Katherine has extensive startup experience being on the founding team of OneClass, helping it achieve proof-of-concept and scale the business to an international platform with multiple product lines. Her journey into product management started in 2015 with a laser focus on the creator economy of OneClass and its marketplace. Katherine has worked with product organizations based in Canada and China, and in both cases, established the product culture in both.

Katherine completed her undergrad at University of Toronto Scarborough with a BBA specializing in Strategic Management. She is passionate about tech-enabled solutions helping people and businesses scale.

Jed has over 20 years of experience in IT, information, and knowledge management. He is a member of the Company of Fellows of the Association for Intelligent Information Management (AIIM) and a Certified Information Professional (CIP).

Jed has been in product management since 2018 when he joined the Digital Group at TD Bank as a Senior Product Manager for Enterprise Search. Since 2019 Jed has been with NetDocuments, a cloud content services company as Director of Product Management responsible for Security & Governance products and now as Principal Product Manager working on ideation, innovation pipeline, and business case development.

Michelle has led products at a smart fitness mirror company and built the growth team at an Alibaba-owned media SCMP, where she set up the product experimentation teams from scratch. Before that, she founded an ed-tech productivity tool startup, Weava, and scaled the company to over half a million users from 200+ schools. Michelle also worked on UX Design at Amazon, where she worked on the then 30-person core design team designing users’ core shopping experience

Shreyas has over 12 years of Engineering, Program, Product, Data, and CX experience. He has built multiple 0 to 1 products for startups to giants like Amazon with expertise in the marketplace, subscriptions, and e-commerce products. At Spocket, he leads the global product organization, including product management, design, and data. In addition to the leadership role, he is an On Deck fellow, a product mentor and judge at New Ventures BC, and a product blog writer at shreyassali.com.

He completed a master’s in Computer Science from the University of Houston, Clearlake, and an MBA from Arizona State University. He is a published author on Amazon for the PMP certification book.

James has 12+ years of experience in the technology industry across design and product management crafts. An advocate for customer focused innovation he is currently a Senior Product Manager at Shopify. He also previously worked at Uber, Walmart Labs and Xe.com in product management roles.

Danny Williams is a digital product designer based in Halifax, Canada who works with industry-leading companies to solve complex problems. Currently, he is a senior designer at Shopify, where he has built core product and platform experiences for millions of merchants.

Danny has worked with companies backed by the likes of Deloitte and Salesforce Ventures, is an alumni of Venture for Canada, and in 2015 was a Canadian delegate at the G20 YEA Summit in Beijing, China. In addition to his design practice, Danny taught design at General Assembly and more recently teaches design at York University.

Aazam Bhimji has over 12 years managing leading consumer brands across a variety of categories and is currently Senior Brand Manager at Dyson. He is responsible for strategic planning, product launches, and marketing within Canada. Upon joining Dyson in 2016, Aazam spearheaded the entry into the air purification category, driving successful growth every year. More recently, he has been leading new innovation launches within the vacuum category, across corded, cordless and robotic formats. Aazam has also played a pivotal role in delivering plans to support the expansion of Dyson’s direct-to-consumer business. Aazam is a leader on Dyson Americas Diversity & Inclusion taskforce, fostering a better sense of inclusion and recognition of the communities Dyson does business in.

Prior to Dyson, Aazam spent six years managing a variety of different brands and products at Reckitt. In his time as Brand Manager on Lysol, he launched the Healthy Habits initiative to introduce hand and surface hygiene education within school curriculum across Canada. He also successfully launched Lysol as a personal hygiene brand. Throughout his experiences, Aazam has not only delivered global, full-funnel campaigns, but also worked with internal and external partners to develop localized communications and campaigns rooted in consumer insights and data.

Aazam has a unique educational background having completed his Bachelors in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and an MBA in Strategic Marketing, both from McMaster University. He is passionate about understanding people, the problems they face, and delivering solutions to improve their daily lives.

Katherine has extensive startup experience being on the founding team of OneClass, helping it achieve proof-of-concept and scale the business to an international platform with multiple product lines. Her journey into product management started in 2015 with a laser focus on the creator economy of OneClass and its marketplace. Katherine has worked with product organizations based in Canada and China, and in both cases, established the product culture in both.

