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=== Dr. Peter C. Mason ===

=== Dr. Peter C. Mason ===

'''Director, Quantum Sensors Challenge Program, National Research Council ''' <br>

'''Director, The Internet of Things: Quantum Sensors Challenge Program, National Research Council ''' <br>

Born and raised in Nova Scotia,  Dr. Mason completed a bachelors degree in mathematics at Mount Allison University in 1990, gathering medals for the top graduate in both math and physics, and intramural athletics, before moving to Guyana to do volunteer work installing emergency backup electrical systems in remote communities.  After doing a masters degree at McMaster University, he spent a year travelling and volunteering in Indonesia then returned to McMaster to complete his PhD in physics.

Born and raised in Nova Scotia,  Dr. Mason completed a bachelors degree in mathematics at Mount Allison University in 1990, gathering medals for the top graduate in both math and physics, and intramural athletics, before moving to Guyana to do volunteer work installing emergency backup electrical systems in remote communities.  After doing a masters degree at McMaster University, he spent a year travelling and volunteering in Indonesia then returned to McMaster to complete his PhD in physics.

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=== Neil Bouwer===

=== Neil Bouwer===

'''Vice-President, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>

'''Vice-President, Innovation and Policy Services Branch, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>

Neil Bouwer has also served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Privy Council Office of Canada; and in executive positions at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada. He has also worked at the Department of Finance and Western Economic Diversification Canada, and has Economics degrees from McGill University and St. Thomas University. Neil actively supports the Government of Canada policy and data communities, the Advanced Policy Analyst Program and the Free Agent HR Program.

Neil Bouwer has also served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Privy Council Office of Canada; and in executive positions at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada. He has also worked at the Department of Finance and Western Economic Diversification Canada, and has Economics degrees from McGill University and St. Thomas University. Neil actively supports the Government of Canada policy and data communities, the Advanced Policy Analyst Program and the Free Agent HR Program.

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=== Geneviève Tanguay ===

=== Geneviève Tanguay ===

'''Vice President, Emerging Technologies, National Research Council ''' <br>

'''Vice President, Emerging Technologies, National Research Council ''' <br>

Dr. Tanguay, who holds a Ph.D. in Parasitology from McGill University, has worked at Universities Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche and the Centre Québécois de valorisation des biotechnologies (CQVB). At the CQVB, she established a major network of businesses and research institutions to promote technology and innovation transfer in the biotechnology sector. She has also served as the President of Acfas, the largest association of Francophone scientists (with 7,000 members).

In April 2016, Dr. Geneviève Tanguay joined the National Research Council of Canada as the first woman Vice-President Research. She leads the Emerging Technologies Division which oversees Nanotechnology, Metrology, Herzberg Astronomy and  Astrophysics, Security and Disruptive Technologies, and Advanced Electronics and Photonics. As part of her remit, Dr. Tanguay is also responsible for NRC’s support to TRIUMF. She chairs the NRC’s Governing Committee on the Recruitment and  Retention of Women and is responsible for coordinating interactions with Canadian universities. Dr. Tanguay also serves as the Canadian Co-Chair of the Canada Germany Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Committee. Prior to joining NRC,  she served as Vice-Rector Research, Creativity and Innovation at the University of  Montreal, one of the four universities with the biggest volume of research in Canada.  Prior to this, she served as the Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for Research, Innovation, Science and Society in the Quebec Government, responsible for preparing and implementing the Quebec Research and Innovation Strategy (2007-2010 and 2010- 2013). She is an active member of boards for national and international organizations.  

From 2007 to 2011, she held the position of Assistant Deputy Minister for research, innovation and science and society with the Government of Québec. There, she created and implemented strategies to increase research and innovation efforts in the province and improve the involvement of society in scientific debates. She also established an issue table with deputy ministers responsible for research within the provincial government to bring greater consistency to government policies. Between 2010 and 2011, she handled the coordination of the interprovincial table of deputy ministers for innovation.

Dr. Tanguay also served as Vice-Rector, Research, Creation and Innovation at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) from 2011 to 2015. In this role, she coordinated all UdeM research activities at the local, national and international levels. In 2014, she was also responsible for international relations. Her leadership enabled her to improve the amount of research being conducted at UdeM which, during her mandate, rose from fourth to second place in Canada.

Over the course of her career, Dr. Tanguay has chaired or been a member on boards of directors for over 50 organizations. She has developed and maintained an impressive network of contacts with the provincial government, in Quebec's innovation system and with many stakeholders at the federal and international levels. As a proven leader with over 25 years of experience in research management, in representing the interests of research and innovation, technology transfer and in communicating scientific interests, in 2015 she started Vision et stratégies d'innovation, a research and innovation consulting firm.

In April 2016, Dr. Tanguay was appointed Vice-President, Emerging Technologies at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). In this capacity, Dr. Tanguay oversees the Metrology Research Centre and the Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre. Dr. Tanguay is also responsible for the Nanotechnology, the Security and Disruptive Technologies and Advanced Electronics and Photonics research centres.

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=== Alireza Yazdi ===

=== Alireza Yazdi ===

'''Founder and CEO at Anyon Systems Inc.'''  

'''Founder and CEO at Anyon Systems Inc.''' <br>

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=== Michele Mosca ===

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'''Co-Founder and Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo''' <br>

'''CEO, President and Co-Founder of softwareQ Inc''' <br>

Dr. Mosca is a founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing, Professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo, and a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Dr. VLAD GHEORGHIU is the CEO, President and co-founder of softwareQ Inc., a

He is globally recognized for his drive to help academia, industry and government prepare our cyber systems to be safe in an era with quantum computers. He co-founded evolutionQ Inc. to provide services and products that enable organizations to evolve their quantum-vulnerable systems and practices to quantum-safe ones. He was a founder of the ETSI-IQC workshop series in Quantum-Safe Cryptography. He co-founded softwareQ Inc. to help organizations benefit from the power of quantum computers.

Canada. Vlad is also a senior researcher at the Institute for Quantum

Computing at the University of Waterloo, ON Canada, working on quantum

information and computation. He collaborates as well on quantum risk

assessment with evolutionQ Inc., ON Canada.

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He worked on cryptography during his BMath (Waterloo) and MSc (Oxford) and obtained his Doctorate (Oxford) on Quantum Computer Algorithms.

Program and a member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute

(ETSI) Quantum-Safe Cryptography Standardization Group.

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His research interests include quantum computation and cryptographic tools designed to be safe against quantum technologies.

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His current research interests lie in quantum software and quantum

architectures, quantum-resistant cryptography, quantum error correction,

quantum algorithms, entanglement theory, as well as applications of machine

'''CEO, President and Co-Founder of softwareQ Inc'''

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=== Ghislain Lefebvre ===

=== Ghislain Lefebvre ===

'''Partnership development manager, Université de Sherbrooke''' <br>

'''Partnership development manager, Université de Sherbrooke''' <br>