THE CHANGEMAKERS Speakers & Presenters

Gerald Butts

Vice Chairman, Eurasia Group and Ex. Principal Secretary to PM Justin Trudeau

Nick Kouvalis

Political Strategist & Consultant

Shachi Kurl

President, Angus Reid Institute

Zain Velji

Former Co-Director of Naheed Nenshi’s NDP Leadership Campaign. Current Partner at Northweather.

Fred DeLorey

Partner, NorthStar Public Affairs and National Campaign Manager, Conservative Party of Canada (2021 General Election)

Vandana Kattar-Miller

Political Commentator on CBC’s Power & Politics, (Past) Director of Operations, Outreach, and Planning, PMO

Allen Alexandre

Executive director and Founder, Centre Culturel Afro De Montréal

Anne McGrath

Principal Secretary to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and National Director of the NDP (2018-2024)

Julie Ford

Executive Director, Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada

Josh Matlow

Councillor, City of Toronto

Perry Tsergas

President and CEO, Spark Advocacy, a boutique public affairs, advocacy communications and advertising agency.

Jeff Ballingall

Popular Conservative Strategist and Founder of Canada Proud & Ontario Proud and President, Mobilize Media Group.

Rachael Segal

Founder, Beyond a Ballot

Tim Gray

Executive Director, Environmental Defence

Ange Valentini

Former Campaign Director for Vision Vancouver. Current Founder & Principal Consultant at Strategic Impact Collective.

Chad Bowie

Former Campaign Manager for the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party. Current Founder of The Bowie Group.

DJ Koessler

Founder, Koessler Strategies (USA)

Jeremy Broadhurst

National Campaign Director, Liberal Party of Canada

Nikki Hill

Partner, Core Firm

Benjy Messner

Former Data & Analytics Advisor on several US state and national campaigns. Current Founder of New River Strategies (USA).

Dr. Alex Sévigny

Associate Professor McMaster University

Lindsay Brumwell

Founder and CEO, LB Strategies

Alex Glebov

CTO and Lead AI Engineer, PWRD.ai

Chi Nguyen

Executive Director, Equal Voice

Elyse Surette-DiMuzio

Co-Founder, Ampersand Social Co.

Mike Schreiner

Leader of the Green Party of Ontario and MPP for Guelph

Shannon Phillips

Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips

Sam Andrey

Managing Director, the Dais (Toronto Metropolitan University)

David Valentin

Principal, Liaison Strategies

Sally Housser

Political Commentator and Public Affairs Professional

Genevieve Tomney

Principal, GT and Company

Dave Clark

Deputy Chief of Staff to Ontario's Official Opposition Leader and Ontario NDP Campaign Director

Jan Kestle

President, Environics Analytics

Chris Moffatt Armes

President, PoliTraQ

Dave Leichtman

Director of Corporate Civic Responsibility at Microsoft

Nancy Cooke

CEO and Founder, Campaign Compass™

Matt DeCourcey

Head of Corporate Affairs, InterKnowlogy and Former MP for Fredericton

Brett Thalmann

Former Advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Current Founding Partner at Nexus Strategic Consultants.

Hasneet Singh Punia

Former Chief of Staff to two Ontario Ministers and the Mayor of Brampton. Current CEO at Armer Consulting.

Rob Leforte

President, First Lake Solutions & Co-Founder, Push Politics

Harneet Singh

Digital Strategist for over 100 political campaigns across Canada and Managing Principal, EOK Consults.

Tyler Meredith

Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips

Ken Boessenkool

Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips

Katie Davey

Executive Director of the Pond-Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick

Alex Paterson

Civics Lead, Canada at YouTube

Sean Wiltshire

SVP, Solutions at Data Sciences

Steve de Eyre

Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, Canada at TikTok

Flow Barre

CEO, Qomon