Dr. Matthew Chow is an experienced leader, clinician, and innovator. He served as President of Doctors of British Columbia in 2021, leading 14,000 physicians through the challenges of a global pandemic, mass immunization campaign, and multiple climate-related disasters. He joined the TELUS Consumer Health team as Chief Mental Health Officer in 2022, and contributes to the national commentary on healthcare reform, mental health care, and digitalization.

Dr. Chow’s leadership experience includes co-chairing the Specialist Services Committee, a joint initiative of Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health to improve services such as surgical and mental health care, and an appointment to the Medical Services Commission of BC, overseeing more than $3 billion in annual public healthcare spending.

Dr. Chow is a clinical specialist in mental health, with a subspecialty focus on children, youth, and families. He was one of the first in Canada to see patients in their homes via video--- a decade before such visits became popular during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Chow has also contributed to community-based programs such as Foundry BC, tertiary acute care services at BC Children's Hospital, and taught medical trainees at the University of British Columbia.

Aaron is the Director General for Service Experience Design and Delivery in Employment and Social Development Canada. Aaron joined Service Canada from the Department for Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom where he led teams transforming the experience for UK citizens across a number of services including retirement, health & disability and digital identity. Aaron is passionate about making Government services work better for the citizens it serves. He is an advocate for human-centred design and driving integration between policy development and service delivery.

Aaron and his wife have four children and relocated to Canada in Summer 2022.

Adil is currently President and CEO of Kensington Health. he has a vast background in nursing, public health, international development, and health system strategy in Canada and internationally. His career has crossed many sectors with diverse populations, including community care, public health, acute care, home care, regional care, and specialty health. He has worked extensively in Ontario and the Middle East, and understands the relationship between accountability and strategy, planning, quality, performance measurement, best-practice implementation and change management.

Prior to joining Ontario Health, Adil was the founding CEO of Royale Home Health (of Royale Hayat Hospital in Kuwait). Before that, he served as Middle East Executive Regional Director and Operational Lead for University Health Network (UHN) where he led an international cancer centre transformation in the region.

Adil is a Registered Nurse and holds a BSc Nursing from the University of Western Ontario and a Master of Health Administration from the University of Ottawa. Most recently he served as Ontario Health’s Senior Vice President, Health System Performance and Support, where his position has required him to oversee Ontario Health’s work to advance provincial strategies, funding, accountability agreements, standards and initiatives through information, evidence, and other supports to assess, inform and improve overall health system performance and effectiveness.

Mohammad Qureshi is the Corporate Chief Information Officer and Associate Deputy Minister for the Government Information Technology Ontario (GovTechON) organization, leading more than 4000 I+IT technologists, powering the Government of Ontario to be a leading digital jurisdiction. With 20+ years in public service, his mission has remained the same: enable the public sector to harness the benefits of transformative technology and deliver better outcomes for people.

Prior to becoming CCIO, he was named Ontario’s first Chief Information Security Officer before becoming Chief Information Officer of the Infrastructure Technology Services division. In May of 2022, Mohammad was recognized as the CIO of the Year within the public sector category, by IT World Canada.

Shannon Lundquist is the Federal Account Leader for Deloitte Canada. She believes in the power of resilience. With over 25 years’ experience working in public sector transformation, she promotes a culture of optimism and well-being with her teams. Shannon has worked with numerous public and private sector organizations to achieve success and deliver value in areas of program management, governance, business and technology sourcing, shared services, operations management, systems implementation and change leadership.

Prior to taking on this role, Shannon was a member of the Canadian Executive Team for Deloitte, serving as the Chief of Staff for Anthony Viel, CEO. Shannon worked directly with the Executive Leadership Team’s to effect strategic and cultural change across the organization, and led the firm's pandemic crisis response. In addition, she established Deloitte as the premier executive sponsor for the Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network, bringing innovation to healthcare delivery systems across Canada.

