theinflectionsummit

His lab built the touch and gesture technologies that ended up in over a billion devices. Now he's left Meta's Toronto research centre to co-found AXL Venture Studio — backing AI companies built from world-class research, not hype. He opens the Summit by asking what this technology moment actually demands from operational leaders.

She built her career running trading technology at National Bank Financial before spending a decade at BMO Capital Markets — ultimately as CIO of Global Markets Technology, leading a team of 400+. She joined Canaccord Genuity as CTO in 2022. On the Private Sector Panel, she speaks to technology adoption and decision-making inside complex financial infrastructure organizations.

Dentons is the world's largest law firm — 12,000 lawyers, 80+ countries, one of the most complex data environments in professional services. Scott has been running its technology strategy since 2013, first as Global Chief Digital Officer, now as CIO Canada. He speaks to what it actually takes to move an institution.

He started building computers in his Toronto garage in 1981 while finishing a PhD in Physics at U of T — and never took outside capital. Compugen is now approaching $1B in revenue and serves some of the largest public and private sector infrastructure organizations in the country. He's watched a generation of technology cycles come through built-world organizations, and knows which ones actually stuck.

She was the inaugural Director of Data Analytics at NYC Parks, then led digital integration at Sidewalk Labs through some of the most contested smart city work in recent memory. She founded Helpful Places to fix the underlying problem — DTPR, an open standard now adopted across 15 municipalities worldwide, so people can actually see what technology is doing in their physical spaces.

Hydro One serves 1.4 million customers across Ontario and is in the middle of one of the most significant infrastructure modernization programs in the province's history. Sonny leads the strategic projects and partnerships that don't fit neatly into any single department. He's at the Summit because the hardest infrastructure problems require technology and human judgment at the same time.

He started his career as a control systems engineer at Procter & Gamble before returning to Queen's for a Master of Planning and spending his entire subsequent career at the City of Kingston — from Transit Project Manager to Commissioner of Transportation & Infrastructure in 2025. Kingston isn't Toronto. Every technology decision here gets made with limited resources and full public accountability.

He built Morrison Park into one of Canada's most respected independent investment banks after 23 years in investment banking, including a Managing Director role at Scotia Capital specializing in power, infrastructure, pipelines, and real estate. He's advised on transactions where the gap between what technology promises and what infrastructure organizations can absorb has cost real money.

Dillon has been doing engineering, planning, and environmental science work in Canada since 1946 — employee-owned, with offices from St. John's to Vancouver. Sean has been CEO since 2020, navigating a firm that sits at the intersection of public sector clients, private sector projects, and the environmental pressures reshaping both. He speaks to what multi-stakeholder infrastructure coordination actually looks like from the inside.

A Bio-Resource Engineer (UBC) who built her career in air quality and environmental compliance — from Golder to Environ to eight years as Executive Director at Dillon Consulting. She joined GFL in 2018 and was promoted to SVP in 2025. She speaks to what sustainability looks like when it isn't a marketing exercise, inside one of North America's largest environmental services operations.

Her family has been building in Canada for seven decades. She took over as CEO of Horizon Legacy and immediately started tearing apart the way the company builds — launching Canada's first Construction Automation Lab and leading the country's first neighbourhood built with on-site robotics. She's not talking about what automation could do to construction. She's doing it.