Speakers & Mentors  (Mouse over for bio)

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  Jason Zan
  Rogers Ventures
  As Senior Director, Venture Investments, Jason's 15 years of investing, corporate operating, and startup experience is applied to sourcing, evaluating, and actively managing Roger's Ventures investments at a board level.
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  Jennifer Fong-Adwent
  Mozilla
  Jennifer hopes for a world where the internet isn't just one big television commercial. As a cofounder at a startup, Jennifer makes weird web projects and libraries while working at Mozilla.
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  Elizabeth Caley
  Firmex
  Elizabeth has spent 14 years mind-melding with developers, designers, users, & customers of B2B software at huge companies and tiny startups. Always happy to share Product Management/ Product Marketing/ Product Design/ Marketing advice in exchange for for lattes.
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  Chris Eben
  The Working Group
  Chris is a partner at @theworkinggroup, @postagebird, @rocketr, entrepreneur, product manager, @startupwkndTO organizer, husband, father, and so much more... I hope.
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  Adil Dhalla
  My City Lives
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  Carolyn Van
  thirdocean
  Carolyn is a Founder and Partner of thirdocean where her role consists of leading business strategy and operations, client service management, project and execution management and internal development. Carolyn is known by her colleagues for her straight forward and direct communication style, high-level strategic thinking and planning, her love for clean organizational processes, getting down to the root cause/challenges and wiggling her way towards hard objectives.
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  Mark Reale
  BNOTIONS
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  Pete Bastedo
  BatchBank
  Pete is the founder at BatchBank where he builds and implements lean experiments on a daily basis. The company is using the web to improve how new medicine reaches patients.
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  Jason Cheong-Kee-You
  Independent Agile Coach
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  Max Cameron
  Big Bang Technology
  Max Cameron is a co-founder at Big Bang Technology, which specializes in the design and development of applications for mobile and the web. Max is active in LeanCoffeeTO, and has coached over 20 early-stage startups at Dooo.sh/it, a customer development workshop which he founded.
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  Satish Kanwar
  Jet Cooper
  Satish is an entrepreneur, geek and friend. He is the co-founder of Jet Cooper, a user experience agency that designs applications for web, mobile and tablet. He is also the co-organizer of Lean Coffee Toronto and co-chair of TEDxToronto.
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  Andrew Peek
  Jet Cooper
  Andrew is the Kickstarter of Strategic Initiatives & Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Jet Cooper. He's also the Co-Founder of the social notetaking applicaton, Rocketr. He speaks actively on Lean Startup Principles and in his previous life, led the build of the Customer Development department at Toronto's own FreshBooks.
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  Jedidiah Liu
  Focolize
  Jed is leaving behind her over 10 years of corporate tax career at one of the Big 4 accounting firms and heading into a crazy world of tech startups. She is currently working on her first startup Focolize.
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  Josh Sookman
  Guardly
  Josh brings insights from both sides of the table, having spent over a decade developing technology products and services, and more than two years in venture capital at RBC Venture Partners and the BlackBerry Partners Fund. He is also the co-curator of the Toronto Startup Digest.
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  Trevor Owens
  Lean Startup Machine
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  Alyssa Richard
  RateHub.ca
  Alyssa is the founder and CEO of RateHub.ca a Canadian mortgage rate comparison website. Alyssa has combined her passions for search engine marketing and business development to grow RateHub.ca into a destination property in the mortgage space.
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  Will Lam
  Date Ideas
  Will is the Founder of GetDateIdeas.com an online date planner for couples and co-curator of the Toronto Startup Digest. Will has was also part of the Extreme University 2010 cohort.
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  Salim Teja
  BrightSpark Ventures