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“…the people involved with GRAND reads like an all-star list of researchers.”
   - Gord Kurtenbach,
      Director, Research, Autodesk & Chair, Research Management Committee, GRAND

“Networks are the hub of what we are creating in the 21st century. It’s almost a natural that GRAND
would be … one of the foundations on which a new network of intellectual, research and pragmatic
economic benefit can be created for the country.”
   - Ron Burnett,
      President and Vice Chancellor, Emily Carr University of Art + Design

“The most I’d like to get out of GRAND <is> the contacts, the networks, … improving my research and
getting feedback from people across Canada.”
   - Neesha Desai,
      PhD Student, University of Alberta & GRAND student researcher
“GRAND is an organization that gives us really good insight into where the world is going in a digital
economy…it gives us a view into what might exist as we go forward. “
   - David Martin,
      Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Smart Technologies Inc.
& Board Member, GRAND
“One of the things that I think is lacking in our society are bridges between the academic world and
the business world. <What> excited me <about GRAND> was the opportunity to try to bridge some
of those gaps.”
   - C. Ian Kyer,
      Counsel, Fasken Martineau & Chair of the Board, GRAND

“It’s not interdisciplinary, it’s transdisciplinary…<GRAND is> creating new disciplinary structures
that didn’t exist before …not only for researchers…for our industrial partners… and most importantly,
our students.”
   - Abby Goodrum,
      Associate Dean, Communication and Design, Ryerson University &
      Director,
Social Sciences and Humanities Research, GRAND
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