Jim Cranston, CIO, SFU

Jim Cranston is an Engineer, MBA who joined SFU in September, 2001, into the newly created position of Chief Information Officer. At SFU the CIO has responsibility for the backbone network and telephone system, administrative systems (PeopleSoft ERP and numerous Departmental systems), institutional services (computer account management, e-mail, web/file space for students/faculty/staff, student computing labs), HPC research support, microcomputer store, desktop support for major administrative units, IT/Network security and establishing computing policies, standards across the University.

Prior to joining SFU Jim was a management consultant for over 26 years whose practice encompassed a wide range of information technology, organizational improvement, strategic/business planning and other assignments for a variety of private and public sector clients in transportation, utilities, oil and gas, government and forest products. During this time he worked throughout North America, South America and South East Asia.

Mark Roman, Chief Information Officer, Uvic

Mark Roman is the Chief Information Officer of the University of Victoria. He has a B.Math (computer science) from the University of Waterloo, and an M.B.A. from Queen’s University. He is also a certified P.M.P. (Project Management Professional). Before coming to UVic Mark was the Executive Director of Enterprise Systems at Carleton University. Prior to Carleton, he worked at the VP and director levels in banking and insurance information systems. Some of his key accomplishments include creating the information systems for a newly created U.S. bank, outsourcing all operations for large life insurance company, merging the I.T. divisions of two Canadian financial institutions, developing and implementing a national information systems strategic transformation, leading the turnaround of multi-million dollar failed technology initiatives, and working with an international dot.com to commercialize their technology.

Brian Mackay, Associate Vice President, IT Services and CIO for Thompson Rivers University

Brian Mackay is Associate Vice President, IT Services and CIO for Thompson Rivers University, BC’s newest university based in Kamloops, BC with over 25,000 students enrolled in both face-to-face and distance programs.

Brian is currently implementing an IT strategy that supports TRU’s multi-campus and open learning (distance) mandates. IT projects underway include connecting TRU to BCNET, an enterprise administrative systems renewal project, implementing business intelligence tools in all areas at TRU, VoIP and Video over IP, campus wireless bubble expansion, identity management, on-campus residence network services, synchronous and asynchronous learning technologies, disaster recovery, and by January 2007, amalgamating all IT infrastructure in Burnaby and Kamloops in a new facility currently under construction in Kamloops.

Brian has nearly 20 years experience leading IT teams. Before joining TRU, Brian was the CIO at the Open Learning Agency (OLA). Before joining OLA Brian ran global IT for Vancouver-based Teekay Shipping Ltd, the world’s largest oil shipping company and one of BC’s largest public companies. Brian has diplomas in Operations Management and Computer Systems Technology from BCIT as well as an Advanced Diploma in Management and an MBA from Athabasca University.

Ted Dodds, CIO and Associate Vice President, Information Technology, UBC

Ted is the CIO and Associate Vice President, Information Technology, at the University of BC, a position he has held since 1997. Prior to that, he held IT management positions at two Ontario universities, and in the private sector, spanning a period of over twenty years.

His responsibilities include institutional IT strategy and services within a highly decentralized campus environment. In that capacity, he is spearheading UBC’s e-Strategy, a framework that seeks to align UBC’s information technology initiatives with the University’s strategic goals (www.e-Strategy.ubc.ca). He sponsored the University Networking Program (UNP), a $30 million capital project to install or upgrade 20,000 high-speed connections and establish a campus-wide wireless data network. He chairs the founding board of the Kuali Student program, a higher-education community source initiative to build a next-generation student system.

Ted is a Board member and past chair of:

**BCNET: British Columbia’s first Internetworking society focusing on the development of advanced networks to further health, education and research initiatives in the province.
**CANARIE: Canada's advanced Internet development organization. CANARIE's mission is to accelerate Canada's advanced Internet development and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of faster, more efficient networks and by enabling the next generation of advanced products, applications and services to run on them

He has an MBA (Windsor, 1996) and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Psychology (Guelph 1987).

Chris Golding, Vice President, Learning and Technology Services, BCIT

Chris Golding, BCIT’s Vice President, Learning and Technology Services has worked in the field of education for over 25 years. After graduating from McGill's Faculty of Education, Chris taught in the inner-city schools of Montreal. He obtained his post-graduate degree in Educational Technology at Concordia University and shortly thereafter joined an international computer software firm, assuming managerial responsibility for the company's training operations in the United States and Canada. Upon moving to Canada's west coast he was employed by the Open Learning Agency as a Workplace Training Consultant, specializing in instructional design and technology delivery systems. In 1995 he accepted a position with the British Columbia Ferry Corporation as their Manager of Instructional Design and eventually held the position of Acting Director, Training and Development.

During his seven years at BCIT Chris has held the positions of Director and then Dean of the Learning and Teaching Centre, overseeing three main mandates: curriculum development, instructor professional development and the support of e-learning services. In his current position of VP Learning and Technology Services the Institute has asked Chris to leverage a closer relationship between BCIT’s Information Technology and Academic support systems.

Chris is a founding member and past-president of the Vancouver Chapter; International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) and is a graduate of the Chair Academy Leadership program.

Michael Hrybyk , President & CEO, BCNET

Michael Hrybyk is BCNET's President and CEO. He actively oversees and manages the operations of the society and is responsible for implementing the overall mission and vision of BCNET. He has managed BCNET since 1994. He pioneered the concept of transit exchanges as a method of linking research and education networks to their local communities as well as to national and international peers.

Mr. Hrybyk has been an active member of the technology community in the U.S. and Canada and has been recognized for his efforts in helping to develop the Canadian Internet. In 2003, he received a BC Information Technology Builder Award, and in 2002 was recognized by the University Presidents’ Council for his work creating advanced networks for BC's universities. In 1997, he was named as a builder of Canada's information society by CANARIE and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

Steve Gibson, Associate Professor, Digital Media Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria

Steve Gibson is a Canadian media artist, composer, curator and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo, where he studied music composition with Louis Andriessen. He also completed postdoctoral research in media and technology with Arthur Kroker at Concordia University in Montréal. He was formerly Senior Lecturer and Director of the Multimedia Program at Karlstad University in Sweden, and now serves as Associate Professor of Digital Media at University of Victoria, Canada. He also has been curator for the Media Art event Interactive Futures at the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival since 2002. Simultaneously deeply involved with technology and deeply suspicious of its effects, Gibson’s musical, multimedia and virtual reality work celebrates both the liberation and paranoia of techno-fetishism.

Influenced by a diverse body of art and popular movements his work fuses immersive art, electronica, gaming, montage and post-minimalism. He works in a range of media, from live electronic music to full-scale virtual reality installation. Gibson has presently been programming and developing new applications that allow performers and audience members to use their bodies to play visual environments in real-time, in synch with a musical performance. This experimental work reached practical realization in the pieces Telebody, Virtual DJ, CONTACT and When Ghosts Will Die which have been performed at major festivals throughout Europe and North America.

Steve Gibson’s installations and compositions have been performed in such venues as: Ars Electronica; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Banff Centre for the Arts; the European Media Arts Festival; ISEA; Interface3, Hamburg; Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg; the San Francisco Art Institute; 4 and 6CyberConf. His work has been published internationally by St. Martin’s Press, MIT Press, New World Perspectives, Turnaround Productions, Future Publications, Urra Apogeo, and Passagen Verlag.

Andrew Bjerring, President & CEO, CANARIE

Andrew Bjerring was a founding member of the Board of CANARIE Inc. and has been the President and CEO since October 1993. Over the past two decades, Bjerring has participated on numerous boards and councils dealing with networking and related applications. He currently chairs the advisory board for the Institute for Information Technology at NRC and is active on the boards of the Communications Research Centre and the C3.ca high performance computing initiative. He participates as a member of the Canadian e Business Initiative (CeBI.ca) and was a member of the National Broadband Task Force and chair of the economic benefits working group.

Prior to his appointment at CANARIE, Mr. Bjerring spent 18 years as a faculty member and then senior administrator in academic planning and information technology services at the University of Western Ontario. He obtained his BASc. and MASc. degrees from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, and his PhD from the University of Western Ontario.

Bruce P. Clayman, Vice-Chair (and Chair-designate) of the Board of Directors of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Bruce Clayman completed his doctorate in Condensed Matter Physics at Cornell in 1968, after earning a B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964. He joined Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver in 1968 and was promoted to full Professor in 1980. At SFU, he served as Dean of Graduate Studies (1985 – 2000) and Vice-President, Research (1993 – 2004). He has served as President of Discovery Parks, Inc., the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies, the Western Association of Graduate Studies, the Canadian Association of University Research Administrators, and SF Univentures, SFU’s for-profit commercialization arm.

Clayman served (Sept 2004 – Dec. 2006) as the first President and CEO of the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver. The Province of BC awarded a $40.5M grant to establish a professional Masters Digital Media program and the World Centre for Digital Media at the Campus, based primarily on a proposal submitted by Clayman and Lynda Brown, President of the industry association New Media BC.

Clayman is a founding member and is now Vice-Chair (and Chair-designate) of the Board of Directors of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and is a founding member and is now Chair of the federal Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics. He is a Director of Discovery Parks, Inc. and serves on the Vancouver Economic Development Commission and the steering committee of the Greater Vancouver Economic Council. He is a member and the former Director of the SFU Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology and served as a Director of the Association of University Research Parks (1998 – 2004) and a number of other organizations. He has assisted with the assessment of proposed new graduate programs for the B.C. Degree Quality Assessment Board and with the assessment of the New Opportunities Program for the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

Clayman has been recipient of over $1M in research grant and contract funding and is the author of over 100 refereed articles and conference proceedings on Condensed Matter Physics. He is author of two refereed publications and nine reports on the commercialization of university research and related topics.

Honourable Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education and Minister responsible for Research and Technology

Murray Coell was appointed Minister of Advanced Education and Minister responsible for Research and Technology on June 16, 2005. He previously served as Minister of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services. He was first elected in 1996 to represent the riding of Saanich North and the Islands and was re elected in 2001 and 2005.

