Past Conferences

Young Inventors International has hosted four international Inventing the Future Conferences.

Vist our most recent conference web site - Inventing the Future Conference at MIT, March 4th, 2006

2005 Conference hosted by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy

If you missed the conference, you can still gather a wealth of knowledge from the event's speakers - leading innovators and product commercialization experts - by watching the online video.

Attended by about 150 innovators, the conference featured the following speakers:

John Abele, Founder Chairman, Boston Scientific and Chairman, FIRST Robotics Competition
Dr. Douglas Barber, Founder, Director, and Past President and CEO, Gennum Corporation
Roger Hildesheim, Senior Engineering Manager, Lockheed Martin Canada
Dr. Harold Jennings, Inventor of Meningitis C vaccine (NeisVac-C (TM)) and Distinguished Research Scientist, Institute for Biological Sciences, Natural Research Council
Michael Kane, Associate, VenGrowth Capital Partners
Anthony Lacavera, President and CEO, Globalive Communications
Michael Lee, Vice President, Interad Media Design Corp.
Laura Lenz, Associate, Venture Fund, EdgeStone Capital Partners
Richard Owens, Executive Director, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, and Chairman, Innovations Foundation
Nicholas Parker, Co-Founder and Chairman of Cleantech Venture Network and Co-Founder and Chairman, e+Co
Thomas Parsons, Chair, Ontario Society for Excellence in Technology Transfer and Senior Business Development Officer, Research Business Development Office, University Health Network
Ebad Rahman, Associate Lawyer, Bereskin & Parr
Lynda Ting, Associate, Jefferson Partners
David Andrew Tobin, CEO, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
David Unsworth, Senior Associate, RBC Strategic Technology Fund

Conference Host:
The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy

Conference Sponsors:
Ontario Society for Excellence in Technology Transfer
Magna International

2003 Conference hosted by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy

Speakers included:

Goeffrey Sheerin and members of the Canadian Arrow team, participants in the X-Prize Race to Space
Garth Phillips, Brandcom
Tom Boyd, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
George Rolston, Patent and Trademark Agent
Donna Messer, ConnectUs Communications
Lance Matthews, Inventor of the iWALKFree

Supporters of the 2003 Conference included: the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy; Magna International; Xerox Canada; Pratt&Whitney; Mitsubishi Canada; the Canadian Intellectual Property Office; the Exceler@tor; Entrepreneur.com; and Staples.

2002 Conference hosted by CGI, Inc.

Speakers included:

Richard Fast, inventor of Mindtrap games and President of Mad Hatter Toy and Game Factory Inc.
Chips Klein, Co-Director of Women Inventors Project and President of ChipcoCanada Inc.
Dr. Elizabeth McGregor, Fellow of the Centre for Public Leadership KennedySchool of Government at Harvard University, and Victoria Maria Martins, Master of International Education and Policy, Harvard Graduate School ofEducation and Project Coordinator of Fundacion Compania Social Equidad
Howard Markowitz, B.Com., LL.B. of DuMarkowitz LLP
Bob Marrs, Director of Entrepreneurship and Field Services at the Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation
George Rolston, Barrister and Solicitor, Patent and Trademark Agent at Miller Thomson LLP.

Supporters of the 2002 Conference included: CGI, Inc.; Xerox Canada; and DuPont

Here is what participants said about the conferences:

"I thought the quality of the speakers was excellent! It was especially helpful to hear how regular people were able to realize their dreams."
"It was a great idea to have the Conference. What I really enjoyed was the ‘hands on’ information presented by most speakers. Also, location could not have been better thought!"
"An excellent range of topics was covered by a great group of speakers!"
"I enjoyed the casual, relaxed nature of the Conference."
"Real life stories from the inventors were very helpful, informative, and inspiring."
"The diversity of topics and speakers, the particular topics covered, and the order of topics were great!"