Speakers Archive - Elevate

Founder, Hush Blankets

Abbie Stein-Maclean

Head of Capital City Pilots
Edmonton Unlimited

Abdullah Snobar

Director, DMZ & CEO, DMZ Ventures

Abraham Tachjian

Canada's Open Banking Lead

Director, Sales
Lighthouse Labs

New York Times Best Selling Author

Partner at Fasken
Gowling WLG

Vice President, Corporate Partnerships
SickKids Foundation

Senior Vice President, Laurentian Bank of Canada

Innovator
The Knowledge Society

Director of Technology Delivery & Transformation, BMO

Co-Founder, Fleur & Co

Managing Editor, Corporate Knights Inc.

Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter

Ahmad Ghahreman

President & CEO
Cyclic Materials

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

Broadcaster, Music Writer, Consultant, Brain Dead Dog/Corus Radio

Chief Technology Officer, Acerta Analytics

CEO, TokenFunder/TokenGX

Alanna Lopes Souza

General Manager
Drive Capital

Founder & CEO, Big Viking Games

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

Head of Product
Asana

Co-Founder, TechTO

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

Alexis MacDonald

VP People, Loopio

Co-Founder & CTO, Dialogue

Founder & CEO, Tulip

Aliénor (Allie) Rougeot

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

Investment Associate, Techstars

Machine Learning Engineer, Technical Project Manager
TKS

Alison Nankivell

Senior Vice President, Fund Investments
BDC Capital

President & CEO
Espresso Capital

Co-Founder & Operating Partner
Two Small Fish Ventures

Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners
Hyde Park Venture Partners

Founder & CEO of Love Squad, Peloton Instructor, Today Show Contributor, and Host of the Brooklyn Nets

Emerging Artist Duo

Althea Wishloff

Analyst
Panache Ventures

Partner
Radian Capital

Co-Founder & Chief Commercialization Officer
PurposeMed

Fashion & Beauty Futurist/ Founder, Electric Runway

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
BNN Bloomberg

Freelance Journalist
CBC

Trade Commissioner
Trade Commissioner Service - Global Affairs Canada

COO
FluidAIMedical

CEO
Requity Homes Inc.

Vice President, Marketing Communications at Moneris
Moneris

Founder & CEO, Endeavor VR

Founder and CEO
Future Today Institute

President and Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University

Brain Computer Interface Developer
TKS

Andre De Grasse

Olympic Champion, Author, Philanthropist & Investor

Partner at Azure Capital Partners
Azure Capital Partners

Andrea Van Leeuwen

Head of Marketing
Facebook & Instagram Canada

Andrea Casciato

Head of Digital Investing, BMO InvestorLine

Director of Applied Projects, Vector Institute

Co-Founder and CEO
Borrowell

Co-Founder & CEO, Borrowell

CEO, Tokens.com

CEO & Co-Founder, Delphia

Co-founder and CEO
Automat.ai

Partner, Consulting
Deloitte

President and Chief Executive Officer
Moneris

Senior Consultant, Innovation / Data Ethicist, INQ Consulting

Chief Technology Resiliency, Experience & Operations Officer, BMO

Founder of Transtech Social Enterprises, Actress, Producer & Advocate

Co-Founder and CEO
Ubiquity6

Cofounding Partner
Floodgate

Canadian Sketch Comedian, Actress, & Television Host

Director Industry Innovation, Vector Institute

Co-founder & Creative Director
Somewherelse

Senior Digital Broadcast Journalist, Global News

Annette Verschuren

Chair & CEO, NRStor Inc.
NRStor Inc

Anshul Ruparell

CEO & Co-founder, Properly

IDM Sector Development, City of Toronto

Anthony Di Iorio

Founder & CEO
Decentral

Anthony Durocher

Deputy Commissioner, Competition Promotion Branch, Competition Bureau, Government of Canada

Anthony Lacavera

Serial Entrepreneur & VC, Globalive

Digital & Innovation Transformation Executive and Fintech Investor
EY

Anupra Chandran

Alumnus, The Knowledge Society (TKS) & Co-founder, Biotein

Executive Editor, The Logic

President & Co-Founder
Identity NORTH / Vantage

CoFounder & Chief Evangelist Officer
Muse® by Interaxon Inc.

