A Growing Archive
Every speaker who has taken the Prompt Victoria stage, grouped by year. Each profile stays live as a permanent reference — building a lasting record of Vancouver Island’s AI community.
Year by Year
The most recent event is listed first. Every speaker profile remains at a stable URL — linked from talk pages, partner sites, and external coverage — so the history compounds over time.
2026
Most recent
November 5, 2026 · Victoria Conference Centre · Speaker count TBD
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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
GitHub
Jeremy Moseley builds developer tools and systems that help teams move faster without sacrificing…
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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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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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Christine Tatham
Chief People Officer, Redbrick
Christine Tatham is Chief People Officer at Redbrick. She sees this from the hiring…
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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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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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Jacques Du Plessis
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Jacques Du Plessis is a lawyer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and a…
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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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Andrea Shillington
CEO & Co-Founder, Comfrey AI
Twenty years ago, Andrea branded one of the world's most audacious skylines in Dubai…
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Bibi Brahim
CTO & Co-Founder, Comfrey AI
Some engineers build for scale. Bibi builds for precision. From federal AI architecture to…
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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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Robert Cooper
PlusROI Online Marketing
Robert Cooper is president and founder of PlusROI Online Marketing Inc and What Works…
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Eric McLachlan
Revela
Eric McLachlan is a software engineer focused on dealing with the scale of information…
2025
Inaugural year
350 attendees · 28 speakers · 14 sessions · NPS 71
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Loki Jorgensen
Circle Innovation
Dr. Loki Jörgenson is a dynamic tech leader bringing 20+ years of private industry…
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Brad Edwards
Palo Alto Networks
Brad Edwards is a Domain Consultant at Palo Alto Networks, specializing in security operations…
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René Fournier
R2 Creative
René Fournier is founder of R2 Creative, where he builds ambitious applications and teaches…
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Alistair Vigier
Caseway
Alistair Vigier was shot before his 20th birthday. Instead of letting it define him,…
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Matthew Van Heyst
Tecnet
Matthew Van Heyst is the Chief Executive Officer of Tecnet Canada Inc., leading the…
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Michael Harvey
Information and Privacy Commissioner of BC
Michael Harvey was appointed to a six-year term as BC’s Information and Privacy Commissioner…
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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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Brandon Laur
The White Hatter
Brandon Laur is the CEO and digital literacy instructor behind The White Hatter, where…
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Tisha Becker
FrameBright
Tisha Becker is the CEO and co-founder of FrameBright Technology Inc., a Canadian company…
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Chris Lynam
RCMP
Chris Lynam is currently the Director General of the National Cybercrime Coordination Centre and…
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Tim Chipperfield
Thinkific
Timothy Chipperfield is Senior Engineering Manager at Thinkific, where he leads the AI team…
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Mike Anderson
IntLabs
Mike Anderson is a technologist focused on privacy, provenance, and trustworthy AI. He was…
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John Oram
Victoria Data Society
John Oram is a software developer based in Victoria, British Columbia, with over a…
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Courtney Epstein
Courtney has spent the past decade applying machine learning and AI to help enterprises,…
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Anu Jolliffe
Victoria Data Society & Equifaira Partners Inc.
Anu Jolliffe is a technology innovator with more than 35 years of experience leading…
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Tariq Chatur
Tariq Chatur an AI and Automation Developer for the Government of British Columbia, has…
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Nat Knight
Data Engineering Consultant
Nat Knight has been writing software since Python 2 roamed the Earth (i.e. the…
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Steve Harris
Founder of AI4Enterprise
Steve Harris is the Founder of AI4 Enterprise, a Victoria-based consulting practice helping organizations…
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Sarah Downey
Sarah Downey Consulting
Sarah Downey is a consultant who helps nonprofits adopt AI in ways that are…
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Julian Daley
CEO, Our Place Society
Born in Ireland, Julian has over 30 years’ experience working in non-profit, government and…
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Mike Leslie
CEO, Revela
Mike Leslie has over a decade of executive and senior management experience in the…
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Tamara Lechner
World Flourishing Organization
Tamara Lechner is a “people person” with experience as a founder, consultant, speaker, writer,…
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Eric McLachlan
Revela
Eric McLachlan is a software engineer focused on dealing with the scale of information…
A Record That Grows With the Community
Every speaker who joins Prompt Victoria becomes part of a permanent record — visible to peers, employers, and the next generation of AI practitioners on Vancouver Island.
Individual speaker profiles stay at the same URL year after year. That means a talk from 2025 keeps collecting backlinks, citations, and AI-search references alongside the newest lineup — strengthening each speaker’s footprint and the conference’s authority over time.
If you spoke at a past event and want to update your profile, please contact the program team.