Speakers

2019 SPEAKERS

The #BCTECHSummit takes B.C.’s innovation economy and elevates it to a global scale by bringing together business leaders and technology experts all across B.C. and around the world to exchange ideas, insights and opportunities.

Our speakers are thought-leaders that represent world-class brands in every industry. This is your opportunity to access their knowledge, experience and influence.

Duncan Wardle

Former Head of Innovation & Creativity

Walt Disney

Tan Le

Founder and CEO

EMOTIV

Eric O'Neill

Attorney, Cybersecurity Expert & Former FBI Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Operative

The Georgetown Group LLC

Anousheh Ansari

CEO

XPRIZE Foundation

Jorge Fernandes

Chief Technology Officer

Rogers

Manjit Minhas

Co Founder & CEO

Minhas Breweries, Distillery and Winery

Norm Judah

CTO Microsoft Solutions

Microsoft

Gina Phillips

VP & General Manager

WeWork

Honourable John Horgan

Premier

Province of British Columbia

Raghwa Gopal

CEO

Innovate BC

Maggie Clay

CFO

PayByPhone

Aamir Baig

Co-founder, CEO & Managing Director

Article

Nyla Ahmad

Senior Vice-President Marketing & Base Management

Rogers Communications

Ohad Arazi

Chief Strategy Officer and VP

Telus Health

Lilly Shoup, AICP

Senior Director of Policy and Partnerships

Lyft

Selma Zafar

Director of Experience Design

Best Buy

Honourable Bruce Ralston

Minister of Jobs, Trade, and Technology

Province of British Columbia

Brittany Hamilton

Director of Service Operations

Bench

Adam Steinberg

Vice President - Head of Digital Consulting

Fujitsu

Sue Paish

CEO

Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster

Bob Sutor

VP - IBM Q Strategy and Ecosystem

IBM Research

Beth Bell

Vice President, Enterprise and Commercial

IBM Global Markets Canada

Kendra MacDonald

CEO

Oceans Supercluster

Michael Macintyre

Vice President of eCommerce & Omnichannel Strategy

INDOCHINO

Jake Hirsch-Allen

Economic Graph and Learning Solutions for Higher Education Lead

Lisa Durocher

Chief Digital Officer

Rogers Communications

Niranjan Ravichandran

Head of Mobile Engineering

Asana

Liz Parnell

Head of Business Integration

Fujitsu America

Jill Tipping

CEO

BC Tech Association

Alan Winter

Innovation Commissioner

Government of British Columbia

Anna Stukas

Business Development Lead

Carbon Engineering

Kathryn Hayashi

President and CEO

Triumf

Alex Clark

Executive

GE Digital

Jill Schnarr

Vice President Community Affairs

TELUS

Jake Tyler

CEO

Finn.ai

Kate Wilson

Technology Editor

Georgia Straight

Honourable Lana Popham

Minister of Agriculture

Province of British Columbia

Tom Nyberg

Honorary Consul

Consulate of Finland

Edoardo De Martin

General Manager

Microsoft Vancouver

Brenda Irwin

Founder & Managing Partner

Relentless Venture Fund

Karan Mavai

Director

TELUS Ventures

Brianna Gopaul

Activator

The Knowledge Society

Sandy Treagus

Chief Financial Officer

Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC)

Tyler Wanlass

Head of Design

Buffer

Hayley Woodin

Multimedia Journalist

Business In Vancouver

Charles Lavigne

CEO, Co-founder

LlamaZOO Interactive Inc.

Karen Bakker

Director of Strategy

Riipen

Nejeed Kassam

CEO

Keela

Chris Mowry

CEO

General Fusion

Nancy Basi

Executive Director, Vancouver Media & Entertainment

Vancouver Economic Commission

Chris Jensen

Co-Founder and COO

RightMesh

Danny Goel

CEO and Co-Founder

Precision OS Technology

Dave Donaldson

Manager, Geospatial Solutions

Teck Resources Ltd.

Elissa Strome

Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

CIFAR

Handol Kim

General Manager

Quadrant

Don Freschi

CEO

Fenix Advanced Materials

Afshin Doust

CEO

Advanced Intelligent Systems

Sean Silcoff

Technology Reporter

The Globe & Mail

Bonnie Foley-Wong

Founder & CEO

Pique Ventures

Spiro Khouri

VP, Marketing

The Gaming Stadium

Philipp Postrehovsky

SVP, Marketing

Progressa

Mary Ellen Schaafsma

Director, Social Innovation and Research

Social Purpose Institute at United Way

Andrew Booth

Chief Commercial Officer

STEMCELL Technologies

Matt Switzer

Partner

Northwest Capital Partners

Kenny Hawk

CEO

Mojio

Claire Veuthey

Director of ESG & Impact

OpenInvest

Wolf Richter

President

EPIC Semiconductors

Dave Isaac

President & Founder

W Dusk Energy Group Inc

Darrel Fry

CEO

Advanced BioCarbon 3D

Terri MacDonald

Director of Applied Research and Innovation

Selkirk College

Humaira Ahmed

Founder

Locelle Digital Inc.

Murray Thom

Vice President of Software and Cloud Service

D-Wave Systems

Bill Greuel

CEO

Protein Industries Canada

Manoj Singh

Chief Executive Officer

Acuva Technologies Inc.

