ICF Canada Speakers Bureau Expands
Are you looking for a Canadian speaker to come to your community to inspire your community to take action on becoming a Smart21 community? ICF Canada has launched a Speaker’s Bureau that will offer a wide variety of speakers for Canadian communities that are interested in hearing about smart cities, intelligent communities, collaborative networks, social inclusion, smart technologies, open data, innovation ecosystems, and other topics that the ICF Canada communities and its network of members may be able to cover.
For instance, Mr. Harout Chitilian, is a Montreal City Councillor, the vice chairman of the Executive Committee of the City of Montreal, and is responsible
for administrative reforms, youth programs, digital and smart city strategy and information technology. He is also a member of the Executive Committee and of the Environment Committee of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. He and his team represented Montreal during the year that Montreal was the selected as 2017 ICF Intelligent Community of the Year. Fluent in both English and French, hear his testimonial about Montreal’s journey to become the Intelligent Community of the Year and what made Montreal the global pick that year from its le Quartier de l’innovation de Montréal to Montreal’s use of technology to promote its cultural and heritage applications.
We have also recently added former City of Waterloo Mayor, Brenda Halloran and freelance writer, branding consultant and researcher-writer-editor, David Hicks to the Speaker’s Bureau. Brenda was Mayor of the City of Waterloo when it won ICF’s Intelligent Community of the year in 2007 and has spoken globally about her community. David has helped many cities with their smart city plans and their submissions for Smart21 and TOP7 ICF recognition. They join other Canadian speakers such as Clearcable Network’s President, Rob McCann and Campbell Patterson, founding partner of CP Communications (CPC), chair of the ICF-Canada Technical Committee which authored the position paper, titled, “Broadband: the essential utility” and submitted it to the CRTC. ICF Canada is also able to assist communities with access to International speakers, starting with ICF’s Co-Founders and Senior Fellows with their global experience and broad inspirational appeal as well as to thought leaders from around the world. To learn more about becoming a registered speaker or how to access one of the speakers, go to https://icf-canada.com/icf-canada-speakers-bureau
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