High Grade Uranium Exploration in the Prolific Athabasca Basin
Jordan Trimble is the President and Chief Executive Officer as well as a Director of Skyharbour Resources Ltd. By background, he is an entrepreneur and has worked in the resource industry in various roles with numerous companies specializing in management, corporate finance and strategy, shareholder communications, and capital raising. Previous to Skyharbour, he was the Corporate Development Manager for Bayfield Ventures, a gold company with projects in Ontario which was successfully acquired by New Gold (TSX: NGD) in 2014. Mr. Trimble holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Minor in Commerce from the University of British Columbia and he is a CFA® Charterholder currently serving as a Director of the CFA Society Vancouver.
Keynote
Private Company
Commodities, Uranium
Brad Loiselle
BetterU
Solving one of the world’s largest problems- Education for all
Brad comes from humble beginnings. Leaving home at 16 years old, struggled with poverty and access to education. He grew to become a serial social entrepreneur, author of the book “Keep Moving Forward; What it takes to be an entrepreneur”. Former part-time professor at Algonquin College. Founder/CEO of EasyWrapLines which by 2008 became Canada’s largest producer of licensed paper products with such partners as Disney, Nickelodeon, Marvel, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers. Founder and CEO of iPal interactive learning, acquired in 2011 by Canada’s largest Human Capital firm Knightsbridge. Past Board of Director member with Project Management Institute and India-Canada Chamber of Commerce. For his efforts in solving education for all, Brad’s story has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur and more. An avid public speaker having spoken alongside many global leaders including Prime Ministers from Canada, UK, Singapore and India.
Keynote
Private Company
Education
Sandeep Gupta
Pyfera
High Returns & a Clean, Smart Planet
Over the past twenty-five years, Sandeep has founded and successfully exited at over $100M multiple semiconductor, software, and systems technology companies. Additionally, Sandeep has held Division General Manager and Business Unit Director roles at large multi-national semiconductor firms, operating offices in North America and Asia, and conducting business in Europe and Asia Pacific. Sandeep has led the acquisition of seven companies ranging from $800k to $720M, and led due diligence for multiple firms. Sandeep holds an Electronics Engineering degree from University of British Columbia and now resides in Vancouver.
Keynote
Venture Capital
Impact
Robert Power
Alaska Asia Clean Energy
Cleaner Energy for the World’s Largest Power Generation Sector
Robert Power, LL B Founder, President & CEO. International Chair, Young President’s Organization (YPO), China Business Network. Previously Founder/Managing Partner of a successful energy & infrastructure law firm. Chambers Global (UK) describes Mr. Power as “an extraordinary manager and deal maker”.
Prior corporate board leadership roles include TSXV companies Silk Road Resources (gold), CanAm Coal Corp (coal), Euromax Resources (copper, gold) and Adriana Resources (iron ore).
Social Impact and Environment roles include:
\- Board Chair & President, Ontario Trillium Foundation, one of the world’s largest social impact granting foundations
\- ISO International Convenor, facilitating a 30 nation committee developing corporate environmental standards
Keynote
Private Company
Commodities
Daniel A Marcos
Growth Institute
Scale Growth & Reduce Drama to Scale Up´s
Daniel Marcos is the co-founder and CEO of Growth Institute, the leading online executive education company for C-level executives at fast growing firms. He is a keynote speaker and a CEO Coach, with a mission to help 1 million entrepreneurs scale their companies faster and with less drama.
Daniel is the CEO of ExO Education in partnership with Salim Ismail, and serves as the Ambassador of Singularity University in Austin, TX. He is an active member of YPO and EO.
Daniel is on a mission to give executives the support and methodologies that he wishes he had in his entrepreneurial journey—being a great leader, successfully scaling companies, and maintaining a high quality of life.
Keynote
Private Company
Education
David Cates
Denison Mines
Wheeler River: the largest undeveloped high-grade uranium project in the infrastructure rich eastern portion of the Athabasca Basin region.
Mr. Cates is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and holds Master of Accounting (MAcc) and Honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degrees from the University of Waterloo. Prior to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Cates served as Denison's Vice President Finance, Tax and Chief Financial Officer. As Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Cates played a key role in the Company's mergers and acquisitions activities - leading the acquisition of Rockgate Capital Corp. and International Enexco Ltd. Mr. Cates joined Denison in 2008 and held the position of Director, Taxation prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Cates held positions at Kinross Gold Corp. and PwC LLP with a focus on the resource industry.
