Connor Beaton is the founder of the Real Talk Summit and ManTalks — an international organization dedicated to promoting modern men’s growth, purpose and fulfillment. The ManTalks mission is to build a global brotherhood of better men through community, connection and conversation. Connor has grown ManTalks to ten cities across North America, with several new communities forming this year. Connor is also a podcast host, Business Coach, lifestyle entrepreneur and international speaker, having shared his message on stages around North America including TEDx. Connor has been featured on platforms like Forbes, HeForShe, The Good Men Project, UN Women, CBC, CNN, the National Post and more.

Greg was practicing corporate law when he launched an online LSAT perpetration course. As the course got popular others reached out to see how they could create their own online courses. When he realized the need for a product that allows anyone to easily create and sell their own online courses so he created an online distribution platform, Thinkific.

Greg worked both in law and as an entrepreneur for a long time until his passion for being an entrepreneur won out and he left his career in law. He now works with his team of 40 people at Thinkific now help thousands of solopreneurs and companies in 164 countries to grow their own businesses.

Brian Scudamore is a serial entrepreneur and passionate people-person.

He is known for pioneering the professional junk hauling industry with 1-800-GOT-JUNK? which he started here in Vancouver. He’s added brands in the painting, moving, and home-detailing industries under the O2E Brands banner.

Currently, he’s at the helm of a burgeoning home-service empire – each brand has franchise locations in every major metro in North America and Australia. He’s a respected industry leader and speaker, renowned in the business community for his belief in people and passion for innovation.

His companies have made celebrated appearances on shows including Oprah and CNBC. Brian is a regular contributor to Forbes and The Globe and Mail, and his story has been featured in other noteworthy publications.

Giovanni Marsico is the founder and president of Archangel Academy, a coaching and mastermind organization that shares marketing, innovation, and revenue-generating strategies with big-hearted entrepreneurs around the world.

The purpose of Archangel Academy is to coach “Social Entrepreneurs” on how to be better marketers, and coach all entrepreneurs on how to incorporate ‘Purpose’ into their business model.

Giovanni is also the creator of The Gifted Marketing Formula™, a 9-phase business model for what he calls ‘Gifted’ Entrepreneurs – entrepreneurs who are successful and talented, who also believe in ‘giving’ and being a ‘gift’ to the world.

Giovanni’s dream is to solve the world’s biggest challenges, like poverty and hunger, by empowering other Gifted Entrepreneurs who want to do the same.

Keith has over 15 years experience as a leader in technology centric businesses. He has accelerated the growth of both small and large companies, launched new products, and raised over $20m in angel investment and venture capital. He has an unparalleled ability to collaborate with entrepreneurs, employees, and investors to deliver amazing products to the market.

Keith is passionate about helping entrepreneurs change the world by connecting their ideas with the right tools, resources, technology, and funding. He is also passionate about Vancouver finding it’s unique and important place in the global startup stage. He co-founded Spring to focus on early stage entrepreneurs with high growth potential who want to make the world a better place. Whether you call it social good, impact, conscious capitalism, do good, or social entrepreneurship – Spring is the place to transform your ideas into impact.

With over 20 years of experience leading startup and high growth technology companies, Christian Cotichini is an active angel investor and mentor to startup entrepreneurs.

In the mid-1990s, Christian founded Absolute Software, a leader in computer security and asset management. After going public, Absolute continues to grow and has diversified into a solution for organizations to manage the massive proliferation of Internet devices.

Christian then went on to found MAKE Technologies, a platform for the transformation and modernization of its clients’ legacy and mission-critical software systems. MAKE was sold to Dell Computers in 2012.

While remaining on the Board of MAKE, Christian left day-to-day activities to join co-founder Shannon Susko on a new startup, Subserveo. A SaaS company, Supserveo targeted the post- 2008 compliance and regulatory challenges faced by the banking sector. MAKE was acquired by DST Systems in 2011.

In 2013, Christian joined HeroX as co-founder and CEO. He is also a partner in TenX Ventures, focused on angel/seed financing, hands-on entrepreneurship, mentoring, M&A, and anti- consulting to startups and emerging disruptive companies.