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 Welcome
The CENGN Summit has grown its reputation as the #1
event for the latest developments in the Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Each year, we bring
together multinational companies, start-ups & scale ups,
industry accelerators, government, and academia for a day
packed with engaging keynotes, expert panels, technology
exhibitions, and most importantly...valuable networking!
Featuring our brand new 2019 Technical and Innovation
Tracks, our program has been developed to emphasize the
great impact disruptive technology and innovation is having
on the business sector as well as our lives. We hope you will
take advantage of this opportunity to make meaningful
connections, contribute to discussions, walk away with new
insights, and have some fun!
Mission & Vision
CENGN is the Centre of Excellence in Next Generation
Networks. Our mission is to drive technology innovation and
industry growth through our test bed, technical expertise,
talent development, and partner ecosystem. Our vision
is to advance global technology for the prosperity of all
Canadians. CENGN collaborates with top ICT multinationals,
the public sector, financial institutions, and academic partners
to help Canadian small and medium enterprises overcome
commercialization barriers and build up Canada’s professional
talent in next generation networks.

Your Networking Solutions + A CENGN Project = Accelerated Path To Market

Internet of Things (IoT) SDN/NFV/SD-WAN Product Exposure

3rd Party Validation
Benchmarking System Functionality

Security Data Centre and Cloud Resource Determination

System Interoperability Scale, Load, Stress Test Identification of
Bottlenecks and Issues
Network Transport Mobile Networks Access to a Large ICT
Demonstration Ecosystem

