Speakers
Patrick Heffron
Chief Financial Officer
StickerYou
Where growth gets operational.
Patrick helps growing companies build the operational and financial structure needed to turn ambition into execution. His work focuses on bringing clarity, discipline, and connected decision-making to organizations navigating growth, change, and increasing complexity.
As CFO at StickerYou, Patrick is responsible for the company’s financial strategy and several operational areas, including Customer Service and People & Culture. He brings more than 20 years of ICT leadership experience spanning both finance and operations, with a track record of helping technology companies strengthen performance, improve execution, and scale more effectively.
Previously, Patrick has held COO and CFO roles with Wysdom.AI, Pong Game Studios, Esna Technologies, Clickfree, and a range of other technology companies on a fractional basis, following earlier executive roles with Bell Canada and IBM. He is also a facilitator in the Entrepreneurship Programs at MaRS and an active community leader who is passionate about helping entrepreneurs execute on their vision.
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Derek Johnson
Chief Operating Officer
Welke
Making complexity move.
As COO of Welke, Derek is part of the leadership team helping carry a long-standing family business into its next phase of growth. Founded in 1985, Welke has grown from a customs brokerage into a broader customs and logistics company serving Canadian and U.S. importers across customs brokerage, freight forwarding, warehousing, insurance, trade consulting, and technology. In recent years, the company has identified Derek as part of the next generation of leadership helping drive that growth.
With a background that spans operations, finance, client service, and commercial leadership, Derek brings a practical perspective to an industry where precision, responsiveness, and trust matter every day.
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Danielle Ghazarian
Vice President, Enterprise Technology and Operations
Mortgage Professionals Canada
No compromise. Better digital.
Danielle believes digital experience should never be treated as a secondary layer. Her work focuses on using technology, operations, and modern systems thinking to create seamless experiences that strengthen member value, improve organizational performance, and create meaningful competitive advantage.
As Vice President, Enterprise Technology and Operations at Mortgage Professionals Canada, Danielle leads the organization’s technology strategy and delivery across infrastructure modernization, software implementation, systems integration, cybersecurity, and process automation. She brings a deeply practical view of digital transformation, one that connects enterprise technology decisions directly to collaboration, service delivery, and long-term growth.
Over the course of her career at Mortgage Professionals Canada, Danielle has progressed through a series of operational and leadership roles, giving her a strong understanding of both the organization and the audience it serves. She is known for championing secure, scalable, forward-looking systems that help teams work smarter, adapt faster, and deliver exceptional value in a rapidly evolving environment.
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Scott Snowden
Partner
Flywheel Strategic
Digital clarity. Delivered.
For Scott it is critically important that organizations succeed when digital investments create clarity instead of complexity. His work focuses on helping leadership teams cut through the noise of platforms, trends, and emerging technologies to build digital systems that drive real business momentum.
As the co-founder and a Managing Partner of Flywheel Strategic, Scott works with organizations to translate digital ambition into practical execution. His work centers on connecting content, commerce, data, and emerging technologies into cohesive digital ecosystems that support measurable growth.
Over the past two decades, Scott has guided companies through the strategic decisions that shape their digital platforms and customer experiences. Increasingly, his work focuses on helping organizations adopt AI in practical, responsible ways and applying emerging capabilities to strengthen digital experiences, improve operational efficiency, and create long-term strategic advantage.
Through Flywheel Strategic and the Digital Momentum initiative, Scott collaborates with practitioners and industry leaders to explore how organizations can navigate rapid technological change with discipline, alignment, and confidence.
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Kendra Johnson
Founder
The Venned Group
Leadership that connects.
Kendra knows that organizations perform at their best when leaders are equipped not just to manage work, but to lead people. Her work focuses on strengthening the layer of leadership that most often determines whether strategy succeeds or stalls: the managers responsible for turning direction into action.
As the Founder of The Venned Group, Kendra works with organizations to develop confident, capable leaders who can navigate complexity, build trust, and guide teams through change. She specializes in helping emerging and mid-level leaders build the communication, influence, and decision-making skills required to lead effectively in modern organizations.