Managing Partner & President - Digital & Innovation at KPMG
KPMG

Alumnus, The Knowledge Society (TKS)

Chief Technology Officer at TealBook
IVADO Labs

Arthur Sylvestre

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

Founder
FashionTech

Alumnus, The Knowledge Society (TKS)

VP Integrated Marketing
Kin

CEO, The Wright Success

Co-founder & CEO, Eightfold.ai

Head of Business Strategy at #paid
Agorize Canada

Featured Guest
CEO, Bloom

Avinash Persaud

VP, Hardware Catalyst Initiative
ventureLAB

Director of the Privacy & Cybercrime Institute
Ryerson University

VP of Product
Wealthsimple

Founder & CEO
Sweet July

Azadeh Dindayal

VP of Marketing at Identos Inc.
IDENTOS Inc

Co-Founder and CEO
MedStack

CEO & Founder
The 7 Virtues

Barbara Swartzentruber

Executive Director
City of Guelph, Smart Cities

Author & Top 100 Women of the Future by Innovations of the World

Founder & CEO
Edgecom Energy

CEO & Founder, WonderFi

Innovation Strategist, Deloitte & Market Gravity

Bertrand Nepveu

Co-Founding Partner, Triptyq Capital

Managing Partner & Head of Deloitte Data
Deloitte

Blake Farquharson

Associate Director, Elevate

Blake Farquharson

Director, Innovation
Elevate

Industry Manager, Emerging Disruptors
Facebook Canada

Founder and CEO
The Ocean Cleanup

CTO Cymax Group Technologies
LoyaltyOne

Entertainment Industry Strategist
Parrot Analytics

VP, Digital Product UX & ETS, EllisDon

Brent J. Arnold

Partner, Gowling WLG

General Manager
The Peak

CEO & Cofounder
Hubspot

Research Director, Borealis AI

Chief Risk Officer, Moneris

Futurist, Bestselling Author and Global Innovation Evangelist
Salesforce

Brittany Charlton

Founder & CEO, OhhFoods

Brooke Lynn Hytes

Queen of the North

Founder & CEO
Parachute

Founder, G Adventures & NY Times Bestselling Author

Founder & CEO, Kernel & OS Fund. Previously Founder & CEO Braintree Venmo
Blueprint

Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners

Caitlin MacGregor

Co-Founder & CEO, Plum

Director of Interiors, HOK Canada

Artistic Director & Co-Head
TIFF

Managing Partner, Gamechanger | Host, Gamechanger Sessions

CEO
Noa Therapeutics

Regional Director, Business Development, Boast.AI

Carole Piovesan

Managing Partner
INQ Law / INQ Consulting

Managing Director, Technology Financial Services Practice

Managing Director, North America Gameloft

Catherine McIntyre

Reporter, The Logic

Senior Vice President, Workplace Advisory, Colliers

CEO & Founder, Locke Bio

Chief Executive Officer, Loop

Chantal Kreviazuk

Singer & activist

Founder & Senior Fellow
Altimeter (a Prophet company)

Executive Director
Toronto Metropolitan University

Co-founder & AI Lead, Ubenwa Health

CEO, LAZARUS ESPORTS

CEO
Nfinite Nanotechnology Inc.

Multi-Award Winning Chef & Restauranteur

Vice President, Frontline Technology, CIBC

Cheryl Tjok-a-Tam

VP, Strategic Initiatives & Change Management, CFO Group

Co-Founder, Nandi Labs

Reporter, ETALK

CEO & President
Communitech

President, Microsoft Canada

Elevate Co-Chair
Chris Hadfield

President/CEO, OverActive Media

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

Founder, CEO, Brave Soles

Christian Weedbrook

CEO & Founder, Xanadu

Christopher Bontempo

Vice President, Cloud and Cognitive Software
IBM

Christopher Chen

Head of Investment Promotion
Invest Hong Kong (Canada)

