In this instalment of the BluWave-ai Global Energy Transition Summit, the panel of leaders in government and industry will explore a holistic #TeamCanada approach for the electricity market using made-in-Canada electricity with made-in-Canada tech platforms.

The panel will discuss consolidating the domestic market through more robust inter-provincial collaboration to export end-to-end energy solutions to global markets, doing so by leveraging Canada’s base strengths in hydro and nuclear power, along with intelligently managing variable sources of renewable energy and the increasing loads of electric vehicles, heat pumps, and AI-driven data centers. The panel will include speakers from the Government of Ontario, Brookfield Renewables, and Erin O'Toole (a former lawyer for the IESO, as well as the former leader of Conservative party of Canada who ran for Prime Minister in 2021) discussing the energy sector in Canada.

Agenda:

• 1:30 PM - Registration and Networking
• 2:00 PM - Livestream begins and panel discussion featuring:
  • Devashish Paul (Moderator): CEO and Founder, BluWave-ai
  • Hon. Erin O'Toole: President and Managing Director, ADIT North America (Former Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Opposition in the House of Commons)
  • Guillaume Hervé: CEO and Founder, Zetane Systems
  • Pierre Rivard: Chairman, Tugliq Energy Corporation
  • Geoff Wright: Senior VP, Brookfield Renewable
  • Stephen Lecce (appearing virtually for opening remarks): Minister of Energy and Mines for the Province of Ontario and the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for King-Vaughan
• 2:45 PM - Audience Q+A
• 3:00 PM - Closing Remarks

Panelists

Erin O’Toole is the President and Managing Director of ADIT North America and serves on the executive committee of ADIT Group. ADIT Group is a Paris-based business intelligence firm that provides global investment due diligence, operational support and economic diplomacy services around the world. He assumed this role after having served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and a Member of Parliament for a decade. In 2021, Erin ran to be the Prime Minister of Canada in the general election held amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

First elected in a 2012 by-election. Mr. O’Toole was quickly promoted to Parliamentary Secretary for International Trade, where he helped the Canadian government finalize trade agreements around the world. He was also responsible for corporate social responsibility efforts for the resource sector and regulatory cooperation with the United States. Promoted to cabinet a year later, Erin modernized the Veterans Affairs department and was a leading voice for the Conservative government on defence and national security issues. In opposition heserved as Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs before becoming Leader of the Opposition.

Erin is one of Canada's most respected thought leaders on economic and foreign policy issues because of his public service, his private sector experience and his service in uniform. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Erin served as an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force flying on the Sea King helicopter in support of naval operations. A graduate of Dalhousie Law School, Mr. O’Toole practiced law at Stikeman Elliott and Heenan Blaikie in Toronto and spent five years as in-house counsel for Procter & Gamble.

Geoff Wright is the regional Head of Development at Brookfield Renewable where he leads the business team that is responsible for all renewable development in Canada. Prior to this role, Geoff helped to coordinate global commercial and business development strategies across a portfolio of decarbonization solutions in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Geoff has been with Brookfield since 2013 in progressively senior roles in research, business development and management and has supported Brookfield's significant renewable, infrastructure and private equity investments. With both public and private sector experience, Geoff brings a pragmatic systems perspective to the challenges and opportunities associated with the energy transition.

Geoff is a volunteer director with QUEST, a national non-profit that supports communities in Canada on their pathway to net-zero and holds a Masters Degree in Economics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and a BA from the University of Manitoba.

Devashish Paul founded BluWave-ai in 2017 and has built out one of the world’s premiere renewable energy and transport electrification companies, based in Ottawa, Canada. In his role at BluWave-ai, he has taken AI concepts to live working systems from Asia to Europe to North America onboarding global customers. He has taken the company to multi-million dollar revenue and has been an inventor on several of the company’s 33 patents filed with 10 granted at the USPTO.

Prior to BluWave-ai, Devashish had an extensive career in the semiconductor industry focused on supercomputing, artificial intelligence, and networking. During his 20+ years in the tech world, Devashish has led successful innovations in a diversity of markets at Canadian start-ups, and public companies.  In industry leadership roles, he ran the High Performance Computing Group in the Open Compute Project(started by Facebook) to create open industry computing platforms for low-latency workloads. Devashish also served as an advisory board member for the CERN Open Lab.

Devashish earned a BEng from Royal Military College followed by a Masters in Electrical Engineering  MASc and an MBA in Marketing, both from the University of Ottawa and is a veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force. He is a 31-time Ironman triathlon finisher,   and has raced for Canada in 13 world championships.

Stephen Lecce is the Minister of Energy and Mines for the Province of Ontario and the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for King-Vaughan.

