Keynote Speakers

Banff Venture Forum 2011 Keynote Speakers

October 7th - Dinner Keynote Speaker

Jeff WhiteJeff White
CFO
Radian6
(Acquired by Salesforce.com, 2011)

As Chief Financial Officer for Radian6, Jeff brings with him more than 20 years of experience in financial planning and advising. He has expertise in strategic investments, securing equity capital and developing growth strategies. Jeff's background spans a number of areas including the public sector, technology, aerospace, venture capital, and public equity. He has held executive level positions for companies including Deloitte, IMagic TV, Q1 Labs and Genesys Laboratories Canada.

 

 

October 6th - Lunch Keynote Speaker

Moe KermaniMoe Kermani
Co-Founder & CEO
Bycast
(Acquired by NetApp, 2010)

Moe Kermani is Co-Founder & CEO of Bycast, and has extensive experience with entrepreneurial technology driven companies. Before joining Bycast, Moe was the Chief Scientist and Director of Research and Development for Sonigistix Corporation, a world leader in the field of high performance audio systems. Previously, Moe was involved in physics research at the TRIUMF Particle Physics Research Laboratory. Moe holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of British Columbia, and he has been awarded several US patents for his work at Sonigistix.

 

 

October 7th - Lunch Keynote Speaker

Alastair CrollAlistair Croll
Founder
Bitcurrent

Co-Founder
Coradiant
(Acquired by BMC Software, 2011)

Alistair Croll is the Founder of Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; a partner with startup incubator Year One Labs; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies.

Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry's largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O'Reilly Strata.

Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

 

 


PREVIOUS KEYNOTES INCLUDE:

  • Charles Sirois,  Chairman & CEO, Telesystem Ltd., Chairman & CEO Enablis Entrepreneurial Network, Chairman of the Board, CIBC, Founding Partner, Tandem Expansion Fund (2010)
  • Steven Woods,  Site Director, Google Canada (2009)
  • Timothy C. Draper,  Founder & Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (2009)
  • Sir Terence Matthews,  Chairman & Director, Mitel Corporation (2008 & 2010)
  • Robert Chiste,  Chairman, CEO and President, Comverge (2007)
  • Dave Caputo, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Sandvine Inc. (2006)
  • Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research in Motion (2005)
  • Steve Jurvetson  of the renowned Silicon Valley VC firm Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson (2004)
  • Guy Kawasaki,  the former Chief Evangelist for Apple Computers and a founder of Garage Technology Ventures (2003)
  • Geoffrey Moore, the acclaimed technology commercialization author (2002)