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2019 Schedule

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2018

Alastair

Clarke

Imagine No Countries

Amy

Krahn

The Humble Wooden Spoon

Carolyn

Klassen

Learning from the Sequoias: the Value of Interconnectedness

David

Falk

Swim Sideways: Break the Grip of the Rip!

Diane

Roussin

Indigenous Social Innovation

Gord

Parke

Blockchain: Bitcoin & Beyond

Jocelynn

Johnson

Service Dogs Are Not A Pet Project

John

Janzen

Symptoms of Hopelessness

John

Luxford

The Digital Identity Revolution

Miyoung

Suh

Farming to the Sky: Thinking Upward for Nutrition in the North

Rehman

Abdulrehman

But where are you Really from? Resolving Unconscious Bias

Sparsh

Agrawal

Sparsh Agrawal

Tracey

Bone

The "F-Word"—Revisiting Feminism

Vicki

Olatundun

Road Safety Isn’t Child’s Play. Or is it?

2017

Ali

Saeed

Barefoot Man is Coming

Alyson

Shane

The Positive Power of Digital Communities

Andrea

Kraj

Smart Cities Begin With You

Dené

Sinclair

Indigenous Tourism

Joel

Carter

Storytelling at the End of Life

Johanna

Hurme

Design Economy

Jon

Waldman

Swimming Aimlessly: Getting Men to Talk about Infertility

Mike

Johnston

A Synonym for Science is Poetry

Mike

Lund

The Time of Your Life

Rana

Bokhari

Leadership: Breaking Traditional Gender, Age, & Religious Barriers

Ryan

Mayberry

The Future History Of Art

Sonya

Ballantyne

If I don't see myself, how do I know I exist?

Steve

Langston

Goal Smashing

Tatjana

Brkic

Social Innovation in Business

2016

Alex

Drysdale

It's Time We Put Bugs in our Pantry

Alexandra

Hasenpflug

Hearing in Technicolor

Cheryl

Ferguson

Motivating People to Excellence

Daniel

Blair

Reforging Reality

Dr. Nicole

Buckley

Space Health and Aging Research

Dwight

MacAulay

Protocol, Who Needs It?

Earl

Gardiner

Taking Back the Night

Janet

Schmidt

If You Could See What I See: You Could Achieve Your Dreams

László

Pintér, PhD

The Reflexive Community

Madison

Thomas

Arts in the Hood

Matt

Cohen

Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering History through Ghost Signs

Stephen

Dubienski

Using Biofeedback for the Psychological Effects of Concussion

2015

Cal

Harrison

Five billion reasons to change the RFP

Cornelius

Buller

Marginalized Women and the Attitudes of Men who Propel it

Darrick

Baxter

How Technology is Saving Native Tribe Languages

Derek

Neufeld

Small vs. Large Scale Generation

Heather

Hinam

Discovering the Amazing in the Everyday

Kim

Zeglinski

Under the Autism Umbrella: Providing Shelter From the Storm

Patrick

O’Reilly

The golden rule is wrong — so what do we do about it?

Sheena

Grobb

Our Health and Lives are Incredibly Fragile: I Found this Out at 16

Sherry Lee

Benson-Podolchuk

Workplace Bullying and the Strategies I Used to Survive

Tim

Hague Sr.

Beginning life with Parkinson’s at the age of 46

Todd

Scott

How Humour Can Help to Save a Life

2014

Ali

Ashtari

Spiritual but not Religious: an Iranian Immigrant Story

Althea

Guiboche

Got Bannock? In Honour of the Village we Once Had

Andrew John

Milne

Artist Technologist

Angela

Cassie

What is an Inspiring Encounter with Human Rights?

Brian

Bowman

What do you do after the bullets miss you?

Chris

Summerville

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

David

Gingera

The urban agriculture revolution

David

Samborski

Our Turn in Space

Jo

MacDonald

Lemonade/Language Aid Stand

Jodie

Layne

Flipping the Script - Pleasure and Prevention

Joe

Kalturnyk

No Such Thing as a Snow Day

Leif

Norman

The Past and Future of Photography

Nick

Skytland

Exploration

Pay

Chen

Sort of. Maybe. Yes.

Sandi

Reimer

Choose Your Altitude

Ted

Geddert

Live Bravely (and find a good soundtrack)

2013

1491s

1491s Play With Themselves: Imagery and Reclamation

Bradley

Shende

The Joy of Clicking

Carly

Shuler

Digital Play: Potential and Possibilities

Deri

Latimer

Choose Life

Emeka

Nnadi

The Transformative Power of Play

Joseph

Ranseth

Who Moved my Unicorn?

Kal

Barteski

Art of a Polar Bear

Maclean

Thiessen

My Life As A Canvas

Nusraat

Masood

Play to Inspire

Sean

Garrity

Solo Cinema: fiction that is real

Stephen

Sim

Who wants to play?

Stuart

Taylor

Designing solutions to poverty is child’s play (that’s what makes it so hard)

Tara

Miller

Who needs eyesight when you have vision

TJ

Dawe

An Experiment in Collective Intelligence

2012

Brad

Tyler-West

Opposites Distract

David

Zinger

Hive Alive: To Bee or Not to Be?

Gem

Newman

Curiosity Didn't Kill the Cat

Getty

Stewart

Sharing Our Surplus

Grant

Barkman

What if a Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words?

Hazel

Borys

Confessions of a Former Sprawl Addict

Kale

Bonham

From the Other Side of the Tracks: Bridging Cultures Through Community Provoked Art

Linda

Cureton

Unmasking the Superhero in You

Matt

Henderson

Teaching Ourselves to Last Forever

Michael Redhead

Champagne

Oppression to Opportunity

Robert J.

Sawyer

To Live Forever – Or Die Trying

Robert L.

Peters

Solace House

Wilma

Derksen

When Polarity in Forgiveness Happens

2011

Bernard

McCoy

Commerce With Compassion: Social Entrepreneurism for the 21st Century

Francis

Amara

Community Engagement: Science in the Inner City

Frank

Plummer

Is There Natural Immunity to HIV?

Hannah

Taylor

A Cold Walk in Shoes Without a Home

John

Weigelt

Enabling Canada’s Economy Digitally

Karen

Letourneau

A Breakthrough in Prenatal Ultrasound

Kerry

Stevenson

How 3D Printing Will Change the Way You Think

Len

Brownlie

Helping the Swiftest Be Swifter

Les

Foltos

Peer Coaching – 21st Century Teacher Skills

Leslee Silverman &

Columpa Bobb

The Moving Gallery @ the Edge of the Screen

Phil

Doucette

Between You, Me and Liberation

Richard

Van Eck

The Gaming of Educational Transformation

Scott

Stirton

Intelligent Buildings

Shaun

Loney

Poverty, Crime and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Terry

Godwaldt

DeforestAction: Global Project Based Learning

Terry

MacLeod

Finding a Life Beyond the Gang