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
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