Supporting Competitiveness and Innovation in Alberta - Robin Winsor, President, Cybera

Annual General Meeting 2010

Agenda 1. Call to Order and Confirmation of Quorum

2. Introductions

3. Approval of Agenda

4. Approval of 2009 AGM Minutes

5. Cybera Report to Members

• Chair’s Report

• President’s Report

6. Cybera Business

• Approval of the Recommended Bylaw Changes

• Appointment of Board of Directors

• Appointment of Auditors

• Receive audited financials for the period ended March 31, 2010

• Appointment of Nominating Committee for upcoming year (2011)

President’s Report Robin Winsor

•  Progress report

•  Plans for the future

Mission Statement

“To spur and support innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the use of cyberinfrastructure”

•  Super-economies dwarf Canada

•  Can’t compete on size

•  Two strategies;

Global Competition

Innovation

Innovation

Collaboration

Collaboration

Collaboration

Cybera’s Areas of Activity People Data Computers

People Collaboration Tools • Virtual Organizations • CyberPorts • “Facebook”-lookalikes

Portals CSSDP GeoChronos

WestGrid CESWP

Data Databases GeoCENS

WestGrid Cloud Amazon

Computers Networks • Cybera • CANARIE • SuperNet • Peering

Mission To make all water and environmental data and information freely open and accessible via the web, freeing resources previously consumed by searching for and acquiring data, thereby enabling new water perspectives and accelerating water research, integrated management, innovation, and economic diversification.

Vision To become the open source, web platform that connects water and environmental data with the tools and people needed to advance water research, integrated management, innovation, and economic diversification.

Collaboration

The Internet

U of A

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Google Facebook

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Population Density (Population / Sq Km)

Alberta – Population Distribution

Converging Trends

Converging Trends

Data Volumes

Deep Analytics

SKA Tool 1

Tool 2

Deep Analytics

Big Data

Finance

Medicine

SKA

Brain

Genomics

Oil &

Gas

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