Head of Marketing & Communications, Stratos Network

Managing Partner, US Financial Services, IBM Consulting
IBM Canada

Claudette McGowan

CEO at Protexxa and Co-Founder at The Firehood
TD

Vice President, Delivery Practice, Platforms & Technology, TD Bank

Co-Founder & CEO
Peggy

Cyra Richardson

CPO & CTO, Attabotics

D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika

Founder and Board President at BrainSTEM Alliance

CEO, Frontier Collective & Co-Founder, Shape

President
FLITE Material Sciences

CTO & Risk Advisor, Rhyno Cybersecurity

Producer/Writer

Bestselling Author, Leadership Strategist, Thinker
Pontefract Group

Daniel Eberhard

Founder & CEO
KOHO

Founder & CEO
EarthSuds

Danielle Gifford

Executive Director, Movement51

Danielle Graham

CoFounder, The Firehood

Head of Crypto, Wealthsimple

General Partner
Gradient Ventures

Chief Digital & Strategy Officer, OLG

Web3 Evangelist, Curator, Cash Labs & Decentraland

David Lederhendler

VP Innovation, Disruptive Edge

EVP at Samsung & Head of Samsung Next

Canada Country Manager, Intuit

David Sigmundson

Senior Vice President, Cyber Risk, Kroll

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

Founder & CEO
Lightspeed Commerce

President & Interim CEO
WonderFI

Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer
Interac Corp

Debmalya Bandyopadhyay

Director, Cybersecurity & Privacy, PwC

Corporate Social Responsibility Lead, Accenture

Founder & CEO
Cattle Scan

Chief Revenue Officer at Nest Wealth
Achievers

CEO & Founder, tentree

Co-Founder, GOODEE

Diane Brisebois

President & CEO, Retail Council of Canada

Dragon's Den Host & Business News Correspondent
CBC News

Environmental & Climate Lawyer

VP of R&D Operations, Arctic Wolf Networks

Dionne Sinclair

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

Founder
Operation Prefrontal Cortex

Founder, CEO & Producer, DJ2 Entertainment

Domanique Grant

Emerging Artist
Singer-Songwriter

Founder, Host, Producer, FashionTalks

Executive Director, Code for Canada

Co-Founder
Search + Gather

Editor in Chief
Betakit

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. Hayley Wickenheiser

Four-time Olympic Gold Medalist & Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame

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. Jody Carrington

Psychologist & Author

Dr. Kris Alexander

Professor of Video Games
Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Kristopher Alexander

Director of the Red Bull Gaming Hub, TMU

Dr. Mary Bartram

Director, Policy, Mental Health Commission of Canada

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

Dr. Sarah Saska

Co-Founder & CEO, Feminuity

Dr. Stephen Scherer

Professor Stephen Scherer, PHD DSC FRSC
Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Moneris

Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Moneris

Founder & Director, SuperChief Gallery

Elena Sinelnikova

Founder & CEO
Cryptochicks

Eliott Cheeseman

Legal Counsel, OpenZepplin

Elliotte Friedman

Reporter, Sportsnet

Emily Hampshire

Actor, Writer, Producer

Founder, RebelStork

CEO, MMH Technology Group

#1 NYT Bestselling Author & Host of Uncomfortable Conversations

Senior Director, Growth & Transition Capital, BDC

Chief Operating Officer, Coinsquare

Former CEO
Google

Director, Emerging Capabilities and Platform Strategy at RBC
RBC

Head of Sales, OutPoint

Esther Wojcicki

Author
How to Raise Successful People

General Partner
Two Small Fish Ventures

Founder & CEO
Medium

Cybersecurity Architect & Advisor, EK Cyber & Media Consulting

Executive Director, Wisdom2Action

Farnel Fleurant

Founder, Workind

Senior-Vice President, Head of Sustainability, Mackenzie Investments

Hôte | Chef de l’investissement durable, Placements Mackenzie

Co-founder & CEO, Liven Proteins

Founder, United Esports

Co-Founder & Chair
Thistledown Foundation

Fitriya Mohamed

Featured Guest
Founder & Executive Director, MWSBL

Forest Whitaker

Academy Award Winning Artist and Activist

Frances Edmonds

Head of Sustainable Impact, HP Canada

CISO Advisor, Cisco

Garrick Tiplady

Vice President, Global Business Group, North America & Canada Country Director, Meta

