Yves Pigneur
Professor
HEC Lausanne
Catherine BERTHILLIER
Founder
Shamengo
Anne Charpentier
Director
Botanical Gardens, Espace pour la vie
Samer Faraj
Professor
McGill University
Charles Landry
Co-founder, The Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Berlin
Author of The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
Luc Mayrand
VP – Portfolio Creative Executive
Walt Disney Imagineering
Valeria Allerano
Founder
Afortunada Mente
Pascal BEAUCHESNE
Advisor – Strategic Alliances and Innovation Ecosystems
NUMANA
Catherine BEAUDRY
Professor
Polytechnique Montréal
Jean-Christophe BÉDOS
CEO
Birks Group
Hugo BÉLANGER
Artistic Director
Tout à Trac
Nesrine BENYAHIA
CEO & Founder
DrData
Niels BILLOU
Co-founder & Executive-Director
The Humanos Institute
Mélanie BISSON
Senior Advisor-Ecosystem Relations
Maison de l’innovation sociale
Maxime BLACKBURN-BOULIANNE
President
Espace-Co Cohabitat Montréal
Luis BONET
Professor
University of Barcelona
Charles-Mathieu BRUNELLE
Executive Director, A Space for Life &
Deputy Director General, City of Montreal
René CARRAZ
Professor
Toyo University
Christelle CARRIER
Head of Fabrique de l’hospitalité
Émilie CHABOT
Director, Strategic Development
Partenariat Quartier des spectacles
FRANÇOIS CHARTIER
Créateurs d’harmonies
CHARTIER
Patrick COHENDET
Professor
HEC Montréal
François-Xavier DE VAUJANY
Professor
University Paris-Dauphine-PSL
Alice DEMATTOS
PhD Research Fellow
Norway University of Applied Science
Isabelle DESSUREAULT
Head,
Bureau du Québec in Barcelona
Paul DEUTSCHMAN
President
Deutschman Design
Hélène DUBÉ
Project Manager-Environmental Specialist
SNC-Lavalin
Marie-Pierre FAURE
Deputy Director
TransMedTech
Olivier Fontaine
COO
VirtualiSurg
Mabel Gonzalez
Founder
El negro está de moda
Erik GRAB
VP Anticipation & Strategic Innovation
Michelin
Hajime IMAMURA
Professor
Toyo University
Yves JACQUIER
Executive Director of Production Services
Ubisoft Montréal
Aïssa Khelifa
CEO
MILVUE
Mantautas KRUKAUSKAS
Composer & Sound Artist
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Julien LAFERRIÈRE
Producer
Ubisoft Montréal
Jean LAPIERRE
Director of PMP Certification Services
PMI-Montréal
Ha Le
Professor
Foreign Trade University (FTU)
Alexandre LE BOUTHILLIER
Co-Founder & CCO
Imagia
Patrick LLERENA
Professor
University of Strasbourg
Caitlan MAGGS
Artistic Expert
Cirque du Soleil
Ramon MARRADES
Director
Placemaking Europe
Hyun-Duck MCKAY
Design Manager-Partner
MaRS Discovery District
Valérie MÉRINDOL
Professor
Paris School of Business
Sylvain MORENO
CEO & Scientific Director, Digital Health Circle | Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
Quim PACKARD
Co-director & Founder
Fireplace Project Barcelona
Montserrat PAREJA-EASTAWAY
Professor
University of Barcelona
Roger PARENT
President Founder
Thinkwell-Montréal
Bernard PETIOT
VP Casting & Performance
Cirque du Soleil
JOSEP MIQUEL PIQUÉ
President
International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP)
Gino Plevano
Senior Vice-President – IT & Digital Strategy
Groupe CH
Andy PRATT
Professor
City University London
Anna Carolina Queiroz
Post-doctoral researcher
Stanford University
Madan RAO
Research Director
Your Story Media
Marie-Andrée Rodrigue
Leader – Recruitment
Espace-Co Cohabitat Montréal
Émilie RUIZ
Associate Professor
University of Strasbourg
Johan SABA
Founder
SeedAI
Pier Luigi SACCO
Professor
IULM University, Milan
Blanche SEGRESTIN
Professor
École des Mines de Paris
Laurent SIMON
Professor
HEC Montréal
Paco Solé Parellada
Owner
Restaurant 7 Portes
Lucy STOJAK
Executive Director
Mosaic HEC Montréal
Mai THAI
Professor
HEC Montréal
Robert Thirsk
Retired astronaut
Canadian Space Agency
Cecilia THAM
Founder Makers of Barcelona (MOB) &
Director and Future Synthesist
Futurity Studio
Nathalie TREMBLAY
Research Associate
Mosaic HEC Montréal
Amilcar VARGAS
Responsible for World Heritage
Casa Batló
David VERSAILLES
Professor
Paris School of Business
