Named as one of the 18 Outstanding Women In Tech, in 2015, by RdigitalLife, and Diversity MBA’s top 50 under 50 in 2015, Dr. Donohue is a passionate advocate of revolutionizing today’s workforce training through technology and internal talent. She believes passionately in the art of conversation, the value of team and outcome based training. A cancer survivor who worked with Paul Newman, learned from Robert Kennedy Jr, made her movie debut with former Toronto Mayor David Miller, and was briefly (very briefly) a Supreme with Diana Ross, Dr. Mary Donohue is often described as a force of nature. As Founder of the Donohue Mentoring System™ she designs communication training that provide people with a roadmap to become people developers and achieve a better work/life balance. Dr. Mary is a world-renowned speaker and TEDX presenter, television personality and columnist. Her work appears in the Huffington Post and Financial Post.

Dr. Ron Owston is a professor of education and former Dean of the Faculty of Education and founding Director of the Institute for Research in Learning Technologies (now IRDL) at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In June 2007, York University awarded him the honorary title of University Professor for his “extraordinary contribution to the University as a colleague, teacher, and scholar.”

He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences, and published in a variety of fields including technology in education, program evaluation, and teacher development in journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, Journal of Information Technology in Teacher Education, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Internet & Higher Education, and Journal of Research on Computing in Education. His recent projects include: external evaluator for the ABEL/Learning Connections online teacher community, a study on games to support literacy at grade 4, and an evaluation of Moodle use and lecture capture in large undergraduate courses in York’s Faculty of Health.

Jake Hirsch-Allen is currently the Lynda.com Lead for Higher Education at LinkedIn Canada. He teaches at McMaster University, is on the advisory board of the Hot Docs cinema and founded Lighthouse Labs, Canada's foremost software development bootcamp. A former intellectual property and international criminal lawyer, Jake was also Chair of Technology Committee of the Global Education Platform. ​

An MBA graduate of Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) Montréal and a graduate of McGill University,B. Commerce, Wanda Bedard is founder and owner since 1991 of a manufacturing business in the custom sheet metal sector. Following a number of years as a volunteer with UNICEF Canada, Wanda Bedard established 60 million girls, a public foundation, in 2006. The organization is completely volunteer run and raises funds for education projects for girls in the developing world. 60 million girls has invested $2.5 million supporting 21 projects in 15 countries, with administrative costs of less than 1%, directly benefitting over 20,000 children. Wanda is a member of the International Advisory Board of McGill’s Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID). She has been a member of the jury for the Montreal YWCA’s Women of Distinction Award since 2009. Wanda Bedard received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 She received the Laurie Normand-Starr Humanitarian Award in 2011 Wanda was awarded the $20,000 ‘’International Service Award’’ from the Velan Foundation and the Rotary Club in 2009. She was the winner of the Women of Distinction Award by the Montreal YWCA in 2008. ​

Susan Harper is an IBM Canada Client Manager for Higher Education and Research Clients in Ontario. She currently sits on an Ontario College Computer Technology Advisory Committee and an IBM internal team related to employee experience & engagement. She also volunteers her time at Belinda’s Place – a shelter for women at risk of homelessness in York Region. She has been at IBM for 29 years and has served in positions that range from operations, teaching, management and sales. Susan’s current interest lies in the fields of analytics, cognitive computing and cloud. She has a certification in Professional Digital Selling from the Digital Marketing Institute.

Jane Ji is a long-time game designer and producer. In tandem with her team, she created the award-winning kids mobile game “iBiome-Wetland” and many games for online and social networks. Jane is an advocate for making engaging educational games to help inquiry-based learning in STEM classroom. With decades of experience in game design, Jane dedicates all her design skills to make fun play educational.​

Rajah Lehal, JD/MBA - Founder & CEO of Clausehound. Prior to launching Clausehound, Rajah worked in the technology industry for over a decade. Rajah then completed his JD/MBA at Western University. Rajah worked at Stikeman Elliott (the top Canadian transactional law firm) and Clyde & Co (a large international law firm) as a technology transaction lawyer, before solely founding and growing the law firm Cobalt Lawyers which he grew from zero to four hundred clients, and which has a team of six full time team members as well as contract employees.  Rajah has also launched Multiplicity Media with a co-founder:   Multiplicity is a tech blog and entrepreneur education events group that has hosted nearly two hundred events in Toronto (http://multiplicity.media/).   Both Cobalt Lawyers and Multiplicity are now being operated by their respective management teams.  Rajah is focused on the growth of Clausehound (his third business) and is head of the Clausehound sales and marketing team. ​

Cathy Pillar is a passionate market builder with 30 years of business and marketing experience in the technology and education sectors now turned start-up. From 2001 to 2011, Cathy worked in progressive leadership roles with BlackBerry launching dozens of products and services in hundreds of countries ultimately driving exponential worldwide growth of revenue (+$20B annually – Dec/11) and subscribers (+70M –Dec/11). From 2012 to 2015, Cathy successfully managed her own consulting business focusing specifically on clients looking to develop their international strategies and drive global growth including a 9 month assignment with Desire2Learn where she and provided interim marketing support for EMEA, LA and AP regions while developing a global market prioritization model for the organization. In January 2016, Cathy partnered with Dr. Robert Clapperton and founded Ametros Learning Inc. Ametros Learning improves student proficiency in communication through simulation- based pedagogy. Cathy holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and an Honours BA in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University.

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Ami Shah is a Co-Founder and CEO of Peekapak, an edtech startup that teaches social-emotional learning skills like self-regulation, empathy and team work in the class and home. Peekapak is backed by; Silicon Valley based accelerator, Imagine K12, the Edtech vertical of YCombinator and; the Unreasonable Institute. Ami has earned a MBA from INSEAD. She has gained extensive marketing experience through roles at Procter & Gamble, and most recently, as Director of Retail Marketing at a consumer products start-up. Ami is passionate about improving youth education, and has previously taught in K-4 classrooms and advised and volunteered at education-related non-profit organizations.​

Hosni Zaouali is the co-founder of Voilà Learning, a TechEd social enterprise mandated by multiple school boards to create designed solutions for students and schools using Virtual Reality, Apps, gamification and online homework help. This grassroots community leader has shown that it is possible to create a viable business while providing community programs, services and mentorship. Over the past 6 years, Voilà Learning has become an undisputed provider of educational solutions for thousands of families and students; helping disadvantaged schools in Canada, Somalia, Haiti and Ghana.​