Meet The Speakers!

Invest Atlantic would like to thank all of our speakers for joining us, and helping to make IA2018 a success!

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KEYNOTE Jordan Graham Strategic Partnerships Manager at Shopify! Luncheon Keynote, Sept 20th	KEYNOTE Matthew Spoke Founder of AION Opening Keynote, Sept 19th	INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE David Brennan CFO of EcoBee Inc. “Meet the Angels”	INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE Mary Long-Irwin Executive Director of Northern Ontario Angels “Meet the Angels”
INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE Suraj K. Gupta Co- Founder, President & CEO of Rogue Insight Captial “Meet the Angels”	INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE Gerry Pond Chair & Co- Founder of East Valley Ventures and Mariner Partners “Meet the Angels”	INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE Alex MacBeath CEO & Managing Partner, Island Capital Partners “Meet the Angels”	INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE Randy Thompson Chairman & CEO, Valhalla Private Capital “Meet the Angels”
INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE Claudio Rojas Managing Director for Hurt Capital Moderator for “Meet the Angels”	Jan Mertlik VP Sales and Communications, Co-founder of Power HV “Preparing for First Money”	Brian Sharp CEO of Onset Communications Inc. “Preparing for First Money”	Dawn Jutla CEO of Peer Ledger “Implementing Blockchain in Your Business”
Vaughn Murphy Business Development, Telex AI “Implementing Blockchain in Your Business”	Marat Mukhamedyarov Managing Partner, Good News Ventures “Implementing Blockchain in Your Business”	Rob Barbara Partner at Build Ventures “Venture Captial – Friend or Foe?”	Stephen Ball Regional Director, Atlantic Canada, NPC “Venture Capital – Friend or Foe?”
Daniel Larsen Co-founder & CPO, Stash Energy “Venture Capital – Friend or Foe?”	Mary Kilfoil Lead, Launch Dal and Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship “Customer Discovery #1”	Mark Hobbs Partner at Fundmetric “Customer Discovery”	Peter Gifford EIR at Propel ICT “Customer Discovery”
Krista Walsh Founder, KC Collect “Good Mentoring vs. Bad”	Dr. Don Ridley Lead – Mentorship Program & Mentor-in-Residence “Good Mentoring vs. Bad”	Amy Pollard Strategic Investments, BDC “Good Mentoring vs. Bad”	Tyson MacInnis Director of Company & Product Development, Food Island Partnership “Technology in Startups”
Pat Sebastien Business Development Consultant “Technology in Startups”	Greg Boone CEO, Dosecann “Technology in Startups”	Chelsey Lake Founder, Lake Design & Strategies “Identifying Your Market & Strategies”	Josh Ogden Co-Founder, CEO of AVSS – Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc. “Identifying Your Markets & Strategies”
Sue Siri Founder, CEO of Iris Booth “Scaling a Startup”	Chris Crowell VP Corporate Innovation at VOLTA Labs “Scaling a Startup”	Martin J. Yuill Director, Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator Director, Incubation Services, PEI BioAlliance Inc. “Planning the Exit – Strategies”	John Kimmel Founder, ReviQ “Planning for an Exit – Strategies”
Greg Stewart Partner, GreenSky Capital “Planning for an Exit – Strategies”