Bill Hutchison

Bill Hutchison will chair the International Conference on Smart Sustainable City Technologies (S2CT 2015) in Toronto.

Bill Hutchison is an international business and social entrepreneur and advisor on strategic technology and economic development. He is Co-Founder and Chair of the i-CANADA Alliance, Executive Director of the Ernst & Young Center for Smart City Innovation in Moscow and Board Chair of SAVI, a five yearmulti-university Internet and cloud computing research program led by the University of Toronto. He was the Founding Vice-Chair of the National Advisory Board for Science and Technology, chaired by the Prime Minister of Canada and in October 2012 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Economic and social transformation has been a focus of Bill’s leadership. From 2006 -2011 he was Chairman of the Advisory Council and Executive Director, Intelligent Communities for Waterfront Toronto, one of the world’s largest urban revitalization projects. While living in Singapore for five years in the late 1990s he was involved with Singapore’s Intelligent Island initiative; he advised the Hong Kong government on their creation of the Hong Kong Cyberport Innovation Centre and he led the creation of the first American owned technology center as part of the early development of Malaysia’s Multi Media Super Corridor, one of the world’s largest infrastructure and economic revitalization developments. He wasCo-Founder and Vice Chair of Smart Toronto in 1994–1996.

Bill was Global Chairman, Telecommunication Industry for Ernst & Young and Founding Chairman of CANARIE Inc., which for the past nineteen years has led the development and operation of Canada’s world renowned high speed ultra-broadband network connecting all of Canada’s university and research institutions. As a business entrepreneur Bill has created and sold four successful high tech companies and he has been a member of the Board of Directors for more than twenty public and private companies.

He has been honored many times as one of the world’s leaders in the evolution of computer, telecommunications and media technology as applied to business, social and civic transformation. In 2009 and again in 2010 he was named «One of the World’s Top 35 Executives to watch in Real Estate Technology». In 2006 he received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Intelligent Community Forum of New York and in 2005 a panel of business and technology editors named him «One of Canada’s Top 30 Movers and Shakers in ICT over the Past 30 years». He is a member of the Hall of Fame of the Canadian Information Productivity Awards, a «Fellow» of the Canadian Information Processing Society, and he is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.