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Speakers | PACE: Impact Beyond Speed (2025)
PACE: Impact Beyond Speed
Speed up or slow down? Where does impact occur if we're not moving in the right direction? That's all part of exploring at the pace of insight... our speakers will provoke your thinking, and it's then up to our participants to discuss from there!
Gayathri Shukla - Storyteller
Gayathri Shukla is the founder of Campfire Kinship, a social enterprise that helps organizations build inclusive, trust-based cultures, by starting with one of the most powerful tools we all have: story. With a background in electrical engineering, an MBA, and now pursuing her PhD in Transdisciplinary Research at the University…
Dr. Chelsea Matisz, PhD. MSc - Gut-brain Scientist & Science Communicator
Chelsea Matisz is an award-winning gut-brain scientist and science communicator. She earned her PhD from the University of Calgary, studying how parasites can change immune responses in inflammatory bowel disease. She then completed several fellowships where she explored how inflammation of the gut affects brain and behaviour. Some of her…Introducing our PACE: Impact Beyond Speed speakers...
Announcing the full list of speakers for PACE: Impact Beyond Speed on October 25th!
Individual speaker profiles will continue to appear over the next couple of weeks, but here's the overview of our speaker line-up.
Top Row, Left to Right
Chad Lefevre
Transformational Changemaker
Julien LePage
Registered Social Worker (BSW, MSW Leadership), trauma specialist, and lifelong drummer
Dr. Kerry Black, PhD, PEng
Associate Professor, University of Calgary and Canada Research Chair in (Re)Engineering Sustainable Communities
Kate Thompson, Architect, AAA, FRAIC
President & CEO of Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC)
Middle Row, Left to Right
Dr. Chelsea Matisz, PhD, MSc
Gut-Brain Scientist and Science Communicator
Wish Bakshi
Founder & AI Systems Engineer | Specialist in Commodities Trading & Operations (OT) | Power, Nat Gas, Data Centers, LNG, SCADA
Shone Thistle
Calgary Poet Laureate, 2024-26, author, poet and multidisciplinary artist
George Damian
Philanthopist and Tech Investor
Bottom Row, Left to Right
Gayathri Shukla, PEng., MBA
Storyteller and founder of Campfire Kinship
Dr. Laleh Behjat, PhD, PEng (b. 328/423 ppm*)
Professor in Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary and the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering – Prairies
Dr. Lina Kattan, PhD. P. Eng.
Professor in the Schulich School of Engineering, the Urban Alliance Professor in Transportation System Optimization, and program director of CREATE-Integrated Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities
The Honourable Leela Aheer
Former Alberta MLA and Minister of Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women (2019 - 2021)
*A personal measure of what the Earth's CO2 levels were at birth, compared to now. All of us should know this!
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