Douglas Heintzman

Douglas Heintzman is an innovation and technology consultant. He is a strategic advisor to Insolar (a leading blockchain platform company). He was formally the Head of Innovation and disruptive technology at The Burnie Group. He was the cofounder of CueContext (context-adaptive mobile) and the COO of Flybits (a company specializing in AI). He was at IBM for 25 years, for most of which he was a worldwide strategy executive, including being the Director of Technical Strategy for IBM Software Group. He was the chairman of the board of the SyncML initiative and a founder of the Open Mobile Alliance. He was the sponsorship executive for the ACM ICPC (world programming championship) and the chief open-source officer for IBM Corporation. He is the past chair of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Synergy Innovation Awards selection committee. He is a former board member and chair of the investment committee at MaRS Innovation/TIAP. Mr. Heintzman has a Masters in International Economic and Social Administration (MAES) from the University of Grenoble Alps and a BAH in Political Studies from Queen’s University.

Ted Sargent

Dr. Ted Sargent is a university professor and VP-International at the University of Toronto. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the AAAS, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He has held visiting professorships at MIT, UCLA, Berkeley, and Harvard. He is the author of The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (Penguin 2005). His papers have been cited 43,000 times, and 105 of his papers have been cited more than 105 times. Dr. Sargent has a BScEng (Engineering Physics) from Queen’s University and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto.

Dan Shea

Dan Shea has been in technology industries for 40 years, much of it in executive management, including his 27 years at IBM/Celestica, where he was Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer. Dan was Senior Vice President at BlackBerry, President and CEO at Arise Technologies Corporation (Solar), COO at Infobright (Database), and is a senior advisor and investor in 3E Nano Inc. (Nanotech). Dan has a BScEng from the University of Toronto.