Éric Albert, vice-président, Investissements, est un dirigeant chevronné possédant une vaste expérience internationale dans les opérations, la finance, les ventes, le marketing, le développement commercial et les fusions et acquisitions dans les industries des technologies, médias et des télécommunications. Plus récemment, Éric était v.p. exécutif avec Stingray Digital Inc., où il était responsable des différents aspects reliés aux opérations et a également participé activement aux initiatives de fusions et acquisitions de la société. Avant de rejoindre Stingray, Éric a travaillé à Radio-Canada où il était directeur général de Galaxie, le service audio numérique payant de la Société. Auparavant, Éric a été chef des opérations en Amérique du Nord pour Gameloft, un développeur de contenu mobile affilié à Ubisoft. Avant Gameloft, Éric a occupé plusieurs postes de ventes, marketing et opérations dans le secteur des technologies de l’information et de l’électronique de consommation. Éric est membre de l’Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec et détient une Maîtrise en administration des affaires avec concentration en gestion des technologies de l’École des sciences de la gestion à l’UQAM.

Après des études en gestion à l’École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal, il s’associe à Philippe Gélinas en 1984 pour créer la firme de conseil informatique A&G Conseil. Renommée Proximi-T, elle sera intégrée au Groupe Cossette Communication en 2000. En 1988, le développement des interfaces graphiques et l’apparition d’un nouveau support de stockage – le cédérom – les incitent à fonder CEDROM Technologies. L’entreprise fusionnera quelques années plus tard avec la Société Nationale d’Information (SNI) pour devenir CEDROM-SNi. En janvier 2000, François et ses associés lancent IXIASOFT, une entreprise issue de l’expertise de CEDROM-SNi en indexation de documents. IXIASOFT met en marché des outils logiciels pour la gestion de documents XML et DITA. 

Président du conseil d’administration du Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM), François a aussi présidé le conseil d’administration d’IXIASOFT et de l’Association québécoise des technologies (AQT).

Philippe has twenty years of professional experience as a software team manager, academic researcher and software developer, including 5 years at Google. He holds M. Sc., Ph. D. and followed Postdoc studies in Computer Science, with research focusing on bipedal control, machine learning and physics simulation. Philippe published 20 significant scientific papers, patents or book chapters, and leads communities of 3 open source projects and of a world-wide academic workgroup. He is a founder of three corporations, including Element AI and ArcBees Consulting, and is regularly invited as speaker in many public events. His specialties: Machine Learning, Physics-Based Systems, Control, Data Compression.

Phillip Crawley is the Publisher and CEO of The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper. He oversees the strategy and operations of The Globe and Mail newspaper, web sites including globeandmail.com, reportonbusiness.com and globeinvestor.com, and magazines including Report on Business. During his tenure, The Globe and Mail and its staff have won 58 National Newspaper Awards, and been honoured by many organizations. Prior to joining The Globe and Mail, Crawley held a variety of senior executive positions with some of the world's leading media companies in Europe, Asia and New Zealand. From 1997 to 1998 he was the Managing Director of The New Zealand Herald, and later the C.E.O. Designate of Wilson & Horton, New Zealand's largest media group. Between 1993 and 1997 he was Managing Director, The Times Supplements, London. From 1988 to 1993 he was Editor, then Editor-in-Chief of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and Editorial Director of Asia Magazine.

Between 1987 and 1988 he was Northern Editor, The Daily Telegraph, London, and between 1979 and 1987 he was Editor of The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to 1979, Crawley worked in various editorial roles for Thomson Regional Newspapers. He is chairman of The Canadian Press, a board member of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and a governor of the Charter for Business which raises funds for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Canada. He is also a board member of The Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), The Canadian Newspaper Association, the Royal Conservatory of Music, the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation and the World Association of Newspapers/IFRA. He serves as Honorary Consul for New Zealand in Toronto.

