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Intuitive social data powering unforgettable fan experiences. Trufan help brands activate their engaged fans and target new audiences primed for conversion. Create amazing fan moments or let our team conceptualize, produce and distribute them for you.  Trufan’s advisory board includes industry rockstars like Sam Sheffer (YouTuber), Michael Hyatt (Executive Chairman, BlueCat Networks), Ryan Ho...

A serial entrepreneur, at 18 years old Aaron co founded Revitasize, an organic cold pressed juice kitchen serving high quality juices, smoothies, acai bowls and a variety of vegan options. In 3.5 years Revitasize has expanded to 7 locations throughout Toronto and the GTA. Aaron also co founded a recently launched Anxiety blanket company called Hush. Hush blankets are designed to help with sleep an...

Ron has been an award-winning advertising writer and Creative Director for some of the world’s most respected brands, including Air France, Evian, Fidelity, Hershey, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Intel, Microsoft, Volvo and many others. His advertising work has been recognized by The London International Advertising Awards, The New York Festivals of Advertising, The Crystals, The Extras, The Canad...

TIME magazine named Dean Karnazes as one of the "Top 100 Most Influential People in the World." Men's Fitness hailed him as one of the fittest men on the planet. An internationally recognized endurance athlete and NY Times bestselling author, Dean has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Among his many accomplishments, he has run 350 continuous miles, foregoing sleep for three nights....

Rachel David is one of Canada’s most sought out marketers. She built the influencer marketing company Hashtag Communications in 2016 and has since helped market companies like BestBuy, RBC and Google. The company is comprised of 90% women and they recently hit their million dollar milestone. Rachel recently gave a keynote at this year's TEDxVancouver where she discussed "How Influencers Have Trans...

Shawn Finder has always been an entrepreneur at heart. At age 24, Shawn entered the entrepreneurial world after competing as one of Canada's top-ranked tennis players. He started out importing packaging from the Orient and selling to top retailers in North America. However, knowing he always loved selling and list building, he founded ExchangeLeads in 2013 which helps his company build qualit...

 Director X (formerly known as Little X) was born on October 31st, 1975 in Toronto, Canada, and is of Trinidadian and Swiss descent. Moving to New York City, he became the protégé of pioneering director Hype Williams. X has been noted for directing high-budget, visually distinctive videos for popular artists, including: Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Fifth Harmony, Wiz Kha...

Carol Leaman (BA, MAcc, FCPA) is an award-winning thought leader with an impressive track record of successfully leading tech companies. Not only is she a disruptor in the corporate learning space, but she’s also the brains behind the Axonify Microlearning Platform. Prior to Axonify, Carol was the CEO of PostRank Inc., a social engagement analytics platform she sold to Google. She was also the CEO...

Bailey is the Founder & CEO of SkillsCamp and was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women. She is a TEDx speaker with over 1 million views, an award-winning digital marketer, and a businesswoman with a talent for helping people develop the skills they need for success. Her work and expertise have been featured in Forbes, CBC, FOX News, Flare Magazine, and more.

Ross founded Maropost in 2011 as a customer-centric ESP, but it quickly grew beyond his original vision. As the capabilities expanded, so did  customers, and in a few short years, Maropost became one of the fastest-growing companies in North America, without ever raising funding. Ross has one goal: to build a better platform by responding to customer needs. With that aim in mind, Maropost has...

Francisco is a software architect with over 15 years of experience and was nominated to Forbes 30 under 30. He is currently the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Bowhead Health - a health technology startup focused on removing the pain points and inefficiencies of preventive health management.  Bowhead is launching a connected device that will enable at-home biometric testing of critical nutr...

Chris is the Founder of Coffee Booster - a flavourless liquid health supplement you stir into your favourite coffee. Whether you need a pre-workout boost or a solution for aching joints, Coffee Booster delivers a nutritional pick-me-up; sip after sip Chris is currently building one of Canada's fastest growing CPG companies and is always looking for new opportunities to connect with entrepreneurs a...