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

Geoffrey Hinton

Chief Scientific Advisor
Vector Institute

Geoffrey Lachapelle

Gaming Hub Manager, Red Bull Gaming Hub, TMU

George Bordianu

Co-founder & CEO, Balance

Footwear Designer, Founder of Black Designers of Canada

President & CEO
Tangerine

Chief Learning Officer, BMO

Gisèle Yasmeen

Executive Director, Food Secure Canada

COO
Work Time Reduction Center of Excellence

Founder & CEO
Scispot

Chief Evangelist
Canva

Hamoon Ekhtiari

CEO, FutureFit AI

Hanif Joshaghani

Co-Founder & CEO
Symend

Chief Compliance Officer, Payments
Wealthsimple

Co-Founder
Media Girlfriends

Helen Kontozopoulos

Chief Technical Evangelist, ODAIA

Helen Kontozopoulos

Co-founder & Chief Evangelist
ODAIA.ai

Sr. Product Security Architect, SAP

Co-Founder & CTO
Quantum Bridge Technologies

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. Chrystia Freeland

Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance

Hon. Colin Deacon

Independent Senator, Nova Scotia, Senate of Canada

Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade, and Economic Development
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. Navdeep Bains

Vice-Chair, Global Investment Banking, CIBC

Hon. Rod Phillips

Minister of Finance
Province of Ontario

Hon. Victor Fedeli

Minister of Economic Development
Province of Ontario

Chief Technology & Digital Officer
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment

Communications Specialist & Writer, Vector Institute

Series Host
Writer & Multimedia Artist

Founder, 21 Toys

Founder & CEO
Twenty One Toys

Iliana Oris Valiente

Managing Director, Accenture Inc.

Ilse Treurnicht

Member of Open Banking Advisory Committee

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

VP, Information Security & CISO, Interac

President & CEO, BDC

CEO
SkyAcres Agrotechnologies Inc.

Ismael Valenzuela Espejo

Vice President, Threat Research & Intelligence, BlackBerry

Iulian Vlad Serban

CEO, Ph.D., Korbit
Korbit

Founder & CEO, COYA Productions

Co-Founder at Carbon Neutral Club

Gaming & Esports Manager, Red Bull Canada

Jacquie Young-Sterling

Head of 3D Commerce Business Development 3D&I, Adobe

Jade’s Hip Hop Academy Performance Company

Featured Artist

Jahanzaib Ansari

Co-Founder & CEO, Knockri

Co-Founder
OneVest

Actress, Performer and Activist

Director, Producer and Activist

VP Global Talent Acquisition, Scotiabank

Janelle Chalouhi

Founder & CEO, Venusverse

Janet Bannister

Founder & General Partner
Staircase Ventures

Founder, Immiducation

Managing Partner & Founder, Faculty of Change

Freelance journalist & public speaker

Jasmin Ganie-Hobbs

Manager, Major Accounts, Tech Financing, BDC

Counsel, Gowling WLG

Chief Strategy & Commercial Officer, AIR MILES Reward Program

Co-founder, TechTO

Co-Founder & CEO
Evoco Ltd

Co-Founder & CEO
Lemurian Labs

Blockchain & Web3 Strategy Consultant, Deloitte

CEO, Rosenzweig & Company

Associate Managing Director, Kroll

Jeanette Jackson

CEO, Foresight Canada

Managing Partner
Future Workplace

Managing Director, Benefits & Wellness, Total Rewards, BMO

CoFounder & Chief Brand Officer
Away Luggage

Founder & CEO, Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics

Marketing Leader & Entrepreneur

Jennifer Côté

Co-Founder & CEO
Opalia

Jennifer McDonald

Consultant, Advisor, & Angel Investor

Jennifer Podemski

Featured Artist
Award Winning Film and Television Producer

Jennifer Rodrigues

Head of Investments & Partnerships, External Ecosystems, TD

Founder, Jenny Bird

CEO & Co-Founder, Gravvity

Broadcaster, Indigenous Advocate & Pop Culture Philosopher

Chief Social Innovation and Communications Officer
Telus

Associate Director-General
Invest Hong Kong

Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter

Joanna Griffiths

Founder & President
Knix

CEO
Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA)

