2017

Yatish Kumar

Yatish Kumar

Yatish leads Corsa’s technical vision as well as supporting SDN OpenFlow direction in the broader industry as ONF Area Director for all ONF published specifications. He also sits on the […]

Kevin Tuer

Kevin Tuer

Kevin Tuer is Managing Director of Canada’s Open Data Exchange, a national initiative launched in May 2015 with a mandate to help the private sector adopt and commercialize data from […]

Farooq Naiyer

Farooq Naiyer

Farooq Naiyer is shared Chief Information Security Officer at ORION and eight post-secondary education institutions in Ontario. Previously he was part of the Cybersecurity and Privacy team at PwC in Canada where he […]

Mark Gaudet

Mark Gaudet

Mark Gaudet is Product and Business Development Manager at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). In this role, he leads CIRA’s business development for new DNS and domain name security […]

Stella Bastone

Stella Bastone

Stella Bastone (M.Ed) is an instructional designer and professor at George Brown College in Toronto. With almost 20 years of experience in technology-enabled learning environments, she is an advocate of […]

Giulia Forsythe

Giulia Forsythe

Giulia Forsythe is the Special Projects Facilitator at the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation at Brock University where she supports teaching & lifelong learning for faculty and teaching assistants. Giulia is […]

Stephen Spong

Stephen Spong

Stephen Spong is the Copyright Services Librarian at Centennial College, a role he has held since 2015. His portfolio includes a wide range of responsibilities related to intellectual property, academic […]

Danny Chang

Danny Chang

Danny is entering his third year of an Honors Specialization in Astrophysics at Western University. As a passionate student advocate, Danny has played an active role within the University Students’ […]

Doug Lindner

Doug Lindner

Mr. Lindner is the Director of Systems Engineering for Juniper Networks, joining the Canadian team in January, 2000.  With over 30 years of experience in the networking and communications industry, […]

Roy Thomas

Roy Thomas

Roy Thomas is the Manager of Business Solutions for Ontario’s Community Services I&IT Cluster.  With a background ranging from maintaining mission critical mainframe systems to building emerging, mobile-friendly solutions, he […]

Verena Roberts

Verena Roberts

Verena Roberts is a passionate online and blended K-12 educator and consultant from Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is currently a Technology for Learning Specialist with Rocky View Schools. She is […]

Tracey P. Lauriault

Tracey P. Lauriault

Tracey P. Lauriault, is assistant professor of Critical Media and Big Data, Media Studies and Communication in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Her areas of expertise […]

Erin Oner

Erin Oner

Erin Oner is the Coordinator/Professor of Business Marketing and Business Admin Marketing at Confederation College. Prior to her role with Confederation College, Erin spent ten years first studying and then […]

Dean Lessard

Dean Lessard

Dean has been the Lead for Northern College on the Northern Colleges Collaborative Project (NCCP) since its inception. With almost twenty (20) years in elementary, secondary and post-secondary education, Dean […]

Alan Darnell

Alan Darnell

Alan Darnell is the director of Scholar’s Portal, a shared service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) that is truly collaborative. Founded in 2002, Scholars Portal provides a […]

Peter Singh

Peter Singh

Peter Singh is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Toronto District School Board, the largest and one of the most diverse school boards in Canada. Serving approximately 246,000 students in […]

Luc Roy

Luc Roy

Luc Roy is the Associate Vice President of IT (CIO) for Laurentian University since 2010. As CIO, Luc is responsible for all on-campus digital infrastructure and digital operation for the […]

Lisa Grothier

Lisa Grothier

As the Chief Information Officer for St. Lawrence College, Lisa provides oversight for Administrative and Academic technology strategy and operations.  Lisa is keenly focused on “students first” and believes that […]

Ann Pappert

Ann Pappert

Ann Pappert is a strategic and energetic public sector leader whose 20+ years of experience across multiple provinces and cities brings an expansive perspective to her vision for “opening up” […]

Kimberly Silk

Kimberly Silk

Kimberly Silk is a librarian with a background in academic and data librarianship and a passion for conducting research to evaluate how libraries impact their communities. She is co-author of […]