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His lab built the touch and gesture technologies that ended up in over a billion devices. Now he's left Meta's Toronto research centre to co-found AXL Venture Studio — backing AI companies built from world-class research, not hype. He opens the Summit by asking what this technology moment actually demands from operational leaders.

He built Morrison Park into one of Canada's most respected independent investment banks after 23 years in investment banking, including a Managing Director role at Scotia Capital specializing in power, infrastructure, pipelines, and real estate. He's advised on transactions where the gap between what technology promises and what infrastructure organizations can absorb has cost real money.

He took over as CEO of Dillon in March 2020, bringing more than three decades of experience across environmental management, risk, and complex infrastructure challenges. Earlier in his career, he helped lead Dillon's expansion in Atlantic Canada, opening and growing the Saint John and St. John's offices. At the Summit, he speaks from inside one of Canada's best-known engineering and consulting firms about what leadership looks like when growth, operational complexity, and public impact all collide.

Her family has been building in Canada for seven decades. She took over as CEO of Horizon Legacy and immediately started tearing apart the way the company builds — launching Canada's first Construction Automation Lab and leading the country's first neighbourhood built with on-site robotics. She's not talking about what automation could do to construction. She's doing it.

She built her career running trading technology at National Bank Financial before spending a decade at BMO Capital Markets — ultimately as CIO of Global Markets Technology, leading a team of 400+. She joined Canaccord Genuity as CTO in 2022. On the Private Sector Panel, she speaks to technology adoption and decision-making inside complex financial infrastructure organizations.

At Dentons, the world's largest law firm, Scott leads technology in an environment defined by scale, complexity, and institutional risk. He brings more than 25 years of experience across enterprise systems, operating model change, and digital transformation. In the Enterprise AI discussion, he offers a practical view of AI as a leadership and governance challenge, not just a technology initiative.

He started building computers in his Toronto garage in 1981 while finishing a PhD in Physics at U of T — and never took outside capital. Compugen is now approaching $1B in revenue and serves some of the largest public and private sector infrastructure organizations in the country. He's watched a generation of technology cycles come through built-world organizations, and knows which ones actually stuck.

He has spent nearly 30 years in the nuclear industry and now leads future unit planning at Bruce Power, one of North America's largest nuclear generating facilities. His work sits at the intersection of major projects, advanced robotics, and AI-driven modernization, including breakthrough automation in reactor component installation. He speaks to what innovation looks like when the stakes are high, the systems are complex, and execution actually matters.

She was the inaugural Director of Data Analytics at NYC Parks, then led digital integration at Sidewalk Labs through some of the most contested smart city work in recent memory. She founded Helpful Places to fix the underlying problem — DTPR, an open standard now adopted across 15 municipalities worldwide, so people can actually see what technology is doing in their physical spaces.

Hydro One serves 1.4 million customers across Ontario and is in the middle of one of the most significant infrastructure modernization programs in the province's history. Sonny leads the strategic projects and partnerships that don't fit neatly into any single department. He's at the Summit because the hardest infrastructure problems require technology and human judgment at the same time.

He started his career as a control systems engineer at Procter & Gamble before returning to Queen's for a Master of Planning and spending his entire subsequent career at the City of Kingston — from Transit Project Manager to Commissioner of Transportation & Infrastructure in 2025. Kingston isn't Toronto. Every technology decision here gets made with limited resources and full public accountability.

Mike works at the intersection of sustainability and environmental infrastructure at GFL, focusing on organic waste, fugitive emissions, and energy management across landfill operations. With 20 years of engineering experience, he brings an operator's perspective on how environmental performance actually improves inside large, complex systems.

At Mattamy, North America's largest privately owned homebuilder, Mitchell leads land development across the Greater Toronto Area. His work connects land strategy, municipal approvals, and project execution to the real pace of housing delivery. He also brings a practical perspective on how modular construction can fit into large-scale residential development, not just as a concept, but as an operating model.

Tovi is Chief Scientist at AXL and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he focuses on human-centered AI. He is one of the most widely published and cited researchers in human-computer interaction, with a career spanning both frontier research and real product innovation. He speaks to a question at the center of this moment: not just what AI can do, but how people will actually use it well.

Morgan works with municipalities across Canada to help them involve residents more effectively in local decision-making. Based in Nova Scotia, he brings a planning background grounded in both practice and research, with a focus on public participation, democracy, and digital civic engagement. He speaks to what it takes to make community input more meaningful when public trust, process, and real-world constraints all matter.

Naama Weingarten is a broadcast journalist with CBC Toronto whose stories span every corner of the city and beyond. She's especially interested in how policy, business, and innovation shape everyday life, and enjoys helping make complex ideas engaging and accessible.