CEO, 4 Day Week Evangelist & Movement Builder

Social Media Lead for LCS, Riot Games

General Manager, Missanabie Cree Business Corporation

Co-Managing Director, Facebook AI Research
Facebook AI Research

Executive Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer, Walmart Canada

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

Founder & Managing Partner, Maverix Private Equity

Community Activist, Author, Former Mayor of Toronto

John Stackhouse

Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, RBC

Jonathan Wheatle

Director, Economic Strategy, The Regional Municipality of York

Jonathon Troughton

CEO & Co-Founder, FramePlay

CEO, Muon Space

CEO, Playmaker Capital

Sr. Director, Partnership Strategy, The T1 Agency

Founder & CEO, Flashfood

Director of Product
Xanadu

Reporter & Author, The Globe and Mail

Joshua McDougall

Leader, Human Skills & Facilitated Experiences, BMO

Juan Miguel Arrazola

Head of Algorithms, Xanadu

Founder, Openness

Julian Mitchell

Executive Guest
Cofounder, IQ Labs Inc.

Co-Founder, Suppli

Founder & CEO
Kiva

Director Security Business Group, Microsoft Canada

Strategic Advisor

Julie Lottering

Director of Education
Epic Games

CoFounder & Partner
SoulCycle & WeWork Private

Senior Manager of Climate Finance, Environmental Defence

Canadian Artist and Icon

Kaitlin and Lauren Grierson

Co-Founders, TreesCO2
TreesCO2

Partner, Advisory, Cryptoassets & Blockchain co-leader
KPMG

Director, Innovation & Ecosystem Engagement, Interac

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Leadership Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University

CEO & Founder
KDPM Consulting Group INC.

Karthi Niranjan

Senior engineering manager, infotainment apps & services, GM Canada

Business Advisor, Emerging Technology Practice, Fasken

Katelin Holloway

Founder Partner
Seven Seven Six

Katherine Isaac

VP of Customer Success, Carbide

CEO/Founder, Calico

Kathryn Minshew

CEO & Founder
The Muse

Sports Anchor, Reporter & Executive Producer

HR Consultant, Bright + Early

Chief Product Officer, appreciate

Co-Founder & CEO
Friendlier

VP Product & COO at Shopify
Shopify

VP of Basketball Strategy & Research, Toronto Raptors

Founder & CEO
Ferrazzi Greenlight

Co-Founder & CEO
Skinopathy

Founding Executive Director, Fashion Takes Action

Founding Executive Director, Fashion Takes Action

Freelance Reporter

General Manager & Senior Vice President at Elevate

Founder and CEO
Leadx

Founder
Hypebeast

Storyteller & Board Director, WonderSeed Foundation

Kiana “Rookz” Eastmond

Founder, Sandbox Studios

Co-Founder & CEO
Enurgen

Celebrity Fashion Stylist & Author, City TV

Kimberley Messer

VP of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, IGM Financial

ARTIST & ACTIVIST
Madame Gandhi

Koleya Karringten

Executive Director, Canadian Blockchain Consortium

Principal & VP, Technology
Inovia Capital

Metaverse Artist and Founder of Techism

Kristen Johnson

VP of Marketing, ecobee

Kristie Painting

Country Manager, Canada
Pinterest

Kristina McDougall

Founder & Managing Partner
Artemis Canada

Kristina Verner

VP, Strategic Policy & Innovation, Waterfront Toronto

Kyle McCutcheon and Chris Koras

Featured Artist Duo
Co-Founders, Game Seven Media

Landon Gorbenko

Head of Mental Performance, FITGMR

Co-Founder & CEO
Coterie

Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Investor, OddFutur3 & Run As You Are

Managing Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation
Energy Probe Research Foundation

Partner
OMERS Venture

Partner
OMERS Ventures

Co-Founder & CEO, Manifest Climate

Vice President, Clinical Innovation at Ontario Health

Leanne Bellegarde

President, Akawe Technologies

Head of Innovation, Walmart Canada

Founder & Power Broker, Galactic Labs

On-Air Personality, Co-Founder, ShopSquad

CEO & Co-Founder
Elevate

Singer, Song-Writer

Chief Program Officer, Evergreen

Healthtech Executive, Wello Virtual Healthcare

CEO, Metaverse Group

Co-Founder, Director Inkblot & SVP, Product GSC

Artist, Dizzie studios

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

COO & Co-Founder
Knockri

Innovator, Former Editor, Filmmaker, Model, Pinterest

Head of Prime Video, CA & AU

Maggie Adhami-Boynton

Co-Founder & CEO
ShopThing Inc.