Katherine completed her undergrad at University of Toronto Scarborough with a BBA specializing in Strategic Management. She is passionate about tech-enabled solutions helping people and businesses scale.

Jonmichael is a product executive with 20+ years of experience working in e-commerce, digital payments, digital media, and marketplace industries. He is Associate Vice President of Product Services at Canadian Tire Corporation, overseeing site search, personalization, product recommendations, user generated content, and demand shaping across all digital banners including Canadian Tire, Sport Chek, Mark’s, and Party City.

Jonmichael has launched consumer digital product experiences to market, developed commercial strategies, grow audiences at scale, and built high performing product teams from the ground up. He has demonstrated stellar results leading global product teams at Canadian Tire Corporation, PayPal, eBay, Postmedia, Torstar, and various startups.

Guinevere is a product executive with over 20 years experience collaborating with passionate teams to create and manage hundreds of digital products from the smallest feature on the tiniest of devices, to large, complex omni-channel experiences with brands including CBC, Financial Post, Sportsnet, and many others.

Guinevere earned a BA from York University, an MBA from Ryerson University and is a certified Agile leader. She is currently VP, products at Postmedia.

Andre Plaut is the founder of human machine, a learning design studio. He has spent over 10 years at the intersection of technology, design, and education, developing and scaling learning experiences, products, and teams for organizations like Apple, Obama for America, General Assembly, Huge Inc, BARK, Indeed, and many others. In his free time, he watches too many reality shows with his wife and dog in Brooklyn, NY and writes a newsletter about the science and mysticism of predicting the future called The Prediction Game.

Farhan Tahir has 15 years of experience in executive product, technology and business leadership globally. He is a passionate, driven and forward-thinking technology leader with extensive executive-level experience driving complex operational initiatives and effective go-to-market strategy for major enterprise technology organizations. He has a broad expertise across business, sales, marketing, product management and engineering with a deep understanding of development processes, including design thinking and LEAN methodologies. He is currently Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce where his mission is to democratize application development with innovations in the Low Code space.

James has 12+ years of experience in the technology industry across design and product management crafts. An advocate for customer focused innovation he is currently a Senior Product Manager at Shopify. He also previously worked at Uber, Walmart Labs and Xe.com in product management roles.

Brian Weiner is the Vice President and Head of Product for Visa Canada. His organization is responsible for the development and rollout of Visa’s full Canadian product suite, including its credit, debit, and prepaid products, as well as its expanding array of digital products and capabilities, transit solutions, open banking and real-time payments initiatives. Brian also plays an active role in providing guidance and oversight to Visa’s interchange function, and support to its communications and government engagement functions as well.

Brian has been an active member of Visa’s leadership team since 2010, a decade that is widely viewed as one of the most dynamic and transformational times in the history of the industry in Canada. Through that time, Brian has helped to shape the country’s secular shift to electronic payments, making Canada one of the most cashless economies in the world. He has been recognized for his work as a global winner of Visa’s Go Beyond program and as a finalist for the North America Leadership Award.

Looking ahead, Brian and his team are focused on re-imagining the future of payments in collaboration with many partners across the payments ecosystem in Canada and around the world.

Brian was the founder of Visa Canada’s Let’s Make a Difference committee which promotes community involvement, and he recently served as the Chair of Visa’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.  In addition, Brian is a global faculty member of Visa University where he has taught courses on Inclusive Leadership to hundreds of colleagues throughout North America and beyond. In recognition of his work promoting the advancement of women, Brian was chosen to represent Visa at a global women’s conference in 2020. He’s also been involved in the community as a Board member of both the Leo Baeck Day School and Jewish Family and Child Services, an Honorary Chair of the Rexall OneWalk to Conquer Cancer benefitting the Princess Margaret Hospital, and he had the pleasure of working as a Big Brother.

Brian has been in the Canadian financial services industry since 1997. He holds an MBA (Accounting) from the Schulich School of Business, a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) from Carleton University, and he has completed executive courses at Harvard, Cambridge, and INSEAD. Prior to Visa, Brian worked at TD Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IBM.