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Dr. Verena Seufert

Assistant Professor in Land Use and Food System Dynamics | Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Scientist interested in all things food and nature. Studying how we can do agriculture better.

Céline Williams

Executive Coach and Culture Engineer | ReVisionary

Mindset, CEO, mindset shift, leadership development, women entrepreneurs, growing business, self-development, confidence, effective communication

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

Dr. Nafissa Ismail

Professor at School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences | University of Ottawa

Adolescent mental health, Animal behaviour, Biopharmaceutical science, Cognition, Developmental biology, Immunology, Molecular biology, Neuroscience, Psychopathology, Sex/sexuality, Stress

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Karen Fellowes

Senior Counsel | Stikeman Elliot LLP

Lawyer with corporate and consumer bankruptcy expertise