"Beyond the Scroll: Content That Connects"
Speaker Bio: Lauren Freund
Campaign Manager

Lauren Freund is a Campaigns Manager at Canva, where she leads strategy and execution across North American campaigns. With over a decade of experience at brands like Taco Bell and Shutterfly, she brings a rare mix of creative instinct and performance-driven thinking to marketing. Lauren specializes in helping brands show up with intention and cutting through the noise with relevance, resonance, and results.

Conversations Drive Brand Visibility and Decisions
Speaker Bio: Blake Smith
Director, Head of Mid Market Sales

“No More Viral BS: Growing Your Social Media Channels”
Speaker Bio: Adam Constantine
Founder and CEO

Adam Constantine is the Founder and CEO of ACE Creatives, a full-service social media agency crafting digital content to maximize ROI and brand affinity. With a decade of experience, Adam has curated captivating content for creators, brands, and Fortune 500 companies, including MrBeast, Amazon, and Champion. A 3x Telly Awards recipient, with a 6’8″ frame and an ever-growing shoe collection, Adam is passionate about the art of digital storytelling and strategies for building a powerful social media presence that connects brands with audiences that matter the most.

Email in the Age of AI: Staying Visible, Relevant, and Trusted
Speaker Bio: Nihal Mandanna
Director of Growth

Nihal Mandanna CP is Director of Growth at Cyberimpact. A retention marketer at heart, he loves helping teams keep and engage the audiences they work so hard to build. After years building omnichannel retention programs for e-commerce and SaaS brands, he’s convinced that loyalty, not reach, is the foundation of sustainable growth. When he’s not thinking about customer journeys, he’s probably unsubscribing from a few.

“Fox Paw in the Snow: If Your Footprint Cannot Be Wide, Let It Be Deep”
Speaker Bio: Dan Mangan
Musician and Songwriter

"Room to Play: Getting Budget and Buy-In for Creativity"
Speaker Bio: Michael Kohlweg
Animation Director

Michael is the founder and animation director of Mountain Fold Studio; an animation studio that specializes in the timeless craft of stop motion animation. They use real and tangible objects and materials to bring a client’s story and vision to life in a unique and charming way. With this recent boom of A.I. generated art, Michael is compelled to create work where we can see the fingerprints of the human who created it.

“We Promise It Will Be Worth It: Building Trust Despite Disruption”
Speaker Bio: Emma Stevens
Director, Communications and External Relations

“Brand Reputation: How to Build and Rebuild Trust and Loyalty”
Speaker Bio: Paula Worthington
President and Founder

Paula Worthington is the President and Founder of Worthington PR & Story, a sought-after communications agency based in Calgary. A storyteller at heart, Paula is committed to creating community and clarity through meaningful communications and PR campaigns. She's an entrepreneur, teacher, board member, volunteer and freelance writer.

“The Rampant, the Resistant, and the Stuck: A Framework for Real AI Adoption”
Speaker Bio: Peter Bishop
Chief Innovation Officer

Pete Bishop is the Chief Innovation Officer at ZGM, leading the agency's AI transformation. He also hosts Artificial Breakdown, a podcast on AI's impact on marketing and business.

What 40M+ Posts (and One Big Survey) Reveal About Social Media and the People Powering It in 2026
Speaker Bio: Anniston Ward
USA PR and Education Manager, Metricool

Anniston Ward is a Gen Z marketer on Metricool’s founding U.S. team, based in Austin, Texas. Over the past three years, she’s worked across PR, education, and brand growth—wearing just about every digital marketing hat along the way. Anniston helps social media managers, brands, and creators use data and tech to make smarter decisions without losing their voice, personality, or human connection.

“No Bad Press for Potent Brands”
Speaker Bio: Chad Hason
CEO and Founder

Author of Brand is a Verb and co-founder of Agency Atlas, Chad has spent over 20 years helping brands drop the bullshit and start showing up with meaning, momentum, and a message that matter.

His talks aren’t TED-polished. They’re sharp, honest, occasionally funny and always grounded in real-world, real-business insight.

