MAY 14-15th, 2013
Speaker Groups
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Amber Mac - emcee
Bestselling social media author, speaker, TV host, and entrepreneur
Chris Anderson
Former editor-in-chief of WIRED (2001-2012). Author, Makers, Free and The Long Tail. Founder, 3D Robotics
Dr. Kevin Tuer
Managing Director, Canadian Digital Media Network
Jane McGonigal
Game designer, futurist and bestselling author of Reality is Broken
Jeremy Butteriss
Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google Canada
Lane Merrifield
Co-founder of Club Penguin
Michael Serbinis
Founder & CEO, Kobo
Reed Hastings
Founder and CEO, Netflix
Steve Irvine
Group Director, Global Marketing Solutions - Facebook Canada
Tom Jenkins
Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, OpenText Corporation
Ana Serrano
Chief Digital Officer, CFC
Andre Boysen
EVP Marketing, Digital Identity Evangelist, SecureKey
Bernadeen McLeod
President & Founder, Mentor Works Ltd.
Cedric Jeannot
I Think Security – CEO and Security Expert
Christina Jennings
CEO, Shaftesbury
Derek Colfer
business leader, global mobile product innovation at Visa Canada
Dr. Gerri Sinclair
President, The Gerri Sinclair Group
Evan Jones
Creative Director / Partner, Stitch Media
Gavin McGarry
President, Jumpwire Media
Hugh Ritchie
Director, Government Relations Program, Office of the President - Open Text
Janet Gardner
President of Perspective Media Group
Jason Townsend
NASA's Deputy Social Media Manager
Jeppe Dorff
Transaction Services| Emerging Business, Rogers Communications
John Jung
CEO, Canada's Technology Triangle
John Tarnowski
Associate Vice President, North American Money Movement (Online/Mobile) at TD Bank Group
Jonas Diamond
CEO, iThentic and Executive Producer, Smiley Guy Studios
Julie Whelan
Senior Consultant, Nordicity
Karen Schulman Dupuis
Manager, Digital Communications, MaRS Discovery District
Kate Brodock
President, Girls in Tech & Executive Director of Digital & Social Media at Syracuse University
Kevana Bamford
Provincial IDIM Program | Office of the CIO – BC
Lars Hansen
Head of International Business Cooperation, Innovations-Zentrum Berlin Management GmbH, Internationale Incubator
Lisa Campbell
Deputy Commissioner, Fair Business Practices Branch, Competition Bureau
Marcos Vinícius de Souza
Secretariat for Innovation, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade - MDIC, Brazil
Masaaki Tanaka
Deputy Director-General, Science & Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from Japan
Michael Litt
Co-founder and CEO, Vidyard
Mike McCauley
Product Manager, Google
Mitchell Moffit
Co-creator, asapSCIENCE
Paul Rochester
CEO, Layer7 Technologies
Peter Lyman
Senior Partner, Nordicity
Rita Whittle
Senior Director, Treasury Board of Canada - Cyber Authentication Renewal and Federating Identity, CIOB, TBS,
Robert Simon
Senior Managing Partner, IT Fund, BDC Venture Capital
Sarah Shortreed
Digital and Mobile Technology Executive
Scott Fraser
Director General, Global Business Opportunities, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Shane Schick
Editor-at-large, IT World Canada
Simon Smits
Vice Minister for Foreign Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Netherlands
Stéphane Cardin
Vice-President, Industry and Public Affairs, Canada Media Fund
Stephanie Lemieux
Senior Consultant, Earley and Associates
Stephen Lake
Co-founder and CEO, Thalmic Labs
Suneet Singh Tuli
Chief Executive Officer, Datawind Ltd.
Tim Mizrahi
Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs, Netflix
Christopher Pang
Senior Corporate Counsel, Shaw Media
Dave Caputo
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sandvine
Dr. Wendy Cukier
Vice-President of Research and Innovation at Ryerson University and Founder/Director of Diversity Institute
Gary Maavara
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Corus Entertainment Inc
George Burger
Director, VMedia Inc.
Jane Harrison
VP and Associate General Counsel, Corus Entertainment Inc.
John Larrabee
VP Americas, Pilat Media
Kip Welch
Vice President, Business Development, MovieLabs, President & Chairman, Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) Association.
Mark Le Blanc
Director, Legal Services & Business Affairs, TVO
Michael Beller
Associate General Counsel at PBS
Michael Turner
Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, Discovery Communications
Patrick Horgan
Vice President, Manufacturing, Development and Operations, IBM Canada
Peter Miller
Lawyer & consultant
Robin Macrae
Information Architect, Earley & Associates
Seth Earley
Earley & Associates
Ted Hewitt
Executive Vice-President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Tim Shaw
Product Manager, North Plains
Tom Jenkins
Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation; SSHRC Council Member
Tom Powers
President, Executive Producer, Open Door Co.
Vincent Larivière
Assistant Professor of Information Science at the Université de Montréal
Jian Ghomeshi
Broadcaster, CBC Radio; Producer, Jian Ghomeshi Productions
Terry O'Reilly
Broadcaster, CBC Radio; Writer / Director, Pirate Toronto