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Rethinking Meaning, Purpose, Identity & Spirituality 11

Rethinking Wealth 17

Rethinking Health & Well-Being 22

Rethinking Cities & Community 28

Rethinking Work 33

Rethinking Platforms 38

Rethinking Art as an Engine 48

Rethinking Citizenship 56

Rethinking Philanthropy 64

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Chris Kutarna ● #kutarnage ● #thoughtful_thinker ● #hooligan ● #riderfan ● #imposters_syndrome

If you are already, what impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? Three months ago, I embarked on a global expedition to find, connect

and support “Renaissance leaders”, i.e. people who are consciously, courageously giving birth to a different and more beautiful world. For me, the first landmark on that journey — basecamp:Toronto — has already proven to be a success. And I’ve already decided to invest the next year of my life to continue this journey, and extend these connections, to three more continents by the end of 2019: Europe, Asia and Africa.

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? A game-changer for me would be:

● If a handful of people told me afterwards that this experience had been a genuine game-changer for them; and

● If a handful of people told me afterwards that they wanted to support me in some way, or explore working with me in some way, to grow this ecosystem globally

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? For me, the moment of truth came after the publication of my first book, Age of Discovery. A dear friend, Brett House, organized for me to give a talk at Massey College while I was passing through Toronto on my book tour. After the talk, a cheerful old man named Don Simpson walked up to me, held a copy of my book up to my face and asked, “Are you really committed to doing what you say in this book?” My first thought was: “Holy shit, who is this guy?!?” My second thought was: “Honestly, probably not.” Since that moment, I’ve been on a slow, sometimes painful, journey to learn what it really takes to write with integrity, i.e. to “practice what I publish."

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Rethinking Meaning, Purpose, Identity & Spirituality

Sarajane Aris (Table Host) Coach/ mentor at Aspire - Coaching, Leadership Development, Consulting - For Women Leaders

Brief Bio: 1. Mentor and coach Aspire International Coaching and

Leadership Foundation. 2. Leading (DCP Leadership and Management Faculty)

national initiative for mentoring current and aspiring clinical psychology leaders. Contributed to DCP document on the Value of Clinical Psychology.

3. Policy Director British Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology; Head of Psychology Emergency Care

Business Unit Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust (DHFT); Mental Health Lead (Strategic Health Authority) involved performance management leading national Local Implementation Planning (LIP4) service redesign commissioning service delivery training mentoring and coaching.

Led and facilitated service redesign projects (DHFT) menctoring coaching training for TQM project coaching CEOTrust Directors (Bath Mental Health Care Services). OD with amalgamating Trusts to form Avon & Wiltshire Partnership Trust.

Geraldine Cahill Social Innovation Champion. Venturer. Writer.

Brief Bio: Previously the Manager of Programs and Partnerships for Social Innovation Generation - a collaborative partnership working to create a culture of social innovation in Canada. She worked closely with SiG's 4 partners in the development of the program's objectives. These partners included the MaRS Discovery District, the McConnell Foundation, PLAN Institute, and the University of Waterloo's Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience. A legacy


book with learnings and partnership insights is available here: https://www.thesigstory.ca

Bailey Greenspon

● #cdnpoli ● #topoli ● #canfem ● #cdnmedia ● #youngfemaleleadership ● #loveandcourage ● #moreveronicamars

Introduction Hey team! My name is Bailey Greenspon, I’m based in Toronto,

and for years I have been involved in community organizing, youth leadership, and advocacy. Lately, this has transcended spirituality as I reckon with my community/generation facing a mental health crisis, incredible isolation, and crushing anxiety about the future.

What impact initiatives are you working on that are addressing the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? Since I began working in social impact, my mission has been to raise the voices of young people, with passion and lived experiences, to be heard by decision-makers. It has looked like building spaces for Indigenous youth to speak to a crowded room, for young advocates ot have the tools to organize their communities, and most recently, to build the capacity in a generation of diverse young female leaders to speak to decision-makers from G20 leaders to the governance boards presiding over their communities. My greatest achievement to date has been to transform these experiences from one-off, tokenizing encounters to substantial engagements.

Other cool things I’m involved with:

● Progress Toronto: people-powered change for Toronto. Though, it was personally crushed by Premier Ford.

● Vision 2020: rethinking philanthropy by engaging 100 millennials to contribute to a $1M fund in the Toronto Foundation

● good old politics ● good old yelling about feminist stuff on the internet

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting?


I have watched as a generation of young people I work with and support are held back by a silent global mental health crisis. Some are beat down by the anxiety of climate change. Others are supporting entire oppressed communities and are on their own. Others are plagued by personal anxiety as isolated leaders pushing against a broken system. I am most looking forward to being in a room filled with people who are ready to DO something – and in our Table Group, it looks like talking about and addressing a global mental health crisis.

(Disclaimer: I have a million answers to this, so be ready for something different next time it’s asked!)

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? I think somewhere between the night of the “Muslim ban” – when thousands of Americans showed up at their airports, lawyers rushed to help those left in the lurch… and the day I marched through Washington with 500,000 other people from around the world. I realized that most people are good, and most people will get off their couches and stand up for something, if you give them something to stand up for. It continues to be my inspiration.

Scott Jones

Amela Marin Writer, Translator & Non-Profit Manager

Brief Bio: 1. Writer. Essays and short stories, published in magazines.

The Sea, a novella published by Quattro Books, Canada 2. Translator. Literary translation: novels, philosophical works,

drama & poetry (S. Bellow, L. Durrell., S. Sontag, R. Rorty, J. Heller, S. Plath, M. Medoff, J.C. Oates, B. Malamud etc.)

3. Non-profit Manager. Over twenty years of working in administration, fundraising, communications and advocacy in the arts and culture sector;

4. Event and project management (public readings, festivals, conferences); Editing and publishing.

5. Specialties: International outreach.


Blake Poland Co-lead, Healthier Cities & Communities hub at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Brief Bio: A professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Director of the Collaborative Specialization in Community Development. Passionate about the connection between inner and outer change as it applies to deep societal sustainability transitions, and the role of collection action and social movements therein; as well as the impacts on mental/spiritual health and wellbeing of climate change and ecological decline.

Raad Seraj Water Technology Innovation // Sustainable Fashion and Textiles // Art & Culture for Social Cohesion

Brief Bio: We live in an increasingly interconnected and complex world. I connect the dots and bring to light the things that matter but which are often invisible. www.raadseraj.com

Ginny Shanker I am passionate about the importance of managing stress in the human population with reference to schools and education particularly. I have a background in the investment business managing money and writing on Investment Strategy and Financial Markets. I believe that the importance of education requires funding committee Tcs in Canada and across the globe. TMC which is the operating company providing online courses in understanding stress needs to reach more educators and students. Also, the charitable arm The Self Regulation Institute must conduct research


to improve overall outcomes in the physical and mental health of our children, youth and young adults. I am spouse to the visionary and thinker Stuart Shanker

Jim Skinner Business Development Manager at Raymond Brown Waste Solutions

Jason Tafler ● #recoveringworkaholic ● #spiritualjourney ● #specialneedschild

What impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? One of my main areas of focus is on the start-up I founded a couple of years ago called Unyte. We are a purpose-driven company focused on helping people learn how to regulate and rewire their

nervous systems and brains. We currently have a biofeedback relaxation/mindfulness training product and are building out other offerings. We are making progress but have a long journey ahead of us to try to help as many people as possible around the world, especially younger people.

I’m also on the Foundation Board of a children’s hospital in Toronto called Holland Bloorview, which focuses on helping kids with disabilities in all aspects of their lives, and I am on the Innovation Advisory Council of Baycrest, a Toronto-based seniors organization that is investing $100M+ in combating brain-related diseases.


What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? I am excited to just be present for Basecamp and to spend time with this group coming up with big ideas. I hope to make meaningful, lasting connections to other spiritual people and to learn from their experience and wisdom. I am also looking to connect with others who are well versed in the social/impact investing space. As an ex-investment banker and big company / start-up executive, I believe we need a better approach to funding impact-focused projects and companies. How might we change the paradigm to focus on purpose + profit instead of just profit/returns? How might we attract more purpose-driven, patient capital for the people who want to change the world vs. just getting a job?

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? In January 2016, after working 80+ hour weeks for 20 years straight and being addicted to work and “success”, I had a near-death experience where I almost bled to death out of the blue. I was very lucky to make it out of the hospital alive, and I’m very grateful to have fully recovered. This experience also led me to have a spiritual awakening, going from a full-blown atheist who didn’t think much about meaning to a full-on spiritual seeker. I wake up every day thankful to be alive and to be on this journey. Even though I still have many struggles and challenges in my life, I am much more aware and compassionate, and I have a much deeper sense of purpose.

Art Ware


Rethinking Wealth

Abigail Slater ● #socialjusticeadvocate ● #feminist ● #Mom&Daughter

Introduction: I have recently joined Jonathan Hera in the establishment of Marigold Capital https://marigold-capital.com/ This summit is coming on the heels of our own New Investing Forum, so I am sure that there will be a great deal of learning and insights that I

can bring from our own investigation into how we can change wealth formation and the systems that encourage and discourage different types of accumulation and distribution of wealth.

If you are already, what impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? Please see above and the work we are doing at Marigold Capital. I have also devoted a portion of the private equity family wealth fund that I manage to impact. My goal with Jonathan is to blur the lines between “impact” investing and investing and to try to ensure that all decisions around how to deploy capital are considered in the context of social change and how to improve the lives of others. It is critical that a gender lens, as well as issues of equity and inclusion are embedded into the decisions we make at Marigold Capital, and our goal is also to be a leader in the ecosystem to help others achieve this kind of approach.

