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Kelowna, British Columbia, V1Y 6Z1
Canada

Andre Boysen

Chief Identity Officer

Andre is responsible for positioning SecureKey’s growth strategy, cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets, and promoting demand for the company’s solutions globally. He serves as SecureKey’s digital identity evangelist. He recognized as a global leader in digital identity by One World Identity (2017) and Innovate Identity (2016). Andre serves on the boards of the identity standards organizations of DIACC and the Kantara initiative.

Andre Picard

Journalist

Did you know that TEDxKelowna will welcome bestselling author and Globe and Mail health columnist, André Picard? Picard is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and Carleton University and has received honorary doctorates from six universities, including the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. André also received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and Carleton University and has received honorary doctorates from six universities, including the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto.

Camille Saltman

Director of Entrepreneurship

Meet 2018 speaker Camille Saltman. Camille is Director of Entrepreneurship for The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. She brings to the role her experience as President and a Board member of CONNECT in San Diego which is widely regarded as one of the world's first and most successful organizations to link inventors and entrepreneurs with the resources needed for commercialization of innovation. It has been modeled in 50+ regions, is credited with San Diego’s success as a tech leader and has helped launch over 300 companies that raised more than $600M in early-stage funding and achieved over $12B in market capitalization. Innovation companies in San Diego now

Dr. Eric Kuelker

Psychologist

Dr. Eric Kuelker is a psychologist who has done over 22,000 hours of therapy. He has been featured on TV, in books and newspapers, and taught at universities, hospitals, corporations, and more. He has coached therapists and is past president of a company that created the largest Internet resource for therapists to use with clients. He is the only psychologist in Canada to publish data on client outcomes in his practice.

Dr. Nathan Pelletier

Sustainability scientist

Food is at the centre of human well-being, as well as many of our most pressing sustainability challenges. Dr. Nathan Pelletier explores the major levers at our disposal to sustainably feed the growing human population, our relative proclivity to exploit them, and what this implies for the future of food.

Renee Wasylyk

CEO

Renee Wasylyk, CEO of Troika Group, leads a Western Canadian organization including commercial and residential development projects and construction companies. Troika has development plans for over 1.5 billion in assets under its control. Renée was recognized as WXN’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada in 2017, EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year (Pacific) in Real Estate (2015), Business in Vancouver’s Most Influential Woman in Business in 2015, 2012`s Maureen Enser Future Leader Award winner as well as one of CHBA Canada`s Top 20 Most Influential People in Residential Development. Additionally, Renee was recognized by Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 under 40 award.

Saul Katz

Founder & CEO

Saul Katz is a pioneer in functional foods and nutraceuticals. In 2017 he was ranked among the Top 100 Health Influencers in Canada, by Optimyz Magazine. Saul traded in a top executive position and joined forces with the University of Alberta Hospitals to develop innovative functional foods to promote health, enhance performance and prevent disease. After a decade of R&D at the forefront of blood sugar management, Saul established Solo GI Nutrition with a disruptive mission to address the interlinked epidemics of obesity, diabetes and the energy deficit. Solo GI’s food scientists developed the first clinically validated low glycemic index nutrition energy bar line. SoLo GI Bar was awarded the prestigious Alive Gold Award in 2016 and 2017 and has been used in seminal low glycemic clinical research studies by leading research institutions including: National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital in Boston and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Susan Murch

Chemistry Scientist

Dr. Susan Murch is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Natural Products Chemistry (2001-2015) at the UBC Okanagan. Her research investigates the chemistry of plants and how plant chemistry affects human health. Dr. Murch is the recipient of several awards including UBC Researcher of the Year and the G.H. Neil Towers Award. She has published over 115 research articles in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals, and over 20 book chapters and an edited book ‘Journal of a Single Cell to a Whole Plant’.