Education Stream – John McLeod, Director of Marketing, Desire2Learn

2. Education Stream – John McLeod, Director of Marketing, Desire2Learn Telecom and Distribution – James Maynard, President, The Wavefront Accelerator Centre and Paul West, Business Development Manager, Rhyzome Networks Research - Dr. Gerri Sinclair, Emerging Space Technologies Strategies eHealth – Krista Jones, Advisor and Practice Lead, IT, Communications and Entertainment, MaRS Human Resources – Hubert Saint-Onge, Principal of SaintOnge Alliance Inc Natural Resources – Tom Ogaranko, CEO, Redengine Inc Media & Entertainment – Paul Salvini, CTO and VP, Canadian operations, Side Effects Software Public Sector – Eugene Roman, CTO, OpenText www.canada30.ca #cda30

4. Education Stream

5. Education Stream Key Findings • “Going Mobile – Transforming the way we live, learn, & play” • Learning / Task Design is critical • Learning has many forms • Infrastructure is Key • “The Gamification of Learning” • Effective Tool - but it depends • Gaming drives engagement • Problem solving, team building, strategy development • “Harnessing Social Media for Collaborative Learning” • • Pro: Overcomes Social Isolation • • Con: Compulsive use = failure of self-regulation • • Agreed on : Immense potential BUT must be regulated • “Productive Learning for our Canadian Workforce” • Country’s competitiveness = Quality of Life for people • People Drive Change - Technology is to enable • Canada to establish leadership in design, development and marketing in technology and • media www.canada30.ca #cda30

6. Telecommunication and Distribution Stream

7. Telecom & Distribution Key Findings www.canada30.ca #cda30

8. 1. Develop a coordinated unified national strategy for both public and private infrastructure operators 2. Ask all Canada 3.0 attendees to sign on to the "i-Canada Declaration" 3. Use social media to drive public leaders towards community focused "digital" applications (i-health, i-learning...) 4. Embrace, educate and promote quality of life applications on machine to machine (M2M) Telecom & Distribution Action Plan Outcome www.canada30.ca #cda30

9. Research Stream

10. Research Stream Aligning colleges/universities with the new realities of the digital media industry Recognizing the crucial role of the social sciences and humanities in the digital age Canadian public policy on digital media needs to be formed by cutting edge research Games are different; how do we meet the challenge bridging between academia and industry www.canada30.ca #cda30

11. eHealth Stream

12. eHealth Stream Key Findings Summary of the Canadian eHealth Landscape • Why eHealth? • Major opportunities exist for innovative digital solutions to add value for clinicians and patients • Digital solutions are needed to: • Improve quality of care • Increase access to care • Improve health outcomes • Focus on wellness versus treatment • Manage system efficiencies to save time and money • Need cost-effective solutions to address the challenges of an increasingly strained healthcare system www.canada30.ca #cda30

13. Digital solutions are needed to… • Improve information flow and connectedness of healthcare system • Reduce the errors made in treatment of the elderly • Create tools that support the social connectedness of the aging population • Patient and clinician engagement in all aspects of innovation • Governments need to embrace organic idea and solution generation • Build social networking solutions that bridge the gaps between patients and caregivers, and patients with other patients www.canada30.ca #cda30

14. Human Resources Stream

15. Human Resources Stream Key issues The skills required for the most part are hybrid business-technology skills as well as specialized technology skills within ICT and multidisciplinary Better gender balance: 25% female participation in 700,000-person ICT workforce Worst labour market gaps in greatest, most high-value career areas • Lack of understanding of the careers available in what is still an “immature” field where the roles and the pathways to them are not codified - perceived as a “blob” of careers • Market data does not reflect today’s labour market, a barrier to liquidity & responsiveness • Canada’s productivity gap in large measure is a consequence of these problems www.canada30.ca #cda30 #hr

16. What needs to be done about this… Change perceptions, resources and behaviours with regards to careers in the digital media arena Leaders in government & across all sectors articulate the opportunities and what can be done to access them Reinvent business-technology education to remove obsolete stove pipes and grow investment in programs with this new perspective Skills development for the sector must include more emphasis on entrepreneurship, management, business and marketing Attract female enrollments in high value ICT-related programs Create a skills data mart to drive work force agility & innovation Ensure that full range of digital literacy skills are a priority in primary, secondary, post-secondary & lifelong learning Identify and disseminate new IT tools and processes that will help Canadian DM content creators to distinguish themselves and excel in the international market for cultural content Develop specific leadership skills, knowledge and abilities as related to digital media workers and the distributed team work environment Explore how to develop and facilitate an online mentor network that would match mentors and mentees for specific strategic business problems www.canada30.ca #cda30 #hr

