Payal is a practicing family physician at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto . She is also an Innovation fellow at the Women’s College Institute for Virtual Care and Health Systems Solutions.  Hew work looks at how emerging technologies both improve the delivery of health care for ambulatory and complex patients. She has also worked with technology vendors and clinical partners to develop new models of virtual care by adapting successful approaches from the tech, design and start-up world. She is also a consultant for several health care start-ups on product design and usability.

Pavan is an experienced Business Technologist with expertise in technology delivery, solution and enterprise architecture and strategy development. He has experience in a wide range of disciplines, including project management, business analysis, technical implementation and agile leadership across both product based and professional services organizations.
In the recent past his focus has been on service delivery in the areas of microservices and platform architecture, enterprise integration including API design and management, DevOps toolsets and Enterprise and Solution Architecture development across application, integration, data and infrastructure domains. He is an experienced Management Consultant with strong core skills in problem definition and structuring, business writing as well as executive presentation development and delivery.
He has prior experience in the design and development of embedded products in automotive & television multimedia domains. Pavan is a results oriented professional with a successful track record of delivering strong outcomes working in different cultural contexts across India, Germany, Canada, USA and Australia. He holds a Bachelors in Electronics & Communication Engineering from India and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

As futurist and an innovator, Nico’s expertise and passion for innovation and experimentation effectively materializes the art of the possible into tangible business value.
He holds unique expertise in the fields of Innovation Strategy, Design Thinking, User Experience and Agile Delivery.
With over 12 years of professional experience, Nico has been a manager, subject matter expert, lead developer and technology advisor in multiple organizations across public and private sector.
He is an Agile Coach, an Immersive Realities (AR/VR) enthusiast and an avid digital media creator.

Negar is an experienced strategy and marketing professional with a strong track record of transforming data into actionable insights and achieving extraordinary results. Her strong background in analytics from my engineering background has enabled me to redefine use of data in a variety of industries and develop new methodologies.
She graduated from the Rotman School of Business which is the top MBA program in Canada with a focus in strategy, entrepreneurship and consulting. During her MBA, she also assisted in delivery of a number of courses in marketing and operations to both undergraduate and graduate students.
In her last role, she managed all aspects of the Esso Extra loyalty program including strategy, execution, marketing and analytics. In that role, she analyzed customer’s interactions with our programs and devised plans to increase their engagement either through innovative marketing campaigns or state of the art technology investments. She also led a team of analytics professionals who redefined the depth of customer intelligence in a loyalty program.
She is constantly trying to learn, whether it is from industry SMEs in loyalty and marketing or online certificates in novel analytics methodologies. She looks for opportunities to challenge herself and grow.

Mike Silagadze is the founder of Top Hat, an education software company based in Toronto. Top Hat is changing the way classroom instruction is done on a mass scale. Prior to Top Hat Mike was an early employee at Miovision Technologies in Waterloo. Mike is a graduate of the University of Waterloo in electrical engineering.

As a fractional finance leader, Mark provides early stage companies with the expertise and flexibility to build a capable finance team. He draw on experiences working with both high growth entities and large multinational companies. As a finance leader, Mark collaborate with executive leadership to operationalize and maximize the value of a significant capital raise. Where finance leadership is already in place, he teams with management on a project basis to empower financial systems and reporting. This may include utilizing and integrating NetSuite to meet the demands of new investors and growing organizations.

Innovative, self-driven and results-oriented business leader with extensive and challenging experience in developing, selling and managing new business opportunities. Strong visionary, team leadership, interpersonal and motivational skills combined with a positive approach to tackle ground-breaking business and technology initiatives. Solid record of demonstrated results through skillful selling of value propositions, with direct impact to bottom-line results.

From 2014 to 2018, Leila served as the Vice President, U.S., for Medicaroid Inc., where she led the global market entry for a surgical robotics joint venture between two publicly traded Japanese companies—Kawasaki (robotics) and Sysmex (medical device). Among her achievements is the establishment of a U.S. office, the recruitment and management of a high-performing team, creation of a world-class Clinical Board of Advisors (e.g., from Stanford, Harvard), and steady executive leadership through production-related constraints focused on voice of the customer.
In 2007, Leila was recruited into a lead R&D role for Boston Scientific’s Neurovascular business. By 2011, she had been promoted to Senior Global Product Manager for the Access stroke-care franchise. Through these years, she was a member of leadership teams that played a vital role in the multimillion-dollar growth of the division.

Karen’s has a real knack for taking founder’s big visionary goals under-pining realistic business strategies that are commensurate with the stage of the company.  She primarily helps clients go from technology through product and early market validation.  And while these phases are fraught with risk, what’s really tough is managing the people along the way.

As an innovator and catalyst for change, João designs unconventional solutions, both technical and in business practices, for clients in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. A strategic thinker, he is seeking a growth opportunity to develop and implement, future-proof workflow processes for leading global enterprises.
His key accomplishments include:
• Accelerated completion of the renovation of a three-story building by 3 months, in downtown Toronto
• Bolstered client satisfaction and loyalty by 100%, through the design and consultation on a revamped client relationship strategy with senior management
• Constructed additional revenue stream potential, adding value and competitive advantage, by conceiving a perks and discounts marketing strategy for an online property management platform, with high commendation from the CEO
• Improved efficiency of safety verification process by 50% and reduced design task time by 20%, as a result of developing new software feature sets