From concept to commercialiazed product: the challenges of privacy technologies

ABSTRACT

Mike Gurski will draw on experience heading the Bell Security Solutions' Privacy Centre of Excellence (PCE), and examine this issue from various perspectives, the roles of government, the private sector, entrepreneurs, and academia in successfully bringing privacy technologies to market. The discussion will examine some open cases involving National Research Council, U of Toronto, Ontario Centres of Excellence, Credentica, Quebec Government, and Bell Privacy Centre of Excellence. Side roads into the vast minefields of IP, Patents, Licensing will also be touched on. The case studies will come from projects currently championed by the PCE and are in various states of commercial readiness and adoption so will provide an insight into the making of a commercially viable privacy technology. As context the presentation will also provide perspective on the privacy research houses in the private sector such as IBM Zurich labs and in Canadian and U.S. Universities.

Finally the presentation will take a look ahead at where privacy technology opportunities reside for both academic institutions, governments and the private sector.