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? We are looking both for like-minded organizations to help develop the sector, as well as funding from those that believe in the work we do. To have a voice that truly resonates within both the conventional investor community as well as the already established “impact” community and to gain credibility within conventional structures that will draw dollars to more conscientious investments that work in marginalized and under-represented communities. To truly engage government leaders to commit to social change (for the better) and quite frankly, to mobilize people to not allow our own country to slip into the kind of polarization and rhetoric filled politics of our southern neighbors. Can this be achieved? If there are enough voices out there, I hope so…and voices that come from non-traditional sectors, like the business and investment sector. Did this answer the question???


https://marigold-capital.com/

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? My “aha” moment goes back to when Tim Draimin introduced his paper at MaRS (I think it was 7 years ago). It was a blue report. The concept of social enterprise or impact investing was new to me, but as an entrepreneur that used her business to hire New Canadians and saw the impact that a small business could have on individuals and families, I realized that this was something that gave voice to what I had been doing. I was spurred to spend as much time as I could learning and doing…and as I had some discretionary funds to commit, I devoted a portion of the fund to supporting entrepreneurs and ventures that were making a difference. This took different forms, and was not always strictly impact, but it certainly gave me a new lens in which to analyze various investment opportunities. I have been grateful to Tim ever since, as he truly changed the trajectory of my life at that point.

Sylvia Bosa Director, Bosa Family Foundation

Brief Bio Sylvia Bosa is the Executive Director of the Bosa Properties Foundation and BlueSky Properties Foundation, formed in 2012 on behalf of Bosa Properties and BlueSky Properties, together one of Canada’s most respected and innovative development firms based in Vancouver. The Foundations were established as a way for the companies to give back in the communities in which they build. A portion of the profits from every home is contributed back to the

community to create high impact, collaborative projects addressing children, youth, and food issues.

Alison Chick Head of Health and Wellness, RBC Ventures

Brief Bio Alison is passionate about improving health outcomes for all Canadians. As head of Health and Wellness solutions at RBC Ventures, she leads a team focused on the development of engaging solutions for consumers and businesses to support their personal and employee wellness. Alison made her mark in RBC as the Managing Director of New Business Initiatives for RBC, where she led the identification, evaluation and early development of

non-traditional growth opportunities for RBC including RBC’s healthcare strategy.


Adam Fair VP Strategy and Impact at Prosper Canada

Brief Bio Adam Fair is the Vice President of Strategy and Impact at Prosper Canada. Adam began his career in social development at Prosper Canada in 2007. He is responsible for leading the strategic and operational planning, and managing partnership development.

Jonathan Herra

Alison Loat Executive and board director

Brief Bio: Alison Loat is a mission-driven executive and board director with experience serving in senior leadership positions in the private, nonprofit and university sectors where much of her work has involved in building and scaling new ventures and organizations. She is a managing director at FCLTGlobal, an organization founded by the CEOs of BlackRock, The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Dow, McKinsey & Company and Tata, to develop practical

approaches that encourage long-term behaviors in business and investing. Part of the founding team, Alison now leads the organization’s strategy, governance and external relations. She is also the board chair of Ai-Media Canada and a director of the global board of Ai-Media, a technology company that connects publishers with captioners to make content accessible to everyone.


Cathy Matthews (Table Host) #standintheplacewhereyoulive

What impact initiatives are you working on that are addressing the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? WealthTable, a digital platform for individual and family financial engagement to address financial literacy/confidence.

Basic structure of WealthTable is built and hosted on heroku website. Needs security and design pre-launch.

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? Partnerships to launch WealthTable.

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? Encouragement to take a good system and make it available to everyone.

Dave Donovan Lead, Policy & Innovative Finance, Impact & Innovation Unit, Privy Council Office, Government of Canada


Kerry Stirton ● #upwardhistory; ● #gradualdisruption

If you are already, what impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? Policy forums with growth leaders, linked to current Canadian Fed Govt; Canada Model investing

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? Re-alignment of agency-based incentives to principal incentives like paid-for-performance; and greater fairness in pension security arrangements

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? The moment my son was born.

Taylor Sekhon ● #recoveringinvestor ● #hopefulcapitalist

What impact initiatives are you working on that are addressing the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? At Social Capital Partners we’re in the early days of designing market-based solutions to wealth inequality. More specifically, we’re

focused on capital inequality and the concentration of private company ownership. This has led us to some ideas on how to rebuild pathways for people to own more competitive small businesses, promote alternative ownership structures, and support local economies.

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting?


At this point it’s really just about meeting like-minded people. We’re getting pretty close to launching our next project and it would be great to connect with people who may be able to support along the way, either as a sounding board or partner.

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? There wasn’t necessarily a moment. My family background and education has led me to be pretty focused on inequality broadly throughout my life. There have definitely been some detours though – and sitting in a Four Seasons Hotel in India for a private equity conference, looking out the window at a slum, was a definitely a reminder that I needed to get back on the right path.

Tom Haslett ● #Transitionorrevolution; ● #illusionordelusion; ● #anglesonapin

What impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? TILT aspires to connect a person with her wealth and through these unique transformations, change the way that financial capital is

deployed (invested). We think we have our first two clients!

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? Creating a narrow community of practice to inform the evolution of thinking about a new paradigm for investment. Transitioning from SRI (Yesterday - Do no evil) through Sustainable (Today - Do no harm) to Regenerative (Tomorrow - Do good).

Integrating techniques that deal with advancing technology and changing behaviors into our work: e.g., blockchain, mutual benefit organizations, etc.

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? This is an interesting question for me. Friends say that I have been practicing to become Robin Hood since high school. In earnest on my 40th birthday and more clearly since I began studying my personal dharma to figure out my role in “it.”


Elvis Wong Financial Services | Innovation | Social Impact

Brief Bio Management consultant with experience in the financial services, healthcare, and retail industries. Passionate about the intersection of business, innovation, design, and social impact. Currently exploring innovation for financial health and the future of work.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonloat/

Rethinking Health & Well-Being

Jessa Gamble

Author, Penguin Books

Brief Bio: Jessa Gamble, née Sinclair, is a Canadian and English author and co-owner of the science blog The Last Word on Nothing. Her book, The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time, documents the rituals surrounding daily rhythms.

Sophia Iluka Executive Director at Population Health Solutions Lab, Sinai Health System

Brief Bio: A health policy professional with over 10 years of progressive experience in Health System Management. As senior advisor to three of Ontario’s Health Ministers and staff advisor for the health and seniors portfolios to the Premier of Ontario, I have developed a strong record as a strategic thinker and problem solver. Extensive experience translating complex policy concepts into tangible plans and successful implementation of key health system results and initiatives. Expert knowledge of priority provincial health care initiatives and government decision making processes.

Tom Jackson

Brief Bio Canadian-born actor and singer perhaps best known for the annual series of Christmas concerts, called the Huron Carole, which he created and starred in for 18 years. He was the Chancellor of Trent University from 2009 until 2013. His best known television roles are


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Billy Twofeathers on Shining Time Station and Peter Kenidi on North of 60. A well-known philanthropist, Jackson created an annual series of Christmas concerts called the Huron Carole. Featuring Jackson and numerous other Canadian singers and performers, the Huron Carole troupe travels across the country each year, raising money for the Canadian Association of Food Banks. An album of Christmas songs recorded to tie-in with the tour is an annual best seller in Canada

Alex Jadad (Table Host) Director and Professor, Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation

Brief Bio: Alejandro (Alex) Jadad is a physician, healer, educator, researcher, innovator and public advocate whose mission is to enable people - either as individuals or groups - to live healthy and happy lives, full of love, and with no regrets, until the last breath.

Anita McGahan Professor, Strategic Management, University of Toronto

Brief Bio: Anita McGahan, Professor at the University of Toronto. My focus is on health innovation. I’m unsettled by climate change. Trying to make sure that what I’m working on will be important, meaningful, and lasting – not tragically destroyed akin to the homes on the beach in Florida.

Denise Marshall ● #socialactivist ● #passion ● #itseverybodysbusiness ● #dyingwell ● #newgrandma


https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-smith-29a11598/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexjadad/

● #smalltowngal

If you are already, what impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? Im spending a good chunk of my academic time these days looking at dying well as a social phenomena and how to engage society around their responsibility to work towards a good death for all. A chunk of my time is also devoted to system change through social innovation methods and I believe complexity theory offers us an important lens.We are making great progress reorienting ourselves to public health approaches to end of life care for example.

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? A game changer for me would be to connect with people at basecamp who have similar interest but perhaps very different applications- and to connect for sure!

Freddy Meryn Prof of Internal Medicine, , Former Head of medical education -Teaching Center at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Founder of the International Society for Men’s Health 1999, Founder and former Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Men’s Health.

● Founder of the initiative NO TO SICK AND POOR (www.neinzukrankundarm.org) which has set itself the task of providing fast and unbureaucratic help for sick people with experience of poverty and as a voice for those affected by poverty to gain public support.

● Initiator of the child promotion project MAX & LARA (www.maxundlara.at) within the framework of the initiative NO TO SICK AND POOR. The aim is to promote the social integration of children (aged 6 to 14) from families affected by poverty and to enable these children to participate in concrete events with the help of culture and leisure sponsors.

