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Santiago Paiva is currently a CEGEP student at Vanier College and Chairman of IET Montreal Young Professionals. He is a holistic learning, productivity hacking CEGEP student who wants to build things that inspire and drive change.


Kyle MacDonald -- @oneredpaperclip
Originally from Belcarra, British Columbia, Canada, Kyle MacDonald has planted more than one hundred thousand trees, delivered more than one thousand pizzas, but eaten only one scorpion. He has also traded one red paperclip for a house only once.


Jonathan Ginter - @lions2912
Jonathan is a musician, singer, actor and 20-year veteran of the IT industry. Oddly enough, these areas have proven to be complementary somehow. Jonathan also has strong interests in history, science and archaeology and avidly follows developments in these fields in his spare time.


Jackson Wightman -- @Jaxx09
Jackson Wightman is Communications Director for CauseForce. In this capacity he is responsible for external and internal communications as well as fun things like guerrilla marketing.


Chris 'Zeke' Hand -- @MontrealBurgers
Chris 'Zeke' Hand used to run Zeke's Gallery. Now he podcasts about Dance, Art and Hamburgers in Montreal. Not all at the same time.


Christine Renaud -- @e180
Christine is a social entrepreneur utilizing interactive tools to foster self-directed human potential development and artistic initiatives. She's the CEO and founder of E-180, producer of matchmaking web/mobile apps and events aiming to connect people interested in sharing knowledge offline.


Brian Rotsztein -- @brianrotsztein
Brian Rotsztein is CEO of Uniseo, a full service web design, search engine optimization, social media and Internet marketing company.


Anila Patel - @smileyanila
During the day I am a Java software developer, in the evening I enjoy reading about motivating myself to success.


Andy Nulman -- @andynulman

An acclaimed and thought-provoking public speaker/showman, motivating and challenging Fortune 500 companies the likes of GM, Eveready/Energizer, 3M and Wal-Mart, Mr. Nulman has also written two best-selling books, "How To Do The Impossible" and "I Almost Killed George Burns." Mr. Nulman is the President of Just For Laughs festivals and television.


André Nantel -- @nantel
A biologist with the NRC and McGill University, Dr. André Nantel does research on the fungal pathogen Candida albicans, cancer and heart disease, a job that often makes him feel like a caveman trying to reverse-engineer an iPhone. He is also known for publishing beautiful pictures on the internet.


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