Prior his election to the Legislative Assembly, Murray served on Saanich Municipal Council for 12 years, 6 of them as mayor. From 1989 to 1996, he also served as Chair for the Capital Regional District, the Saanich Police Board and the Capital Regional District Hospital Board, and as Deputy Chair for the Municipal Finance Authority. Murray has worked as both a social worker, specializing in alcohol and drug rehabilitation and services for those with mental disabilities, and a small business owner. He has served as a volunteer for 10 years on the board of Silver Threads Meals on Wheels and for five years on the board of the Queen Alexandra Hospital for Children.

He received his Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare from the University of Victoria. Murray is committed to the people of Saanich North and the Islands and, if re elected, will continue to serve as their voice in the Legislature.

Maria Lantin, Director of the Intersections Digital Studio, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design

Maria Lantin is the Director of the Intersections Digital Studio, a new research space at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. Prior to coming to Emily Carr, Dr. Lantin led the Visualization Lab within the Advanced Research Technology (ART) Labs at The Banff Centre.She was granted her PhD in Computing Science by Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1999. Alternating between academia and industry for a number of years, she has previously worked as a senior developer at Mainframe Entertainment, an assistant professor at the Technical University of British Columbia (now SFU), and the Director of Research at IDELIX Software Inc. In her role of Director of the Intersections Digital Studio, Maria is helping create an inspiring and welcoming environment for interdisciplinary research at the Emily Carr Insitute. She also continues her collaborative visualization practice in the domains of quantum information science, human conversation and virtual reality.

Peter van der Gracht, President & CEO, Ignition Point Technologies Corp.

A successful technology start-up veteran, Peter van der Gracht has over twenty years of experience leading companies through multiple financings, operational build-outs, acquisitions, mergers and buy-outs. He is currently President & CEO of Ignition Point Technologies Corp, a multi-divisional, broadband communications company focused on providing connectivity in the last-mile. In 1982, Peter co-founded Nexus, which became the world's second largest manufacturer of satellite and cable TV head-end equipment. When the company was sold to industry giant Scientific-Atlanta, he became vice-president and general manager of the Nexus division. He then moved to Scientific-Atlanta's Head-end Systems division, which accounted for more than 25 percent of company revenues in 1998. In 1999, Peter led Imedia Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based digital video start-up, to a successful $100M buy-out. Most recently, Peter negotiated the sale of Wavemakers Inc., a developer of processors and software algorithms which optimize voice quality and speech recognition in automotive environments to Harman International.

Throughout his career, Peter has identified, funded, designed and launched dozens of innovative technology products, and has been responsible for all aspects of corporate operations. Peter is a director of many public, private and not-for-profit organizations. Peter holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia and is the recipient of multiple awards for entrepreneurship.

Steve Smith, CTO, University of Alaska

Steve Smith is the Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO) for the University of Alaska. He has over thirty years experience in all aspects of information technology in higher education. His educational background includes an undergraduate degree with an emphasis in broadcasting and filmmaking from the University of Iowa and a graduate degree in telecommunications from the University of Hawaii.

His professional experience includes campus computing, library systems, public broadcasting, distance delivery, and extensive experience in network operations and design including satellite systems to remote areas and high speed Internet2 optical networks. In his role as CITO for the University of Alaska he has worked on policy, regulation, IT investment strategy, and public-private partnerships. He was a founder of the Fairbanks Community Network and is one of three U.S. representatives on the Information Communications Technology Network for the Arctic Council, comprised of the eight arctic nations. He is on the executive board of the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, past Chair of the Pacific Northwest Gigapop Advisory Council, a board member of ResearchChannel, and the executive liaison for the University of Alaska for Internet2. His latest major endeavor is leading the consolidation of the statewide IT departments with the University of Alaska Fairbanks IT departments.

Michelle Lamberson, Director, Office of Learning Technology, UBC

Dr. Michelle N. Lamberson is the Director of the Office of Learning Technology at UBC. This office provides campus-wide facilitation and coordination for learning technology and distance learning at UBC, and, in partnership with Faculties, is responsible for development and delivery of more than 120 distance education courses. She has 10 years experience with developing materials for use in online instruction, and eight years experience working with faculty on how to use learning technologies to support instruction. Michelle joined UBC from WebCT, where she worked for three years in a variety of roles related to training, event planning and best practice use of the system. Prior to that, she was the Faculty of Science EdTech Coordinator and geology lecturer at UBC. Michelle's discipline area is Geology, receiving her degrees from UBC (Ph.D., 1993), Penn State (M.S., 1987) and Boston University (B.A., 1981). She teaches an online course within the Earth and Ocean Sciences Department.

Michael Jemtrud, Associate Professor of Architecture, Carleton University

Michael Jemtrud is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Carleton University (Ottawa). He is the Founding Director of the Carleton Immersive Media Studio, which engages in content-based and applied research in 3-D and time-based new media, high-performance visualization, and participatory work strategies in the design process and production of architectural, urban and related cultural artifacts.

Jonn Martell, PMP, President, Martell Consulting

Jonn Martell is President of Martell Consulting specializing in large scale wireless and network deployments. He has 20 years experience in networking and IT and was the project manager for numerous multimillion dollar networking projects in wireless and VOIP. More recently, Jonn worked with municipalities on business
cases to support dark fibre and municipal wireless initiatives.

Jonn also teaches wireless, networking and security courses at the University of British Columbia. He is a certified wireless network expert (CWNE) and instructor (CWNT).

His firm specializes in IT Project Management and emerging technologies in voice and video over IP and wireless.
He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds numerous other technology certificates from Cisco, Microsoft and CompTIA. Jonn has presented at a number of industry and educational conferences including Interop, Net’99, ResNet, IEEE, UDI, Library Access and VoiceCon.

R.G. (Rob) Cruickshank, President, British Columbia Technology Industry Association

Rob is currently the President of the British Columbia Technology Industries Association (BCTIA), a not-for-profit, member-funded organization representing the broad technology industry across the province. BCTIA’s diverse membership encompasses companies in all sectors of technology ranging from BC’s most prominent technology companies to early-stage and small and medium sized enterprises. BCTIA is the largest and most influential technology association in the province and provides the leadership, connection and action needed to foster the continued growth and success of the technology industry in BC.

Prior to joining BCTIA Mr. Cruickshank had a long career and successful career with TELUS/BCTEL serving in many executive roles including over 4 years as the President of BCTEL Mobility. He left BCTEL in 1999 when the organization merged with TELUS and rejoined in 2001 and spent the next three years helping TELUS significantly improve its cost position and share price. Between 1999 and 2001 he served as President of Mobile Data Solutions Inc. (MDSI) an international software company specializing in workforce management and wireless data solutions. In 1992, he attended the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.

Mr. Cruickshank currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Corpus Christi and St Mark’s Colleges and is Vice-Chair of the Board of Director's of St George's School. He is also a member of the Board of the BC Nanotechnology Alliance and the Program Advisory Committee for the Bachelor of Technology in Technology Management Program at BCIT.

Mr. Cruickshank is married, has nine children, two grand children and is an active community advocate, supporting numerous charitable agencies and coaching athletics.

Dave Nikolejsin, Chief Information Officer, Province of British Columbia

Dave Nikolejsin was appointed as B.C.’s Chief Information Officer in July 2005. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for BCNET. From 2003 to 2005, Dave was Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Management Services, responsible for the Network BC (Digital Divide) Initiative. This initiative was created to respond to the New Era commitment to “connect every BC community to high-speed broadband.” It remains part of Dave’s new mandate.

Before that, Dave was Executive Director, Planning and Engineering for Common IT Services from 2001-2003 and Executive Director of Network Services from 1996-2001. He was the BC Systems Corporation’s Director of Network Services from 1994 to 1996, after holding various network management positions from 1989 to 1994. Dave earlier worked as a Network Analyst providing technical support of major services with SaskTel in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Dave graduated with Honours with a Diploma in Electronic Engineering from the Saskatchewan Technical Institute in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He also completed the Executive program in Public Sector Leadership at the Royal Roads University in 2001.

Dene Grigar, Director, Digital Technology and Culture Program, Washington State University

Dene Grigar is a media artist-scholar and Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver. She completed her PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1995 in the School of Arts and Humanities. In 2001 she participated in the NEH Summer Seminar led by N. Katherine Hayles on the topic of electronic literature. A year later she began a two-year post-doctoral study at the University of Plymouth, UK in new media and interactive art under the direction of Roy Ascott and Michael Punt. During that time she was invited to participate in trAce's TEXTLab "Writers for the Future" workshop, held at The University of Nottingham Trent. The work of net art produced at TEXTLab, "Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts," appeared in Iowa Review Web in 2004.

Other new media work includes "The Jungfrau Tapes: A Conversation with Diana Slattery about The Glide Project," which appeared in Iowa Review Web in 2004, and When Ghosts Will Die (with Canadian multimedia artist Steve Gibson), a piece that experiments with motion tracking technology to produce narrative. The video of the piece was named Finalist in the Drunken Boat Panliterary Award Competition and exhibited at Art Tech Media 06 in Spain. With Gibson she has also performed a networked version of his work, Virtual DJ.

She sits on the editorial board of Leonardo Digital Reviews, published by The MIT Press and is the International Editor for Computers and Composition. Her books include New Worlds, New Words: Exploring Pathways in and Around Electronic Environments (with John Barber) and Defiance and Decorum: Women, Public Rhetoric, and Activism (with Laura Gray and Katherine Robinson), the latter focuses on the art and programming projects of new media artists, Jill Scott and Margarete Jahrmann, and the transgressive activities of the Guerilla Girls.