● Initiator and Founder of “CAPE 10- House of social innovations and the future“ (www.cape10.at)

● Vice President Association for Charitable Foundations ● Advisory Council of Non-Profit Development Cooperation GmbH (GEZA) ● Scientific Advisory Council of the Austrian Cancer Society and Aid ● Initiator and Chairman of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) Health Advisory

Board ● Member of the Bioethics Commission of the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of

Austria


http://www.cape10.at/

ad 1. in this global , fragmented world with a strong turn to segregation, separation and populism it strongly requires that we start to collaborate on an international and intellectual level and network to proactively set the agenda and script for our future world

Tom Ogaranko Co-founder and Principal at Tessellate Inc.

Brief Bio Tom is a serial entrepreneur involved in founding companies, social enterprises and government agencies involved in innovation and technology development in several areas including telecommunications, software, services, web applications, e-learning and medtech. Tom has structured organizations and investment funds for stimulating and growing innovative capacity for public and private clients.

James Orbinski Physician

Brief Bio: Canadian physician, writer, and humanitarian activist. He is an associate professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs. In January 2011, he also assumed the Chair of Global Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, a position he has since resigned from. In 2013 Orbinski became the CIGI Chair in Global Health Governance and Director of the Africa Initiative at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. In 2013 he also joined Wilfrid

Laurier University's School of International Policy

Abdullah Saleh Founder and Chief Executive Director at Innovative Canadians for Change (ICChange)

Brief Bio Abdullah Saleh is a General Surgery resident at the University of Alberta and is the founder and Chief Executive Director of ICChange. Born in Iraq, he lived in France and Malaysia before moving to


Canada in 2000. He obtained a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University of Calgary and his MD from the University of Alberta. He also co-founded the Kenya Ceramic Project in 2006 with Dr. Abraam Isaac, a partnership that would later inspire the creation of ICChange. His interests include system thinking and architecture, development technology and its implementation, human rights and improving access to medical services and surgery in remote settings. He is currently pursuing a Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at McMaster University.

Hawk Smith Dr. Smith is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director of the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at the NYU School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Smith received his doctorate in Counseling Psychology (with distinction) from Teachers College; Columbia University. Dr. Smith had previously earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, an advanced certificate in African Studies from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, as

well as a Masters in International Affairs from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Dr. Smith is also a professional musician (saxophonist and vocalist) with international experience.


Rethinking Cities & Community

Sylvie Albert (Table Host) Currently on sabbatical from UWinnipeg and writing a book on smart/intelligent city visions. I love helping organizations fix problems through partnerships and develop digital projects (telecom infrastructure, elearning, ehealth, etc.). My ideas can be a bit disruptive and idealistic, but I like to push the envelope to settle on a stretch goal. It’s the strategist in me. What unsettles me… ineffectiveness as a result of silo building. In this age of digitalization, we have all of the tools we need to fix a lot of problems, but human conventions stand in the way. We make

incremental improvements rather than question whether we could re-engineer a better way. Meanwhile, the bigger problems receive very little attention and I worry that they are about to overwhelm us - broad economic shifts in all communities from AI/robotics; education and health systems that are not ready and that are very closed to change and unsustainable in their present form; persistent inequity, a lack of tolerance, and escalating crime; increasing pollution, congestion, mental health. If we could figure out how we move communities to build networks of networks that work collaboratively to move the needle in a fully engaged way (not by expecting governments to do the heavy lifting but through distributed efforts), we could create synergy and solve more problems faster while moving resources where they need to go.

Jean-Francois Barsoum ● #blacksheep ● #wheredidthatcomefrom

What impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? I’m working on a few things – one, on the topic of water, bridging the research and the decision-making. Informing policy from science is not easy, but the Canadian Water Network does a good job at it. I’m also on the board of the Climate Reality Project, whose aim is to inform public policy and public debate/discussion around climate change. Those are “extra curricular”, but in my work at IBM in smarter

cities, I try to infuse the corporate objectives with a wider reflection on social issues. We can’t get to where we want to go, the way we are going.


What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? Broadly speaking, the most important game changers I can imagine are (1) a way to account for and evaluate natural and social capital, and incorporate it into public policy and private decision making. Without that, we are constantly measure things that don’t matter. (2) getting peope to understand that risk is inevitable, even when we don’t do anything – and so immobilism is not an answer to the challenges we face.

What was your aha moment? I can’t recall an exact aha moment, beyond the usual one (had my kids). It’s an accumulation of a tonne of small events, newsclips, that contribute to building a world view that seems strangely consistent, but not in a good way. The common thread (tribalism over science, identity over substance) is clear.Our inability to act on that is what keeps me up at night.

Lawrence Jones Vice President, International Programs at Edison Electric Institute

Brief Bio: Dr. Lawrence E. Jones is a thought leader and practitioner with over twenty-five years of experience in the energy industry. He joined Edison Electric Institute (EEI) in September 2015 as Vice President, International Programs. Under his leadership, EEI’s International Programs has more than 65-member companies with operations in over 90 countries, and has launched several new strategic initiatives

including the annual Global Electricity Forum, the Africa Utility Power Sector Exchange, and the Thomas Edison International Utility Executive Fellowship Program. Prior to joining EEI, Dr. Jones was North America Vice President for Utility Innovation & Infrastructure Resilience at Alstom Grid Inc., where he assisted utilities worldwide with formulating strategies for deploying new technology innovated business solutions.

Nadia Oweidat Assistant Professor of Middle East Intellectual History at Kansas State University


Beth Parker

Brief Bio: Committed to bettering the physical Environment. Masters level knowledge and experience of Environmental Management and Conservation. Have specialised in the treatment and remediation of water pollution, with goals to improve the quality of watercourses and sources worldwide sustainably and responsibly.

Shoshanna Saxe Assistant Professor at University of Toronto

Brief Bio: Shoshanna Sade is an Assistant Professor in Sustainable Urban Infrastructure in the Department of Civil Engineering. Her research interests focus at the intersection of mega infrastructure development and long-term sustainability goals. Her main expertise is in life cycle greenhouse gas evaluation of rail infrastructure including the impacts of construction, operation, influence on travel behaviour and interactions with land use. Specialties: Infrastructure and

Sustainability Sustainable Cities P.Eng

Karine Smith Director of Facilities Management at Methodist Specialty & Transplant Hospital

Brief Bio: Experienced Director Of Facilities Management with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Operations Management, Emerging Technologies, Facility Management (FM), Operating Budgets, and Healthcare Management. Strong operations professional with a Master's degree focused in Business Administration, Management and Operations.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-parker-31334175/

Karlee Silver Co-Chief Executive Officer at Grand Challenges Canada

Brief Bio: Karlee Silver is Co-Chief Executive Officer for Grand Challenges Canada. Until recently, Dr. Silver was Vice President of Programs, where she set strategy for development and humanitarian innovation initiatives, and enabled the programs, investments and knowledge management teams to source, support and transition to scale promising innovations for social impact in low- and middle-income countries. She represents Grand Challenges Canada in the

International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) and in the Grand Challenge network, and advises on global mental health initiatives. She is the Senior Advisor for the Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace.

Sasha Sud Director, Smart Cities at MaRS Discovery District

Brief Bio: I have centred my career around seeking, developing and delivering innovative projects and solutions to drive sustainable and environmentally positive outcomes that deliver impact at scale. This has resulted in me developing applied expertise in fields related to energy, mobility, smart cities and climate change. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashasud/

Patricia Tod ● #millrat ● #bootsonthegroundheadinthesky

What impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? I am part of a team to develop one of 13 Gateway Cities in Massachusetts as it embarks on a Smart City journey. I hope to guide this transformation, collect lessons learned and best


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practices then transfer the process to the other Gateway Cities. I think Base-Camp Toronto will not only inspire but will connect me with other successful experts.

Kristina Verner Vice President, Innovation, Sustainability & Prosperity at Waterfront Toronto

Brief Bio: Kristina Verner is the Vice President, Innovation, Sustainability & Prosperity for Waterfront Toronto, where she is responsible for a variety of strategic initiatives for one of the world's preeminent revitalization initiatives. She is a core Waterfront Toronto team member engaged on the Sidewalk Toronto Project with Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs. Verner is active both nationally and internationally in the smart city movement and serves Board of Directors for the Intelligent Community Forum Foundation and ICF Canada.

Jonathan Westeinde CEO and Co-Founder, Windmill Development Group

Brief Bio Leading strategy and development for Windmill which strives to be North America's greenest real estate development company. To date Windmill is the only company to achieve LEED Platinum on all our real estate development projects with a development portfolio of over $500m +

completed and a committed development pipeline of $1.5B.


Rethinking Work

Marjorie Brans Serial social entrepreneur/intrapreneur obsessed with economics. Environmental Defence Green Champion

Brief Bio: Environmental Defence Green Champion of 2017 and Winner of the Spirit of Michael Young Award, Marjorie Brans is a serial social entrepreneur and intrapreneur. For the last 20 years, she has obsessively wondered: “Can free market efficiency be reconciled with deep care for the planet and all of its creatures?” Seeking an elusive answer, she has hunted for clues on five continents in multinational corporations, venture capital funds, tiny social businesses, and charities including Oxfam America and Harvard

Law School. To recruit and train fellow explorers for the quest, she (co)founded the School for Social Entrepreneurs Ontario, League of Intrapreneurs Canada, CLARION (Community-Led Action to Resilience in our Neighbourhoods), and PhotoVoice (US). Despite their tired feet, Marjorie and her co-travelers suspect the answer is “yes”.

Ilona Dougherty (Table Host) Managing Director, Youth & Innovation Project at University of Waterloo I Ashoka Fellow I WXN Top 100

Brief Bio: Managing Director of the Youth & Innovation Project at the University of Waterloo. I am passionate about intergenerational collaboration and inspired by the incredible things that can happen when we value the contributions of everyone no matter how young or old they are.