In her previous role as Healthcare Consulting Leader for Canada and Chile, Shannon worked with hospitals, home healthcare and academic organizations to refine and execute on their clinical delivery and innovations strategies including directing clinical services and capital planning at a number of Canada's leading health systems.

Before moving to consulting, Shannon had a successful 14-year career in the British Columbia Public Service, where her final assignment was directing a complex 10-year, $750 million agreement including the design and implementation of an outsourced shared service organization for finance and health revenue services.

Adithi is a Partner at Deloitte, the public sector industry for Consulting, and the founder of Deloitte New Zealand’s social impact practice. Her passion is for bringing together individuals and organisations to address ‘wicked problems’ at multiple levels: changing systems to transform outcomes, redesigning services to be simpler and generate better outcomes, and shifting mindsets to focus on equity, sustainability and impact.

Her work has included redesign of social housing services, welfare payment services, accident compensation services and child care and protection services in New Zealand. She is the co-leader of Deloitte’s State of the State reports on Social Investment, Resilience, Family Social Capital, Inclusive Growth and Government Reform.

Within Deloitte, Adithi leads Future of Government and Civil Government focus areas for the Asia-Pacific region and sits on the Deloitte New Zealand Board.

Ms. Nancy Healey has been appointed as the Commissioner for Employers at the Canada Employment Insurance Commission for a two-year term, effective July 26, 2021.

Ms. Healey is an award-winning chamber executive with 20 years of strategic and innovative leadership as a champion for business. From 2008 to 2020, she was the chief executive officer of the St. John’s Board of Trade, where she helped businesses succeed through advocacy work at the municipal, provincial and federal levels. Prior to that, Ms. Healey served as the executive director of an industry sector association dedicated to growing the hospitality and tourism industry.

Ms. Healey has served on the Board of Directors of the Newfoundland and Labrador Credit Union, was a past president of the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Canada, and a past director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, where she was named Executive of the Year in 2018. Ms. Healey completed the Director’s Education Program from the Rotman School of Management and has achieved the designation of ICD.D.

Céline leads Deloitte’s FSI Sustainability & Climate practice as a partner in Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice. She works with clients on defining and operationalizing their purpose through shareholder and stakeholder value creation with enablers such as ESG, innovation and public policy. To these clients, she brings 30 years of international experience in more than 25 countries. Her work has spanned management consulting to Fortune 500 companies, investment in scaling up sustainability and emissions reduction solutions, development of legal frameworks, as well as advice for civil society, philanthropists and governments.

In 2018, she was knighted as a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite by French President Emmanuel Macron for mobilizing the private sector in the run-up to the Paris Agreement and for establishing the platform for the private sector to play a pivotal role in limiting warming to 1.5° C. This was the foundation of the Race to Zero.

For her clients she structures business opportunities aligned with Net Zero and how to prosecute these. She mainstreams impact investing, ESG and sustainability as a major value driver for shareholders and 2stakeholders.

Called on frequently by leading print and broadcast outlets around the world for her expertise on a host of interrelated issues – from to ESG Governance to the global oil & gas industry to energy markets and climate-related scenarios – Céline is respected above all, for her ability to identify what is relevant to a variety of audiences.

The Honourable Peter MacKay served in the Parliament of Canada for over 18 years as a Member of Parliament, including Cabinet Minister in the Harper Government for 10 years, as well as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Minister of National Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. Mr. MacKay chaired the Government National Security Committee for almost 10 years and served on numerous other inter-parliamentary committees. Prior to politics he served as a Crown Attorney. He is now working as a Strategic Advisor with Deloitte Canada and Counsel with McInnes Cooper, an Atlantic Canadian law firm. He works nationally and internationally in areas such as aerospace and defense, procurement, infrastructure, and justice reform. Peter serves as a Board Member for Cielo Waste Solutions Corp. and on numerous volunteer boards including Wounded Warriors, Boost Child & Youth Advocacy the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, Integrity Initiatives International and the Canada United States Law Institute. Peter is a loving husband to Nazanin and father to their 3 children Kian 9, Valentia 6, and Caledon 3. He lives by the sea in Kings Head, Nova Scotia, with two dogs and two cats.

