2017 Agenda:

2017 Speakers:

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Name	Company	Position
Host
Lara Swift	Swift Labs	Co-founder, COO
Speakers
Jim Alfred	BlackBerry	Certicom General Manager/Vice President
Greg Boehmer	Deloitte	Senior Manager
Dan Deeth	Sandvine	Media & Industry Relations
Hon. Steven Del Duca	Government of Ontario	Minister of Transportation
Justin Eichel	Miovision	Technical Director
Justin Gammage	University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) Office of Research Services	Industry Liaison Manager
Geordie Hagerman	Carnegie Technologies	Vice President
Dave MacFarlane	ESCRYPT	General Manager
Dan Mathieson	City of Stratford	Mayor
Ryan McCartney	BDC Capital	BDC Communitech Patner
Ross McKenzie	WatCAR	Managing Director
Jean-Christophe Petkovich	Acerta	CTO
Juliette Powell	The Gathering Think Tank and Turing AI	Co-founder
David Resnick	Google	Head of Automotive
Michael Robinet	IHS Markit	Managing Director
Kevin Tuer	Open Data Exchange	Managing Director
Berry Vrbanovic	City of Kitchener	Mayor
Jon Walgate	University of Waterloo	Strategic Research Initiatives Officer, Engineering Research
Alex Wong	University of Waterloo -Artificial Intelligence Institute	Associate Professor – Co-Director

2017 Sponsors:

Company	Sponsorship Level
BDC Capital	Bronze sponsor
CARFIT	Bronze sponsor
Communitech	Silver sponsor
David Johnston Research & Tech Park	Breakout sponsor
Deloitte	Gold sponsor
Erwin Hymer Group	Bronze sponsor
ESCRYPT	Bronze sponsor
Exco Engineering	Silver sponsor
FoxNet	Silver sponsor
Government of Ontario	Silver sponsor
Grant Thornton	Bronze sponsor
Intermarket	Reception sponsor
Invest Stratford	Silver sponsor
Magna	Silver sponsor
Promation	Bronze sponsor
Studio 63	Bronze sponsor
Toyota Canada Inc.	Title sponsor