William (Billy) Morin Nahtokitopi (Sacred Rider) was elected as the youngest Chief in Enoch Cree Nation’s modern history in 2015, and served three consecutive terms leading one of Alberta’s most progressive indigenous communities. During his tenure, Morin honored the original spirit and intent of Treaty Six by working with all levels of government, private sector, and international investment to build a more a prosperous Enoch, Edmonton and Alberta. Morin championed Reconcili-Action by creating unprecedented new business partnerships in commercial development, infrastructure, gaming, carbon capture, municipal relations, health care, gas and utilities major infrastructure development for Enoch, and local First Nations – projects that required over $750 million in total investment for Enoch alone. He was appointed Grand Chief of the 17 First Nations of the Confederacy of Treaty Six for the year 2020; a position responsible to be the leading voice for the nearly 80,000 First Nations people in the region. He has most recently served as Special Advisor to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for Indigenous Relations; and is Managing Director for Axxcleus Capital Corporation, a financial firm dedicated to facilitating Indigenous ownership in large economic projects across Canada.

Emma Graney covers energy from The Globe and Mail’s Calgary bureau. She landed in Alberta as provincial affairs reporter for the Edmonton Journal, where she hosted the weekly Press Gallery podcast about Alberta politics and was part of the team that won a National Newspaper Award for Fort McMurray wildfire coverage. She has also reported in Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, the U.K., Indonesia and her native Australia, and investigated artificial intelligence in China as an Asia Pacific Foundation media fellow. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Business from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.

Dana has been working at the nexus of energy and climate issues for nearly two decades building solutions to support cleaner, efficient and resilient energy systems. In her current role, she leads business development activities for FortisBC’s renewable and low carbon fuel portfolio. Previously, she has dedicated herself to advancing British Columbia’s clean energy transition and driving the growth of low carbon solutions through policy advocacy, stakeholder engagement, education, and partnerships with local governments, academia, non-profit organizations, Indigenous communities, and industry.
She holds a Master’s degree in economics, specialized in energy and environmental policy, from Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dana currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Biogas Association, she has recently served on the Board of Directors of the Community Energy Association, and she has also served on the City of Burnaby’s Environment Committee.

Hoda is a Senior Energy Transition Consultant at WSP Canada. She assists clients with technical evaluation of projects involving new energy technologies. Hoda has +10 years of experience in techno-economic and lifecycle analysis of low-carbon energy systems, environmental impact assessment, climate policy modeling, hydrogen supply chain modeling and fuel cell systems design and characterization.

Hoda was involved in developing decision support tools for strategic investment planning and environmental performance of hydrogen fuel supply chains in Canada. She analyzed the cost and benefits of the regulations, market instruments and tradable permits on the adoption of hydrogen fuel in the Canada’s energy system.

Hoda holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and recipient of the Vanier CGS, the most prestigious of the doctoral scholarship by the Federal Government of Canada.

With a degree in political science and business from Saint Mary’s University, Trevor has owned, operated, and sold 2 different businesses while finishing his degree. In the past 20 years, Trevor has worked in the commercial transportation and construction materials industry in various roles across Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.
Trevor has represented Alberta Transportation, managing Mandatory Entry Level Training (MELT) and compliance within the driver training industry. One of the fulfilling successes of his time with Alberta Transportation was the design of the “Driving Back to Work” grant that helped over 800 unemployed Albertan’s obtain their Class one license. Most recently, with the Alberta Motor Transport Association Trevor is the Senior Manager, Industry Advancement managing $30 million in funded projects that focus on Hydrogen as an alternative to diesel in the commercial trucking industry as well as trialing other technologies to advance commercial transportation such as automation, driver training, the driver shortage, journey management and platooning.