Talia is the managing partner of Deloitte Ventures and is responsible for launching the Canadian initiative in 2022. Coming from an entrepreneurial household, Talia is passionate about helping founders succeed.

In the five years before taking on Deloitte Ventures, Talia served as the chief operating officer for Deloitte’s national Financial Advisory...show more

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Aditya Aggarwal is Partner, Industrial Innovation Venture Fund at BDC Capital. He brings to this role extensive experience building large scale intelligent software solutions co-creating, building and integrating industrial IoT solutions for customers in the energy, electric vehicle, advanced manufacturing and smart city verticals. He also has a history of...show more

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Vahe has over 7 years of Technology Investment Banking experience and has led a wide range of advisory and capital raising transactions for high-growth tech companies across North America and Europe. Along with covering the Canadian technology sector he specializes in the North American Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Data Software...show more

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Chris Albinson is Chief Executive Officer & President of Communitech & Co-Founder & Managing Director of BreakawayGrowth Fund.  Albinson has been an early investor in companies that have created $45bn+ in value including Pinterest, Docusign, Newbridge Networks & Juniper Networks. We invested $1.06B & returned $4.25B, 3.8X over 26 years...show more

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Avi Ambale is the founder/CEO of Daara Nano Biosense – a novel innovation for point-of-care cancer screening. His doctoral thesis was on ‘artificial neural networks for quantifying brain volume changes’ at Case Western Reserve University, a top 3 biomedical engineering graduate program in the US.

He has built and scaled technology...show more

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Jennifer Armstrong – Trade Commissioner for the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) Program at the Ontario Regional Office, Trade Commissioner Services (TCS), Global Affairs Canada   

Jennifer has worked with a wide variety of small businesses and non-profits in the private sector for the past twenty years and has recently joined the Trade...show more

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Layth is a Partner at Maverix Private Equity. In this role, he is responsible for deal sourcing, execution and portfolio company oversight. He brings 15 years of industry experience spanning private equity, management consulting, investment banking and software development. Layth has been involved in the origination, evaluation, execution, and oversight...show more

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As the co-founder and CEO of Promise Robotics, Ramtin brings more than 16 years of leadership experience in helping the building industry to innovate and adopt new technologies for better productivity and sustainability. Ramtin is a mission-driven leader with a deep passion for positively impacting our communities and advancing the...show more

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Pelra Azondekon is an active leader in the private equity and venture capital ecosystem in Canada. She brings 15 years of experience in private investments, corporate finance, M&A and accounting. Pelra launched and currently leads asterX, the corporate venture capital arm of Quebecor (TSX: QBR.A, QBR.B), a Canadian leader in...show more

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Riccardo Badalone is a passionate and driven tech entrepreneur. For the last 20 years, he has led multi-disciplinary teams and built category-defining companies from the ground up. He is currently the CEO of C2RO, which under his leadership has become a global provider of Privacy-Aware Video Analytics AI Software and...show more

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John founded D2L in 1999, at the age of twenty-two, while attending the University of Waterloo. He strongly believes that learning is the foundation upon which all progress and achievement rests.

He is a member of the Business Council of Canada, board member of the Business Higher Education Roundtable, member of...show more

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I'm a startup CTO turned VC at Mistral Venture Partners in Canada. Prior to Mistral, I was the founder or CTO at multiple VC-backed companies in the Bay Area and Toronto, two of which were acquired and two that reached millions of users.

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Alexander Barclay
Investor, Director of Data & Operations
Graphite Ventures

I’m an Investor and Director of Data & Operations with Graphite Ventures, a leading seed-stage fund investing in high-potential B2B SaaS, digital health, and FinTech startups. I've spent over a decade working with hardware & software across sectors; from enterprise cloud...show more

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Massi Basiri is a self-proclaimed tech geek who is passionate about changing lives. In his spare time, he loves to build and create. Whether it’s woodworking, robotics, or automation, Massi takes pride in bringing new ideas to life. As Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of ApplyBoard, he ensures that...show more

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Dominique Bélanger is Managing Partner, Growth Venture Co-investment Fund with BDC Capital. He is also Managing Partner of Diversified Portfolio and GO Capital.

Dominique joined BDC in 2010 as a Director, Strategic Investments for BDC Venture Capital. He was promoted to Vice President and managed the Strategic Investments & Partnerships fund....show more

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Michel Bellows is the co-founder and CEO at GoMaterials. Michael has a successful track record of building and nurturing high-performing teams for large organizations such as PepsiCo. As a leader and a community influencer, Michael is passionate about technology, company culture, sales, and mentoring. Outside of work, Michael enjoys maintaining...show more

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Lise Birikundavyi is the co-founder and managing partner for BKR Capital, the first institutionally-backed black-led VC fund in Canada. Lise is an innovative finance specialist who has worked with several international institutions, most notably the Jacobs Foundation for whom she managed an edtech impact investment strategy. Lise also mentors and...show more

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Sarah Blair is the Manager of Outreach and Engagement for Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security and is charged with the promotion of the program both internally and externally, recruiting innovators to apply their solutions to the DND/CAF challenges, and developing communication products and channels. She joined the IDEaS team...show more

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Trevor started out as a College Pro franchise during his first years as a university Student at McMaster. He Founded QuickContractors.com Inc in 2004 as a 3rd year university student at McMaster in Hamilton.

Trevor has grown QuickContractors from inception to 42M in annual revenues in 2022.