Network Applications Find out if a CENGN project is right for you

www.cengn.ca/projects

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9:00 - 9:15 AM
Opening Remarks
EMCEE
Cheryl Jensen
Cheryl Jensen was the eighth president of Algonquin College. She
joined Algonquin from Mohawk College, where she held the title of
Vice President, Academic for five years. Cheryl first joined Mohawk
as a Chemical Engineering Technology professor in 1983 and
served as Dean, Executive Dean, and Vice President of Engineering
Technology, Apprenticeship and Corporate Training.
Cheryl served on the Boards of Ottawa Network for Education,
Invest Ottawa, the National Association for Community College
Entrepreneurship, and the Ottawa Beechwood Cemetery and
Beechwood Cemetery Foundation. She was also a Board member
for Polytechnics Canada and a member of the Business/Higher
Education Roundtable. She is the recipient of a Hamilton YWCA
Woman of Distinction award and a national leadership award
from the Association of Canadian Community Colleges.
Cheryl graduated from McMaster University with an Honours
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Certificate in the
Metallurgy of Iron and Steel, and holds a Master of Education in
Organizational and Administrative Studies from Brock University.
“Canada is a hub of innovation - because of exceptional
thought leadership, and because we develop ground
breaking technology, and share it with the world.”
EMCEE
9:15 - 9:45 AM
Jean-Charles Fahmy
President and CEO, CENGN
As President and CEO of CENGN, JC Fahmy provides leadership
and strategic direction to the company and drives its mission by
working with the ICT ecosystem on the growth and competitiveness
of Canada’s innovation economy. JC has over 25 years of global
leadership experience in tech, creating value and accelerating
business performance with large public companies as well as
Private Equity and Venture Capital backed businesses.
The Next Generation Networks Imperative
Canada’s future prosperity and global competitiveness relies
on the digital transformation of its vertical industries and
society. This transformation will be enabled by advanced
communication networks and the disruptive NGN technology
that underpin them. CENGN commissioned a study by IDC that
examines the importance of NGNs, and defines 3 national
goals for Canada. JC will review the conclusions of the report
and take an in-depth look on how CENGN addresses these
goals.
“Next Generation Networks are the enablers of the digital
transformation of our vertical industries, and to equality of
opportunity for all Canadians.”
Keynote
 9:45 - 10:30 AM 11:00 - 11:45 AM
Keynote Speaker
Amy J. Radin
Adviser & Author
Amy Radin is a trusted leader and adviser to executives and
boards on how to accomplish growth through meaningful
innovation. For over 25 years she has brought pragmatic vision
and leadership to transformations in complex, highly regulated
businesses. Amy wrote the award-winning book, The Change
Maker’s Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any
Company to share expertise and a methodology that addresses
the inevitable challenges any company will face in pursuit of an
innovation agenda and offer real-world approaches to succeed.
Leading Innovation
Every business, whether startup or established enterprise,
irrespective of sector, is operating with unprecedented
change, complexity and ambiguity, and a constant need to
anticipate and adapt to new market conditions and customer
needs. The telecommunications sector is no exception. In this
environment, relying upon what worked in the past is a risky, if
not untenable strategy.
“Innovation is about making change with a purpose to
solve the problems that real people have.”
Amy J. Radin
Keynote Speaker
Robert Ghiz Tejas Rao
Presiden & CEO, CWTA Managing Director & Global
5G Offering Lead, Accenture
Accelerating 5G in Canada,
Benefits for Cities and Rural Communities
Canada is a world leader when it comes to wireless. But the
wireless industry is one that is always changing, and a big change
will be the arrival of Fifth Generation – 5G – networks. Cities and
rural communities across Canada will see significant economic and
quality-of-life benefits as 5G is deployed on a use case basis,
demonstrating the impact it could have on a national scale with the
right support, according to a new report from Accenture (NYSE:
ACN). Commissioned by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications
Association (CWTA) and developed by Accenture Strategy, the
report examines how the deployment of 5G will vary by location,
and the benefits select cities and urban and rural communities can
hope to achieve with 5G adoption.
Robert Ghiz
Tejas Rao
 PROGRAM
Program
Innovation Track Technical Track
8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration & Foyer 12:45 - 1:50 PM 12:45 - 2:25 PM
Panel: Open Source, 4 Presentations
9:00 - 9:15 AM Enabler or Threat? Robert Young, Juniper Networks
EMCEE Introduction 1:50 - 2:25 PM Rick O’Connor, OpenHW Group
Cheryl Jensen Everything is Somewhere: Raymond Maika, CENGN
Geography as the Ultimate Michael Craig, Google Cloud
9:15 - 9:45 AM Disruptive Technology
Keynote: The Next Generation Gordon Plunkett, Esri Canada
Networks Imperative Next Generation
JC Fahmy, CENGN 2:25 - 2:55 PM
Network Showcase
9:45 - 10:30 AM Innovation Track Technical Track
Keynote: Leading Innovation
Amy J. Radin 2:55 - 3:55 PM 2:55 - 3:55 PM
Next Generation Panel: The Opportunity of 2 Presentations
10:30 - 11:00 AM LEO, Solving the Canadian Jacques Latour, CIRA
Network Showcase Connectivity Dilemma Peiying Zhu, Huawei
11:00 - 11:45 AM
Keynote: Deploying 5G Across Canada, Benefits Next Generation
for Cities and Rural Communities 3:55 - 4:15 PM
Robert Ghiz, CWTA - Tejas Rao, Accenture
Network Showcase
4:15 - 5:00 PM
Keynote: Harnessing Transformative Technology
11:45 - 12:45 PM Tech Lunch & Exhibit Bruce Ross, RBC

5:00 - 6:00 PM CENGN’s Craft Brew Tour

12:45 - 1:50 PM
Panel
PROGRAM 12:45 - 1:50 PM

Moderator 11:00 - 11:55 AM

Natalie Giroux
Business Lead, Innovation Strategy Innovation Track
Stratford Managers Corporation Open Source, Enabler or Threat?
Open source has taken centre stage in networking.
Solutions that were primarily proprietary in nature are
now rivalled or surpassed by open source technology,
and the rapid pace of developing in open source
Daniel Bernier environments has forced most vendors to take part rather
Senior Technical Architect than remain in a monolithic product bubble. This has
Bell Canada led to compatibility discussions and mass collaboration
between the ICT sector’s biggest rivals. These changes are
the result of a shift in market structure, where being part
of the open source community has become paramount to
the success of long-time giants of the industry as well as
Ian Hood the catalyst of massive growth in newer more adaptable
Chief Technologist
Red Hat companies. This panel will explore the major changes
open source has had on vendors and service providers,
how different companies are harnessing and adapting
to these changes, and whether traditional business
mantras can survive in the newly transformed open source
Ian Jolliffe networking sector.
Senior Director Engineering
Wind River