Simon Albon, Senior Instructor, Biomolecular and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UBC

Simon Albon, University of British Columbia, is a Senior Instructor in the Division of Biomolecular and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He currently teaches pharmaceutical analysis and drug chemistry in the UBC pharmacy program and has research interests in scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning with a focus on learning-centered education in the basic pharmaceutical sciences. Simon is currently involved in an NSF funded project to develop the principles and practices of remote instrumentation and the Integrated Laboratory Network for implementation at UBC and the province of British Columbia. His most recent articles on the use of remote instrumentation include: A Learning-Centered Course in Pharmaceutical Analysis, [Am J Pharm. Ed. 2004:68(5):article 114] and Using Remote Access to Scientific Instrumentation to Create Authentic Learning Activities in Pharmaceutical Analysis. [Am J Pharm. Ed. 2006, 70(5):Article 121)].

Bruno Cinel, Assistant Professor – Chemistry, TRU

Dr. Bruno Cinel is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Thompson Rivers University. His current teaching involves first year general chemistry; second year organic chemistry; upper level organic chemistry and chemical biology including advanced organic synthesis, spectroscopy, special topics and directed studies. His research interests include natural products chemistry involving the isolation, structure elucidation, and chemical ecology of compounds from terrestrial and marine organisms. Most recently, he has become involved in the areas of remote operation of instrumentation and science education through the BC-Integrated Laboratory Network (BC-ILN.)

Cyprien Lomas, Director, Learning Centre, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC

Dr. Lomas is the Director of The Learning Centre in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia where he oversees the integration of ICT, Instructional Support, and Teaching and Learning for the faculty. The Centre’s ongoing initiatives include problem based learning, WebCT support, and distance education. New projects include implementing e-portfolios in core AgroEcology courses, incorporating emerging technologies into educational, administrative practices and several podcasting, digital storytelling and rich media projects.

As an Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Scholar in Residence, Dr. Lomas investigates the fit of emerging technologies and emerging practices into institutional strategies. Current projects include studying practices associated with 'social software' and student created content; the use of ‘tagging’ to assist in new ways of sorting through content contained in blogs and videoblogs; the use of visual media to communicate educational content; digital storytelling, podcasting and the incorporation of this media into e-portfolios; and formal, informal and virtual learning spaces. Ongoing activities include co-facilitating Educause sponsored Instructional Technology constituent group. Dr. Lomas recently coauthored a chapter in the Educause e-book on Learning Spaces and has assisted in the production of the NMC-ELI Horizon Report by serving on the Horizon Project advisory board since its inception. Dr. Lomas is also responsible for producing the ELI '7 things you should know..' series on emerging technologies.

Matt Wasowski, Director, Marketing, Horizon Wimba

Matt Wasowski has worked in a Marketing capacity at Horizon Wimba since June 2000. Most notably, he created and still produces and moderates the Horizon Wimba Desktop Lecture Series, the only weekly online presentation program which brings experts from education and technology to the desktops of thousands of educators worldwide. Matt has spoken at many conferences throughout the country and was a keynote presenter at the TCC 2003 annual online conference. Matt has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA from The New School University, and has written professionally in several capacities.

Maureen G. Hewlett, Disabilities Advisor, University of Northern British Columbia

Maureen has dedicated the past twelve years of her career to studying and working with postsecondary students and faculty on teaching and learning strategies as they relate to disability, diversity and equity. More recently, Maureen has focused her interests on universal instructional design and accessibility of electronic, digital and online educational materials using assistive technologies. Maureen is working on her Ph.D. in the area of cognition, learning and technology and in her role of Disabilities Advisor, she manages Disability Services at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Morgan Reid, Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, UBC

Morgan Reid is a media wrangler, MA student at UBC in the Faculty Of Education’s Centre For Cross-Faculty Inquiry, and a member of UBC's Instructional Support and Information Technology department in the Faculty of Arts.

Morgan's research interests include media in environmental education and research, policy impacts on research culture, rationales for information and communication technologies in education, and critical analyses relating to virtual environments in education. His theoretical interests are in the intersections of post-structuralist social theory, complexity theory, constructivist learning, and critical media studies.

Current and future research focuses on the educational applications of student-made media, communication and representation of social and ecological knowledge through media, the formation of communities through media production, and the effects of media experiences on ecological behaviour.

Devon A. Cancilla, Director of Scientific Technical Services, WWU

Devon A. Cancilla, is the Director of Scientific Technical Services and an associate professor of environmental science at Western Washington University where he teaches environmental chemistry. He has been the lead investigator in the development of the Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN), a project currently funded by the National Science Foundation to use remote instrumentation in the classroom and laboratory. The ILN project won a Most Effective Practice Award from the Sloan Consortium in 2004.

Dr Saif Zahir, Associate Professor, Computer Science, UNBC

Dr. Saif Zahir received his M.S. (1984), and PhD (1994) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania respectively. He is presently an associate professor with the computer science program at the University of Northern British Columbia. Dr. Zahir is involved in research in the areas of image processing, image retrieval and indexing, image compression, real-time video coders, real time MPEG-2 video compression, real time multimedia communications, Internet services and applications, graphics, wireless computer networks, and HCI. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal papers, conference papers, and book chapters. He served on Technical Program Committees for many International Conferences and chaired numerous technical sessions in International Conferences.

Frances Atkinson, Associate Director, Academic Computing Services, Simon Fraser University

Frances has over 25 years experience with the provision of IT services campus-wide (e-mail, web publishing, social technologies, portals, student computing labs) and underlying infrastructure services (file systems, central authentication system, computer account management) to SFU students, faculty and staff. She is responsible for campus-wide eLearning services (WebCT and others) and regularly participates in the strategic planning and direction setting processes for these services, with many stakeholders. Frances keeps abreast of evolving and emerging learning technologies, and works with faculty and staff from various parts of campus to test and pilot new technologies that are not yet available as part of general infrastructure. She has a Bachelors degree in Computing Science, and a Masters in Information Science from City University, London. In her spare time, Frances reads biography and fiction, hikes along local trails and sings alto with a Lower Mainland choir.

Paul Stacey, Director of Development, BCcampus

Paul Stacey is Director of Development for BCcampus in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. BCcampus is a Ministry of Advanced Education initiative providing online services connecting students and educators to online programs, courses, and resources across British Columbia’s entire public post secondary system.

Paul has over 25 years of experience with educational technology in both the private and public sector. Paul has been involved with high end simulators used in the provision of international mission critical air traffic control training programs, creation of a new high tech online university from scratch, and development of local and international networks of online communities.

In his role as Director of Development at BCcampus Paul is responsible for: an annual fund that supports development of Open Educational Resources ($5.5 million over the last 4 years)
a Shareable Online Learning Resources (SOL*R) repository of free online educational resources a network of online communties for best practice sharing among edtech professionals, collaborative research initiatives and live tutoring of students by students
professional development programs and support for educators in British Columbia's public post secondary sector

Paul is himself an online learner having recently completed a 100% online graduate program in Adult Learning and Global Change with a cohort of learners from around the world.

Richard Smith, Associate Professor, School of Communications, SFU

Richard Smith is an Associate Professor in, and the Associate Director of, the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is also a member of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST) at SFU. Smith’s research focus is new media – as a technology, as a business, and as a factor in and outcome of social change. He has an ongoing interest in technology for education, privacy and surveillance in public spaces, online communities, and the wireless information society.

With academic training in communication and law, Dr. Smith has degrees from Carleton University (BA) and Simon Fraser University (MA and PhD). He is a member of the IEEE, the Canadian Communication Association, and the International Association for Management of Technology. He is also the publisher of the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC-Online)

Stephen Beaudry, Manager, Server Network and Telecomm Administration, IT Services, Royal Roads

Stephen has filled a variety of technical positions at Royal Roads University since first joining the institution in 1998, initially as a faculty member instructing within the school of Information and Society, he now supports the Infrastructure of the University in the Academic and Information Systems department.

Choosing to return to Vancouver Island after working as far away as Beijing, his knowledge of network design, security and business continuity have been acquired while consulting in diverse environments,starting as a member of the consulting team of General Physics corporation.

While filling his duties as the senior network architect at RRU, Stephen is also the principal investigator in constructing an online virtual network laboratory, under a research partnership with Inukshuk Internet, aimed at providing the technology necessary to deliver advanced networking education to remote communities, especially northern Canadian areas.

Jonathan Schaeffer, Professor, Department of Computing Science, U of Alberta

Jonathan Schaeffer is a professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He is a Canada Research Chair and an iCORE Chair. His research interests are in artificial intelligence and parallel/distributed computing. He is best known for his work on computer games. He is the creator of the checkers program Chinook, the first program to win a human world championship in any game. He is a co-PI for the high performance computing initiatives WestGrid and Compute Canada.

Marek Hatala, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Interactive Arts, SFU and Director of Laboratory for Ontological Research

Dr. Marek Hatala is Associate Professor at the School Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University and the Director of the Laboratory for Ontological Research. Dr. Hatala received his MSc in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence from the Technical University of Kosice. His primary interests lie in areas of knowledge representation, ontologies and semantic web, user modeling, intelligent information retrieval, organizational learning and eLearning. His current research looks at how semantic technologies can be applied to achieve interoperability in highly distributed and heterogeneous environments, what are the social and technical aspects of building a distributed trust infrastructures, and what role user and user group modeling can play in interactive and ubiquitous environments. Dr. Hatala research has been funded from NSERC, SSHRC, Canarie, Canadian Heritage, A.W.Mellon Foundation (USA) as well as by industry.

John Cox, Senior Security Consultant, TELUS

John Cox is a Senior Security Consultant with TELUS and has more than 11 years of data networking and security experience. Mr. Cox has worked extensively with network technologies and is proficient in planning, design, configuration, implementation, assessing and troubleshooting. Security emphasis includes Assessments (ISO17799, SysTrust, OSSTM), Architectures, firewall systems (Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper) and various perimeter defense mechanisms. He has had varied industry experience focusing primarly on large customers.

Ratko Spasojevic, Senior Security Consultant, TELUS

Ratko Spasojevic is a Senior Security Consultant for TELUS, with more than 14 years of security, application, and data networking experience. Mr. Spasojevic’s specializes in secure internet communications and identity management. He also is proficient with cryptography, strong authentication and smart cards and related software applications, electronic value transfer and corresponding backend financial systems, information integrity, security application development and privacy protection.