Terralynn Forsyth Research, Data, & Analytics @Audacious Futures | @Employment and Social Development Canada | Generation SDG Young Leader

Brief Bio: My current research interests and activities center on collecting, synthesizing, and interpreting diverse forms of data on the changing nature of work and translating into practical <> innovative change in policy, business, and social impact spheres. My previous work includes over seven years of combined research, administrative and communications experience in diverse environments, including startups, government, non-profits, students,

professionals and academics.

Janet Lane

● #curious; ● #systemsthinker; ● #practicalvisionary

Introduction: Hi. I’m Janet Lane, Director of the Human Capital Centre, at the Canada West Foundation. My interests cross both the education and

work tables - I see the two as intertwined. Most formal education is geared towards being able to contribute to the world as citizens - and to the economy through work. But, as we have agreed, the nature of work is changing. The social contract is broken. The gig economy is here - for now. How can we educate our children and ourselves so that we can thrive in the world of work as it changes? How can we determine the skills that are needed now and into the future - and how can we develop the information needed to develop the learning programs that will enable people to be work ready? These are the issues I grapple with. My work emphasizes the need for basic cognitive skills - as advanced technical skills depend on a foundation of these skills. I also am championing the move towards a competency-based approach to workforce development and deployment.


I strive to think systemically. Band aid solutions are just that - and usually fail to notice that they just added pressure to another part of the system. No use looking for simple solutions to complex problems. But we have to start somewhere. Basecamp is exciting for me - I see the day as an important systems thinking approach to solving the big problems facing us all today. I hope to meet others with visions of how to first understand and then tackle these big challenges.

Dave Morgan ● #multidisciplinary ● #versatile

Introduction: I had a really multidisciplinary corporate career: Industrial Sales & Marketing in the Packaging & Printing Industries, followed by 25 years with Goodyear Canada, including assignments in Market Research & Competitive Watch , Economic Forecasting, Advertising &; Marketing Research, Crisis Management, Government & Stakeholder Relations, Environmental Compliance, and Real Estate Portfolio Management, Some independent consulting to the tire industry on prior issues, Then - Association Leadership with CCIM, finally, Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

What was your aha moment? A couple of my Drivers are “Giving Back” and a quote from Jack Smith, Wharton MBA from the Class of '52 and founder of the Wharton Graduate Emeritus Society Giving Back: Andrew Carnegie, the great 19C Industrialist, said, - In the first third of your life, LEARN all you can - in the second third of your life, EARN all you can - in the final third - GIVE IT ALL Away - And he did - by building the Public Library System all across North America (and you can find Carnegie Public Libraries in St. Lucia, and in Bracebridge, ON), by endowing Universities, among others For myself, I’ve been giving back through CCIM, an association of Commercial Real Estate practitioners - especially working with the new Candidates as they prepare for the final steps in achieving their Designation. Jack smith’s Quote:


“MBAs 50 years out have acquired so much talent, experience, and accomplishment, it’s a terrible waste to put them ‘out to pasture’.”

David Nordfors Co-Chair and Co-Founder of i4j

Brief Bio: David Nordfors is the CEO and co-founder of IIIJ and the Co-chair and co-founder of the i4j Innovation for Jobs Summit together with Vint Cerf. He was the co-founding executive director of the Center for Innovation and Communication at Stanford University,a co-founding director of a Swedish-Israeli R&D fund for mobile services supporting 20 consortia. As director of an innovation foundation he administrated

an endowment of >$300M. He screened and supported over 100 quality controlled R&D projects between industry and colleges for >$50M. He designed and oversaw all communication strategies. He has been publisher and editor. He is regularly invited as an expert to the World Economic Forum and was one of the WEF innovation 100 in 2009. He is a adjunct/visiting professor in Estonia, Israel, Germany and Mexico. He has a PhD. in computational physics and electron specroscopy.

Jonathan Palmondon Chargé de cours chez HEC Montréal

Brief Bio: A professional labor relations and industrial relations facilitator, Jonathan specializes in negotiation and mediation by using communication, empathy and innovation to overcome the human problems encountered in organizations. Passionate about public policies, he uses his knowledge of labor relations and industrial relations to enrich public debates in Quebec

and Canada.


Adam Spence Director, SVX

Brief Bio: Adam Spence is the Founder and Director of Social Venture Connexion (SVX) at MaRS. Adam helped found the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing and the School for Social Entrepreneurs –

Ontario, he was Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) and he led a number of higher education and training organizations. Adam has spoken to audiences across the country on issues related to education, poverty, and social finance and he has been featured in numerous media outlets, including CNN International, TVO, CTV, CBC Television and Radio, BNN, GlobalTV, the Toronto Star, the Financial Post, and the Globe & Mail. In 2002, Adam was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Gold Medal, in 2012 Adam was named one of McMaster University’s 125 People of Impact, an honour given to McMaster staff and alumni who have made the

greatest impact over the past 125 years, and in 2014 Adam was named one of Seven Canadians Thinking Big by the Toronto Star. Adam was born in Glasgow, Scotland, grew up on the Canadian prairies, and came of age in Hamilton, graduating from McMaster University with a degree in geography.


Rethinking Platforms

Scott Annan ● #social-knowledge ● #collective-knowledge ● #knowledge-to-practice ● #seeking-social-funding ● #my-dogs-named-kofi

What impact initiatives are you working on & progress Guides.co is a collective knowledge sharing platform for individuals and organizations to create, share, update, and measure knowledge

organized in a modular, digital-first format (think youtube for documents + pinterest for collecting / organizing). I believe the challenges we face as individuals, organizations, and communities are more urgent, complex, and evolve faster than ever before and we can only address them through collective knowledge sharing. Launched 4 years ago we are still in quiet mode as we develop stronger network effects in national industries. Millions of users and several hundred organizations use guides.co, including all levels of government, major corporations (Philips, Enbridge, Microsoft), franchises, associations, and small businesses. Some examples where our platform has built ecosystems to deliver ongoing training and support include first responders post-natural disaster, fire departments worldwide (over 750 of them), and in Canadian building and energy efficiency supporting education on new building codes and evolving best practices (example portal). Our goal is to make knowledge accessible to underserved communities. Recently launched new fund for startups to support the 98% of entrepreneurs that aren’t building “unicorns” in an effort to increase success rates, create meaningful jobs, and help them avoid the toxic environment created through VC-funding.

A game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting

● Strategic funding partnership with social finance / innovation org that is aligned with our vision to develop and spread collective knowledge to under-serviced communities

● Partners who can contribute their knowledge to help people thrive with change in their jobs and in life

● Building relationships with people who can help (and I can help) drive change on a global scale


My "moment of truth" I would say it has been less about “a moment” and more like a layered boulder that keeps growing and gaining momentum. I saw the need for entrepreneurs to have access to practical knowledge for building businesses (at scale); My family has dealt with addiction and teen depression without access to strategies and resources; I see organizations that struggle to help society’s most vulnerable in times of crisis when there are ample situations and solutions that could be adapted; I’ve witnessed several industries’ inability to translate knowledge to practice resulting in unnecessary fatalities; We are constantly reminded of social issues (epidemics?) ranging from opioid addictions, homelessness, workplace stress, teen depression and an inability for those afflicted (not just victims but everyone around them) to access practical information and resources. We all need guidance and we can all be guides if we work collectively.

Robert Aston ● #britishaussie ● #globalcitizenandexplorer ● #selfmade ● #inspired ● #gigeconomyhero ● #systemicthinker ● #designer ● #somewhatsuccessfulentrepreneur

Introduction: I’m super excited for the upcoming summit and to see what we can achieve together. I like to keep my digital communication simple and to the point, so here goes I’ve been a…

● Business, Marketing and Information Systems Student ● Software Developer ● Digital Producer ● CX/UX Designer and Strategist ● UI Designer ● Company Founder ● I think Harvard would call me T shaped! ● I also have a very keen interest in geopolitics and general world affairs.

Impact Initiatives Currently working on an application to help make meetings more effective and efficient. Nearing an MVP which I’m hoping to share in Toronto.


Establishing a purpose-driven organisation to design, build and launch high impact platforms, products and services. Notable Projects

● Agency years: https://searchgps.ripcurl.com/ ● NewGround: http://courses.mq.edu.au/

What would be a game-changer To continue finding my Florence. Continue to develop and challenge my worldview, so that my ideas are more likely to be successful and have a positive impact. New connections to collaborate with. Angel investors/funding general support would be nice, but not essential.

Moment of Truth I don’t think there’s been a moment of truth, but rather 34 years of discovery, curiosity, learning and training which has finally crystallised.

Alexandra Baillie Managing Director of Good & Well

Brief Bio Alexandra Baillie is Managing Director of Good & Well, where she invests in startups with a social purpose. She spent several years building a renewable energy company in Liberia as Deputy Country Director of Buchanan Renewables, drove policy negotiations for the UN Convention on Biodiversity and coordinated a pioneering partnership to green the 2002 UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa. Alexandra holds degrees from Queen’s University, Yale University, and Harvard Business School. In addition to serving as a director of the Art Canada Institute, she is on the board of Canadian Stage.

