Speakers

Global Environmental Challenges: Canada’s Role Following the Bali Conference

Given the threat of greenhouse warming, we, in the major countries of the world, need to adopt public policies and lifestyles that will lead to low carbon economies. This means accelerating the development of innovative technologies, cooperating with large emerging nations and forging a new approach to diplomacy.

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Of Counsel to the Offices of Heenan Blaikie in Montréal. Chair of the public Inquiry concerning the collapse of the de la Concorde overpass in Laval (2006-2007), he is mostly involved in international negotiations and mediations relating to trade and environment and participates in international partnerships. Senior Advisor to the Minister of Environment of Canada at the Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007,  Senior Advisor to the government of Québec in the softwood lumber negotiation with the United States since 2001. He has chaired and steered numerous committees of the United Nations and the North American Commission on environmental cooperation.

Author of books and essays on globalization and its workings, he is a director of Ace Aviation Holdings and Air Canada, and of l’Institut Veolia sur l’Environnement of Paris. Member of the Royal Society of Canada and Grand Officier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade.

Mr. Carlos Bedran

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alyotech (France)

Ms. Annie Belisle

Director – Human Resources, Groupe DMR Québec (Québec, Canada)

Ms. Joanna Berzowska

Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts, Université Concordia (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Stéphane Boisvert

President – Enterprise, Bell Canada (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Pierre Bonin

President and Chief Executive Officer, Symetrix (Canada)

Ms. Lyne Bouchard

President, StrategiL (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Louis Carbonneau

General Manager , IP Licensing, Intellectual Property & Licensing Group, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation (Wash., USA)

Mr. Daniel Caya

Senior Research Scientist, Ouranos Consortium (Québec, Canada)

Ms. Johanne Côté-Galarneau

Director, Intercultural Relations Services, Québec Immigration (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Jacques Daoust

President and Chief Executive Officer, Investissement Québec (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Michael S. Dell

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Dell (Texas, USA)

Dr. Pierre Dumouchel

Vice President – Science, CRIM and Professor, Department of Software Engineering, École de technologie supérieure (Québec, Canada)

Dr. Gilles Duruflé

Independent consultant (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Greg Garcia

Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Communications, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (USA)

Mr. Pierre Gauthier

President and Chief Executive Officer, Société Pierre Boucher (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Chuck Hamilton

Manager Learning Technology, Canada’s Innovation Centre in Vancouver, IBM (British Columbia, Canada)

Mr. Pierre Marc Johnson

Former Premier of Québec, attorney and physician, (Québec, Canada)

Dr. Michel Kabay, CISSP-ISSMP

Director of the Graduate Program in Information Assurance, Norwich University (Vermont, USA)

Ms. Leslie K. Lambert

Chief Information Security Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (California, USA)

Ms. Gisèle LaRue

Vice President, Training Centre, CRIM (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Christian Martin, Eng., M. Eng.

Vice-President, CRIM Québec and ISIQ, CRIM (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Keith Parsonage MBA, P. Eng.

Director General, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), Industry Canada (Ontario, Canada)

Ms. Julie Payette

Astronaut, CSA (Texas, USA)

Mr. Jean Provencher

Manager Responsible for Sustainable Development, DMR – Québec Region (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Serge Ravet

CEO, EIfEL (European Institute for E-Learning) (France)

Mr. Martin Roy, Eng., LEED AP

Founding President, Martin Roy and Associates (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Peter Shannon

Principal, Technology, Atlas Venture (Mass., États-Unis)

Mr. Craig Sherman

CEO, Gaia Online (California, USA)

Mr. Mark Skapinker

Managing Partner, Brightspark (Ontario, Canada)

Dr. Benoit St-Onge

Professor, Geography Department of Université du Québec à Montréal (Québec, Canada)

Dr. David Suzuki

CEO, The David Suzuki Foundation (B.C., Canada)

Mr. Thierry Vandal

CEO, Hydro-Québec (Québec, Canada)

Dr. Sophie V. Vandebroek

Xerox Chief Technology Officer and President, Xerox Innovation Group (Rochester, N.Y., USA)

Mr. René Vézina

Columnist/Journalist, Les Affaires (Québec, Canada)

Mr. Jacques Woods

President, Woods Stategies Inc. (Québec, Canada)