Before joining TELUS, Mr. Spasojevic provided strong technical leadership at every stage of enabling the first officially approved Identity Service Provider to the Norwegian Government; from building Certificate Authorities and their interfaces to the general public, commercial organizations and government to fulfilling Norwegian, European Union and International Security Standards (ISO17799, ETSI TS series, etc.). He also contributed to SIAN Phase 0 document and is a member of BC CIO’s IdM Forum.

Alex Nicolaou, Technical Staff, Engineering, Google Waterloo

Alex Nicolaou joined Google shortly after it opened an office in Waterloo, Ontario, where he is involved in the development of mobile search and email products. Until 2006, Alex was president and board member of aruna.ca Inc, a startup developing a unique RDBMS based on text-search algorithms and data structures. Prior to that, Alex was part of LiquiMedia Inc, a startup developing a real time kernel extension and Java Virtual Machine. In 1996, Alex and Jay Steele won the games category of the Java Cup Competition run by Sun Microsystems. In the early 90s, Alex was principal investigator for six algorithm patents. He holds an Honours BMath in Computer Science and Combinatorics and Optimization and an MMath in Computer Graphics, both from the University of Waterloo.

Angela Towle, Associate Dean, MD Undergraduate Education, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Dr Angela Towle has been Associate Dean, MD Undergraduate Education in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC since August 2002. She is responsible for managing the medical curriculum and has taken a lead in implementing the expansion of the medical school which has almost doubled the entering class size. The expansion is being done in partnership with the University of Victoria, the University of Northern BC and the six provincial health authorities, and is supported financially by the provincial ministries of Health and Advanced Education. The distributed medical program is designed to address physician shortages in the province and difficulties in recruiting and retaining physicians in rural and remote areas. Dr Towle has over 20 years experience of medical education research, curriculum and faculty development, and curriculum management and change at UBC and in the UK. Her experience of change in medical education has been at the conceptual and strategic level as well as at the coalface of implementation.

Annemarie Kaan, MCN, RN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Heart Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital; Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, UBC

Annemarie is the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Heart Failure and Transplantation. Her roles include: case manager for complicated heart failure patients, case manager for in patient heart transplant patients and case manager Ventricular Assist Device patients. She provides hospital-based education in her areas of specialty which include heart failure, heart transplantation and Mechanical Cardiac Support Devices. Annemarie coordinates education days in the above areas for nurses across the lower Mainland and Vancouver Island and supervises students from BSN programs.
Annemarie is a member of the International Society for Heart Transplantation, Heart Failure Society of America, Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses, Council Member of Nursing and Social Sciences and Editorial Board Member of Progress in Transplantation.

Annemarie teaches in the areas of heart transplantation, heart failure, acute heart failure and the use of mechanical assistance for the management of acute heart failure. Her education includes:
• MCN, Australian Catholic University
• Cardiothoracic Nursing Certificate, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
• Registered Nursing Certificate, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Dave Lampron, Vancouver Fraser Medical Program Technical Operations Manager; MedIT, UBC Faculty of Medicine

Managing the MedIT team for the last year, Dave brings 12 years of UBC experience and insight to the Faculty of Medicine. A self professed technology generalist; Dave has participated in projects ranging from Web site development during ‘dawn of the Internet’ in the mid-nineties to strategic and operational planning for technical aspects of UBC’s Distributed Medical Program. Curious about the methods that occur behind any successful endeavor, Dave has become a student of process analysis in relation to the Faculty of Medicine. A non-linear academic environment requires a dynamic team to have the flexibility to meet demands.

Gary Poole, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth (TAG), UBC

Dr. Gary Poole is the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth and the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Gary has won a 3M Teaching Fellowship, which is a Canadian national teaching award, an Excellence in Teaching award from Simon Fraser University, and a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for contributions to Higher Education. Dr. Poole was the President of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from 2000 to 2004. He is the co-author of “Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Education,” and “The Psychology of Health and Health Care: A Canadian Perspective.”

His research interests in higher education include the identification of valid measures of educational impact at the institutional level and understanding students’ experiences in community service learning environments and self-directed projects.

Jeff Sedayao, Staff Engineer, Information Services and Technology, Intel

Jeff Sedayao is a researcher in Intel’s IT Research Group. He focuses on IT uses of virtualization, including applying PlanetLab and PlanetLab developed technologies to enterprise IT problems. Jeff has participated in IETF working groups, published papers on policy, network measurement, network and system administration, and authored the O’Reilly and Associates book, Cisco IOS Access Lists.

Jim Sibley, Manager, Centre for Instructional Support, Faculty of Applied Science, UBC

Jim Sibley is the manager of the Centre for Instructional Support in the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia. His current focus includes the implementation of Team-Based Learning, Problem-Based Learning, Classroom Response Systems, Collaborative Writing Projects and the management of the development of an Online Peer Evaluation system. The Centre serves six Engineering departments, a Nursing school and a school of Architecture.
Dr. Sibley has over 20 years experience in adult education, faculty support, digital imaging, managing software development and faculty training. His background is in web design, information systems, learning technologies and network support. He also has had experience as a mechanical designer, machinist and geologist, and in his spare time has taught courses in rock climbing, mountaineering and whitewater and ocean kayaking.

Dr. Joanna Bates, Senior Associate Dean, MD Undergraduate Education, UBC

Dr. Bates received her B.Sc. and MDCM from McGill University. She did a rotating internship at St. Paul’s Hospital, was a pulmonary research fellow for a year and then served as an Emergency Room physician at St. Paul’s Hospital from 1979 to 1983. She conducted a community-based medical practice in Vancouver from 1979 to 1994. Initially, she had an appointment to the clinical faculty in the Faculty of Medicine and then became an Assistant Professor, Family Practice part-time in 1992 and entered the tenure track in 1997. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure on July 1, 2002.

Dr. Bates has been Program Director of Rotating Internship at St. Paul’s Hospital, Director of Medical Education at St. Paul’s Hospital, Program Director of International Medical Graduate Program for Licensure, Program Director of the PGY1 Residency Program at St. Paul’s, and Postgraduate Program Director, Department of Family Medicine. She also served as Deputy Registrar of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of BC. She became Associate Dean, Admissions, in the Faculty of Medicine in 1997 until the spring of 2002.

Dr. Bates has developed her academic career around her innovative endeavors in the development of postgraduate training programs, the development of programs of evaluation in undergraduate medical education, medical school admissions policies and procedures, and the expansion of MD Undergraduate education. She has had a number of peer-reviewed educational grants to support her work and, in addition to her focused activities around medical education programs, she has developed expertise in medical informatics and telehealth. She has become widely known nationally and increasingly internationally for her contributions in all of these areas.

Dr. Bates has taken a lead role in the development of the MD Undergraduate expansion, leading UBC’s participation in developing the Northern Medical Program and was active in the Steering Committee for the Island Medical Program. Dr. Bates is ideally qualified to take on the large portfolio of Senior Associate Dean, MD Undergraduate Education, and to lead our expansion planning for increased MD Undergraduate enrolment in the distributed program.

kc claffy, Principal Investigator, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)

kc claffy is principal investigator for the distributed Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and resident research scientist based at the University of California's San Diego (UCSD) Supercomputer Center. kc's research interests include Internet workload/performance data collection, analysis and visualization, particularly with respect to commercial ISP collaboration/cooperation and sharing of analysis resources. kc received her PhD in Computer Science from the UCSD in 1994.

Loki Jorgenson, Chief Scientist, Apparent Networks Inc.

With a Ph.D. in computational physics from McGill University, Loki Jorgenson has been active in scientific computation, physics and mathematics, visualization, and simulation for over 20 years. He has published in areas as diverse as philosophy, graphics, educational technologies, statistical mechanics, logic and number theory. Dr. Jorgenson is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University where he co-founded the Center for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics. He has directed academic research in numerous network-centric projects from high performance computing to telelearning, working closely with private sector partners and government. At Apparent Networks, Dr. Jorgenson is responsible for leading their efforts in critical research areas such as high performance applications, wireless and VoIP, expert systems, and intelligent networks in collaboration with international thought leaders and as a corporate member of Internet2.

Marilyn Hay, Manager, Network Engineering, BCNET and Manager, Network Management Centre, UBC

Marilyn Hay is Manager of the Network Management Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. In this capacity, she is responsible for the operation, support, design and engineering for the UBC campus networks, including data, telephony and video. BCNET contracts all of its Network Engineering and Operational support through UBC. Marilyn reports within BCNET as the Manager of Network Engineering and her team spans the peer IT Networking groups of BCNET’s member universities. Marilyn has 20 years experience in computing and network support while completing a Computing Technology Diploma at SAIT in Calgary and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from UBC.

Mic Bowman, Principal Investigator, Intel Systems Technology Lab
Mic Bowman is a principal engineer in Intel Research and Principal Investigator for the Distributed Virtual Machines Strategic Research Project. Bowman received his BS from the University of Montana, and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. Bowman joined Intel’s Personal Information Management group in 1999. While at Intel, He developed personal information retrieval applications, context-based communication systems, and middleware services for mobile applications. In addition, he led the team that built and deployed the first version of PlanetLab, a global testbed for networking research. Prior to joining Intel he worked at Transarc Corp. where he led research teams at that developed distributed search services for the Web, distributed file systems, and naming systems.

Rachel DeFina, 2nd Year UBC Medical School Student

As a second-year medical student at the University of British Columbia, Rachel’s perspective is from the receiving end of the technology that connects her and her classmates in Vancouver, Victoria and Prince George, as part of the UBC Medical School Expansion Program.