Ningwakwe (Rainbow Woman), aka Priscilla George, is a Deer Clan Anishnawbe Kwe from the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation. Ningwakwe has authored position papers, literature reviews and has conducted international research on literacy for indigenous peoples. Ningwakwe has been the Visiting Elder at Saugeen District Senior School since 2015. She was the Field Coordinator for the Saugeen First Nation Mental Wellness Initiative, a collaborative project with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, from 2018-2021. She currently supports the First Nation Mental Wellness Initiative as the Community Knowledge Keeper & Elder.

Ningwakwe advocates for the holistic approach to Life, which means recognizing and nurturing Spirit, Heart, Mind and Body.

Dr. Ellen Choi is an Assistant Professor in HRM/OB in the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. Dr. Choi is an organizational psychologist with training in the fields of Social Psychology and Organizational Behaviour. She received her PhD from the Ivey School of Business in 2017, and her MSc from the London School of Economics in 2012. Her research interests revolve around workplace wellbeing and mental health. In particular she studies the effects of mindfulness training on stress, attention, emotion regulation, errors, authenticity, resilience, and performance under pressure. Dr. Choi teaches in the area of organizational behaviour on topics such as leadership, training and development, motivation, and decision-making.

Prior to graduate school, Ellen traded in commercial real estate for 8 years with CBRE. She is also a yoga instructor, executive meditation coach, and delivers mindfulness workshops and keynote addresses to corporate audiences.

Alia Kamlani is a public sector transformation leader with 15+ years of experience working inside government and as an advisor to public sector organizations. She is a seasoned public sector transformation partner and has spent her career working alongside senior executives and political leaders to develop business cases, engage stakeholders, develop strategic options, and project manage numerous strategic and large-scale human service organizational, IT, and service delivery transformations in Ontario and across North America. Alia is also Deloitte’s National Labour Market Activation Leader where she is focused on transformation and innovation of social and employment services. Personally committed to driving more equitable and inclusive program design through her work, Alia strives to support government to improve outcomes for vulnerable populations in Canada.

Kelly is Nous Canada’s Government Sector Lead. She has spent her career working with the public sector on strategic and operational change initiatives. Her work has involved developing innovative and ambitious strategies and enabling change through implementing service transformation in complex environments. She has worked with clients at the municipal, provincial and federal levels and with post-secondary institutions in Canada.

Recently, Kelly helped lead a major service transformation program during which she drove the design and implementation of user-centred services and supported change through improved organizational structures and processes. Over the past year, she also led the review of a public sector organization to identify ways to improve oversight and management, while focusing on improved services for staff and external stakeholders.

Karen Hamberg joined Deloitte Canada in 2022 as a partner in the firm’s Financial Advisory practice advising on the commercialization of climate technology at industrial scale. She is a clean technology executive with more than 20 years of global experience in the deployment of clean transportation technologies and the policy/regulatory frameworks to enable growth, scale, and market leadership. She held a range of senior executive positions at Westport Fuel Systems and has expertise in corporate strategy, market creation and development, sustainability/ESG, and policy and regulatory affairs.

She was appointed to the Government of Canada’s Industry Strategy Council by the Honourable Navdeep Bains in June 2020 to represent the clean technology sector and named Chair of the Clean Technology Economic Strategy Table.

Karen currently serves as Chair Emeritus of CALSTART in Pasadena, California and as Vice Chair of the British Columbia Regional Advisory Board of the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

An active volunteer, she chaired the 2019 United Way of British Columbia Campaign Cabinet, the team of executives who are the driving force behind the organization’s annual fundraising campaign.

