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Kurt Akeley is CTO at Lytro, where he applies his knowledge in computer science and optics to advance light-field rendering technology. A pioneer in the field of computer graphics and a founding member and former SVP and CTO of Silicon Graphics (SGI), Kurt has helped develop innovative products like SGI’s RealityEngine and the OpenGL graphics system. Prior to Lytro, he served as Principal Researcher and GM at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley and in Asia. In 2005, Kurt was awarded membership in the National Academy of Engineering. SIGGRAPH honored him with the Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 1995, and he’s also been inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. |
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Clare Appavoo has been the Executive Director of CRKN since December 2012. In that time she has worked with the Board and staff to develop and launch a 3 year strategic plan with a renewed focus on engagement with both members and stakeholders, and a new focus on collaboration through the Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) project launched in January 2014. Clare brought 20 years of management and customer service experience to CRKN with a focus on academic libraries, scholarly publishing, and digital content developments. As Director, Sales and Strategic Support for Ingram, Coutts Information Services, Clare refined her negotiating skills and worked closely with university libraries across North America to provide collection and acquisition services for monographic content. |
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John Craig is the Vice-President of Sales and Marketing of Purple Forge. He is a recognized market expert in the application of mobile technologies for collaboration and communication, and recently awarded the Forty Under 40 Award by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Craig has over 19 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and is a member of the America Association of Political Consultants. |
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Wendy Craig is the Scientific Co-Director of PREVNet, and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University. She is an international leader in research on bullying, with a research program that focuses on three areas. The first examines healthy relationships among children, adolescents, and adults. The second addresses the risk and protective factors associated with bullying and victimization in family, peer, individual, school, and social relationships. The third research program addresses the development of aggression in females as demonstrated in romantic relationships, dating violence and young girls with behaviour problems. As a Canadian representative, Wendy Craig works with the World Health Organization and UNICEF conducting research and promoting healthy relationships. She has published widely on topics of bullying and victimization, peer processes, sexual harassment and aggression in girls, and has co-authored two books on Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development. |
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Darcy Fehlings is a senior clinician-scientist who heads Holland Bloorview’s child development program and University of Toronto’s division of developmental pediatrics, the program that trains doctors who specialize in working with children with disabilities. Darcy innovates and evaluates neurorehabilitation treatments for children and youth with cerebral palsy. Her research areas include clinical effectiveness, health services outcomes and evaluation, children's health and health-related quality of life, childhood disability and systematic reviews. |
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Chad Gaffield, one of Canada’s foremost historians, has been president of SSHRC since 2006. For over 20 years, he has had a distinguished academic career at the University of Ottawa, where he taught in the Department of History, held a University Research Chair for history and public policy debate, and was founding director of the Institute of Canadian Studies from 1997 to 2003. Throughout his career, Chad has received several honours, such as the Prix de la francophonie, the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal and the Antonio Zampolli Prize from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations. In 2007, the Canadian Association of University Teachers presented him with its Distinguished Academic Award in recognition of excellence in teaching, research and service to the community. Chad was also presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2003) and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). |
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Ted Hewitt is the Executive Vice-President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Ted has served as public policy scholar at the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and as professor of sociology at Western University. A leading Canadian authority on Brazil, his work has appeared in monographs, edited works and a range of academic journals, including Cities, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Developing Areas, Third World Quarterly, and Habitat International. In 2002, he was named commander of the Order of Rio Branco by Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Relations. Ted's recent research has focused on national and international innovation systems, with emphasis on the roles played by universities, industry and government in promoting economic prosperity in the 21st-century economy. |
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Kendall Ho is a practicing emergency medicine specialist and the founding Director of the eHealth Strategy Office. Kendall is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Professional Development Committee and a collaborator with the World Health Organization eHealth Observatory. Kendall's academic and research interests fall into the domain of technology enabled knowledge translation (TEKT) – the use of information technologies to accelerate the incorporation of latest health evidence into routine practice. |
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Gilad Lotan is the Chief Data Scientist at betaworks, a technology company that operates as a studio, building new products, growing companies and seed investing. Previously, Gilad ran the data team at SocialFlow and built visualizations at Microsoft's FUSE Labs. His past work includes ‘Retweet Revolution’, visualizing the flow of information during the 2009 #IranElection riots, and a study investigating the relationship between mainstream media and social media channels during the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. Gilad is an advisor for media entities and startups. His work has been covered by the New York Times, the Guardian, Fast Company and the Atlantic Wire and published across a wide range of academic journals. |
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Faye Mishna is a professor of Social Work at the University of Toronto and holds the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child and Family. Prior to joining the Faculty of Social Work she was Clinical Director of a children’s mental health centre serving children with learning disabilities. Faye's research has focused on bullying from the perspectives of the victimized children, their parents and educators and more recently on cyber bullying. In addition, her research includes school-based interventions for students with learning disabilities in which others attitudes towards children with learning disabilities are targeted. |
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Geoffrey Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and worked at the University of Toronto as a Senior Instructional Technology Specialist. From 1994 to 2008 Geoffrey was at McMaster University where he was the Director of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre (1994 - 2004) and he led the development of an undergraduate Multimedia program funded through the Ontario Access To Opportunities Program.
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