Moderators
Partner, McKinsey & Company
John Kelleher is a partner at management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. He has successfully led multiple turnarounds across industries as a CEO, a private equity partner, and a board director/chair. His core strength is combining his private equity investing skills with his...
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Speakers
Founder and CEO, Tulip Retail
With his company’s retail enablement software, Ali Asaria helps his customers improve their bottom line, but that doesn’t seem to be the bottom line for him.Ali is the founder and former CEO of Well.ca, a leading online retailer of health, beauty and baby products. He is also...
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Co-founder and CEO, Kiite
Joseph is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kiite, the world’s first Intelligent sales coach. A graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Computer Engineering program, Joseph is a repeat Founder and CEO with multiple successful exits and speaks frequently on the topics of diversity and...
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Founder and CEO, NURO
Francois Gand is a serial founder of successful companies (ADVIDEO, Infosoft Corporation, Magma Inc.) and a tech polymath who has helmed thousands of big data projects for some of the largest brands on the planet. His love for pushing technology to the next level has led him to architect...
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Founder and CEO, Sanctuary AI
Suzanne Gildert is founder and CEO of
Sanctuary AI, a company with a mission to create ultra human-like robots – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. Sanctuary is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issues that arise from creating human-like ma...
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Co-founder, Quali AI
AI unlocks a new world of possibilities for robotic automation, and Marylin Ma is passionate about applying it to build solutions for enterprise. Ma is the co-founder of
Quali AI, building powerful artificial intelligence that automates manual tasks in unstructured environments.Previously, Marylin built Navi, an NLP powered smart news feed that helped publishers engage millions of readers. She has advised more than 100 early stage tech startups in the Wate...
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University Research Chair and Director of the Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo
Professor
Marcel O’Gorman is a University Research Chair and Director of the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo. O’Gorman’s research and artistic practice explore the impacts of technology on the human condition. Beyond his multiple exhibitions and academic books, he has published articl...
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