Speakers & Mentors

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  Jason Cheong-Kee-You
  Independent Agile Coach
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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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  Todd Charron
  Planning for Failure
  Todd Charron is an Agile Coach and Consultant in Toronto helping companies build collaborative work places that deliver real business value.
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  Anthea Foyer
  The Labs
  Anthea is Founder & Director of The Labs, a multiplatform production and consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada. She has been creating, consulting on and educating others about interactive narrative projects for the past ten years.
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  Ben Zlotnick
  INcubes
  [IN]cubes CEO / founder Ben brings a wealth of brick & mortar business knowledge to an industry of over-inflated valuations. His building of corporate structure & grooming of execs results in real financial success. He holds a Business Degree from York & currently runs one of Toronto’s most successful Landscaping Companies. Having been on “both sides of the table” as founder & investor, Ben brings these connections to benefit teh startups.
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  A. Traviss Corry
  INcubes
  As the Director and co-founder of [IN]cubes INternet Business INcubator, Traviss mentor's Startup Teams towards success. Since the birth of internet commerce, Traviss has helped hundreds of internet business’ develop from Startup to IPO, from seed capital to acquisition, as well as directing digital campaigns as high level as a candidate for Prime Minister of Canada. With a Diploma in Electronic Media Design & a Swiss Business Degree, Traviss’ deep technical knowledge combines with competitive business instincts to bring innovator’s advantage to those he councils.
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  Michael Nussbacher
  Epilogger
  Michael is CEO and Co-Founder of Epilogger, a service that acts as the central hub for all activity around events. He brings experience from the Advertising industry, and is a serial entrepreneur and blogger. Michael is also one of the minds behind Mashable Social Media Day and Movember.
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  Shawn Button
  LeanIntuit
  Shawn is an Agile coach and developer, currently working in an Enterprise Agile transformation. He believes that the Lean Startup methodology can be applied widely outside of just startups. He passionately believes that Agile and Lean thinking has the potential to revolutionize the world, and that Lean Startup adds hugely to this tool set.
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  Venk Chandran
  Rypple Salesforce
  I've had 8 years of experience implementing enterprise solutions of scale to organizational problems across the globe. As an early employee at Rypple, I've focused on how to scale our business by building amazing client relationships, capturing their narratives, and improving their use and our product. Drawing on my experience as a music promoter often helps!
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  Declan Whelan
  LeanIntuit
  Declan has founded four technologies companies with the most recent LeanIntuit providing lean startup and agile training and coaching. Declan is the co-founder of the Waterloo Agile/Lean Users Group and Agile Coach Camp Canada.
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  Jon Spenceley
  Sprouter
  Jon has been building communities and supporting customers for over 3 years, between his current role as Community Manager at Sprouter, and his support, marketing, and event work with FreshBooks.
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  Rick Segal
  Fixmo
  Rick founded Fixmo, a mobile security company after having spent 9 years as a Venture Capitalist. Prior to that he was president of Chapters Online, Canada's first major online electronic commerce site.
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  Katherine Hague
  ShopLocket
  Katherine is the Co-Founder of ShopLocket. Prior to ShopLocket she worked as an independent a digital media consultant, Shopify Theme Developer, and in a variety of Marketing positions for Toronto-based startups.
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  Dessy Daskalov
  Greengage Mobile
  Web and mobile developer. CTO/Co-Founder of Greengage Mobile. Developer Advocate at The Working Group.
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  Amit Saxena
  slamit.ca
  Part engineer, part developer, part startup scientist.
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  Satish Kanwar
  Jet Cooper
  Satish is the Co-Founder of Jet Cooper, a user experience agency for web, mobile and tablet applications. He is the Co-Organizer of Lean Coffee Toronto. He tweets on lean startups, interesting reads, and good coffee.
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  Joseph
  Can't tell you yet
  Husband, Father, Rabble rouser, Future Founder of a Start-up, @TechCrunch Contributor, Entrepreneur, UX Obsessed, Social Media Junkie, Tech Blogger
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  Marta Nowinska
  Swapsity
  Marta Nowinska is a social entrepreneur and the President and Founder of Swapsity, Canada’s leading swapping community. She traded in her Bay Street finance job to live her passion, driving the swapping movement in Canada. Visit http://www.martanowinska.com to learn more about Marta.
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  Kanika Gupta
  SoJo
  Kanika is the Founder and Chief Catalyst at SoJo.Through web-based applications, SoJo is developing online learning tools that guide social innovators through the process of taking their ideas for social change into action. Kanika actively blogs about her journey of developing SoJo at http://SocialJournal.net
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  Nick Piquard
  Consultant
  Nick brings over 15 years work experience in financial expertise from Bay Street. His interests are agile in Finance and customer development. He is an LSM alumni and recently placed 1st with his team at StartupWeekend Hamilton.
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  Travis McCutchen
  Lean Startup Machine, Leap for Mankind, Spark59
  Travis' first exposure to lean came while implementing the Toyota Production System at Intuit. After hearing Eric Ries speak at a company design4Delight conference he committed himself to helping startups succeed. Since obtaining his master's degree Technology Commercialization he has worked with entrepreneurs across the globe on business models, customer development and user experience.
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  Gabriel Chan
  NoteWagon
  Gabriel Chan is the Co-Founder of NoteWagon, a peer-learning platform that provide incentives to students helping each other succeed in academia. The service has tens of thousands of users from universities all over North America. Now valued over $1 million, NoteWagon was featured in CBC’s Dragons’ Den, Mashable, and Huffington Post.
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  June Avila
  MaRS Discovery District
  June conducts secondary market research for startups across Ontario. She loves anything to do with health or education technologies.
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  Lee Polydor
  Queen Street Partners
  Lee Polydor is Founder and Managing Partner of Queen Street Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on Property, Media and Technology. Polydor has held founding and executive roles at several startups including TorontoStandard.com and DailyCable.tv.
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  Carlo Perez
  Hammerati
  An engineer, educator, and entrepreneur, Carlo has over 10 years of experience in product management and development. A former researcher at AMD, Carlo founded Hammerati in 2009 and operates it out of MaRS as CEO with an all-start team of 8.
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  David Wolfenden
  CFC Media Lab Faculty
  Entrepreneur, solution coach, design thinker, reformed consultant . His guiding principle; flawed but moving is better than perfect and standing still.
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  Nikolai Bratkovski
  HealthAware
  Nikolai is an entrepreneur with a track record, expert in healthcare space and digital marketing, avid supporter of lean startup movement. He founded multiple successful ventures including HealthAware, SIMMS, CardioTrust, and MarketAware.
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  Sheena Lyonnais
  Toronto Standard
  Sheena Lyonnais is a technology reporter for Toronto Standard. She has a keen interest in startups, entrepreneurship and Canadian tech.