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The Program at a Glance

The full program from Monday the 27th of September until the 1st of October.

Meals:

• Breakfasts, Lunches and Breaks included daily
• Dinners on Tuesday and Thursday included
• Scotch Tasting Reception on Monday
• Wine Tasting Reception on Wednesday

Monday, September 27

1pm - Local Cluster Facilities Tours - Included with all conference packages

A. Eastern Cluster Facilities Tour (Tour Leader Arvind Chhatbar, NRC)

• National Research Council - Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre
• Carleton University - Integrated Circuit Fabrication Facility for Semiconductors Centre

B. Western Cluster Facilities Tour (Tour Leader Jeffrey Dale, OCRI)

• Ottawa Biotechnology Incubation Centre - Life Sciences/Biotechnology
• Ottawa Centre for Research & Innovation (OCRI) - Broadband

6pm - Presentation on Scottish Single Malt Whiskey Cluster by Scottish Representatives and Sample Tasting

International Photonics Forum 2004 - Optional Event
For an opportunity to attend a one-day session of the Photonics North conference, which is also occurring in Ottawa this week, please register at:
http://spie.org/Conferences/Programs/04/pn/specialevents/

Tuesday, September 28

9am - Academic Summit: Academic Research and Contributions to Innovation and Clusters

Co-Chairs: Prof. Antoni Subirà (Professor - IESE, Chairman of TCI Board of Advisors) and Dr. Jerome Doutriaux, Vice-Dean, University of Ottawa School of Management)

Breakout Sessions:

• The Role of Industry and Place in Clustering: An Australian Study (Dr. Pamela McRae-Williams, University of Ballarat, Australia)
• Synergies Between Educational Clusters and ICT Clusters (Dr. Trish Brimblecombe, Whitieira Polytechnic, NZ)
• Attitudes, Culture and Cluster Development (Tyler Chamberlin, School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Path Dependence and Discontinuities in Cluster Development (Dr. David Wolfe, University of Toronto, Canada)
• Using Foresight Analysis to Avoid Static Clusters (Dr. Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha, CEO, BIPE, Paris, France
• Current cluster development research in Quebec, Canada (Dr. Réjean Landry, Laval University, Quebec, Canada)
• Cluster Models in Santa Catarina State, Brazil (Dr. Joao Zaleski, University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
• How Benchmarking Can Lever Cluster Competitiveness (Dr. Philip Cooke, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK)
• International Best Practices For Creating and Growing Clusters, For National Research Council of Canada (Dr. André Potworowski, Associate Director of R&D, Centre For Research in Biopharmaceuticals and Adjunct Professor, School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada and Jac van Beek, Director, Planning and Performance Management, National Research Council of Canada)
• Leadership and Clusters: The Applicability of Existing Leadership Theories to the Concept of Clusters (Anja Cotic-Svetina, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• The Role of Universities in the Development of Knowledge, Metropolitan Areas in Canada (Jérôme Doutriaux, University of Ottawa, Canada
• How Innovative is Switzerland? (Patrick Dümmler, Institute for Territorial Development and Landscape Chair of Territorial Development, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland)

1:30pm - Introductory Clusters Training Seminar: Cluster-based regional economic development
Co-presenters: Alec Hansen, Emiliano Duch, Ifor Ffowcs-Williams

• Clusters and Regional Economic Development
• Cluster Facilitators
• Cluster Growth Strategies
• Canadian Perspective

6pm - Photonics North Poster Reception, Ottawa Congress Centre
Optional Event, Additional Charge Applies
Attend this session of the Photonics North conference for a chance to see a successful cluster in action, and meet key players from the Photonics industry!

7pm - Welcoming Dinner Reception, Ottawa Congress Centre
Dress - Business Attire

Wednesday, September 29

7:30am - Conference Opening Breakfast and Welcoming Address
Joint Presentation by the Co-Chairs of The Ottawa Partnership (TOP):
- His Worship, Robert Chiarelli, Mayor of Ottawa: The Ottawa Model, Collaboration as a Way of Life
- Christopher Henderson, TOP Private Sector Co-Chair: What's Next in Public-Private Sector Collaboration
- Alec Hansen
Building Innovative Clusters For Competitive Advantage

8:45am Summary of Gothenburg Conference/White Book
Per Eriksson, VINNOVA and Thomas Andersson, IKED
Learning From International Experience

Concurrent Breakout Sessions White Book
Group Discussions on various aspects of the White Book

Keynote Address
Dr. Christian Ketels, Principal Associate, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School, Director, The Cluster and Competitiveness Foundation
What Clusters Should We Pick? Getting the Right Answers to the Wrong Question

Networking Luncheon

Panel: Summary of Academic Summit and Whitebook Highlights
Dr. Antoni Subirà
Dr. Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha

Concurrent Breakout Sessions A - Presentations followed by Group Discussions

Cross-Pollination Session (Roundtables for Session Reports)
Facilitator: Dr. Alec Hansen

6:30pm - Wine Tasting Reception
Wine Council of Ontario

Dine Around Town

Thursday, September 30

8:30am - Morning Keynote Address

Concurrent Breakout Sessions B - Presentations followed by Group Discussions

Keynote Address at Luncheon
Dr. Arthur Carty, National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
Science and Technological Innovation: The Future of Cluster-Based Economic Growth in Canada

Concurrent Breakout Sessions C - Presentations followed by Group Discussions

7pm - Gala Dinner
Dress - Formal (suit and tie recommended for men)

Friday, October 1

7:30am General Assembly of The Competitiveness Institute

8:30am - Keynote Address
Roger Martin, Dean - Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto, President - The Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity
Sustaining Competitiveness in the Global Economy: Achieving Competitiveness Through Strategy, Innovation, Clusters

International Expert Panel
Dr. Stuart Rosenfeld, Chairperson
Panel:

• Emiliano Duch (Spain)
• Dr. Michael Enright (Hong Kong, China)
• Ifor Ffowcs-Williams (New Zealand)
• Dr. Christian Ketels (Sweden, Harvard University)
• Dr. Michael Raymont (Canada)
• Dr. Sylvia Schwaag Serger (Sweden)
• Dr. David Wolfe(Canada)

Review of Conference Highlights
Dr. Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha

Announcement of 2005 TCI Conference Venue

12:30pm - Conference Closing, Dr. Alec Hansen, President, TCI