Presenters | Agenda

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

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

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

• MOSES ZNAIMER & Virtuoso Violinist REBECCA BRENNER
• JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU
  Ocean Conservationist
• PHIL NUYTTEN
  Sub-sea engineer, diver, marine archaeologist
• DAVE WILLIAMS
  Astronaut, Director of Space and Life Sciences, NASA
• DARLENE LIM
  Researcher, Haughton-Mars Project, Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station.
• Special Presentation: Joseph MacInnis

11:00AM-11:45AM: : PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

11:45AM-1:20PM: SESSION 2

• RICK MERCER
  Writer/Actor/Comedian
• MARC EMERY
  Marijuana Activist, President, BC Marijuana Party
• MICHAEL STADTLANDER
  Chef, Eigensinn Farm; Host 'Stadtlander: Adventures in Dining' on The Food Network
• SANDRA SHAMAS
  Writer/Actor/Comedian

1:20PM-2:45PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

2:45PM-4:20PM: SESSION 3

• RANDY LARSEN
  Director, ANSER Institute for Homeland Securities; Bioterrorism Expert
• ROMEO DALLAIRE
  Former Commander of the UN Mission to Rwanda
• SCOTT TAYLOR
  War correspondent, Military Analyst, Editor ,Esprit de Corps magazine
• KIM ROSSMO
  Criminologist, Director of Research at the Washington-based Police Foundation, Developer of "Geographic Profiling"

4:20PM-5:05PM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:05PM-7:05PM: SESSION 4

• ADAM BLY
  Founder and Editor-In-Chief, SEED Magazine
• DOV CHARNEY
  CEO American Apparel: 'Sweatshop Free' t-shirts
• NELSON SKALBANIA
  Entrepreneur
• ANTHONY VON MANDL
  Proprietor, Mission Hill Family Estate
• THE COTTARS
  Celtic Quartet; Winners East Coast Music Award, Best New Artist 2003

7:30PM-11:00PM: IDEACITY03 OPENING NIGHT PARTY AT THE SANDRA AINSLEY GALLERY, SPONSORED BY THE CITY COLLEGE GEORGE BROWN AND THE GEORGE BROWN CHEF SCHOOL

8:00AM-8:45AM: COFFEE

9:00AM-11:00AM: SESSION 5

• DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE
  Director, McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, University of Toronto
• MICHAEL SHARA
  Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Curator of 'Einstein' at the American Museum of Natural History
• ROBERT J. SAWYER
  Sci-Fi Writer, The Terminal Experiment, Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year.
• TONY NOBLE
  Associate Director, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (selected as one of the top two scientific breakthroughs of 2002 by Discovery and Science magazine)
• OFRA HARNOY
  Cellist

11:00AM-11:45AM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

11:45AM-1:20PM: SESSION 6

• PAMELA WALLIN
  Consul General, New York City
• ANTHONY WILSON-SMITH
  Editor, Maclean's
• EDWARD GREENSPON
  Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Mail
• TERRY MOSHER
  Editorial Cartoonist, aka The Montreal Gazette's "Aislin"

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

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

• FELICE FRANKEL
  Science Photographer, MIT
• DOUGLAS CURRAN
  Photographer, Author "In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space"
• ALEXANDER TSIARAS
  Artist/Journalist/Technologist
• JOHN ABELE
  Inventor/Philanthropist/Founder Boston Scientific

4:35PM-5:20PM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:20PM-7:10PM: SESSION 8

• RUUT VEENHOVEN
  Sociologist, Empirical Study of Happiness
• NICHOLAS CAMPBELL
  Actor, Da Vinci's Inquest
• GEORGE BOWERING
  Writer, Poet Laureate
• JULIANA CHEN
  World Champion Magician

7:30PM-11PM: IDEACITY03 PARTY AT THE DESIGN EXCHANGE

8:00AM-8:45AM: COFFEE

9:00AM-10:35AM: SESSION 9

• WADE DAVIS
  Explorer/Ethno-botanist
• WILL ALSOP
  Architect, Alsop Architects, London UK
• HOKAN COLTING
  CEO 21st Century Airships: Manufacturer of the World's Most Advanced Airships
• BRUCE KIRKBY
  Adventurer, Photographer, Author, Sand Dance: By Camel Across Arabia's Great Southern Desert

10:35AM-11:20AM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

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

• NEKO CASE
  Singer/Musician/Songwriter
• MARVIN MINSKY
  Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, MIT; Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence
• JARON LANIER
  Computer Scientist/Composer/Artist/Author; coined the term 'Virtual Reality'
• LEE SMOLIN
  Theoretical Physicist/Cosmologist
• JOHN PERRY BARLOW
  Electronic Frontier Foundation, Former Grateful Dead lyricist and Harvard Fellow

1:20PM-2:50PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

2:50PM - 4:25PM: SESSION 11

• KEN WIWA
  Author, Human Rights Activist
• MARGARET MACMILLAN
  Author, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
• ERNA PARIS
  Author, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
• BEYOND THE PALE
  Traditional Klezmer Folk Musicians

4:25PM-5:10PM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:10PM-6:45PM: SESSION 12

• TED STOUT
  Founder and CEO, the ROI Institute (Return On Innovation).
• JANE URQUHART
  Author, The Stone Carvers, Away
• RONNIE BURKETT
  Puppeteer, "One of the world's geniuses" -- The Village Voice.
• NANCY WHITE
  Musician, Journalist, Theatrical Performer, The Queen of The Topical Song

7:00PM: IDEACITY03 CLOSING NIGHT PARTY AT CHUM TELEVISION, FEATURING THE ESCADA FASHION SHOW