they learn to use 3D printing digital fabrication technologies”
17:00 Jon Woodside – University of Waterloo – “Planning for Inclusive Platforms: Lessons from Uber workers”
17:15 Discussant – Shauna Brail, University of Toronto
CDO Partnership Annual Group Dinner – Time: 19:00
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