8:00 AM — Registration & breakfast
8:50 AM — Welcome address
9:00 AM — Centraide Welcome Address
9:15 AM - Shibl Mourad
Research Engineering Director, Google Deepmind
Product management in the era of GenAI
10:00 AM - Guillaume Roy
Head of Product, Workleap
Leading Innovation from Startup to Scale-Up: Lessons from Workleap’s 18-Year Journey
10:30 AM — Coffee break
11:00 AM — Catherine Cormier
Chief Product and Services Officer, Assent
Driving Innovation: Sustainable Products in a Fast-Evolving Regulatory Landscape
11:30 AM — Community Talks Part 1
- Maria Julia Guimaraes – Disability and technology: can we combine them for a more inclusive world?
- Maya Kenton – AI-Driven Transparency: Democratizing Ocean Data for All
- Stefania Pecore – Tech Plays Nice: UNESCO vision on Ethical Impact Assessment
12:00 PM — Lunch
Lunch is not included in the conference.
1:25 PM — Welcome back address
1:30 PM — Juliana Alvarez
Design Researcher, P2CO
User Research: Fueling Innovation, Amplifying Impact
2:00 PM — Fireside chat
Sparking Innovation: Strategic Acquisitions and Beyond
Panelists:
- Cameron Moore – VP of Product, Dialogue
- Swati Matta – Head of Women’s Health at Dialogue, former CEO at Koble (acquired by Dialogue)
Moderator:
- Nectarios Economakis – Partner at Amiral Ventures
2:30 PM — Coffee break
3:00 PM — Community Talks
- Temi Bolaji-Jegede – Creating Innovative Products: Are You Leading the Way?
- Alejandra Huerta – Breaking Barriers and Innovating with Impact: A Female Founder’s Tech Journey
- Florence Petit-Gagnon – Putting humans at the heart of sustainable development through technology
3:45 PM — Panel Discussion
The Collaborative Trifecta: Uniting Engineering, Design, and Product for Breakthrough Innovation
Panelists:
- Cameron Moore – VP of Product, Dialogue
- Juliana Alvarez – Design Researcher, P2CO
- Gabriel Sundaram – Co-Founder, Mission.dev
- Raff Paquin – CTO, Altitude Sports
Moderator:
- Catherine Cormier – Chief Product and Services Officer, Assent
4:15 PM — Diana Birsan
Co-Founder at Downpay
Finding your footing: Learnings from a non linear path into tech