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Aaron Levie
CEO
Box, Inc.
Adam Grant
New York Times Best Selling Author
Adam Lewinberg
Partner at Fasken
Gowling WLG
Adam Starkman
Vice President, Corporate Partnerships
SickKids Foundation
Adar Kahiri
Innovator
The Knowledge Society
AHI
Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Ahmed Ismail
CoFounder
HXOUSE
Ajay Fry
Freelance Video Producer, Media Personality & Host
Good Show Digital
Akon
Artist, Founder
Akoin
Al Gore
Ancien vice-président et Président de Generation Investment Management
Alamelu Radhakrishnan
Engineering Leadership at Shopify
Alby Bocanegra
Advisory Committee Member , Digital TwinsAdvisory Committee Member , Digital Twins at World Economic Forum
Mastercard
Alex Hood
Head of Product
Asana
Alexander Florio
CoFounder
Swob Inc.
Alexander Ip
Co-founder, CERT Systems Inc
Alexander Peh
Vice President, Merchant Solutions & Loyalty @RBC and President @Ascend Canada
RBC
Alexandra Nuth
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
Alishba Imran
Machine Learning Engineer, Technical Project Manager
TKS
Alkarim Jivraj
President & CEO
Espresso Capital
Allison Weil
Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners
Hyde Park Venture Partners
ALLYDICE
Emerging Artist Duo
Althea Wishloff
Analyst
Panache Ventures
Aly Lovett
Partner
Radian Capital
Amanda Cosco
Founder
Electric Runway
Amanda Lang
Anchor
Bloomberg Television
Amar Varma
Co-Founder & COO
Autonomic Inc.
Amber French
Managing Partner, Co-Founder Managing Partner, Co-Founder at Catalyst Capital Inc
Catalyst Capital
Amber Kanwar
Anchor & Reporter
Business News Network
Amber Mac
Author, Host & Entrepreneur
Amy Maraone
Vice President, Marketing Communications at Moneris
Moneris
Amy Webb
Founder and CEO
Future Today Institute
Ana Serrano
President and Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University
Ananya Chadha
Brain Computer Interface Developer
TKS
Andrea Drager
Partner at Azure Capital Partners
Azure Capital Partners
Andrea Van Leeuwen
Head of Marketing
Facebook & Instagram Canada
Andrew Graham
Co-Founder and CEO
Borrowell
Andy Mauro
Co-founder and CEO
Automat.ai
Andy Potter
Partner, Consulting
Deloitte
Angela Brown
President and Chief Executive Officer
Moneris
Anjali Sud
CEO
Vimeo
Anjney Midha
Co-Founder and CEO
Ubiquity6
Ann Miura-Ko
Cofounding Partner
Floodgate
Anna Wiesen
Co-founder & Creative Director
Somewherelse
Anthony Di Iorio
Founder & CEO
Decentral
Anthony Rjeily
Digital & Innovation Transformation Executive and Fintech Investor
EY
Aran Hamilton
President & Co-Founder
Identity NORTH / Vantage
Ariel Garten
CoFounder & Chief Evangelist Officer
Muse® by Interaxon Inc.
Arlene Dickinson
General Partner
District Ventures Capital
Armughan Ahmad
Managing Partner & President - Digital & Innovation at KPMG
KPMG
Arnold Liwanag
Chief Technology Officer at TealBook
IVADO Labs
Arthur Sylvestre
Director of Media, Digital & E-Commerce at Danone
Danone
Ashley Barby
Founder
FashionTech
Ashley Riske
VP Integrated Marketing
Kin
Aurelie Wen
Head of Business Strategy at #paid
Agorize Canada
Avery Francis
Featured Guest
CEO, Bloom
Avner Levin
Director of the Privacy & Cybercrime Institute
Ryerson University
Avrum Laurie
VP of Product
Wealthsimple
Ayaan Esmail
Disruptor
TKS
Azadeh Dindayal
VP of Marketing at Identos Inc.
