Thursday April 10

• Nicholas Carr, Author and ex-publisher of the prestigious Harvard Business Review, United States.

• Lead facilitator: Paul Prévost, Associate Professor, Business Administration School,  Sherbrooke University and Scientific Director,  CEFRIO, Canada.

Speakers

• Estve Juanola-Feliu, directeur de l'innovation, Centre d'ingénierie Micro@Nanosystems, Université de Barcelone, Espagne. Presentation
• Jean-François Brucel, Industrial Commissioner, Communications and Citizens, Relaionships Branch, City of Montreal, Canada. Presentation
   

• Creative Territories - Workshop 5
   How to support the transformation of a region into a creative territory?


• Lead facilitator: Bruno Jean, Professor, Université du Québec à Rimouski and Holder of the Canadian Research Chair in Rural Development, Canada.

Speakers

• Franck Burdeyron, Director of Strategic Consulting,  e- Conception.Net/Ocalia and, Research Officer, Master Pro Rural Planning and Development, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Charnoz-sur-Ain, France. Presentation
• Antoine Audet, Project Manager of D’Avignon-Bonaventure - The Innovative RCMs: IT and Internet Use to support rural development,  CEFRIO, Canada. Presentation

• Creative Business Networks:To Build on Winning Combinations  - Workshop 6
  How have to edge on competition on 2010?
  *Simultaneous translation for this workshop


• Lead facilitator: Réal Jacob, Director of Executive and Continuing Education Member, HEC Montréal, Canada.

 Speakers

• Lars Bo Jeppensen, Director, Danish User-Centered Innovation Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark.

12:15 p.m. - CONFERENCE LUNCH

Turning our Regions into Creative Centers

• Randall Kempner,  Vice-president, Regional Innovation, Council on Competitiveness, United States. Presentation
  

14 p.m. - INTERNATIONAL ROUNDTABLE

Right to Speak

• Moderator: Réal Jacob, Director of Executive and Continuing Education Member, HEC Montréal, Canada.

Speakers

• Frédéric Creplet, Associate Professor of Management Sciences, Economic and Management Department, Université Louis-Pasteur, Strasburg, and Associate Director, VOIRIN Consultants, Schiltigheim, France.
• Francine Bonicalzi, President & CEO, Technopole Vallée du Saint-Maurice, Trois-Rivières, Canada.
• Paul-Arthur Huot, President & CEO, Pôle Québec Chaudière-Appalache, Québec, Canada.
• Randall Kempner, Vice-President, Regional Innovation,  Council on Competitiveness, United States.
• Geneviève Tanguay, Assistant Deputy Minister at the Research, Innovation, Science and Society Branch of the Quebec Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Exportation, Canada.