IEFA Global Forum 2019 - Toronto | International Economic Forum of the Americas | 4 September 2019 | Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5J 1E3, Canada

The Toronto Global Forum is an international conference fostering dialogue on national and global issues. It is held under the auspices of the International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA). The IEFA organizes annual summits bringing together heads of states, central bank governors, ministers and global economic decision makers. The Forum also offers exclusive opportunities for business meetings aimed at promoting partnerships among major Canadian and international corporations.

2019 Speakers

Kerry Adler
President and Chief Executive Officer, SkyPower

Giadha Aguirre de Carcer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, New Frontier Data

Aharon Aharon
Chief Executive Officer, Israel Innovation Authority

Ido Aharoni
Global Distinguished Professor, School of International Relations, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University (NYU)

Luis Almagro Lemes
Secretary General, Organization of American States (OAS)

Louis Audet
Executive Chairman of the Board, Cogeco and Cogeco Communications

Dan Barclay
Chief Executive Officer and Group Head, BMO Capital Markets

Martin Baron
Executive Editor, The Washington Post

Dominic Barton
Global Managing Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company

Perrin Beatty
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Canadian Chamber of Commerce

John Beck
Founder and Executive Chairman, Aecon; and Chairman of the Advisory Board, Toronto Global Forum

Jean-Christophe Bédos
President and Chief Executive Officer, Birks

Yoshua Bengio
Scientific Director, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA); and Professor, Université de Montréal and 2018 Turing Award Co-Laureate

Marla Blow
Chief Executive Officer, FSCard

Carl Boutet
Chief Strategist, Studio RX

Richard Bradley
Editor in Chief, Worth

Diane Brady
Journalist and Author; and Founder dB Omnimedia

Paul Browning
Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas

Franck Bruel
Executive Vice President, supervising UK, LATAM (Latin America) and NORAM (US, Canada) Business Units, ENGIE

Ming-Po Cai
Founder and President, Cathay Capital

Steve Cannon
President and Chief Executive Officer, AMB Group

Binod K. Chaudhary
Chairman, CG Corp Global

Kimberly Churches
Chief Executive Officer, AAUW

Wendy Clark
Chief Executive Officer, DDB Worldwide

Zita Cobb
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Shorefast Foundation

Guy Cormier
President and Chief Executive Officer, Desjardins Group

Piers Cumberlege
Chair, Straightview

Gabriel Curtis
Minister of Investments and Public-Private Partnerships, Guinea

Janet De Silva
President and Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBOT)

Melissa Dickerson
Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director, Operations, Genstar Capital

James L. Dinkins
President, Coca-Cola North America

Jerry Dixon
Chief Information Security Officer, CrowdStrike

Bart Édes
Representative of the North American Office, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Rami El-Cheikh
Partner, Deal Strategy and Value Creation, PwC

Hicham El Habti
Secretary General, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University; and Deputy Secretary General, OCP

Jaime Ellertson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Everbridge

John Erlichman
Anchor, BNN Bloomberg

Nicola Farinetti
Chief Executive Officer, Eataly North America

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild
Chief Executive Officer, E.L. Rothschild LLC; and Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism

Michael Friisdahl
President and Chief Executive Officer, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE)

Tom Gann
Chief Public Policy Officer, McAfee

Daniel S. Goldin
Founder, Cold Canyon AI; and 9th Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Tom Goodman
Director, International Cybersecurity, Raytheon

Roy Gori
President and Chief Executive Officer, Manulife

Ryan Grant Little
Co-Founder, CanadaHelps

Brendan Greeley
US Editor, FT Alphaville

Katherine Hamilton
Chair, 38 North Solutions

Benjamin Harburg
Managing Partner, MSA Capital

Linda Hasenfratz
Chief Executive Officer, Linamar

Geoffrey Hinton
Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute; Vice President and Engineering Fellow, Google; and Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto and 2018 Turing Award Co-Laureate

Frank L. Holder
Managing Director and Head of Latin America, Berkeley Research Group (BRG)

Jeff Howell
President, Panasonic Industrial Devices Sales Company of America, Panasonic Corporation of North America

Werner Hoyer
President, European Investment Bank (EIB)

Steve Hudson
Chief Executive Officer, ECN Capital

Goldy Hyder
President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada

Saïd Ibrahimi
Chief Executive Officer, Casablanca Finance City Authority

Rustam Issatayev
Chairman of the Committee for Investments, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kazakhstan

Brent Johnson
Chief Executive Officer, Hoban Law Group

Denise C. Johnson
Group President Resource Industries, Caterpillar

Tyson Johnson
Chief Operating Officer, CyberNB

Robert S. Kaplan
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Raj Kapoor
Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Business, Self Driving, Lyft

Tadeusz Kościński
Undersecretary for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Poland

Tolga Kurtoglu
Chief Executive Officer, PARC, A Xerox Company

Mathieu Labrèche
Director Media Strategy, Canadian Bankers Association (CAB)

Mairead Lavery
President and Chief Executive Officer, Export Development Canada (EDC)

Stephen Lecce
Minister of Education, Ontario

Rob Lee
Chief Executive Officer, Dragos, Inc.