The Automation Trap: Why "Set It and Forget It" is Costing You a Fortune
Speaker Bio: Ameet Khabra
Owner & Founder

Ranked #29 globally on the 2025 Most Influential PPC Experts list and a Top 100 honoree for three consecutive years, Ameet shapes the industry conversation as an international speaker and writer for major digital publications. She leverages this elite, world-class authority to design high-performance strategies that consistently outpace the competition. Her intensity is matched only by her "excessively enthusiastic" love for the Dallas Cowboys and her dogs, Luke & Leia.

The Stopwatch and The Synapse: Why AI Efficiency is a Trap
Fab Dolan
Founder

Fab Dolan is a founder building the new, expert-owned economy. After over a decade at Google, he founded 99Ravens. The company's initial technology-centric model failed, leading to a critical pivot based on a unique insight: expertise, not software, is the most valuable asset in the AI age. Today, backed by leading AI investor Inovia Capital, 99Ravens operates as the first intellectual talent agency. Fab’s team helps elite marketers codify their unique strategic genius into proprietary AI, amplifying human ingenuity.

From Chaos to Clarity: Building a Unified Marketing Strategy
Jake Surrey
Director of Digital

I work as the Director of Digital at clearmotive, a Canada-based marketing agency focused focused on efficiency and effectiveness. I lead a team that specialises in all things digital and performance, and work alongside experts in creative, web dev, content and marketing ops.

Across the team, we’ve worked across nearly every niche and every facet of marketing, but my specific expertise lies in digital strategy, paid media, SEO and data architecture.

Existing and previous clients include Amazon, BP, Canadian Pacific and Gartner.

Co-presenter Nicole McLaws is the Senior Director of Marketing + Brand Experience at Hopewell Residential. Having started her career in journalism, she now has over 20 years' experience in homebuilder marketing and customer experience.

Test Faster, Spend Smarter: How Synthetic Data Is Transforming Consumer Research
Kate O’Keeffe
CEO and Co-Founder

Kate is the CEO and Co-Founder of Heatseeker, the first AI-powered platform for market experimentation that helps companies like DoorDash, HelloFresh, and KPMG validate strategy, positioning, and buyer demand in days, not months. Prior to Heatseeker, Kate spent a decade in Silicon Valley, founding CHILL, Cisco’s global co-innovation lab, and launching high-impact ventures for Fortune 100 companies at startup speed. A former Partner at BCG, she has advised executives and boards on innovation, growth, and digital transformation, delivering hundreds of millions in business value. Kate serves on the board of Birchal, Australia’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, and as a non-executive director for Naked Ambition and CircleOf, Inc.

Email in the Age of AI: Staying Visible, Relevant, and Trusted
Speaker Bio: Geoffrey Blanc
General Manager

Geoffrey Blanc is the General Manager of Cyberimpact, a Canadian email marketing platform renowned for its strong focus on compliance with local regulations such as CASL. With extensive experience in project management, e-commerce, and ERP implementations, Geoffrey has successfully led multidisciplinary teams and driven growth initiatives across multiple industries.
He is widely recognized for his expertise in email marketing strategy and regulatory compliance, and for his ability to deliver measurable, high impact results that help organizations grow sustainably.

Marketing in the Age of Overwhelm: Why Strategy is Your Most Powerful AI Tool

Speaker Bio: Warren Thompson

Warren is the co-founder of Ollo Metrics, a digital marketing agency in Vancouver, BC. He also teaches at Jelly Academy and UBC and speaks at events like PPC Hero Conf and Social Pacific. His work bridges strategy, performance marketing, and emerging tech like AI.

"Performance Marketing with Heart: How the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Built Fandom Through Paid Media"
Speaker Bio: Jeff Aylen
VP of Marketing & Brand

"Performance Marketing with Heart: How the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Built Fandom Through Paid Media"
Mike Tyler
CEO & Founder

Mike Tyler is the founder and CEO of War Room, one of North America’s fastest-growing paid media platform partners. Under Mike's leadership, War Room has become a trusted long-term partner to top brands including the NBA, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Science World, SkiBig3, and the Vancouver Canucks.