"QC" QuickContractors now employees over...show more

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Sue Britton is CEO and Founder of FinTech Growth Syndicate (FGS). FGS is a corporate innovation accelerator that works with traditional or incumbent organizations to help them research and develop new product innovations.

Sue started FGS after a successful 25 year innovation corporate career, and is a first time and successful...show more

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Joseph Buaron is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology innovator, currently Co-founder and CTO of goPeer, a thriving fintech start-up and Canada’s first regulated consumer peer-to-peer lending platform. Joseph additionally serves as Chief Strategy Officer to Loti Wellness Inc., a Canadian self-care consumer brand and on the board of Neptune Wellness...show more

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Dr Julie Anne Buckland is the Medical officer for Family Medicine at Lotus Medical. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal and her Doctorate in Medicine and specialty training in Family Medicine at the Université de Montréal. She has been...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #3 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Norm is co-founder and Co-CEO of SAVVYY, Canada's leading digital mortgage platform.  Most recently, he was Head of Capital Markets at Borrowell, a Canadian direct-to-consumer fintech.  His prior experience includes leveraged finance roles at Citadel, RBC and Merrill Lynch.  Norm holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA...show more

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As a convert to innovation, Angelo is passionate about supporting entrepreneurs. He has engaged with hundreds of start-ups and as part of OneEleven's team, he is responsible for helping post seed companies to upskill their talent as fast as their company is growing. As a community builder, Angelo has worked...show more

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Marc is a passionate socially responsible investor and innovator, currently Co-founder and CEO of goPeer, a thriving fintech start-up and Canada’s first regulated consumer peer-to-peer lending platform. His prior experience includes working as an investment banker at one of Canada’s largest banks where he was involved in many securities offerings...show more

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A serial tech entrepreneur, Annick Charbonneau has founded and managed two tech companies over the past decade. A fervent promoter of the presence of women in entrepreneurship, in 2021 she launched Accelia Capital, a venture capital fund whose mission is to invest in innovative companies, owned or led by women....show more

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Nayla is a VC investment director for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)’s venture capital fund. CDPQ is a long-term institutional investor that manages funds primarily for public retirement and insurance plans. As at December 31, 2021, it held CA$420 billion in net assets. CDPQ’s venture capital fund...show more

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Christopher is the Head of the InvestHK presence for Canada, operating from the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in Toronto. As Hong Kong's trade consul and commercial representative for Canada, he is responsible for all activities driving new business development and direct foreign investment. He comes from a digital...show more

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Ethan Choi joined Accel in 2018 and invests in SaaS companies that are redefining collaboration and enterprise automation, as well as fintech and e-commerce infrastructure. He represents Accel on the boards of 1Password, Invoca, Klaviyo, Nuvemshop, Pismo, Pluang, and Shogun. He also works with Bird and commercetools. Prior to Accel, Ethan...show more

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Derrick brings a background in lean engineering, research and finance, and is most interested in applying his skills to business initiatives with a global impact. Prior to Marble, Derrick obtained his Masters in Aerospace Engineering, spent several years in sustainable aviation research, and led the first Canadian team to the...show more

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Patrick is a Managing Director at H.I.G. Growth Partners and is based in the New York office. Patrick focuses on minority growth equity investments across tech-enabled Consumer and Software verticals.

Patrick has over a decade of investing and advisory experience across a broad range of industries and business models including Consumer...show more

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Dubie has more than 20 years of experience in financial services and technology. As part of Zafin’s senior leadership team, Dubie supports the company’s strategic plan and ambitious growth goals, including targeted opportunities and relationships that build on the strength of the platform. She comes to Zafin from ScaleUP Ventures,...show more

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Bonnie-Lyn de Bartok, Founder and CEO brings over two decades of Social Impact Measurement and Management, International Business, Finance and Technology background to the leadership of The S Factor Co. 

Bonnie Lyn has won several entrepreneurial and technology awards, led the creation of two firms, has worked across 59 countries, leading...show more

Serial entrepreneur. Self-made inventor, investor, and researcher. He has a 33-year history of successfully leading challenging technology endeavours. He has launched over a dozen leading technology products worldwide. He is the named inventor in over 100 patents. He has led research and manufacturing teams in 4 continents. Fabian has a BSc. in International Trade.

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A seasoned business leader with more than 35 years of management experience, Michael Denham has dedicated his career to advising Canadian companies with regards to their challenges and opportunities, working with large-scale organizations on corporate strategy, financing, mergers and acquisitions and global partnerships. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and looks...show more

Speaking on: CANADIAN SUCCESS STORY: SPOTLIGHT ON WAABI

As a partner in Osler’s Emerging and High Growth Companies group, Justin’s practice focuses on the representation of companies at all stages, as well as the venture capital firms, growth equity and private equity funds that finance them and the strategic acquirers who buy them. Justin has a wide range...show more

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Josh Domingues is the Founder & CEO of Flashfood, a mobile marketplace that strives to eliminate retail food waste by connecting communities with discounted food nearing its best-by date, while earning grocery operators greater profits.

Josh founded Flashfood in 2016 after reading about the environmental effects of food waste. Determined to...show more

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Before joining Verstra Ventures, Justin spent over 3 years working for Ernst & Young as a management consultant. He was a key contributor on high-profile digital transformation, outsourcing strategy, buy-side M&A and healthcare strategy engagements across many industries, including: utilities, government and public sector, food and beverage, entertainment and real...show more

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Mohannad El-Barachi is an Egyptian-born tech-entrepreneur, investor, executive, and business strategist. He holds university degrees in Computer Science and Political Science and has held various executive positions in the tech and telecom industries.

