Presenters | Agenda

Adrian Anantawan,
18-year-old virtuoso violinist.

Tyler Brule,
Editorial Director, Wallpaper.

Michael Budman,
Co-Founder, Roots.

Ronnie Burkett,
Puppeteer, "One of the world's geniuses" -- The Village Voice.

John Robert Colombo,
Canada's "Master Gatherer".

Lise Anne Couture,
Architect, Co-Founder Asymptote.

Douglas Coupland,
Novelist and Artist, All Families Are Psychotic.

General John de Chastelain,
Chairman of the International Body on the Decommissioning of Arms in Northern Ireland.

Mary Lou Fallis,
Soprano, Canada's Foremost Concert Comedienne

Hershey Felder,
Concert Pianist, Actor and Composer.

Diane Francis,
Editor-at-Large and Columnist, Financial Post of the National Post.

Marc Garneau,
Astronaut, President of the Canadian Space Agency.

Quartetto Gelato,
Internationally acclaimed Canadian classical-crossover quartet.

Edward Greenspan,
Criminal Lawyer, Senior Partner Greenspan Henein & White.

Melissa Jane Hollands,
13-year-old Bagpiper.

Bob Hunter,
Author, Ecologist, Founder of Greenpeace

Michael Ignatieff,
Author, Journalist, Director of Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.

Pico Iyer,
Author, "One of the 100 visionaries worldwide who could change your life" -- The Utne Reader.

Paul Kedrosky,
Consultant and commentator on technology and finance. Columnist for The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and The National Post.

Arthur Kent,
Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker, Afghanistan Specialist.

Emory Kristof,
National Geographic Photographer.

Daniel Libeskind,
Architect, Jewish Museum Berlin & San Francisco, selected as architect for "Renaissance ROM".

Brian MacDonald,
Internationally acclaimed director and choreographer.

Richard MacDonald,
Medical Director, The Hemlock Society USA; President, World Federation of Right to Die Societies.

Irshad Manji,
Author, TV personality and media entrepreneur

Preston Manning,
Senior Fellow Fraser Institute and the Canada West Foundation.

Jennifer Mather,
Biologist and Psychologist, the "Jane Goodall of Calamari" -- Saturday Night Magazine.

Deepa Mehta,
Film Director, Producer and Screenwriter.

Henry Morgentaler,
Physician, Social Activist.

Terry Mosher,
Editorial Cartoonist, aka The Montreal Gazette's "Aislin".

Nelofer Pazira,
Afghan/Canadian Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker, Star of Kandahar.

Josef Penninger,
Medical Geneticist, Uncovered Master Gene for Osteoporosis.

Doug Perovic,
Canada's "Nabob of Nanotechnology"; Chair of the U of T's Program in Nanoengineering, the first of its kind to be offered anywhere in the world.

Anna Porter,
Publisher, Key Porter Books, Author.

Tracy Quan,
Author of "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl"; prostitutes rights activist; Salon.com columnist.

David Rakoff,
Humourist, Essayist, Author of "Fraud".

Kathy Reichs,
Forensic Anthropologist, Author of Deja Dead.

Spider Robinson,
Science Fiction Author, "Callahan's Key", Musician, Punster.

Clayton Ruby,
Lawyer, Social Activist.

Witold Rybczynski,
Meyereson Chair of Urbanism, Wharton/University of Pennsylvania

Christoph Sensen,
Principal Investigator, Sun Microsystems Centre of Excellence for Visual Genomics (a 'holodeck' like medical research facility at the University of Calgary).

Lindsay Sharp,
Director, National Museum of Science and Industry, London, UK.

Sarah Slean,
Pianist/Songwriter.

Lawrence Smith,
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Researcher at the Animal Reproduction Research Centre (Universite de Montreal); developed the original nuclear transfer technique used to produce the famous sheep 'Dolly', well known for cloning the famous bull 'Starbuck'.

Norman Spector,
Former Ambassador to Israel; Globe and Mail columnist.

Lionel Tiger,
Darwin Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, Author, "The Decline of Males".

Marq de Villiers,
Author of "Water", Editorial Director, Where Magazine International.

Elliott Wahle,
Vice President and GM, Toys "R" Us Times Square

Margaret Wente,
Columnist, The Globe & Mail

Ronald Wright,
Author, "A Scientific Romance".

Dr. Ray Muzyka & Dr. Greg Zeschuk,
Joint-CEOs of BioWare Corp., Co-Executive Producers of the first Star Wars role-playing game.

Donald Ziraldo,
President and Co-Founder, Inniskillin Wines.

David Zussman,
President, Public Policy Forum; Professor of Public Policy at the University of Ottawa.