Our 2026 Speakers

FWD50 2026 Speakers

Pia Andrews

Senior Advisor, Digital Transformation, Personal Capacity

Mikey Dickerson

Partner, Layer Aleph

Marina Nitze

Crisis Engineer, Layer Aleph

His Excellency Saeed Al Mulla

Director General - Customer Experience Affairs, Department of Government Enablement, Abu Dhabi

Teri Green

CEO, Lite Technology Solutions, LLC

Christopher DiBona

Vice President, Open Ecosystems, Microsoft

Brenton Caffin

Co-founder, States of Change

Aaron Maniam

Professor of Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Greg Judelman

AI Transition Advisor, Independent Consultant

Tania Vakhrycheva

CX Product Manager, State of Utah, Division of Technology Services
Project Excellence Lead, Diia Team, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

João Lopes

Innovation Ecosystems Specialist, Innovation Unit (LabX), State Technological Reform Agency (ARTE)

Julie Leese

Faculty, DELP, Institute on Governance (IOG)

Beatriz Silva

UX researcher, Direção de Inovação, State Technological Reform Agency (ARTE)

Xavier-Antoine Lalande

Mayor, Ville de Saint-Colomban

Greg Lindsay

Urban Tech Fellow, Cornell Tech

Dea De Jarisco

Senior Product Manager, Government of British Columbia / Ministry of Citizens' Services

Robert Michon

Senior advisor, Micrologic

Marco Cheng-Perri

Manager, Digital Transformation, Data and Corporate Performance, King Township

Ben Sanders

Hyper, Founder & GM, Motorola Solutions

Pascal St-Onge

City Councillor, City of Saint-Jérôme

John Murphy

Business Practices Advisor, Hydro-Québec

Alexandre Teodoresco

Executive Committee Member responsible for Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, and Municipal Performance Optimization, City of Montréal

Jacklynn Pham

Design Lead, New Practice Lab

Celio Oliveira

Chief Data Officer, Ministry of Finance

Ayodele Odubela

Executive Director, AI Alt Lab

Ron J. Williams

Founder, ScamHERO // Co-created

Élise Legendre

Chief Data Officer & Director General, Data Policy and Transformation, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

Ryan Androsoff

Vice-President, Learning and Leadership, Institute on Governance (IOG)

Kesone Phimmasone

Chief Digital Strategy Officer, Office of Technology and Innovation

Harper Reed

CEO, 2389 Research, Inc

Uchenna Moka-Solana

President, MokSol Impact

Dr. Mechie Nkengla

Chief AI & Data Strategist, Data Products

Blaine Cook

Principal Engineer, Roundabout

Étienne Bernard

Director Corporate Affairs and Data, Québec Tech

Lucie Bergeron

Director, Boating Safety, Marine Safety and Security Service Modernization, Data and Systems Management, Transport Canada

Eugene Chen

Principal, ideaowl Labs

Chris Shipley

Author, Leading for Tomorrow

Remy DeCausemaker

Open Source Program Office Lead, Digital Service at CMS.gov

Iain Montgomery

Founder, Challenger Cities

Travis Hoppe

Chief AI Officer, GroundVue

Abigail Haddad

Data Engineer, Data Research Partners, LLC

Ana Monroe

CEO, Ishmael Interactive

Siim Sikkut

Managing Partner, Digital Nation

Mohamed Bâ

City Councillor | Municipal Efficiency, City of Laval

Lisa Fast

AI/UX Architect, Vation Inc.

Christopher (Chris) Allison

Director General Data Analytics, (AI) and Information Management, Department of National Defence

Iuliia Pyskun

Product Manager, Government Special Delivery - ex Product Owner at Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Government of Alberta

Kathy Pham

Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard University

Michael Gifford

Open Standards and Practices Lead, CivicActions

Derek Alton

Host & Chief Explorer, Civic Punks

Yannick Newton

Director of Intergovernmental Cooperation, Institute for Citizen-Centred Service

Jake Hirsch-Allen

Director Partnerships and Advocacy, The Dais

Jacqueline Lu

CEO & Founder, Helpful Places

Andres Bayona

Chief of staff, ARA Robotics

Hillary Hartley

FWD50 Co-Chair / Founder, OpenPublic

Alistair Croll

Co-founder & Chair, FWD50