Past Conferences
WAC 2025 - WAC To The Future
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Speaker Profiles

Dr. Sebastian Maurice
Plenary Speaker
Global AI/ML Leader

Bill Weir
Keynote Speaker
CNN Chief Climate Correspondent

Keith Pelley
Keynote Speaker
Former CEO of PGA European Tour, Current President & CEO of MLSE

Dr. James Orbinski
Keynote Speaker
Former President of Doctors Without Borders & Nobel Prize Winner

Dr. Justina Ray
Plenary Speaker
President and Senior Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Dr. Jeremy Wang
Plenary Speaker
Aerospace engineer and COO of Ribbit

Emma Lozhkin
Plenary Speaker
2012-17 Junior Olympian & Member of the Canadian National Gymnastics Team, Branksome 2017 Graduate, Software Engineer

Sylvia Torres-Guillen
Plenary Speaker
General Counsel of the California ALRB, Executive director of Disability Rights Legal Center, social justice advocate

Curtis VanWalleghem
Plenary Speaker
Founder and CEO of Hydrostor

Shirley Blumberg
Plenary Speaker
Founding partner of KPMB Architects and activist for social transformation and change through architecture

John Smol
Plenary Speaker
Canadian ecologist, limnologist and paleolimnologist

James Suh
Plenary Speaker
CFO of Florida Panthers

Michael Kaufman
Plenary Speaker
Co-Founder: White Ribbon Campaign, Author: The Guy's Guide to Feminism

Wolfgang Schwan
Plenary Speaker
Ukraine War Journalist & Photographer

Yan Boechat
Plenary Speaker
Conflict Journalist & War Correspondent

John Sitilides
Plenary Speaker
Geopolitical Strategist & Diplomacy Consultant for Bush, Obama and Trump

Dr. Andrew Healey
Plenary Speaker
Medical Director/Chief, Chief of Critical care at St. Joseph's Hamilton