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Wednesday December 2, 2009
Please note that this event is taking place just prior to A Festival of Seasons |
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3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
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Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa, 101 Lyon Street |
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No charge but please RSVP hhammond@ocri.ca |
OCRI, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ottawa's technology clusters invite you to this exciting presentation by Dr David Jacobson, futurist and Director - Emerging Technologies, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). This interactive presentation will provide a showcase of technology - business trends in Information, Communications, Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Electronics, Software and Computers, and Entertainment and Media including: technology ecosystem; winners in wireless; players in networks; participative brains and some audience participation; nanoparticle contrast; optical communications; semiconductors resurge; reality augmented; remote microscopes; mining tacit knowledge; clouds of computing; IT follows power; security adds behaviour; electric vehicles - charged up, sun-power rises; actively passive RFID. Several of these trends will be illustrated using engaging video clips.
Speaker: Dr. David Jacobson is Director - Emerging Technologies, PricewaterhouseCoopers in Toronto.
David is the Canadian member of PwC's global community of technology-business specialists. David focuses on a broad range of emerging technologies and advises on their commercial prospects. His multi-faceted career as a professor at Harvard University, in international industry, research management, venture capital and advisory services, brings to his presentations a refreshingly unique and engaging view.
