2024 Speakers

Janine Manning

Executive Director, Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund

Melanie Thomas

Vice President, Community Foundations of Canada

Kat Cadungog

Executive Director, Foundation for Environmental Stewardship

Tiffany Callender

CEO and Co-founder of the FACE Coalition

Liban Abokor

Co-Founder of The Foundation

for Black Communities (FFBC)

Jeff Cyr

Managing Partner & Founder, Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds Inc

Bayan Khatib

Director of Impact at the Northpine Foundation

Craig Wellington

Executive Director Black Opportunities Fund

Amoye Henry

Co-founder of Pitch Better

Alasdair Maclay

GSG Chief Strategy Officer Of GSG

Amma Lartey

CEO of Impact Investing Ghana

Upkar Arora

CEO Of Rally Assets

Alfred Burgesson

Founder & CEO of Tribe Network

Filsan Farah

Program Lead Of Verge Capital At Pillar Nonprofit Network

Jehad Aliweiwi

Executive Director of the Laidlaw Foundation

Amanuel Melles

Executive Director of the Network for Advancement of Black Communities (NABC)

Stephanie Robertson

Co-Chair Social Value International

Atieno Otonglo

Market Development Manager GSG Impact

Liza Arnason

Founder and Chair of the Board of the ASE Foundation for Black Communities with Disabilities

Frank Baylis

Executive Chairman of Baylis Medical Technologies

Sacha Boxill

Managing Director, Corporate Development

and Strategic Partnerships at Petros PACE Finance

Andrea Serra

Chief Market Development Officer, IFVI (International Foundation for Valuing Impacts) Sustainability and lmpact Investing

Sara Wolfe

Co-Founder, Equity Cubed

Michelle Baldwin

Senior Advisor, Transformation at the Community Foundation of Canada

Kristi Rivait

Co-founding director of Scale Collaborative

Kristi Fairholm Mader

Founder of Thrive Impact Fund

Jane Chang

Malaysia Impact Alliance

Andrea Nemtin

Chief Executive Officer of Social Innovation Canada

Anan Lololi

Black Food Sovereignty Alliance

Edwin Zu-Cudjoe

Executive Director At Social Enterprise Ghana

Annelies Tjebbes

Executive Director at Roots & Rivers Consulting

Sarah Juma

Founder of Innovate Inclusion

Sara Dent

Executive Director and Co-Founder at Young Agrarians

Marcelo Vieta

Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Program in Adult Education and Community Development

Temma Pinkofsky

Graduate Research Assistant of University of Toronto

Dr. C. Justine Pierre

Director, Dunn, Pierre, Barnet & Company Canada Ltd

Adam Spence

CEO, Co-Founder and Director of Social Venture Connexion (SVX)

Efosa KC Obano

Founder & Manager Of The Black Founders Network

Benjamin Feagin Jr., MSc

Chief Executive Officer of AgriTech North

Sandra Lapointe

Founder of Canadian for Social Innovation

Yasir Dildar

Director at MEDA

Kate Murray

Director, Impact Strategy & Measurement of TAS,

Natasha Freidus

Co-Founder Equity Cubed

Katie Turner

Gender lens Investing, Ecosystem Development

Ilana Landsberg – Lewis

Senior Associate, Gender at Work

Jayne Engle

Mission Co-Holder of Dark Matter Labs

Liz Simmie

Co-Founder, Honeytree Investment Management

Shady Hafez

Programs Manager At The National Association Of Friendship Centers

Peter Wrinch

CEO of Hollyhock

Kizito Bijyinama Musabimana

Founder & Executive Director at the Rwandan

Canadian Healing Centre (RCHC)

Louis-Edgar Jean-Francois

President-directeur general, Groupe 373

Dr imara Ajani Rolston

Founder of the Community Climate Resilience Lab

Melisa Ellis

Founder of Nobellum

Ainurul Rosli

Social Innovation Movement

Rosemarie Powell

Executive Director of the Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN)

Susanna Redekop

Co-Founder of Freedom Dreams

Afua Asantewaa

Project Manager at Fair Finance Fund

Dan Lammot

CEO of threshold.world

Wayne Miranda

Market Developer Boann Capital

Tracey Robertson

Innovation Lead Partnership Investments at the Ontario Trillium Foundation

Elizabeth Chick Blount

CEO of Buy Social Canada

Angela Carter

Executive Director of the Roots Community Services

Michael Assiaamah

CEO of Support & Growth

Rusul Alrubail

Executive Director of Parkdale Centre for Innovation

Adeola Oladimeji

Founder of Ascendi Capital

Surabhi Jain

Executive Director at Workforce Collaborative

Rabia Khedr

National Director Of Disability Without Poverty

Philip Barton

Founder of Minds of Soil

Paluck Kohli

Manager, Indigenous Relations

Randall Terada

Manager of the Toronto Impact Social Finance initiative

Chloe Marie Brown

Policy Analyst at the Future Skills Center

Mritunjay (Mj) Sinha

Independent Impact & Responsible Investment Consultant

Isaac Olowolafe Jr.

Founder and General Partner of Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)

Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed

Founding Director of the Social Innovation Lab

Cordell Jacks

CEO & GP Regenerative Capital Group

Keith Ippel

Co-CEO of Spring

Shannin Metatawabin

CEO of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association (NACCA)

Sally Dimachki

Emploi et Développement social Canada (EDSC) / Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) Acting Manager, Social Finance Fund | Gestionnaire par intérim, Fonds de finance sociale

Andre Vashist

Director of Learning and Collaboration at Philanthropic Foundations Canada

Chelsey MacNeil

CEO of The Purposeful group

Julie Segal

Senior Manager, Climate Finance Environmental Defence

Doug Minter

Program Manager and Partnerships-Sponsorships At the Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce

Sarah Saso

Vice President, ESG & Social Impact, Meridian Credit Union

Susan Henry

Director Of Community Impact & Financial Inclusion At Alterna Savings

Rebecca Sherbino

Executive Director of Raw Carrot Soup

Julia Grady

Executive Director and Co-Founder of 10C Shared Space

Hayley Rutherford

Senior Consultant & Operations Director at Roots & Rivers

Louise Adongo

Principal Owner Caprivian Strip Inc.

Keshiv Kausha

Director of Impact Investing, Propel Impact

Shaun McCumber

Indigenous Business Consultant & Project Manager at Neville Consulting Group Inc

Ryan O'Neil Knight

Executive Director Of ACBN

Melizia Mensah

Managing Director of Sisters in Solidarity

Thierry Lindor

CEO & Co-founder of Happly.Ai

Jillisa Brown-Appiah

CEO of Funding Impact

Dipo Ali

Founder of Migr8

Efia Tekyi-Annan

Managing Director of the Black Data Collective

Graham Singh

CEO of the Relèven- Centers Foundation

Carlos Gutierrez

Chief Development Officer at Larta Institute

Eoin Callan

Managing Director at Bloom Impact Capital

Eloise Duncan

CEO and Founder of Financial Resilience Institute

Clement Esene

Executive Director at BIPOC Foundation

Tamar Huggins

CEO of Tech Spark AI

Norman Valdez

Director, Technology and Design, Marketing and Communications at CERIC

Alex Tveit

Co-founder & CEO of Sustainable Impact Foundation

Foster Awintiti Akugri

CEO of the HackLab Foundation

Jessica Alina Rayne

Founder Of Evolving Doors Inc.

Jonah Chininga

Co-Founder & CEO of Woveo

Wahiakatste (wahi) Diome-deer

Senior Director, Strategy at Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds