John Frank, MD, MSc, FRCPC is a Canadian epidemiologist. He was trained in medicine and community medicine at the University of Toronto, in family medicine at McMaster University, and in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was the founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto from 1991 until 1997, and is currently a Senior Scientist at that Institute. Dr.

Michele Mosca is co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, researcher and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and associate professor of mathematics at St. Jerome's University. He has held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computation since January 2002, and has been a scholar for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research since September 2003.

David Lowe is a professor in the Computer Science department of the University of British Columbia and a member of the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His research interests include computer vision, object recognition, and computational models of human vision. He invented the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm for matching images.

Alan Mackworth is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and is the founding director of the UBC Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. He is President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Stephen Alexander Haslam (Alex Haslam) is a Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter. His research is in the area of social and organisational psychology, and he famously collaborated with Professor Stephen Reicher of the University of St Andrews on the BBC television programme "The Experiment", which examined conflict, order, …

John Trevor Eyton, OC, QC, BA, LL.B (born July 12, 1934 in Quebec City) is a Canadian businessman, former lawyer, and Senator. Senator Eyton was born in Québec City in 1934 and was educated and raised in Quebec and Toronto. He was educated at Beaupré Public School and Jarvis Collegiate Institute. In 1957 he received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, and earned his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto Law School in 1960.

Larry Denman Clarke (born June 12, 1925) is a Canadian businessman and the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of SPAR Aerospace Limited, the designer of the Canadarm. He is a founding Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. From 1987 to 1991, he was the Chancellor of York University. In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

James Milton Ham, OC, O.Ont, D.Sc, LL.D (1920 - September 16 1997) was a Canadian university administrator and the tenth President of the University of Toronto. Born in Coboconk, Ontario, Ham attended Runnymede Collegiate Institute and received a B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1943. He then joined the Royal Canadian Navy as an electrical officer. After the Second World War, he was a lecturer and housemaster in the Ajax division of the University of Toronto.

Scott Tremaine completed his BSc. at McMaster University in 1971, then received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975. He held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and Cambridge University, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. From 1981 to 1985 he was in the Department of Physics at MIT as an Associate Professor.

Eric von Hippel is the T Wilson Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known for his pioneering research into the emerging view that users are at the center of the innovation process, rather than manufacturers. In his most recent book, Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press / April 2005), von Hippel shows how communities of users are becoming powerful innovation "engines."

Dr. Richard Tremblay Richard Tremblay is professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Montréal, and Canada Research Chair in Child Development. For the past 25 years he has conducted a program of longitudinal studies on the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children from conception to adulthood.