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

7:15AM-8:45AM: LATE REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

8:45AM-11:15AM: SESSION 1

• MOSES ZNAIMER WITH ARIEL KWAN AND JIMMY BOWSKILL
  Virtuoso Violinist/Pianist and Blues Guitarist/Singer
• GUY MILLER
  Expert in Biotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry & Critical Care Medicine; Edison Pharmaceuticals
• JOSEF PENNINGER
  Geneticist; Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna
• MEHRAN ANVARI
  Founding Director, Centre for Minimal Access Surgery, McMaster University
• AMANDA PEET
  Theoretical Physicist in High-Energy; Professor, University of Toronto

11:15AM-12NOON: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

12NOON-1:35PM: SESSION 2

• EVELYN HART, KAREN KAIN AND VERONICA TENNANT
  World-renowned Prima Ballerinas
• TOMSON HIGHWAY
  Award-Winning Playwright; Pianist
• RICHARD GREENBLATT
  Stage Writer, Actor & Director, Two Pianos Four Hands
• DUO SIMILIA
  Annie & Nadia Labrie, identical twin guitar and flute duo

1:35PM-2:50PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

2:50PM-4:55PM: SESSION 3

• SCOTT TAYLOR
  War Correspondent; Military Analyst; Author; Journalist, Esprit de Corps
• RICHARD ROHMER
  Major General (Ret.), Canadian Armed Forces; Author; Lawyer
• STRETCH WITH TESH
  Yoga and Dance Pioneer
• RP EDDY
  Founder, Executive Director, Center for Tactical Counter Terrorism, Manhattan Institute
• JAMES YOUNG
  Federal Department of Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness

4:55PM-5:40PM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:40PM-7:30PM: SESSION 4

• DENISE DONLON
  Former President, Sony Music Canada; Two-time Gemini Award-winning Broadcast Executive
• BRAD PEYTON
• CHRIS LANDRETH
  Director of "Ryan"; 2004 Oscar winner for Best Animated Short Film
• FREE FOR ALL #1
• QUAGMYRE
  Celtic-inspired musicians and step-dancers

7:30PM-11:00PM: BENNETT JONES OPENING NIGHT PARTY AT THE SANDRA AINSLEY GALLERY

8:00AM-8:45AM: COFFEE

8:45AM-10:35AM: SESSION 5

• HARRY STINSON
  Real-estate developer
• DEREK HATFIELD
  Skipper, Spirit of Canada Ocean Challenges
• CHAT WITH JOE MACINNIS
• DOUGLAS CARDINAL
  Architect, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
• HELMUT LIPSKY
  Fusion/Jazz/World Beat/New Age Violinist and Composer

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

11:20AM-1:35PM: SESSION 6

• MARK LIPONIS
  Medical Director, Canyon Ranch Health Resorts; Author
• ALAN HIRSCH
  Neurological Director, Smell & Taste Research Foundation and Treatment Foundation
• JOSH FREED
  Filmmaker; Journalist; Author
• STEPHANIE LAFARGE
  Senior Director of Counseling Services, ASPCA
• CHRIS KILHAM
  Author, Hot Plants; Explorer-In-Residence, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1:20PM-2:35PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

2:35PM-4:40PM: SESSION 7

• PETER C. NEWMAN
  Journalist; Author, Here Be Dragons
• RICK SMOLAN
  Against All Odds Productions; large-scale global photographic projects
• TERRY MOSHER
  AKA Aislin; Editorial Cartoonist, Maclean's & The Montreal Gazette
• LAUGHTER YOGA STRETCH
  Shiv and Sarita Sud, Founders of the Toronto Laughter Yoga Club

4:40PM-5:25PM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:25PM-7:15PM: SESSION 8

• JEROME GODBOO
  Blues Harmonica player and vocalist
• RAFFI CAVOUKIAN
  Singer/Songwriter, Author, Chair of the Troubadour Foundation
• KEN DANBY
  Contemporary Realist Painter
• FREE FOR ALL #2
• SAMBA SQUAD
  World drum percussionists; led by award-winning Rick Shadrach Lazar

7:15PM-11:00PM: THE ROOTS PARTY

8:00AM-8:45AM: COFFEE

8:45AM-10:20AM: SESSION 9

• CAROLYN ABRAHAM
  Medical Reporter, Globe and Mail; Author, Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain
• ADAM BLY
  Founder & CEO, Seed Media Group
• RICHARD TERRILE
  Astronomer; NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
• DAVE LAVERY
  Program Executive, Solar System Exploration & Mars Exploration, NASA Headquarters

10:20AM-11:05AM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

11:05-1:10PM: SESSION 10

• MARK ABLEY
  Author, Spoken Here: Travels With Threatened Languages; Journalist
• SAM HARRIS
  Author, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason
• DAVE IRVINE-HALLIDAY
  Founder, Light Up The World; Professor, University of Calgary
• JUNE CALLWOOD
  Journalist; Author; Social Activist, Founder of Casey House

1:10PM-2:25PM: LUNCH (OPEN)

2:25-4:30PM: SESSION 11

• VACLAV SMIL
  Expert, China; World Food Production; Population; Energy; the Environment
• GUNTHER VON HAGENS
  Creator, Body Worlds; Inventor of human body plastination technique
• STRETCH WITH TESH AND LAUGHTER YOGA
• FREE FOR ALL #3
• ADAM COHEN
  Singer/Songwriter; Frontman for Low Millions

4:30-5:15PM: PANASONIC: IDEAS FOR LIFE CONVERSATION BREAK

5:15-6:40PM: SESSION 12

• CRAIG AND MARC KIELBURGER
  Social Activists, Founders of Free The Children & Leaders Today
• GORD DOWNIE
  Musician, The Tragically Hip; Poet; Short-film Actor
• ROBERT KENNEDY JR.
  Environmental Lawyer & Activist; President of the WaterKeeper Alliance
• SECOND CITY MAINSTAGE CAST
  Actors from Toronto's Famous Comedy Troupe

7PM - Midnight BRASSERIE FRISCO CLOSING NIGHT PARTY AT CHUM TELEVISION IN SUPPORT OF LAKE ONTARIO WATERKEEPER