Meet Our Speakers 2017
Inverstors
DR. NICOLA URBANI
Principal of CIC Capital, Venture Capitalist<br />
DONALD STEINY
Member of Venture Capital; Visiting Scholar at Stanford University<br /> (USA)
AMAR NIJJAR
Founder & CEO of R2<br /> (CAN)
Government and Legal Experts
JASON CHERNIAK
Lawyer
DR TIBOR TURI
Regional Director of Business Development at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (CAN)
P. SIVARAJ
Regional Director, Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME) (CAN)
NEIL PADGETT
Intellectual Property Lawyer with Rowand, LLP (CAN)
DR ANDREW SINCLAIR
Regional Manager of the Ontario Office at NSERC (CAN)
KAZIM AGHA
Partner and patent agent at Ridout & Maybee LLP (CAN)
Incubators
TAREK SADEK
Director of Entrepreneurship Education Programs Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship FEAS, Ryerson University
DR. CHERYL GIBLON
Industry Engagement Manager, Innovation York, Office of Research Services at York University (CAN)
SHANE FLYNN
Startup Services Lead at DMZ (CAN)
RAJ LAL
Head of Igniters Group at Stanford University; CEO of ProUXReview Silicon Valley (USA)
DR. USHA SRINIVASAN
Vice-President of Talent and Venture program at MaRS Discovery District
HASSAN SEYD
CEO of Birventure Incubator; Founder of idea Gist (USA)
PROFESSOR RAFIK LOUTFY
Director - Centre for Engineering, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Ryerson University (CAN)
CHRIS LIPP
Mentor at German Accelerator ; Top pitch coaches; Silicon Valley; Author of The Start-Up Pitch; (USA)
DR. BRYAN D. KOIVISTO
Executive Director - Science Discovery Zone at Ryerson University (CAN)
OLGA BUCHONINA
Founder and CEO of ActionSpot at Silicon Valley (USA)
Industry and Startups
RON GLOZMAN
CEO of Knote.me
KUMAR ERRAMILLI
CTO of ACTO App
SHATHA QAQISH-CLAVERING
Business Development Lead, Xerox Research Centre of Canada (CAN)
AMIN NIKDEL
CEO of InteliStop; Co-founder of SharpScholar; IoT Solution Entrepreneur (CAN)
IRENE YANG
Head of Business Development at BASF Canada (CAN)
SARMAD IBRAHIM
Technology Evangelist IBM Cloud /Watson Al/ML Block Chain IBM Canada