Registration
Speakers
- Nathan Currier, Associate Director, Research Contracts and Agreements, McGill University
- Xavier Serra, Music Technology Groups, Universitat Pompeau Fabra
- Jesse Vincent-Herscovici, Director, Business Development, MITACS Inc. & MITACS ACCELERATE
Description
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) is pleased to announce an upcoming training workshop on establishing relationships between academia and industry. Our three presenters, Xavier Serra, Jesse Vincent-Herscovici, and Nathan Currier, will offer different perspectives and background on the process of making connections with industry to enable transfer of technology research from lab to the "store shelf".
Schedule (tentative)
- 13:00-14:00: Jesse Vincent-Herscovici: Mitacs, tools to help you refine your research skills while building your network and being generously remunerated
Mitacs Accelerate is Canada's premiere research internship program providing interns with the opportunity to transfer their skills from theory to real-world application, while companies gain a competitive advantage by accessing high-quality research expertise. Through Mitacs-Accelerate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from over 50 universities apply the very latest tools, techniques and innovations bringing a fresh perspective to the collaboration with industry partners.
- 14:00-15:00: Xavier Serra: Knowledge Transfer Practices in Music Technology Research
The field of Music Technology has always been very applied, with a strong emphasis on developing exploitable technologies and services. Looking back, we can identify many successful transfer initiatives done by labs or individual researchers. However, most of the time, when we talk about technology transfer we focus on one transfer model, the one of licensing patents to industry. That is a very specific model that not many research centers and industries are ready for, specially in the current context. To optimize the impact of our research it is important to leverage on as many knowledge transfer models as possible. Each combination of research result plus application context might require a different exploitation plan. It is important to be conscious of that and to plan for it as soon as a research project is thought of. In this talk I will give my personal view on these issues using my personal experiences as examples.
- 15:00-15:30: Nathan Currier: Establishing relationships and benefiting from research with companies
- 15:30-16:00: Discussion
About the presenters
Jesse Vincent-Herscovici
Jesse’s interest in evolutionary, neuro and organizational Psychology was the principle motivation behind his obtaining a graduate degree, while keeping one foot in the private sector. His wide interests led to an involvement in a breadth of industries. From telecommunications and distribution of micro-electronic components to the wholesale of one of Montreal’s niche haute couture labels in luxury U.S. retail markets, Jesse actively developed his relationship-centered approach to business development.
Under the MITACS mandate to help foster Canadian innovation and the knowledge based economy, he actively seeks and pairs champions in university research communities with their counterparts in private enterprise. Partners then use the Accelerate program to leverage industrial funds and finance the resulting applied R&D projects, which are then carried-out by graduate and post-graduate candidates.
For more information about MITACS and MITACS ACCELERATE, please click here: www.mitacs.ca / www.mitacsaccelerate.ca
Xavier Serra
Xavier Serra is Associate Professor of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies and Director of the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. After a multidisciplinary academic education he obtained a PhD in Computer Music from Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation on the spectral processing of musical sounds that is considered a key reference in the field. His research interests cover the understanding, modelling and generation of musical signals by computational means, with a balance between basic and applied research and approaches from both scientific/technological and humanistic/artistic disciplines. Dr. Serra is very active in promoting initiatives in the field of Sound and Music Computing at the local and international levels, being involved in the editorial board of a number of journals and conferences and giving lectures on current and future challenges of the field. He has recently been awarded an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council to carry out the project CompMusic aimed at promoting multicultural approaches in music computing research.
For more information, please click here: http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~xserra/
Nathan Currier
Dr. Nathan Currier is the Associate Director, Contracts and Agreements, in McGill's Office of Sponsored Research (OSR). Nathan received a Ph.D. from McGill in 2001 in cell biology.
Prior to joining McGill he was the Director of Business Development at the Centre of Excellence in Personalized Medicine (CEPMED), a federally- and industry-funded company that promotes the advancement of personalized medicine technologies and their adoption in routine medical care. He has extensive experience working with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostic, healthcare, insurance, and information technology industry leaders.
In his role, Nathan leads the Contract and Agreements group in OSR to ensure that appropriate risk management mitigation, legal guidelines, internal policies, business strategies, and fee structures are in place in all McGill research agreements. He liaises with and encourages industry engagement as well as business development both within and outside of McGill. He will also be the primary contact for McGill’s legal department with regards to contracts and agreements. Reporting to the Interim Senior Director, OSR, Nathan will work closely with other managers to ensure effective communication and leveraging of expertise across all units that report to the VP(RIR) in order to better serve our clientele and exploit potential opportunities.