2025 CIX Speakers
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2025 Speakers
Jack Newton
CEO and Founder | Clio
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Laura Lenz
Partner | OMERS Ventures
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Prashant Matta
Managing Partner | Panache Ventures
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Tony Florence
Co-CEO | NEA
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Rob Khazzam
Co-Founder & CEO | Float Financial
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Rasha Katabi
Founder & CEO | Brim Financial
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Vitaly Pecherskiy
CEO | StackAdapt
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Olivia Steedman
Executive Managing Director | Teachers’ Venture Growth
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Matthew Leibowitz
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner | Plaza Ventures
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Arlene Dickinson
Founder & Managing General Partner | District Ventures Capital
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Benjamin Bergen
President | Council of Canadian Innovators
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Amber Kanwar
Business Journalist & Host of In The Money Podcast
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Sean Silcoff
Journalist | Globe and Mail
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Kim Furlong
CEO | Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA)
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Lisa Zarzeczny
CEO & Co-Founder | Elevate
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Rebecca Kacaba
CEO | DealMaker
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Salim Teja
Partner | Radical Ventures
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Angelo Casanas
Director of Innovation | Elevate
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Takara Small
Tech columnist
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Brandon Zhao
Partner | Two Small Fish Ventures
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Ken Lotocki
Co-Founder & CPO | Conquest Planning
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Claudio Rojas
CEO | National Angel Capital Organization
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Raymond Luk
Founder in Residence | Deloitte
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Amanda Hall
Founder & CEO | Summit Nanotech
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Chantielle MacFarlane
VP Marketing | Quandri
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James Larsen
CEO | e-Zinc
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Sunil Vedula
Founder & CEO | Nanoprecise Sci Corp
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Chen Duan
Head of Product | Planned
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Raphael Rajan
CEO | EZee Assist
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Simran Kang
Founder & CEO | MyFO
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Mann Parikh
Founder & CEO | NerView Surgical Inc.
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Benoit Lacroix
CEO | ReliON
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Diana Virgovicova
CEO | Xatoms
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Wayne McIntyre
Founder & CEO | Relocalize
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Fiona Simpson
CEO | BioMimir
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Mina Zarabian
Co-Founder and CEO | Carbonova
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Alik Sokolov
CEO | Sibli
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Jenny Lemieux
CEO | Vivid Machines
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Alex Ip
CEO | CERT Systems
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James Mignacca
CEO | Cavelo
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Albert Mansour
CEO | ConeLabs Inc.
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Serena Lewis
Investor | Pegasus Tech Ventures
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Stephen McCabe
CEO & Co-Founder | QuickCasa AI
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Paul Crowe
Co-Founder & CEO | Metronome
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Monika Jaroszonek
Managing Director, Planning, Housing and Land Division | Esri Canada
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Georgette Zinaty
Chief of Staff | Myant
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Sep Assadian
VP, Founder Success | ventureLAB Innovation Centre
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Alexander Morsink
CEO | Equivesto Inc.
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Sneha Punwani
Supervisor | IDEA Mississauga
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Mark Wood
CEO | Microart Services
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Shez Samji
Head of TD Innovation Partners | TD Innovation Partners
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Scott Kaplanis
Managing Partner | GroundBreak Ventures
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Tanika McLeod
Co-Founder | OneCliq
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Hugh Chow
CEO | ventureLAB
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Niraj Mathur
Co-Founder | Blumind Inc.
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Benjamin Matthews
Vice President, Economic Growth & Innovation | Ontario Securities Commission
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Monique Moran
Founder & CEO | Growth Assembly
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Ameet Shah
General Partner | Golden Ventures
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James Lucas
Lead, Alliances | Interac Corp
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Kosta Panagoulias
Jobtable | Founder
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Molly Willats
Head of Community and Partnerships | Fintechs Canada
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John Rikhtegar
Director, Investments | RBCx
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Prem Kalevar
Vice President, Discovery Program | Inovia Capital
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Craig Leonard
General Partner | Graphite Ventures
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Kiefer Eaton
Co-Founder | Basetwo AI
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Ismail Khalil
Head, Toronto | Plug and Play Tech Centre (Canada)
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Zeeshan Ali
Senior Investment Director | MaRS IAF
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Michelle McBane
Managing Director | StandUp Ventures
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Simon Sokol
Vice President | Relay Ventures
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Klint Ramdass
Head of Product | Reactiv
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