Brandon is a passionate technology strategist, focusing on enterprise applications.  A mechanical engineer by training, Brandon has held a variety of technical and operational roles in his career.  Formerly, as the CEO/Co-Founder of JS Operations, he worked with clients in the consumer product space to integrate technology into their supply chain operations through developing novel applications of IoT systems.  An avid lover of applying technology to solve problems, Brandon also worked as a Product Manager for Bowery Farming, helping define and build the future of precision agriculture.  Brandon has worked at McKinsey, SpaceX, Raytheon, Li & Fung, and the US Army R&D center.  He received his MBA from MIT Sloan, his MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and his BSE in Mechanical Engineering from Penn.  At MIT, Brandon was a Leaders for Global Operations Fellow, where he published work on leveraging technology to solve operational challenges in companies located in developing economies.  He is an avid endurance athlete, and loves to train for triathlons and ultramarathons.

Damian Matheson is an entrepreneur and EdTech veteran, passionate about helping young people make more informed decisions about their futures. But it wasn’t always this way. Like many of you reading this, in high school, he was unsure about what he wanted to do with his life. Like most students today, his family (and our society) encouraged him to pursue the conventional path; to do what has always been done. Life had other plans for Damian. He still didn’t know exactly what he wanted, but he knew it wasn’t what our traditional education was shepherding him towards. After leaving school, Damian co-founded FoodStory; a company that brought the farmers markets of Toronto online, allowing conscious consumers to support local growers with a subscription based grocery delivery service. Following that, he led business development efforts at myBlueprint, helping to scale it’s adoption across over 400 school boards nationally, which now helps more than 1 million students plan for life after high school.

Genni is a seasoned marketing and branding professional with 5+ years of team leadership and campaign management experience. Recognized for demonstrating a natural aptitude for strategic planning and process improvement, Genni has a verifiable history of contributing directly to company growth and expansion throughout her career. Genni's career has spanned SEO copywriting, web development, social media management, focus group and market research, public and media relations, product positioning and branding, training, and performance assessment at companies like Good Food, Mamamia, and with various consulting clients. Delivering superior administration on the latter areas of expertise requires exceptional utilization of effective communication and organizational skills.

Ian Lockhart is an energetic entrepreneur and public speaker who started his own investment fund prior to joining TKS. During that time, he invested in dozens of young entrepreneurs to help them turn their ideas into profitable businesses, including multi-million dollar revenues. Early in his career, Ian was focused on a series of startups that raised over 15M dollars in funding. Ian has worked with Fortune 500 brands in media, manufacturing, automotive, and e-commerce. Previously, Ian was a part of a Private Equity Fund, managing portfolios and leading acquisitions. To this day he continues to invest in entrepreneurs financially and through advisory positions

Kim is a serial entrepreneur that has been involved in a wide variety of ventures – from organizing conferences & events to TV hosting & production to founding, and later successfully exiting, a commercial cleaning company. Kim’s most recent venture was co-founding the data architecture startup Truebase. Using the internally developed, open source data notation “Truth”, Truebase works with many different types of companies across Canada, the US and Australia, to create highly structured data models in the form of ontologies. These ontologies are used to power various business systems such as knowledge graphs, semantic networks, intuitive search, recommendation engines and various machine learning models. Kim loves working with creative & curious individuals, specifically, the young ambitious ones. She has served as an entrepreneurship coach for organizations such as YES (youth entrepreneurship arm) and as a mentor to the startup incubator, Founder Institute. She works closely with educational institutions like Georgian College (Big Data Analytics Program) as an industry advisor, and helps provide students with real world project experience. She is a frequent speaker on technology topics and shares much of her entrepreneurial journey on her various social media accounts.

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Michael Raspuzzi is a serial entrepreneur who focuses on innovation in digital health and global food systems. Formerly, as CEO/Co-Founder of Culinary AI Labs, he helped build algorithms to personalize nutrition support; and as Design Instructor for both the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Harvard University John. A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, he focuses on applied learning and curriculum development at the intersection of design, engineering, and entrepreneurship. Raspuzzi received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and an inaugural Master in Design Engineering from Harvard University—where his project EMMA: Maternal Healthcare Coach, earned him the MDE 2018 Thesis Prize. He serves on the board of directors for Life Changing Labs supporting the Cornell startup community and on the executive board for the Boston Hub of the Global Shaper Community from The World Economic Forum.

Nadeem Nathoo is the cofounder of The Knowledge Society (TKS), a human accelerator that focuses on exponential technologies like as artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality, nanotechnology, and the internet of things (IoT). His mission at TKS is to develop young people (age 13–17) to pioneer new industries using emerging technologies and sciences. TKS alumni have spoken at some of the world's largest conferences, worked at companies like IBM and Microsoft, raised money from some of the top investors in the world, and are building projects in areas including brain-machine interfaces, quantum computing, and genetic engineering.

Prior to his role at TKS, Nadeem was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he advised Fortune 500 CEOs on their challenges in banking, mining, aerospace, telecommunication, and advanced industries, to name a few. Nadeem has successfully led turn-arounds and growth strategies that have had global implications, including facilitating a $500 million merger transition and a $2 billion strategic spin-off. He's also done development work in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh, East Africa, and Honduras. In his spare time, Nadeem is an angel investor.

Niloo has worked with prominent startups in San Francisco and Toronto, and was a founding member of Clearco (formerly Clearbanc), a billion dollar e-commerce lending platform run by Dragon’s Den judge, Michele Romanow. She's also worked as Head of Education at Blockgeeks, the world’s premier blockchain education platform, where she was a thought leader and advocate for blockchain technology. Her work in AI also led her to start her own company, Hello Iris, which was backed by leading startup accelerator, Techstars, and used Natural Language Processing to predict human behaviour.