People

Alan Albert

Entrepreneur, Innovator, Advisor. Founder of three successful software companies including FileMaker, acquired by @apple.

Daina Lightfoot

Designer at @hootsuite | snowboarding, coffee, pixels & pens

Julien Jacques

Founder of Scene Scout • Worked at @siemens • Studied at @university-of-guelph. Strong business background (BCOMM) and front end web development

Nick Bouton

Indie front-end/UX developer. Principal at @taunt-media, founder of @protagonize, organizer of @VancouverCX, new dad. Community, webdev, standards & hockey.

George Delaportas

Entrepreneur, co-founded Pandoo TEK, founded localhost Ltd., executive in various companies and security expert, contributor @ EU and global projects.

Joel Greensite

Technophile with big systems experience applied to brand new start-ups and established enterprises. Loves making a difference in sales, delivery and strategy.

Nick Cairns

Co-Founder @wantering. UX designer and frontend architect that has built interfaces for HTML5 mobile, natural language search, and high-traffic syndication.

Shashi Kant

@massachusetts-institute-of-technology & MIT-Sloan Alum, MS Engineering & Management, Researcher at CSAIL.

Vish Talreja

Founder @beamm • Worked at @microsoft, @razorfish • Studied at @clemson-university, @illinois-state-university

Vlad Berteanu

Co-founder of @sunnytrail, worked at @google and @bitdefender

Athena Lam

Founder Project OUTPost • Worked at @sow-asia-foundation, @tedxyouth-hongkong, Designed 1st social accelerator in HK • Studied at @london-school-of-economics, @university-of-toronto

raykanani

Founder of SMART Pics: a hardware/software marketing solution for events. Worked with Aol, Microsoft, Disney and Sony. Strong design and development background.

Tommy Chan

Worked at @electronic-arts, @dell, @venuespot • Studied at @university-of-british-columbia, CS / Psychology. Geek, organizer & presenter at meetups.

Bram Whillock

Bram Whillock

Dobes Vandermeer

Technical Director

Jeff Bunch

Veteran branding and digital marketing strategist.

Robert David

Founder of Monetsu.com, a really easy and safe way to earn and spend Bitcoin online.

Michael Kunitzky

Working in and around start-ups for 20 years. Lucky and thankful to have worked with some of the most passionate souls and brilliant minds.

Noah Bloom

Mobile entrepreneur & tech anthropologist. CEO @jiber, founding team @Blueslice, Harvard/H150, race bikes for @lgevolution, adventure skier, guitar slayer

Oleg Bilozor

CTO and Co-Founder of @tago. Strong software engendering background. 1st startup turned to be profitable.

Frank Christiaens

20 years of hands-on experience starting, operating, and managing multinational corporations throughout Asia, South America and Europe

Herman Chandi

VP Biz Dev @procurify. Startups, Business Development, Finance - taking startups from seed to scale

Jim Fletcher

Taleeb Noormohamed

Seasoned, strategic tech entrepreneur and investor; strong experience working with startups to multibillion $ market cap companies. @princeton, @oxford.