Darren MacLean
Chef Darren MacLean is one of Canada’s most acclaimed and outspoken chefs, restaurateurs and environmental advocates, passionate about sustainability and the food building community.
Seeking to showcase Canada’s culinary scene to international audiences, MacLean was Canada’s sole contender and a finalist on Netflix’s global cooking competition “The Final Table.” He is also the first-ever Canadian chef invited aboard to consult and collaborate with Princess Cruises.

David Nagy
David Nagy is a technology and eCommerce expert and an avid entrepreneur. He has spent over 15 years working with small-to-large retailers, helping businesses accelerate in the areas of eCommerce, digital transformation and software-as-a-service (SaaS). He is well known as a co-Founder of Live Out There – one of Canada’s leading online outdoor retailers.

Emileah Baumen
Emileah leads Program Operations at Digital Main Street, with a mission to help as many small businesses and artists get selling online as possible. Her work has always centered on empowering leaders and their teams to differentiate themselves and drive measurable results. Her work with small businesses spans a wide range of industries and is passionate about inspiring, teaching and developing their digital strategy toolkits.

Shenela Tavarayan
Shenela Tavarayan is the Retail Commerce, Senior Manager in charge of the Small Business portfolio at INTERAC, with a focus on Merchant acceptance and usage, growth of new products, including SPoC and MPoC. She is also a co-lead and co-founder of the Women’s Employee Resource Group at INTERAC Corp, focused on turning inwards and listening to the perspectives of the strong women at INTERAC.

Colin Patterson
Colin Patterson signed as an undrafted free agent with the Calgary Flames. A skilful defensive forward who usually played left wing, Patterson was a finalist for the Selke Trophy in 1989. He joined the Flames in 1983, and later won the Stanley Cup with the Flames in 1989. After leaving Calgary in 1991, Patterson played two more seasons with the Buffalo Sabres.

Connie DeSousa and John Jackson
Connie DeSousa and John Jackson have been professional collaborators since 1999. They worked together in the industry around the world, including in New York and San Francisco, before returning to Calgary in 2009 and opening Charcut. Along the way, Connie was a Food Network Top Chef Canada finalist and has won other top culinary awards. Under the Char Restaurant Group banner the pair have expanded to a roster of restaurants.

Rachelle Roulston
Rachelle Roulston has worked in the Sports and Entertainment industry for over 14 years. Through her work as the Manager, Special Projects with the Calgary Sports and Entertainment corporation, she is involved in a variety of projects and special events. Throughout the last year she has worked closely with Square to upgrade CSEC’s point of sale platform and eCommerce solutions.

Nicole Matos
Nicole is a Metis woman, wife, mother of 3, President of Rivet Construction Group and Founder of Oonnie Food Technologies. You will often hear Nicole say that her successes have mostly come from trying everything the wrong way first. Nicole is obsessed with Korean TV and is not a fan of concerts but loves live comedy.

Courtney Hanak
Courtney Hanak is the Founder and CEO of Williamraedesigns Ltd and Business Development Manager at Oonnie Food Technologies. Courtney is a graduate of the imaginary school of hard-knocks and has never passed a math class in her life. A die-hard Taylor Swift fan, she also enjoys the actor Matt Smith.

Jeremy Ho
Jeremy is the co-founder of Monogram Coffee. Starting from a hand-built coffee cart in 2014, Monogram has five café locations in Calgary and Vancouver, and sources and roasts award-winning coffee for our wholesale, subscription and eCommerce community across Canada. The team at Monogram has won the Canadian Barista Championships and subsequently represented Canada at the World Coffee Competition seven times, finishing as high as third.

Lauren Gross
Lauren Gross is a Digital Marketing Lead at Chic Geek, growing the number of women in the tech space through thought leadership and impactful content. She is also Founder of Calgary-based marketing agency Lauren Natalie Designs, working with small businesses and solopreneurs to embrace their brand and find their voice online.

Aislinn Grant
Aislinn Grant is the Creative Director and Founder of Grant – a design studio specializing in bold, typographic-focused brand identities for businesses and startups throughout Canada. As a self-taught designer, she’s built a creative firm known for quirky ideas and disruptive messaging. She’s worked with everyone from amazing solopreneurs to organizations like lululemon and WestJet in her career and remains dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs along their journeys.

Jason Sealy
Jason Sealy has played a variety of sports from a young age. As he grew older, he found a need for movement and agility training in Canadian sports – something that wasn’t taught to himself or any other athlete he came across. This led to Footwork Lab being created in 2018. With the mission of cultivating a new generation of athletes through movement and agility, Footwork Lab is Canada’s only elite footwork training program which offers athletes an opportunity to improve their in-game skills through the foundations of movement.