India and Canada will break yet another milestone in their burgeoning ties as they hold the first Canada-India Innovation Summit June 20-21.

Kapil Sibal, minister of communications and information technology, and John Baird, Canadian minister of foreign affairs, will set the tone for the two-day summit at Ottawa's Carleton University.

The Innovation Summit aims at creating "win-win relationships and joint business opportunities'' between the two countries. Its major thrust will be on "identifying strategic opportunities in key sectors such as biotechnology, environment and information and communication technologies.''

Carleton University president Roseann O'Reilly Runte and Indian high commissioner S. M. Gavai will join more than a dozen top CEOs from the two countries "to break new ground in science and technology collaboration and to identify opportunities.''

Carleton is also home to the Canada-India Centre of Excellence in Science, Technology, Trade and Policy aimed at raising awareness about bilateral studies and public diplomacy, and develop initiatives to build a better understanding of the two countries.