
Afua Bruce
Director of Engineering, Public Interest Technology
New America

Alasdair Allan
Director
Babilim Light Industries

Shu Yang Lin
Consultant and international liaison
PDIS.tw

Guy Elad
Deputy CIO
Tel Aviv Yafo municipality, Israel

Pia Andrews
Open and digital government expert

Rainhard Fuchs
International Relations
Austrian Digitalisation Agency

Catherine Desgagnés‑Belzil
Chief Digital Officer and Head of Quebec’s Digital Center of Excellence
Province of Quebec

Aaron Snow
Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Digital Service (CDS)

Hillary Hartley
Chief Digital and Data Officer
Deputy Minister, Cabinet Office - Province of Ontario

David Eaves
Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

María Inés Baqué
Secretary of Digital Government and Technological Innovation / Secretary of Modernization
Argentina

Kristo Vaher
Chief of Technology
Government of Republic of Estonia

Elizabeth Rhodenizer
Chief Information Officer
Public Service Commission of Canada.

Nikhil J. Deshpande
Chief Digital Officer
State of Georgia

Renee DiResta
Technical research manager, Stanford Internet Observatory
Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust

Robert Król
Vice Director
GovTech Polska Programme, Chancellery of the Prime Minister

Tammy Labelle
Chief Information Officer
Digital Services Branch, PSPC

Jerry Overton
DXC Fellow, Head of AI
DXC

Sarah Paquet
Executive Vice-President
Shared Services Canada

Chris Taggart
Co-Founder & CEO
OpenCorporates

Lena Trudeau
CEO
U.Group

Silvano Tocchi
Director General Digital Services Directorate
Canada Revenue Agency

Jaimie Boyd
Chief Digital Officer
Government of British Columbia

Yantisa Akhadi
Country Manager - Indonesia
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Lia Milito
Managing Director
Code for Canada

Georges Clement
Co-Founder, JustFix.nyc
MPP Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School

Deputy Chief Shawna Coxon
Deputy Chief of Police
Toronto Police Service

Lewis S Eisen
Speaker • Consultant • Author

Julie Leese
Chief Digital Officer
Transport Canada

Eric Ward
Senior Director
Policy Horizons Canada

Malka Older
Author
Associated Researcher, Center for Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po

Shlomo Swidler
CEO
Orchestratus

Sofia Mota
Director of TicAPP
Public Administration Digital Competencies Centre, AMA

Jesse Robbins
Founder & CEO
Orion Labs

Iris Arbel-Ganz
Innovation Development
Kfar Saba Economic Development Company

Ramy Nassar
Founder
1000 Days Out

Diane Spencer
Manager, Information Management
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Syed Ahmed
Lead Cloud Architect
CloudOps

Val Thomas
Lead, Talent Mobility Strategy / Talent Cloud
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat / Government of Canada

Trevor Banks
Creative Change Agent
Banks Change Management

Ashley Bélanger
Manager, UX Research and Service Design
Government of Canada

Ian Williams
Manager, Analytics & Innovation
Toronto Police Service

Jacqueline Lu
Digital Innovation Lead
Sidewalk Labs

Jesse Shapins
Director of Development and Public Realm
Sidewalk Labs

Honey Dacanay
Senior Manager/Executive Lead, Standards & Governance
Ontario Digital Service, Government of Ontario

Charles Eagan
Chief Technology Officer
BlackBerry

Cathy Barrera
Founding Partner
Prysm Group

Ian Rae
Founder and CEO
CloudOps

Rita Whittle
Executive Director, Government of Canada Security Policy, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Government of Canada

Brad Mills
Police Constable
Toronto Police Service

Katy Lalonde
Director
Ontario Digital Service/Government of Ontario

Paul Glover
President
Shared Services Canada (SSC)

Rebecca Kain
Sr. Consultant
Quarry

Eric Swedersky
SVP, Delivery and Public Sector
SecureKey

Margaret Dawson
Vice President, Portfolio Product Marketing
Red Hat

Jon Finkelstein
Executive Creative Director
PwC Canada

Janice Cudlip
Strategist and Community Builder with the Policy Community Partnership Office
Canada’s Federal Public Service

Robert Osborn
Federal CTO
ServiceNow

Chamika Ailapperuma
Senior UX Researcher and Service Designer
Government of Canada

Steven Greene
Associate Partner
IBM iX

Tracy Miranda
Director of Open Source Community
CloudBees

Andrew Pitt
Solutions Architect
Red Hat

Sherry Tiao
Product Marketing Senior Manager
Oracle

Tom De Rosa
Strategic Program Lead
Oracle

Diane Allan
President, Measurement Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada / Government of Canada

Anatoly Tulchinsky
Director Consulting; Data Science, Advanced Analytics and AI
CGI

Diane Cheptene
Studios Lead & Senior Managing Consultant
IBM

TJ Stidwill
Associate Partner, Public Sector Cognitive Process Transformation
IBM

Angela Mondou
President and CEO
Information Technology Association of Canada

Ryan Hum
Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Data and Information Management
Canada Energy Regulator

Nilufer Erdebil
CEO
Spring2 Innovation

Michael Cole
Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Bell Canada

Susan Sharp
Partner, Digital Experience & Innovation Consulting
PwC Canada

Larry Cooper
Partner
AdaptiveOrg Inc.

