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Speakers

Co-Founder and General Coordinator, Vote16 Canada

Author, Activist & Journalist

Entrepreneur and former CEO of the MaRS Discovery District

Host, Front Burner Podcast on CBC

Secretary General - Amnesty International Canada (English Speaking)

Ketty serves as Secretary General for Amnesty International Canada’s English-Speaking section.

Editor-in-chief, Toronto Star

Associate Professor of Social Innovation Design, OCAD University

Founder, Shorefast

Security Technologist; Author, Rewiring Democracy

Economist, MIT Institute Professor & Nobel Prize Laureate

CEO, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Executive Director, The Walrus

Visiting Elder, President of Anishinaabemowin Teg

Founder and Principal, MASS LBP

Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations

Director of Foreign Policy, National Defence and National Security, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

EU Ambassador to Canada

Director of Partnerships, the Dais

Chief Economist, The Canadian Shield Institute

Founding Partner, ThinkingThrough.AI

President, Journalists for Human Rights

Professor and Principal’s Research Chair, University of British Columbia (Okanagan); Co-lead, Digital Transparency Excellence Cluster

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