Dr. Richard Scott, Associate Professor, Global e-Health Research and Training Program, Centre for Innovation in Health Technology, University of Calgary

Dr. Richard E. Scott is an Associate Professor in the Global e-Health Research and Training Program of the Centre for Innovation in Health Technology, University of Calgary. He is also a Canadian Harkness Associate (2004-2005), and a Fulbright New Century Scholar (2001-2002) alumnus; experiences that opened his policy and global perspectives, respectively. He now focuses his interests on examining the role of e-health (telehealth + health informatics) in the globalisation of healthcare, including aspects impacting the implementation and integration of e-health globally and locally (‘glocal’ e-health). Richard views e-health broadly, as the use of any information and communications technology (ICT) to mediate health, healthcare, health education, or health research. He has over 30 years of research and healthcare experience as a medical laboratory technologist, biochemist, clinical chemist, clinical and forensic toxicologist, Director of Research, and telehealth / e-health researcher.

His research program is directed towards inter-jurisdictional e-health policy (management and facilitation of the complex trans-border interactive environment of glocal e-health), outcomes and evaluation (identifying and defining suitable outcome indicators and developing tools and frameworks for rigorous demonstration of the value of e-health), and environmental e-health (a new area of research spawned by Richard to understand the environmental costs and benefits of e-health). Richard promotes the application of ‘culturally sensitive and technologically appropriate’ e-health solutions in the international context, and is pursuing collaborative research in Asian, African, and Latin American and Caribbean countries.

I nternationally, Richard is a member of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth e-Health Programme, member of the U21 Global e-Health Committee, Chairperson of the WHO GOe-U21 Global e-Health Policy Working Group, and Chairperson of the UN-OOSA e-Health Policy Working Group. Nationally, Richard is a member of Infoway’s Benefits Evaluation Expert Advisory Committee, and has participated as an expert on many similar committees for other Canadian agencies.

Dr. Scott was a Founding member of the Canadian Society of Telehealth (CST) in 1998, President of CST (2004-2006), and is now the Immediate Past-President and current Chairperson of the CST’s International Committee. Richard is also Director of NTConsulting, providing education and services in e-health development and assessment.

Vivek Pai, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University

Before joining Princeton in Spring 2000, Vivek Pai received his PhD from Rice University in 2000, under the direction of Willy Zwaenepoel and Peter Druschel. His research focused on OS, application, and cluster-level techniques for improving server performance. At Princeton, he continues working in server performance, but has also addressed issues related to security and reliability in wide-area systems, such as content distribution networks. He is one of the founders of iMimic Networking, where he helped architect and develop the fastest Web proxy server in the world.

Yuriko Araki, MA (Gerontology)
Research Coordinator, BC Alliance on Telehealth Policy & Research

Yuriko Araki earned a MA degree in gerontology from Simon Fraser University in 2004. Her thesis examined the extent to which the clients and services in assisted living settings in British Columbia were consistent with the policy goals of the new Community Care and Assisted Living Act.

Yuriko has worked for a broad range of research projects in the past six years in Canada. From 2003 - 2004, she was a research trainee in the Partners in Community Health Research (PCHR) program, funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. As part of the research activities of the program, she worked on issues pertaining to primary health care reform in an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers, community health workers and senior administrative staff of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.

From 2004 - 2005, Yuriko joined a research team at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation for conducting a policy review of the governance of medical devices, health technology and patient safety in the UK and Japan, funded by Health Canada.


Ulrich Rauch, Director, Arts Instructional Support & Information Technology, UBC

Like many working in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, Ulrich does not come from a computing science background but moved sideways into the field of integrated technologies. His education is in Sociology, and it is his interest in teaching, learning and research that got him interested in instructional support, e-learning and all aspects of Information Technology. He also admits to have a weakness for tinkering with computer hardware, a skill that has helped him as a graduate student to make a living and has prepared him for an understanding of computer technology in general.

For the last four years Ulrich has been the Director for Instructional Support and Information Technology in the Faculty of Arts, at UBC, and he participated in a number of exciting international open source developments on learning technologies, such as Pachyderm, a web-based media authoring system, the Sakai project, a collaborative platform for teaching and learning, and most recently the development of virtual and immersive 3D learning environments, such as Ancient Spaces or the Arts Metaverse (based on Croquet)

Ulrich's responsibilities in the Faculty of Arts (Creative & Performing Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) include the administration and management of Information Technology and Systems, Audio Visual Services and Instructional and Educational Technologies. He graduated with a Ph.D in Sociology from UBC in 1996. In 2005 he was the first Canadian to become a fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute.

Peter Ladner, Councillor, City of Vancouver

Councillor Peter Ladner was first elected to Vancouver City Council in 2002 and re-elected in 2005.
Councillor Ladner is vice president and part owner of the Business in Vancouver Media Group, where he co-founded the award-winning Business in Vancouver weekly newspaper in 1989. He has more than 35 years of journalistic experience in print, radio and television and is a frequent speaker on business and community issues.

His community and business experience includes participation in the Vancouver City Planning Commission and the Capital Campaign committee for the Vancouver Public Library. He has also been involved in Leadership Vancouver, International Centre for Sustainable Cities, The UBC Alumni Association, New Media BC, the international Association of Area Business Publications and the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs.

Sherilyn Evans, Director of Tech Operations, CENIC

Sherilyn Shiotsu Evans has project responsibility for the Digital California Project at the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC). The Digital California Project is a state-funded initiative to extend the existing California Research and Education Network (CalREN) into K-12 schools, forming a cohesive K-20 network infrastructure statewide. In addition, Sherilyn has recently assumed leadership for CalVIP, a project to implement a statewide H.323 videoconferencing infrastructure for K-20 across CalREN.

Gerry Miller, Executive Director, Information Services and Technology, University of Manitoba

Gerry Miller is Executive Director of Information Services and Technology at the University of Manitoba, responsible for computing, networking telecommunications and media services in support of teaching, research and administration. He has been employed by the University since 1974.

Mr Miller has been involved in many national and provincial networking activities including CA*net, Mbnet, MRnet and CA*net IV. He has also been involved in CANARIE and many federal initiatives including, Smart Communities, Community Access Program, Schoolnet, the Information Highway Advisory Council, the National Broadband Task Force, the Anti-Spam Task Force, Cybertip.ca, the Canadian Centre for the Protection of Children and the Media Awareness Network.

Dr. Erica Frank, Professor and Canada Research Chair, UBC Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, and Department of Family Practice; Founder and Executive Director, Health Sciences Online

Dr. Frank is a Professor in the Departments of Health Care and Epidemiology and Family Practice at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, a Tier I Canada Research Chair, and a Senior Scholar of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. She is also the Founder and Principal Investigator of the Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient project (delineating and building on the relationship between physicians’ personal and clinical practices), Founder and Director of Health Sciences Online (creating a global virtual health sciences university), Research Director for the Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addiction Medicine, Senior Medical Scientist for the Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare of B.C., and President-Elect of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Dr. Dale Stogryn, Director of Medical Education, Royal Columbia Hospital, Fraser Health Authority

Dr. Dale Stogryn has been the Director of Medical Education at the Royal Columbian Hospital since 1985 and for the Fraser Health Authority since it’s inception in 2002. Dr. Stogryn received his MD from the University of Alberta and completed his internship at the Royal Columbian Hospital in 1974. He is a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Dr. Stogryn is a Clinical Professor in the Dept. of Family Practice at UBC and is an active community family practice preceptor in a group family practice in Coquitlam, BC.

Neil Spring, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, U of Maryland and UMIACS (U of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies)

Neil Spring is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2004 and his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. On PlanetLab, Neil's software for network measurement, Scriptroute, has supported the experiments of dozens of projects and even a few classes.

PlanetLab helps him see the Internet from hundreds of locations, experiment with new techniques for learning the structure of the Internet, and teach students the challenges of building reliable software for the Internet.

Jens Haeusser, Director of Strategy, Information Technology, UBC

Jens Haeusser is the Director of Strategy in the Information Technology department at the University of British Columbia, a position he has held since 2006. He is responsible for fostering outstanding IT solutions throughout the highly decentralized UBC campus by developing creative and relevant IT strategies that anticipate and reflect broad campus needs, developing strategic relationships with faculties and administrative units, and building long-range plans for IT directions at UBC. Jens is also an active participant at BCNET, as a member of the Applications Advisory Committee, the Identity Management Working Group, and as chair of the Security Working Group, In addition to his roles within UBC and BCNET, Jens is an active participant and frequent presenter and facilitator in many other organizations at the provincial, national, and international level, including EDUCAUSE, Internet2, CANHEIT, CIPS, and as a JASIG and FLUID board member. He plays a leadership role on Identity Management as part of the BC Public Sector Identity Management forum and the Canadian Identity Management Federation, and is an advocate for the transformative role of Service Oriented Architecture within the higher education community. Jens is also actively involved in promoting and architecting the next generation Community Source Student Service System, Kuali Student.

Prior to his current position, Jens spent a decade as a departmental IT administrator at UBC before founding the Information Security Office in 2003. In his role as Information Security Officer, he helped build a culture of security at UBC, developing security strategy and policy and leading an operational team that dramatically improved the IT security stance of the University. Jens is a member of the Internet2/Educause Security Task Force.

Rick McGeer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Rick McGeer received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. He was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia, until returning to UC-Berkeley as a Research Engineer in 1991. In 1993, together with Luciano Lavagno, Alex Saldanha, and Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, he founded the Cadence Berkeley Laboratories. In 1998, with Alex Saldanha, he founded Softface, Inc., the world leader in automated content classification and spend analysis, where he remained as Chief Scientist until 2003. In 2003 he joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Dr. McGeer holds seven patents in the fields of programming languages, circuit design, and natural-language processing. He is author of over 50 papers and one book in the fields of Computer-Aided Design, circuit theory, programming languages, and information system design. His research interests include logic synthesis, timing analysis, formal verification, circuit simulation, programming languages, and wide-area distributed systems. He is a member of the PlanetLab Consortium steering committee. He was a PI in the DARPA Global Mobile (GloMo) program in 1994-95.