Mahshid Yassaei

Co-Founder & CEO
Tali AI

CEO
Skygauge Robotics

Chief Strategic Partnership Officer, Moneris

Manda Cuthbertson

Employer Brand & Culture Consultant, Blu Ivy Group

Founder & CEO
Creative Niche

Manjula Selvarajah

Freelance Journalist; National Technology Columnist, CBC

Marco Chown Oved

Climate Change Reporter, Toronto Star

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

Margaret-Glover Campbell

Chief Operating Officer, Virtual Gurus

Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Owner of Dallas Mavericks

Mark Ghermezian

Founder & General Partner, m]x[v Capital

Founder, MH3 Collective

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Maverix Private Equity

Executive Chair, Invert Inc.

National Director, Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Canada

Marlon Thompson

Founder & CEO, Future Capital

Marshall Berkin

Vice-president, Industry Solutions at Telus
TELUS

American Executive, Lifestyle Expert and Best-Selling Author

CEO & Co-Founder, ApplyBoard

Martine Rothblatt

CEO & Founder
United Therapeutics

CEO & President, HP Canada

VP Operations, Game Pill

Founder, Healthy Genie

Co-Founder, Babbly

President, Alternate NBA Governor
Toronto Raptors

Retail Vertical Lead, Snapchat

President at Togetherall
Togetherall

Maxine Williams

Chief Diversity Officer
Meta

Mayor John Tory

Mayor of Toronto
City of Toronto

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

Senior Editor, BetaKit

President & CEO, WWF Canada

Melanie Morrison

Founder & CEO
BetterCart Analytics

Executive Director
League of Innovators

Founding Partner
TradeWorks Environmental Inc.

Advisory Board Member at Musashi AI North America
Telus

President and CEO
BDC

Founder, The Priority Map

Michael Katchen

Co-Founder & CEO
Wealthsimple

Michael Perklin

DAO Member, ShapeShift DAO

Michelle McBane

Managing Director, StandUp Ventures

Former First Lady of the United States

Michelle Scarborough

Managing Partner, Women in Technology Venture Fund, BDC Capital

Michelle Tillis Lederman

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

Michon Williams

VP of Technology, Walmart Canada

CEO North America, IDENTOS
IDENTOS

Author, Columnist, Inc.

Co-Founder, Drrops

Founder & CEO, Manzil

Head, Portfolio Strategy & Relationship Management Canada, Corporate Real Estate, BMO

CEO & President, Magmic

Mohannad El-Barachi

Vice President, Talent Brand Marketing & Communications at Salesforce
Salesforce

Partner
Torys LLP

Executive Director
Canadian Web3 Council

Founder, Eight50 Coffee

Reporter, The Logic

Co-Founder, The Knowledge Society (TKS)

Indigenous actor, activist, and public speaker

Co-founder, President & CEO, Cyclica

Co-founder & Chief Strategy Office, Eukapay

Naoufel Testaouni

Co-Founder & CEO, Queertech

Editor, Daily Hive

Director of Strategy
Search + Gather

Natalie Raffoul

Lawyer & Registered Patent Agent, Brion Raffoul

Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Naveen Balakrishnan

Vice President, Head of Third Party Management, Platforms & Technology, TD

Lead, Innovation Programs
Elevate

President, Business Solutions
TELUS

Early-Stage Investor

Neil Blumenthal

CoFounder & CoCEO
Warby Parker

AVP, Digital ID and Innovation, Interac

Chief Revenue Officer, eFuse

Director of Engagement & Inclusion, CBC, English Services

Nick Van Weerdenburg

Platform Engagement & Marketing Teams Leader, RBCx & Ventures

Nikolas Badminton

Chief Futurist, Futurist.com Think Tank

Nina Abdelmessih

Chief of Operations & External Relations, BCG Canada

nina jane drystek

Emerging Artist
Poet, Writer, Performer

VP, Canada Region Counsel, Mastercard Canada

Co-Founder
Blumind Inc.