Ben Baldwin ● #upteaming ● #foundercityproject ● #foundertrained

What impact initiatives are you working on that are addressing the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? I’m on the board at the Drucker Institute (http://bit.ly/DruckerInst), in Claremont. Peter Drucker said many times that “stronger organizations


https://searchgps.ripcurl.com/

http://courses.mq.edu.au/

http://bit.ly/DruckerInst

make a stronger society.” Here’s an initiative to check out: KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society (https://www.drucker.institute/about/kh-moon-center-for-a-functioning-society/). The Founder City Project (http://bit.ly/FC-Overview 1), which has grown from 6 to 500+ founders/teams in under 2 years. Teams are the most important lever for human performance. But the traditional approach for teams no longer works. The results are coming from teams that lift their velocity through upteaming. “Upteaming” is accessing a higher range of diverse collective intelligence within an ecosystem, by teaming with people 1) above job functions and 2) above their organizations.

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? Refining the narrative of “upteaming” so it’s easier to use and finding supporters for our mission: to help people access the diverse collective intelligence from others within their ecosystem, to achieve a new dimension of success.

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? When I started receiving personal unsolicited notes of thanks from customers that made me cry.

Eric Beynon ● #9billionlives ● #carbontovalue ● #socialentrepreneur ● #solutions ● #loverofskiingandcanoetrips ● #curioustraveller ● #dad

Impact initiatives working on: I’ve just emerged from an 18 month effort working on how to systematically identify and validate innovations with big impact potential and connect them to global opportunities and investors with impact ambitions. The effort was called 9 Billion Lives (9BL) and our mission “to help make the world 9 Billion Ready”. Our ultimate objective is to establish a platform populated with impactful innovations, impact investors and funders. Currently two specific projects are front and center:

1. A 9BL Clean Water Innovation Sprint in conjunction with inaugural World Beach Games 2. Focus is to advance water innovations in conjunction with the World Beach Games – an

International Olympic Committee event being held Oct. 2019 in San Diego. Preparations are underway to run the Innovation Sprint competition and use the global stage of the


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Games to bring forward innovations to address sewage, plastics and toxics – issues that affect the San Diego area, but exist worldwide.

3. Carbon-to-Value investment Fund: A fund to accelerate growth of Carbon-to-Value technologies (tech that captures CO2 from power and industrial facilities and converts it into valuable products). The objective is to decrease the time to realize emissions reductions at scale and deliver a diversified investment holding of leading innovations. We are focused on technologies competing in the $20mm Carbon XPRIZE competition. LafargeHolcim is a partner and anchor investor.

Game-changer for me: Connections to the right individuals and/or organizations who are:

1. looking for new ways to make an exponential impact against significant sustainability challenges and

2. believe that innovation and investment approaches, when pursued in novel ways can deliver it.

Moment of truth: Confluence of 3 sequential events: 1) travelling through Africa, followed by 2) working in finance in Zurich, Switzerland, followed by 3) getting a job with direct exposure to the central sustainability issues faced by the United Nations. Africa opened my eyes to reality, Switzerland opened my eyes to how finance works, and the U.N. exposed me to the political quagmire that exists.

Danielle Goldfarb ● #assumptionschallenger ● #datadisrupter ● #globaleconomynerd ● #movebeyondlegacymeasures

Introduction Hi, I’m Danielle Goldfarb. I head up global research for global data/tech firm

RIWI Corp. and before that come from the economic policy think tank world. I’m obsessed with gathering global evidence on difficult to measure but critically important issues. Why? Often official data track things we’ve always measured that may no longer be relevant. We also tend to focus primarily on our local context. Instead, we need to shape our data measurement in line with what really matters today and with what we want to see in the future, and we need to do it in global context.


To do so, we’re using a technology (http://www.riwi.com) originally used to accurately track global pandemics to measure and truly understand work/digital work/gig economy across 40+ countries. Rather than measuring employment in a traditional sense and only in western countries, I’m interested in disrupting conventional thinking and measuring the reality of how global work looks today and what meaningful work could look like tomorrow. I’m also developing plans to use this same technology to understand and help shape the future of money, health, education, leisure, retirement, and technology itself. Looking for partners to fund these projects, experts to help collaborate in shaping them, and partners to communicate the results and use them to inform decision-making.

David Ing ● #systems-thinking Past president (2011-2012) International Society for

the Systems Sciences ● #open-innovation Published book on the way to Ph.D. dissertation ● #open-source Sharing in the commons, both non-commercial and

commercial ● #ex-ibmer Graduated after 28 years, management consulting and

market development ● #service-science The roots of Smarter Planet and Smarter Cities

If you are already, what impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? Impact initiatives on systemic challenges and progress

● Open Innovation Learning: Built new theory on becoming-with, (too?) scholarly ● Platform Cooperative: Incorporated 3-person business, yet to activate ● Climate Ventures program at Centre for Social Innvation Toronto: Advisor leading

systems thinking circles, http://systemschanges.com ● Open Source while Private Sourcing: Active contributions (not leading) initiatives, e.g.

federated wiki ● Bridging Intergeneration Diversity: Inquiring into changing mindsets

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? Game-changers (want to get out of Basecamp)

1. Allying: Connecting with the few people who understand the social and technical aspects of platforms

2. Federating: Organizing regionally with protocols globally 3. Seeding: Establishing one or more tangible platforms that attract collective action


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What was your aha moment? Moment of truth Spinning off: Transitioning from a progressive global enterprise (28 years at IBM), at a time when most (academic) institutions are retrenching rather than innovating.

Trish Josephs ● #systemsthinker/disruptor ● #boundlessenergy ● #sciencegeek ● #resultsdriven ● #masterconnector ● #bigpicturethinker

Introduction Hi all - Trish Josephs from Calgary, Alberta. My career has been spent in the areas of strategic business development, marketing/branding and technology innovation. I spent the last 8 months as VP of a medical Cannabis company and prior to that 8 years in OIl, & Gas and technology sectors and 23 years in Health Care.

Initiatives: Blockchain and ai and its future impact across industries. In Calgary we have started a not-for-profit organization- YYChain - a grassroots organization whose mandate is to connect people and companies that recognize the disruption of blockchain as a digital platform of the future to those in academia and business that can provide education, practical solutions and business support. YYChain is agnostic to industry and connect/supports oil and gas, construction, education, healthcare, agriculture. We are making progress but continually face the challenge of the lack of basic understanding of digital technologies/innovations, the pace of change and the practical business implications to embracing and adopting these new technologies and in a bigger sense - the disruption of major platform changes.

Moment of truth My moment of truth was 2 years ago when over 100,000 educated individuals ( engineers, geologists, accountants, supply chain etc etc) were jobless in Calgary because of the downturn of the global energy market. Many termed it a “recession” but now 18 months later, Alberta is coming to grips with this as the new reality for Alberta & Canada especially since the majority of its energy resources are landlocked and not able to get to tidewater for access to global


markets. Couple this with the arrival and disruption of digital technologies and how quickly they are changing traditional business platforms, markets and industries and we are at a point of no return.

Ben Rowswell ● #SocialEntrepreneur ● #HumanRightsActivist ● #DigitalDiplomat ● #PublicServiceInnovator ● #ConceptualMagpie ● #Fatherof3

Introduction: Hello, I’m a former diplomat whose passion for democracy drew me

out of embassies and out onto the street with democracy activists and eventually to the tech sector to build a digital platform for citizens to take action at scale. I left the Canadian foreign service in 2017 to launch Betterplace, a mobile app for civic action.

what impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? During the Egyptian revolution in 2011 I launched my first venture to help citizens mobilize using digital technology - an organization called CloudtoStreet that brought activists from Tahrir Square to Silicon Valley where we organized hackathons to equip them with custom-built software to strengthen their movements Since then I helped built platforms to equip citizens in Iran and then Venezuela organize themselves to uphold human rights When I left my diplomatic assignment in Venezuela I joined my cofounder in launching Betterplace, a mobile app for civic action that aims to unlock the unique motivation of each citizen to get involved in issues they care about

What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? Connections to potential partners and others inspired by the opportunities digital tools provide for building 21st century civil society

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment?


Much like Christopher, it was the Arab world during the upheavals that became the Arab Spring. Having served as a junior diplomat in Cairo in the 1990s I knew the issues, personalities and risks of the human rights there, but unlike the 1990s I saw them change the course of Egypt’s history in a matter of days. Having just begun to study the political impact of tech while on sabbatical at Stanford University, I jumped on a plane to Cairo and immersed myself in the revolution, convinced that the innovations emerging in Tahrir Square were going to teach us all about the very different world now being born. The disruption unleashed there has brought as much negative as positive but I’ve now devoted my career to mastering it so we can make the good outweigh the bad.

Mike Shaver Partner, Real Ventures

Brief Bio Mr. Mike Shaver serves as a Partner at Real Ventures. Previously, he served as a General Partner at the firm. Mr. Shaver serves as Vice President of Engineering for Mozilla Corporation. Previously, he served as Director of Ecosystem Development for Mozilla Corporation. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Ingenia Communications. He served as Chief Software Officer of Radialpoint, Inc. Mr. Shaver served at Netscape Communications as a member of mozilla.org, the group organizing development of the open source Mozilla browser. A veteran of open source development, he was responsible for evangelism, developer relations and general project architecture at Mozilla.

Jon Shell (Table Host) #I’mNotAHashtagGuySorry

What impact initiatives are you working on that are addressing the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? Well, this, for one. I’ve managed to get the “International Space Station for Work” concept into the policy conversation in a few places. It will be published soon in a couple of Canadian policy

publications, I’ve had good meetings with government about it and I spoke to the G7 working group on employment about it in Vancouver in October. More central to my day-to-day life is the challenge of wealth inequality. I’m working on ways to think about limiting, or optimistically reversing, the further concentration of private capital ownership. Our main line of thinking at SCP is currently about how to create more resilient small business opportunities as pathways to capital for a broader set of people. Very early stages. But that’s my day job, which in and of itself is a great privilege.