17. Natural Resources Stream

18. Natural Resources Stream Key Findings Title: Can Digital Media Save our Cities? Key Insights: 1. It is about culture 2. It is about an attitude of collaboration 3. It is about open data. 4. It is about smart cyberinfrastructure Our challenge: Can Canada create 20 new Smart Cities by 2017? The urgency: 1800 people moves from rural India into cities during the time of our talk, the need is critical and our opportunity as we succeed is global. Title: the Canadian Cleantech Advantage: building Canada's Next Competitive Advantage Key message : Canada has the potential to have 20 $100 million revenue cleantech companies' by 2020 although some systemic barriers need to be addressed. The challenges and lessons from Cleantech and Digital Media are very instructive and should be viewed together. www.canada30.ca #cda30

19. Media and Entertainment Stream

20. Media & Entertainment Key Findings The Evolution of Content Consumers are adapting and migrating to mobility, portability (ie: tablets, PDAs), where convenience to consume content is leading industry growth. The audience is enfranchised; de facto interactive and participatory. "The culture of speed" is Canada's greatest digital media challenge - prioritizing content and managing the demand for immediate content. Developing Your Digital Roadmap The cloud is supporting the new era high-demand, quality and quantity capability, and fast becoming a critical component supporting rich media and speed demand. Social media strategy is the new cornerstone of business relationship building. Canadian Content: Creation, Financing and Management Stark contrast persists between old media/traditional publishing and new media for regulation, risk financing, support of innovation and in privacy; proving to continue to be a volatile experiment. The practice of financing content must diversify, capitalizing on the changing digital landscape, ensuring the product is a marketable commodity. www.canada30.ca #cda30

21. Public Sector Stream

22. 1. Canada has a home court advantage example: CANARIE, excellent colleges and universities, world scale 95:5 companies, How do we leverage this in the rising digital content world of teh future? 2. The Role of Government, Universities and commercial enterprises must change to accommodate the hunt for new ideas and collaboration to produce many RIMs made in Canada 3. Historic regulation must become digitally smart regulation to enable the growth and development of 95:5 enterprises www.canada30.ca #cda30

24. Steve Currie Vice President, Business Services Communitech

25. Road to Banff Sponsors www.canada30.ca #cda30

26. Pitch Competition – Road to Banff Venture Forum @

27. Not-for-profit foundation Mission Linking Canada’s highest quality, emerging technology companies to the most active and supportive investors May 2011

28. Focus ‘Commercialization pain points’ faced by SMEs Canadian not-for-profit technology commercialization associations, incubators and innovation centres typically are focused on first 2 items; CapitalRoad has a unique focus on ‘access to capital’ programs and events CapitalRoad approach based on innovative, synergistic relationships with partner organizations across Canada and beyond May 2011

29. Approach • Canada’s premiere, early stage, technology access-to-capital forums • Develop mutually beneficial program opportunities with partners • Deliver a national program locally, with strong local partners • Partners include not-for-profits (e.g. CDMN), industry and government • Assist in delivering programs to early-stage companies as part of Canada’s technology commercialization support ecosystem • Help develop Canada’s technology commercialization support ecosystem • e.g. exploring development of eLearning network infrastructure with partners • Increase international investor participation • US, Europe and Asia May 2011

30. Leading investment forums Forums focus – ‘ internationalizing the Canadian Investment Environment” • Canada’s largest, longest-operating “early stage/seed stage” technology investment forums • ICT, life sciences and energy/cleantech • Banff Venture Forum: largest event in Canada; 13th year (October 6th-7th, 2011) • Canadian Financing Forum: 15thyear (February 2nd-3rd , 2012) • World class panels and keynotes in addition to investor presentation opportunities by entrepreneurs May 2011

31. Banff keynote dinner May 2011

32. Road to Banff program • Introduce early stage companies to access to capital issues/approaches • Basis for regional pitch competitions • Operated by regional partners and sponsors • CapitalRoad co-brands competitions and provides ‘on-site’ bootcamp and mentoring support to winning companies at Banff Venture Forum • Current ‘Road to Banff Pitch Competitions’ • canada 3.0 • Manitoba business plan competition (June 2011) • Other pitch competitions being discussed with groups across Canada • e.g. competition being planned for Alberta in September May 2011

33. Entrepreneurs can win trip to BVF • Full access pass to Banff Venture Forum 2011 (October 6th-7th, 2011) • Travel and hotel expenses paid • Access to all event sessions, lunches and Keynote Dinner • On-site Bootcamp(Wednesday, October 5th, 2011) • Presented by investment professionals and experienced service providers • Other attendees drawn from other provincial/regional pitch competitions • On-site mentoring during BVF2011 • Mentors assigned to companies to help guide them through BVF and improve their networking and learning opportunities • Mentors are experienced investor and/or service professionals May 2011

34. Contacts Don Kjosness President, CEO and Director; CapitalRoad kjosness@telusplanet.net Marc Elrick Executive Director, Banff Venture Forum & Canadian Financing Forum marc@criticalpathgroup.com www.thecapitalroad.com www.banffventureforum.com www.financingforum.com May 2011

35. Road to Banff Sponsors www.canada30.ca #cda30

37. Dr. Ian Wilson Executive Director, The Stratford Institute