9:00am – 9:30am - Morning Coffee
9:30am – 9:45am - Opening remarks with Sara Diamond, President
9:45am – 11:15am - Open Forum on Open Access: What Are the Implications of Opening Up Our Research at OCAD U?
Moderated by Greg Singer, Director, Research Services
• Sara Diamond, President
• Pam Patterson, Instructor, Faculty of Art
• Martha Ladly, Professor, Faculty of Design // Transition Graduate Program Director, Digital Futures
• Lynne Milgram, Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Greg Van Alstyne, Director, Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) // Associate Professor, Faculty of Design
• Jess Mitchell, Senior Manager, R&D + Design, Inclusive Design Research Centre
• Mike Steventon, Manager, Research Technology
11:15am – 11:30am - Refreshment Break
11:30am – 12:15pm - The Tri-Agency Open Access and Open Data Policies
• Greg Singer, Director of Research Services
12:15pm – 1:00pm Presentation of the OCAD U Open Research Repository including the e-thesis Collection
• Jill Patrick, University Librarian
1:00pm – 2:30pm Book Launch:
What is Information?: Propagating Organization in the Biosphere, Symbolosphere, Technosphere and Econosphere
By Robert K. Logan, Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) at OCAD University