As the Minister of Energy and Mines, Stephen is keeping energy costs down for residents and businesses across Ontario, while building a reliable and affordable electricity system that runs one of the cleanest grids in the world. In his mission to build out the electricity resources we need to power economic growth and increasing electrification, Stephen is engaging with leaders from Ontario's world-class energy sector, and partners across the province, including Indigenous communities, local distribution companies, transmission companies, and energy agencies, to ensure our energy infrastructure is built the right way for future generations.

Stephen's work will continue to build on Ontario's clean energy advantage and help ensure that Ontario's energy system is ready to support the next historic investment.

Stephen's first experience in politics came in his home town of Vaughan where he was involved in the 1999 election of the late MPP Al Palladini. Since then, he has served as the Chief Spokesperson for former Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, as Deputy Government House Leader, the Parliamentary Assistant to the Ministry of Infrastructure, and the Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier.

Stephen is a community leader, who has devoted over half his life to public service. He continues to give back and support the people of King-Vaughan as MPP, and as the former First Vice President of the National Congress of Italian Canadians, an active member of the Vaughan Chamber of Commerce and former Youth Education Chair of Vaughan’s Royal Canadian Legion (Mackenzie Branch 414).

Stephen lives in Vaughan, where he grew up, and remains active in his community.

Pierre Rivard has been a champion of cleaner and renewable energy for three decades, and a passionate supporter and developer of the energy technology industry. He has served as CEO, co-founder, chairman, board member, angel investor, advisor, and philanthropist for several innovative companies in California and Canada, from hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers, to energy storage, wind, flywheels, electric vehicles, aerospace, waste management, and water treatment. He has also chaired national and regional industry and research associations. More recently, he served on Canada's Clean Technology Economic Strategy Table.

Dr. Rivard's successes include the launch and IPO of NASDAQ-listed hydrogen fuel cell company Hydrogenics (HYGS), where he served 12 years as founding President & CEO and later as Executive Chairman.  At Hydrogenics, he built an award-winning, high-performance team that was recognized as Canada's fastest-growing company (#1 on Profit 100 list in 2003).

Presently, Dr. Rivard serves as Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of TUGLIQ Energy Corp., dedicated to energy diversification of Northern mining sites through renewable energy. Earlier on, he served 21 years in the Canadian Air Force.

Dr. Rivard holds a Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Toronto (Honoris Causa, for lifetime achievements in clean technology), an MBA from the University of Western Ontario's Ivey School of Business, and a Baccalaureate in Mechanical Engineering from Kingston's Royal Military College of Canada. He is a Professional Engineer licensed in Quebec and Ontario, and formerly in California and Norway.

Dr. Rivard was appointed to the NRC Council in June 2019.

Guillaume Hervé is the CEO and co-founder of Zetane Systems, a deep tech company in the field of artificial intelligence focused on delivering trusted and robust AI solutions and tools deployed in the real-world. Mr. Hervé has spoken with hundreds of business leaders looking to leverage AI and has been involved with more than 40 industrial AI projects in various industries including aerospace, manufacturing, pulp and paper, heavy vehicles, industrial processes and others. He also played a significant role as a founding member of Confiance_IA, the industrial consortium on trusted AI. Mr. Hervé has also been very active on Boards: including Chairman of the Board of CTS Health, one of Canada’s most active accelerators for health technologies in Canada; Chairman of CM Labs; and Advisor to the Business Family Foundation on Intrapreneurship. He has been a mentor with tech start-ups at leading Canadian accelerators such as Founder Fuel, TechStars, District3, and CTS Health.

Previously, Mr. Hervé spent 18 years at CAE Inc, including President & CEO of Presagis, specializing in delivering high fidelity, physics-based simulation and graphics software to defense and aeronautics organizations worldwide; Founder and CEO of CAE Healthcare, which leveraged simulation, haptics, virtual reality technologies and best practices in aviation simulation to offer healthcare practitioners simulation-based training; and as Vice President leading CAE Inc.’s global operations during the company’s massive global expansion in aviation training.

Prior to CAE, Mr. Hervé was an officer in the Canadian Air Force. He completedan M.Sc. degree in business from the State University of New York, a Bachelorof Engineering in aerospace from the Royal Military College of Canada, and anadvanced degree in Program Management from the Canadian Forces School ofAerospace Studies.

He is also the author of the highly praised book on corporate innovation,“Winning at Intrapreneurship – 12 Labours to Overcome Corporate Culture andAchieve Startup Success” and launched G3point0 Consulting offeringconsulting services for the definition and implementation of high impactbusiness growth strategies. Mr. Hervé has been guest speaker and conferencekeynote speaker at several events worldwide, including company strategicretreats, the World Summit AI, the global Intrapreneurship Conference,Business Family Foundation, the Family Exchange Forum and variousinnovation, industry specific forums and corporate events.