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Rebecca Sutherns

CEO | Sage Solutions

Collaboration, Planning, Collaborative planning, Stakeholder engagement, Changing trends, Leadership, Engagement, Governance, Strategy, Human services

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Prof. Penelope Simons

Professor, Faculty of Law | University of Ottawa

Penelope Simons has been engaged in research on corporate human rights accountability for over a decade.

Kristin Petaski

Co-Founder | Workplace Engineering Solutions

Machine safety, Machine lockout, CSA Z432 - Safeguarding of Machinery, Risk assessments, Manufacturing engineering, Entrepreneur

Megan Smith

Associate Professor in Creative Technologies | University of Regina

Art, new media practice, new media art, physical computing, computer science, engineering and art, virtual reality, hardware development, Internet of things, creative technologies, new technologies, clinical designer

Barbara Payne

President | Electromagnetic Pollution Illnesses Canada Foundation (EPIC)

wireless, pollution, eHygiene, health, technology, electromagnetic, electricity, electrosmog, environment, climate, sustainability, electrosensitivity