Speakers - Inventures 2023

Speakers

The Best and Brightest are Appearing at Inventures 2023

Yasmine Abdin

Assistant Professor, The University of British Columbia

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Isabella Artiles

Senior Manager, Entrepreneur Experience, Endeavor

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Matthew Ball

Matthew Ball

Managing Partner, EpyllionCo

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Matt Baron-Anderson

Co-Founder & CEO, Future Fields

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Aatif Baskanderi

CEO, Northpine Foundation

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Adam Berk

EIR, Startup Program Design

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Adrian Berliner

Venture Partner, Zoic Capital

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Shana Boyd

Vice President, Energy Transition, Heartland Generation

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Joyce Boye

Director General, Government of Canada

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Sean Branagan

Director, Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Syracuse University

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Kate Brodock

General Partner || CEO, The W Fund || SWITCH

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Raia Carey

CEO, Coach Carey

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John Cassidy

Managing Director I Canada, SVG Ventures I THRIVE

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Heather Chalmers

President & CEO, GE Canada

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Chantel Chapman

CEO, Co-Founder, Trauma of Money

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Sidney Collin

CEO and Co-founder, De Oro Devices

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Evan Coopersmith

EVP of Data Science, AE Studio

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Christopher Day

CEO, Elevate Ventures

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Deanna Brown

CEO/ Founder, DragonFly Sports

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Chris Denson

Crush Industries, Crush Industries

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Donato Diorio

Founder & CEO, Flik

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Susan Divers

Director of Thought Leadership and Best Practices, LRN

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Peter Dushenski

Managing Director, GlasCurtain

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Craig Ellis

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Bow Valley College

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Jill Ellsworth

Founder and CEO, Willow Industries

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Stephanie Fargas

Associate, DIALOG

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Shelvie Fernan

CEO and Co-founder, Fly and Fetch

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Scott Ford

Cofounder & Partner, 9Zero Ventures

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Valentin Fulga

Co-founder, CELL AG TECH

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Lia Garvin

The Workplace Reframe, The Workplace Reframe

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Timnit Gebru

Founder, The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR)

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Sandi Gilbert

CEO, InterGen Capital

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Jamie Gloshay

Co-CEO, Native Women Lead

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Henry Gordon Smith

CEO, AGRITECTURE

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Bill Greuel

CEO, Protein Industries Canada

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Rhonda Hall

Vice President , Human Resources & Organizational Development, University Federal Credit Union

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Chris Heivly

Managing Director, Build The Fort

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Domhnaill Hernon

Global Lead EY Metaverse Lab, EY

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Alex Hertel

Director, Intuit

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Carol Anne Hilton

CEO, Indigenomics Institute

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Brian Hollins

Founder and Managing Partner, Collide Capital

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Fay Horwitt

President & CEO, Forward Cities

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Clyde Hutchison

Partner, Team ABC Ventures

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Ryan Jeffery

Senior Managing Director, Sustainability Investments, gener8tor

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Jacqueline Jennings

Venture Partner / Executive Director, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners / The Fireweed Institute

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Jeremy Jensen

Owner, Jeremy Jensen, LLC

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Tate Juniper

Impact Fund Catalyst, EntrepreNorth

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Michio Kaku

Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics, City University of New York (CUNY)

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Bina Kamath

CEO & Founder, Orion's Reach

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Yeonsil Kang

CEO, Home Spritz

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David Kessler

Chief Science Officer, Agrify

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Pavitra Krishnamani

Physician, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Shelley Kuipers

Co-CEO, The51

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Jay Latta

Chief Dreamer, STINT

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Thayer Lavielle

EVP, The Collective, Wasserman

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Eric Law

CEO, Urban Machine

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Dr Mingu Lee

Managing Partner, Cleveland Avenue Technology Investments

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Phil Leslie

Managing Partner , Workbox Ventures

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Ethy Levy

Managing Partner, Kinneret Impact Ventures

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Patrick Lor

Managing Partner, Panache Ventures

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Bita Malekian

Engineer, Water Movement

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Vivian Manasc

CEO / Principal Architect, Reimagine Architects

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Ashif Mawji

Managing Director, ScaleGood Fund LP

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Caitlin McAllister

COO, Workbox Company

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Lori Nikkel

CEO, Second Harvest

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Sumner Norman

Scientist, Convergent Research

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Milan Patel

Co-Founder & CEO, PathogenDX

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Jackie Peters

CEO, BlindInsight

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Amin Raj

Co-Founder and CEO, Wise Therapeutics

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Bryan Ritchie

CEO, Simba Chain, Inc.

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Vanessa Roanhorse

CEO, Roanhorse Consulting LLC

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Melanie Ross

Scientific Chair, SAIT

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Lauren Schafer

Director, Ventures, StartUp Health

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Erica Schweyer

COO, Elevate Ventures

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Erik Severinghaus

Co-Founder / Co-CEO, Bloomfilter

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Chris Shipley

Founder, Big Bark Productions

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Kristin Slice

Director of Community Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University

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Simon Somogyi

Arrell Chair in the Business of Food & Professor, University of Guelph

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Zack Storms

Co-Founder, Startup TNT

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Elizabeth Strickler

Director, Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Georgia State University

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Mark Summers

Chief Innovation Officer, Emissions Reduction Alberta

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Tim Sweet

Founder, Principal Coach, Team Work Excellence Consulting Inc.

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Hadi Taherian

CEO & Co-Founder, alto

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Anneli Tostar

CEO / Co-Founder, Tangible

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George Wadsworth

CEO, Canary Biofuels

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Cecilia Wessinger

Director for Global Community, Global Entrepreneurship Network

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Monique Woodard

Managing Director, Cake Ventures