SPEAKERS

Swin Chang
Executive in Charge of Development and Production, CBC Kids

Amanda Parris
Writer and TV/Radio Host

Dawn Wilkinson
Film & Television Director

Clement Virgo
Writer, Director, Producer

Joan Jenkinson
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Black Screen Office (BSO)

Marie McCann
Senior Director, Children’s Content, CBC Kids

Doug Schwalbe
Founder, The Co-Production Company

Athena Georgaklis
Head of Development, Nelvana

Marc Hartlen
Associate Development Executive, Nelvana

Mike Beale
Managing Director, Global Creative Network, ITV Studios

Laurie Ferneau
Senior Vice President, Development, Crown Media Family Networks

Drew Buckley
Group President and Chief Operating Officer, Propagate Content

Christina Summers
Country Manager, Roku Canada

Mary-Anne Taylor
Head of Content Distribution - Canada, Roku Inc.

Drew Robinson
Vice President of Content Distribution, Corus Entertainment

Jamie Schouela
President, Global Channels and Media, Blue Ant Media

Jordan Pinto
North American Editor, C21 Media

Tim Rozon
Actor, TERROR TRAIN

Graham Ludlow
Production and Development Executive, Canada, Incendo

Kevin Beggs
Chair of the Lionsgate Television Group and Chief Content Integration Officer, Lionsgate

David Jenkinson
Editor-in-Chief, C21 Media

Robyn Alomar
Actor, TERROR TRAIN

Scott Herbst
EVP and Head of Scripted Development, Lionsgate Television Group

Brenda Bisner
Chief Content Officer, Kidoodle.TV

Marly Reed
VP, Development, Neshama Entertainment

Hannah Pillemer
EVP, Creative Services, MarVista Entertainment

Valerie Creighton
President and CEO, Canada Media Fund

Prem Gill
CEO, Creative BC

Carolyn Newman
Executive Vice President, Global Scripted Programming, Blink49 Studios

Agnes Augustin
President & CEO, Shaw Rocket Fund

Catherine Tait
President & CEO, CBC/Radio-Canada

Moderator: maxine bailey
Executive Director, CFC

Kadon Douglas
Executive Director, BIPOC TV & Film

Lea Marin
Director of Development, Drama, CBC

Ian Iqbal Rashid
Writer/Director/Executive Producer, SORT OF and TOUCH OF PINK

MOTION
Writer/Supervising Producer, THE PORTER

Andrew Burrows-Trotman
Writer/Producer, THE PORTER

Greig Dymond
Director of Development and Head of Festivals, Comedy, CBC

Jason Badal
GM of Canada, Disney+

Moderator: Damon D’Oliveira
Executive Producer

Michela Di Mondo
EVP, Canada, International, Fremantle

Rachel Goldstein-Couto
Head of Development, Original Programming, Bell Media

Lisa Hamilton Daly
Executive Vice President, Programming, Crown Media Family Networks

Brent Haynes
Head of Scripted Series, Canada, Amazon Studios

Richard Jean-Baptiste
Executive Producer

Tory Jennings
Director of Content, Crave

Marie Ka
Executive Producer

Katrina Kowalski
Vice President, Content, Paramount+ and Pluto TV Canada

Adam Lewinson
Chief Content Officer, Tubi

Mark Montefiore
CEO & Founder, New Metric Media

Sophie Parizeau
General Manager, Scripted Series, Bell Media

Adam Pettle
Story Consultant

Justin Stockman
VP, Content Development & Programming, Bell Media

Danielle Woodrow
Director of Canada Series, Netflix

Tara Woodbury
Manager, Series Canada, Netflix

CJ Yu
Head of Unscripted Development, Global Formats, Amazon Studios