Argentina Beltran is the Founder and CEO of InclusifAI, a funding infrastructure platform reshaping how founders access capital and how funding decisions get made. With over 20 years of experience across finance, life sciences, startups, and nonprofit leadership, she has helped founders access more than $200M in capital and built networks that connect overlooked talent to real opportunity.

Known for her systems-level thinking, Argentina focuses on fixing the structural gaps in funding rather than working around them. Through InclusifAI, she combines AI with human judgment to bring clarity, consistency, and accountability to the funding journey.

Her work sits at the intersection of innovation, access, and decision-making, helping founders move from underestimated to fundable while enabling funders to make better, more informed investments.

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Dr. Kelly Dore is a cognitive psychologist with a PhD in Assessments and Higher Education. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. Dr. Dore is Founder and board member of Acuity Insights, which has been named one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies for six years in a row. She is the co-creator of Casper, the most widely used situational judgment test in higher education.

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Dr. Katherine Gardhouse is driven by a clear conviction: that emotional health is not peripheral to human well-being, it is foundational, and it can be systematically developed. Her work centers on understanding how deeply ingrained emotional patterns, often shaped by trauma and lived experience, block people from accessing their agency, clarity, and authentic self. She brings a combination of clinical depth and systems thinking, focused on building solutions that don’t just manage symptoms, but create lasting change.

Katherine is a Clinical and Health Psychologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Assistant Professor at McMaster University, Founder of eFIT Institute, where she developed a world-class and integrated biopsychosocial model of care combining psychotherapy, somatic work, physical training, nutrition, and the healing power of community and human relationship into care, and the CEO of innermap.ai. Her work challenges the limitations of traditional, fragmented and symptom-based approaches to mental health, instead advancing a comprehensive system designed to rewire maladaptive emotional patterns at their root.

At Innermap, Katherine is building tools and teams to scale emotional intelligence and transform how individuals and clinicians understand and work with human emotion. Innermap emerged from real-world clinical application when patients started using “innermap” as a verb to describe the process of understanding themselves. Her vision is to make deep emotional understanding accessible, interrupt the trajectory from trauma to disorder, and equip both individuals and clinicians with the tools to create meaningful, sustained change, at a moment when AI makes this possible at scale.

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Mackensey Bacon is the CEO and co-founder of NodeAI Diagnostics Corp., a McMaster University spin out developing clinical decision support tools for lung cancer staging. Alongside co-founders Dr. Waël Hanna and Dr. Anthony Gatti, she is building AI-powered products designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of lung cancer staging. Mackensey also leads innovation and partnerships across the St. Joseph’s Health System, where she serves as the lead connector of new technology into the organization. Through this work, she collaborates closely with clinical teams, researchers, and industry partners to bring meaningful innovation into real-world care settings. At the heart of everything she does is a belief that the best healthcare technology should reach everyone who needs it and that equitable access to world-class tools is not a privilege, but a right.

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As a Data and AI consultant at PwC and one of Canada’s Top 25 Women in Tech, Tanuvi helps her clients make complex concepts of AI feel accessible. She will share the strategies she implements for Fortune 500 companies, transforming “AI hype” into practical, actionable growth.

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Thanh is an Account Director at Operatic Agency with 10 years of expertise in launching specialty care and rare disease products. A passionate advocate for humanizing the pharma space, she bridges the gap between business goals and the real-world human experience. By combining a strategic mindset with a passion for meaningful patient outcomes, Thanh ensures that empathy and the ‘human side’ remain at the heart of every pharma innovation

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Theresa Evanoff is the Executive Director of Global Angel Investor Network (GAIN), a non-profit organization based in Mississauga, and Canada’s first global-facing angel investment network. GAIN connects immigrant and underrepresented Canadian founders nationwide to investors worldwide who believe in the power of Canadian innovation.

Theresa is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of leadership experience in strategy, go-to-market execution, and innovation across Asia, Europe and Canada.  She spent 19 years in Singapore where she launched accelerators for German Accelerator Southeast Asia and Moody’s for Startups, advising early-stage companies on growth strategies, market entry, and investor readiness. She also founded a social enterprise and held leadership roles with multinational corporations and consultancies.  Now based in Canada, she is deeply committed to connecting Canadian and global founders with the right resources to scale and succeed.

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