Speakers Archive - Elevate

New York Times Best Selling Author

Partner at Fasken
Gowling WLG

Vice President, Corporate Partnerships
SickKids Foundation

Innovator
The Knowledge Society

Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter

CoFounder
HXOUSE

Freelance Video Producer, Media Personality & Host
Good Show Digital

Artist, Founder
Akoin

Ancien vice-président et Président de Generation Investment Management

Alamelu Radhakrishnan

Engineering Leadership at Shopify

Advisory Committee Member , Digital TwinsAdvisory Committee Member , Digital Twins at World Economic Forum
Mastercard

Head of Product
Asana

Alexander Florio

CoFounder
Swob Inc.

Co-founder, CERT Systems Inc

Vice President, Merchant Solutions & Loyalty @RBC and President @Ascend Canada
RBC

Co-Founder @ Platypus
Brightside by ATB Financial

Alexandre Le Bouthillier

CoFounder & Chief Corporate Officer
Imagia

Aliénor (Allie) Rougeot

Climate and Energy Program Manager at Environmental Defence
Fridays for Future Toronto

Machine Learning Engineer, Technical Project Manager
TKS

President & CEO
Espresso Capital

Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners
Hyde Park Venture Partners

Emerging Artist Duo

Althea Wishloff

Analyst
Panache Ventures

Partner
Radian Capital

Founder
Electric Runway

Anchor
Bloomberg Television

Co-Founder & COO
Autonomic Inc.

Managing Partner, Co-Founder Managing Partner, Co-Founder at Catalyst Capital Inc
Catalyst Capital

Anchor & Reporter
Business News Network

Author, Host & Entrepreneur

Vice President, Marketing Communications at Moneris
Moneris

Founder and CEO
Future Today Institute

President and Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University

Brain Computer Interface Developer
TKS

Partner at Azure Capital Partners
Azure Capital Partners

Andrea Van Leeuwen

Head of Marketing
Facebook & Instagram Canada

Co-Founder and CEO
Borrowell

Co-founder and CEO
Automat.ai

Partner, Consulting
Deloitte

President and Chief Executive Officer
Moneris

Co-Founder and CEO
Ubiquity6

Cofounding Partner
Floodgate

Co-founder & Creative Director
Somewherelse

Anthony Di Iorio

Founder & CEO
Decentral

Digital & Innovation Transformation Executive and Fintech Investor
EY

President & Co-Founder
Identity NORTH / Vantage

CoFounder & Chief Evangelist Officer
Muse® by Interaxon Inc.

Arlene Dickinson

General Partner
District Ventures Capital

Managing Partner & President - Digital & Innovation at KPMG
KPMG

Chief Technology Officer at TealBook
IVADO Labs

Arthur Sylvestre

Director of Media, Digital & E-Commerce at Danone
Danone

Founder
FashionTech

VP Integrated Marketing
Kin

Head of Business Strategy at #paid
Agorize Canada

Featured Guest
CEO, Bloom

Director of the Privacy & Cybercrime Institute
Ryerson University

VP of Product
Wealthsimple

Azadeh Dindayal

VP of Marketing at Identos Inc.
IDENTOS Inc

Co-Founder and CEO
MedStack

CEO & Founder
The 7 Virtues

Founder
Barb Atkin Inc

Barbara Swartzentruber

Executive Director
City of Guelph, Smart Cities

Managing Partner & Head of Deloitte Data
Deloitte

Industry Manager, Emerging Disruptors
Facebook Canada

Founder and CEO
The Ocean Cleanup

CTO Cymax Group Technologies
LoyaltyOne

CEO & Cofounder
Hubspot

Futurist, Bestselling Author and Global Innovation Evangelist
Salesforce

Brooke Lynn Hytes

Queen of the North

Founder, G Adventures & NY Times Bestselling Author

Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners

Artistic Director & Co-Head
TIFF

Managing Partner, Gamechanger | Host, Gamechanger Sessions

Chief Executive Officer, Loop

Founder & Senior Fellow
Altimeter (a Prophet company)

Reporter, ETALK

Elevate CoChair & Astronaut

VP - Global Strategy and Animal Health for TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods
TELUS

Christian Weedbrook

CEO & Founder, Xanadu

Christopher Bontempo

Vice President, Cloud and Cognitive Software
IBM

Managing Partner, US Financial Services, IBM Consulting
IBM Canada

Claudette McGowan

CEO at Protexxa and Co-Founder at The Firehood
TD

D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika

Founder and Board President at BrainSTEM Alliance

Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto

Engagement educator, speaker, coach, and consultant

Chief Officer, Innovation Labs and New Ventures
Interac

Chief Revenue Officer at Nest Wealth
Achievers

Dionne Sinclair

Vice President, Clinical Care & Chief Nurse Executive Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Founder
Operation Prefrontal Cortex

