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Lorraine Moore

President | Accelerate Success Group

Lorraine Moore is the North American expert on accountability. She advises CEOs, board chairs, senior executives and business owners from financial services, energy, healthcare, consulting & manufacturing on disruption, leadership performance, technology, implementing strategy & succession.

Dr Sarah Foster

National Manager, SeaChoice; Program Manager and Research Associate, Project Seahorse | SeaChoice; The University of British Columbia

Conservation scientist dedicated to finding pragmatic solutions for the many problems facing the oceans and the animals that call them home – solutions that work for both fish and the people that depend on them.

Dr. Leslie MacLaren

Retired, Professor Emeritus of Animal Physiology, Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture | Dalhousie University

Agricultural Genomics, Agriculture, Agroecosystems, Animal Physiology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Food and Culture, Food and Health, Nutritional Supplementation, Physiology, Placentation, Pregnancy, Reproductive Hormones, Ruminants, Sustainable Agriculture

Dr. Kara Brisson-Boivin

Director of Research | MediaSmarts

Digital sociology, Digital media literacy, Digital citizenship, Digital ethics, Evidence-based research, Online hate, Sexting, Online bullying, Young people and digital media, Inequality of access to technology

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Rebecca Johnson

Professor, Faculty of Law | University of Victoria

Rebecca Johnson is a pioneer in Canadian law-and-film scholarship.