Keynote Speakers
Ryan Gariepy
Robotics engineer and executive specializing in the 'dull, dirty, and dangerous' industries. Have worked on fixed, ground, sea, and aerial robots of a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and capabilities. I care about truly scaling robotics technologies, deployments, and understanding to the benefit of all, at a planetary scale.
Edward Park
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Human in Motion Robotics | Professor, SFU | Scientific Co-Director, WearTech Labs | Building AI-Powered Humanoids and Wearables for the Real World
Behzad Peykari
Chief Innovation Officer & VP of Engineering | Robotics Platform, Systems & Hardware Architect | Human Centered Robotics & AI | Humanoids, Exoskeletons, Manipulators & Mobile Robots | Medtech | Advisor |
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Nhung Nguyen
Engineer. CEO at Horizon Legacy Group.
I am currently the CEO of Horizon Legacy, transforming a seven-decade-old company into a leader in construction technology and robotics. For 15 years, I cut my teeth developing complex infrastructure projects valued at $150M and helped pioneer renewable energy development in Canada.
Panel 1: Robotics in Real world: From Lab to Large-Scale Deployment
Jim Beretta
I have over 30 years of experience in creating and executing marketing strategies for technology companies in the advanced manufacturing, automation, integration, and robotics markets. I help my clients get found and get discovered online and offline, and grow their business with high return on investment marketing solutions.
Pablo Molina
CTO, VP of Product, Chairman, Co-founder at Avidbots
Robin Lefler
An empathetic, driven leader who is passionate about making tech companies shine.
Dan Mashatan
New technology and product leader with 18 years progressive career experience working in robotics and Autonomy/AI industries.
During these years, I have been architecting robotic systems as either an individual contributor, a tech lead or a business leader. The above banner shows the robotic systems, which I had the privilege of working on:
Panel 2: The future of Robotics in Canada: Policy, Innovation, Capital and Responsibility
Tony La Mantia
A passionate builder at heart, I relish the opportunity to work with like-minded c-level executives and their teams, civic leaders, governments and organizations like chambers of commerce and mining and tech ecosystem anchor companies to drive transformational growth and shareholder value.
Julian Ware
Experienced Robotics Executive with a track record of driving profitable growth.
I've had the pleasure of helping dozens of companies advance their robotics roadmaps; leading the planning, design and release of indoor and outdoor mobile robotics products, and built business units for engineering services, and robotics components.
Brandon DeHart
Engineering Manager of the Waterloo RoboHub, a new robotics research, testing, and training facility at the University of Waterloo. Experienced university instructor with a demonstrated history of working in undergraduate education, currently teaching two courses a year (on Tech Art and Robotics). Proven skills in creative interdisciplinary projects and general mechatronic systems both in industry and academia.
Sharif Virani
Sharif Virani is a strategic digital communications advisor and fractional CMO with a firm understanding of brand management, growth marketing and digital media/content production as they pertain to DTC, STEM and public advocacy in North America. His past experience in e-commerce, SME growth marketing, public advocacy/ education and corporate relations, has developed into a capacity for evolving plans and campaigns aimed at achieving measurable results in the tri-sectoral implementation of targeted digital and social media strategies.
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