Peter van Epp, Operating Systems Consultant, Operations and Technical Support, SFU

Peter has been one of the network engineers at SFU for the last 20 years and been involved with both the SFU data network and BCNET since their inception. In addition to responsibility for the design, operation and trouble shooting of the SFU core network he has been responsible for security incident response at SFU for the same period. Starting in around 1996 on the Rnet cross country ATM Test network (part of CA*net2) and continuing through the present on various CA*net4 light path projects he has been responsible for provisioning (at least on the SFU campuses) and trouble shooting various high speed networks and light paths (where the speed has gone from 30 megabits per second in the Rnet days of DS3 links to 10 gigabits per second these days) for research projects. Staring around 1998 he has been involved in the continuing evolution of wireless at SFU from a small pilot involving 20 or 25 students to the present multi campus multi thousand user third generation wireless implementation at SFU. Several years ago responsibility for the campus telephone system was added as Voice Over IP (VOIP) started to be piloted and he is now also partly responsible for telephone system engineering as well as all the rest. He is also a member of the BCNET Applications Security Working Group and BCNET Network Security Working Group and is currently the BCNET Security Officer.

Fiona Brinkman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU

Fiona Brinkman is a Bioinformaticist and Molecular Microbiologist who joined SFU in September, 2001. She uses a combination of computational and laboratory approaches to study the DNA of infectious bacteria, learning more about how infectious disease-causing microbes have evolved and how we may better control them. Her computational methods aid the identification of potential drug targets which are being used by pharmaceutical companies and academics around the world to aid the identification of new therapeutics for a wide range of infectious diseases. Her achievements have been reflected in several awards, including being named a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator, BC Innovation Council Young Innovator, Canada Top 40 Under 40 and MIT TR100 awardee. Since the DNA sequence has now been determined for over 1500 different bacterial species, and the amount of DNA sequence information is increasing at a rate faster than Moore’s Law, there is an increasing need to incorporate high performance computing into her analyses. In addition, her research involves collaborations worldwide which benefit from sophisticated networking, visualization, and collaboration resources.

Geoffrey W. Payne, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physiology, UNBC; Director of the Northern Health Sciences Research Facility

Dr. Payne is an expert in the area of cellular and molecular physiology of the microcirculation. He is a new investigator who joined the University of Northern BC following his post-doctoral studies at Yale University in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology. Dr. Payne holds a BSc in Behavioral Neuroscience and a MSc in neuroscience & pharmacology. Dr. Payne’s doctoral work focused on cerebral circulation and stroke development. All of his undergraduate and graduate studies were conducted at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is rapidly obtaining international recognition for his work, particularly for his studies of how blood flow regulation is affected by diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, as well as aging. He is currently cross appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Northern Medical Program at UNBC and as an Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. He is also affiliated with the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and Centre for Blood Research at UBC. Dr. Payne has just become the new director of the Northern Health Sciences Research Institute at UNBC.

Keir Novik, PhD, Manager, Information Technology, BCNET

Keir Novik is the IT Manager for BCNET, seconded part-time from SFU Operations and Technical Support. At BCNET he is responsible for core services and supporting the Applications Advisory Committee working groups. Recent projects have been in the areas of videoconferencing, collaboration technology, and identity management. Keir was previously at the University of London, UK, and obtained his PhD in computational physics from the University of Cambridge, UK.



Lynda Williams, Project Leader, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UNBC

Lynda Williams teaches CPSC 150, parttime, at the University of Northern B.C. where she is employed fulltime as project leader for the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Her interest in spreading computing literacy through direct experience and supporting theory has evolved through diverse workplace experience, from newspaper reporter to support analyst, together with the founding of the Prince George Free-Net. Ms. Williams holds an M.Sc. in Computation from McMaster University where she participated in Knowledge Engineering research, and an M.L.S. from the University of Toronto, where she specialized in programming in formation retrieval interfaces. She has received multiple awards for her innovations in social computing. Current work overlaps with interests in digital publishing, from web course developments to the conflicts between creativity and ownership in the digital era. Her dynamic content initiative, used in CPSC 150 at UNBC, reduces the cost to students for course materials that rely on material which depend on rapidly changing platforms. The content is maintained by a small course fee which replaces expensive text books, and allows Lynda to hire student help to keep courses up to date. The resulting material is available for use under a creative commons license. Lynda produces the journal “Reflections on Water” and is production specialist as well as president of UNBC Press. Lynda is a published science fiction author and contributes to a number of blogs. Google “Lynda Williams” for more about her as an author and reviewer.

Nathan Hapke, Web Developer, External Programs and Learning Technologies, Faculty of Education, UBC

Nathan works at External Programs and Learning Technologies in the Faculty of Education at The University of British Columbia as a web developer. His work currently involves adapting online course content for students with disabilities. Nathan has been involved with distance education since 2004.

Nathan is working on his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at UBC. His research interests are in programming languages, and software engineering. He is also a strong proponent of the open source movement, and is an active contributor to the Mylar Technology Project. (http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/)

Sharon Brewer, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, TRU

Dr. Sharon Brewer is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. where she teaches a range of courses including analytical and environmental chemistry. Her research interests include analytical method development, disinfection byproduct monitoring, water treatment and teaching and learning in chemistry. She is a co-investigator on a BCcampus funded project working on developing an Integrated Laboratory Network for teaching purposes in BC, and through this research is collaborating with UBC and WWU on the ILN project.

Terry Fuller, Instructional Development Consultant, Learning and Teaching Centre, BCIT

Terry Fuller, an Instructional Development Consultant at the Learning and Teaching Centre (LTC) at BCIT since 1992, has a Master's degree in instructional technology from San Jose State University in California. Her keen interests are internationalizing the curriculum and integrating educational technologies into best learning and teaching practices. Terry has lived in four different countries: Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and Oman. She has travelled to many countries professionally and for pleasure, loves to sail and is an amateur photographer.

Novak Rogic, Manager - Web Strategy and IT, Office of Learning Technology, UBC

Novak Rogic is the Web Strategist for UBC's Office of Learning Technology, leading the web projects that emphasize sharing content and collaboration on the Internet. In the past, he worked on private companies’ and government’s web projects and spent two years in Silicon Valley’s dotcoms. He thinks that "if people won't come to the web, the web should come to the people" and believes that successful web page must have multiple identities. He agrees that "less is more" and is a tireless advocate for the creative use of light, flexible and endlessly reusable technologies such as RSS.

Dugan O’Neil, Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics, SFU

Dugan O’Neil is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University. He is also a researcher with the D0 Project, an international collaboration studying matter and the interactions of matter in the smallest possible scale. O’Neil’s research interests include high energy physics, fundamental particles and their interactions, proton-antiproton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron, and high performance computing, data handling and processing.



Martin Siegert, Head, Research Computing, Academic Computing Services, SFU and Site Lead, WestGrid/SFU

Martin Siegert is the head of the research computing support group in the Academic Computing Services (ACS) Department at SFU. As such he is involved in the design and setup of high-performance computing facilities on campus such as WestGrid. Prior to joining ACS, Martin spent more than 15 years in research as a theoretical condensed matter physicist. He received has PhD at the
University of Hannover, Germany, in 1988 and his Habilitation in 1995 at the University of Duisburg, Germany. In 1989 he joined the Physics Department at SFU as a Postdoc and returned to SFU in 1995 as Research Associate.


Ray Ford, Associate VP, IT, U of Montana

Ray Ford holds BS and MS degrees in Math and Computer Science from the University of Missouri - Rolla, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been a computer science faculty member for 25 years at Augustana College, University of Iowa, University of Kansas, and The University of Montana. He has authored and co-authored numerous professional articles on topics related to programming environments and distributed computing, and has directed more than 30 MS and PhD theses in related areas. He currently is Professor of Computer Science and Associate Vice President for Information Technology (CIO) at The University of Montana. He serves on the Internet2 Network Policy and Planning Advisory Council, and as President of the Northern Tier Network Consortium.

Carrie Spencer, Acting CIO, Academic & Information Services, Royal Roads U

Carrie Spencer became the Director of the newly formed Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies in April of 2005. She oversees a large unit of professional and technical staff responsible for the design, development and delivery of all online and blended academic courses at the university, corporate client contracts for online training and development, learner technical training, and faculty training and development.
Carrie (a.k.a. Spence) is an instructional designer with an MA in Distributed Learning from RRU and a Graduate Certificate in Technology-based Distributed Learning from the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include: cognitive device interference, assessment of deep learning, cultural and economic influences on learning, and semiotics. She presented "Learner preferences for reading from a printed text or from a computer screen" at the 2005 Canadian Association of Distance Education International Conference.

Gerri Sinclair, Executive Director, Masters of DMP, Great
Northern Way Campus

Dr. Gerri Sinclair's cross-domain career includes more than 20 years' experience spanning the fields of internet and new media technology, entrepreneurial business, academic research, and government policy.

Sinclair is currently the Executive Director of the Masters of Digital Media Program at the Center for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver which recently received a $40.5M government grant to establish a world-leading Graduate Degree Program in the field of Digital Entertainment. Last year she was the chair of The Telecom Policy Review, advising the Federal Government of Canada on the policy and regulatory environment required to support an advanced telecommunications framework. She was formerly the General Manager of MSN Canada, as well as the founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, an Internet web content management company spun out of Simon Fraser University in 1996 and acquired by Microsoft in 2001.

A former IBM Consulting Scholar as well as a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research in New York, Dr. Sinclair was also the first President of the British Columbia Government Premier's Technology Council, and the founding director of the ExCITE lab at Simon Fraser University, the first new media technology R&D centre in Canada.

James (Jim) Bizzocchi, Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU


Jim Bizzocchi 's research interests include the future of video, interactive narrative and game design. He teaches courses in Narrative & New Media, Game Design, and Video Production. He is an active video artist, producing a series of works in the new genre of Ambient Video.

Jeff Trzeciak, Chief Librarian, McMaster University

Jeff Trzeciak is the Chief Librarian at McMaster University. Prior to joining McMaster, Trzeciak was at Wayne State since 1998 and has held a number of senior positions. He is a graduate of Indiana University, the University of Dayton, and is currently working on his PhD in instructional technology. He has been instrumental in the development of digital library services at Wayne State. He has also led a number of community-based library projects including a collaboration with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Michigan Opera Theatre.