Domanique Grant

Emerging Artist
Singer-Songwriter

Dr. Cheryl Teelucksingh

Professor & Department Chair, Ryerson

Dr. Dambisa Moyo

Global Economist & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Dr. Hadiya Roderique

Journalist, Lawyer & Diversity and Inclusion Advocate

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE

Founder, Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

Dr. Jill Andrew

Executive Guest
MPP, Toronto-St. Paul’s

Dr. Joanna Henderson

Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health, CAMH
CAMH

Dr. Mary Bartram

Director, Policy, Mental Health Commission of Canada

Director-General (Québec & Atlantic), David Suzuki Foundation

Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Moneris

#1 NYT Bestselling Author & Host of Uncomfortable Conversations

Former CEO
Google

Director, Emerging Capabilities and Platform Strategy at RBC
RBC

Esther Wojcicki

Author
How to Raise Successful People

Founder & CEO
Medium

Executive Director, Wisdom2Action

Hôte | Chef de l’investissement durable, Placements Mackenzie

Fitriya Mohamed

Featured Guest
Founder & Executive Director, MWSBL

Forest Whitaker

Academy Award Winning Artist and Activist

Startup and Venture Capital Attorney, Osler, Hoskin, & Harcourt LLP

Geoffrey Hinton

Chief Scientific Advisor
Vector Institute

President & CEO
Tangerine

Gisèle Yasmeen

Executive Director, Food Secure Canada

Chief Evangelist
Canva

Helen Kontozopoulos

Co-founder & Chief Evangelist
ODAIA.ai

Hon. Bardish Chagger

Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth
The Government of Canada

Hon. Bill Morneau

Minister of Finance
The Government of Canada

Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade
The Government of Canada

Hon. Mélanie Joly

Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages
The Government of Canada

Hon. Navdeep Bains

Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development
The Government of Canada

Hon. Rod Phillips

Minister of Finance
Province of Ontario

Hon. Victor Fedeli

Minister of Economic Development
Province of Ontario

Series Host
Writer & Multimedia Artist

Ilse Treurnicht

Member of Open Banking Advisory Committee

Co-Founder at Carbon Neutral Club

Jade’s Hip Hop Academy Performance Company

Featured Artist

Actress, Performer and Activist

Director, Producer and Activist

Managing Partner
Future Workplace

CoFounder & Chief Brand Officer
Away Luggage

Jennifer Podemski

Featured Artist
Award Winning Film and Television Producer

Broadcaster, Indigenous Advocate & Pop Culture Philosopher

Chief Social Innovation and Communications Officer
Telus

Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter

Co-Host
Founder & CEO, #MovetheDial

Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Investor Engagement, Team Co-Lead Mackenzie Greenchip

Community Activist, Author, Former Mayor of Toronto

Founder & CEO, Flashfood

Julian Mitchell

Executive Guest
Cofounder, IQ Labs Inc.

Founder & CEO
Kiva

CoFounder & Partner
SoulCycle & WeWork Private

Canadian Artist and Icon

Kaitlin and Lauren Grierson

Co-Founders, TreesCO2
TreesCO2

Host, Pivot and Recode Decode podcasts & Editor-at-large at New York Magazine

Director, Innovation & Ecosystem Engagement, Interac

CEO & Founder
KDPM Consulting Group INC.

Kathryn Minshew

CEO & Founder
The Muse

VP Product & COO at Shopify
Shopify

Founder & CEO
Ferrazzi Greenlight

Founding Executive Director, Fashion Takes Action

General Manager & Senior Vice President at Elevate

Founder and CEO
Leadx

Founder
Hypebeast

Kyle McCutcheon and Chris Koras

Featured Artist Duo
Co-Founders, Game Seven Media

Managing Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation
Energy Probe Research Foundation

Vice President, Clinical Innovation at Ontario Health

Co-Founder and VP of Programming & Operations
Elevate

Singer, Song-Writer

Professor of Management Practice, London Business School and Founder, Hot Spots Movement