His experience spans multi industries and disciplines including the launch of multiple successful businesses and product lines in...show more

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Ash obtained his BSc in Computer science in 2009 and joined the Artificial Intelligence lab at the University of Calgary where he obtained his MSc in Computer Science in 2012. 

Ash joined a world-class research lab at the University of Calgary and led a team of developers and managed the future...show more

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Jack Fraser has over 30 years of experience as an operator and financier, primarily with digital commerce, FinTech, and P/SaaS companies. Jack is currently a Partner with BDC Capital’s late-stage Growth Venture CI Fund.  Jack joined BDC Capital in January 2020, and since then, he has led investments in companies...show more

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Joseph Fung is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator. A graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Computer Engineering program, Joseph’s a five-times technology Founder & CEO, and with multiple successful exits, and speaks frequently on the topics of sales leadership, diversity, and corporate social responsibility. 

He is the...show more

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With 28 years as a Founder and CEO of five award-winning tech firms and thousands of big data projects delivered for some of the largest brands on the planet, Francois is NURO's CEO while some call him a true computer whisperer ! His love for pushing technology to the next level...show more

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Karim is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Luge Capital, a fintech-focused venture capital firm. Prior to Luge, Karim led Venture and M&A for PayPal in Canada. Before that, Karim started the Corporate Development practice at Xoom, a leading cross-border payments company that was publicly-listed on the NASDAQ in 2013...show more

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Ajay Gopal is a Partner at Framework Venture Partners. Based in Toronto, Ajay has more than 5 years of VC experience and nearly a decade of prior investing and capital markets experience. Ajay’s responsibilities with the firm include strategic board representation, deal sourcing and assisting portfolio companies with operational and...show more

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Sarah is an Associate at Whitecap and joined the firm in 2021. Prior to joining, Sarah co-founded Primped, a wellness and personal care marketplace start-up, and worked in investment banking at TD Securities. Sarah holds an MBA from McMaster University and a BA (Business) from Western University.

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Youssef Helwa founded FluidAI back in 2014 as an extension of his research in the field of biosensors. Coming from a medical family, including a surgeon mother and a father who switched from medicine to industry (J&J) early in his career, he continuously had direct exposure to the medical needs...show more

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https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brenda-hogan-9608a230

Brenda M. Hogan is the Chief Investment Officer at Venture Ontario and has over 15 years’ of experience in strategy and execution in venture capital at the co-investment, fund of funds, and fund level investing.
Brenda has held senior roles in corporate development, finance, and strategic investing with Bell...show more

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Recognized as a mobilizing leader, and gifted with a keen sense of strategy, Isabelle Hudon has systematically brought an ambitious and resolutely action-oriented vision to all of the organizations she has led. She was appointed President and CEO of BDC in August 2021, after serving as Ambassador of Canada to...show more

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Michael Hyatt is the co-founder of BlueCat, which was sold to Madison Dearborn Partners, of Chicago, IL. He serves as a director of BlueCat, ranks as one of Canada’s top entrepreneurs, and is a known as a technology visionary. Michael is also a weekly business commentator on CBC and was...show more

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Khushboo Jha is the Founder and CEO of BuyProperly, an award winning AI-powered platform for investing in alternative assets such as real estate. BuyProperly helps consumers get access to high performing wealth generating opportunities in alternative asset classes through a simple online platform and at a low minimum investment level....show more

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Emma joined Klass Capital in 2021. Her key responsibilities include sourcing new investment opportunities, conducts due diligence, executes transactions, supports portfolio companies and helps develop the firm’s investment theses. Emma holds an Honours Business Administration (HBA) degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

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Tim Johnson is the CEO & Co-founder of Couply. 

Prior to Couply, he was at Wattpad for 6.5 years. He was among the first hires on the business team at Wattpad, as Wattpad scaled to 100M users to be acquired by Naver. This is where he met his co-founder Denesh Raymond...show more

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Daryl and his team are responsible for delivering SVB’s core loan products as well as insights, connections and solutions that help Canada’s innovation-sector companies to scale from coast-to-coast.  With more than 25 years of deep finance experience and technology knowledge, Daryl has developed a strong reputation as a “power networker”;...show more

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Krista is the Senior Vice President of Ventures Services at MaRS Discovery District. She leverages her deep entrepreneurial and leadership experience to advise founders, inspire teams and create programs to help scale Canada’s most innovative companies.  Most recently she founded MaRS Momentum, an exclusive program that supports the executives of...show more

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Eric joined VERTU Capital in July 2018. Prior to joining VERTU, he worked at Facebook helping to scale its business integrity efforts, and as V.P. of Corporate Development at Sysomos, a Toronto-based data analytics company, where he was responsible for strategic and financial planning, operating infrastructure and processes, and corporate...show more

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Amber Kanwar is an Anchor and Reporter at Business News Network. 

She is a leader in breaking news; reporting on Canada’s booming online gaming sector, activist interest in one of Canada’s biggest pipeline companies and one of the most plugged in reporters on the turnaround effort at BlackBerry. 

