Mark Sedra is the President and co-founder of the Security Governance Group (SGG), a consulting firm specializing in security and governance issues in fragile and conflict-affected states, and the Executive Director and co-founder of the Centre for Security Governance (CSG), a non-profit think tank focussed on the study of security sector reform and related issues. […]
Linda Nazareth is an economist, a futurist and a respected authority on the future of work. As a newspaper columnist and an author, she knows how to frame things in ways that both educate and entertain and as the Senior Fellow for Economics and Population Change at think-tank the Macdonald Laurier Institute she knows what […]
Dr. L.K. Bertram is a renowned, award-winning author and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. L.K.’s work specializes in history, social media disinformation, and the A.I. shift. By examining lessons from the past, L.K. equips audiences with the tools necessary to anticipate and responsibly navigate our own time of rapid, unprecedented change. L.K.’s insights […]
Justin Ling is a freelance investigative journalist and analyst who focuses on politics, national security and geopolitics. Over the past decade, he has come to be a leading voice on misinformation, extremism, political polarization, the rise of conspiratorial politics — and how technology enables all those trends. At a time when modern society is increasingly […]
Jesse Hirsh is a futurist famer who brings an outsider’s perspective and literal critical distance, operating from his farm in rural Eastern Ontario. Yet this is no ordinary farm. Wired up with high speed fibre optic Internet, the Academy of the Impossible engages in a wide range of research regarding agriculture, media, technology, and culture. […]