Presenters | Agenda

5:30PM-8:30PM EARLY REGISTRATION @ THE ISABEL BADER

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

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

• MOSES ZNAIMER & ARIEL KWAN (Violinist/Pianist)
• MICHAEL ADAMS
  President and CEO, Environics; Author, Sex in the Snow
• FRANCOIS PARENTEAU
  CEO Defiance Capital, LLC; named top independent analyst by Business Week.
• TED STOUT
  President and CEO, ROI Institute
• TERRY MOSHER
  Political Cartoonist, The Montreal Gazette; Cartoon Editor, Maclean's Magazine

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

11:45AM-1:50PM: SESSION 2

• JOSEPH MACINNIS
  Physician, Scientist, Deep-sea Explorer, Author, Environmentalist
• DARLENE LIM
  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center; Mars Researcher
• BRAD EDWARDS
  Institute for Scientific Research; Developer of 'The Space Elevator'
• JAYMIE MATTHEWS
  Astrophysicist, Mission Scientist, The MOST Project
• ALEXANDER TSIARAS
  Scientist, Artist, Journalist; President and CEO, Anatomical Travelogue.

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

2:50PM-4:25PM: SESSION 3

• ALEXANDRE TRUDEAU
  Writer, Filmmaker
• SEVERN CULLIS SUZUKI
  Environmentalist, Author, UNEP's Global 500 Award Recipient
• PAUL WELLS
  National Affairs Columnist (and 'Back Page' occupant), Maclean's
• DAVID ASPER
  Executive Vice President, CanWest Global Communications
• STRETCH WITH TESH

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

5:10PM-6:45PM: SESSION 4

• ANITA KUNZ
  Editorial Cartoonist, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker.
• IRENE PEPPERBERG
  MIT School of Architecture and Planning; Expert, Animal-Human Communications (Grey Parrots)
• LOU HAWTHORNE
  CEO Genetics Saving and Clone
• I FURIOSI
  Baroque Ensemble

7:00PM-11:00PM: NUVO OPENING NIGHT PARTY at the Sandra Ainsley Gallery

8:00AM-8:45AM: COFFEE

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

• ROBERT MUNSCH
  International Best-selling Children's Author
• CLEO PASKAL
  Peripatetic writer and broadcaster, Microstate fanatic
• SOOK YIN LEE
  Musician, Actor, Filmmaker
• KEN FINKLEMAN
  Writer, Director, Producer; The Newsroom
• HENRY AUBIN
  Investigative Journalist; Author, The Rescue of Jerusalem

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

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

• DEREK HATFIELD
  Sailor, "Around the World Alone" yacht race
• DAN BLANKENSHIP
  Treasure Hunter, Oak Island
• PAUL MOLLER
  Founder, Moller International; Inventor of the Skycar
• SHAKESPEARE WORKS

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

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

• JACK DIAMOND
  Architect, Diamond and Schmitt
• BRYCE RUTTER
  CEO Metaphase Design Group; Recipient, 'Design of the Decade' Award
• CHIP KIDD
  Writer, Graphic Designer, New Republic, New York Times, Vanity Fair Magazine Top 40 Designer
• RICHARD SATAVA
  Professor of Surgery, University of Washington Medical Centre; DARPA
• STRETCH WITH TESH

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

5:20PM-7:00PM: SESSION 8

• GABOR MATE
  Physician, Author, When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress
• FREDERIC BRENNER
  Photographer, Diaspora: Homeland in Exile
• EDWARD BURTYNSKY
  Photographer; "Manufactured Landscapes", Art Gallery of Ontario.
• JIMMY BOWSKILL
  Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter; 2004 Indie Award, Best Blues Artist.

7:00PM-11PM: IDEACITY04 PARTY AT THE DESIGN EXCHANGE

8:00AM-8:45AM: COFFEE

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

• MERS KUTT
  Inventor of the world's first personal Computer
• EVA VERTES
  Scientist, Researcher, student at Princeton; made a significant Alzheimer's discovery at the age of 15
• ASTRO TELLER
  Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of BodyMedia Inc.; Award winning novelist
• DAN FALK
  Author; Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything
• FOTINI MARKOPOULOU-KALAMARA
  Theoretical Physicist, Perimeter Institute, "One of the world's most promising young physicists", Scientific American.

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

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

• RICHARD GREENBLATT/ TED DYKSTRA
  Creators, 2 Pianos/4 Hands
• LEWIS MACKENZIE
  Commander, UN Peacekeeping Mission to 'Sector Sarajevo', Author
• DICK POUND
  International Olympic Committee; Author "Inside the Olympics"; Founding Chair, World Anti-Doping Agency
• JAMES LOCKYER
  Lawyer, Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted
• ROBERT KENNEDY JR.
  Defender of the Environment, Lawyer, Author

1:45PM-3:30PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

3:30PM - 5:30PM: SESSION 11

• ROBERT BATEMAN
  Artist, Naturalist
• LOLA RASMINSKY
  Founder, Avenue Road Arts School; Advocate for Arts Education
• LAURA KIPNIS
  Cultural Theorist, Author; Against Love: A Polemic
• JOHN INCE
  Lawyer, Sexual Activist, Author; The Politics of Lust
• ACHILLA ORRU
  Musician, Undisputed master of the kalimba (thumb piano)
• STRETCH WITH TESH

5:30PM-6:15PM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

6:15PM-7:55PM: SESSION 12

• SECOND CITY
  Mainstage Comedy Cast
• HARRY ROSEN
  Founder; Harry Rosen Inc.
• PAUL LEWIS
  Chair, English Dept., Boston College; Gothic Fiction, Gallows Humour
• JANE BUNNETT
  Modern Jazz Musician, Two-time Grammy nominee.

8:00PM: CLOSING NIGHT PARTY AT CHUM TELEVISION