The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, in partnership with Carleton University, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, the High Commission of India, and the Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada (AUCC), will hold the Canada-India Education Summit at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. The draft program is available below.
Please check back as this program will be updated as sessions are confirmed.
Canada-India Education Summit 2011
Draft Program
June 17-18
Room 360, Tory Building
June 17
8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast buffet
9:00 a.m. Official welcome:
Dr. Roseanne O’Reilly Runte, President and
Vice-Chancellor, Carleton University
Dr. Sunaina Singh, outgoing President,
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Dr. Paul Davidson, President, Association
of Universities and Colleges Canada
Shri S.M. Gavai, High Commissioner of India
9.30 a.m. Plenary address:
Hon. John Baird, Foreign Affairs Minister for
Canada (to be confirmed)
9:45 a.m. Keynote address:
Hon. Kapil Sibal Minister of Human Resources
and Development and Minister of
Communications and Information Technology
for India
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Introduction of participants
11:45 a.m. Networking lunch:
Remarks by Prof. Ved Prakash (to be confirmed
Remarks by incoming President, Shastri
Indo-Canadian Institute
1:00 p.m. Roundtable discussions:
Co-tutelle and joint programs
Daniel Woolf, Principal, Queen’s University
Prof. Dinesh Singh, University of Delhi
Credit transfer and degree recognition
Elizabeth Cannon, President, University of
Calgary
Prof. A.M. Pathan, Central University of
Karnataka (to be confirmed)
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Roundtable discussions:
Technology in international teaching
Dr. Carla Cassidy, Interim Vice President of
Research and Innovation, Ryerson Polytechic
University (to be confirmed)
Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, IGNOU
Joint research
Max Blouw, President, Wilfrid Laurier University
Prof. Suranjan Das, University of Calcutta
(to be confirmed)
4:45 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m. Reception:
Remarks by Prof. Swaminathan
(to be confirmed)
6:00 p.m. Dinner and cultural entertainment
June 18
9:00 a.m. Plenary address:
Hon. Kevin G. Lynch, Vice-Chair, BMO
Financial Group
10:00 a.m. Reporting from sessions with co-chairs of
roundtables
11:00 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Executive panel discussion:
Designing the Path Forward
Panel of 3 Indian and 3 Canadian executives
Moderated by Allan Rock, President,
University of Ottawa
12:30 p.m. Lunch
