Using the RIM story as a backdrop, we’ll look at the challenges, opportunities and realities of nurturing and commercializing innovation.

Sean Silcoff, keynote speaker and local author, is co-author of Losing the Signal, the best-selling book of the rise and fall of smartphone pioneer Research in Motion (now BlackBerry). Sean is also a respected business writer with The Globe & Mail, Canada’s National Newspaper.

Moderator Mark Freel, Professor for the Commercialization of Innovations at the Telfer School of Management, will join Sean in a conversation about commercializing innovation.

Professor for the Commercialization of Innovations at the Telfer School of Management, will join Sean in a conversation about commercializing innovation.
Business networking before and after the talk.