Meet the 2026 Speakers
Practitioners, innovators, and leaders sharing what’s actually working in AI today. The full lineup for November 5 is being finalized — speakers will be announced here as each one is confirmed.
World-Class Speakers. Grounded in What Works.
We’re curating a lineup of practitioners, innovators, and leaders who have one thing in common: they’ve moved from disruption to direction, and they’re ready to show you how.
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Marc Stoiber
Marc Stoiber is a Revenue Architect who helps companies turn confusion into clarity, and…
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Desiree Duigou
Desirée is a relationship builder and strategic leader who connects people, technology and opportunity. Her interdisciplinary…
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Yasmeenah El-Zein
Link Collaborative
Yasmeenah is a Project and Operations Consultant who partners with organizations as afractional resource,…
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Nick Hepner
CEO/CTO with some extensive experience running and creating innovative technology companies. Devout Technophile and…
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Monica T Chang
Start with Clarity Consulting
Monica is founder & CEO of Start with Clarity Consulting. She helps leaders and…
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Calum Bird
Founder and CEO at Trelent
Calum Bird has been building with LLMs since 2019. He started Trelent to help…
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Martin Smith
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Martin Smith is a senior associate in Osler’s leading Emerging and High Growth Companies…
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Jamie Henderson
Outcome Architect, Comfrey AI
With over 2 decades of experience in information technology solution creation and partnership building…
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Diane Gutiw
VP, AI Research & Strategic Advisory, CGI
Diane holds a PhD where she conducted doctoral research on medical AI/expert system solution…
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Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie
CTO, Inspiren
Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie leads engineering at Inspiren, an AI-powered ecosystem for senior living communities. She’s…
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David Leangen
Director of Software, Data & AI, Miraterra Technologies
David Leangen focuses on how organizations adopt AI for software development and product delivery.…
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Jeremy Moseley
Principal Software Engineer, GitHub
Jeremy Moseley builds developer tools and systems that help teams move faster without sacrificing…
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Dr. Suhayya (Sue) Abu-Hakima
Alstari
Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima is Co-Founder and CEO of Alstari Corporation, focusing on privacy, safety,…
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Davis Neable
Design Operations Leadership
Davis Neable has spent over 20 years helping teams build better products and better…
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Anu Jolliffe
Director of Community Relations, Victoria Data Society
Anu Jolliffe is known for connecting people, ideas, and events across the Victoria tech…
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Sid Srinivasan
Founder, Crux Intelligence
Sid is the founder and principal advisor at Crux Intelligence, where he helps companies…
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Emma Irwin
Founder & Principal Consultant, Open Practice Consulting
Emma Irwin is founder and principal consultant at Open Practice Consulting. She has worked…
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Anthony Bortolussi
Create Video
Anthony Bortolussi is the Managing Director of Create Video, a Vancouver-based video production agency…
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Kris Krüg
BC + AI Ecosystem Association
Kris Krüg is a Vancouver-based creative technologist, photographer, and community builder working where culture…
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Rob Parker
CEO, PrimeHealth
Rob Parker is Co-Founder and CEO of PrimeHealth, a BC-based enterprise SaaS platform modernizing…
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Miles Garvey
Brabble
Miles Garvey is a modern data strategist and data leader with cross-sector experience spanning…
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Gabriel Gaultier
Missing Link Analytics
Gabriel Gaultier is a data and analytics leader and Co-Founder, with experience building analytics…
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Houtan Mashinchi
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Houtan Mashinchi is a lawyer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and a member…
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Rachel Krayenhoff
Ingenuity Labs
Rachel Krayenhoff is the founder of Ingenuity Labs and an AI educator based in…
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Tom Myer
Cybersecurity Principal
Tom Myer is a First Nations (Cayuga/Ngäbe-Buglé) Cybersecurity Principal with over 20 years of…
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Arsh Singh
What Works Marketing & PlusROI Online Marketing
Arsh Singh is a digital marketing strategist and AI enthusiast. He leverages AI tools…
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Sheila Wynne Fung
AI Implementation Consultant
Sheila Wynne Fung is an AI implementation consultant who starts before the tools do.…
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Ian Slipp
Rubric Marketing
Ian Slipp is the founder of Rubric Marketing and sees this from the smallest…
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Owen Mead-Robins
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO, Bluefield Software
Owen Mead-Robins has spent more than twenty years building software and leading engineering teams,…
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Peter Scott
Centre for AI in Canadian Learning
Peter Scott is an educator and founder of the Centre for AI in Canadian…
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Jennifer Hufnagel
AI Educator and Trainer
Jennifer Hufnagel is one of Canada’s leading AI Educators, blending over 25 years of…
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Robert Cooper
PlusROI Online Marketing
Robert Cooper is president and founder of PlusROI Online Marketing Inc and What Works…
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René Fournier
Founder and AI Development Trainer at R2 Creative
René Fournier is the founder of R2 Creative, where he teaches software teams to…
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John Oram
Co-Founder and CTO at VeilStream
John Oram is the co-founder and CTO of VeilStream, a Victoria-based startup focused on…
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Mike Anderson
Founder at ranging.ca
Mike has spent the last decade as a founder and engineering leader on Vancouver…
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Eric McLachlan
Revela
Eric McLachlan is a software engineer focused on dealing with the scale of information…
The Lineup Is Still Being Built
We’re organize our speaker submissions now. Check back soon.