Steven Fraser advises on technology transfer, company-university research partnerships, and software best practices. He is based in Silicon Valley and is the Director of Advisory Services at Innoxec. Previously, he held R&D leadership roles at HP, Cisco, Qualcomm, and Nortel focused on company-university research collaborations. Steven holds a PhD from McGill University (Montréal) in Electrical (Software) Engineering and is interested in the strategies used to accelerate the adoption and deployment of new technologies. Steven has delivered keynotes, organized over 75 conferences, panels, workshops and tutorials. He recently co-authored a science oriented biography - A Story of One Woman’s Century.