The Speakers | Unexpected Solutions

Meet Some Of Our Speakers

Speakers who joined our 2020 virtual experience.

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Jennifer Keesmaat

CEO, The Keesmaat Group

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Tom Delay

Chief Executive, The Carbon Trust

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Darnel Harris

Operations Manager, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust

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Leilani Farha

Global Director, The Shift

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Girish Ganesan

Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, TD Bank Group

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Jan Adegeest

Urbanist

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Richard Florida

Urbanist, Researcher and Professor, University of Toronto

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Wanda Dalla Costa

Architect and Professor, Arizona State University

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Mario Rigby

Author, Explorer & Former Athlete

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Pablo van den Bosch

Co founder, Madaster

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LoriAnn Girvan

Principal, LoriAnn Girvan Consulting

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Matthew Hickey

Archiect, Two Row Architect

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Faiz Abhuani

Director, Brique par brique

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Abi Bond

Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, City of Toronto

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Graeme Stewart

Principal, ERA Architects

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Jason Verrault

Senior Manager, Lending, VanCity Investment Bank

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Joe Mihevc

Professor, York University

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Rachel Watson

Co-Founder, Housing Action Lab

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André Vashist

Director, Social Innovation, Pillar Nonprofit Network

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Todd Hoffley

Director, Property Relations, Beanfield Metroconnect

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Mike O’Brien

Mayor, City of Fredericton

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Michelle Parrish

Creative Director, Entro

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Edmund Li

Design Director

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Naveen Gattu

Co-Founder & COO, Gramener

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Alex Miller

President, Esri Canada

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Melana Roberts

Chair, FoodSecure Canada

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Ed Burtynsky

Photographer

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Dan Mathieson

Mayor, City of Stratford

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Kwame McKenzie

CEO, Wellesley Institute

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Jamison Steeve

Senior Advisor, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

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Jennifer McKelvie

Councillor, City of Toronto

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Arzeena Hamir

Owner, Amara Farm, Director, Comox Valley Regional District

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Birgit Teichmann

Founder, Teichmann Landschafts Architekten

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Jay-Ann Gilfoy

CEO, Vancity Community Investment Bank

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David Lepofksy

Visit Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Chair, Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance

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Berry Vrbanovic

Mayor, City of Kitchener

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Joe Berridge

Partner, Urban Strategies Inc

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Stephan Jost

CEO, Art Gallery of Ontario

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Madalynne Lawrence

Design Strategist, Ethical Smart Cities

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Lanrick Bennett Jr.

Managing Director, 8 80 Cities

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Eirene Keh

Medical Radiation Technologist, Cleveland Clinic

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Rosanne Sauz

Design Strategist, George Brown College

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Doug Saunders

Journalist, The Globe and Mail

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Luann Good Gingrich

Associate Professor, York University

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Chris Luebkeman

Advisor, ETH Zurich

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Nouman Ashraf

Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management

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Kate Taylor

Journalist, Critic and Novelist

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Stephanie Hawkins

Director, Evaluation at Government of Yukon

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Jessica Thornton

Founder, Creative Futures

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Jewel Amoah

Lawyer, Activist & Academic

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Joanna Averley

Chief Planner, England

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Jim Balsillie

Former Chairman and CEO, Research in Motion

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Caroline Rauhala

Director of Impact Lending, Vancity Community Investment Bank (VCIB)

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Andrea DelZotto

Executive and Director, Tridel

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Dionne Baux

Director, UrbanMain

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Kathleen Wynne

MPP Ontario, Former Premier of Ontario

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Dylan Robinson

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts

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Mary Rowe

President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute

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Leslie Woo

CEO, CivicAction

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Miia Suokonautio

Executive Director, YWCA Halifax

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Nicholas Li

Architect, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore

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Candice Hopkins

Art Curator and Writer

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David Garneau

Professor, University of Regina

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Huhua Cao

Professor, University of Ottawa

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Lezlie Lowe

Author and Journalist

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Tom Delay

Chief Executive, The Carbon Trust

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Kathryn McGarry

Mayor, Corporation of the City of Cambridge

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Jeff Lehman

Mayor, City of Barrie

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Ken Greenberg

Urban designer, City Builder and Author

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David Crombie

Chair, Greenbelt Council

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Cam Collyer

Senior Advisor, Evergreen

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Joy Bailey-Bryant

Vice President, U.S. Operations for Lord Cultural Resources

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Orit Sarfaty

Chief Program Officer, Evergreen Canada

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Geoff Cape

Founder and CEO, Evergreen Canada

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Allan Thompson

Mayor, City of Caledon

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Selina Young

Director, Indigenous Affairs Office, City of Toronto

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Naomi Lightman

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary

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Michelle Boone

Chief Program and Civic Engagement Officer at Navy Pier

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Matthew Hickey

OAA, MRAIC, M.Arch., B.Des., LEED AP

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Lynn Dollin

Mayor, Town of Innisfil

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Liat Margolis

University of Toronto

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Kate Graham

Professor, Political Science, Huron University College

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Julia Deans

President and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Canada

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Joe Mihevc

Professor at York University

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Jeffrey Schub

Coalition for Green Capital. Executive Director

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Jamie Bennett

Executive Director, ArtPlace America

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Christine Tu

Director, Office of Climate Change and Energy Management

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Dan Carter

Mayor, City of Oshawa

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Robert Nellams

Director, Seattle Center

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Diane Therrien

Mayor, City of Peterborough

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Jane Rabinowicz

Executive Director, SeedChange

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