The Ottawa Convention Centre was a space Verney Conference Management transformed into a tech, policy, research tryptich [of sorts].
The geometries of Keynotes and Panel Sessions provided @ the front-end by Conference Chair Mehrdad Hariri [Canadian Science Policy Conference] [with the organizing orchestration and planning of some 40+ volunteers] featured
Men of note such as the Hon. Gary Goodyear [Minister of State (Science & Technology) [Canada]]
Attending as a Canadian-American, I listened; learned --- with great care and interest --- my Homeland; Canada's seat of government --- Ottawa; is where I mingled, conversed.
Had I stayed in Canada;
were I not exported;
imported to the States by way of adoption --- I would have learned French :
Bienvenue
"Building Bridges for the Future of Science Policy in Canada"
Some have an appetite for
scholarly treatments; philosophically-bound-perspectives :
On a K* panel, for example:
K* is a way of talking about what we know; for sure:
Claudia Krywiak [Ontario Centres for Excellence].
Knowledge systems;
the campus community:
"Mobilizing knowledge for the social good."
David Phipps [York University]
Flying out, en route to New York, via Toronto
above the defensive canal systems of my hospitable host city Ottawa
i look upon, to return ;
perhaps skate
@ Ottawa's famed Winter festival; on the world's largest ice skating rink.
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