20th Annual Conference Speakers

Vass Bednar
Executive Director, MPP, McMaster University
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Peter Gluckman
President Elect, International Science Council
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Moderator: Sebastian Leck
Managing Editor, Research Money
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Moderator: Mark Lowey
Publisher, Managing Editor, EnviroLine
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Rhonda Barnet
President & COO, Avit Manufacturing
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Naomi Alboim
Distinguished Fellow, Queen’s University
Senior Policy Fellow, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration Studies, Ryerson University
Marcie Hawranik
Founder & President, Canadian Equity Consulting
Moderator: Paul Dufour
Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa
Monique F. Leroux
Chair, Industry Strategy Council of Canada
Swaroop 'Kittu' Kolluri
Founder & Managing Director, Neotribe Ventures
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Steven Tobin
Executive Director, Labour Market Information Council
Moderator: Kelly Nolan
Strategic Partnerships Manager, Simon Fraser University
Mark Little
President and Chief Executive Officer, Suncor Energy Inc
Moderator: Lindsay Borthwick
Senior Correspondent, Research Money
Moderator: Mark Mann
Senior Correspondent, Research Money
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John Baker
President & CEO, D2L
Matthias Krämer
Head of Foreign Economic Policy, Federation of German Industries
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
President ad interim, European Research Council
Lynn Barr-Telford
Assistant Chief Statistician, Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field, Statistics Canada
Kerstin Bock
Co-Founder & CEO, Openers
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Guy Pearce
Chief Digital Officer & Chief Data Officer, Convergence.tech
Dominique Gruhl-Bégin
Head of the Start-ups and Next-Generation Innovators Division, Innosuisse
Roseann O’Reilly Runte
President and CEO, Canada Foundation for Innovation
Felicity Burch
Director of Innovation and Digital, Confederation of British Industry
Irene Graham
CEO, ScaleUp Institute
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Ömer Kaya
Vice-President, Research and Business Development, Global Advantage Consulting Group Inc
Jeffrey Crelinsten
Publisher & CEO, Research Money Inc
Mitch Davies
President, National Research Council of Canada
Saskia Sivananthan
Chief Research & Knowledge Translation Officer, Alzheimer Society of Canada
Diana Rivera
Senior Economist, Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneur-ship, Ryerson University
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Dhirendra Shukla
Professor & Chair, University of New Brunswick
Moderator - Geneviève Tanguay
Vice-President, Emerging Technologies, National Research Council Canada
Roberto Alvarez
Executive Director, GFCC
Robert Asselin
Senior VP, Policy, Business Council of Canada
Moderator: Denise Amyot
President and CEO, Colleges and Institutes Canada
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AJ Tibando
Executive Director, Palette Inc.
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Noel Corriveau
Senior Counsel, INQ Law
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Trevin Stratton
chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Policy, CanadianChamber of Commerce
20th annual Conference Partners
Silver Partners
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Bronze Partners
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Community Partners
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19th Annual Conference Speakers
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Karna Gupta
Member Board of Directors, FinDev Canada
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Jayson Myers
CEO, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada
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Dominique Gruhl-Bégin
Head of Start-Ups and Next-Generation Innovators, Member of the Executive Committee, Innosuisse
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Emmanuel Kamarianakis
Director General of Investment, Innovation and Education, Global Affairs Canada
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Eric Deschenes
Country Managing Director Head of the Electrification business, Canada, ABB
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Cara Tannenbaum
Departmental Science Advisor, Health Canada
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Andrea Johnston
ADM, Innovation Canada, ISED
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Carol Anne Hilton
Founder & CEO, The Indigenomics Institute
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David Watters
Founder & CEO, Global Advantage Consulting Group Inc
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Sue Paish
CEO, Canada's Digital Supercluster
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John Ruffolo
Founder and Managing Partner, Maverix Private Equity

Jenn Collins
Community Strategist, Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Canada

Mona Nemer
Chief Science Advisor, Office of the CSA, ISED

Julien Billot
CEO, SCALE AI

Jasmine Pawa
President, Public Health Physicians of Canada

Andrea Matyas
Director, Communications, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Dave Lisk
Vice President IRAP , National Research Council Canada

Marcellus Mindell
Head, Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Canada

Moderator: Martha Crago
VPRI, Chair of the Governing Council of the SSHRC, McGill University

Sherry Coutu
Serial entrepreneur, investor & founder, Scaleup Institute, Founders4Schools, UK

Bill Greuel
CEO, Protein Industries Canada

Stéphane Lessard
Executive Director, Science, Technology and Innovation at Global Affairs Canada

Roger Scott-Douglas
Acting President, National Research Council of Canada

Laura J. Kilcrease
Chief Executive Officer, Alberta Innovates

Dana O’Born
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Council of Canadian Innovators

Alejandro Adem
President, NSERC
19th annual Conference Partners
Workshop Partners


Silver Partners
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Bronze Partners

Exihibitor

Community Partners

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