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Vino is the CEO of Kabo, a Canadian company focused on helping dogs live healthier, happier, and longer lives. Kabo is a dog food subscription service that delivers healthy, pre-portioned meals right to your door.

Special Guest Host: Lauren Crummey.

Dolf Dejong began in his role as CEO of the Toronto Zoo in September 2018.  His focus and leadership revolves around his commitment to raising the Zoo’s profile, including the development of a new Strategic Plan with a focus on saving wildlife, igniting passion, delivering exceptional guest experiences, connecting to the community and revolutionizing technology.  Previously, Dolf held senior positions at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, the Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) in Hamilton and with Ontario Parks. Dolf has a Masters of Environmental Studies from Wilfred Laurier University, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from Brock University.

Couply has a simple mission; to use technology to help people have better relationships.

Rebecca Warfield is a top artist manager, entrepreneur & entertainment visionary on the cutting edge of technology. In 2012, she founded the Chicane Group, an artist management & consulting firm, where she is CEO, and in 2019, joined Looped as an early advisor & their loudest evangelist.

Mark Kingwell is a teacher, writer and philosopher and the author of ON RISK.

Jodi Kovitz is a Canadian lawyer and nonprofit executive. She is the founder and CEO of #MoveTheDial, an organization to advance the participation and leadership of women in tech.

Alan Frew is the lead singer of GLASS TIGER, author and public speaker. 

Stuart Coxe is a television producer and creative mind behind Dragons Den, Shark Tank, Munk Debates and The Secret Path.

Charlie Pachter is a Canadian artist. Today, along with his famous depictions of the maple leaf flag, they are regarded affectionately as Canadian pop art icons and the artist is broadly recognized as a northern Warhol. One of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Mr. Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, lecturer and all-around “witty intellectual, historian, entrepreneur and lovable bon vivant,” according to the Globe and Mail.

His paintings hang in the Toronto Stock Exchange and in the Canadian Embassy in Washington. His muralHockey Knights in Canada highlights a Toronto subway station. Retrospective Pachter exhibitions have toured France and Germany, and an illustrated biography on Pachter and his work has been published by McClelland & Stewart.

This episode was recorded at the Dnext Summit in 2019.

Bob Lefsetz is an American writer, past music industry executive and social disruptor and provocateur.