Zoe Adrian is committed to her clients' well-being and the potential for increasing their personal wealth in a changing world economy. She prides herself on her strong relationships with her clients that can only come from a thorough understanding of their financial needs and a commitment to open communication. She regularly conducts educational workshops on a variety of financial and economic topics to professionals and business groups. In addition to her training as an Investment Advisor, Zoe holds a BASc (mech eng) and a BEd from the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Cindy Gordon is the CEO and Founder of Helix Commerce International Inc. where she specializes in BusinessInnovation leveraging Web 2.0, Collaboration, and Social approaches to help client's realize Customer Value. Prior to founding Helix, Cindy was a partner in XDLI, a Venture Capital Firm. Prior roles included Partner with Accenture, General Manager and Senior Director, Xerox, Director Strategy, Nortel Networks, and Vice President, Citicorp. She is well published with 12 books in the market, her latest will be released shortly, Business Goes Virtual. Former books include: Why Buy the Cow?, Collaboration Commerce, etc. She is an active board director and early stage investor supporting the commercialization of new business ventures. She is a founding member of the Toronto Angels, founder of the CEO Fusion Center, and is an internationally recognized speaker in the Future of Work.

Dr. David Hill is Scientific Director of the Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson), one of Canada's largest hospital- sponsored research institutes. He holds the Lawson Professorship in Diabetes Research, and the Weinstein Chair for Diabetes Research, and is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Paediatrics, at The University of Western Ontario. Educated at the University of Nottingham and at Worcester College, University of Oxford, he has published over 200 scientific papers and maintains an active program in diabetes research and stem cell biology. Dr. Hill is a recipient of the Frederick G. Banting Award of that organization, as well as of the Medal of the Society for Endocrinology from the UK. Dr. Hill is a member and Past Board Chair of the Diabetic Pregnancy Study Group (DPSG), an affiliate of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. He also currently participates on the Board of Directors of Research Canada, as well as the Research Committee of the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO).
 

Dr. Regina Lee received her PhD in aerospace studies from University of Toronto . She was appointed an assistant professor of space engineering at York University in 2007, having worked in industry for several years. Dr. Lee was responsible for attitude control system design and hardware development at Dynacon, Inc.. Among many projects, she played a key role in the MOST microsatellite mission, multi-mission microsatellite bus (MMMSB), the NEOSat microsatellite, and the Nano High-Performance Attitude Control Demonstration Mission. Her current research focuses on nanosatellite technologies, including micro-thruster development, battery characterization for CubeSat applications and star camera algorithm design . 

Dr. Carolyn McGregor is the Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics based at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. She has led pioneering research in event stream processing, temporal data stream data mining and service oriented architectures. She progresses this research within the context of health and medicine for advanced support for clinical management and research. Dr McGregor is an international leading researcher in the area of critical care health informatics and in particular neonatal health informatics for which she has specialised for over 10 years. She is the Canadian representative for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and was the inaugural IEEE EMBS representative for IEEE Women in Engineering. In 2008 she was awarded a multi-million dollar IBM First of a Kind Research (FOAK) Award. In 2009 she received the IBM Infosphere Innovation award for her UOIT based team's role in project Artemis.

Dr. Tom Rand is a venture capitalist and author and currently acts as Lead Cleantech Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. MaRS acts to support commercialization of Canadian research and development. Prior to this position, Tom had a strong and successful entrepreneurial history, including the founding of Voice Courier Inc. a telecommunications software company  in 1991 and leading its expansion to more than 100 employees in three countries. Tom remains as Director. He has board experience on leading Cleantech organizations (currently board member of Morgan Solar and was the manager for the Green Bonds public policy team, a high-profile initiative that was part of the Federal Liberal Party's platform in the last election. Tom is co-developer of The Planet Traveler, North America's "greenest" hotel, located in Toronto. Tom is an Action Canada Fellow. Tom has recently published a book in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K., entitled Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World (Eco Ten Publishing).

Scott Rouse , as Managing Partner for Energy @ Work, is helping customers achieve sustainable results by improving their "triple bottom line": Economic Prosperity / Environmental Performance and Social Responsibility. Scott is a Professional Engineer, Certified Energy Manager / Sustainable Development Professional (CEM / CSDP) with the Association of Energy Engineers. He is also an advisor for the Industrial Energy Technology Conference as well as a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). As an IEEE "Distinguished Lecturer", Scott has presented in South America , Singapore , Australia and South Africa. As founding chair of the Canadian Energy Manager Network, Scott continues to be an active energy efficiency advocate for sustainable "customer" benefits. Scott's international recognition was achieved by developing practical solutions as well as the experience gained by implementing the energy efficiency program that won the Canadian and the US EPA`s Climate Protection Awards.

Dr. Ladan Tahvildari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, the founder of the Software Technologies Applied Research (STAR) Laboratory, and a member of CSER, a Canadian Consortium for Software Engineering Research. Together with her research team, she investigates methods, models, architectures, and techniques to develop software systems with a higher quality in a cost effective manner. Her research is currently funded by NSERC, ORF-RE, ERA, and Research In Motion Inc. (RIM). She has also been on the program and organization committees of many international IEEE/ACM conferences. She was the publications chair of the IEEE/ACM ICSE 2009 in Vancouver and the program co-chair of the IEEE ICSM 2007 in Paris. She has served as Chair of the Computer Society (CS) in the IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Local Chapter since 2004 and Chair of IEEE Women In Engineering Affinity Group since 2005. Her research accomplishments have been recognized by various awards. Recently, she has been honored with the prestigious Ontario's Early Researcher Award (ERA) to recognize her work in self-adaptive software. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, a member of the ACM, a Professional Engineer (PEng) registered with PEO.