Past Speakers

MELISSA ALLEN

Executive Director

LOI Ventures

JOELLA ALMEIDA

CEO & Co-Founder

MedEssist

SOLON ANGEL

Managing Partner

Fresh Founders

MANUELA BÁRCENAS

Head of Marketing

Fellow

THOMAS BIRCH

Managing Director, Global Venture Capital and Technology

CDPQ Tech

KYLE BRAATZ

CEO

Fullscript

PETER CARRESCIA

Co-Founder & Head of Strategy & Business Development

Qui Identity Inc.

KELLY CHERNIWCHAN

CEO & Founder

Chata.ai

ROBERTO CIPRIANI

Founder & CTO/COO

Paper

MEGAN CORNELL

Partner

Dentons Canada LLP

SIMON DE BAENE

Co-Founder & CEO

Workleap (formerly GSoft)

JULIA ELVIDGE

Chair & Co-Founder

SheBoot

MIRANDA FERRIS

Vicepresident

Round13 Capital

JENNIFER FRANCIS

Co-Founder

SheBoot

JOSEPH FUNG

CEO

Uvaro

ETIENNE GAUTHIER

VC Investor

Inovia Capital

SACHA GERA

CEO

JSI

MARK GHERMEZIAN

Founder & GP

m]x[v Capital

DANIELLE GIFFORD

Executive Director

Movement51

LARA GILCHRIST

CEO

Traction Rec

DANIELLE GRAHAM

General Partner Phoenix Fire & Co-Founder,

The Firehood

KATE GRANT

Business Advisor, Startup & Emerging Companies Group

Fasken

DMYTRO GRECHKO

Founder & CEO

Deskree Technologies Inc.

JORDAN HILL

Managing Director & Founder

Growth Partners

WILLIAM JOHNSON

Founder

Vancouver Tech Journal

TREVOR JOHNSTON

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Jane App

VINCENT KADAR

CEO

Polymath

SATISH KANWAR

VP of Product Acceleration (former)

Shopify

ROB KENEDI

Co-host & Co-creator

BetaKit Podcast

KRISTIN KERR

Senior Ambassador Program Specialist

Jane.app

KAMRAN KIRMANI

Co-founder & CEO

Gerry

HELEN KONTOZOPOULOS

Co-founder & Chief Tech Evangelist

ODAIA Intelligence

MERYEME LAHMAMI

Principal

Pender Ventures

LANCE LAKING

Managing Director & General Partner

Graphite Ventures

JACOB LANYADOO

President & Co-Founder

TechBonjour

LEO LAX

Executive Managing Director

L-SPARK

DANIEL LEVINE

Co-Founder

MinuteBox

CHANDRASHEKAR LSP

Managing Director

Zoho Canada

MARK MACLEOD

Founder

Mark MacLeod

PRASHANT MATTA

Partner

Panache Ventures

MICHAEL MATTA

CEO & Co-Founder

Solink

CAMILLE MATUTE

Director, Corporate Finance

PwC

CLAUDETTE MCGOWAN

CEO, Protexxa & Co-Founder,

The Firehood

AYDIN MIRZAEE

CEO + Co-Founder

Fellow.app

VITALY PECHERSKIY

Co-founder & CEO

StackAdapt

JACQUES PERREAULT

General Partner

Brightspark Ventures

JESS PETRELLA

Director of Product Marketing

Unbounce

GIANCARLO PETRORO

CEO & Managing Director

IJW & Co.

INGRID POLINI

Partner

Maple Bridge Ventures

JAMES POVITZ

Principal

NAventures

KYLE POYAR

Operating Partner

OpenView Venture Partners

DAVID PRIEMER

Founder & Chief Sales Scientist

Cerebral Selling

JOHN RIKHTEGAR

VP, Growth Capital

RBCx Capital

REID ROBINSON

Lead AI Product Manager

Zapier

RUSSELL SAMUELS

Partner

Whitecap Venture Partners

MICHELLE SCARBOROUGH

Managing Partner, Thrive Venture Fund and the Women in Technology Venture Fund

BDC Capital

SONYA SHOREY

Co-Founder

SheBoot

SEAN SILCOFF

Business Writer

Globe and Mail

JASON SMITH

CEO & Co-Founder

Klue

DOUGLAS SOLTYS

Editor-in-Chief

BetaKit

ISAAC SOUWEINE

Partner

Pender Ventures

PABLO SRUGO

Partner

Mistral

ANNE STEPTOE

VP of Platform Engineering

Wealthsimple

SARAH STOCKDALE

Founder and CEO

Growclass

CLAIRE SUELLENTROP

Co-Founder & COO

Forget The Funnel

ROGAYEH TABRIZI

Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Theory+Practice

KARL THEARD

Managing Director

Roynat Capital

LAUREN THIBODEAU

Founder & Lead Advisor

SaaSCan

LOUIS TREMBLAY

CEO

FLO

PIERCE UJJAINWALLA

Co-Founder & CEO

Knak

KYLE VAMVOURIS

CEO

Vouris

TUYEN VO

Head- Technology & Innovation Banking

National Bank

PATRICK  WHITE

Managing Director

L-SPARK

ALLAN WILLE

Co-Founder & CEO

Klipfolio

ASHLEAH WILSON

Head of Growth Marketing

Jane.app

YVETTE WU

CEO & Co-Founder

Yield Exchange

KATY YAM

Partner / General Manager

Real Ventures / Founder Fuel

PETAR ZELIC

Managing Director & Head of Tech Investment Banking (Canada)

Stifel

BRANDON ZHAO

Partner

Two Small Fish Ventures