2017 Agenda – ORION THINK Conference

What was THINK: Open about?

At THINK: Open on May 24, 2017, we brought together leaders of our public institutions, subject matter experts, and practitioners to understand how the commons impacts our research, education and innovation sectors.

We considered the technology, policies and relationships that enable access, modification, and sharing of the ideas, data and content required to accelerate innovation.

8:00am	Registration and breakfast
9:00am	Ontario on the Open Road
9:45am	Ontario Digital Infrastructure Update
10:00am 10:15am	Break Concurrent Sessions Education Stream The Circle of Six Research Stream Bioinformatics and medical research: Optimizing data science to accelerate health Intelligent Communities Stream Bridging the data divide: Closing the “Open” gap Tech Stream (10:15-10:45am) A technician’s intro to Software Defined Networking (SDN) open frameworks
11:00am	Concurrent Sessions Education Stream The continuum of “Open” in education Research Stream Sharing and managing scientific data Intelligent Communities Stream Open Data in Reverse Tech stream SDN and the State of OpenFlow with the Open Networking Foundation (10:45-11:15am) The Journey into SDN (11:15-11:45am)
11:45am	Lunch and Leadership Awards Ceremony
1:00pm	eCampus Ontario presents: Five Perspectives on Open Education in Ontario Tech Stream: The future of Open in Infrastructure – A panel discussion
1:45pm	International perspectives and how Ontario fares Pavel Richter Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge International Nosa Ero-Brown Director of the Open Government Office, Ontario’s Treasury Board Secretariat Jean-Noé Landry Executive Director of Open North Moderator: Richard Garner
2:30pm 3:00pm	Closing Remarks Network Reception

What was THINK: Open about?

Ontario on the Open Road

Ontario Digital Infrastructure Update

Concurrent Sessions

Concurrent Sessions

Lunch and Leadership Awards Ceremony

International perspectives and how Ontario fares

Closing Remarks

Network Reception