IDENTOS Inc
Balaji Gopalan
Co-Founder and CEO
MedStack
Barb Stegemann
CEO & Founder
The 7 Virtues
Barbara Atkin
Founder
Barb Atkin Inc
Barbara Swartzentruber
Executive Director
City of Guelph, Smart Cities
Bilal Khan
Managing Partner & Head of Deloitte Data
Deloitte
Blake Smith
Industry Manager, Emerging Disruptors
Facebook Canada
Boyan Slat
Founder and CEO
The Ocean Cleanup
Bradley Kent
CTO Cymax Group Technologies
LoyaltyOne
Brian Halligan
CEO & Cofounder
Hubspot
Brian Solis
Futurist, Bestselling Author and Global Innovation Evangelist
Salesforce
Brooke Lynn Hytes
Queen of the North
Bruce Poon Tip
Founder, G Adventures & NY Times Bestselling Author
Byron Deeter
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners
Cameron Bailey
Artistic Director & Co-Head
TIFF
Candice Faktor
Managing Partner, Gamechanger | Host, Gamechanger Sessions
Cato Pastoll
Chief Executive Officer, Loop
Charlene Li
Founder & Senior Fellow
Altimeter (a Prophet company)
Chloe Wilde
Reporter, ETALK
Chris Hadfield
Elevate CoChair & Astronaut
Chris Terris
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
Claude Guay
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
David Sinton
Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
David Zinger
Engagement educator, speaker, coach, and consultant
Debbie Gamble
Chief Officer, Innovation Labs and New Ventures
Interac
Denise Willet
Chief Revenue Officer at Nest Wealth
Achievers
Dionne Sinclair
Vice President, Clinical Care & Chief Nurse Executive Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Director X
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
Dr. Sabaa Khan
Director-General (Québec & Atlantic), David Suzuki Foundation
Duri Alajrami
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Moneris
Eli Fathi
CEO
MindBridge
Emmanuel Acho
#1 NYT Bestselling Author & Host of Uncomfortable Conversations
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO
Google
Erica Spear
Director, Emerging Capabilities and Platform Strategy at RBC
RBC
Esther Wojcicki
Author
How to Raise Successful People
Evan Williams
Founder & CEO
Medium
Fae Johnstone
Executive Director, Wisdom2Action
Fate Saghir
Hôte | Chef de l’investissement durable, Placements Mackenzie
Fitriya Mohamed
Featured Guest
Founder & Executive Director, MWSBL
Forest Whitaker
Academy Award Winning Artist and Activist
Gary Marshall
Startup and Venture Capital Attorney, Osler, Hoskin, & Harcourt LLP
Geoffrey Hinton
Chief Scientific Advisor
Vector Institute
Gillian Riley
President & CEO
Tangerine
Gisèle Yasmeen
Executive Director, Food Secure Canada
Guy Kawasaki
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
Hon. Mary Ng
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
Ian Keteku
Series Host
Writer & Multimedia Artist
Ibrahim Gedeon
CTO
TELUS
Ilse Treurnicht
Member of Open Banking Advisory Committee
Jack Bruner
Co-Founder at Carbon Neutral Club
Jade’s Hip Hop Academy Performance Company

Jagdeep Raina
Featured Artist
Jameela Jamil
Actress, Performer and Activist
James Cameron
Director, Producer and Activist
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Jeanne Meister
Managing Partner
Future Workplace
Jen Rubio
CoFounder & Chief Brand Officer
Away Luggage
Jennifer Podemski
Featured Artist
Award Winning Film and Television Producer
Jesse Wente
Broadcaster, Indigenous Advocate & Pop Culture Philosopher
Jill Schnarr
Chief Social Innovation and Communications Officer
Telus
Jim Whitehurst
President
IBM
JJ Wilde
Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Jodi Kovitz
Co-Host
Founder & CEO, #MovetheDial
John Cook
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Investor Engagement, Team Co-Lead Mackenzie Greenchip
John Sewell
Community Activist, Author, Former Mayor of Toronto
Josh Domingues
Founder & CEO, Flashfood
Julian Mitchell
Executive Guest
Cofounder, IQ Labs Inc.
Julie Hanna
Founder & CEO
Kiva
Julie Rice
CoFounder & Partner
SoulCycle & WeWork Private
Jully Black
Canadian Artist and Icon
Kaitlin and Lauren Grierson
Co-Founders, TreesCO2
TreesCO2
Kara Swisher
Host, Pivot and Recode Decode podcasts & Editor-at-large at New York Magazine
Karen Deng
Director, Innovation & Ecosystem Engagement, Interac
Karlyn Percil
CEO & Founder
KDPM Consulting Group INC.
