Chair
Vinod Kumar, Professor, Technology and Operations Management
Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Canada



Professor Vinod Kumar, the winner of the two Scholarly Achievement and three Research Achievement Awards of Carleton University, received his graduate education from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Manitoba.  He has just completed ten years as the Director of the Sprott School of Business - Carleton University. Vinod has also served for several years on the Board of Governors and the Senate for Carleton University and on the Board of the Ontario Network of e-Commerce.

Vinod is a well known expert sought in the field of technology and operations management.  His research interests include: supply chain management; enterprise system adoption and implementation; e-commerce technology strategy; improving performance of operation systems; building manufacturing flexibility; technology transfer; quality in R&D; innovation management in high tech sector.

Program Committee - updates to follow
Seu Keow Cheng - University of Tasmania, Australia
Danny I. Cho - Brock University, Canada
Abdullah Dasci - York University, Canada
Giovani J. C. da Silveira - University of Calgary, Canada
Danuta de Grosbois - Brock University, Canada
Kamel Fantazy - Carleton University, Canada
Alfred Guiffrida - Kent State University, USA
Cagri Haksoz - Sabanci University, Turkey
Paul Hong - University of Toledo, USA
Mohamad Y. Jaber - Ryerson University, Canada
Uma Kumar - Carleton University, Canada
Paul Larson - University of Manitoba, Canada
Bharat Maheshwari - University of Windsor, Canada
Inder Jit Mann - Carleton University, Canada
Tim McLaren - Ryerson University, Canada
Kayvan Miri-Lavassani - Carleton University, Canada
Aaron Nsakanda - Carleton University, Canada
Tobias Schoenherr - Michigan State University, USA
Malihe Shahidan - Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Seyyed Ali Torabi - University of Tehran, Iran
David Walters - University of Sydney, Australia
Dan Zhang - McGill University, Canada
Guoqing Zhang - University of Windsor, Canada