Inventures 2022 | Inventures Canada | 1 June 2022 | CALGARY TELUS CONVENTION CENTRE, 136 8 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G OK6

Who is this event about?
• Investors
Inventures gathers innovators, startups and scale-ready enterprise seeking partners, advisors and capital. It’s a one-stop opportunity to gauge fast-growing players through pitch competitions and discover investment gems across the entrepreneurial landscape.

• Entrepreneurs
Inventures gives you access to investors, thought leaders and fellow entrepreneurs through keynotes, panels, pitch events and informal networking opportunities.

• Researchers, Academics & Thought Leaders
Inventures provides multiple programming streams for discovery, sharing and deeper learning in emerging and transforming industries.

• Business, investment and Professional Services Providers
Inventures showcases solutions for the startup, scale and spread of knowledge and networks that tap into, feed and grow an ever-fresh global innovation system

2022 Speakers

Kristina Milke
Partner, Sprout.vc

Akhil Abat
Vp - Technology Strategy and Delivery, Ngif Capital Corporation

Shanika Abeysinghe
Advisor, Platform Calgary

Helena Acheson
Managing Partner, C3 Solutions

Lee Ackerman
Director & Principal Catalyst, Sait

Wilson Acton
Managing Partner, Tall Grass Ventures

Monika Adams
Owner -social Media Marketing Strategist, Monika Social

Jade Alberts
Founder, Peer Guidance

Francisco Alhanati
Managing Director, C-fer Technologies (1999) Inc.

Saeed Amidi
Ceo/executive Producer, Plug and Play

Camille Aragon
Creative + Wellness Entrepreneur, Camille Aragon

Jocelyn Arem
Ceo/executive Producer, Arbo Radiko

Cassidy Arkin
Producer for Broadcast Television, Freelance Tv Producer

Stephanie Arrowsmith
Regional Lead (Asia-pacific), Impact Hub

Soheil Asgarpour
President & Ceo, Ptac

Ash Esmaeili
Co-founder & Ceo, Aimsio

Ismail Attitalla
Founder & Ceo, Aircrew Express

Shaun Ausenhus
Proof of Work Mining Operations, Luxor Technologies

Tzipi Avioz
Evp Customer Success, Mirakl

Sanah Baig
Chief of Staff for Research, Education and Economics, Usda

Ginna Baik
Sr Tech Business Development Manager, Alexa Smart Properties, Senior Living Lead, Amazon

Stephanie Bailey
Regional Director, Alberta, Foresight Canada

Joban Bal
Angel Investor & Advisor, Startuptnt & Halohealth, Md Candidate @ Ubc

Paul Barclay
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary

Douglas Beach
Associate, Creative Destruction Lab

Brenda Beckerdorf
Executive Director, Alberta Iot Association Ltd

Isaac Ben Israel
Chairman, Israel Space Agency

Dr, Sarabeth Berk
Founder & Chief Creative Disruptor, More Than My Title

Dr, Trasha Black
Clinical Director, Genesis Projec

Paolo Bomben
Senior Manager - Clean Technology Development, Alberta Innovates

Martin Brault
Ceo and Co-founder, Inno-3b & Konsultech

Kate Brodock
General Partner & Ceo, W Fund & Switch

Sabina Bruehlmann
Ceo, Nimble Science

Caitlin Reimers Brumme
Acting Ceo, Masschallenge

Heather Campbell
Executive Director, Clean Technology, Alberta Innovates

Heather Campbell
Executive Director, Clean Technology, Alberta Innovates

John Cassidy
Managing Director, Canada, Svg Ventures|thrive

Callie Chamberlain
Director, Social Responsibility, Optum

Bec Chapin
Ceo , Green Canopy Node

Josh Chapman
Svp, Services, Hunt Club

Priscilla Chaves
Founder & Ceo, 10x Impact

Debnil Chowdhury
Vice President, Head of Americas Refining, Ihsmarkit

Dr. Bonnie Clipper
Founder & President, Innovation Advantage

Alex Cohen
Chief Operating Officer, the Terminal by Urvin Finance

Dr. Elizabeth Coker-farrell
Director, Natural Resources Centre, Concordia University of Edmonton

Henry Crews
Executive Director, Green Rural Redevelopment Organization Grro

Ardis Crews
Organic Farmer & Director of Operations, Green Rural Redevelopment Organization (Grro)

Charlton Cunningham
Accelerator Program Manager, Higher Ground Labs

Marie D’lorio
President, Nano Canada

Keri Damen
Executive Director, Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking, University of Calgary

Anna Dausman
Program Manager, Center for Social Impact Strategy, University of Pennsylvania

