Craig Borysowich has over 30 years of Technology Consulting experience with both public and private sector clients, including over ten years in Project Leadership roles. Craig has an extensive background in working with large-scale, high-profile systems integration and development projects that span throughout a customer’s organization. He has an extensive background in designing robust solutions that bring together multiple platforms from Intel to Unix to Mainframe technologies with the Internet.

Craig is also a Canadian technology startup accelerator/mentor - working with new companies and startups to produce viable business plans, create product roadmaps, connect with financiers, gain visibility in the market and drive a more valuable partner ecosystem that will generate sales. Craig has built and sold 4 of his own technology companies and has assisted in the development of over a dozen other startups in Canada.

Craig is also a professional speaker to small and large groups at corporate IT events, conferences and symposiums on IT trends and the future of technology in the enterprise related to EA, SOA and Service-Oriented Infrastructure concepts to help organizations create and broaden their IT vision.

Lisa Smith has over 20 years experience in the tech insurance industry, with her career leading to becoming the CEO of Tech-Insure Consulting, a boutique-style consulting company on insurance industry solutions. She is also more recently the CEO of Insurekore, the world’s first digital brokerage. Lisa will share her journey to becoming a CEO as well as a mentor for women in business, while also being on panels as an industry expert on AI as well as for companies in Fintech.

Evan Sitler-Bates is the co-founder and CEO of XpertVR. XperVR is a technology company focusing on Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. It focuses primarily in the the education sector, and to date has impacted over 10,000 students.XpertVR works to change the way experience education today and into the future. Their goal is to enable people to learn skills and propel their success within their passions.

Nik is a senior engineer and technical lead with a background in business administration. He has over 10 years working with Clojure and functional programming. Currently, he works at Swiss IT consultancy Deep Impact, where they use the web framework Kit for mission critical software. Nik is deeply passionate about working with small teams to create innovative and highly effective products. In a past life he lived and worked in Toronto as the VP of Technology at a market research consultancy Synqrinus, and created the Clojure/north conference. In his free time he can be found noodling on the guitar, trying out all the local foods and drinks, or out enjoying the mountain air.You can find more details about the Kit web framework at https://kit-clj.github.io/

Zachary Green has been fighting al his life. Wether it be playing GI Joe as a young man, being in the marines after 18, volunteering as a firefighter, or fighting for is business. Now as an author he talks about how you overcame every battle in his new book Warrior Entrepreneur. 

Jeevan Lobo is an experienced IT professional. He has had over 20 years experience working in the information technology. He has worked in companies like Microsoft, Major American Banks, Consulting companies like Accenture ad others. Now as a VP leading over 600 people with cross functional teams, he shares with us some of the things he learned about communication, team building, and team performance.

Mark WoodWorth went through a unique experience. He was working at a bank right when the the 200 mortgage crisis occurred. That experience, ended up leading him into to programming. Want to learn about his experience?

Frederico Tomasseti does something very unique, he creates languages businesses use to communicate. He uses software to make this happen through his company Strumenta. How? Well listen to him yourself. I've very excited to have him on!

Thom Lamb is many things. He is a former veteran, a former strongman and an experienced software engineering lead. In this episode he talks about his experience and how it has affected his ability today.

Sean Corfield is very experience software architect. Currently working in Clojure, he was previously on the committee for the C++ language, contributing to the direction compiler went in the during the 90's. Working in major companies such as Adobe and Macromedia, Sean has a really seen the industry patterns and has a contributed directly their implementations.