The 21st Annual Research Money Conference

Date:	May 3-5, 2022
Location:	Virtual

Event Summary

Canada's Prosperity Conundrum

Post-pandemic recovery is top of mind among leaders and citizens across the globe. For Canada, this preoccupation has a particular significance. Embedded in the discourse of policymakers, business leaders, academic thought leaders, researchers, and civil society is the promise of overcoming a persistent challenge: Canada’s subpar productivity and competitiveness in today’s global knowledge economy.

For decades Canadians have been wrestling with an uncomfortable question. Can we maintain the same level of prosperity that grew out of our natural resource endowments in today’s highly competitive, global economy in which knowledge drives wealth creation and improved quality of life?

Partners

Speakers

AJ Tibando

Executive Director and cofounder of Palette Skills Inc

Alejandro Adem

President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Angela Kaida

Associate professor and epidemiologist in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University

Avvey Peters

Chief Strategy Officer at Communitech

Catherine Stewart

Assistant Deputy Minister for International Affairs at Environment and Climate Change Canada

Cathy Priestner Allinger

CEO of Allinger Consulting International

Chris Albinson

President & CEO of Communitech, & Co-Founder & Managing Director of BreakawayGrowth Fund

Claudia Krywiak

President and CEO, OCI

Dave Watters

Founder & CEO, Global Advantage Consulting Group Inc

David Lisk

Vice-President of the National Research Council of Canada

Duncan Stewart

Partner, Deep Tech Venture Fund, Business Development Bank of Canada

Elicia Maine

W.J VanDusan Professor of Innovation & entrepreneurship at the Beedie School of Business

Hessie Jones

Strategist, Writer, and Venture Partner

Giles Gherson

Executive Vice President & Chair of the Economic Blueprint Institute

Erin Stephenson

Chief Operating Officer/Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder of DOZR

Emmanuel Kamarianakis

Director General, Investment, Innovation and Education at Global Affairs Canada

JP Haynes

President and COO of eSentire

John Hepburn

Chief Executive Officer, Mitacs

Jeff Crelinsten

Publisher & CEO of Research Money

Iain Stewart

President of the National Research Council of Canada

Kimberlyn McGrail

Professor at University of British Columbia

Kevin Tuer

Vice President, Data & Advanced Technologies Communitech Corp.

Kelly Nolan

Founder of TalentStrategy.org

Karimah Es Sabar

Founding CEO & General Partner of Quark Venture LP

Lorna Rivera

User Researcher at Twilio, Inc

Lindsay Borthwick

Senior correspondent at Research Money

Laura Kilcrease

Chief Executive Officer, Alberta Innovates

Kyra Jones

Head of Talent & Academy Communitech

Mark Lowey

Senior Correspondent for Research Money

Maynard Harry

Founder, Indigenous Insight

Mel Cappe

Board Member at Canadian Institute for Climate Choices

Mollie Johnson

Assistant Deputy Minister of Energy Systems Sector (ESS) at Natural Resource Canada

Nicole Janssen

Co‐founder and Co‐CEO of AltaML

Rachelle Bruton

Director, National Programs Office at National Research Council Canada

Pavan Dhillon

Founder and Principal Attorney of Dhillon Immigration Law

Rob Annan

President and CEO of Genome Canada

Roxana Sultan

Chief Data Officer and Vice President, Health

Shastri Ramnath

President and CEO of Exiro Minerals Corp

Steven Holdcroft

Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Electrochemical Materials

Valerie Nicholson

HIV Elder, steering Committee, Haida/Mi'kmaq

Agenda

Tuesday, May 3rd

Wednesday, May 4th

Thursday, May 5th

Date:	May 3-5, 2022
Location:	Virtual