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Kathryn Minshew
CEO & Founder
The Muse
Kaz Nejatian
VP Product & COO at Shopify
Shopify
Keith Ferrazzi
Founder & CEO
Ferrazzi Greenlight
Kelly Drennan
Founding Executive Director, Fashion Takes Action
Kevin Barton
General Manager & Senior Vice President at Elevate
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Kevin Kruse
Founder and CEO
Leadx
Kevin Ma
Founder
Hypebeast
Kyle McCutcheon and Chris Koras
Featured Artist Duo
Co-Founders, Game Seven Media
Larry Solomon
Managing Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation
Energy Probe Research Foundation
Laurie Poole
Vice President, Clinical Innovation at Ontario Health
Lisa Zarzeczny
Co-Founder and VP of Programming & Operations
Elevate
Liza
Singer, Song-Writer
Lynda Gratton
Professor of Management Practice, London Business School and Founder, Hot Spots Movement
Maaz Rana
COO & Co-Founder
Knockri
Malcolm Fowler
Chief Strategic Partnership Officer, Moneris
Marcus Buckingham
Bestselling Author
Nine Lies About Work
Margaret Eaton
National CEO, Canadian Mental Health Association
Margaret Stuart
Country Manager
Salesforce
Margaret Trudeau
Celebrated Canadian & Mental Health Advocate
Mark Cuban
Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Owner of Dallas Mavericks
Marshall Berkin
Vice-president, Industry Solutions at Telus
TELUS
Martha Stewart
American Executive, Lifestyle Expert and Best-Selling Author
Martine Rothblatt
CEO & Founder
United Therapeutics
Masai Ujiri
President, Alternate NBA Governor
Toronto Raptors
Matthew McEvoy
President at Togetherall
Togetherall
Mayor John Tory
Mayor
City of Toronto
Meagan Murdoch
VP, Financial and Professional Services, Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Michael Cihra
Michael Cihra
Advisory Board Member at Musashi AI North America
Telus
Michael Denham
President and CEO
BDC
Michele Romanow
Cofounder & President
Clearbanc
Michelle Obama
Former First Lady of the United States
Michelle Tillis Lederman
Connection Creator, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Author and CEO
Mike Cook
CEO North America, IDENTOS
IDENTOS
Molly Ford
Vice President, Talent Brand Marketing & Communications at Salesforce
Salesforce
Mutari
Singer
Nadia George
Indigenous actor, activist, and public speaker
Nathan Gillet
Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Navin Arora
President, Business Solutions
TELUS
Neil Blumenthal
CoFounder & CoCEO
Warby Parker
Neil Butters
AVP, Digital ID and Innovation, Interac
Nick Davis
Director of Engagement & Inclusion, CBC, English Services
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Emerging Artist
Poet, Writer, Performer
Nina Mapara
VP, Canada Region Counsel, Mastercard Canada
Nuha Siddiqui
CEO & Co-founder, erthos
erthos
Olubenga Olubanjo
Founder & CEO, Reeddi
Oscar Roque
Vice President, Strategy, Innovation Partnerships & Emerging Solutions at Interac Corp.
Interac
Paige Dickie
AVP, Head of Machine Learning Business Management
Layer 6 AI at TD
Pamela Snively
Chief Data & Trust Officer
Telus
Patrick Antoine
Sr Managing Director at Globant
IBM
Patrick Flynn
SVP, Global Head of Sustainability at Salesforce
Salesforce
Paulette Senior
CEO & President, Canadian Women's Foundation
Pisceze
Singer, Song-Writer
Raia ‘Coach’ Carey
Co-Host
Life Coach and Speaker
Randy Lennox
Executive Chair, Elevate
Elevate
Razor Suleman
CEO & Cofounder
Elevate
Rhiannon Rosalind
Founder & CEO, Conscious Economics
Conscious Economics
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Robert Herjavec
Shark Tank Investor & Cybersecurity Expert, Founder & CEO
Herjavec Group
Ron Saporta
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
Ryan McMahon
Comedian, Writer, Podcaster
Salim Teja
Partner
Radical Ventures
Samantha Barry
Editor in Chief
Glamour
Sapna Mahajan
Director, Genomics in Society, Genome Canada
Sarah Friar
CEO
Nextdoor
Sarain Fox
Artist, Indigenous Activist & Ambassador
Sasha Krstic
PRESIDENT, MasterCard Canada
MasterCard Canada
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Scott Galloway
Cohost, Pivot & NYU Professor
Serena Ryder
Triple Platinum Selling Artist
Shahrzad Rafati
Founder & CEO
BroadbandTV
Shavonne Hasfal-McIntosh
Featured Guest
Diversity and Belonging Lead, Shopify
Shawnee
Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Shayla Stonechild
Featured Guest
Founder, Matriarch Movement
Shibani Ahuja
Executive Guest
VP, Digital Performance, Canadian Personal Banking, TD
Shine Chung
Manager of Industry Partnerships
Elevate Talent
Sophia Amoruso
Founder & CEO
Girlboss
Spencer West
Visionary, Bestselling Author & World Change Warrior
Stacy Fruitman
Founder, Style with Substance Ventures
Tabatha Bull
President & CEO of Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
Taylor Owen
Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication and Director of the Center for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University
Taylor Wilson
Associate, Golden Ventures
Theresa McClenaghan
Executive Director and Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association
Canadian Environmental Law Association
Tiffani Bova
Chief Innovation Evangelist
Salesforce
Tina Pereira
Emerging Artist
First Soloist, The National Ballet of Canada & Founder, Ballerina Couture
Tobias Lütke
Founder & CEO
Shopify
Todd McKinnon
CoFounder & CEO
Okta
Tom Rand
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
Tyrone Edwards
Reporter
etalk
Tyrone Edwards
Anchor, ETALK
Umbereen Inayet
Artistic Producer & Curator
Nuit Blanche Toronto
Valerie Chort
VP Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability; Executive Director, RBC Foundation
Vanessa Craft
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
Vinod Khosla
Founder
Khosla Ventures
Wes Hall

Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder & CEO
Bumble
Wyclef Jean
Acclaimed Artist
Yancey Strickler
CoFounder
Kickstarter
Zainul Mawji
Executive Vice-president, Home Solutions & Customer Excellence at Telus
TELUS
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