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Dawn Rae Downton

Independent writer | journalist

Chronic pain, Opioids, Opioid crisis, Privacy, Security, Wireless engineering, Surveillance technology

Fatima Zaidi

Co-founder, CEO | Quill Inc.

Podcasting, media tech, tech trends, sales trends, artificial intelligence, consumer behavior in tech, consumer behavior in sales, funding landscape for women in tech, raising capital, diversity and inclusion, content marketing, personal branding

Dr. Brynn Winegard

Keynote Speaker & Business-Brain Expert (Marketing, Retail) | DrBrynn.com

Dr. Brynn L. Winegard is a professor, expert, and speaker in business-brain sciences. A business person and entrepreneur, Winegard looks at business phenomena through the lens of social and brain sciences in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why things work or manifest the way they do. What are shoppers really looking for? What do consumers really want from producers? How can we use insights from the social and brain sciences to be better at our jobs and in our lives - be better leaders, sales people, engagers, managers, be more successful? Contact Brynn to gain a deeper understanding - and therefore better insights - of the business phenomena you are considering, looking at, or investigating.

Diane-Laure Arjaliès

Assistant Professor, Managerial Accounting and Control, General Management & Sustainability | Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario

Sustainable finance, Impact assessments, Financial markets, Financing Indigenous businesses, Design of metrics for sustainable goals, Conservation, Protection of ecosystems, Natural resources impact assessments

Dr. Ashley Miller

Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry | University of British Columbia

relationships, parent and child mental health, mood and anxiety disorders, mindful parenting, psychotherapy for children and youth, parenting and parenthood, social and environmental influences on health, and the impact of adverse childhood events and trauma on children and families