Keynote
Private Company
Uranium
Sal Kohgadai
Smart Brain Aging
Making Dementia History
Sal Kohgahdai is an entrepreneur with 18 years of experience in technology innovation, with a specific interest in building technology that helps people at scale. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Smart Brain Aging, a company dedicated to giving aging individuals and their families the gift of time through improved quality of life. Prior to Smart Brain Aging, he was the Founder of IT360, an organization focused on developing tech leaders who can thrive in today’s competitive business environment. Sal is particularly skilled in generating revenue and reducing cost, in addition to helping businesses scale. While a techie at heart, Sal has a passion for people, and a desire to create technology that can shape lives for the better.
Keynote
Private Company
Wellness
Jesse Dylan
Good life network
GOOD: The Future of Video Advertising
Jesse Dylan is an award-winning media expert and best-selling author. Jesse has guided GLN’s transformation from traditional media company to a leader in advertising technology. He has worked with some of the world’s biggest media corporations, including Rogers, Corus Entertainment, Standard Broadcasting, CBS and SiriusXM. Jesse has been honored in Canada by ACTRA and worldwide at the New York International Festival of Radio. Jesse is uniquely qualified to bridge traditional media with the fast-paced world of programmatic, and has hand-picked his team to disrupt the advertising ecosystem.
Keynote
Private Company
Technology, Advertising, Software
William Willoughby, PhD
Cypress Mines
Developing Nevada's Next Lithium Resource
Dr. Bill Willoughby serves as a Director and Chief Executive Officer of Cypress Development Corp. Dr. Willoughby is a mining engineer with 38 years of experience in all aspects of natural resources development. Since 2014, he has been principal and owner of consulting firm Willoughby & Associates, PLLC. Prior to that, he was President and COO of International Enexco Ltd., which was acquired by Denison Mines in 2014. He previously held various positions with Teck (Cominco). Dr. Willoughby has been a Professional Engineer since 1985 and received his Doctorate in Mining Engineering & Metallurgy from the University of Idaho in 1989.
Keynote
Private Company
Commodities, Lithium
Eira Thomas
Lucara Diamonds
Making Diamond History
Ms. Thomas brings more than 25 years’ experience in the mining industry, including 14 years with Aber Diamond Corporation (now Dominion Diamond), where she served in ever increasing roles from initial discovery as a geologist to Vice President Exploration and ultimately a Director of the Board. She was co-founder of Stornoway Diamond Corp., serving first as CEO and then as Executive Chairman. There she led the acquisition of the Renard diamond deposit which subsequently became Quebec's first diamond mine. In 2007, she founded Lucara with partners Mr. Lukas Lundin and Ms. Catherine McLeod Seltzer. Ms. Thomas most recently served as CEO of Kaminak Gold Corporation which was acquired by Goldcorp in 2016 for $520 Million. Ms. Thomas is also a Director of Suncor Energy.
Keynote
Private Company
Commodities, Precious Metals
Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
Skyharbour
Jordan Trimble
High Grade Uranium Exploration in the Prolific Athabasca Basin
Skyharbour Resources is a uranium exploration company with projects in the prolific Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan, Canada which is ranked as the third-best mining jurisdiction to work in globally by the Fraser Institute. The company has six uranium properties totaling approx. 200,000 hectares throughout the Basin and is a discovery-driven company actively drilling its flagship Moore Project while also employing the prospect generator model to advance its other projects. At the Moore Project, highlight drill results include 5.9 metres of 6.0% U3O8 and Skyharbour now owns 100% after completing an earn-in from Denison Mines, a large strategic shareholder of the company. Furthermore, Skyharbour has an option agreement with industry-leader Orano Canada Inc. (formerly AREVA) whereby Orano can earn up to 70% of Skyharbour’s Preston Uranium Project for $8 million in project consideration.
Keynote
Private Company
Commodities, Uranium
BetterU
Brad Loiselle
Solving one of the world’s largest problems- Education for all
betterU is working to solve one of the world’s largest challenges. Access to education for everyone! 1+ billion people do not have access to quality education. betterU has created the first ed-tech online platform that brings together global leading educators to support the education needs of mass populations. With now more then 53,000 programs from 74 global educators (Pearson, Rosetta Stone, Babble, Edcast, Adobe, Edx. FutureLearn, Skillshare, Skillsoft…+), betterU is on the path to solve this global problem. The company’s online education-to-employment platform combines education across all categories of learning, has created technology to support and individualized learning, while also localizing access, providing visibility and delivery across multiple formats. Education for All requires the integration of a massive amount of content, global partnerships, and innovative technology to provide a solution that meets the needs of these struggling mass populations. betterU has taken years to build the infrastructure required to support this vision.
