CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - May 15, 2012) - What makes bacon smell so good? What revolutionized the Industrial Age? What Canadian agricultural practices are used around the world? Media are invited to attend our complimentary "Impact Innovation" speaker session to hear these answers and more through entertaining stories for our non-scientist stakeholder audience.

Date: Thursday, May 17

Time: 1 to 4 p.m. (program)

Participants:

• Jay Ingram, (M.C.) former TV host, Daily Planet, Discovery Channel
• Stan Blade, CEO, Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions
• Art Froehlich, Chair, Board of Directors, Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions
• Janice Cooke, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences (Forest Tree Biology), University of Alberta
• David Bressler, Executive Director, Biorefining Conversions Network and Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta
• David Wishart, Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science, University of Alberta
• Mike Kennedy, President and CEO, Green Analytics
• Evelyn Merrill, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Note to editors: Interviews with participants will be available following the program, as well as refreshments. More event details available at www.bio.albertainnovates.ca/about/corpevents/impactinnovation2012/