Shawn Marshall, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calgary

Shawn is a glaciologist and climatologist with broad interests in Earth system science. He began academic life as a student in Engineering Science (Physics) at the University of Toronto, where he earned a B.A.Sc. in 1991. A fortunate confluence with Dick Peltier for an undergraduate research project opened his mind to Earth sciences and some of the wonderfully complex and important problems in this field. He realigned his academic pursuits with these interests and moved to the University of British Columbia (UBC) for PhD studies in Geophysics with Garry K.C. Clarke. Doctoral research (1991-1996) and postdoctoral studies (1997-1999) at UBC were centred on the development of a three-dimensional numerical model of ice sheet dynamics. Garry and Shawn have explored numerous aspects of ice age climate dynamics, including the climatic and glaciological patterns of ice sheet nucleation, reconstruction of the Last Glacial Maximum ice sheets in North America, processes of deglaciation at the end of the glacial periods, and the role of ice sheets in millennial climate variability. This work has expanded into collaborations with Peter Clark (Oregon State Univesity) and Kurt Cuffey (UC-Berkeley) to examine other aspects of Laurentide and Greenland Ice Sheet dynamics.

Shawn moved to the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary in 2000, where he continues his work with ice sheet modelling. This includes current projects to couple glaciological models with GCMs (joint with Andy Bush at the University of Alberta, Andrew Weaver at the University of Victoria, and Bette Otto-Bliesner at NCAR). He also continues to collaborate with Garry Clarke and Gwenn Flowers (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) to improve the representation of subglacial processes in ice sheet models.
The subject closest to his heart at this time is regional-scales icefield dynamics and their sensitivity to climate change. This has happily provided his with an escape from his computer to new field projects on the Haig Glacier, Canadian Rockies, and the Prince of Wales Icefield, Ellesmere Island (Canadian High Arctic). These projects are focused on glacier-climate processes and mesoscale climate variability, including melt modelling and improved understanding of surface temperature lapse rates in glacierized terrain. Field studies are specifically targeted to improve the quantification of free parameters and climate (temperature, precipitation) downscaling strategies that are required for glacier-climate modelling. Insights will be applied to regional- and global-scale icefield simulations, to improve forecasts of the water resource and sea-level rise impacts that are expected from ongoing glacier retreat in the decades ahead.

Jan Cioe, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, UBCO

Jan has research interest in two broad areas. Each year he goes to the University of Lethbridge and works in Dr. Bryan Kolb’s labs on the issue of recovery of function after brain damage. This work is primarily done using the laboratory rat. He is part of very active basic research programme under Dr. Kolb’s direction. The second area of interest is in sexuality: Kolb and Jan have also done some work on sex differences in the recovery of function area. This area, however, is primary a result of the applied work Jan does. He co-facilitates the Kelowna Sex Offender Treatment Programme for the provincial Ministry of Health.

Garry Sagert, Co-Director, Project Nova - Administrative Services and Systems, UVIC

Garry joined the UVic community in September 1994 as a second year university transfer student from Okanagan University College . After learning about Computer Science in the classroom for three years, he began working part-time at the Computer Help Desk in January 1997 to gain some practical experience and earn money for food. He graduated with a BSc in Computer Science in 1998, and after a one-year exchange to the University of Copenhagen , he completed the requirements for his MSc in November 1999. While putting the finishing touches on his thesis, he was hired by UVic Network Services, which provides network and Internet connectivity to more than 6,000 computers at UVic. With his team of co-op students, he developed a number of important network management and monitoring tools. In May 2002, he moved to Software Development and created the current UVic photo ID card system, which allows students to swipe their student cards to access BC Transit buses and Athletics facilities. He also laid the foundation for a general purpose identity management system, which has become a core component and distinguishing feature of Project Nova.

Tom West, President & CEO, National Lambda Rail

Tom West became the Chief Executive Officer of NLR in September 2003. NLR is a national effort comprised of members and associates from across the country focused on implementing and operating a national network infrastructure to serve the needs of the advanced research community.

West has over four decades of executive management experience in the research and higher education community. He has served as a small college president, a vice chancellor for administration for regional campuses in a public university system, and 26 years as the Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO) for two large public university systems—Indiana University (1973-1981) and the California State University (1981-1999).

From March 1999 through June 2004 he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer for CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California). He served as CEO for both CENIC and NLR from September 2003 through June 2004. At the end of June he resigned from CENIC to devote all his time to NLR.

Steve Staso, Director of Web Insfrastructure Solutions, Sun Microsystems

Steve Staso is the Director of Web Infrastructure Solutions at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He and his global team engage with some the world's largest web companies to design and optimize their computing infrastructure. Employing a variety of technologies, products, and full solutions for web developers, startups, and enterprises, he has educated and assisted countless designers and operators over the past 10 years.

Prior to Sun, Steve served as the CIO for a US Defense Department agency where he developed the first secure, cross-platform, cross-agency information file sharing system.

Steve sits on the board of directors for a variety of professional associations and holds both an MBA and an Electrical Engineering degrees.

Lucinda Cross, Director, Marketing, Shaw Business Solutions

Lucy Cross joined Shaw Business Solutions as senior manager of business voice and now leads the marketing group. She has worked in telecommunications for over six years and managed the development of both legacy and IP telephony and voice services at Bell and Shaw Business Solutions. With an extensive background in computer consulting and business development, she brings diverse experience to all her work. Lucy has a BA in history from the University of Toronto.

Clare Donahue, Asst. Vice President, Network Architecture, Engineering and Security, U of Washington

Clare Donahue, at the University of Washington, has held various Chief Information Officer/Chief Operating Officer positions in the public sector. Before coming to UW, Ms. Donahue was the CIO for K-12 public education in Washington State, the CIO for Washington State’s Department of Information Services, and the Associate CIO for UW Medicine.

Clare’s current responsibilities as Assistant Vice President for Network Architecture, Engineering, and Security, in the Office of the Vice President for Technology at UW, is to build new regional optical research networks, design and refresh campus network infrastructure for both data and voice, guide UW’s investment in the State K-20 network and generally cause trouble. In addition to her present position as Assistant Vice President, Clare is also the Director for State Technology Relations.

In the large scale IT project realm, Clare directly managed the build out of the K-20 network ($6oM), was the project executive for UW Medicine’s clinical version of an electronic medical record ($40+M), upgraded major data centers and various software applications as well as secure funding for broadband infrastructure through grants and partnerships.

Prior to coming to Washington, Ms. Donahue was a federal official with the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.

Brian Lamb, Manager, Emerging Technologies and Digital Content, Office of Learning Technology, UBC

Brian Lamb is Manager of Emerging Technologies and Digital Content with the Office of Learning Technology at The University of British Columbia, where he works with social software projects across the campus and beyond. He also co-teaches a course on “Text Technologies” for UBC’s Master of Educational Technology Program. Brian maintains his weblog Abject Learning (http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/), where he mutters ill-tempered observations on social learning, open education, disruptive technologies and other such things.

Mark Thachuk, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, UBC

Mark Thachuk is a theoretical chemist whose research interests involve the use of mathematical and computational techniques to study the dynamics of chemical reactions/processes, primarily in the gas phase. He serves on the WestGrid Executive Committee as Principal Investigator for UBC, and on the National Initiatives Committee (NIC) as one of WestGrid's two representatives.

Gren Patey, Professor, Department of Chemistry, UBC

Gren Patey completed a B.Sc. at Memorial University (1970), a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto (1975), and postdoctoral work at the University of Paris and the National Research Council. He has been a chemistry professor at the University of British Columbia since 1980 and his research interests include all aspects of the theory and simulation of liquids, solutions and interfacial phenomena.

Séverin Gaudet, Research Council Officer, National Research Council Canada

Séverin is a Project Manager and Software Engineer responsible for software development projects for the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC), part of the NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, BC. He has published a wide range of papers on data management, data archiving and data compression and has given numerous talks on data management issues in large science projects. Séverin holds an MSc in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University.

The CADC is a world leader in the field of astronomy data management and delivery. It is responsible for archiving and distributing data for all the major ground-based and space-based telescopes in which Canada is a partner (http://www.cadc.hia.nrc.gc.ca). It is also home to the Canadian Virtual Observatory project (http://services.cadc.hia.nrc.gc.ca/cvo), part of the worldwide International Virtual Observatories Alliance.

Eric van Wiltenburg, Network Security Analyst, UVic

Eric has twice been a member of the UVic community. In 2003, he joined UVic as a staff member, and is currently the Network Security Analyst for Network Services. Prior to that, he was a student, and obtained his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2001 while working at Voice Mobility Inc. Eric is an advocate for information security at UVic and chairs the Information Security Team.

Willie Powell, Strategic Development, Apple Computer

Willi Powell is responsible for strategic development of new markets for Apple Computer. Responsible for business development with key customers and partners, Willi has been helping software companies make the transition to the digital age as painless as possible with a strong focus on software tool development and new areas of technology. Current areas of interest are new imaging solutions, High performance Computing (HPC), and rapid application developement.

Willi joined Apple in 1987 as a Software Quality Assurance engineer on Apples HyperCard team. Preceded by four years of software and hardware engineering for the Interactive Video market working for Visual Database Systems in Scotts Valley California. His programming roots come from writing performance analysis and navigation programs for the Canadian America's Cup sailing team in 1982-3 and 1986-7.

Born in Montreal, Willi attended the University of Waterloo, Ontario and graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Engineering.

Cyril Scheske, President, SRnet

Cyril Scheske's career has covered numerous senior positions in the Private, Public, and Non Government sectors with his professional background in the information technology industry.

He has managed major projects in Europe as well as in Saskatchewan. Achievements in his career are numerous and varied including the design and establishment of STEP, Saskatchewan’s non-government export arm; successful inclusion of Saskatchewan as the first Canadian jurisdiction to participate in the European Union’s 4th Framework for Research and Development Program. As the Vice President (ADM) International in Saskatchewan Health, he developed a training program for senior Taiwanese healthcare administrators. And on the lighter side he authored the feasibility study that led to the creation of the Canada – Saskatchewan sound stage in Regina.
In his current role as President of SRnet, Cy has been responsible for extending SRnet’s research and education network to Prince Albert and LaRonge, and has doubled SRnet’s membership roster and tripled its connectivity points.