COO & Co-Founder
Knockri

Chief Strategic Partnership Officer, Moneris

Marcus Buckingham

Bestselling Author
Nine Lies About Work

National CEO, Canadian Mental Health Association

Margaret Stuart

Country Manager
Salesforce

Margaret Trudeau

Celebrated Canadian & Mental Health Advocate

Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Owner of Dallas Mavericks

Marshall Berkin

Vice-president, Industry Solutions at Telus
TELUS

American Executive, Lifestyle Expert and Best-Selling Author

Martine Rothblatt

CEO & Founder
United Therapeutics

President, Alternate NBA Governor
Toronto Raptors

President at Togetherall
Togetherall

Mayor John Tory

Mayor
City of Toronto

VP, Financial and Professional Services, Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Advisory Board Member at Musashi AI North America
Telus

President and CEO
BDC

Michele Romanow

Cofounder & President
Clearbanc

Former First Lady of the United States

Michelle Tillis Lederman

Connection Creator, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Author and CEO

CEO North America, IDENTOS
IDENTOS

Vice President, Talent Brand Marketing & Communications at Salesforce
Salesforce

Indigenous actor, activist, and public speaker

Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada

President, Business Solutions
TELUS

Neil Blumenthal

CoFounder & CoCEO
Warby Parker

AVP, Digital ID and Innovation, Interac

Director of Engagement & Inclusion, CBC, English Services

nina jane drystek

Emerging Artist
Poet, Writer, Performer

VP, Canada Region Counsel, Mastercard Canada

CEO & Co-founder, erthos
erthos

Olubenga Olubanjo

Founder & CEO, Reeddi

Vice President, Strategy, Innovation Partnerships & Emerging Solutions at Interac Corp.
Interac

AVP, Head of Machine Learning Business Management
Layer 6 AI at TD

Chief Data & Trust Officer
Telus

Patrick Antoine

Sr Managing Director at Globant
IBM

SVP, Global Head of Sustainability at Salesforce
Salesforce

Paulette Senior

CEO & President, Canadian Women's Foundation

Singer, Song-Writer

Raia ‘Coach’ Carey

Co-Host
Life Coach and Speaker

Executive Chair, Elevate
Elevate

CEO & Cofounder
Elevate

Rhiannon Rosalind

Founder & CEO, Conscious Economics
Conscious Economics

Robert Herjavec

Shark Tank Investor & Cybersecurity Expert, Founder & CEO
Herjavec Group

Chief Operating Officer, Property Services & Sustainability, University of Toronto
University of Toronto

Rosanna Durruthy

VP OF GLOBAL DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & BELONGING, LINKEDIN
Head of Global Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, LinkedIn

Rudyard Griffiths

Canada’s Preeminent Moderator & Conversation Convener

Comedian, Writer, Podcaster

Partner
Radical Ventures

Editor in Chief
Glamour

Director, Genomics in Society, Genome Canada

Artist, Indigenous Activist & Ambassador

PRESIDENT, MasterCard Canada
MasterCard Canada

Cohost, Pivot & NYU Professor

Triple Platinum Selling Artist

Shahrzad Rafati

Founder & CEO
BroadbandTV

Shavonne Hasfal-McIntosh

Featured Guest
Diversity and Belonging Lead, Shopify

Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter

Shayla Stonechild

Featured Guest
Founder, Matriarch Movement

Executive Guest
VP, Digital Performance, Canadian Personal Banking, TD

Manager of Industry Partnerships
Elevate Talent

Founder & CEO
Girlboss

Visionary, Bestselling Author & World Change Warrior

Founder, Style with Substance Ventures

President & CEO of Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business

Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication and Director of the Center for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University

Associate, Golden Ventures

Theresa McClenaghan

Executive Director and Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association
Canadian Environmental Law Association

Chief Innovation Evangelist
Salesforce

Emerging Artist
First Soloist, The National Ballet of Canada & Founder, Ballerina Couture

Founder & CEO
Shopify

CoFounder & CEO
Okta

Tom Rand, Co-Founding Partner, ArcTern Ventures & Author (The Case for Climate Capitalism)

Trish McFarlane

CEO & Principal Analyst, H3 HR Advisors and Co-Host, The HR Happy Hour Podcast

Umbereen Inayet

Artistic Producer & Curator
Nuit Blanche Toronto

VP Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability; Executive Director, RBC Foundation

Global Head of Lifestyle & Education at TikTok
ELLE Canada

Victoria Pelletier

Managing Director at Accenture | Member at Chief | Official Member & Contributor at Forbes Council | Board Director at Olive Ltd.
IBM

Founder
Khosla Ventures

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Founder & CEO
Bumble

Acclaimed Artist

Yancey Strickler

CoFounder
Kickstarter

Executive Vice-president, Home Solutions & Customer Excellence at Telus
TELUS