Through customized leadership programs, workshops, and coaching engagements, Kendra partners with executives and HR teams to strengthen leadership capability across organizations. Her approach emphasizes practical tools leaders can apply immediately—helping teams align around priorities, communicate more effectively, and translate strategy into consistent execution.
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John Pehler
Founder + Principal
E3 Omni
Digital ambition at enterprise scale.
John works with organizations facing the complex challenge of modernizing their digital capabilities while continuing to scale their core business. His work focuses on helping leadership teams translate ambitious transformation goals into practical strategies that deliver measurable enterprise value.
As the Founder of E3 Omni, John advises distribution, industrial, and manufacturing organizations on navigating large-scale digital, data, and commerce initiatives. He helps executive teams evaluate platforms, define digital operating models, and align technology investments with long-term business growth.
John brings more than three decades of experience leading digital and cultural transformation across Fortune 500 enterprises. Over the course of his career, he has built and led high-performing digital and technology organizations while helping companies scale digital revenue from hundreds of millions to billions.
Known for turning complex and ambiguous challenges into clear strategic roadmaps, John works closely with executives and boards to guide organizations through the critical decisions that shape their digital future.
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Rob Manne
Founder
Inflectiv
Turning growth strategy into revenue reality.
Rob helps organizations close the gap between their marketing, sales, and customer experience investments and the revenue they are meant to produce. His work focuses on helping companies turn disconnected digital efforts into coordinated growth systems that drive measurable results.
As the Founder of Inflectiv, Rob partners with growing organizations that are frustrated that their websites, marketing automation, and sales tools are not delivering the performance they expected. Through Inflectiv, he helps companies implement and optimize platforms like HubSpot and emerging AI-powered technologies to improve productivity, accelerate customer conversion, and create stronger end-to-end customer experiences.
Rob’s background spans marketing communications, brand strategy, and sales leadership. Prior to founding Inflectiv, he held roles with global firms including Interbrand, Edelman, and Rogers, where he developed and delivered campaigns that connected brand, marketing, and business outcomes.
Through Inflectiv, Rob helps organizations align marketing, sales, and customer experience to create growth systems that scale.
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Agenda
Registration & Coffee
- Sign-in
- Caffeinate
- Settle-in
Welcome & Summit Opening
- Introductions
- Obectives for the Day
Sessions
- Keynote
Creating Digital Momentum
Drawing on the Digital Momentum Project, this keynote explores what it takes to create sustainable digital momentum in a time of rapid technological change. - Tech Highlight
Driving Practical AI Adoption
Follow the digital evolution at Mortgage Professionals Canada from platform modernization and system integration to the delivery of a practical AI-powered chat experience. - Success Story
Digital Confidence Delivered
Explore how Welke’s operational momentum has been shaped not just by systems and process, but by the people, behaviours, and shared leadership practices that make progress sustainable.
Lunch
- Buffet Lunch
- Networking
Sessions
- Workshop Honest AI Adoption from the Frontlines
This interactive workshop helps participants assess their organization’s AI readiness, explore practical adoption considerations, and begin shaping a maturity model for responsible progress. - Keynote
The Leadership Multiplier
Explore how better communication, stronger delegation, and more deliberate leadership development can help organizations close the gap between strategic intent and day-to-day execution. - Tech Highlight
Filling Revenue Gaps
Learn what worked for StickerYou to build a stronger customer experience by creating a single source of truth for customer data, improving service operations, and accelerating results with AI. - Panel
Moving Forward with Ambition
Join our full speaker panel for a forward-looking conversation about ambition, progress, and the questions leaders must continue asking as the Digital Momentum Project evolves.
Closing Remarks
- Final Thoughts
- Feedback
Dinner: CIBO Wine Bar - King West
- All Attendees are Invited
- Cocktail Style Dinner & Drinks
- Cibo Wine Bar — 522 King St. West
Venue &
Location
Accommodations
If needed, please organize your own lodging and accommodations.
The closest hotel is the 1 Hotel Toronto, or the Ace Hotel.
As we get closer to the event date, availability will affect prices.
The event date is also close to the start of FIFA and will impact accomodation availability and pricing.
Parking & Transportation
This event venue does NOT have parking. We recommend taking an UBER / taxi.
There is a UPARK parking lot you can access from Tecumseth St.
Check the TTC for current status of the King streetcars.