What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? This is obvious, but my firm belief is that if we starting thinking about digital platforms as infrastructure, and allocated the funding and resources appropriate for that belief, it would change the path of society. I’m not nearly enough of a tech person to do it myself, but the size of the opportunity has made it impossible for me to let this go. I want to keep talking about until I’m either convinced it’s not the right idea, or I find someone who I can support in taking it forward.

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? Specific to the platform topic – as I’ve come to understand the size of the challenge we face as work changes, the degree to which we’ve failed on this topic over many decades, and the unambitious set of options we’re working on (both in the private and public sectors) to address it, I felt an obligation to at least try to think of an alternative. This conversation is the extension of that thought process. In terms of wealth inequality, my main area of interest, there’s no moment of truth. I was born in 1975, so my life started at the same time as our current path of wealth and power realignment. The truth of this issue has been evident every day. I just waited too long before trying to do something about it.

Amy ter Haar Lawyer | Executive | Entrepreneur

Brief Bio Amy ter Haar is a blockchain consultant and internationally recognized authority on the legal, technological and business aspects of blockchain. She has extensive leadership expertise in founding companies in the fintech and legal tech sectors. Passionate about the growth of leading

organizations and supporting community development, such as Toronto Legal Hackers, London Legal Hackers, Blockchain Canada, the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium, and the Blockchain Hub, Amy excels at connecting people, projects and possibilities. Amy’s latest side-venture is co-producing 'Invited off Earth'. She is an associate at the Creative Destruction Lab, sits on the advisory committee for Globalive Technology Partners, develops curriculum for Osgoode Professional Development and is a doctoral student at Western University in her spare time.


Rethinking Art as an Engine

Eddie Bullen Pianist, composer, arranger and producer Eddie Bullen is in every way, a standout amongst his generation of multi-talented artists. Eddie's lengthy career has yielded an abundance of awards and recognition for his outstanding talents. From his first album, 'Nocturnal Affair' to his most recent ‘Spice Island', Eddie gives his audience a taste of contemporary jazz, flavoured with Caribbean rhythms. Since his move to Toronto in 1980 from Grenada, Eddie has worked with Caribbean, Canadian and American artists like Melba Moore,

Anslem Douglas, Byron Lee, Maestro, David Rudder, Liberty Silver, Deborah Cox and Dee Dee Bridgewater. He is also a composer and arranger for TV, Radio and Films. His work has been heard on City TV, YTV, and Wine TV Australia. To date Eddie Bullen has produced over 150 albums and is currently working on several new ventures through his record company Thunder Dome Sounds and publishing company QDB music. Eddie is always on the lookout for cutting edge new innovative artists

Jory Cohen Director of Social Finance and Investment at Inspirit Foundation

Brief Bio Jory is the director of social finance and investment at the Inspirit Foundation. Since graduating from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University as the Valedictorian of his class, Jory quickly garnered a reputation as a next-generation leader in the impact investing field. Before joining Inspirit, Jory was the Managing Director of Youth Social Innovation Capital Fund (YSI), an impact investing fund. Under Jory’s leadership, YSI made its first six investments and maintained a 100% repayment rate to investors. He

also co-founded an impact venture in East Africa based on the fair-market-value sales of honey. Most recently, Jory played an integral role in launching Inspirit’s 100% impact portfolio and continues to lead the rollout of that strategy while managing all aspects of the finance department. Jory is often called upon to share his expertise within the sector and academic institutions. He’s also co-authoring an upcoming children’s book.


Adrian Horwood I think of myself as:

● an explorer ● a learner ● someone who likes to make a difference ● a husband ● a father and grandfather ● someone with broad interests (travel, the arts, history, reading,

cooking, gardening, forestry, hiking, running, biking, etc. ● broad minded ● having a sense of humour

Present Priority Initiatives. I have a long history of volunteering and working in the not-for-profit sector. I am now looking for the next opportunity to make a difference for the public good. Volunteer:

● Quality Committee Headwaters Health Care Centre, 2016 – 2018 ● Canadian Pediatric Society Revenue Task Force, 2016 - 2017 ● We Charities (formerely Free the Children), Board, 2006 – 2015 ● Headwaters Arts Festival, Board, 2005 – 2009 ● Windmill Software, Board of Advisors, 2003 – 2005 ● United Way of Peel, Board, 1997 – 1998 ● United Way of Peel, Campaign Co-Chair and Chair Leadership Giving, 1994 – 1996 ● Canadian Automated Buildings Association, Vice Chair of Board, 1993 – 1997 ● Conference Board of Canada, Council of Marketing Executives, 1993 – 1998 ● CATCSE, Association of 10 leading North American Corporations, 1996 – 1999 ● Association of Competitive Telecommunications Suppliers, Founding Chair, 1983 – 1984

Work:

● VP Corporate Partnerships, SickKids Foundation, 2011 – 2014 ● VP Development, luminato, the Toronto Festival of Arts and Culture, 2009 - 2010.[LA3]

What would be a game changer for you or for an initiative for which you are a passionate supporter? I am sure that we will have excellent and wide-ranging conversations. The game changer would be to move beyond dialogue and find a way to take action to make a difference.


What was your moment of truth? While I have had volunteer roles for many years, when I worked as SVP Marketing and Communications at National Bank Financial, I found myself in charge of Corporate Social Responsibility. I had the opportunity to work with many fine not-for-profit organizations operating in many sectors. There, I learned the impact that the not-for-profit sector has on our society. My next job was in the arts.

Alison Jackson ● #curiosityconversationfan ● #musiciansaremychildren ● #istilldrivea1994toyota ● #sustainablerevenueforNPOsdrivesme ● #tradedonstageforbackstage

Priority Initiatives & Moments of Truth: Entering year 31 of raising money for food banks and other agencies working with Canada’s homeless and hungry through our annual Christmas tour The Huron Carole. My key roles are communicator, wrangler, sponsorship steward, promoter, connector with artists, venues and beneficiaries. As an event manager, logistics comes handily for me. Along with my husband Tom, we have tracked, reviewed and subsequently morphed this type of earning model regularly and because our events are national with regional inflections, it was evident we couldn’t enforce one immoveable version. In 2012, I started questioning where I might improve our impact. I know that artists are passionate, vulnerable and influential risk takers. The charities we support are in constant pursuit of funds by way of grants, donors, sponsors, and events. The journey for artists is similar. Can a social enterprise model be introduced that benefits both? I think so. Direct selling models of new technology and energy can create financial rewards whereby the principal of helping others succeed is the only way to operate. Social media builds on referrals and networking to their financial advantage. Participants aren’t being paid. What if everyone could be paid? This is the journey I’m on now to advocate for saving lives by way of helping people make money for their community. It’s not a project, rather a mission. Artists can play a key role.

Game Changer Basecamp Toronto builds on relationships and encourages behaviour modification and tracking with a goal of lasting impact. Check and balance on our arts ecosystem. According to Darren Hardy, “42% of training is lost 20 minutes after the event; 67% of training is lost 24 hours after the event and 87% is lost 30 days after the event.” Action plans and adherence is key.


“Whoever heard of an actor or musician who fit in at school?” Derren Brown The median income for Canadian artists is $21,600 which is 43% lower than our labour forces. When an artist is asked to donate their art with the promise of exposure, “…the only thing you get from exposure is hypothermia.” Patti Pon, Arts Champion, President & CEO, Calgary Arts Development – listen to her Walrus Talks, May 2016 https://thewalrus.ca/art-and-prosperity-show-me-the-money/

John Millard Composer Performer

Brief Bio: John Millard has been active in the Canadian music and theatre scenes for the last twenty years.Early private studies with Fred Stone and Richard Pochinko have led to a lifetime in theatre and music. He has toured Canada and Europe with his bands The Polka Dogs and John Millard & Happy Day. He has released five cd's.

He has worked with many Canadian theatre companies including: Shaw Festival, Theatre Columbus, Volcano, Mulgrave Road Co-op, The National Theatre School, The National Arts Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Canadian Stage Company, Necessary Angel and Caravan Farm Theatre to name a few. In April of 2008 John was the music director for the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France, the Kurt Weill and Stan Rogers songbooks at the Global Cabaret in October 2009 and 2011 and at the PEN Congress in Tokyo for Margaret Atwood’s “Year of the Flood”. For Soulpepper John did the Barber of Seville and at Summerworks 2013, The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw.

Itah Sadu Award-winning author, storyteller and owner of Toronto bookstore, A Different Booklist

Brief Bio: Itah Sadu shares the rich oral traditions of the Caribbean, Africa and North America with students and teachers. Her stories, workshops and keynotes often address issues of racism and equity as well as


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demonstrating the wealth of knowledge, experience and wisdom gained from oral traditional cultures of the African Diaspora. As a dynamic entrepreneur and community builder, she utilizes creativity, leadership and teamwork to build infrastructure and legacy in communities. Her objective is simple and to the point: To work with organizations that engage in programs for youth with the focus on education, pathways and community economic development.

Don Simpson (Table Host) ● #ChiefExplorer ● #SuitcaseSimpson ● #StorytellerWithAPurpose ● #Mastermentor ● #Themountainbear ● #Madformusic ● #Fatheroffabfour ● #Culturalwanderer

Present Priority Initiatives: During my 80th birthday celebrations ( July 13,2014 ),I announced my intention to step away from any further direct operational activities related to the management of projects being operated globally by the Innovation Expedition Network .My intent was to undertake a personal Expedition to reconnect with many of the global Renaissance Pathfinders with whom I had been working and to define a new role for myself. By January 2018 I had launched a new role for myself as “A Storyteller With A Purpose “. This initiative now has 4 categories of Storytelling .

