Presenters | Agenda

5:30PM-8:30PM: EARLY REGISTRATION

7:15AM-9:00AM: LATE REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

9:00AM-11:00AM: SESSION 1

• MOSES ZNAIMER & 13-year-old bagpiper MELISSA JANE HOLLANDS
• ARTHUR KENT
  Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker
• NELOFER PAZIRA
  Afghan-Canadian Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker, Star of Kandahar.
• MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
  Author, Journalist, Director of Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University
• NORMAN SPECTOR
  Former Ambassador to Israel; Globe and Mail columnist

11:00AM-12:00PM: FRONTIER COLLEGE CONVERSATION BREAK

12:00PM-2:00PM: SESSION 2

• ADRIAN ANANTAWAN
  18-year-old virtuoso violinist
• TYLER BRULE
  Editorial Director, Wallpaper magazine
• MICHAEL BUDMAN
  Co-Founder, Roots
• DONALD ZIRALDO
  President and Co-Founder, Inniskillin Wines
• LIONEL TIGER
  Darwin Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, Author, "The Decline of Males"

2:00PM-3:00PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

3:00PM-4:40PM: SESSION 3

• BOB HUNTER
  Author, Ecologist, Founder of Greenpeace.
• EMORY KRISTOF
  National Geographic Photographer, Pioneer of the deep oceans.
• MARQ DE VILLIERS
  Author of "Water", Editorial Director, Where Magazine International
• JENNIFER MATHER
  Biologist and Psychologist, the "Jane Goodall of Calamari" -- Saturday Night Magazine.

4:40PM-5:40PM: FRONTIER COLLEGE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:40PM-7:40PM: SESSION 4

• DEEPA MEHTA
  Film director (Fire, Earth, Water), Producer and Screenwriter
• TRACY QUAN
  Author of "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl"; prostitutes rights activist; Salon.com columnist
• ELLIOTT WAHLE
  VP and GM, Toys "R" Us Times Square
• TERRY MOSHER
  Editorial Cartoonist, aka The Montreal Gazette's "Aislin"
• RONNIE BURKETT
  Puppeteer, "One of the world's geniuses" -- The Village Voice.

7:40PM-11:00PM: IDEACITY02 OPENING NIGHT PARTY @ THE ISABEL BADER

8:00AM-8:45AM: COFFEE

8:45AM-10:20AM: SESSION 5

• GENERAL JOHN DE CHASTELAIN
  Chairman of the International Body on the Decommissioning of Arms in Northern Ireland
• HENRY MORGENTALER
  Physician, Social Activist
• CLAYTON RUBY
  Lawyer, Social Activist
• IRSHAD MANJI Author, TV Personality and Media Entrepreneur

10:20AM-11:30AM: FRONTIER COLLEGE CONVERSATION BREAK

11:30AM-1:30PM: SESSION 6

• MARC GARNEAU
  Astronaut, President Canadian Space Agency
• CHRISTOPH SENSEN
  Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; overseeing research "holodeck" project, in association with Sun Microsystems, at the University of Calgary.
• DR. GREG ZESCHUK & DR. RAY MUZYKA
  Joint-CEOs of BioWare Corp., Co-Executive Producers of the first Star Wars role-playing game.
• JOSEF PENNINGER
  Medical Geneticist, Uncovered Master Gene for Osteoporosis
• DOUG PEROVIC
  Canada's "Nabob of Nanotechnology"; Chair of the U of T's Program in Nanoengineering, the first of its kind to be offered anywhere in the world

1:30PM-3:00PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

3:00PM-4:35PM: SESSION 7

• DIANE FRANCIS
  Editor-at-Large and Columnist, Financial Post of the National Post
• DAVID ZUSSMAN
  President, Public Policy Forum; Professor of Public Policy at the University of Ottawa
• DOUGLAS COUPLAND
  Novelist and Artist, "All Families Are Psychotic"
• PRESTON MANNING
  Senior Fellow Fraser Institute & The Canada West Foundation

4:35PM-5:40PM: FRONTIER COLLEGE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:40PM-7:15PM: SESSION 8

• QUARTETTO GELATO
  Internationally acclaimed Canadian classical-crossover quartet
• ANNA PORTER
  Publisher, Key Porter Books, Author
• SPIDER ROBINSON
  Science Fiction Author, "Callahan's Key", Musician, Punster
• PICO IYER
  Author, Travel Writer, "One of the 100 visionaries worldwide who could change your life" -- The Utne Reader

7:15PM-11PM: IDEACITY02 SUMMER SOLSTICE PARTY @ THE DESIGN EXCHANGE

8:00AM-8:45AM: COFFEE

8:45AM-10:45AM: SESSION 9

• BRIAN MACDONALD
  Stage director, choreographer
• JOHN ROBERT COLOMBO
  Canada's Master Gatherer
• DAVID RAKOFF
  Humourist, Essayist, Author of "Fraud"
• LINDSAY SHARP
  Director, National Museum of Science and Industry, London, UK
• MARY LOU FALLIS
  Soprano, Canada's Foremost Concert Comedienne

10:45AM-11:45AM: FRONTIER COLLEGE CONVERSATION BREAK

11:45AM-1:20PM: SESSION 10

• HERSHEY FELDER
  Concert Pianist, Actor and Composer
• WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI
  Meyereson Chair of Urbanism, Wharton/University of Pennsylvania
• DANIEL LIBESKIND
  Architect, Jewish Museum Berlin & San Francisco, selected as architect for "Renaissance ROM"
• LISE ANNE COUTURE
  Architect, Co-Founder Asymptote.

1:20PM-3:00PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

3:00PM - 4:40PM: SESSION 11

• KATHY REICHS
  Forensic Anthropologist, Author of Deja Dead.
• RICHARD MACDONALD
  President, World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies
• LAWRENCE SMITH
  Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Researcher at the Animal Reproduction Research Centre (Universite de Montreal); developed the original nuclear transfer technique used to produce the famous sheep 'Dolly', well known for cloning the famous bull 'Starbuck'.
• MARGARET WENTE
  Columnist, The Globe & Mail.

4:40PM-5:40PM: FRONTIER COLLEGE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:40PM-7:40PM: SESSION 12

• RONALD WRIGHT
  Author, "A Scientific Romance"
• EDDIE GREENSPAN
  Criminal Lawyer, Senior Partner Greenspan Henein & White
• SARAH SLEAN
  Pianist/Songwriter

7:40PM-1AM: IDEACITY02 CLOSING NIGHT PARTY AT THE CHUMCITY BUILDING