Sally Dawoud
Executive Advisor, Ngen Sustainability

Deanna Brown
Managing Director, Pmc

Crystal Decnodder
Vp Digital Marketing, Full Blast Creative

Chris Denson
Host / Advisor, Crush Industries

Jason Ding
Chief Business Officer, Entos Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Arnold Drung
President & Ceo, Conestoga Meats

Jana Eggers
Ceo , Nara Logics

Craig Elias
Entrepreneur-in-residence, Bow Valley College

Chinedu Enekwe
General Partner & Founder, Passbook Ventures

Chris Engst
Managing Director, Telus Health

Janet Ervin
Chief Marketing Officer, Next Stage

Sophia Fairweather
Founder\creator, Key-angels

Dr Jokho Farah
Qi Healthcare Consultant, Cuhcc

Miki Feldman Simon
Executive Coach, Iambackatwork.com

Eleanor Felton
Marketing Fellow, Rising Solutions

Alec Fischer
Founder / Owner / Director, Fischr Media

Alfred Fischer
Senior Advisor and Director, Wapahki Transport Inc (Wti)

Scott Ford
Cofounder & Coo, Climax Ventures

Ian D. Gates
Professor, Solideum Inc. / University of Calgary

Anastasiya Giarletta
Principal, R42 Group

Andrew Goldner
Founding Partner & Ceo, Growthx

Gregory Goodman, M.d.
Medical Director, Maribel Health

Christine Goudie
Co-founder + Ceo, Granville Biomedical Inc.

Danielle Graham
Managing Partner, Archangel Network of Funds

Dr. Sarah E. Gray
Chief Nursing Officer, Sigma Theta Tau International

Ryan Greir
Manager, Mobile Fleet Services, Enmax Corporation

Bryan Hall
Founder, Brh

Martha Hall Findlay
Chief Climate Officer, Suncor

Gordon Harling
President and Ceo, Cmc Microsystems

John Hartnett
Founder & Ceo, Svg Ventures|thrive

Scott Harrison

Greg Hart
Founding Partner, Thin Air Labs

Jasmine Hathaway
Founder & Ceo, Compass Coordinators

Mary Haynes
Ceo and President, Nazareth Home, Inc

Sean Hazaray
Ceo & Co-founder, Haze Automotive

Janet Hemingway
Founding Director, Iicon

Zsakeba Henderson
Svp, Interim Chief Medical & Health Officer, March of Dimes

Simon Hesp
Professor, Queen's University

Tom Higley
Ceo, X Genesis

Carol Anne Hilton
Founder and Ceo, Indigenomics Institute

Mike Hrabowiecky
Specialist, Enbridge Inc. - Technology + Innovation Lab

Hermes Huang
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Insightpact

Maggie Hubbell
Coo & Aml Compliance Ninja, Shift Bias

Hubert Lau
President, Trustbix Inc.

Joyce Hunter
Executive Director, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (Icit)

Clyde Hutchison
Partner, Team Abc

Andrew Hyde
Chairman, Glider

Ibrahim Gedeon
Chief Technology Officer, Telus

Chris Israelson
Industry Representative, Flokk

Jeanette Jackson
Ceo , Foresight

Sam Jenkins
Ceo & Co-founder, Punchcard Systems

Jeremy Jensen
Founder & Ceo, Crux Academy

Michael Jensen
Gm, Regional Infrastructure & Integration, Suncor Energy

Starr Jiang
Product Designer, Hopelab

Wes Jickling
Chief Executive Officer, Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance

Bonnie Kaplan
Professor Emerita, University of Calgary

Shabnam Das Kar
Functional Medicine Doctor, Metabolic Dietary Solutions (Mds) Program

Bindi Karia
Founder, Bindi Ventures

Phil Kaye
Program Director, National Research Council Canada

Ken Keelor
Chief Executive Officer (Ceo), Calgary Co-op

Neil Keown
Founder & President, Sawback Technologies Inc.

Michael Kerr
Director - Regional Innovation, Alberta Innovates

Zuhirah Khaldun-diarra
Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Brand, Jumpstart for Children

Laura Kilcrease
Chief Executive Officer, Alberta Innovates

Damon King
Facilitator, Creative Strategist, Human-centered Designer, Ceo Action for Racial Equity