Gordon is responsible for driving a joint mandate to accelerate innovation by enabling entrepreneurial Globe employees to do what they think needs done and to explore the start-up ecosystem to find up and coming companies that The Globe can work with for the mutual benefit of both organizations. The goal is to enable the development of new intellectual property on top of the foundation provided by The Globe and Mail in areas including data science and natural language processing, predictive and advanced analytics, AdTech, FinTech and security. Prior to his current position, he was Senior Manager Intelligence Systems from 2012 to 2016. At this position, with a new team of data scientists, he led the effort to implement a set of ETL processes that pushed The Globe and Mail's data into a data lake sitting on a hybrid cloud architecture where traditional BI tools could coexist with Big Data tools like Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Impala/Redshift and Mahout. Over time, the company migrated to a real-time stack featuring Kafka/Kinesis and Spark Streaming with SparkML. In addition to the work on the core ETL processes, his responsibilities included exploratory data analysis, feature engineering for predictive modelling and a privacy oversight function to ensure that all of The Globe's data was handled in a responsible manner. Starting at The Globe and Mail in 2006, he was previously Manager Mobile Media, Deputy Investment Editor, and Online Business Editor.

Depuis son arrivée en 2011, Michel a joué un rôle clé dans la transformation du modèle d’affaires de La Presse. Il a notamment été au cœur de la stratégie marketing entourant le lancement de La Presse+ et a, par la suite, contribué à sa croissance remarquable et à son positionnement dans l’industrie. Il possède une vaste expérience des médias, où il a occupé des postes d’envergure en ventes et en marketing, notamment au Réseau des sports (RDS).

Chris Goodridge has been with Torstar Corporation since 2004. During that time he has held a number of positions with both Torstar Corporation and Torstar Digital. His most recent role, prior to being appointed Acting President of Torstar Digital in April 2012, was as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Torstar Digital where he was responsible for leading the Finance function, partnering with the business leaders on digital strategy & operations as well as leading the M&A and partnership activities for Torstar Digital. Prior to assuming the Finance role at Torstar Digital, Chris was the Director of Corporate Development for Torstar. Christopher Goodridge holds an Executive MBA from the University of Toronto and a Law Degree from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Vice-président, Produits numériques à La Presse depuis 2010, Jean-Marc De Jonghe est l’un des grands meneurs de l'application pour tablettes La Presse+ et de son succès à l’échelle mondiale. Innovateur, stratégique et ardent défenseur du mode de gestion «agile», il a su développer un nouveau modèle d'avenir numérique, voire économique pour La Presse. Il œuvre maintenant à la commercialisation de la plateforme numérique avec des acteurs importants de l’industrie médiatique.

Pierre-Elliott Levasseur œuvre au sein de La Presse depuis 2006 et y a occupé plusieurs fonctions de direction au cours des dernières années. À titre de vice-président exécutif, il a notamment dirigé les opérations numériques de La Presse et supervisé l’ensemble du développement et de l’implantation de La Presse+. Il a actuellement la responsabilité des secteurs des revenus, des finances, des ventes et de la filiale technologique Nuglif. Il a contribué à tous les grands projets développés à La Presse depuis son arrivée, en faisant preuve d’un grand talent de gestionnaire. Titulaire d’une maîtrise (MBA) du Harvard Business School et spécialiste en finance, il a notamment piloté la diversification des activités de l’entreprise par l’entremise d’acquisitions, prises de participations financières et reventes. De 1995 à 2006, il a œuvré pour Power Corporation du Canada et la Corporation Financière Power, où il a été trésorier de 2001 à 2006.

As SVP of Innovation at Thomson Reuters, Katherine Manuel is helping the company transition from an international holding company to a global innovator creating partnerships and growth opportunities for its customers, employees and shareholders. Prior to this role, Katherine was a member of the Corporate Strategy team, where she worked with corporate leadership to create a long-term strategy based on market understanding and access to customers and products. Katherine has been with Thomson Reuters for nearly 11 years, holding senior positions within both the Legal and Tax & Accounting businesses as well as leading Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture for Healthcare & Science. From there, she joined the Office of the CEO, where she worked on various projects within the News division and the company-wide Transformation program. Before joining Thomson Reuters, Katherine worked for Accenture, focusing on the Media, Entertainment and Telecom industries. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College and a Masters of Business Administration from Duke University. She sits on the Advisory Boards of Duke University’s The Fuqua School of Business’ Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, as well as SOAR Triangle, a non-profit established to support women-led startups in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina

