Talent to Talent Conference 2022
Get in TouchCSEI hosted the 2017 Talent to Talent conference at Ryerson University on Nov 16.
25+ Inspiring Speakers from Tech Leader and Investors
This conference is a bridge between students, entrepreneurs, industry experts, successful start-ups, scientists, government funding agencies, venture capitalists and experts from Silicon Valley. The goal of this conference is to empower the sharing of talents and ideas between professionals and aspiring entrepreneurs. This conference will allow attendees to use their talents to learn how to solve real-world problems and find opportunities to build a successful future for their business.
Previous Speakers

DR. RAFIK LOUTFY
Former Director of CEIE at Ryerson University, Executive Director of Canadian Society for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

NASIM SEIFI
CEO & President at Canadian Society for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

SARMAD IBRAHIM
Senior Technology Evangelist IBM Cloud / Watson Al / ML Block Chain IBM Canada

MICHEAL PARSA
Member, Standing Committee on Public Accounts Parliamentary Assistant to the President of the Treasury Board

ISI CAULDAR
Patent and Trademark Lawyer with Bereskin & Parr, LLP

JOHN JACKSON
Deputy Director of NSERC Ontario Region

DAVID BOWDEN
Senior Business Advisor in the MaRS Discovery District Clean Tech

DR. NICOLA URBANI
Principal of CIC Capital, Venture Capitalist<br />

CHRIS LIPP
Mentor at German Accelerator ; Top pitch coaches; Silicon Valley; Author of The Start-Up Pitch; (USA)

PARIMAL NATHWANI
Vice-President, MaRS Innovation

SHANE FLYNN
Director of the Incubator Program at DMZ

DR. BRYAN D. KOIVISTO
Executive Director - Science Discovery Zone at Ryerson University (CAN)

IRENE YANG
Head of Business Development at BASF Canada (CAN)

DEVON FRANKLIN
Project Manager, Magnet Export Business Portal & Hire Immigrants, Ryerson University

NICK REID
Executive Director of Ryerson Urban Water (RUW)

ALLEN MARK
Vice President & Portfolio Manager RBC Wealth Managment

LESLIE BONE
Business Development Specialist at Mitacs

MANPREET KAUR
Founder & CEO at WISE TREE INSPIRATIONS

DR ANDREW SINCLAIR
Former Regional Manager of the Ontario Office at NSERC (CAN)

MR. SEAN CONWAY
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University

DR. EMAD NASRALLAH
Professor, teaching in Cestar college – Lambton college in Toronto.

REBECCA TRAN
Business Development Manager at Ontario Center of Excellence

DR. USHA SRINIVASAN
Vice-President of Talent and Venture program at MaRS Discovery District

DR. TAREK SADEK
Director of Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship FEAS, Ryerson University

ADITYA PAI
Genomics Global Sales leader with IBM Watson Health

DR AMIR AZHARI
President of AOMS Technologies

DR SAEID BABAEI
President and CEO at AbCelex Technologies

RENETA JOHANSON
Founder I CEO Inttradia Inc

RANDALL S. BECKER
Speaker, author, and CEO of Nexbridge Inc

DR. ANDREW PASTERNAK
Director commercialization & Business Development Green centre Canada

DR. CHERYL GIBLON
Industry Engagement Manager, Innovation York, Office of Research Services at York University (CAN)

DR DAN MCGILLIVRAY
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering & Architectural Science, Ryerson University

KATIE ROBINSON
Regional Manager of Business Markets at RBC

DONALD STEINY
Member of Venture Capital; Visiting Scholar at Stanford University<br /> (USA)

AMAR NIJJAR
Founder & CEO of R2<br /> (CAN)

P. SIVARAJ
Regional Director, Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME) (CAN)

AMIN NIKDEL
CEO of InteliStop; Co-founder of SharpScholar; IoT Solution Entrepreneur (CAN)

DR TIBOR TURI
Regional Director of Business Development at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (CAN)

NEIL PADGETT
Intellectual Property Lawyer with Rowand, LLP (CAN)

KAZIM AGHA
Partner and patent agent at Ridout & Maybee LLP (CAN)

RAJ LAL
Head of Igniters Group at Stanford University; CEO of ProUXReview Silicon Valley (USA)

KUMAR ERRAMILLI
CTO of ACTO App

HASSAN SEYD
CEO of Birventure Incubator; Founder of idea Gist (USA)

MURALI MURTHY
Business Branding Coach:the Author of the Canadian Best-selling

SHATHA QAQISH-CLAVERING
Business Development Lead, Xerox Research Centre of Canada (CAN)

OLGA BUCHONINA
Founder and CEO of ActionSpot at Silicon Valley (USA)

RON GLOZMAN
CEO of Knote.me