● Global Odyssey LogBooks :15 LogBooks sharing learning and leadership stories from 6 decades of my global odyssey

● Concept of a Modern day Renaissance : Collaborating with Chris Kutarna and Steve Murgatroyd to continue articulating and promoting the nature and significance of modern day Renaissance Leadership and inspiring others to take on this role

● Pathfinder Profiles : Stories of a select group of Renaissance Pathfinders with whom I have worked to connect them and to promote their breakthrough innovations

● Artistic Instigators : Stories that identify ,engage and stimulate some artists to function as an informal group of Renaissance Artistic Instigators who are committed to finding ways to inject their creativity into the work of leaders in other sectors


A Game Changer for me from the Toronto Base Camp: I will be highly satisfied if the positive outcomes of this important test initiative are significant enough to inspire a number of participants to join with Chris Kutarna and his team to carry on and expand the Re.Base concept by operating an ongoing network platform, creating a new online Renaissance Leadership program and to find support for the next in an ongoing series of Base Camps in different global locations

Several Moments of Truth: I have had many moments of truth over my life that led me to be passionate about playing a role in identifying, connecting ,mentoring and promoting the work of individuals whom I see as being modern day Renaissance Leaders .They include;

● Inspiration from my high school students which led to organizing airlifts of students from Africa in the early sixties

● Involvement with Dr James Robinson from Harlem the founder of Operation Crossroads Africa and becoming a participant and a co -founder of the Canadian Branch

● Serving in Africa with CUSO ( Canadian University Service Overseas ) ● Joining IDRC ( International Development Research Centre ) and being mentored by its

first President David Hopper ● Joining the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and getting daily exposure to high

performing artists and learning how to integrate their expertise into many leadership programs

Liam O’Doherty ● #languageisaplayground ● #troublefun ● #creativity4thecommongood

As Director of Digital Youth Engagement Programmes with TakingITGlobal, Liam O’Doherty designs and implements initiatives to inspire, inform and involve young people in making a difference in their communities. With a background in sustainable development, communications theory and theatrical improvisation, he has extensive experience advancing youth rights, gender equality, inclusive design and climate change initiatives through a

range of contexts, from grassroots mobilizations to international policy processes. In 2015 he was recognized as a 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leader by Corporate Knights and as a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Intercultural Fellow. His current projects include initiatives to support the deaf community through digital education platforms, a global mobilization to explore the intersections of decolonization and climate change and an education program to support


remote Indigenous communities. Outside of work, Liam enjoys swimming, gardening, making music, riding bicycles and drinking copious volumes of tea.

Madoka Murata ● #let’sdothistogether! ● #artsheals ● #savebeautyintheworldt ● #youandIneedtoheal ● #showlovestartliving

Current Initiatives At DTTA, we have three departments - Private Instruction, our Saturday Ensemble Program, and our Community Outreach Programs.

Private Instruction- started 45 years ago, using stories, visual art and piano, to stimulate human growth - especially in those with learning differences - from extremely gifted students, to those with cognitive and physical handicaps. Our motto is that "we are not creating musical machines, but creating human beings." Our Saturday Program-was created 15 years ago. It was created to support a bereaved family’s two boys by creating a band program with their friends and a couple of our talented multi instrumentalist teen instructors as their mentors. It was our own big brother program. From there it grew into a full Saturday program that covers multiple genres of music. After 15 years, some of these students have become our instructors. From this program we have a few outstanding musicians that are on their own tour, on a world tour with prominent artists -- even today I have one in China playing jazz, two touring with Alessia Cara, one traveling to Australia and one in Houston, Texas. The third program is our Community Outreach, which was created to hire our fantastic instructors. I felt that as a music instructor who is preaching how wonderful music is for others, I needed to create jobs for these musicians. I felt that it is my social responsibility to create jobs and to serve the community with my incredible, talented, and big-hearted team, and this program has now been operating for the last 3 years.

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A game changer for me from the Toronto Base Camp.


I will only feel as sense of accomplishment if at least five attendees dedicate their lives, like Gandhi, to the cause of this basecamp

Moments of truth. Running from one class at university of Toronto to another at the opposite side of the campus. It was pouring rain and I was getting wet and likely late for class my eye spotted a scene on the sidewalk. It registered in my mind as I passed the person. The scene was a persons feet standing in the rain with both shoelaces undone. Beside each foot was the base of crutches. I stopped, hurried back to the person, knelt down and tied both their laces. I never saw who it was, I just moved quickly to continue my run to class. That has made all the difference and was one of the best things I accomplished during my university years.


Rethinking Citizenship

Faisal al Mutar President of Ideas Beyond Borders, CEO of Mesopotamian Consulting

Brief Bio Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, Chairman & Founder of Ideas Beyond Borders Faisal is an Iraqi-born award-winning human rights activist, satirist, speaker and writer. He is an advocate for Universal Human Rights, secularism and the free market of ideas, and is enthusiastic about the intersection of technology and advocacy. He is also the founder of multiple online platforms that together have more than 400,000

subscribers and millions of visitors. He previously worked for Movements.org as a program manager for the Middle East and North Africa to assist dissidents in closed societies worldwide. In 2015, Faisal received the “President’s Volunteer Service Award” from President Barack Obama for his special commitment to education.

Natasha Alani Operations and Systems Manager, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

Graham Angus

Andrew Cohen (Table Host) Journalist

Brief Bio: Andrew Cohen is an award-winning Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and professor of journalism at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Cohen has written widely on international affairs and on Canadian politics.


Cohen was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied political science at McGill University and then took graduate degrees in journalism and international relations at Carleton University. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He also spent a year at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.

Chris Coulter Co-CEO, GlobeScan

Brief Bio:

Chris Coulter works with leaders in business; multilateral organizations and NGOs to help them better understand and respond to shifting stakeholder expectations, build trust with key constituencies and exert greater influence in shaping the future.

Chris has over 15 years of experience in providing evidence-based counsel to leadership organizations at the nexus of reputation, brand and sustainability. He is passionate about building recognized leadership for GlobeScan’s clients through stakeholder intelligence and engagement strategies. He is a specialist in international relations, holding an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs. Chris has substantive international experience having lived and worked in North America, Europe and Asia.

Guillaume Lavoie Chargé de cours, ÉNAP

Brief Bio: A public policy entrepreneur, lecturer and speaker, Guillaume Lavoie is interested in urban affairs, veloconomics, analytical design, the collaborative economy and the role of urban art. One of the most prominent experts on the collaborative economy,

Guillaume Lavoie has presented 200+ conferences on this topic, in Canada and abroad. He has also developed the first course in Canada on collaborative economics and public policy, which he teaches at the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP). He is the author of Canada's first by-law on the sharing of private spaces. In January 2018, he was appointed Chair of the Task Force on the Collaborative Economy of the Government of Quebec.


Jocelyn Mackie Co-CEO of Grand Challenges Canada, giving leadership and oversight to all aspects of the organization’s innovation platform.

Brief Bio:

Professional executive with a demonstrated history leading the operations of an innovation for impact platform with an annual budget of $30-$50M. Skilled in Nonprofit Operations & Human Resources, Funder Relations, Financial & Risk Management, Governance, Legal Compliance, Intellectual Property, and Structuring Grants, Loans & License Agreements. Experience working in development on the ground in Honduras, as well as for a multi-national corporation. Attained

a JD from University of Toronto Faculty of Law, a Masters in bioethics, and a business degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Floyd Marinescu CEO InfoQ.com & QConferences.com

Brief Bio: Co-founder, InfoQ.com Co-founder, QCon conference series Creator, TheServerSide.com Creator, TheServerSide Symposium Conference Series Author, EJB Design Patterns Specialties: Online Community Building and growth Developer Marketing

John Matheson Director of Policy to the Government House Leader

Brief Bio: After five years of global management experience in Canada, in the UK, and across Latin America, I left the private sector to pursue graduate studies in international politics and economics at the University of Oxford. I returned home to work in the "war room" of Prime


Minister Justin Trudeau's successful 2015 election campaign. I am now Director of Policy to the Honourable Bardish Chagger, P.C., M.P., Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.

Taylor Owen Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at The University of British Columbia

Brief Bio: Taylor Owen is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School. He was previously the Research Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University where he led a program studying the impact of digital technology on the practice of

journalism, and has held research positions at Yale University, The London School of Economics and The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo where his work focuses on the intersection between information technology and international affairs. His Doctorate is from the University of Oxford and he has been a Trudeau and Banting scholar, an Action Canada and Public Policy Forum Fellow, the 2016 Public Policy Forum Emerging Leader, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and on the Governing Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). He is the Founder of the international affairs media platform OpenCanada.org, and he is the author, most recently, of Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2015) and the co-editor of The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink its Foreign Policies (University of Toronto Press, 2015, with Roland Paris), Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State (Columbia University Press, 2017, with Emily Bell) and The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley Re-engineered Journalism (Tow Center 2017, with Emily Bell). His forthcoming book on Silicon Valley, journalism and democracy will be published by Yale University Press in early 2019.

Jodie Rawn Managing Director – CivicAction Leadership Foundation

Brief Bio Jodie oversees the DiverseCity Fellows and Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) programs, and is responsible for the development of strategies to identify and prepare the future leaders of our region. Jodie comes to CivicAction by way of the Ontario government, where


she held progressively senior roles in key areas of the organization including marketing/communications, issues management, strategy, organizational transformation and leadership development. In addition to management roles with both the Ministry of Government Services and the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, she also recently spent three years as Manager – Organizational Dynamics at ServiceOntario where she led her team in producing creative and high-impact engagement, communication, and leadership initiatives.