Amber has interviewed CEOs...show more

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Amit has 10+ years of corporate development experience at various high growth corporations and investment firms. Prior to joining Vistara, he was part of the corporate development (M&A) team at Doxim, a PE-owned customer communications software & services company in Toronto. During his time there, Amit was focused on corporate...show more

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Neil has ten years of experience in strategy and corporate development, private equity and investment banking. Prior to joining Vistara Growth, Neil worked in Strategy and Corporate Development at Element AI, an Artificial Intelligence start-up building AI products for enterprise customers. While at Element, he helped develop product roadmaps, negotiate...show more

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Ashleigh Kennedy, Ph.D., is a seasoned entrepreneur with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the University of Waterloo in brain activity (EEG). Ashleigh is a Stanford University alumni where she holds the 400m sprint record for indoor track and field. Before founding Neurovine, Ashleigh ran a successful...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #4 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Yishel is passionate about combining medicine with technology to create disruptive solutions to better the healthcare system and personalize medicine. A global entrepreneur with nearly 10 years of experience in founding companies from ideation to over millions of dollars in valuation.

 After graduating from McGill University as an electrical engineer, she...show more

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Rob Khazzam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Float, Canada’s first smart corporate card and spend management platform. Prior to Float, Rob served as General Manager for Uber Canada after overseeing international expansion and operations for Uber in Central and Eastern Europe from 2014 to 2017. Rob has over 10...show more

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Alex Kjorven is a graduate of Rotman Commerce at the University of Toronto and holds a Masters in Environmental Science and Management from Ryerson University. She has held a number of senior management roles in various non-profit and for profit organizations and is currently Chief Product Officer at a Toronto-based...show more

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Inara Lalani is the Co-Founder & COO at FemTherapeutics - a medical device company focused on personalizing medicine for women. She holds a BCom. from McGill University with a Major in Information Systems, Entrepreneurship and Surgical Innovation, and is a certified board governance leader. At 19, she founded FemTherapeutics to...show more

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Stephany Lapierre is the Founder and CEO of TealBook. A lifelong entrepreneur, Stephany is one of SCMA's 100 Influential Women in Canadian Supply Chain and has won many awards for her innovative approach to supplier intelligence. Prior to TealBook, Stephany built a successful procurement consulting firm focused on helping Fortune...show more

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Alex is the founder of Perch, an award-winning mortgage platform simplifying homeownership for buyers and owners. Prior to Perch, Alex held various corporate finance and strategy roles at MCAN Mortgage and Equitable Bank. He is Co-Chair of the Canadian Lenders Association Mortgage Roundtable and a Technical Advisory Member of the...show more

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Zak is the founder & CEO of ChargeLab. ChargeLab builds software for managing electric vehicle chargers, providing full-stack solutions for the future of refueling. Zak is a graduate of McGill University, Creative Destruction Lab, and Singularity University. He has a background in computer science and finance.

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Matthew is the Co-Founder of Plaza Ventures, a national venture capital firm, spending 15+ years focused on deal flow, board management, ecosystem development, corporate partnerships and investor relations. Matthew is a career VC, having overseen dozens of growth-tech finance investments with consistent top decile returns. Matthew has co-created multiple funds...show more

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As CFO, Amelie is in charge of Lotus' Venture Capital financing and making sure Lotus remains diligent with its capital. Amelie oversees the accounting function and ensures investors’ questions are thoroughly answered. Amelie is also in charge of legal and tax matters, ensuring the company’s compliance.

With solid experience in the...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #3 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Based in Toronto, Laura is a Partner leading OMERS Ventures’ investment activity in Canada. Laura has over 15 years of venture investing experience, including prior roles as a Partner with Generation Ventures, an Investment Director with MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, and a Principal with EdgeStone Capital Partners. Laura started her...show more

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Daniyal Liaqat is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tabiat. Having done his PhD and PostDoctoral Fellowship from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto where he was also a graduate student and PostDoc at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Daniyal has been a leader in the...show more

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As VP of Relationship Management in the Technology Banking division, Tom maintains a strong pulse on the technology ecosystem in Canada and helps founders make meaningful connections with the SVB professionals who provide the creative and bespoke financial solutions and specialized services they need to thrive in the innovation economy.

Tom’s...show more

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Jeffrey MacDonald is based in New York, and joined Warburg Pincus in 2021 in the Technology Group. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. MacDonald was an Associate at Searchlight Capital Partners and an Investment Banking Analyst at J.P. Morgan. He received a M.A. in International Relations and Economics from the...show more

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Ashish brings a wealth of venture capital and technology experience, as a seasoned investor and technologist. In his prior role with American Express Ventures, Ashish focused on early/ growth stage investments within AI/ machine learning, fintech and enterprise SaaS. Before Amex, Ashish worked with IBM Ventures, where he was responsible...show more

Humera Malik, CEO of the AI-as-a-Service software company Canvass AI, is one of the leading voices on Artificial Intelligence and how it can put industrial companies in control of their data, to make timely decisions, and achieve sustainable outcomes faster by empowering high performance teams.