Partner, & Privacy & Cyber Risk Advisor, Deloitte Canada

Hybrid/Remote Work Futurist

Nora Jenkins Townson

Founder & CEO, Bright + Early

Co-Founder & CEO
Mejuri

CEO & Co-founder, erthos
erthos

Olivera Zatezalo

GM-Cybersecurity & Privacy, Suncor

Mayor of Toronto

Executive Vice President & International General Manager, PlutoTV

Olubenga Olubanjo

Founder & CEO, Reeddi

VP, Strategy, Trends and Emerging Solutions, Interac

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

Chief Data & Trust Officer
Telus

Patricia Thaine

Co-Founder & CEO, Private AI

Patrick Antoine

Sr Managing Director at Globant
IBM

SVP, Global Head of Sustainability at Salesforce
Salesforce

Paulette Senior

CEO & President, Canadian Women's Foundation

Pavla Bobosikova

CEO & Co-founder, WFHomie

Peter-Paul Van Hoeken

CEO, FrontFundr

Founder, Rep Matters

Singer, Song-Writer

CEO and Founder
Hygge Energy Inc

Influencer & Streamer

Director, Wittington Ventures

VP Global Diversity & Inclusion, Ubisoft

Chief Operating Officer, Xanadu Quantum Technologies

Founder & CEO, Buy Good. Feel Good.

Raia “Coach” Carey

Founder, Life Coach

Musician, Lead Singer of Our Lady Peace, & Co-Founder, Drrops

Rajiv Chatterjee

CEO & Co-Founder, TRIYO

Ralph Christian Delos Santos

Co-Founder & CEO
Biofect Innovations

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Promise Robotics

Executive Chair, Elevate
Elevate

Founder & CEO
Waabi

CEO, Brim Financial

Co-Chair, Elevate

People Practice Leader
BrightIron

Co-Founder & CEO
DealMaker

Rebecca Longawa

Founder & President, Happy Warrior

Rebecca Tascona

Head, B2C Platforms Strategy & Operations, BMO

Indigenous performance

Vice President, Partnerships, Bad Moon Talent

Co-founder, Humble Raja

Rhiannon Rosalind

Founder & CEO, Conscious Economics
Conscious Economics

Head of Gaming, Twitter

Cybersecurity & Technology Analyst, Ritesh Kotak Consulting

Executive Vice President & Chief Digital and Payments Officer TD Bank Group, TD

Growth & Partnership Lead, Genecis

Robert Herjavec

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

CEO, T3MP0 NFT Studio

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

Co-Founder & CEO
Unified.to

Rudyard Griffiths

Canada’s Preeminent Moderator & Conversation Convener

Co-Founder, Dream Zero

Comedian, Writer, Podcaster

Managing Partner, Nextplay Capital

Sabrina Dhowre Elba

UN Goodwill Ambassador for IFAD, Model

Head of Intelligent Automation, Enterprise Digitization & Automation, TD

Co-Founder
Uobo

Partner
Radical Ventures

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI

Country Manager, Too Good to Go

Co-Founder & CEO
Roomvu

Co-Founder & CEO
Xandar Kardian

Editor in Chief
Glamour

VP of AI Research, Associate Professor, NVIDIA, University of Toronto

Investor, Radical Ventures

Director, Genomics in Society, Genome Canada

Principal Customer Success Strategist, Pluralsight

Partner, Innovation Technologies
ID Quotient

SVP & IVY Platform Development, BlackBerry

Artist, Indigenous Activist & Ambassador

President, Mastercard Canada

Cohost, Pivot & NYU Professor

CEO
SpaceAlpha Insights

Sebasteann Barradas

Director, Gaming, Havas CX Canada

Sebastian Diamond aka FaZe CBass

Co-Founder & Director, Social Media, FaZe Clan

Founder, Cooks Who Feed

Investor
Pegasus Tech Ventures

Triple Platinum Selling Artist

Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Payfi

Shagufta Sayani

Senior Manager, EY Canada

Shahrzad Rafati

Founder & CEO
BroadbandTV

Shan Vincent de Paul (SVDP)

Artist, sidewaysDAO

Founder, Privacy Consultant/Lawyer, Bamboo Data Consulting

Shavonne Hasfal-McIntosh

Featured Guest
Diversity and Belonging Lead, Shopify

CEO & Co-founder, Wavy

VP People Operations, Railz

Featured Artist
Singer-Songwriter

Shayla Stonechild

Featured Guest
Founder, Matriarch Movement

Shelley Mandakwe Charles

Cultural Advisor & Instructor, First Nation’s Technical Institute Aviation School