Keynote
Private Company
Education
Pyfera
Sandeep Gupta
High Returns & a Clean, Smart Planet
Pyfera Growth Capital is a Canadian investment company deploying equity and debt into Series A, B or later stage startups in the Technology and Impact/Sustainability sectors. To enable outstanding investor returns, the Silicon Valley and Capital Markets experienced Pyfera team seeks companies that offer a strong unique value proposition, address large markets and large environmental problems, can command healthy gross margins and positive cash flows, and have products and services ready to deploy and scale up globally. Investors can invest directly into the basket of Pyfera companies or selectively per company, with a goal to achieve liquidity via a go-public or M&A event of the portfolio company within five years. The private fund was up 35% in 2018.
Keynote
Venture Capital
Impact
Alaska Asia Clean Energy
Robert Power
Cleaner Energy for the World’s Largest Power Generation Sector
Alaska Asia is a developer of low cost, ultra low sulphur thermal coal. Thermal coal demand is projected to grow ~40% in South East Asia alone. Competitively situated in Alaska, 85 miles from port, access to multiple international Asian markets. JORC-compliant Prefeasibility Study completed. High NPV and IRR estimates. One of the lowest cost potential energy sources to serve Asian markets. Project environmental impact is expected to be “largely avoided or mitigated” (State of Alaska). Planned production at 10 M tpy. Customer/market development in progress
Keynote
Private Company
Commodities
Growth Institute
Daniel A Marcos
Scale Growth & Reduce Drama to Scale Up´s
Keynote
Private Company
Education
Denison Mines
David Cates
Wheeler River: the largest undeveloped high-grade uranium project in the infrastructure rich eastern portion of the Athabasca Basin region.
Denison is a uranium exploration and development company with interests focused in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. In addition to its 90% owned Wheeler River project, which ranks as the largest undeveloped high-grade uranium project in the infrastructure rich eastern portion of the Athabasca Basin region, Denison's Athabasca Basin exploration portfolio consists of numerous projects covering approximately 310,000 hectares.
Denison is also engaged in mine decommissioning and environmental services through its Denison Environmental Services ("DES") division and is the manager of Uranium Participation Corporation ("UPC"), a publicly traded company which invests in uranium oxide and uranium hexafluoride.
Keynote
Private Company
Uranium
Smart Brain Aging
Sal Kohgadai
Making Dementia History
Over 60 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with dementia, with the number of cases estimated to almost triple by 2050. Dementia significantly impacts quality of life, taking freedom, independence and understanding of the world while devastating families.
Our mission is to change the landscape of dementia and give people brain health for life. SMART Brain Aging's medically-driven, research-supported program reduces cognitive decline related to dementia through novel learning exercises and socialization. As a result, quality of life for loved ones with dementia and their families is improved and cost of care is reduced.
SMART Brain Aging has delayed the onset of dementia by 2.25 years. With 4 clinical trials, a patent, and $1.4M in revenue (2018), we have created a business model around helping people tackle this devastating disease.
Keynote
Private Company
Wellness
Good life network
Jesse Dylan
GOOD: The Future of Video Advertising
GLN’s (TSXV: GOOD | FSE: 4G5) patent pending technology is the engine that sits between advertisers and publishers. A highlight of GLN’s Programmatic Video Advertising Platform is, it does not collect PII (Personal Identifiable Information) and is built for cross device video advertising: Mobile, In-App, Desktop and CTV (Connected Television). Advertisers make more money by reaching their target audience more effectively. GLN makes money by retaining a percentage of the advertiser’s fee. GLN is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with offices in Newport Beach and Santa Monica California, New York and the UK. Visit [www.glninc.ca](http://www.glninc.ca)
Keynote
Private Company
Technology, Advertising, Software
Cypress Mines
William Willoughby, PhD
Developing Nevada's Next Lithium Resource
Cypress Development (TSX-V: CYP) (OTCQB: CYDVF) is focused on developing the Company's 100%-held Clayton Valley Lithium Project in Nevada, U.S.A. Exploration by Cypress has discovered a world-class resource of a leachable lithium-bearing claystone adjacent to the Albemarle Silver Peak mine, North America's only lithium brine operation. The size of the resource makes the Clayton Valley Project a premier target that has the potential to impact the future supply of lithium for the fast-growing global lithium-ion battery market.
Keynote
Private Company
Commodities, Lithium
Lucara Diamonds
Eira Thomas
Making Diamond History
Lucara Diamond Corp. owns 100% of the Karowe Diamond Mine (Karowe) in Botswana and Clara Diamond Solutions (Clara). Karowe has been in production since 2012 and is one of world’s foremost producers of large, high quality, Type IIA diamonds in excess of 10.8 carats, including the historic 1,109 carat Lesedi La Rona (second largest gem diamond ever recovered) and the 813 carat Constellation (which sold for a record US$63.1 million).
Clara is a secure, digital sales platform that uses proprietary analytics together with cloud and blockchain technologies to modernize the existing diamond supply chain, driving
efficiencies, unlocking value and ensuring diamond provenance from mine to finger.