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Myron Mallia-Dare is a Partner at Miller Thomson LLP in Toronto, Canada. His practice focuses primarily on, venture capital, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance. He regularly advises technology, media, and telecommunications companies and understands the unique issues and regulatory environment these organizations face. He...show more

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15+ years’ experience driving business transformation within the Healthcare Industry. Rudy has led successful growth strategies in newly developed segments, improved efficiencies and operational dynamic in core services, and has led the growth/scale operational execution of national accounts. Rudy has held senior positions with some of the largest health care...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 10 GROWTH #1 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

In 2019, John established Tasso Capital.  Over the past four years, John has been working for several tech start-ups in an investor relations capacity as they raise capital.  Prior to creating Tasso Capital, John Marshall served as the Ontario Assistant Deputy Minister of the Research and Commercialization Division with...show more

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Michelle (Twitter: @michellemcbane) is passionate about working with amazing technology entrepreneurs applying disruptive technologies to solve problems in enterprise, health and consumer markets. Michelle is a skilled business professional with many years of combined operational and venture capital experience. Her background includes 16 years of venture capital investing early- and...show more

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Laura McGee is the Founder and CEO of Diversio, a technology startup that uses data analytics to help companies and investors unlock diversity for improved performance. Diversio works with clients in 30 countries in across the world, and has been featured at global events like the G20 and Davos. Through...show more

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A serial entrepreneur since childhood, Mat Micheli has gone from selling smartphone cases out of his backpack in high school to founding Viral Nation in 2014 with his business partner Joe Gagliese. As Co-CEO of Viral Nation, Mat oversees the company’s global operations, finance, and technology functions. 

Mat has led Viral...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 10 GROWTH #2 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Jonah Midanik has spent the last twenty years building companies in the Canada and US as a serial entrepreneur.  He has been lucky enough to have seen the startup journey from a variety of perspectives: as a successful bootstrapped founder/CEO, having helped launch new corporate divisions at BigCo, and as...show more

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Prior to Co-Founding Zūm Rails Marc had spent over 15 years in the payments space. Marc was one of the original employees of Versapay and helped build, manage and retain Versapay’s EFT product.  Marc partnered with thousands of clients and distribution channels where he had processed billions of dollars annually.

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As the Canadian lead for the bank’s climate technology and sustainability efforts, Graeme leverages
his extensive experience and ecosystem relationships to support companies that are designing
innovative solutions in energy, new transportation, agriculture, food, and industrial sectors.
Graeme thrives on connecting and assisting these dynamic, high-growth companies — “the mostshow more

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Mona Minhas is a Venture Partner with BDC’s Thrive Venture Fund and a fractional CFO/COO who has worked with several venture-backed startups and founders, in helping them to grow and scale their businesses, and get them ready for raising capital.  Mona is also an advising partner to Women’s Equity Lab...show more

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Nick Monardo is a Growth Manager at VanHack, a tech-enabled recruiting platform connecting
innovative companies with global tech talent. Launched in 2015, VanHack quickly transitioned
from being an ed-tech company, to leveraging the Global Talent Stream Visa program that
enables Canadian tech firms to hire and relocate talent from abroad.

Touting...show more

Speaking on: ROCKET PITCHES - GROWTH STAGE

Mike has over a decade of corporate banking experience with majority of his career focusing exclusively on providing financing solutions for emerging and scaling technology companies. Having worked with entrepreneurs across various sub sectors of technology ecosystem including fintech, ag-tech, legal, HR, ad-tech and various IOTs, he has enjoyed the...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 10 GROWTH #1 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Max Moreau, brings more than 13 years of full-stack development experience to CapIntel, where he has built a strategy focused on customer feedback as the foundation of CapIntel’s product and engineering work. He has grown CapIntel’s DevOps team to more than 16 employees with an average of 9 years of...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 10 GROWTH #1 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Ron Morrow was appointed Executive Director – Retail Payments Supervision, effective August 9, 2021.

In this role, reporting directly to the Governor, Mr. Morrow leads the design and implementation of the Retail Payments Supervision (RPS) Framework, including ongoing consultations on the Bank’s supervisory role as regulations are developed. He heads the...show more

Speaking on: PREPARING FOR PAYMENTS SUPERVISION: AN UPDATE FROM THE BANK OF CANADA

Taha Mubashir joined Inovia in 2022 as a Principal on the Venture team. Taha has 10 years of finance experience and was recently a Director within PSP’s Direct Private Equity program. At PSP, Taha was responsible for sourcing and executing North American technology transactions. Taha’s key board seat and observer...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE A: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS; CIX TOP 20 EARLY #2 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Prior to joining OMERS Ventures, Taku co-founded CapIntel, a FinTech start-up disrupting the wealth management space, where he lead sales and go-to-market strategy.

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Aman joined the Information Venture Partners team in January 2022 as a member of the investment team. He is passionate about discovering innovative companies and trends in technology that are reshaping the world of financial services and commerce.

Aman is a two-time entrepreneur with a background in Aerospace Engineering. Prior to...show more

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Alison Nankivell is Vice President, Fund Investments and Global Scaling. Based in Toronto, she leads BDC Capital’s team of indirect investments – Canada’s largest venture fund investor, with investments in more than 60 funds and close to $1 billion in assets under management.

Bringing over 20 years of experience in the...show more

Speaking on: CIX 2022 INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR PRESENTATION & KEYNOTE

Alex currently is the managing partner of N49P, an early stage fund Canadian Venture Fund and the co-founder [TechTO.org](http://techto.org/), Canada’s largest tech community. Previously Alex established and led AngelList Ventures in Canada, co-founded HomeSav which was acquired by Rebellion Media and helped launch Simply Business which was acquired by The...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE B: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

I'm a serial entrepreneur, investor, consultant and coach. My entire career has revolved around B2B SaaS and marketing technology. In 1999, I co-founded marketing automation giant Eloqua, and in 2010, customer marketing pioneer Influitive. I grew both companies to $100M+ valuation and $15-20M+ in ARR while raising $60M+ from investors over...show more

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Neil Peet is a Principal with GreenSky Capital, a Venture Capital group focused on early-stage B2B Canadian Technology companies. Working with GreenSky since early 2015, Neil has been part of four funds, invest in 40+ deals so far, work through several exits (including Wave Accounting, one of the largest exits...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE C: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

Scott Pelton is co-founder of RiSC Capital, an early stage VC focused on deep technology investments in Canada. Scott has over 20 years experience as a venture capitalist, including roles at MaRS IAF, GrowthWorks, Round13 and Scotiabank.

