Photo Highlights: 4th Annual Canada 2020 Conference

Chateau Laurier’s Terrace

Delegates arriving

Youth Delegates from uOttawa

The room where it happened

Day one begins

Tim Barber, Co-Founder of Canada 2020

Mona Fortier, MP (Ottawa-Vanier)

David Frum, The Atlantic

Panel: Journalism & the Future of News

Dr. Taylor Owen, UBC presents data from his study “The Platform Press”

Evan Solomon, CTV News, moderates the discussion

Liz Plank, Vox Media

Panelists Anand Giridharasas, David Frum, Liz Plank, Taylor Owen, Susan Delacourt and Evan Solomon

Panel: Open Government & Big Data, with David Hume, Don Lenihan, Liz Sandals and Joshua New

Sir Richard Branson arrives

Backstage with Sir Richard

Waiting to go on…

Sir Richard Branson, Ruma Bose & Michele Romanow

Enjoying a cup of tea…

… before taking a bow

Townhall with Finance Minister Bill Morneau

Finance Minister Bill Morneau addresses our lunch audience

Dr. Yoshua Bengion sits down with Tim Hwang from Google to talk A.I.

Premier Wynne waiting backstage

Don Newman talks with Premier Wynne

Don Newman and Premier Wynne discuss Ontario’s A.I. opportunity

Dr. Paul Salvini from the University of Waterloo talks about disruptive technologies

Bernie Meyerson, IBM’s Chief Innovation Officer, discusses global innovation ecosystems and how they work in the 21st century

Heather Scoffield of the Canadian Press moderates a discussion on the A.I. and the future of professions

The Panel: Heather Scoffield from CP, Sam Pasupalak from Maluuba, Jeff Cates from Intuit Canada and Alain Côté, Chair of CPA Canada

Mike Moffatt, ISED’s Chief Innovation Fellow, moderates a discussion on automation and the future of work

Irene Sterian & Mike Redding respond to questions about Canadian manufacturing in the A.I. age

Anand Giridharadas, commentator with NBC and the New York Times

Liz Sandals, MPP and President of the Ontario Treasury Board

Dr. Angelica Lim on the Human side of A.I.

The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney on the state of the Canada – U.S. relationship

Discussing trade, tariffs and Trump

Ty Cobb, Global Director for the Human Rights Campaign, discusses building open and diverse societies

Metric’s Emily Haines

Panel: Empowering women entrepreneurs, with Ruma Bose, Metric’s Emily Haines, Melissa Sariffodeen of Ladies Learning Code, Andrea Palmer of Awake Labs and Vivian Abdelmessih from TD Bank

Guy LaFlamme, Executive Director of the Ottawa 2017 Bureau

Salim Ismail of Singularity University discusses exponential growth in cities

The Hon. Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence, takes questions on Canadian peacemaking