Co-Founder/CEO, Alstari Corporation

Dr. Suhayya Abu-Hakima is a serial entrepreneur in Artificial Intelligence who has advanced the field over a 40 year period. She has hundreds of published papers and speeches about AI, security, messaging and entrepreneurship. She published a lessons learned book in 2024 about her two AI startups and two successful exits to NASDAQ companies. Her 48 patents are cited by Google Scholar over 2700 times by companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, IBM, Ford, and Blackberry. She has won numerous personal and company awards for her 3 startups. She is vested in the order of Ontario for her work in ...

Professor, INRS - Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Dr. Sonia Aïssa, Professor at INRS, Univ. du Québec, is highly esteemed as a leading researcher who contributed extensively in expanding Canadian impact in the field of wireless communications worldwide. Her pioneering work on cognitive radio, multi-antenna systems, cross-layer design and resource management has been highly influential and enabled advances in engineering design. She is widely published and is known as an extraordinary mentor of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Her contributions influence professional practice, also through important governance and organizational ...

Nemkumar Banthia, Professor, Distinguished University Scholar, and Sr. Canada Research Chair is a world-famous materials scientist and an authority on sustainable concrete infrastructure. His work includes, on the one hand, development of ultra-high performance, low carbon concrete materials and on the other hand, development of low-cost sensors that can create cyber-physical interfaces for monitoring the health of concrete infrastructure thereby enhancing their safety and sustainability. Dr. Banthia holds eight patents and has published over 400 refereed papers. He serves as the ...

Prinicipal, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Golder Associates

Leader of the International Ground Engineering Group in Golder Associates and widely recognized as one of the foremost Geoengineers in Canada, Dr. Dennis Becker has made distinguished contributions to geotechnical engineering practice, the profession, and scholarship. Major projects include the foundation design for the Confederation Bridge, the St. Clair Rail Tunnel, Offshore sand fill islands in the Beaufort Sea, and projects involving oil sands, pipelines, resource development, waste management, and dam safety assessment. Professional contributions include Presidency of the Canadian ...

Distinguished University Professor, University of Ottawa

Professor Pierre Berini has made pioneering contributions to photonics, particularly to the area of surface plasmons and their application to integrated optical circuits, telecommunication devices and (bio)chemical sensors. He has made significant contributions to the Engineering profession via the organization of major international conferences, through teaching and mentoring in the Faculty of Engineering, by leading many industry-funded research and development projects, by initiating several transfers of technology to Canadian industry including the creation of a spin-off company, and by ...

Professor, University of British Columbia

Vijay Bhargava has made fundamental research contributions in the field of cellular wireless communications. This research represents an evolution of his earlier pioneering research in error control coding and spread spectrum; error control coding devices designed by him are used by several industries and government agencies. He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and has served on numerous committees for NSERC, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Canada Research Chairs Program and the Science Council of British Columbia. Vijay Bhargava was also Editor of the Canadian Journal ...

Retired

Catherine Booth has made superior contributions as an engineer, consultant, Chief Information Officer and Board member. She has managed large-scale, complex, technology-based transformation projects that have enabled organizations in need of broad changes to their processes, strategies, technologies and human resources to stay competitive and successful. She is a tireless mentor of women in engineering and other fields, and has pioneered the teaching of change and project management to engineers as an industry professor. She received a Top 40 Under 40 Award (2003) and was named one of ...

Professor, Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Neil Bose is a naval architect and ocean engineer who is recognized as an international expert in marine propulsion, underwater robotics and autonomous underwater vehicles. He was a senior academic administrator at Memorial University. Prior to this, he was Principal of the Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania.

Richard Boudreault is a recognized aerospace and energyauthority who has served on key international committees, and an accomplished teacher. His work in medical imaging led to a new optical platform for breast cancer imaging and for drug development. He is spearheading, scientifically and strategically, development of a new process for the production of alumina which will potentially displace billions of dollars of Canadian imports and impact the aluminum industry worldwide. He is also a recognized expert in venture capital and in the development of technology-based companies, having served ...

Professor, University of Ottawa

Azzedine Boukerche is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. He earned an international reputation in the field of wireless networking, distributed and mobile computing areas, and for fundamental research contributions to performance evaluation of dynamic load balancing and data distribution management for large scale distributed simulation systems & design of novel localization and coverage protocols for wireless and mobile ad hoc and sensor networks. His research is widely recognized by his peers, and the results have been published in highly regarded IEE and ACM ...

Adjunct Professor, McGill University

Gilles Bourque is a world-renowned gas turbine expert bringing together the industrial research as senior key expert in combustion at Siemens Energy Canada and academic research as adjunct Professor in the mechanical engineering department of McGill University. He has made significant contribution to the advancement of the development of aeroderivative gas turbine combustion system enabling enhanced operation and fuel flexibility, at the same time as reducing pollutant emissions.

Professor Raouf Boutaba is an internationally recognized authority and leading researcher in the management of communication networks and services. He is particularly known for his pioneering contributions to automated and policy-based network management, which opened new exciting possibilities toward self-managing networks and autonomic computing, and for his ground breaking work on network virtualization as a foundation for the future Internet architecture. His research work is published, with high impact, in top-tier IEEE journals and conferences, and received several Best Paper Awards and ...

Director and Vice President, Parson's Inc.

Mr. Bowes has made a substantial contribution to the development and advancement of the consulting engineering industry in Canada and abroad with emphasis on quality management issues generally and transportation in particular. His success has allowed him to become Director and Vice President of Parson's Inc., where he continues to work currently. 

