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Board Governance Stream: Location. Location Speaker: John Guttormson Senior Business Development Officer University of Winnipeg. Overview A federal-provincial investment with an endowment from Cisco Systems included a significant contribution of its TelePresence system to UWinnipeg.
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Board Governance Stream: Location. Location Speaker: John Guttormson Senior Business Development Officer University of Winnipeg
Overview • A federal-provincial investment with an endowment from Cisco Systems included a significant contribution of its TelePresence system to UWinnipeg. • The endowment will fund a research Chair in Collaborative Technologies
The Solution • TelePresence: • is a fully immersive, high definition video and spatial audio experience. • Yet this is much more than traditional video conferencing: • an interactive real time broadcasting network experience is created • life sized images: the “Goldilocks effect”
Suggested Ways to Take the Plunge… The Application: • 1. Determine meeting and travel costs • 2. Assess benefits beyond the hard dollar • 3. Examine lateral opportunities • Start at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7060/index.html