Lynda Pattie, Director, IT and Institutional Data Analysis and Reporting, UNBC

Lynda Pattie is the Director of Information Technology and Institutional Data Analysis and Reporting at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). She brings to the position a wide range of development, systems implementation, institutional analysis and report, project management and strategic planning/deployment experience. Throughout her fifteen-year career in information technology, she has worked in the software development, healthcare and education sectors; developing and implementing automated systems. UNBC opened its doors in September of 1994, with little or no infrastructure systems in place to deal with the administrative business processes and functions of a fully operational University. Under Lynda's direction, UNBC implemented the core modules of SunGard Higher Education's Banner products.

Today, UNBC continues to pursue automation initiatives that will empower their staff, faculty and students. The implementation of their institutional data warehouse and operational and strategic reporting initiatives have positioned the University well to provide timely and accurate information for decision support. This initiative is intended to address the diverging information needs for operational, informational, regulatory and strategic data.

Anna Machaj, Manager, Administrative Information Systems, IT Services, TRU

Anna currently works for Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops as Manager, Administrative Information Systems with Information Technology Services. Anna coordinates software development, maintenance and acquisition to enhance and extend business systems for students, faculty and staff. Anna is responsible for the integration of core student and business systems at TRU and maintaining high performance enterprise data architecture to support the information needs of all TRU stakeholders. Before that, Anna worked for several companies and institutions with different application systems as an IT employee, IT consultant, and instructor. Anna has Masters Degree in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Economics from Technical University of Wroclaw.

David Burkholder, Coordinator, Network Services, TRU

David is the Coordinator of Network Services at TRU where he is responsible for the design and management of all of TRU's Voice and Data Networks. Recent projects have been in the area of Voice over IP (VoIP) and the moving of voice and data services for TRU-Open Learning (formerly BCOU) from Burnaby to Kamloops. David has an Electronics - Telecommunications from TRU (Cariboo College 1985).

Ron Kozsan, Manager, Network Services, UVic

Ron obtained his BSc in Computer Science from UVic in 1987, and has worked in Information Systems and Telecommunications ever since. Ron has experience in numerous sectors including big industry, big government, big telecomm, health care and, most recently, higher education. Over the years his attention has shifted from industrial process control, to workstation and unix systems administration, to telecommunications management. Despite this apparent back-room emphasis, he does clean-up not too badly, and has been seen working out-front supporting customer service and sales. Ron returned to UVic in the spring of 2004 to work for Network Services, and has managed the group for the past year.

Scott Owen, Director, Infrastructure, UBC

Scott is Director of Infrastructure within the Information Technology department at the University of BC. Scott has over 25 years of IT experience, including extensive experience in software development, systems architecture consulting, and applications and infrastructure management. He has worked in Canada and in Europe in both the private and public sectors; for hardware and software vendors; and for clients in oil and gas, transportation, banking, consumer goods, and health care. At the University of BC, Scott is responsible for the university's network, telephony, central computing and storage infrastructures.

Wesley Cole, Manager, Technical Services, TRU

Wesley Cole has worked in the IT Department of TRU since 1982. His department is responsible for IT Infrastructure at TRU including servers, telephone and data communication and student labs.

Dragan Gasevic, Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca U

Dr. Dragan Gasevic is Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University and Adjunct Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University Surrey. His research interests include the Semantic Web, model-driven software engineering, knowledge management, service-oriented architectures, and learning technologies. In his research, he looks at integration of novel knowledge management approaches with software and service development techniques. He has (co-)authored around 150 research papers and has organized several international tutorials, workshops and journal special issues. He is the lead author of the book Model Driven Architecture and Ontology Development published by Springer in 2006.

Judy A. Bishop, Managing Partner, Bishop + Company

Judy Bishop is a veteran strategist, speaker, writer and leader in B.C.’s technology industry. She has been creating and building technology companies for over 20 years.

Judy is managing partner of Bishop + Company, a provider of corporate and market strategy to high-growth companies since 1991. The firm assesses and develops product & corporate po-sitioning strategies, determines market potential, plans pre-financing activity, orchestrates financing teams, reviews marketing plans, structures marketing teams and alliances, and provides bridge management services to companies.

Judy was co-founder, President and Chief Marketing Officer for GaleForce Solutions, a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for banks. Prior she was Princi-pal – Strategic Marketing at KPMG LLP Vancouver, heading the firm’s strategic marketing practice, which provided business and marketing counsel to KPMG’s base of technology companies. Previously, she was co-founder of Circon Systems (1992) and Spectrum Signal Processing (1986).

Judy is a recognized and sought-after expert and innovator in BC’s technology industry. She was a founding director of the BC Technology Industries Association and published its Moni-tor magazine for six years. She actively supports technology and community boards, including BC Technology Social Venture Partners. She served on the boards of directors of the Van-couver 2010 Bid Corporation and the Vancouver Aquarium, and is a mentor for the international Forum for Women Entrepre-neurs.

Judy is an active champion with the City of Vancouver's city-wide broadband wireless network project.

Ms. Bishop won a 2002 Canadian “Influential Women in Business Award”, and the 1998 Association of Women in Finance PEAK award for knowledge and leadership. She was a finalist for the YWCA “Women of Distinction” Award for Science & Technology. Since 1999, she has written the monthly Strategic Mar-keting column for Business in Vancouver newspaper, and sits on the newspaper’s editorial advisory board.

Since 1989, Judy has regularly assisted the Duchy of Luxembourg, and the US-based Luxembourg Board of Economic Development, to increase local business and media awareness of Luxembourg as a base for Canadian companies seeking entry into the European Union.

Judy is fluent in French, and has been inducted into the worldwide Confrérie des Chevaliers de Bourgogne. She is an expert skier and avid photographer, birder, cyclist and traveler.

Brian Fitzgerald, Network Analyst, Network Services, UVic

Brian Fitzgerald is the Research Network Analyst with the University of Victoria and has been part of the BCNet Network Engineering team since 2003. His present position is focused on the core architecture and the needs of researchers both within UVic and BCNet, as well as working with other National and International groups to make certain those needs are met.

Brian holds a Diploma in Electronics Engineering, and has been 20 years in the computing and networking field, with the last 17 years in the Higher Education sector in BC. During this time he has been involved in a very diverse set of projects, including engineering and support for both campus and wide-area networks, distance and distributed education systems, and wide variety of other custom and specialty systems and equipment. He has taught seminars on various networking concepts, as well as represented UVic and BCNet at a number of Provincial, National and International R&E conferences.

Damir Pobrić, Senior Network Engineer, CANARIE

Damir Pobrić joined CANARIE Inc. in 2002 as a Senior Network Engineer. He is a leading member of the engineering team that designed and implemented Canada’s next generation R&E network CA*net 4. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sarajevo.

Robert Gordon, Professor of Criminology and Director, School of Criminology, SFU

Dr. Robert M. Gordon is a Professor of Criminology and Director
of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He is
a member of the University Senate and Chair of the Senate Committee on Academic Integrity in Student Learning and Evaluation.

Brent Besse, Systems Analyst - Technology Specialist, Royal Roads University

Brent is a member of the Academic and Information Systems team for Royal Roads University in Victoria. Brent holds a number of certifications including MSCE (Security) and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He now supports the University’s Infrastructure. He has also been chosen to represent Royal Roads on the BCNET VoIP Working Group. His twenty five years in the High Tech field gives him a broad knowledge base to draw on.

He started with Royal Roads as a faculty member, instructing in the Industry Certified Network Security Analyst program from its inception in1998. During this time he was asked to travel to Macon, Georgia to deliver in their Technical Program, and delivered courses for the BC Government, DND In Esquimalt and a number of corporate programs. He also works with the Department of Tourism and Outreach as a GPS instructor.

His spare time is spent calling Square Dances, and sharing his wife’s enjoyment of traveling in their RV and Geocaching.


Jo McFetridge, Technical Advisor, Learning and Teaching Centre, BCIT

Jo McFetridge received her B.A. in Classical Studies & Physics, and her M.A. in Classical Archaeology, from the University of British Columbia. Her master's research surrounded the use of virtual reality game-based environments to teach undergraduates the basic tenets of reconstructive archaeology; this research culminated in the Ancient Spaces project (http://www.ancientspaces.com), which she co-founded with two other UBC students. Jo worked as an educational technologist at UBC's Arts Instructional Support unit before joining BCIT as a Technical Advisor, where she is responsible for researching emergent technologies and pedagogies, and teaching them to others.

Anthony Gurr, Research Associate, SFU SAGE Project

Anthony Gurr is a professional game developer with 18 years of experience in computer game and video game production in Canada, Japan, and the United States. Anthony started his career in Vancouver in 1988, when the local game industry was starting to take shape. His background includes working for well known game companies like Acclaim Entertainment, Adrenalin Interactive, Electronic Arts, Infogrames (Atari), Taito Corporation, and Westwood Studios. From 2001 to the present, Anthony developed and taught courses in game design and development for the Art Institute of Vancouver, working with teams of post-secondary students to develop original game concepts. Many of these games received awards and international recognition for their playability and technical quality. Anthony is currently completing a Master of Arts degree in Educational Technology from Simon Fraser University and is a research associate for the Simulations and Advanced Game Environments for Learning (SAGE) Project at SFU

Michael Keating, Associate Director, Technology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Getting very close to the first 6 months on the job, Mike has brought decades of experience working in a university environment, providing computing and other technology solutions to support the learning, teaching and research roles of an academic institution to this position. The last few years he has been deeply involved in the formulation and rollout of the expanded medical program at UBC. Being the first in a new role, in a new area, working with highly motivated and skilled individuals has been interesting and exciting, and the next few years promise to be the same.

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