Kevin Krausert
Ceo & Co-founder, Avatar Innovations

Charles Nana Kwarteng
Founder & Ceo, Regener8

Devin Laforce
Superintendent, Edmonton Police Service

Andy Lantz
Creative Director and Partner, Rios

Jay Latta
Fusionist, Stint -strategic Intelligence for New Technologies

Dave Lauer
Ceo, Urvin Finance Inc

Didier Lavallee
Ceo, Tetra Trust Company

David Layzell
Energy Systems Architect, the Transition Accelerator

Udi Lazimy
Global Head of Sustainability and Sourcing, Eat Just Inc

Dr. Robyn Leary
Managing Partner, Stentorian Ventures

Dr Mingu Lee
Managing Partner, Cleveland Avenue Technology Investments

Ethy Levy
Fund Manager, Kinneret Impact Ventures

Kerty Levy
Managing Director, Iowa, Techstars

Joseph Lewis
Program Manager, Equitable

Lloyed Lobo
Cofounder, Boast.ai

Wayne Logan
Partner; Leader New Tech, Miller Thomson Llp

Patrick Lor
Partner, Panache Ventures

Diana Lote
Founder & Executive Producer, Common Thread Entertainment

Anita Ludwar
Director of Special Projects & Innovation, Index Biosystems

Christine Lum Lung, Md, Mba
Co-founder/ceo, Origin Healthcare

Ricky Marton
Project Manager, Rising Solutions

Ashif Mawji
Managing Director, Scalegood Fund

Chris Mccarthy
(Former) Vp, Strategy & Design, Hopelab

Melanie Mcclare
Principal, Gaze Consulting Inc.

John Mcdougall
Ceo, Bio-conversion Databank Foundation

Pam Mcintyre
Senior Vice-president, Safety, Risk Management and Innovation, Canadian Natural Resources Limited

Steve Mcmahon
Coo & Aml Compliance Ninja, Innotech Alberta

Janay Meisser
Director, Innovation, Ufa Co-operative Limited

Felipe Mendez
Latam Communications Analyst, Skillab Training & Gamification

Michael Olmstead
Cro and Partner , Plug and Play

Dr. Sandra Miles
Founder/ceo, Dsm Initiatives, Llc

Mitch Jacobsen
Ceo, Rviita Inc

Neal Mody
Managing Director, Zoic Capital

Janine Moir
National Digital Assurance Leader, Deloitte

Lisa Mueller
President & Ceo, Futera Power

Anamika Mukherjee
Director of Innovation Gateway, Cenovus Energy

Apala Mukherjee
President, Basf Canada

Tim Murphy
Vp Health, Alberta Innovates

Wamite Muthara
Founder , Career Safari

Dr. Ray Muzyka
Ceo, Thresholdimpact

Dale Nally
Alberta Associate Minister of Natural Gas and Electricity, Government of Alberta

Vithu Namasivayam
Director of Product, Numarket

Neeraj Gupta
Chief Strategy Officer, Attabotics Inc

Dr. P.k. Newby
Ceo and Founder, Food Matters Media, Llc

Ha Nguyen
Vice President, Mcrock Capital

Ikechi Nwabuisi
Ceo/founder, Tribl Inc

Connor O’shea
Ceo, Westgen Technologies Inc

Onyeka Obiocha
Executive Director, Ctnext

Mark Olson
President & Ceo, Flokk Systems Inc.

Marla Orenstein
Director, Natural Resources Centre, Canada West Foundation

Sue Paish
Ceo , Digital Technology Supercluster

Pam Didner
Vp of Marketing, Relentless Pursuit, Llc

Matt Parker
Executive Vp, Innovation & Technology, Helpseeker Technologies

Priya Parker

Nick Parker
Chair, Parker Venture

Rohit Patel
Associate Vice President & Lead - Data Science and Quantum Computing, Mphasis Limited

Corlena Patterson
Executive Directors, Canadian Sheep Federation

Dr. Michael Petersen
Clinical Transformation Physician Lead, Pwc

Crystal Phillips
Health Lead and Community Manager, Thin Air Labs

Ivan Prado
Executive Director for Innovation, Skillab Training & Gamification

Bre Przestzelski
Learning Experience Designer | Human, Projekt Consulting | Stanford University | Ideo U

Jason Puracal
Ceo and President, Zila Works

Dr. Darius Remesat
Manager Production Process Technology, Suncor

Omari Richins
Program Officer, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust

Peter Riddles
Founder & Ceo, Synergie Global
Michelle Risinger
Founder and Principal, Rising Solutions

Paul Roales
Software Engineer

Trishonda Roberson
Executive Director, the Reach Center

Dr. Terry Rock
President & Ceo, Platform Calgary

Joy Romero
Executive Director for Innovation, Canadian Natural

Sheri Rose
Ceo , Thrive Center, Inc.

Daniel Ross
Ceo, Daisa Enterprises, Llc.

Kaveh Sadeghian
Director, Course Strategy, 2u, Inc.