Previously Scott worked in dev/ops roles at startups and large enterprises. Scott’s passion for...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #4 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

An experienced entrepreneur and team leader, Darren has focused on growth through technology his entire career. He has been engaged in all aspects of HR and the operations of large organizations. In 2019 Darren co-founded Spotwork to solve a labour crisis he was witnessing firsthand as an employer of +450...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #3 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Since joining ArcTern in 2017 as our first hire, Ian has invested in climate tech companies across a broad range of stages, sectors, and business types, from pre-revenue hardware to growth-stage SaaS. Prior to joining ArcTern, Ian was a management consultant at A.T. Kearney in New York. Before that, he...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #2 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Orest has over 10 years of technology investment banking experience and has completed over $50bn of transactions across M&A, debt, and equity capital markets.  During his career, Orest has worked across the US and Europe and his client roster spans various technology sub-verticals including vertical software, enterprise software, IT services,...show more

Speaking on: ROUNDTABLE: EAT OR BE EATEN? SCALING VIA M&A

James is a Principal on the investment team at NAventures, National Bank of Canada’s corporate venture capital arm. Based in Montreal, he sources fintech, insurtech and proptech investments and works closely with NAventures portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle. James is a foundational member of the NAventures team and has worked...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE B: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS; INSIGHTS INTO PARTNERING WITH CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS

A serial entrepreneur with 15+ years of corporate & investment banking experience and 8+ years of strategic management background, Janet’s vision for PurMinds, stemming from her experience in strategic and business development, risk assessment and mitigation, commercialization of technological innovation, as well as expertise in branding, marketing, accounting, finance and business analysis, are verticals...show more

Speaking on: ROCKET PITCHES - MEDTECH & LIFE SCIENCE

Prior to assuming this role in September 2022, he was Senior Trade Commissioner at the Canadian Embassy to Colombia (2018-2022) and Deputy Director, South America, at Global Affairs Canada (2016-18), where his responsibilities included Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and the Pacific Alliance.

Previous foreign assignments include Regional Economic and...show more

Speaking on: GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE HELP OF CANADIAN TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATORS

Senia Rapisarda joined HarbourVest in 2014 to focus on partnership and direct co-investments in Canada and to expand HarbourVest’s local presence in the market.

Senia joined the Firm from BDC Venture Capital, where she was responsible for the establishment of a team focused on direct and indirect investments across Canada. Her...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 10 GROWTH #1 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Nik Rasskazovskiy is a Director with National Bank Technology and Innovation Banking group focusing on providing creative non-dilutive capital solutions to fast growing innovative companies. This group helps entrepreneurs and businesses grow, scale and achieve their goals and aspirations. Over the past 10 years Nik built is expertise in Financial...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE A: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

Braden Ream is the CEO and cofounder of Voiceflow, the collaborative platform to build chat and voice assistants. Voiceflow is used by 100,000 global teams including JP Morgan, Google, Amazon, US Bank, Instacart and more. To date Voiceflow has raised $27M USD from Craft Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Google, True Ventures,...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #4 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Adam is a seasoned executive with a history of launching and growing successful businesses at home and abroad. Beyond working in start-ups, Adam’s held a number of senior positions in Sales, Marketing and Finance. He also has a passion for education and holds a postgraduate degree in Management and Communications...show more

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Théo is a Principal operating from Canada who joined Theodorus in 2018 to help with the screening, assessment, and execution of investment opportunities. He has previously grown his expertise in strategy and due diligence for private equity and industrial clients at Roland Berger. Théo has led several transactions for Theodorus...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #3 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Beth Rogozinski is a serial entrepreneur, technology professional, and business strategist who has spent the last several years focused on digital medicine.  Beth has worked in hardware, software and services at such top firms as Silicon Graphics, Macromedia, and the digital agency Circle and has also founded games and apps...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #3 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Claudio Rojas is a seasoned business leader with 16 years of professional experience. Passionate about empowering entrepreneurs with increased access to capital and transforming Canada into the world’s leading innovation economy. As CEO of the National Angel Capital Organization, he leads 4,200 angel investors that have invested $1.38 billion into...show more

Speaking on: ROCKET PITCHES - GROWTH STAGE; ROCKET PITCHES - EARLY STAGE; ROCKET PITCHES - MEDTECH & LIFE SCIENCE

An Internationally recognized Quant and Fintech entrepreneur, Dan is also an Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Finance at the University of Toronto, and was the first Director of the Center for Financial Institutions at the Fields Institute. He has worked with numerous financial institutions around the world, lectures extensively on risk...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 10 GROWTH #1 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Since selling his first Internet company in the year 2000, Adam has created industry-lauded programs and companies in web, content, big data and next-generation technology. For over a decade, Adam has collaborated globally with corporations, governments, and NGOs, helping enable them to maximize the business potential of digital media platforms....show more

Speaking on: ROUNDTABLE: EAT OR BE EATEN? SCALING VIA M&A

Michelle Scarborough is Managing Partner, Strategic Investments and Women in Technology Venture Fund. In this position, she leads the origination and execution of strategic initiatives to fill current and future financing gaps in the Canadian ecosystem. She is also responsible for BDC’s $200M investment to bring capital to high-growth tech...show more

Speaking on: CANADIAN SUCCESS STORY: SPOTLIGHT ON WAABI

Miles was the first employee of Flinks and was instrumental in growing Flinks from a concept to a leading FinTech in Canada (acquired by National Bank). Miles single-handedly drove Flinks' sales and built out and managed the entire sales team.