She was named to Canada’s Clean 50™ (2017) for her contributions to advance sustainability in the heavy-duty transportation sector and to Canada's Clean 16TM (2019) for her leadership on more stringent clean transportation regulations in North America.

Karen holds a Master of Arts degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba.

Mike is a thought leader in government transformation and innovation, with over 20-years of experience in consulting across Canada and in countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia. He is well-regarded not only for his ability to design and architect strategies and solutions to complex public sector issues for clients, but also for overseeing their implementation. Mike leads Davis Pier’s social innovation efforts focused on helping government by using behavioural science, service design and evidence-based policy approaches to improving policy-making and program design.

Mike has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering from Dalhousie University and a Master’s degree in Behavioural Sciences at the London School of Economics. He has attended the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Behavioural Insights Program and is certified as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) and Project Management Professional (PMP). Mike is also a Distinguished Fellow with the Dalhousie University Faculty of Management.

Mike is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Kids Help Phone and on the Board of Directors for Tribe Network. Mike has also been named one of Atlantic Business Magazines Top 50 CEOs.

In her role as Managing Partner Government, Public Services, Georgina leads a team of professionals committed to preparing Canada for a healthy, prosperous and sustainable future.

Georgina has over 30 years’ experience as a trusted advisor, business leader, entrepreneur and volunteer. An experienced strategist and collaborator, Georgina has a track record of working with leaders across governments, health and social care organizations and the private sector to shape and drive change agendas to improve outcomes for stakeholders.

Recognized as Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, Georgina is a frequent speaker and panelist on the future of government and the future of healthcare. She has recently co-authored a number of reports: Catalyst- A Vision for a Thriving Canada 2030; Reimaging Seniors Care; Digital Equity and most recently contributed to a Public Policy Forum paper, Taking Back Healthcare.

Georgina serves on the Public Policy Forum’s Advisory Committee on the Future of Healthcare and the Longwoods Publishing Advisory Board.

Georgina has served on several boards in healthcare and education and is currently serving as a Director for Special Olympics Canada and is Co-Chair of the Ridley College Campaign. She studied Political Science at McGill and is a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

AMAPCEO represents 15,000 professionals across Ontario and in 10 countries worldwide who work directly as civil servants for the Ontario Government or with arm’s length agencies in the broader public sector.

Prior to his election as President & CEO in 2015, he served a term as Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, and two terms as Board Chair.

Dave is a member of the Ontario Pension Board and chairs its Governance Committee. He sits on Ryerson University’s Centre for Labour and Management Relations Advisory Board. He lectures on Industrial Relations at several Ontario universities and is a frequent panelist at union, human resources, labour relations, academic, and think tank events. Regularly addressing progressive workplace topics like alternative work arrangements, the impact of artificial intelligence, the value of the public service, and the workplace of the future. He has an EMBA and an Institute of Corporate Directors ICD.D designation from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Michael Wernick’s distinguished 38 year career as one of the key leaders of Canada’s world class federal public service culminated in serving from 2016 to 2019 as the 23rd Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to Cabinet.

With 28 years as an executive in the federal public service, including 17 years in the community of Deputy Ministers, and three as Clerk, Michael is one of Canada’s most experienced and influential public sector leaders. He appeared frequently at Parliamentary Committees, participated in dozens of intergovernmental and international meetings, and spoke at many conferences. Michael worked closely with three Prime Ministers and seven Ministers and attended close to 300 meetings of Cabinet and its committees. He was the key public servant at Privy Council Office in three transitions of Prime Minister.

In October 2021 UBC Press released Wernick’s book “Governing Canada: A Guide to the Tradecraft of Politics” and Michael undertook an extensive series of media interviews, podcasts and webinars to discuss this well received practical handbook for our political leaders and those who aspire to understand them.

As a Senior Strategic Advisor to MNP Inc and a Fellow and Adjunct Professor of the Carleton University School of Public Policy and Administration, Michael now provides advisory services and mentorship to emerging leaders and to new generations of students.