Seth Saeugling
Co-founder + Ceo, Rural Opportunity Institute (Roi)

Robert Saik
Ceo | Founder, Agvisorpro Inc.

Jessica Sandhu
Coach, Jessica Sandhu Wellness

Charlene Sanjenko
Founder & Indigenous Impact Producer, Regen Media

Natan Santana
Gamification Consultant, Skillab Training & Gamification

Remi Schmaltz
General Partner & Founder, Koan Capital

Dr. Lauren Schmeisser
Senior Associate & Data Scientist, Rmi\

Jill Schnarr
Chief Social Innovation and Communications Officer, Telus

Karen Schuett
Co-founder | Ceo, Livestock Water Recycling

Bailey Schwarz
Director, North America Projects, Eavor Technologies Inc.

Sean Thompson
Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production, Olds College

Aliza Seebe
Principal, Crowe

Jillian Semaan
Vice President, Sustainability, Ketchum

Tali Sharot

Zoya Shchupak
Managing Partner, Innovobot

Yuan Shi
Principal, The51 Food and Agtech Fund

Katherine Shierman
Customer Experience Sales, Shierman Consulting

Chris Shipley
Partner, Cr Strategy Partners

Khurram Shroff
Ceo, Imining Technologies

Noel Simpson
Co-founder, Ehs Analytics

Prateeksha Singh
Design Researcher, Innovation Consultant - Undp, Mpathy Consulting

Apoorv Sinha
Ceo, Carbon Upcycling Technologies

Darlene Slaughter
Chief Diversity and Engagement Officer, March of Dimes Foundation

Janelle Smiley
Owner - Social Media, Blu Square

Cowboy Smithx
Curator, Nexusverse Yyc

Dr. Anne Snowdon
Professor, Odette Business School

Pascal St-jean
President, 3iq

James Stauch
Director, Institute for Community Prosperity, Mount Royal University

Steve Macdonald
Ceo, Emissions Reduction Alberta

Iain Stewart
President, National Research Council of Canada

Ivo Stivoric
Vice President, X the Moonshot Factory

Arlene Strom
Chief Sustainability Officer and General Counsel, Suncor

Gwynn Sturdevant
Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School

Greg Hedgepeth
President & Ceo, Substantial Media Llc

Himanshu Sudan
, Ecamion Inc.

Paul Sullivan
Mentor, Venture Mentoring Service of Alberta

Alison Sunstrum
Ceo/general Partner, Cnsrv-x Inc./the51

David Sweeney
Executive Chair, Research England

Nuzhat Tam-zaman
Co-founder and Vp, Sinoveda Canada Inc.

Alison Thompson
Ceo , Borealis Geopower

Haley Thomson
Ceo, Imperium Digital

Justin Tindall
Director, Program & Operations, It Gets Better Project

Denisse Tiznado
Clinical Psychologist, Projekt Consulting

Hussam Tungekar
Team Lead- Alberta, Futurpreneur Canada

Alina Turner
Co-president, Helpseeker Technologies

Jessica Vandenberghe
Assistant Dean, Engineering Community and Culture, University of Alberta, Faculty of Engineering

Ebrahim Varachia
President & Co-founder, Patronicity

Dr. Shawn Watson
, Senescence Life Sciences

Dr. Dan Weberg
Vice President, Nursing Transformation, Simovative Solutions Llc

Wendy Morgan
Ceo , Shift Bias

Brenton Weyi
Creator, Renaissance Mind

Vanessa White
Director, Renewable and Alternative Energy, Alberta Innovates

Drew Williams
Founder , Sales Playbook Builder

Kylie Woods
Founder & Executive Director, Chic Geek

Dr. Orly Yadid-pecht
Professor, Univ of Calgary

Katy Yam
Partner & General Manager, Real Ventures/founderfuel

Jilliane Yawney
Vocal Empowerment Consultant and Coach, Jilliane Yawney Coaching and Consulting

Keyana Yeatman
Co-founder & Ceo, Aisight

Verna Yiu
Former President and Ceo, Alberta Health Services

Paul Yoo
Cfo, 500 Global

Swathi Young
Cto, Technotch Solutions

Dennis Yu
Ceo and President, Blitzmetrics Co.

Dr. Haitao Yu
Lead, R&d, Landmark Group

Hamid Zaman
General Supervisor, City of Edmonton

Kirk Zembal
Co-founder, Blindman Brewing

2022 Sponsors

• Prairies Economic Development Canada
• Servus Credit Union
• Calgary Economic Development
• Emissions Reduction Alberta
• NGIF Cleantech Ventures
• Economic Developers Alberta
• Innovate Edmonton
• Platform Calgary
• Bennett Jones