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• Steve Williams manages the Technology Donation program at SAP Business Objects that provides free reporting and data visualization tools to over 900 non-profits each year. Key interest: intersection of governments trying to engage citizens, but citizens not waiting for government - in fact making change happen on their own. Also very interested in Community Economic Development and social enterprise
  
• Elijah van der Giessen  David Suzuki Foundation, general project coordination; Eli fell in love with volunteers in 2000, and has been working to build community ever since
  
• Reilly Yeo   Facilitator and Editor,  Canada&apos;s World, a three-year project to engage Canadians in dialogue about Canada&apos;s role in the world; @reillyreads; background includes work with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and The Walrus magazine; MA in poli sci from McGill; interest in collaborative forms of governance and dialogue.
• Steve Anderson, Save Our Net, Net neutrality
• Beth Breisnes, Sustainability Coordinator at Salt Spring Coffee Co., MBA Candidate in Sustainable Business at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, @bella_b, LinkedIn, Facebook, interested in community sustainability and new forms of community-based business
• John Dumbrille, Community based governance co-ordinator:geocoder of Citizen-created road status tool; co-founder and admnistrator of  Self-governance platform, Bowen Island; writes on unbundling brands.  Green sandbox blog, @greensandbox
• Karen Fung (counti8), countably infinite, Online dialogue, open data and organizational change
• Rocky Gaudrault, TeksSavvy Solutions
• Kevan Gilbert, website, Union Gospel Mission
• Jacob Glick, Google Canada - part of a global policy team working with academics, civil society, industry & government to keep the Internet open; was with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority
  
• David Hume, Government of British Columbia, Exec Director for Citizen Engagement, Ministry of Citizen Services; @dbhume; engagement and government 2.0
• Ashley Webster
• Joe Solomon, website, @EngageJoe
• Simon Pavitt, IT Development Worker, BC Federation of Labour
• Mauree Aki Matsusaka, Strategic Communications Consultant, Freelance Writer; Change Management Specialist at the City of Vancouver. Key interests: Fostering active participation in civil society - inclusive of age, race, ability and orientation - through community dialogue, strategic planning and collaborative tools. LinkedIn; @matsuma
  
• Larry Colero, facilitator, has often used Open Space meeting technology, Moderator for UBC Summer Institute in Sustainability
  
• Sandy Colero, speaks and facilitates at conferences and retreats across Canada, ordained minister in the Alliance Church, was once part of a comedy trio NGO using live performances, radio, TV and the Internet for social change and healing in East Timor
• Lisa Mighton - Key interest: using the power of media and communication for social change; capacity-building via open data/ICT4D; community-building  Latitude Media @lmighton @twitcouver
• Scott Sheldon - Concerned with the evolution of democracy. Principal at Surgenia Productions.
• Member of Parliament Libby Davies
• Jim DeLaHunt, consultant on multilingual websites, live in Yaletown neighborhood of Vancouver. involved with several free software projects (e.g. Wikipedia, Wiktravel, most recently mutopia and IMSLP) and social change movements (particularly freedom to marry for same-sex couples in California, and BC-STV)
  
• Mark Haines, Climate Change Adaptation Specialist, BC Ministry of Environment, MPA student UVic, Website: http://www.mostlymark.ca, Twitter: markhaines , Facebook: markhaines
  
• Lee White, interested in the tangible implications of Self-Organizing Systems; change agent, writer, political advisor. Currently working on the Community Capacity Building Strategy in Northern BC. Blog: http://worldbliss.wordpress.com/  Twitter: lee_d_white  Author of rapt in awe
• Stuart Hertzog writer, editor, designer, activist of Victoria, BC using blogs for political commentary and discussion of political principles. Sites greenpolitics.ca, Majority Coalition Canada, and Dandelion Times. Lives in Victoria, BC.
• Amanda Mitchell is interested in the role of social media in community land use planning.  She is the Outreach Coordinator at Smart Growth BC in Vancouver. 
• Sue Bigelow is the Digital Conservator at the City of Vancouver Archives and works on the Archives' website. She is on the team designing the Vancouver Digital Archives.
• Shari Wallace, Director of Information Technology, City of Vancouver
• Campbell Macdonald - President, Coal Harbour Group.  Initiating Parking Mobility: a participant driven mobile application to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. @cambel Campbell&apos;s Linkedin Campbell&apos;s Facebook
• Dave Dumaresq - Writer, software developer, technical analyst for BCcampus. Interests in social mapping applications; and infrastructure inspired by David Gelernter of Mirror Worlds. Working, playing, living to promote unity in diversity. Twitter Facebook Blog
• Hanna Cho, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, @hannerl, Linkedin.  Using social media to engage young Canadians in discussions about Canada&apos;s future with Asia.
• Jason Mogus, CEO Communicopia, digital strategy for social change organizations. Founder, Web of Change, community building for north american social change and tech community. 
• Nicole Jasinski:  Red Flag Design - Sales & Marketing Manager, Mad Love Studio - Founding Partner, David Suzuki Foundation - Social Media Volunteer.  Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr.
• Lenny Ford: ImageZoo Media - Lead Developer  |  Mad Love Studio - Founding Partner
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• Eric Weaver, Account Director, Tribal DDB. Active in social good efforts in Seattle area and moving to Vancouver next month.
• Andrew Medd. Public sector management consultant. Deloitte. @amedd.
• Honey Mae Caffin, W2 Community Media Arts, intertextual.ca
• Jesse Lobdell: Caseworker, BC Civil Liberties Association; Site Administrator, rightscity.org, @rightscity
  
