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Be inspired by the world's top thinkers
C2 Montréal speakers are an engaging mix of world-renowned personalities, business leaders, innovative creatives, social game-changers and industry experts, as well as the next generation of bold forward thinkers.
→ Indy Johar
Executive Director, Dark Matter Labs
→ Tosin Oshinowo
Architect, Oshinowo Studios
→ Nicolas Coeckelberghs
Co-Founder, BC architects & studies & materials
→ Boris Eldagsen
Artist
→ Catherine Laporte
Creative director, artist, farmer and immersive experience facilitator
→ Andrew Dana Hudson
Author
→ Nathan Pyle
Author and Executive Producer, Strange Planet
→ Nicolas Nova
Anthropologist, explorare, HEAD
→ Olalekan Jeyifous
Artist
→ Ruha Benjamin
Sociologist and professor, Princeton University
→ Dominique Leclerc
Dramatist and author, Posthumains
→ Dr. Lee Francis IV
CEO, A Tribe Called Geek (ATCG) Media
→ Sophie Boone
Project Manager/Architect, Rotor
→ Stephen Cookson
Vice President/Origination and Strategy, RES
→ Caitlan Maggs
Creative Director
→ Sasha Luccioni
AI & Climate Lead
→ Jennifer Heil
CEO and Founder of RYA Health, Olympic Champion
→ Deborah Wong
Founding Artistic Director, re:Naissance Opera
→ Steven Paynter
Steven Paynter, Principal, Global Practice Area Leader, Gensler
→ Adam Bly
Founder & CEO, System
→ Jared Genser
General Counsel, Neurorights Foundation
→ David Drury
Artist
→ Neil Carty
Vice President, Head of Cosm Studios & Labs, Cosm
→ Michael Ho
Executive Chef, Better Being
→ Melissa St-Louis
Co-Founder, Nüense
→ Shi Diwen Zhu
CEO, Better Being
→ David Levine
Creative strategist
→ Ashley Jane Lewis
New Media Artist & Postdoctoral Black Scholars Fellow, Toronto Metropolitan University
→ Constanza Gómez Mont
Founder and General Director, C Minds
→ Eric Liedtke
CEO and Co-Founder of Unless Collective
→ Pierre Thirion
Digital artist, designer and creative developer
→ Fran Delhoume
Co-founder, Nüense
→ Dylan Thuras
Co-Founder, Creative Direction, Atlas Obscura
→ Sean Stanleigh
Head of Globe Content Studio, The Globe and Mail
→ Emilie Baltz
Creative Director, Digital Experience Design, Gensler
→ Kristine Colosimo
VP of Strategic Partnerships and Marketing, Newlab
→ Timothy Caulfield
Professor of Health Law and Science Policy and Bestselling author
→ Neil Patel
Co-Founder, NP Digital
→ Mandy Gull Masty
Grand Chief, Chairperson, Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee), Cree Nation Government
→ Madeline Ashby
Futurist
→ Abbey Londer
Festival Director, Netflix
→ Pep Salazar
CEO, OFFF Festival
→ Éric Martel
President and Chief Executive Officer, Bombardier
→ Marta Cerdà Alimbau
Artist
→ Ève Laurier
Vice President, Communication, Marketing and Public Affairs, Bombardier
→ Aamna Jalal
Global Head of Business Affairs & Strategic Initiatives, Superfly
→ Dax Dasilva
Founder, Age of Union and Lightspeed
→ Valérie Pisano
President and CEO, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
→ Burton Rast
Design Partner, Strange Ventures
→ Ron Goldenberg
VP, International Marketing & Innovation, Brooklyn Nets, BSE Global
→ Andrew Marantz
Writer, The New Yorker
→ Sandra Rodriguez
Digital artist, XR-AI
→ Dan Pelson
COO, AREA15
→ Nell Whitley
Partner & Managing Director, Marshmallow Laser Feast
→ Sharlene Gandhi
Technology and Data Reporter, Future of Good
→ Aaron Powers
Partner, Strategy, Sylvain
→ Vinod Rajasekaran
CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Future of Good
→ Dines Dines
Creative Director, STUDIO BLUP®
→ Vivian Belzaguy Hunter
Founder, Ascendance Sustainable Events + Director of Sustainability, Ultra Music Festival
→ Lizzie Harris
Senior Partner, Lippincott
→ Guy Reid
Director, Planetary Collective
→ Jay Rinsky
Founder & Chief Creative Director, Little Cinema
→ Leah Rubin-Cadrain
Head of Creative, Snapchat
→ Félix Lajeunesse
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Felix & Paul Studios
→ Anouk Bertner
Executive Director
→ Fernande Ouellet
Farmer
→ François Morissette
Winemaker
→ Erica Boeke
CEO
Indy Johar
Executive Director, Dark Matter Labs
Indy is co-founder of Dark Matter Labs and of the RIBA award winning architecture and urban practice Architecture00. He is also a founding director of Open Systems Lab, seeded WikiHouse (open source housing) and Open Desk (open source furniture company).
Indy is a non-executive international Director of the BloxHub, the Nordic Hub for sustainable urbanization. He is on the advisory board for the Future Observatory and is part of the committee for the London Festival of Architecture. He is also a fellow of the London Interdisciplinary School.
Indy was 2016-17 Graham Willis Visiting Professorship at Sheffield University. He was Studio Master at the Architectural Association - 2019-2020, UNDP Innovation Facility Advisory Board Member 2016-20 and RIBA Trustee 2017-20.
He has taught & lectured at various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New School.
He was awarded the London Design Medal for Innovation in 2022 and an MBE for Services to Architecture in 2023.