David’s mission is to reinvent the way retailers & online merchants engage with shoppers in the mobile work. He is a serial entrepreneur, founding two companies (RealWat and ZINation) over the last 10 years.

He is a graduate of M.Sc. in the TIM program at Carleton University and a B.Eng. from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. He worked previously for Newbridge, Alcatel and Matrox as a senior software developer & team leader for over 11 years.

Ed Bryant is President and CEO of Sampford Advisors. Ed has over 20 years of experience including over 16 years in Investment Banking with Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. In that time, Ed raised in excess of $20 billion in equity and debt capital and completed over $10 billion in M&A transactions.
 

Bryan has specialized in providing financial services to entrepreneurs from private to public companies including charities, government departments and agencies for over 20 years.

Bryan leads Welch’s Technology Services group. He has served technology companies from start-up to successful exit, including support with public and private financing. The majority of Bryan’s clients have had a global footprint and the experience he gained in that sector allows him to support entrepreneurs in managing issues arising from doing business abroad. Prior to joining Welch, Bryan was supporting clients as a partner with a global accounting firm.

Joshua has worked on a number of government compliance audits, as well as audits for private sector and not-for-profit clients.

Since 2007, Joshua has focused on tax compliance and planning for personal, business and estate clients. Joshua is also responsible for SR&ED and other business incentive planning.

Founded on the premise girls can and should be encougaged to lead early, ambiSHEous combines entrepreneurship training, citizenship education, and leadership development to shape the very real ambitions of girls in a positive, world-changing way.

ambiSHEous first ran as a pilot program in the spring of 2015and was a total hit with participants and parent alike. The first-ever workshop was held at Shopify in August and sold out. They have since expanded their offerings in 2016 and the community continues to grow.

JA inspires youth to start a business, make better financial decisions and chart a career path. JA engages community volunteers from local businesses and post-secondary institutions to provide hands-on learning opportunities for Grade 5-12 students.

JA programs are delivered free of charge to local area schools with the support of committed JA volunteers and our community partners and sponsors. ONFE works with educators and school boards to identify and ensure that programs are made available to those in most need of innovative programs.

GreatWork is an adaptable and easy-to-use set of tools for stakeholder engagement, tailored to organizational growth and change.

They provide a process that helps leaders make effective decisions by engaging more people in the organization’s opportunities and challenges. The process is supported by decades of knowledge, best practices and fascilitation tools, as well as cloud-based web technology that was designed to make engagement easier, faster, more scalable – and most importantly, more effective.
 

BrightFish Learning is an international company focused on creating innovative tools that help educators and students achieve goals. With offices in Chicago, IL and Ottawa, ON, they are continuously examining best practices in districts, schools and classrooms across North America.

Their mandate is to translate these practices into solutions that can be accessible anywhere, anytime on multiple devices and platforms. They believe that all students can learn if given the opportunity, and at BrightFish, their solutions are all about providing those opportunities in the classroom and beyond.

BoardSpace is software specifically designed for the boards of directors and managers of condos, coops, non-profits and small business.
 
BoardSpace makes record keeping a board priority without the headache of doing it alone. BoardSpace streamlines administrative tasks such as preparing minutes, tracking of assigned tasks, and securely stores records so they can be easily found. Stakeholders have 24/7 online access to the complete, searchable history of the corporation’s activities and documents. This partnership provides a win-win solution to the challenges of managing a board and implementing best practices in governance.

#HappinessHabits613 is an initiative started in Ottawa to build community and intentionally cultivate happiness.

Through awareness, education, and connection the group inspires and teaches people to realize and embrace the belief, the fact, that they can intentionally cultivate happiness, through daily practices based on core principles of happiness. These principles include creating meaningful experiences/purpose, gratitude, movement, meditation/mindfulness, nature, simplicity, nutrition, altruism, and social investment (community).