Saad is the CEO & Co-Founder of Shop Bonsai - one of Canada’s fastest growing startups. The team is on a mission to build the media app of the future, an app that will forever change the way people shop. Powered by machine learning, Bonsai brings together leading brands and digital publishers to create the world’s first shoppable-content app. For publishers of digital content, Bonsai represent...

Brian Scudamore is the founder and CEO of O2E Brands, the banner company for 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine. Brian is a serial entrepreneur, known for pioneering the professional junk hauling industry with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. Since conquering that market, he’s gone on to apply the O2E (ordinary to exceptional) formula to the painting, moving, and home-detailing indu...

David Segal is the founder of Mad Radish, retail thought-leader and speaker. He is best known for bringing radical innovation to a 5,000 year product category with the launch of DAVIDsTEA, the company he co-founded in 2008. During his time at DAVIDsTEA, Segal grew the company from a single store on Toronto’s Queen Street West to a $200 million retail giant. In June 2015, DAVIDsTEA became a publica...

Claude Silver is an optimist, coach, manager, and mentor. She's the first ever Chief Heart Officer of VaynerMedia working for 800 humans.  The CHO was created to scale Gary, and to make sure that VaynerMedia’s 800+ employees—and one day it will be 1,000+—have a place they can find a home. Claude's hope is that in her 15-30 minute meetings, people will feel a lot clearer and leave with a newfo...

Best selling author of FREE PR and one of the world's top experts in earned media and PR. He is a serial entrepreneur and former co-founder of CanvasPop. In his spare time he advises hundreds of companies through San Francisco based 500 Startups and Clarity.fm.

David Priemer is widely recognized as a thought leader in the area of sales and sales leadership and has been published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Barrons, and Inc. magazines.  Previously David held several executive leadership positions at leading technology companies including Salesforce, where he was the Vice President of Commercial Sales and creator of the Sales...

Greg Wells is a health and high performance expert who inspires better living through better nutrition and better fitness.  As a coach, scientist and physiologist Dr. Wells has amassed more than 20 years of world-class experience with the extremes of human health and performance.  As a result, he understands how it is possible for anyone to have better health, energy and fitness.  ...

Dr. Paul Ekman is the co-discoverer of micro expressions, the originator of training tools such as Micro Facial Expressions Training Tool (METT), Subtle Facial Expressions Training Tool (SETT), PEG Interactive (Responding to Micro Facial Expressions), CAP (Capturing your Anger Profile), and is the author, co-author, or editor of 15 books. Dr. Ekman is recognized as the pioneer in facial expression...

Chris Gimmer is the co-founder of Snappa - a SaaS app that helps non-designers create online graphics in a snap. Snappa makes it super easy to create graphics for social media, ads, blogs, and more.   Since launching on November 23, 2015 - the startup is now doing over $55K USD in monthly recurring revenue.

Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and co-founder of x.ai.  Dennis is an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur who’s successfully exited several companies on that theme.  His long-term vision of killing the inbox led to the formation of x.ai and the creation of Amy + Andrew, artificially intelligent assistants who schedule meetings.  He speaks fr...

Manny is the founder of New Avenue Capital (NAC), an investment firm that brings together financial, human and impact capital for high-growth companies. An entrepreneur and philanthropist, he’s “long on people,” with a knack for recognizing talent, cultivating relationships and connecting change makers. Prior to founding NAC, Manny was a self-made entrepreneur, building his first multi-million dol...

Drew Green is an award winning entrepreneur and expert in managing fast-paced, high-growth companies. A visionary leader, Green has created one of the world's fastest growing apparel brands. Since 2015, he has established up to $100M in strategic capital commitments for INDOCHINO. Previously recognized as top 40 under 40, as well as having been nominated for CEO of the year, Green has been recogni...

 Jay Rosenzweig is the founding partner of Rosenzweig & Company - an expert in designing, building and attracting world class teams. He consults to public and private companies including large global corporations; emerging growth to mid-sized businesses; professional services firms; and private equity and venture capital firms. Prior to joining the search industry, Jay was in the field of...