Award winning, influential Leader and Innovator in the Technological Industry, with over 20 years of experience, specializing in people, talent, mentorship, product and business development.

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur and marketplace expert with a focus on platforms that upskill and connect tech professionals with tech companies. Current roles include EIR, Investment Commitee member & Advisor.

Jeff founded Animikii in 2003 and has orchestrated and managed its growth ever since. Everything Jeff does in business is geared towards uplifting his family, communities and Indigenous Peoples.

Founder of OneFeather - an Indigenous technology company, planting seeds of sovereignty in the digital era. Status card services. Banking solutions. Voting. Nations management.
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Candice is recognized as one of Canada’s most inspirational women entrepreneurs and business leaders by Canadian SME Small Business Magazine for her economic development work in Indigenous communities.

Anita Pawluk is an experienced entrepreneur and owner of successful startup companies, including RaceRocks 3D. Her diverse experience includes fields such as technology, clean energy, construction and storage.
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Darian Kovacs is the Indigenous founder Vancouver based SEO company Jelly Digital Marketing & PR & digital marketing course Jelly Academy. He brings 15 years of marketing experience and a passion for education, and creativity.

Bobbie is the Founder and CEO of Virtual Gurus, a Talent as a Service Solution platform that matches its users with the perfect North American Remote Assistants and Freelancers by using matchmaking algorithms.
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Althea is a member of the Gitxsan Nation (Gitwangak, Fireweed Clan). She is a General Partner at Raven Capital Partners, a professor of venture capital at the Schulich School of Business and a consultant specializing in fundraising, growth, and Indigenous engagement.

Josh is a co-founder and CEO of Artemis, a data infrastructure startup in Vancouver. He also impressively co-founded, scaled, and sold his first startup Guelph Box while attending Carleton University.
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Alejandro is the founder of the Indigenous Friends Association. He is an activist and scholar (digital decoloniality & decolonial computing), critical race coder/developer.
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Tashia (she/her) is a queer Stoney-Sioux women proudly from the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation. She is a dynamic leader with a track record of leadership across corporate, non-profit, government, and post-secondary sectors.
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Ja'elle is the founder and CEO of Ultralogix. An indigenous owned, woman-led data company working across industry, private and public sectors.
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Hannes Edinger is an award-winning economist, a member of the Métis Nation, and the Managing Director of Big River Analytics. When he’s out of the office, Hannes is off chasing steelhead and salmon somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.


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One of 12 Members of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Data and Technology Circle for the City of Toronto.The mandate of the FNIM Data and Technology Circle is to provide an ongoing forum for support, guidance and advice to City of Toronto divisions and partners on Indigenous data collection and digital technology initiatives.

With 20 years of extensive work with Indigenous people, communities, and organizations across Canada, I am an Indigenous professional, strong leader, and expert relationship builder.
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Benjamin Scott is a member of the Tlicho Nation and a true Northerner at heart. He is also the creator of The Multi-Directional Business Compass used by EntrepreNorth to empower Indigenous entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses and livelihoods across Northern Canada.
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CEO at Conquer Experience PeriopSim. Over 6000 Learners have completed over 500,000 Simulations on the PeriopSim Platform. This means that over 100,000 patients have had Learners in the room that have had an opportunity to learn and be quantitatively assessed on core competencies with simulation.
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Hello/Taanishi, my name is Brett. I am Red River Métis, with a mixed Indigenous-settler heritage. My roots trace back to Winnipeg, located in Treaty 1 Territory, which is the traditional land of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, & the homeland of the Métis Nation. These days I'm diving deep into reconciliation, DEI, leadership, building future workforces, AI, & experiential learning

As a proud Métis Nation of Alberta, I love to support and uplift other businesses and organizations that are doing good things in the world, especially those working on UNDRIP and Truth and Reconciliation. My team and I at IT Horizons, Saltmedia, and Aanji.ca are dedicated to partnering with organizations that uplift communities. We find joy in contributing to projects that make a positive difference.
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Carol Anne is the CEO and founder of The Indigenomics Institute (www.indigenomicsinstitute.com ) the Global Center of Indigenomics (www.globalcentrerofindigenomics.com) and the Global Indigenous Technology House.. Carol Anne is an award winning author of Indigenomics- Taking A Seat At The Economic Table
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Alycia is an entrepreneur. As a founding member of QuantoTech, she oversees supply chain management, client services, research and analysis, and day to day operations for the QuantoTech team. Before QuantoTech, Alycia worked at several companies and technology start-ups such as the Alacrity Foundation, CarrotLines, and Media Touch in roles ranging from recruitment to marketing.
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Founder of RUNWITHIT Synthetics. Every day, I have the privilege of working with an exceptional team at RUNWITHIT (RWI) to make Synthetics, a new kind of intelligent, adaptive, dynamic, and even creative software that runs on a massive scale. This new kind of software has broad applications. Today, Synthetics create propositional realities around complex digital and real-world systems, including Synthetic Smart Cities.

Matthew Unger is an indigenous (Métis, RRS) Canadian technologist, father, founder and CEO of iComply. "Drawing on two decades of experience in technology, financial services, and regulation, I am on a mission to leverage new technologies that can create a world where trust, accountability, security, and privacy are available to all."
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