Media Invitation - Canada's Aerospace Industry will be meeting at CRIAQ's 7th Research Forum

National Announcement to Come

MONTREAL, April 14, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - The Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace of Québec (CRIAQ) invites media representatives to take part in its 7^th Research Forum taking place on April 16 and 17, at Palais des congrès de Montréal, located at 1001, place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, which will gather, for the first time,1000 Canadian and international stakeholders.

The event will include the creation of a Canadian key initiative, a defining moment in the country's collaborative research history, on the morning of Thursday April 17.

Key Events

Wednesday April 16, 2014

2 p.m.		Opening of the Forum Walter di Bartolomeo, Vice President, Engineering, Pratt & Whitney Canada, and President, CRIAQ Board of Directors Clément Fortin, President and CEO, CRIAQ Rémi Quirion, Chief Scientist of Québec
3 p.m.		Plenary Session: CRIAQ industrials and researchers will present and discuss a new generation of project ideas
4 p.m.		A dynamic overview of ongoing and finalized CRIAQ projects, presented by university students
5 p.m.		Cocktail - Interactions, exchanges, and creativity
7 p.m.		Gala – Award Ceremony and Tribute

Thursday April 17, 2014

9 a.m.		Announcement of a Canadian key initiative | University-Industry Collaboration | International Collaborations Perspectives Alain Aubertin, Vice President, Business Development, Network and Innovation Processes, CRIAQ Gilles Savard, Chief Innovation Officer, Polytechnique Montréal Lucie Boily, Vice President, Policy and Competitiveness, Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC) Clément Fortin, president and CEO, CRIAQ Luigi Scarpa de Masellis, Advisor, Economic and Commercial Affairs, Delegation of the European Union, Canadian Networking Aeronautics Programme for Europe (CANNAPE)
11 a.m.		Plenary Session and Thematic Workshops Industrials and researchers gather around a common research theme to create project research teams. An unprecedented opportunity to discover upcoming expertise and promising partnerships.
1 p.m.		CRIAQ and Aéro Montréal's World Café An outside the box activity that gathers a multigenerational aerospace community. The World Café brings together participants from various fields of expertise (HR, communications, educations, entrepreneurship, etc.), which will rally around the stake of knowledge transfer in aerospace.
2 p.m.		Innovator to innovator (I2I)      This type of meeting aims at creating an environment which allows innovative ideas and new collaborations to emerge. A unique occasion to personally meet decision makers as well as key stakeholders in the field of aerospace.
3 p.m.		CRIAQ Projects Launch Cédric Prince, Project Manager, CRIAQ Denis Godin, Deputy Director, Manufacturing, Communications and Technologies Division, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
4 p.m.		Closing Remarks Sylvain Cofsky, Executive Director, Green Aviation Research & Development Network (GARDN) Barry Kohler, President, Bell Helicopter Textron Canada & President, AIAC Denis Faubert, future CEO and President, CRIAQ

SOURCE: CRIAQ

Anne-Marie Beauregard, Communications Officer, CRIAQ, 514 313-7561, ext. 266, [email protected]