Jon is a passionate mountaineer helping energy, water and environment businesses to address their biggest challenges, through innovation, technology and transformation. He focuses on climate change, the environment and our future energy and water systems.He is a technologist trained as a mathematician, economist and strategist. With more than 30 years consulting to the public sector, retail and banking, oil & gas and for the last decade utilities, Jon understands the keys to successful strategy and transformation. These are nearly always execution over planning, people over technology and the ability to rapidly change what isn't working. Even more so in the Digital era.

Find Jon series of blogs on Energy & Utilities matters at: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/insights-on-business/energy-and-utilities/

Phil De Luna is currently an Adjunct Professor and University of Toronto where he works with the world’s largest companies to decarbonize their businesses. He is a Governor General Gold Medal winning scientist, ranked in the top 0.01% in the world in his field. Prior to McKinsey, Phil was the youngest-ever Director at the National Research Council where he built and led a $57M R&D program developing disruptive technologies to decarbonize Canada. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada, an adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, a Carbon XPRIZE finalist, a former MP candidate for Toronto-St. Paul’s, and a Forbes Top 30 Under 30.

Erin is a champion for sustainable energy solutions that can transform the world. As an energy-industry professional with more than a decade of experience in engineering, sustainability, and innovation across all phases of value creation, Erin is working to transform the industry through early investments in companies that have the potential to disrupt the energy industry.

With previous roles spanning both strategy and leadership, she has been an influential thought leader across major North American energy enterprises. As a Principal at Evok Innovations, she brings her expertise in business strategy & operations to the center of all Evok investments.

Erin earned her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical & Biological Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. She’s an active volunteer in clean technology and diversity ventures, and she has been recognized by the Globe & Mail as one of Canada’s top 50 “Changemakers” in business.

Kate Chisholm has been a member of the senior executive team since July 2009 and played an instrumental role in Capital Power’s restructuring and Initial Public Offering that led to the company’s creation. Kate leads Capital Power’s strategic and sustainability planning and reporting, market forecasting and analytics, regulatory, government relations, stakeholder engagement, community investment, communications, internal audit, ethics and compliance functions. She has personally led significant and successful commercial negotiations, managed high stakes litigation and overseen important public policy influence strategies for Capital Power. Previously, Kate served as Capital Power’s Chief Legal Officer.

Prior to Capital Power, Kate served as EPCOR’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary from 2004 to 2009, and Vice President, Legal and Commercial for Alberta’s Transmission Administrator (now the Alberta Electric System Operator) from 1999 to 2003.

Kate has provided counsel and expert witness testimony in numerous electric utility hearings, including those arising from the restructuring of the Alberta electricity industry.

She was awarded the prestigious “Robert V.A. Jones” Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association in 2008, appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2010, named one of Canada’s Top 50 Diversity Champions by Women of Influence Magazine in 2013, named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and given a Leadership in the Profession Award by WILL/Counsel Network/Association of Women Lawyers in 2014, and named one of Canada’s Top 50 General Counsels in 2016.

Kate currently serves on a number of boards and governing bodies, including Chair of the University of Alberta Board of Governors. She created the MORE mentoring program for high potential young professional women in Edmonton and was one of the founding members of Legal Leaders for Diversity, an association of Canadian general counsel who support and promote diversity and inclusion within the legal profession.

Chris Henderson is a Canadian clean energy thought leader, eco-entrepreneur and environmental innovator. For the past 35 years, he has led and been at the forefront of ground-breaking Canadian enterprises and local/national business, social and ecological initiatives which have global impact and resonance. Chris is a trusted and insightful commentator on economic, environment and energy issues that respect the Planet, and generate enduring outcomes for corporations, communities and Canada. Chris has two prime focus. Firstly, advising and equipping Indigenous peoples and communities to develop and own clean energy projects to catalyze social development, economic opportunity and to combat Climate Change. Secondly, providing high-impact strategic advice on accelerating energy transition to a low carbon and more competitive energy future. Chris’ first book Aboriginal Power was published in 2013.

Sierra Bein is a multimedia journalist who joined The Globe after working for the National Post, Financial Post and VICE Canada. You can find more of her work in Toronto Life, VICE news, The Eyeopener and CANADALAND. Prior to her work in journalism, she was also a piano teacher and skateboarding coach.