Educational Seminars and Speakers Program

Another component of the Education and Outreach Program of Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame will be staging of educational seminars and other programs at Canadian schools, universities and other locations, such as museums and historic sites (e.g. Canada’s Museum of Science and Technology; the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site at Baddeck, Nova Scotia and the Bell Homestead National Historic Site at Brantford, Ontario). The programs and lectures would involve well-respected industry speakers and lecturers, including our Hall of Fame Laureates.

To assist this initiative, we intend in 2006 to establish a Telecom Speakers Program featuring current and former members of the Canadian telecommunications industry, who might speak to students of all ages, and to other members of the Canadian public, about Canada’s accomplishments in the sector. Our speakers will address issues in contemporary telecommunications, and provide interesting and informed accounts of events and developments throughout Canada’s illustrious telecommunications history and heritage, some of which might include:

• Canada’s Successful Transition From Monopoly Regulation to Full Competition;
• The Greatest Achievements Over 160 Years of Canadian Telecommunications;
• Conquering the Great White North: Linking Canadians Via Satellite Telecommunications;
• The Unsung Genius of Canadian Telecommunications – The Life and Woes of Reginald Fessenden;
• A Century of Rural Telecommunications in Ontario and Quebec;
• Invented in Canada – the Telephone is Only the Beginning!