PROF. PAUL HOFFERT
TOPICS:
All Together Now: Creating Community In A
Digital Age
The Bagel Effect
People Cause
Change, Not Technology
Innovation in the
Global Economy
Enabling Global
Business Through Technology
 Paul Hoffert is a visionary with the logical mind of
a mathematician and the soul of an artist.
He is Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Research Professor at Sheridan
College, Fine Arts Professor at York University, and Chair of the Guild of Canadian Film
and Television Composers.
By the time he was twenty-six, Hoffert was already an established jazz recording artist,
television performer, author of an off-Broadway musical, film composer, and had studied
mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. That same year, (1969) he co-founded
Lighthouse, the first rock group to feature jazz horns and classical strings. Lighthouse
sold millions of records, toured the world and earned three Juno Awards as Canada’s #
1 pop band between 1971-1973. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
In 1975 Hoffert focused on composing film and television music, and penned dozens of
feature film and hundreds of television program scores. His film music earned him a San
Francisco Film Festival and three SOCAN Film Composer of the Year awards. His concert
music includes a Juno-award winning violin concerto that is performed regularly by
symphony orchestras.
Hoffert was Chair of the Ontario Arts Council from 1994-1997, was a founder of CIRPA - the
Canadian Independent Record Production Association, and of the Academy of Canadian Cinema
and Television. He was President of the Academy in 1981 and 1982. In 2001 he received the
Pixel award as the New Media industry’s "Visionary of the Year".
Hoffert has parallel achievements in science and technology. He was at the National
Research Council of Canada in the early 1970s and returned to research in 1988 as Vice
President of DHJ Research, where he invented digital audio technology for Newbridge
Microsystems telephone circuits, Mattel Cabbage Patch Dolls, and Akai and Yamaha musical
instruments.
In 1992,Hoffert founded CulTech Research Centre at York University, where he developed
advanced new media such as digital video telephones and networked distribution of CD-ROMs.
From 1994 to 1999, he directed Intercom Ontario, a $100 million trial of the world's first
completely connected broadband community that landed him on the cover of the Financial
Post and in the Wall Street Journal.
He presents his visions for the Digital Age in three best-selling books: "The New
Client", "All Together Now", and "The Bagel Effect", which detail
recipes for living in the Information Age.
Hoffert is known for expecting the unexpected. The Financial Post describes him as one of
the New Mandarins along with Bill Gates. His incisive thinking brings clarity to complex
issues and his lively presenations make him a favourite with audiences everywhere.
Highlights
Author of All Together Now: Creating
Community In A Digital Age and The Bagel Effect: A Compass to Navigate Our Wired World
Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at York University,
and Director of CulTech Research Centre
Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund,
President of Intecom Ontario, the Guild of Canadian Film and Television Composers, Smart
Toronto, and of the SOCAN Foundation
Former Chair of the Ontario Arts Council,
Founder of the Canadian Independent Recording Producers Association, President of the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Director of Canada's Performing Rights
Organization and Executive Producer of the Gemini Awards TV broadcasts.
Recipient of San Francisco Film Festival,
Genie, Gemini, Clio, and SOCAN Film/TV Composer Awards. Recipient of Juno Awards for both
rock (Best Group, Outstanding Performance), and classical music (Hoffert Violin Concerto)
Member of Canadian Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame
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