Brian Myles, né en 1973 à Trois-Rivières, est un journaliste québécois. Il a occupé pendant quatre ans la présidence de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec. Après une carrière journalistique passée à couvrir les affaires municipales, policières et judiciaires au quotidien Le Devoir et après avoir enseigné le journalisme à l'École des médias de l'Université du Québec à Montréal, il a été nommé directeur du quotidien Le Devoir en 2016.. En janvier 2016 il devient le 9e directeur du quotidien de la rue De BleuryBrian Myles, né en 1973 à Trois-Rivières, est un journaliste québécois. Il a occupé pendant quatre ans la présidence de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec. Après une carrière journalistique passée à couvrir les affaires municipales, policières et judiciaires au quotidien Le Devoir et après avoir enseigné le journalisme à l'École des médias de l'Université du Québec à Montréal, il a été nommé directeur du quotidien Le Devoir. 

Seasoned entrepreneur, Yves is a co-founder of president AdGear. The company was sold to Samsung in June 2016. His vision, experience and his ability to assemble and lead great teams are among his biggest strengths. Prior to AdGear, Yves Poiré has been Executive Vice-President at Fjord Interactive Marketing + Technology, Cossette's digital marketing business unit in Canada. He also was the President of Proximi-T, an information technology company specialized in e-business solutions. In 2000, Cossette acquired equity in Proximi-T, which eventually led to its merger in 2003.  Yves's humanitarian interests took him to Rwanda, India and Ecuador for three years of his career, where he worked on various development projects.

Skok has had a distinguished career in journalism both in Canada and the United States. Mostly recently he served as Associate Editor of Toronto Star. Before joining teh Toronto Star, he was Managing Editor and Vice President, Digital at the Boston Globe, where he oversaw all digital business and editorial groups. Before moving to Boston, Mr. Skok worked for Global News in Toronto where he was instrumental in launching Globalnews.ca, a site that grew rapidly in audience and journalistic quality, recording triple-digit annual growth. He also was a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University in 2012, the first Canadian digital journalist selected for this honor. He is the co-author of Breaking News: Mastering the Art of Disruption in Journalism, a Nieman Reports e-book he co-wrote with Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and Forum for Growth and Innovation Fellow James Allworth. David Skok began his career at ABC’s Nightline, the flagship current affairs program in Washington, D.C. He was born in South Africa and immigrated to Canada in 1988. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University’s journalism program and is a regular commentator on the future of media and journalism. David is a member of teh Board of Directors of the Online News Associations (ONA).

Chroniqueur au journal Les Affaires et blogueur sur LesAffaires.com, René Vézina exerce le journalisme depuis plus de 30 ans. Il dirigeait auparavant le magazine Commerce, après avoir animé pendant trois ans l’émission Finances au réseau TVA. Diplômé de l’Université Laval en journalisme et sciences politiques, il a commencé sa carrière en 1977 comme journaliste à la radio et à la télé de Radio-Canada en Gaspésie, avant de passer au réseau national à Montréal. Il s’est ensuite tourné vers le journalisme scientifique et l’économie.

Brian heads up a team of data scientists at Thomson Reuters Labs – Waterloo Region, located in Communitech, a startup accelerator that supports over 1100 startups annually. The lab shares a common workspace with the innovation labs of many other major brands including Canon, TD, Deloitte, Microsoft, and General Motors. The primary objectives are to develop customer-driven innovation projects exploring big data sets for new product offerings, services, and insights ; and work with both startups and academia to foster innovation through partnership. Brian has a long history of ecosystem building. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Brian worked as an Executive in Residence at Communitech, where he worked with over 100 startups helping them scale all aspects of their business: investment, tech, product, sales, marketing, and most importantly, staff. In his previous role as Director of Developer Relations at BlackBerry, Brian led a global team of 30+ developers through rapid expansion and managed direct technical relationships with over 600 major brands. This unique position gave Brian insights into dozens of different industries, both with major brands as well as with thousands of independent developers and small businesses with whom he’s engaged over the years.