Susanne has over 18 years marketing communications experience leading and implementing impactful campaigns for both the non-profit and private sectors. She has helped run one of Canada’s most successful independent PR firms, Media Profile, including HR and operations, and run successful campaigns for Toronto Community Housing, Eva’s Initiatives, Toronto Waterfront Corp, Clean Air Foundation and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, where she’s been involved for over 13 years. Susanne also is the lead for the environmental communications and for Community Leadership team at KPMGI and develops impactful outreach programs for its 300 staff in the GTA. In her personal pursuits, Susanne is an avid commuter cyclist, energy saver and cross country skier.

Laura Zizzo is a lawyer and strategic advisor with over a decade of experience leading organizations towards a low-carbon and climate-adapted future through the application of law and policy. Laura started her legal career with a prominent Bay Street law firm before founding the first law firm in Canada focused on climate change in 2009. Before entering the field of law, Laura worked in strategic policy research for the Ontario Ministry of Finance and for the Hamilton Region Conservation Authority. In her final year of law school, Laura was co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Law and International Relations. She is co-founder of the Climate Change Lawyers Network, a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) committee on Environmental Law, an executive member of the Ontario Bar Association’s Environmental Law section and is a volunteer presenter for The Climate Reality Project. She has a degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo and a law degree from the University of Toronto. Laura is called to the Bar of Ontario.

Following almost 20 years with the World Bank in Washington, DC, Dan returned to Ontario in 2012 and is now the Richard Marceau Chair and Associate Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), and the Chief Safety and Risk Officer for the Province of Ontario (Technical Standards and Safety Authority, TSSA). Dan's academic background includes degrees in Earth Sciences (University of Waterloo), a Masters in Environmental Engineering (Guelph) and a PhD in Civil (Sustainability) Engineering (University of Toronto, 2015). Dan’s early career included municipal waste management in Guelph Ontario and Bermuda. He is a recognized global expert in urban resilience, sustainable cities, and community consultation and participation for better service delivery. Dan was Lead Advisor in the World Bank’s Urban Development Anchor overseeing the Sustainable Cities and Climate Change programs, and managed approximately $5 billion in infrastructure investments in more than 300 national and sub-national governments, as well as their agencies and utilities. Dan also worked in the oilfields of Alberta and for the Region of Peel, City of Guelph, and Ministry of Works and Engineering, Bermuda.

Vicki is the Conservation Business Manager, for the Public Sector at the Independent Electricity System Operator. She had been with the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) for over 9 years, when the organizations merged in January 2015. In her current role she works with energy managers and sector-based resources to help customers improve the energy efficiency of their facilities and facilitate participation in Save on Energy programs through the Local Distribution Companies (LDCs). Before joining the OPA, Vicki worked at the Ontario Trillium Foundation (6 years), establishing the environmental granting portfolio of the newly expanded granting foundation. And before that she worked in the industrial/commercial sector helping commercialize newly developed environmental technologies with the Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement (OCETA, now Blooms).

Stuart is the current CEO for Energy Services Association Canada and also manages his own advisory practice, championing performance based solutions for energy and infrastructure renewal initiatives, resulting in fiscally and environmentally responsible outcomes. His advisory roles include expertise across the UK, European and Canadian infrastructure markets, across both the public and private sector and has over $10 billion capital worth of projects to his acclaim, delivering a number of cutting-edge pathfinders in Canada, leading the way for similar successful projects. Stuart is both technically qualified and financially experienced with specialist expertise for delivering alternative project delivery models, financing structures, partnering arrangements and framework agreements across the energy sector in health, municipalities, transportation, education and housing. He has a passion for improving the impact we are having on our planet

Lisa values her ability to bring stakeholders together, identify opportunities, and integrate environmental, business and social considerations into major infrastructure revitalization projects, development plans and policy.Previously a municipal planner, a conservation authority planner, and Waterfront Toronto Director Environment and Innovation, for over 10 years, Lisa has worked to meet government and stakeholder needs. Lisa holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Waterloo and York University in Environmental Planning. She also has Executive Business Administration training from McGill.

Sarah Heynen is the Chief Development Officer for Peace + Freedom, an enterprise devoted to unleashing the power of entrepreneurs in remote areas to solve problems by providing them access to energy, internet, transport and financing. Previously, Sarah spent ten years with Evergreen, the visionary charity behind the internationally celebrated social enterprise, Evergreen Brick Works. Serving in various senior roles, including COO and CDO, Sarah brought her passion for people together with systems thinking, fostering the conditions for teams to thrive and revenues to triple. Prior to Evergreen, Sarah worked for WWF-Canada and the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta and an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario. In additional to Clean Air Partnership, she is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Scientists in School, and previously of Planet in Focus: Toronto International Environmental Film Festival.

Tony Iacobelli is Manager of Environmental Sustainability at the City of Vaughan. Tony started at the City of Vaughan in 2008 as the Senior Environmental Planner and led projects such as the Special Policy Area Justification Report, the Natural Heritage Network Study and implementing Sustainability Performance Metrics in the review of development applications, a project developed in collaboration with the City of Brampton and Town of Richmond Hill. Tony's work at World Wildlife Fund Canada involved conservation science in support of sustainable forest management, land use planning in northern Canada, and protected areas planning. He was Director of the Forests and Freshwater program from 2005 to 2008.