Dag Kittlaus is the co-founder and CEO of Viv, the global brain. Prior, he founded Siri (acquired by Apple in 2010), the world’s first virtual personal assistant, as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SRI. After Apple acquired Siri in 2010, Dag was the Director of iPhone Apps at Apple running the Siri and speech recognition teams. In […]
Chris Barton wanted a way to identify songs he heard everywhere around him. There wasn’t one – so he invented an app called Shazam. Chris’s creation is nothing short of pure magic. That was his goal. Chris seeks to delight people by using technology to make seemingly impossible ideas come to life. Shazam is just […]
Kirstine Stewart was VP at Twitter Inc, leading North American media partnerships in tv, sports, gaming, music, news and government. Before her move to the US, she was Twitter’s founding GM for Canada in 2013. Kirstine joined Twitter from the CBC, where she was promoted from head of CBCTV to EVP in 2010, becoming the […]
Karina is a retired Olympic bronze medalist and professional athlete who has the distinguished honor of being one of the longest-serving soccer players in Canadian national team history. With a prestigious career that spanned almost 18 years at the international level, she participated in 5 FIFA World Cups and two Olympic Games, winning an Olympic […]
Originating from Toronto, Canada, Kardinal Offishall has become an icon in the global music scene. He has collaborated with the world’s biggest artists, such as Rihanna, Drake, Lady Gaga, Akon and so many others. His monster classic “Dangerous” which scorched to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, made him the first rapper from […]