Chris Levesque
President and Chief Executive Officer, TerraPower

Paul Lightfoot
Founder and CEO, BrightFarms

Kris Lovejoy
Global Cybersecurity Leader, EY

Nicolas Mackel
Chief Executive Officer, Luxembourg for Finance

José Luis Manzano
President, Integra Capital

Nikolaj Martyniuk
Chief Executive Officer, WePower

Joy McBrien
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fair Anita

Corey McCarthy
Vice President, Marketing, Beekeeper

Shawn McCarthy
National Business Correspondent, The Globe and Mail

Stephen Megyery
Partner, Greentech Capital Advisors

Steve Morriss
Group President, Design and Consulting Services, Americas, AECOM

Pierre Moscovici
Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, European Commission

Tipu Munshi
Minister of Commerce, Bangladesh

Amit Narayan
Chief Executive Officer, AutoGrid

Mikki Nasch
Co-founder and Head of Business Development, Evidation Health, Inc.

Susan Nickey
Managing Director, Hannon Armstrong

Matthew Nordgren
Chief Executive Officer, Arcadian Fund

Allan O’Dette
Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Medical Association (OMA)

Ray O’Farrell
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, VMWare

Liz O’Neill
President, Product, Innovation and Supply Chain, Levi Strauss & Co.

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Paul Parisi
President, Canada, PayPal

Neil Parmenter
President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Bankers Association (CBA)

Emily Paxhia
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Poseidon Asset Management

Zach Pendley
Partner and Leader, Real Estate Transactions, EY

Tara Pham
Chief Executive Officer, Numina

Mary Powell
President and Chief Executive Officer, Green Mountain Power (GMP)

Dan Price
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gravity Payments

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
Leader, Climate and Energy Practice, WWF International

Gary Rabbior
President, Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE)

Costin Raiu
Director, Global Research and Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab

Edi Rama
Prime Minister of Albania

Kimberly A. Reed
President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank)

Heather Reisman
Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Indigo

Gil Rémillard
Founding Chairman, International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA)

Nicholas Rémillard
President and Chief Executive Officer, International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA)

Jennifer Reynolds
Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Financial International (TFI)

Leni Robredo
Vice President of the Philippines

Martin Rodriguez
Executive Director, Instituto de Regulación y Control del Cannabis (IRCCA)

Craig Ryan
Director, Social Entrepreneurship, BDC

Anthony Scaramucci
Founder and Co-Managing Partner, Skybridge Capital

Rodney Schwartz
Chief Executive Officer, ClearlySo

Santiago Seage
Chief Executive Officer, Atlantica Yield

Ian Siegel
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ZipRecruiter

Gregory J. Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer, InstarAGF Asset Management

Katie Bomi Son
Global Chief Executive Officer, QARA

Andrea Stairs
General Manager, Canada & Latin America, eBay

Jeffrey Steiner
Founder and Owner, New Franchise Media

Doug Stephens
Founder, Retail Prophet

Ron Stokes
Partner, National Financial Services Fintech & Transactions Leader, EY

Syed Omar Sharifuddin bin Syed Ikhsan
Secretary General, Ministry of Works, Malaysia

Keith Taylor
Executive Director, DUCA Impact Lab

John Tory
Mayor of Toronto

Maryann Turcke
Chief Operating Officer, National Football League

Douglas E. Turnbull
Vice-Chairman and Country Head, Canada, DBRS

Vitas Vasiliauskas
Chairman of the Board, Bank of Lithuania

Christopher A. Viehbacher
Managing Partner, Gurnet Point Capital

Maribel Perez Wadsworth
President, USA TODAY Network, and Publisher, USA TODAY

Darryl White
Chief Executive Officer, BMO Financial Group

Geoffrey A. Wilson
President and Chief Executive Officer, PortsToronto

Yung Wu
Chief Executive Officer, MaRS

2019 Partners

PRESENTING PARTNER:
• Cogeco

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• Aegon
• DBRS
• Toronto

GOLD PARTNERS:
• engie
• Liuna
• BMO
• Skypower
• ECN Capital
• New Frontier data
• Gardaworld
• EY

SILVER PARTNERS:
• bdc
• BNP Paribas
• CFEE
• TD
• OMA
• New York Life
• BrucePower

OFFICIAL AIRLINE:
• Air Canada

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• Instaragf
• Ports Toronto
• Desjardins
• mccarthy tetrault
• OpportunitiesNB
• Association Des Banquires Canadiens
• Invest Hamilton Niagara
• Toronto Region Board of trade
• OntarioTech University
• JP Morgan Chase & Co.
• Cummins
• Toronto Finance International
• Quebec
• Global
• Via Rail Canada
• Miami Dade College
• Florida Realtors

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS:
• Ontario

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Financial Times
• FDI
• The Globe and mail
• Worth
• thebusinessyear
• iEAFA

INSTITUTIONAL & KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS:
• MIA
• PEI