Humanitek – Emerging technologies for the Quebec of tomorrow

The disruptive technologies and models that will be on stage this edition are : 

• The Metaverse, between reality and illusion. What impact in our lives?
• Health and better aging, technology as a powerful tool to empower our seniors,
• Newspace, earth observation data go-to market models and the impact of this new market on Quebec
• Next-generation networks
• The Italian innovation model: Federated innovation.

Programme

• 8.30am Welcome of participants
• 9.30am Opening Speech : Marie-Chantal Chassé, Eng., ICD.D, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Economy and Innovation (Domain Innovation) at the Québec National Assembly
• 9.45am Keynote by David Saint-Jacques: Mission in space and the challenges of long- duration missions for the health of astronauts  + Q&A (French)
• 10.15am Panel : Technology, a palliative to the current health system for our elderly  ? Panelists : Emmanuelle Sansfaçon, Director of Partnerships at Dialogue and Geneviève Michaud, Director of Living Lab Lanaudière (French)
• 11.00am Keynote The Metaverse, between reality and illusion. What impact in our lives? – Alexandre Teodorescu, Director of strategic development at The 7Fingers (French)
• 11.45am  Lunch & connexion
• 1pm Keynote and presentation of Numana’s report on Newspace, earth observation data go-to market models and the impact of this new market on Quebec – Martine Rioux – Manager of digital edition projects and lead of Numana’s report on New Space (French)
• 1.20pm Panel Newspace and socio-economic impacts for Quebec. Panelists : Lucy Stojak, Executive Director, Mosaic-HEC Montréal and Jean-Denis Giguère, Vice-President, Anagraph (French)
• 2pm Keynote The Future of next generation networks – Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of Telus (English)
• 2.45pm Keynote The Italian innovation model: Federated innovation (English)
• 3.30pm Closing speech and final networking session

Discover some of our panelists and speakers