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7:45-8:45am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:50-9:20am
OPENING SPEECH AND GREETINGS

• David Naylor: President, University of Toronto
• Roger Francis: Director, Arts and Science Co-Op Programs at the University of Toronto Scarborough
• Rundong Li: Co-Founder and President, UTChinese Magazine

9:20-10:50am
PANEL 1: PRE-ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ARE YOU READY?

• Eric Cousineau: Managing Director and Founder, OCG
• Ashutosh Dickie Jha: Co-Founder, Karma Solutions; Director of Projects, POA Educational Foundation
• Tony Lepage: Founder, Page Media
• Ameer Taha: Founder, Certo Labs Inc.

10:50-11:00am
Networking and Refreshment Break

11:00-1:00pm
PANEL 2: EARLY-STAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PUTTING IDEAS ALL TOGETHER

• Songnian Zhou: Co-Founder and CEO, Platform Computing
• Ray Cao: President of IMPACT; Co-Founder and CEO, EightyTwenty Group
• Alex Liew: Founding Chairman and President, Love Through Education Foundation; Founder, Sino-Can Entrepreneur Association

1:00-1:40pm
Networking and Lunch

1:40-2:00pm
A Piece of Video from Beijing, China:

• Minhong Yu: Founder, Chairman and CEO, New Oriental Education and Technology Group Inc.; Labeled as the "richest teacher in China"

2:00-2:10pm
A Letter from Beijing, China:

• Zhengrong Hu: Vice-President, China Communication University

2:10-3:40pm
PANEL 3: MID-STAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MAKING IT HAPPEN

• Jim de Wilde: President and Venture Capitalist, JdW Strategic Ventures
• Sarah Hashem: Business Manager GTA, Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF is a national charity providing start-up mentoring, financing, and business resources for young Canadians to create their own successful businesses)
• Tiffany Chin: Customer Service Officer, Business Development Bank of Canada

3:40-3:50pm
Networking and Refreshment Break

3:50-5:50pm
PANEL 4: LATE-STAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Clement Chan: Executive Director, Columbia International College (Founded in 1979, CIC is the largest private international boarding university-preparatory school in Canada)
• Leigh Revers: Co-Founder, Molecular Templates Inc.; Co-Founder, AdamsRevers Consulting; Associate Director, Master of Biotechnology Program at the University of Toronto Mississauga
• Carla Kearns: Founder and Managing Director, TLI-The Mandarin School; Founder, Canada China Environmental Forum

5:40-6:10pm
CLOSING SPEECH

• Ben Yang: Director, International Student Centre, University of Toronto
• Gavin Ouyang: Co-Founder and Vice-President, UTChinese Magazine

6:10-6:30pm
Networking, Refreshment and Music