Changing the World, One Girl at a Time Lorraine grew up in Welland, Ontario, and met her husband John, at Western University. After graduating, they moved to Milwaukee, where Lorraine earned her teaching degree at University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, and then taught high school English. They also lived in Toledo, Baltimore, and Brantford, before returning [...]
Thank you to our Exclusive Event Sponsors (Joint), Lawson Research Institute and the Cognitive Clinical Research Group (CCRG) for your sponsorship of this event. Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and New Disease Modifying Treatments Michael Borrie, MB ChB, FRCPC is a Geriatrician and Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, The University of [...]
Eight Billion Geniuses Mark is the Chief AI Officer at Western University and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science with cross-appointments in five other departments, The Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and The Western Institute for Neuroscience. He is also a faculty affiliate of Toronto's Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Mark was named [...]
Thank you to our Exclusive Event Sponsor, TD, for your sponsorship of this event. How Fashion Impacts People and the Planet In 2007, after a career in fashion public relations, Kelly Drennan founded Fashion Takes Action, out of her desire to create a better, more sustainable future for her then, two young daughters. Her [...]
Shaping Stories for Stage, Page and Screen Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Her novel Room has sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Emma scripted the film adaptation, which was nominated for [...]
Grit and Grace: Respectful Disruption and the Path to Authentic Leadership Deputy Chief Treena MacSween began her policing career in 1998 with Peel Regional Police before joining the Hamilton Police Service in 2001. In April 2024, she was appointed Deputy Chief of the London Police Service, bringing more than 28 years of experience in [...]
Forest City Facts: Using Public History to Celebrate London’s Bicentennial Michelle Hamilton is a Public Historian interested in historical and contemporary issues surrounding museums and heritage, often in regards to Indigenous peoples. She is also the director of Hear, Here London which brings first-person stories to the street at the location of that story. [...]
Jingle and Mingle The London Sweet Adeline Chorus is a vibrant, award winning group of women who love to sing four (4) part a cappella harmony. Our chorus chartered as a member of Sweet Adelines International Inc., in 1954 making us the oldest Ontario Chapter and the second longest running Chapter in Canada. Sweet [...]
Wilderness Adventures With Adam Shoalts Adam Shoalts is a professional adventurer and Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His expeditions range from mapping rivers to archaeological projects, but Adam is best known for his long solo wilderness journeys, including crossing alone nearly 4,000 km of Canada’s Arctic. Named one of the "greatest [...]
How to Prevent and Screen for Cancer of the Cervix: HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Testing and Vaccination Dr. Monique Bertrand was a practicing Gynecologic Oncologist in Canada for over 40 years and a Professor of Medicine and academic researcher in the medical schools at the Universities of Ottawa, British Columbia and, most recently, since 2004, [...]