Minds in Motion

World Affairs Conference

North America's largest and Canada's oldest annual student-run current events conference.

#RollWAC

・ March 6th 2024

2024 Speakers

Bob Rae

Canadian Ambassador to UN

Plenary Speaker

Roberta Bondar

Roberta L Bondar, C.C. O.Ont. MD PhD FRSC ICD.D, Canada's First Female Astronaut in Space

Keynote Speaker

Francisco Sagasti

Former President of Peru (2020-2021)

Plenary Speaker

Esko Aho

Former PM of Finland

Plenary Speaker

Bruce Kuwabara, O. C.

Architect

Plenary Speaker

Alex Cui

CTO @ GPTZero

Plenary Speaker

Oded Galor

Founder of Unified Growth Theory, Herbert Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University

Plenary Speaker

Cosmina Morariu

Global Partner of Fragomen LPP

Plenary Speaker

Caroline Codsi

President of Women in Governance

Plenary Speaker

Chris O'Shaugnessy

Author

Plenary Speaker

Fares Kady

Head of Aleppo Office, World Health Organization

Plenary Speaker

Bob Dameron '75

Head of Business Development of Multiverse Computing

Plenary Speaker

Tom Heintzman '82

Managing Director and Vice-Chair, Energy Transition & Sustainability CIBC Capital Markets

Plenary Speaker

Kathryn Hume

VP of Digital Channels Technology at Royal Bank of Canada

Plenary Speaker

Nikolas Badminton

Futurist

Plenary Speaker

Sandra Hawken

President and CEO of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation

Plenary Speaker

WAC Merch is Available!

To support sustainability, WAC will not provide single use water bottles this year. You can either bring your own water bottle or support WAC by purchasing a WAC-branded water bottle at the conference. You can also buy other merchandise like pins and stickers on conference day with cash or credit card.