• Kam Lasater: SeeClickFix.com - A system that empowers citizens to collaborate with governments and those reponsible for the public space to create fixes to public space issues
• Kris Klaasen is the principal of Working Design, a communications design firm working in web and print
• Leslie Mobbs is the City Archivist and Director of Records and Archives for the City of Vancouver.
• Maurice Cardinal - Vancouver is the first Host region that will have an opportunity to use social media in a way that can change in a fundamental way how the 2010 Olymics is managed. Instead of Olympic sponsors making off like bandits, our community can turn things around and show the world it is time for radical change.
• Howard Adam, President of SustaiNet Software Solutions Inc, supplier of software for citizen engagement (such as, Bang The Table, an independently moderated space for discussing public policy and for hosting discussions for organisations that recognise the value of community input to their decisions).
• Kezia Hanson - Background in Digital Media. Interested in combining social media and non-profits to engage communities and activate social change. Twitter-Chilli07
• Christine Wood, Government of British Columbia, Communications Director,
  Ministry of Community and Rural Development. Personal twitter: @chicken_scratch   Interested in learning & engaging with the diverse & talented group of participants
• Connie Chong, Chair of Communications at Global Agents for Change (www.globalafc.org), a Vancouver based nonprofit that acts as a social change catalyst, driving sustainable solutions to global poverty and inspiring youth to create a better world
• Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco and @hummingbird604) - Vancouver-based educator, researcher and consultant who has studied citizen participation in environmental and public policy for the past 10 years. He is enthusiastic about digital media and social change (http://www.raulpacheco.org and http://hummingbird604.com)
• Amelia Loye, BC Ministry of Environment, Stakeholder Engagement Advisor for Living Water Smart. A social scientist engaging citizens and stakeholders in participatory policy development, social impact assessments and behavioral change programs. Excited to be piloting the use of social media to develop sustainable water legislation for BC. 
• Glenn Gaetz (@glenngaetz & @liberationbc) - I have a paid job working for Harvey McKinnon Associates (harveymckinnon.com) helping nonprofits raise money and a non-paid job heping to run Liberation BC (liberationbc.org), a Vancouver-based grassroots animal rights group. I'm interested in using social networking and other online/tech tools to engage people and promote openness and transparency. 
• Garth Yule, Strategic Communications Specialist, Graphic Designer (http://www.imageecology.com), DJ (http://djbad.net). Currently working as Communications Coordinator for the Simon Fraser Student Society (http://sfss.ca, @sfsscomm); student societies are a microcosm of the issues with government/citizen engagement we experience at the municipal and provincial levels.
• David Lee, Independent business consultant.  I work as a consultant at Building Opportunities with Business (www.buildingopportunities.org) in the Downtown Eastside.  I am also a part of a community group consisting of property and business owners in the Downtown Eastside advocating for social housing - we are called "Just Build It".
• Greg Valou - Communications Officer with Metro Vancouver. Corporate Relations dept. 
• Kari Chow - Passionate about raising awareness to youth about social issues, community development, and intercultural issues. (http://karimaechow.wordpress.com & @karichow).
• Tim Rhodes - Editor, Bowen Island Times, Commentary on Community Issues
• Jeremy Whyte (www.bigorangedot.com, @bigorangedot), web designer & aspiring robot designer, interested in discovering ways to help people including myself to get motivated to positive action.
  
• Kathie Wallace 30 years experience in group dynamics-offering a collaborative dialogue experience in a structured spiral (if spatially possible) which mirrors and honours our collective human energy system of interconnected self-emerging self-organization to create a level playing field of equals  kathieace@lycos.com Links: http://people.tribe.net/kathiew or Facebook blog
• Ducky Sherwood -- Software developer specializing in programmer tools and maps.  Interested in working with open data to make cool maps, like my US Elections map.  In a previous life, worked hard for marriage equality in California
• Aldon Habacon - Diversity 2.0 - Manager of Diversity Initiatives, CBC Television; Founder, Schema Magazine
• John O'Shaughnessy - Communications Consultant jdo communications @joshaughnessy
• Jill Teasley, corporate records administrator and digital archivist at the City of Vancouver. Interests include: use of social media for building capacity and facilitating collaboration in the areas of digital preservation and electronic records management, and engaging citizens in dialogue on archival practices.
  
• Kim Feraday. I've worked in product marketing for various tech startups including Delrina (acquired by Symantec) and DWL (acquired by IBM). Interested in how analytics can impact social media.
• Bernard Harris. Entrepeneur working to help change the way we get around in our cities. Interested in cooperating on ideas to improve transport and transit in the lower mainland. Contact me at info@d2dmetro.com to get involved.