Julien Billot

CEO

AI-Powered Supply Chain - SCALE AI

Susan Mason

Sound Transit

Project Manager, Innovation and Performance Program

Aly Gillani

Director, Communications, Media and Tech Investment Banking

RBC

Andrew Weaver

MLA

BC Green Caucus

Devon Brooks

CEO & Founder

Sphere

James Grieve

CTO

Parallel Domain

Jessica Nordlander

Director

Thoughtexchange

Jeff Ward

CEO

Animikii Indigenous Technology

John Hewie

National Security Officer

Microsoft Canada

Tomica Divic

Vice President, Operations

Innovate BC

Kathryn Hume

Head of Business Development

Borealis AI

Peter Nunoda

President & CEO

Vancouver Community College

Blake Adam

Co-Founder & CEO

Medimap

Natalie Cartwright

Co-Founder & COO

Finn AI

Douglas Kingsford

CMIO

Interior Health Authority

Suzanne Gildert

Founder & CEO

Sancturay AI

David Poon

Manager of the Resource Management Unit

BC Ministry of Agriculture

Catalina Lopez-Correa

Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President, Sectors

Genome BC

Brendan McCombs

Executive Director

Implemetation and Land Services Branch, Ministry of Indigeneous Relations and Reconcilliation

Katherine Thompson

Principal

Human Firewall Solutions Inc. (HFS)

Alan Callander

Manager, Active Transportation & Climate Action Programs

Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, BC

Corrie Barclay

Assistant Deputy Minister

Health Sector IMIT, Ministry of Health

Darcy Matheson

Editor in Chief

Daily HIve

Matthew Blieske

Global Hydrogen Product Manager

Shell New Energies

Lori Muñoz Malcolm

Founder & Chief Community Strategist

HeartPress

Jill Earthy

Head

Female Funders

Walter Mérida

Associate Dean, Research and Industrial Partnerships

University of British Columbia

Paulina Cameron

CEO

Forum for Women Entrepreneurs

Dionne O'Gorman

Director, Consulting Delivery

CGI

Will Cadell

CEO

SparkGeo

Nicole Peirce

Vice President, Partnerships

Carrot Rewards

Douglas Soltys

Editor-in-Chief

BetaKit

Denise Tambellini

Manager Intergovernmental Relations

City of Richmond, BC

Kevin Mull

Connected Mobility Solutions

Robert Bosch GmbH

Abraham van Poortvliet

Vice President, Data Analytics and Decision Science

Technical Safety BC

CJ Ritchie

Associate Deputy Minister and GCIO

Province of British Columbia

Emily Key

Strategy and Operations Lead

Shopify

Jody Rebak

Chief of Staff

Dapper Labs (Cryptokitties)

Tracey McVicar

Managing Partner

CAI Capital Partners

Gopichand Katragadda

Founder and CEO

Myelin Foundry

Paula Cruickshank

Senior Vice President, BC & North

BCD

Bryan Price

Vice President

Aquatica Submarines

Jessica Galang

Reporter

The Logic

Tyler Orton

Tech Reporter

Business In Vancouver

Erin Kelly

Director, Graduation Operations

Ministry of Education

Nancy Needham

Senior Policy Analyst

Scholarships & Awards, Ministry of Education

Robin Modesto, RPF, P.Eng, MBA

Coastal Woodlands Manager Supply Chain & Land Use

Interfor Corporation

Carey O'Reilly

Regional Manager - Cybersecurity

Cisco

Hayden Lansdell

Chief Data Officer, Integrated Data Division

Office of the Chief Information Officer, Citizen Services

Jaimie Boyd

Director of Open Government

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Ben Finkelstein

Communities and Built Environment

BC Government

Mark Masongsong

CEO & Co-Founder

UrbanLogiq

Shamil Hargovan

Co-founder & CEO

Wiivv

Jossie Haines

Platform Engineering Director

Tile

Don Murray

Co-Founder, President

Safe Software

Wes Shoemaker

Deputy Minister

BC Ministry of Agriculture

Deirdre Moran

SVP Technology, Canada

IDA Ireland

Shawn Reed

Strategic Initiatives Project Manager

BC Wildfire Service

Nancy Ross

Food Scientist

Ross Food Consulting, Inc.

James Donaldson

CEO

BC Food Processors Association

Joy Johnson

Vice President, Research & International

Simon Fraser University

Paul Shorthouse

Senior Director

Delphi Group

Jeanette Jackson

Managing Director

Foresight

Riaz Meghji

Host

Breakfast Television Vancouver

Sonia Sidhu

Host

Kiss Radio Hits Morning Show 104.9 Vancouver

Fiona Hawkshaw

Trade Commissioner

Global Affairs Canada

Matt Zahynacz

Manager, Clean Investment

Climate Action Secretariat (BC Government)

Honourable Jinny Sims

Minister of Citizens' Services

Province of British Columbia

Rumon Carter

Executive Director, BC Developers' Exchange & Continuous Service Improvement Lab

Government of British Columbia

David Everingham

VP, Chief Technology Officer

Ericsson Canada

Kirk Lapointe

Editor in Chief

Business in Vancouver

Gail Murphy

Vice-President, Research and Innovation (VPRI)

University of British Columbia

Bill McGraw

President/CEO

Northstar Venture Technologies

Kailyn Skuban

Program Manager, Ignite

Innovate BC

Gary Marcus

CEO and Founder

Geometric Intelligence

Loretta Todd

Creative Director

IM4 Lab Indigenous VR/AR/XR Lab

Aaron Pawlick

Manager of Strategic Initiatives

BC Wildfire Service

Rob Labbé

Director, Information Security

Teck Resources Limited

Sam Turkbas

Deputy Commissioner, FIFA Competitive Gaming

Electronic Arts

Aaliyah Mahboubi