Day 1

February 25, 2025

Aileen Agada-Davidson

Co-Founder & CEO, BeBlended

Alfred Burgesson

Founder & CEO, Tribe Network & Ventures

Darace Rose

Co-founder & CEO, Oppos Incorporated

Daveisha Francis

Spoken Word Poet

Frank Baylis

Executive Chairman, Baylis Medical Technologies

Fyemto lliya

Relationship Manager, Meridian Credit Union

Hildah Juma

Executive Director, Black Talent Initiative

Hugh Lawson

Principal, Lawson Leadership Advisory Ltd.

Joseph (Joejoe) Callender

Multi-Instrumentalist, Music Teacher and Producer

Kadine Cooper

Executive Career Life Transformation Coach, Career Coach K

Kay Layne

Founder, Kayambi

Kevin Bourne

Founder & CEO, SHIFTER

Louise Spence

Manager Business Markets, RBC

Mark Harrison

Founder, MH3 Collective & Co-founder, Black Talent Initiative

Nik-Keisha Moodie

CEO & Founder, NMCD Inc.

Richard Madume

Senior Small Business Advisor, Meridian Credit Union

Tomisin Salam

CEO, FiatMatch

Day 2

February 26, 2025

Amanda Lewis

Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Global Inclusion, Scotiabank

Avery Jackman

Influencer Marketing Specialists & Project Coordinator, BIPOC Executive Search Inc.

Colleen Ward

Vice President, Platforms & Technology, TD Bank Group

Dennis Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Starlight Capital

Harriet Ekperigin

Vice President, Transformation and Poeple Success, GreenShield

Helen Mekonen

Partner, BIPOC Executive Search Inc

Hildah Juma

Executive Director, Black Talent Initiative

Ingrid Wilson

Founder & Senior HR Executive, GridFern Strategic HR

Jaigan Paco Shabazz Mckenley- Mcdonald

Professional Steel Panist, Sound Village

Kevin Johnson

Chief Executive Officer, GroupM

Letecia Rose

Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Fasken

Lori-Ann Beausoleil

CEO of BDN, Lead Director, Audit Committee Chair, Retired PwC Partner, Board Diversity Network Inc.

Mark Harrison

Founder, MH3 Collective & Co-founder, Black Talent Initiative

Melanie Isaac-Taitt

Marketing Lead – Juice Business Unit, Tropicana Brands Group

Nick Davis

Executive Director, Equity and Inclusion, CBC

Rokhaya (Rok) Gueye

Award Winning Leader, Trailblazer, Advocate. Stakeholder Relations & Ontario Chair of the Sisters in the Brotherhood (SIB), Carpenters Regional Council

Sophia Doulaghsingh

Director, Social Impact | Community Investments Canada, Scotiabank

Tatyana Gobourne

Event Specialist, Black Talent Initiative; Founder, Black-Owned Pop-Up; CEO, Waist Beauty

Tyjondah Kerr

Board Chair, BGC Peel

Day 3

February 27, 2025

Christopher Nabeta

Executive Chairman, Accelerate Auto

Delaney Hines

Lead, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Heart & Stroke Foundation

Deonna Murray

Poet/Spoken Word Artist, PsalmSoul

Dr. Eugenia Addy

CEO, Visions of Science

Fikayo Aderoju

Founder and Executive Director, Project Impacting Life (PIL)

Garrison Thomas

Educator/Motivational Speaker, GTalks

Hildah Juma

Executive Director, Black Talent Initiative

Jamal Burger

CEO & Founder, The Kickback Foundation

Karen Brown

President, Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario

Mark Harrison

Founder, MH3 Collective & Co-founder, Black Talent Initiative

Michelle Davis

CEO, MVD Consulting Inc

Saara J

Musician & Entertainer

Stachen Lett-Frederick

President and CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto

Stacy Brown

CEO/Founder, KiddieNomics

Tanya Jeffers-McAllister

Senior Director Everyday Banking, RBC

Wilfred Sam-King

Project Manager IT & Cloud Computing, ACCES Employment