Speaking on: CIX TOP 10 GROWTH #2 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Sheida is an Architect and holds a PhD in Construction Management from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Sheida is an expert in design optimization methodologies, decarbonization of existing buildings and improving circularity in the built environment. She has over nine years of professional...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #2 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Blair is an Associate Principal, Thrive Venture Fund for Women and Women in Technology Venture Fund, at BDC.

Prior to joining BDC, Blair worked at Elemy, a B2B2C platform for pediatric behavioural care, and at MedAvail Technologies Inc., a venture-backed healthcare start-up, working directly with the senior leadership team on corporate...show more

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I’m the Co-founder and CEO of AiZtech (pronounced as Eyes.tek); a deep tech company launching a novel digital health platform called Selfie Diagnostics that can screen different medical conditions like COVID-19 or Hypertension and others from just Selfie Images with results in 30 seconds. We are on a mission to...show more

Speaking on: ROCKET PITCHES - EARLY STAGE

Amardeep Sibia has over 26 years of professional experience. He is Founder & CEO of Drishya AI Labs an award-winning Deep Tech company in the business of AI for Digital Oil & Gas based in Calgary, Canada with a subsidiary in Bangalore. Drishya enables companies to meet their decarbonization goals...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #2 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Despite being our Head of Technology, Dave is first and foremost a people person. He oversees our team of high-performing tech leads and engineers to help build and refine founders’ visions.

Dave has managed software teams and delivered innovative infrastructures, consumer-facing services, and licensed software for over 25 years in large...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #4 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Meagan is the Senior Editor for BetaKit. A tech writer that is super proud to showcase the Canadian tech scene. Background in almost every type of journalism from sports to politics. Podcast and Harry Potter nerd, photographer and crazy cat lady.

Speaking on: CANADIAN SUCCESS STORY: SPOTLIGHT ON 1PASSWORD

Jayiesh(Jay) is an experienced entrepreneur who is passionate about leveraging technology to solve society's problems and has devoted his career to such pursuits. Jay along with his co-founder Philip have played key roles in the design and commercialization of close to a dozen robotic/hardware technologies. In 2018, he founded Able...show more

Speaking on: ROCKET PITCHES - MEDTECH & LIFE SCIENCE

Danielle Smith is a vice president of relationship management at Silicon Valley Bank Canada. She’s responsible for building client and ecosystem relationships and working alongside startup C-suites as they leverage SVB’s platform to scale. Danielle collaborates with an array of SVB leaders to optimize the client experience and is particularly...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE C: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

Mark Smith is a Partner with BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund. Mark brings to the team nearly two decades of operating and investing experience across enterprise and consumer products and technologies.

Before joining BDC Capital, Mark led business development for Amazon Web Services' (AWS) startup segment in Canada, where he...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE C: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

Bharat Srinivasa is a co-founder and principal at Amplitude where he has founded and/or led investments in several novel precision medicine companies. Prior to Amplitude, he was on the investment team at the BDC Healthcare Fund, where he was involved in taking multiple companies public. Prior to his VC career,...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #3 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Helen Stevenson is Founder and CEO of Reformulary Group Inc., a healthcare company that built a proprietary evidence-based drug list, the Reformulary®, and award-winning DrugFinder™ tool that provides Canadians with valuable, comparative drug information and saves money for organization’s health benefit plans. The Company has a formidable data asset, providing...show more

Speaking on: ROCKET PITCHES - EARLY STAGE

Craig’s main interest is helping entrepreneurs to build powerful sales & marketing machines. He was the co-founder and CEO of Fitzii, an online recruiting company that uses a predictive algorithm to match candidates to employers (sold to the Ian Martin Group).

Craig worked at Deloitte – initially as a Marketing Director...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE A: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

When Dave Teare created 1Password, freedom from commuting and being able to spend more time with family was at the forefront of his mind. He’s incredibly proud of the environment he’s helped create that allows ideas to blossom and grow into successful products and processes.

This culture encourages the implementation of...show more

Speaking on: CANADIAN SUCCESS STORY: SPOTLIGHT ON 1PASSWORD

Patricia Thaine is the Co-Founder & CEO of Private AI, a Microsoft-backed startup, is also a Computer Science PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto (on leave) and a Vector Institute alumna. Her R&D work is focused on privacy-preserving natural language processing, with a focus on applied cryptography and re-identification...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #4 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

I help bring people together so they can achieve more. Innovating to meet the needs of changing local and global landscapes requires the right technology and partnerships. Learning about Canadian companies to better understand their journey and aspirations inspires me.