Ella Mae Lewis
Director of Product
Apolitical

Daniel Berg
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Dr. Diane Gutiw
Vice President, Big Data Analytics, AI and Machine Learning
CGI

Dan Murphy
Partner
AdaptiveOrg Inc.

Vivian Nobrega
Open Source Advocate for the Government of Canada
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Warren Tomlin
Partner
EY

Azalia Shamsaei, Ph.D.
Product Manager
MindBridge Ai

Jim Whitestone
Chief Environmental and Financial Economist
Blockscale Solutions Inc.

Fatema Pirone
Senior Director, Enterprise Innovation
CIBC

Pete Frasco
Senior Manager, Sales Engineering
BlackBerry, AtHoc

Domenica Maciocia
Senior Vice President, Client Services and Sales Operations
Bell Business Markets

Kent Aitken (TRACK CHAIR)
Policy and Partnerships
CSPS' Digital Academy

Zahra Merchant
Director – Service Management Office
Bank of Canada

Jaethan Reichel
Co-Founder & CEO
Lightship

Kim Ennis
Program Manager, Service Improvement, Service Transformation
City of Ottawa

Brandon Biggs
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Technological / Communication barriers

Sonia Powell
Director General, Real Property Service’s Workplace Solutions Service Line
Public Services and Procurement Canada

Alexander Howard
Director of the Digital Democracy Project
Demand Progress Education Fund

Claudia Thompson
Managing Director, Health & Public Service Canada / Managing Director, Inclusion & Diversity Canada
Accenture, Canada

Matthew Levy
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Architectural / Industrial Design barriers

Natalie McGee (Moderator)
Executive Director, Enterprise Strategic Planning, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat / Government of Canada

Louis-Pierre Auger
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Attitudinal / Systemic barriers

Lisa Carroll
Canadian Public Sector Lead
Microsoft Canada

Jared Uramowski
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Architectural / Industrial Design barriers

Tracy Sletto
Executive Vice President, Transparency and Strategic Engagement
Canada Energy Regulator

Kaveh Afshar-Zanjani
Manager, Data Science (Chief Data Office)
Environment and Climate Change Canada

Anna Wong
Director
Digital Academy, Canada School of Public Service

Dinesh Mohan
Director General, Cloud Services
Shared Services Canada

Pauline Martin
Industry Executive, Government
Microsoft Canada

Kowsi Murugapoopathy
Technical Solution Architect
Lixar

Daphnée Nostrome
Lead, Digital Training, Senior Content Designer
Ontario Digital Service, Government of Ontario

Sagar Jha (TRACK CHAIR)
Partnership Development Lead
Code for Canada

Gillian Whichelo
Data Governance Analyst
Assistant Deputy Minister (Data, Innovation, Analytics), ADM (DIA) National Defence / Government of Canada

Bryce Buffaloe
Hybrid & Edge Compute Specialist
Google Cloud

Christiane Coda
Digital Advisor
Microsoft Canada

Mike Kujawski
Managing Partner
CEPSM.ca

Parinaz Sobhani
Director of Machine Learning
Georgian Partners

Shiladitya Sircar
Vice President, Secure Messaging & Enterprise Identity
BlackBerry

Meaghan Reinecke
Manager, UX Strategy
PwC Canada

Wes George
CTO
Proof

Shelley Fraser
Leader
Lixar Creativity Hub

Charles-Antoine Drouin
Business Intelligence Analyst
Health Canada

Evelina Pituch
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Attitudinal / Systemic barriers

Walter Knitl
CEO, Praxiem
Chief Business Development Officer, IoT613

Shelly Smith
City of Winnipeg Records & Information Management Coordinator
ARMA Canada Conference Program Director

Kate Armour
Information Security Program Specialist | Enterprise Information Security
Export Development Canada

Mélanie Robert
Executive Director, Open Government, Chief Information Officer Branch
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Government of Canada

Michele Lajeunesse
Director, Cloud Solutions
IBM Canada

Alistair Croll
Founder
Solve for Interesting
