20th Annual Conference Speakers

Vass Bednar

Executive Director, MPP, McMaster University

Peter Gluckman

President Elect, International Science Council

Moderator: Sebastian Leck

Managing Editor, Research Money

Moderator: Mark Lowey
 

Publisher, Managing Editor, EnviroLine

Rhonda Barnet

President & COO, Avit Manufacturing

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

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

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

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

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

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

AJ Tibando
 

Executive Director, Palette Inc.

Noel Corriveau

Senior Counsel, INQ Law

Trevin Stratton

chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Policy, CanadianChamber of Commerce

Silver Partners

Bronze Partners

Community Partners

19th Annual Conference Speakers

Karna Gupta
 
Member Board of Directors, FinDev Canada

Jayson Myers
 
CEO, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada

Dominique Gruhl-Bégin
 
Head of Start-Ups and Next-Generation Innovators, Member of the Executive Committee, Innosuisse

Emmanuel Kamarianakis
 
Director General of Investment, Innovation and Education, Global Affairs Canada

Eric Deschenes

Country Managing Director Head of the Electrification business, Canada, ABB

Cara Tannenbaum

Departmental Science Advisor, Health Canada

Andrea Johnston

ADM, Innovation Canada, ISED

Carol Anne Hilton
 
Founder & CEO, The Indigenomics Institute

David Watters
 
Founder & CEO, Global Advantage Consulting Group Inc

Sue Paish
 
CEO, Canada's Digital Supercluster

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

Bronze Partners

Exihibitor

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