Speakers Abstract
2:55 - 3:55 PM
Panel
PROGRAM 2:55 - 3:55 PM

Ryan Anderson
President, Satellite Canada
Innovation Network
Ariane Cornell
Director of Astronaut &
Orbit Sales, Blue Origin
Stephen Hampton
Government Affairs
Telesat
Nunavut Representative
Representative from the Government of
Nunavut, Local Government Branch
Innovation Track
The -Opportunity
11:00 11:55 AM of LEO, Solving the
Canadian Connectivity Dilemma
While Canada has a long history of innovative
telecommunication advancements, the reality is that far too
many Canadians – largely in rural, Northern, and Indigenous
communities – lack access to affordable high-speed Internet
connectivity. While several environmental and socio-economic
factors have led to this; remoteness of communities, high costs,
difficulty with backhaul access, slow speeds, and limited options,
the reality is that in today’s digital society, affordable, high-
quality Internet access means community sustainability and
prosperity.
Building on Canada’s long history of technological innovations,
we are now on the precipice of the next great leap in rural
connectivity – Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. LEO
constellations consist of hundreds of satellites orbiting the earth
at ~1,000 km beaming down high-speed Internet, everywhere.
Many see LEO as an answer to rural, Northern, and Indigenous
connectivity because it can deliver an affordable, fiber like
Internet experience, at a much lower cost, and in a much quicker
time, compared to terrestrial alternatives.
This panel will explore what it will take to make LEO
connectivity a reality for Canada’s northern, Indigenous and
remote communities, with special focus on the opportunities with
LEO from launch, to network, to end-user.

Speakers Abstract
 PROGRAM
Technical Track
The Network for the Next Decade Anthos - Application Modernization Platform
12:45 - 1:10 PM 2:00 - 2:25 PM

Robert Young Michael Craig

Senior Systems Engineer Mist Customer Engineer
Systems, Juniper Networks Google Cloud

Open Source Processor IP for High Volume Production SoCs Delivering IoT Registry in 5G Deployments
1:10 - 1:35 PM 2:55 - 3:25 PM
Rick O’Connor Jacques Latour
President and CEO Chief Technology Officer
OpenHW Group CIRA

Cloud Native Networking with eBPF Our 5G Journey and the Next Wireless Frontier
1:35 - 2:00 PM 3:55 - 4:15 PM
Raymond Maika Peiying Zhu
Engineering Team Lead Fellow, Senior Director of
CENGN Wireless Technology Labs
Huawei

Technical Track Technical Track

 1:50 - 2:25 PM 4:15 - 5:00 PM
Topic Deep Dive
Gordon Plunkett
Director, Spatial Data
Infrastructure, Esri Canada
Gordon Plunkett is the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Director
at Esri Canada. Educated as an Electrical Engineer, he has more
than 30 years of experience in GIS and Remote Sensing in both
the public and private sectors. He currently sits as a member of
the Community Map of Canada Steering Committee, GeoAlliance
Canada Interim Board of Directors, the Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee, the Canadian General
Standards Board (CGSB) Committee on Geomatics, and the
Advisory Board to the Carleton University Geomatics and
Cartographic Research Centre.
Everything is Somewhere: Geography
as the Ultimate Disruptive Technology
Organizations are improving their performance, efficiency,
decision making and user experiences by developing
game changing applications that use geospatial data
and technology. A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is the
framework for facilitating the access, sharing, use, integration
and revision of spatial data. SDIs are contributing to a
range of new and transformational technologies including:
Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial
Intelligence, Commercial Drone use and Autonomous Vehicles.
Gordon Plunkett
Keynote Speaker
Bruce Ross
Group Head, Technology &
Operations, RBC
Bruce Ross is responsible for the strategy and overall management
of global technology and operations for RBC, which includes
innovation, applications development, infrastructure and enterprise
operations. Since joining in 2014, Bruce has led the technology
team in transforming RBC to a digitally-enabled relationship bank.
A seasoned executive with more than 30 years of technology and
business experience, Bruce was the General Manager, Global
Technology Services, North America at IBM before joining RBC.
Harnessing Transformative Technology
With the growth of digital adoption, the emergence of new
technologies and the rise of non-traditional competitors, the
financial services industry is changing quickly. In this keynote,
Bruce Ross, will discuss the transformation of Canada’s
largest bank into a digitally enabled relationship bank
driven by data insights, including how RBC is harnessing new
technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and cloud,
and how this 150 year old bank is planning for the future.
“Transformation in this age of digital acceleration is
about empowering clients to live and conduct business
the way they choose to.”
Bruce Ross
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