Christian Schniering is a Media Technology Executive specializing in Sales Operations, Business Development, Acct. Management and Global Sales for Fortune500 companies in the Digital Media and Entertainment industry. As an expert in building global, divers, cross-functional teams and partnerships, Christian excels at taking a successful business unit or start-up to the next level. Part of founding teams of several start-ups, Christian grew the North American subsidiary of a German based company to multimillions in revenue in <6 years. He is known for bringing meaningful change to customers resulting in successful client relationships, winning proposals, and top/bottom-line business growth. Christian began his professional career working in Germany before moving to Montreal in 2009 and is currently based in Toronto with several assignments in North America and Europe. Early in his career, Christian directed technical product management and product implementation as part of a broad and deep foundation of experience that is informed by dual MBAs from the University of Toronto and University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He also graduated with a BSC in Software Engineering from Germany and is fluent in both German and English.
In his spare time, Christian serves as Member of the Board at the VRARA Toronto Chapter and Melanoma Network of Canada and advises and mentors young entrepreneurs and start-ups helping them grow and succeed within a global marketspace.

Kendrick is a patent agent specializing in advising technology companies on intellectual property (IP) strategy. He was previously a partner at a leading Canadian IP firm and recently served as a scientific advisor for a super angel investment fund. Kendrick holds engineering, law, and MBA degrees from the University of Toronto. He also recently completed a graduate degree at Harvard University where he studied data science and machine learning.

Saad founded Node Blockchain together with his partner in late 2017, a research and data firm focused on the blockchain space. The firm’s flagship product is fundamental based, data-driven research product offering reports on the blockchain space for a subscriber base of over 50 institutional investors. Their latest product Syndicat3, is an end-to-end collaboration workflow and network for broker-dealers for the syndication of private placement deals. Previously, Saad spent four years at Deloitte as an advisor to technology companies in Toronto working with founders from seed stage to acquisition or IPO.

William Moniz has a passion for bridging science and business. With a track record of working with science-based startups as a marketing lead and consultant, he is excited by the challenge that comes from marketing technology that improves lives. He has previously led teams to the final rounds of sustainability-focused case challenges and has taken a health technology hardware startup from lab to market. William currently works as a product manager for a medical technology company, in which he is responsible for commercializing new products in the Canadian market. William holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and a degree in biology from McMaster University

Rafal is a UofT EngSci alumni who has spent his entire post-university career on entrepreneurship. After graduating, he founded an edtech company whose language learning apps won multiple awards and resulted in over 10 million hours of learning from students around the world (…but also eventually imploded). He founded a SaaS fundraising company (…but sold it for scraps when he realized it wasn’t what he wanted for the world), and is currently focused on growing Bloom Ventures, a bootstrapped cooperative startup studio in Toronto that is trying to change the startup creation formula. He has substantial experience in software development, user-experience design and early-stage startup development.

Jeremy is an aerospace systems engineer, organizational leader, and entrepreneur with a knack for tech start-ups and R&D. Since 2014, he has worked on 10+ drone, rocket, satellite, and cloud GIS projects; founded 4 start-ups and departments; secured $42M in revenues and funding; and he and his teams have been recognized with some 40 Canadian and global awards for technical, business, and leadership excellence. Jeremy’s foray into aerospace dates back to high school, working as a research assistant on aircraft collision avoidance at York University. Jeremy has since held engineering, academic, project management, and executive roles at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, UN SGAC, and University of Toronto Aerospace Team. Currently, Jeremy is the President of The Sky Guys (one of the world’s top 20 UAV service providers), after serving as CTO for 3 years leading a team of engineers designing drone and software solutions for heavy industry and defence. In his spare time, Jeremy enjoys advising and speaking on tech, start-ups, and leadership, having appeared on TED, CBC, CTV, and GlobalNews. Jeremy holds a BASc in Engineering Science (Univ. of Toronto), and is pursuing an off-site MASc/PhD in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering (Univ. of Waterloo). Jeremy believes that anyone can lead, everyone must lead whether or not in a position of power, and the best leaders do so by example, expertise, and empathy.

Harpaul Sambhi is an entrepreneur and current angel investor. He bootstrapped his first business, Careerify, serving over 250,000 users globally at customers such as Microsoft, Deloitte, Unilever, Blizzard Activision, and SpaceX. Careerify achieved profitability within it’s 2nd year of business and was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015, marking LinkedIn’s first acquisition outside of the United States. Harpaul joined LinkedIn and rebuilt Careerify and oversaw LinkedIn’s HCM initiative, and led product development for LinkedIn’s partner ecosystem in the recruitment space. After LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft, Harpaul joined Microsoft’s Dynamics product team to build a best in class HR technology suite.
During his professional career, Harpaul has been fortunate to write a book, Social_HR, published by Carswell/Thomson-Reuters, analyzing the impact of social media on the HR Industry. This led to some very fortunate speaking opportunities across North America and Europe, and becoming a lecturer at the Kellogg-Schulich School of Business.