Anna Maria Tremonti Radio and television journalist

Brief Bio: Canadian radio and television journalist, who has been featured on a variety of programs on the CBC. She has served as a senior reporter for The National, where she won two Gemini Awards, and a host of The Fifth Estate, where she won a Gracie Award.[1] Since 2002, she has hosted CBC Radio One morning news and current affairs program The Current. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she began her journalism career at the University of Windsor student newspaper, The Lance, and the university's radio station, CJAM. Her later experiences included private broadcasting contracts in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia at CKEC Radio and Toronto before serving with the CBC in Fredericton, Halifax, Edmonton, Ottawa and Toronto. She also worked as a CBC correspondent in Europe, and was for several years the chief CBC correspondent in the Middle East.


Rethinking Education

Carole Campbell Associate Professor, Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Brief Bio Dr. Campbell is committed to advancing the use of research and evidence to inform, understand and contribute to educational change strategies involving policies and practices to strengthen professional capacity and to improve student opportunity, learning, achievement and equity. She is particularly interested in whole system reforms for large-scale change leveraging evidence of effective and promising practices within and across classrooms, schools, districts, provinces/states and countries.

Jean-Claude Couture

Roar Grottvik I am political adviser to the President and Vice-Presidents of Union of Education Norway, the dominating teacher and school leader organisation in Norway with 175 000 members. For 20+ years I have also been a member of the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD’s standing committee on Education, Skills and Labour market issues. I also represent TUAC on governing boards of several OECD projects within the same policy areas. It has also been a pleasure to be on the Steering Committee of a union led four year action research project in mathematics didactics where schools in Alberta, Ontario and Norway have taken part. #2: I am energised by constantly meeting new very knowledgeable people who inspire me to think and act across several subject and policy areas.

Rebecca Luce-Kapler I am Dean of the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. What energizes me is the enthusiasm and commitment of many of the young people I see. They are largely an untapped resource who are well aware of the challenges facing the world and are eager to do something. Some of the Deans of Education across the country are organizing Youth Fora to work with that spirit of change. What unsettles me are the seemingly vast issues facing the world right now. The most critical for


me is climate change and our rapid devouring of the world’s resources. If we cannot live in the world as human beings, all our other efforts are for naught.

Scott Murray

Introduction My focus is on the efficacy of education system, skills and economic performance. I think the market for education in Canada is in failure because of a lack of government oversight and standards, Information to market participants and perverse incentive structures.

What impact initiatives are you working on that are addressing the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? We are working on a trends analysis of key cognitive skills and on the macro economic impact of skill differences.

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? My ah hah moment was when I realized how the pse system was fleecing students.

Steve Moran

Steve Murgatroyd (Table Host) ● #differencemaker ● #funnytroublemaker ● #dontunderstandretirement ● #alwayslearning ● #gettingolderslowly ● winetaster ● #insightfinder ● #futuresthinker

What impact initiatives are you working on to address the systemic challenges we collectively face? What progress have you made? Working (with others) to sustain a global network of innovative educators (meetings set up for Australia in 2019 and UK 2020); agreement to offer a strategic foresight course UofA in 2019; work on a new book on Technology / Education 65% finished; planning advanced for a global conference 8-10 October 2019 in Toronto.


What would be a game-changer for you or for an initiative that you are passionately supporting? New ideas and insights / New connections and possibilities / X-Table Potential to Unleash a Pandemic of Psychological Health and Effective Citizenship

What was your moment of truth? The “Aha!” moment? Working around the world looking systematically at low / high performing schools and then doing solid research work on what makes a great school for all starting in 1972 with Professor Archie Cochrane and (now) Professor David Reynolds.

Jesse Tipping Jesse Tipping is the President of the Athlete Institute. He founded the Athlete Institute with fellow colleague Adam Hoffman in September of 2010. It has been the dream and vision since 2000 of his father James to create the best basketball training facility in Canada. Jesse has a background in basketball playing at both Brock University and University of Waterloo. He used his degree from Waterloo to pursue his passion of high performance and strength and conditioning. Jesse wanted to help create an opportunity for athletes to train at an elite facility and to play at the highest level while staying within Canada. As Athlete Institute President & Director of High Performance, Jesse oversees all Academies, facilities, performance training, programming and staff. Jesse and his wife Shantelle live in Orangeville with their son Nash.

Joel Westheimer

Brief Bio: Joel Westheimer is University Research Chair in Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa. He is also the education columnist for CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning and Ontario Today shows.


Rethinking Philanthropy

Marcus Benayon (Table Host) Psychologist and Advisor

Brief Bio Dr. Marcus Benayon, holds a Doctorate degree in Applied Psychology and Human Development, a Masters degree in Education, both from the University of Toronto, and Juries Doctor from Columbia University, NYC.

Dr. Benayon held various academic and corporate positions in the mental health and private healthcare services. Dr. Benayon served as VP of Corporate Development and Operations with GreeneStone Healthcare Corporation and Helix Healthcare Group. Dr. Benayon also served as personal advisor to one of Canada’s top philanthropists with the largest private foundation.

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Ken Grewal CEO Fourth Lane Wealth

Brief Bio Ken brings deep capital markets domain expertise to basecamp. Most recently, Ken was the Capital Markets Strategist at Precocity Capital, one of the world’s most successful hedge fund launches in 2016. At Precocity, Ken played a leadership role in building a variant macro thematic investment process. Prior to joining Precocity in 2015, Ken was a Managing Director, Canadian Institutional Equity Sales, at

BMO Capital Markets in New York City from 2009-2014 where he had extensive relationships with premier global macro and equity long/short hedge funds. From 2002-2008, Ken was a core partner at UBS Securities Canada where he quarterbacked the firm’s New York City sales effort. He also led Credit Suisse First Boston’s Canadian Equity Capital Markets Group from 2000 to 2002, where he advised many of Canada’s leading companies on cross-border equity, debt, and M&A transactions.


Stephen Huddart President & CEO, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

Brief Bio Stephen Huddart is President and CEO of The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, a national private foundation whose head office is in Montreal. The Foundation has played a leading role in developing and supporting social innovation and impact investing in Canada as a founding partner of Social Innovation Generation (SiG). McConnell's newest initiatives include Innoweave, The

McConnell Reconciliation Initiative, Cities for People, and RECODE.

Brad Kwong CEO, Dubuque Fighting Saints

Brief Bio: Brad Kwong, a defenseman who captained Harvard University’s hockey team in 1984-85, is part of the group that owns the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League, the top junior league in the country.

Bernie Li Consulting and Advising

Brief Bio: I get energized when working with smart people to build companies and solutions with impact. Most recently, I co-founded PURE Energies, which directly motivated over 5,000 home owners across North America to put solar panels on

their homes. We were the #2 ranked company on the Profit Hot 50 in 2013 and were acquired by NRG Energy Inc (NYSE: NRG) in 2014.


Prior to that, I spent over a decade working at venture capital and private equity funds in NYC, Montreal and Toronto. I have advised several start-ups along the way and am a proud volunteer for the not-for-profit Centre for Social Innovation.

Jon McPhedran Waitzer My name is Jon McPhedran Waitzer. I’m currently working on two big projects:

1. Facilitating a civil society coalition to explore the possibility of making government administrative data more available to the nonprofit sector, in order to improve outcomes evaluation, service integration, and evidence-driven policy advocacy.

2. Mobilizing young people with access to wealth as a force to transform philanthropy in Canada, with the aim of placing philanthropic resources in service of grassroots social justice movements.

I’m unsettled by the incredibly strong hold of neoliberal ideology on our collective political imaginations. I’m unsettled by my own tendency to avoid confrontation and blunt my critical perspectives in dialogue with folks who hold a lot of power - especially since I hold such a huge amount of privilege myself. I’m most energized, and most myself, when I’m having difficult and vulnerable conversations about how to reshape society in a way that better meets everyone’s needs.

Jody Stephenson Life is more than what you do, but it sure is good to love what you do.

Brief Bio: Jody is the Executive Director of the Rockdale Foundation where she is responsible for strategic direction of the foundation as well as for establishing and supporting key partnerships. She is also Founder of SitterTree, a babysitting scheduling and assigning application serving the Greater Atlanta area. She loves all her jobs, equally.

Since 2015, Jody has served as a member of the Steering Committee for the International Education Funders Group (IEFG). She also serves as a Board Member for Soaring Heights Communities.

Rod von Lipsey Managing Director at UBS


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Brief Bio: Leadership that inspires confidence: Being a decisive leader and strategic collaborator is what I’ve done my entire life. As a career Marine fighter pilot and decorated combat veteran; as a member of the White House National House National Security Council staff; and as an aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; my contributions have been made possible through earning the trust and respect of colleagues and clients worldwide.


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Jack Graham Policy Editor at Social Capital Partners

Brief Bio Policy journalist and researcher based in Toronto. With expertise in political economy, I’m working at Social Capital Partners to help make Canada the best place in the world to work.

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Shilpa Tiwari Sustainability Executive | Sustainable Finance | ESG Risk & Governance

Brief Bio With experience in multiple industries, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America, I am industry – agonistic, and quick study. A change agent who brings together multi-stakeholder groups, often at cross purposes, to develop programs and policies in line with business objectives for sustainability and good governance.

As an institutional investor, I established the first sustainable investing framework for the organization, and co-authored the first E&S Guidebook for Corporate Board of Directors. I was President of the OMERS Foundation, launched to address business priorities around culture, corporate citizenship and innovation. This Foundation has become a blue print for other pension funds desiring to create a similar impact through business activities.


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