I enjoy learning about businesses large and small because each and...show more

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Raquel Urtasun is Founder and CEO of Waabi, an AI company building the next generation of self-driving technology. Waabi is the culmination of Raquel’s 20 year career in AI and 10 years of experience building self driving solutions. Raquel is also a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science...show more

Speaking on: CANADIAN SUCCESS STORY: SPOTLIGHT ON WAABI

Steven Uster is the Co-Founder & CEO of FundThrough, a tech enabled invoice funding platform that helps business owners eliminate "the wait" associated with payment terms by giving them the power and flexibility to get their invoices paid when they want, with one click, and in as little as 24...show more

Speaking on: ROCKET PITCHES - FINTECH

After more than a decade in the oil and gas industry, Maartje van der Sande (MSc) decided to switch gears and spend her time and energy on making the world more circular. She discovered that many of the end of life mining tires are not being reused to make new...show more

Speaking on: ROCKET PITCHES - EARLY STAGE

Jean-Simon Venne is a co-founder and CTO of BrainBox AI. As a technology expert specializing in the fast and efficient migration of technological innovations to commercial applications, Jean-Simon has over 25 years of experience developing and implementing new technology to solve long-standing commercial issues in the fields of telecommunications, biotechnology,...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 10 GROWTH #2 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Tuyen has been working with successful entrepreneurs for nearly 20 years. A seasoned executive in commercial banking, corporate finance and technology banking, Tuyen heads Technology and Innovation Banking for National Bank of Canada, one of the Big Six Canadian banks. Her team specializes in tailoring non-dilutive growth financing ($1-200M+), including...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #1 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Julia Wall is an investor at RBC Capital Partners, RBC’s private equity and venture capital arm. She supports diligence efforts for strategic investments and fund investments. Prior to joining RBC, Julia worked as a consultant in a lifesciences data and advisory firm. Julia studied at Queen’s University, where she earned...show more

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Bryan Watson is a Partner at Flow Ventures, Managing Director of CleanTech North, Founding Director of the Ontario Clean Technology Industry Association, Advisor to Renewable Energy Technologies Fund LP, and 2021 Clean50 Awardee as well as member of multiple Boards as a Director.

For over 15 years, Bryan has been an...show more

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25 years’ entrepreneurial and investing experience. Founded reBOOT Canada, Truition, First Coverage, Jatheon, Dos Cielos and Hero Ventures. Invested in 25 companies since 2004 with 32% IRR on all exits. First investor in Well.ca, Visualase, Medchart, Home Away, Antibe Thera, Hol Food, X-Matic. 2 patents on cycling glasses/swim goggles. Golden Jubilee...show more

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Sarah is an investor at Panache Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm supporting inspiring Canadian founders at the earliest stages of building transformational companies. Panache Ventures is Canada's most active seed stage venture capital fund. Panache is led by a team of experienced operators, with a strong angel...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE A1: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

David has over 20 years of technology investment banking experience and has completed over $100 billion in capital raising and advisory transactions, including some of BMO's most significant transactions globally over the last several years. He is a trusted advisor to high-growth technology companies from early-stage to large-cap public companies.  As Global Head of the...show more

Speaking on: CANADIAN SUCCESS STORY: SPOTLIGHT ON D2L

Jon is a Managing Director at Deloitte Ventures where he is responsible for scaling the DV platform across direct and fund investments through deal sourcing, execution, and portfolio company monitoring. Jon brings over 12 years of investment banking, private equity and venture capital experience as an investor, advisor and board...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE A: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS; INSIGHTS INTO PARTNERING WITH CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS

Kathryn leads Amplify Capital, a leading impact fund in North America by way of its authentic impact venture investment platform.  She is known for her passion for social finance and 25 years of private equity experience.  As a social venture leader in Toronto, she founded and led Social Venture Partners...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE C: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS; CIX TOP 20 EARLY #4 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

George obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 2017, under a fellowship from Les Vadasz Foundation – Intel. The intellectual property developed in his PhD resulted in 14 publications, and 2 USPTO utility patent applications in MEMS timing. In 2015 he co-founded MY01 Inc., a medical device...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #2 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Irene Yang joined BASF Venture Capital North America in February 2022 and is based in Toronto. Irene was previously BASF Canada’s Director of Business Development & Innovation, working alongside several business units on growth plans across industries and leading strategic partnerships. Joining BASF in 2013, Irene has also worked in...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE A1: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

Sam's entrepreneurial journey began during the dot-com era and he never looked back. Over the past 20+ years, he has built 8 companies, of which 2 were VC backed and 3 were exited. His passion for technology and healthcare led the creation of Xandar Kardian where Sam serves as the...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #3 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS

Petar is the head of technology investment banking at National Bank Financial and has served in an advisory role to Canadian tech boards and management teams over his +15 year career.

Prior to banking, his first career was in software engineering, as a graduate of Computer Science from the University of...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE B: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

Brandon is a data visionary with experience leveraging leading edge research to create compelling and elegant ML driven products. Innovative and charismatic, he is known for his passion for pushing the boundaries of applying new and emerging technologies to solve real world problems at scale.

Brandon is a Venture Partner...show more

Speaking on: MEETING EXCHANGE C: FACE TO FACE WITH INVESTORS

Laura is co-founder and CEO of Manifest Climate, a SaaS platform that empowers organizations to navigate the climate transformation. She is trained lawyer, communicator, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience leading organizations towards a low-carbon and climate-adapted future. Laura is a respected advisor to leading North American financial...show more

Speaking on: CIX TOP 20 EARLY #4 COMPANY PRESENTATIONS