Sheri Griffiths

Head Canadian Commercial Bank, Canadian Diversified Industries, BMO

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

General Manager, DoorDash Canada

Manager of Industry Partnerships
Elevate Talent

Creative Entrepreneur & On-Air Personality

CEO/Co-Founder, ReHuman

Futurist, Entrepreneur, Advocate, WAYE

Sladjana Jovanovic

CIO for Personal & Business Banking, & B2C Data Transformation, BMO Financial Group

Co-Founder & CEO
Railz

Vice-President, Strategy, Marketing & Communications, Invest Ottawa & Bayview Yards

Founder & CEO
Girlboss

Visionary, Bestselling Author & World Change Warrior

CEO, TGS Esports

Founder, Style with Substance Ventures

Chief Business Development Officer
Ashored Inc.

Freelance Columnist

Stephen Sargeant

Founder, Chief Web3 Officer, airdropd inc.

Co-Founder, Fathom4sight Inc.

CEO, Equifax Canada Co.

Vice President, Business Transformation & Strategic Initiatives, Microsoft

Founder, Glow Ritual

Chief Information & Operations Officer, Corporate Areas, BMO

VP, Transformation Services, Walmart Canada

CEO, ReturnBear

President & CEO of Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business

Creative Director & Strategist, 400 Drums

Vice President
Amazon Ads

Co-Founder & President
ZayZoon

Tatiana Estevez

Founder & CEO, Permalution

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

Associate, Golden Ventures

Teddy Pahagbia (Mr. Metaverse)

Founder & Chief Executive Druid, BLVCK PiXEL

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Head, Global Portfolio Strategy & Workplace Evolution Corporate Real Estate, BMO

CEO & Ethical Hacker, Cyology Labs Inc

Tessa Ohlendorf

Managing Director
Media.Monks

Theresa McClenaghan

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

Thorben Wieditz

Researcher and Campaigner, MetStrat Canada

Chief Innovation Evangelist
Salesforce

Co-Founder & COO, The Fitting Room

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

Intersectional Leadership Developer

Founder & CEO
Shopify

CEO, Corporate Knights

VP, Policy and Communications, Beanfield

CoFounder & CEO
Okta

Director of Product, Niantic

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

Trevor McDermott

Director of Cyber Security, Cisco

Trish McFarlane

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

CEO & Founder, Grata

Tyler Farnsworth

Chief Marketing Officer, Built by Gamers

Umbereen Inayet

Artistic Producer & Curator
Nuit Blanche Toronto

Partner, Sustainability & Climate, Deloitte

VP Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability; Executive Director, RBC Foundation

CEO & Founder Artcryption, IP Lawyer, Artcryption

Global Head of Lifestyle & Education, TikTok

Global Head of Lifestyle & Education at TikTok
ELLE Canada

Toronto Hub Coordinator, Missanabie Cree Business Corporation

Vartika Manasvi

Director, Startups, MaRS Discovery District

Vasiliki (Vass) Bednar

Productive Policy Provocateur, McMaster University

Tennis Champion, Entrepreneur & Founder

Director & Systems Engineering, Palo Alto Networks

Victoria Pelletier

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

Vignesh Markandu

Chief Metaverse Officer, 0.xyz

Founder
SingleKey

Dragon, CBC Dragons’ Den

Founder
Khosla Ventures

Viridiana Perez

Co-Founder & CEO
NANOSentinel Technologies Corp.

Senior Manager, Innovation
Elevate

Viveik Vivekananthan

Founder & CEO, Swing

Senior Vice President Cyber Security, Network, and Technology Risk, Loblaw Company

Author, Academic, & Entrepreneur

Chief Revenue Officer
Affirm

Wendy Goldman Getzler

Head of Marketing, Joyride

Executive Chairman & Founder of Weshall Investments Inc. & Star of CBC's Dragons' Den
WeShall Investments

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Founder & CEO
Bumble

CEO, Indigo Technologies & OV Loop

Acclaimed Artist

Yancey Strickler

CoFounder
Kickstarter

Co-Founder & CEO
Relay

Executive Advisor, Future of Work,
Deloitte

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

CEO & Co-Founder, Loopio

Designer & Founder of Mahogany Culture, Mahogany Design Commune