Satinder Kaur Brar is an internationally recognized environmental engineer, producing cutting-edge sustainable technologies for global health and environmental safety. She has pioneered innovative approaches in environmental engineering, bridging green chemistry and biotechnology. She has charted new directions in sustainable production and reusing bioproducts, giving new life to wastes by recycling them into industrial processes or back to the Earth. Using interdisciplinary evidence, Brar's groundbreaking work has fostered the value-addition of wastes and simultaneous decontamination in ...

Dr. Clive Brereton is a creative innovator and problem solver with an extraordinary record of outstanding accomplishments. His innovations have made key contributions to the development of NORAM's highly successful nitrobenzene technology, which accounts for more than half of the world production. Among his strategic initiatives, he has led the creation of an electrochemical business, which has grown in enterprise to a status comparable to the nitrobenzene business. Heis an enthusiastic mentor and teacher, passing on hispassion for engineering innovation to the next generation of engineers ...

Chairman, Business Arts Inc.

Bill has owned, founded and funded numerous businesses in the high tech field, with particular interest in information systems and imaging. He is a pioneer in imaging, having been a principal and later Chairman of IMAX Corporation from 1970 to 1995. Under his and his partners' leadership, IMAX grew into a global entertainment company with production and distribution of over 100 films and 100 theatre operations in 18 countries. He was also a co-founder and former President of SCIEX Corporation, a provider of high-speed and ultra-trace analytical instrumentation with yearly sales exceeding $600 ...

Dr. Steven Bryant's innovations in engineering, geoscience and materials science reduce and even reverse the environmental impacts of fossil fuels. His breakthroughs in carbon capture and storage remediate existing climate issues and prevent future problems, while his transdisciplinary approach gathers perspectives from the humanities, law, business, and communities, ensuring socially responsible development that considers the values of the people directly impacted by it. Industries, universities, and governments around the world seek his counsel on technical and policy solutions to combat ...

Wealth Advisor, Woodland Wealth

Dr. Carol Ann Budd is an exemplary advocate for Indigenous persons in engineering and more broadly for education of Indigenous persons in STEM. Her engineering innovation has led to a top-place finish in the Canadian Engineering Design Competition and to the development of novel airbag technology that has been adopted worldwide. Dr. Budd has dedicated her career to advancing Indigenous contributions in engineering through leadership of the Canadian Aboriginal Science and Technology Society (CASTS), the Indigenous Futures in Engineering initiative at Queen's, Indigenous Council at Queen's ...

Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces

Major-General Carignan's career in the Canadian Armed Forces has shown excellence in appointments ranging from commander of a combat engineer regiment in Afghanistan to Commandant of the College Militiare Royal, St Jean. Presently, she is the Commander of the 2nd Canadian Division and Joint Task Force (East), her being the first woman to hold this position and the first to be promoted to the rank of general officer in the combat arms. Known for her decisiveness and military and engineering skills, she received the Meritorious Service Cross for her outstanding leadership in Afghanistan. In ...

Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

Dr. Carty is the Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Waterloo, Special Advisor to the President on international science and technology collaboration and Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry. From 2004-2008, he served as Canada's first National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister and to the Government of Canada. Prior to his appointment as National Science Advisor, he was President of the National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada's National Laboratory, for ten years (1994-2004). Dr Carty has a PhD in inorganic chemistry from ...

Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Professor Victor Castañohas pioneered the surface modification of nanostructures, in particular carbon nanotubes, where some of his papers are among the most cited in literature. He has received numerous awards in Mexico and internationally and is one of the most prolific and cited Latin American scholars, with over 700 peer-reviewed articles and more than 12,500 citations. He has had academic and industrial relations with Canada for more than three decades, promoting student and faculty exchanges, starting Mexican-Canadian companies and organizing joint conferences. He is the only scientist ...

Vice-chancellor, University of Western Australia

Amit Chakma has shown outstanding academic and engineering leadership and has made extensive research contributions in the areas of green house gas issues and environmental system modeling. He has attained a unique balance between national and internationally recognized technical accomplishments and providing scholarly and administrative direction at the University level. As well he has contributed substantively to community boards, research networks and national innovation initiatives. Engineer Chakma has a remarkable record of scientific, academic, societal and professional achievements ...

Professor, University of New Brunswick

Dr. Chang, Professor at the University of New Brunswick, is recognized as an authority and a world leader in the field of renewable energy conversion and distributed electric power systems. His accomplishments included innovation and development of electronic power converters that enable the integration of wind energy, solar energy and marine energy systems with the electric power grid. He has created a world class research lab at UNB where he has trained new graduates as leaders in the field and he has established the Canadian Wind Energy Strategic Network, a nationwide partnership among ...

Professor, Polytechnique Montreal

Jamal Chaouki is internationally known for his expertise in fluidized beds, and particularly for his innovations involving the methods of measuring multi-phase flows, the fluidization of fine dust particles, the production of new composites by polymerization of compounding, the development of 4th generation high temperature fibre optics, and new energy producing technologies through natural gas. He holds nine invention patents, has authored 5 book chapters and more than 250 articles published in committee-assessed scientific journals. In addition to being a skilful contractor, a distinguished ...

Principal Research Scientist, National Research Council Canada

Pavel Cheben has made pioneering contributions to photonics and integrated optics science and technology, in particular the discovery of a new type of optical waveguide based on subwavelength grating engineering. This work is of great importance in advanced silicon photonics integrated circuits. He also contributed to the discovery of static Fourier-transform on-chip spectrometer leading to ultra-compact spectroscopic instruments, and contributed innovations in the technology of the evanescent field waveguide sensors and engineering applications in genomics and pathogen detection. He has also ...