Nicholas Fisher is a web developer and the founder of an app called Tap Menu. This app allows customers to order with their phones while in a restaurant, see more details about the food they wish to order, and pay their bill through their phone. He's also a fan of all things tech and is optimistic that the gains in technology will continue to empower society even if there are some nefarious side effects in automation and the gig economy. He attributes his ability to make a well crafted and feature packed app in a relatively short period of time to the amazing assortment of modern web development technologies available to web developers.

Travis Ratnam is the CEO and co-founder of Knowledgehook and a winner of BNN's Top Disruptors. He is an electrical engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo and a former program manager from Microsoft. Kitchener-Waterloo-based Knowledgehook, which has developed an artificial intelligence-based EdTech platform aimed to improve math education in school districts, has raised a $20 million Series A round of financing. The round was led by a London-based EdTech investment fund with participation from Mesoamerica’s Alexandria Corp., Nelson Education, Ideal Ventures, and Nicoya Ventures. This latest round of financing follows Knowledgehook’s seed round that included John Abele’s North Point Ventures. Knowledgehook is an Instructional Guidance System (IGS) designed to professionally develop the highly-skilled math teachers who are necessary to improve student achievement. Their proprietary technology can uncover insights about every student’s learning needs from assessment data and then recommend expert-designed teaching activities to guide each teacher.

Richard Cao is the founder & CEO of Roll, a company provides electric scooter sharing services. With innovative technologies and enhanced vehicles, Roll aims to offer the safest scooter share in the market. Roll is now operating in Kelowna, BC, and going to Calgary, Edmonton and Montreal next year. Roll Technologies Inc. is a Canadian start-up founded in March 2019. The company aims to provide a better mobility solution to cities and campuses by providing dock-less electric scooters sharing service. Shared electric scooter, as an innovative transportation, has been embraced by over 100 cities in the world. It has improved urban transportation by solving the “last mile” problem, and by decreasing residents’ dependence on personal owned vehicles. Among the emerging electric scooter operators, Roll, as a Canadian start-up, differentiates itself by focusing on safety. Working in close partnership with the University of Toronto, we have successfully developed many exclusive technologies that allow us to ensure ​safer use of the product.

As founder, connector and former politico, Sumi has helped launch numerous businesses globally. She is an award-winning management professional with experience working with tech giants like Microsoft, early-stage startups, governments and not-for-profit organizations over the last 17+ years. Her expertise include business development, procurement processes, marketing, strategic planning and partnership building. As a social doer, she is keenly interested in advancing innovation to tackle social challenges. Credits 🎥 x Wild Rabbit Entertainment 🎧 x Casen Flocco

What started out as a passion for covering conflict zones as a journalist, Matthew transitioned into election technology with a voters assistance application for the 2015 Canadian Federal Election. That experience led to Neuvote which has developed the worlds first hybrid mobile voting system which aims to utilize technology in new ways to solve real social challenges. Credits 🎥 x Wild Rabbit Entertainment 🎧 x Casen Flocco

James Borst brings with him over 20 years of experience in marketing, software development and sales, graphic design, website development and management. He grew up in a small city in Washington State and from early age was fascinated and intrigued by computers and software. At the age of 12 years old he began programming and continued developing his software and computer skills all the way through college. Today he is the co-founder and COO of 3D City Scapes, which creates cutting edge 3D interactive software for showcasing new property developments and whole cities. James is also a music composer and musician and has been part of a charitable organization since 2002 which he is very active in.