About Us

Who are we?

Sino-Canada International Innovation Center (Sci Innovation Centre) is co-established by Canada Confederation of Shenzhen Associations (CCSA) and Shenzhen Flat Panel Display Industry Association (SDIA). It aims to provide entrepreneur supporting, incubating and investing services

How to do?

The establishment of the five major value platform, the six core units, the creation of innovative funds, linkage, global, international collaboration

What are the events?

The industrial accelerator program, R & D and Marketing Partner Program, innovation and technology exhibition experience promotion center, a think-tank, talents and education training exchanges, International Advisory Committee, the appointment of experts, the Innovation Research Institute of Canada

International Experts Advisory Council

In order to continue the momentum of Sci Innovation Centre and leverage the significant opportunities that lie ahead, we are setting up an International Experts Advisory Council and invite experts, scholars, and successful entrepreneurs to be our Committee Members. The Council will comprise a group of eminent experts from the five targeting sectors

								Dr. Songnian Zhou
							
							Dr. Songnian Zhou is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. 1992－2012, Songnian co-founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Platform Computing Corp., the industry leader in cluster, grid and cloud computing. In 2002, Songnian received the Ernest&Young award for the Best Technology Entrepreneur of the Year
						
								Mr. Don Wright
							
							President, The Winnington Capital Group Chairman, Cinaport Capital Inc. Over 39 years in investment industry Actively supports several charitable organizations Director of MaRS Innovation Inc
						
								Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
							
							Professor and University Research Chair Fellow of IEEE, Engineering Institute of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering and Royal Society of Canada
						
								Prof. Jun Yang
							
							Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering Program, Western University,Research interests include addictive manufacturing/3D printing, printed electronics, metamaterials flexible/wearable electronics, MEMS/NEMS/BioMEMS, sensors and actuators, micro/nanofabrication, surface engineering and lab-on-a-chip.Published 118 papers in high-quality journals, and holds 18 granted/pending patents
						
								Mr. Ashek Mahmood
							
							Currently leading the Watson IoT consulting solutions practice.Strong technical and business development background obtained through various leadership positions in mobile, digital, AI and IoT solution development teams
						
								Mr. Peter Zhang
							
							Licensed Foreign Legal Consultant, Gowling WLG.Former Partner, Grandall Legal Group, and King&Wood Mallesons,Over 20 years of experience in private equity investment, IPO, and cross-border M&A,Led IPO transaction in various sectors when he worked at China International Capital Corporation as a banker from 1998 to 2006
						
								Prof. Hani Naguib
							
							Professor, Mechanical Engineering at University of Toronto Director, Toronto Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (TIAM),Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers,Fellow of Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers
						
								Mrs. Ling Loerchner
							
							Technology Transfer Manager, Office of Research at University of Waterloo,Board member on several spin-off companies,An active annual conference program committee member of Association of University Technology Management, and member of Licensing Executive Society,Senior advisor, Mayor of the City of Waterloo
						
								Dr. Leo Jingyu Lee 
							
							Senior Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Probabilistic and Statistical Inference (PSI) Group,University of Toronto
						
								Dr. Jianzhao Li, PhD 
							
							Sr. Research Scientist in Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Toronto; Senior Member of Optical Society and Member of SPIE; B.Sc (Sichuan University, China), M.Sc (Fudan University, China), and Ph.D (UEC, Japan), Research areas include lasers, laser material processing and micronano-fabrication, optical and photonic sensing, nonlinear and quantum optics, etc.