Speakers

RAMONA PRINGLE,

Innovation Expert and Technology Journalist

  • Ramona Pringle is Director of the Creative School Innovation Studio at Toronto Metropolitan University, and Director of the Transmedia Zone, an incubator for innovation in media and storytelling. She is also a technology analyst and columnist for CBC. Ramona provides organizations the knowledge and tools to understand the new media age while showing them how best to create and maintain meaningful engagement online. Ramona’s work has been featured at festivals and conferences including SXSW, TFI Tribeca Interactive, NXNE, Social Media Week, TEDx, i-docs, Power to the Pixel, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hot Docs, and in publications including the New York Times, The Globe & Mail, Mashable and the Huffington Post.

Leslie Shannon,

Head of Trend & Innovation, Scouting

Nokia

  • A Silicon Valley-based futurist, Leslie focuses on identifying connectivity-related tech disruptions and opportunities, including developments in robotics, drones, visual analytics, cloud gaming, generative AI, and especially augmented and virtual reality.  She is the author of the books Interconnected Realities and Virtual Natives.

Leila Wright,

Vice President of Telecommunications,

CRTC

  • Leila began her career practising competition law and commercial litigation at a national law firm. She joined the Competition Bureau in 2013, where she served in several senior executive roles, including as Deputy Commissioner for Digital Enforcement and Intelligence, leading on data analytics, intelligence, and behavioural economics. Leila was also the Associate Deputy Commissioner for the Policy, Planning and Advocacy Directorate, where she led major initiatives aimed at promoting competition, including in-depth studies on how to foster competition and innovation in Canada’s financial services and telecommunications industry.

DUNCAN STEWART,

Director of TMT Research,

Deloitte Canada

  • Duncan is the Director of TMT Research for Deloitte Canada, a member of Deloitte's US Center for Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT Center) and has 35 years of experience in the TMT industry. He is a globally recognized expert at predicting the future of consumer and enterprise technology, media and entertainment & telecommunications. He has been co-author of Deloitte Global’s annual Predictions Report on trends in TMT since 2008, meeting with hundreds of tech, media, and telecom companies globally each year, and incorporates their insights into his work.