Gary Kovacs, BComm’90, MBA’99 has more than 25 years of enterprise software and mobile technology industry leadership and executive management experience and is currently Chief Executive Officer at Accela. Prior to Accela, Gary served as CEO of AVG Technologies, a global leader in consumer and enterprise security software. Previous to this, he was CEO of Mozilla where he led the overall direction of the organization and the development and delivery of the Firefox browser and cloud services used by over 500 million people worldwide.

Gary is a frequent public speaker and has delivered keynote addresses at TED, the World Economic Forum (Davos & Shenzhen), Mobile World Congress, Clinton Global Initiative, F.ounders, All Things Digital /Code/ Re/Code, Fortune Brainstorm, among many others. His TED talk, Tracking Our Online Trackers, has over 2 million views. Gary Kovacs received the UCalgary Distinguished Alumni Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013.

Dr. Raymond Patterson, PhD, holds the Haskayne Research Professorship in Business Technology Management. His primary research interests include information systems, analytics, and quantitative decision and artificial intelligence technologies. He has published extensively in premier journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Operations Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and many others. Patterson previously served as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Information Technology and Management for seven years, and currently serves as Associate Editor for Decision Sciences Journal. Learn more about his innovative research around fake news detection as well as data privacy.

Cara Wolf BComm’97, MBA’05, is the Founder and CEO of Ammolite Analytx, specializing in cyber security, artificial intelligence and customized technology production for global companies, government and private sector clients. Drawing upon her 25 years of technical and business expertise, Cara is a serial entrepreneur and has advised over 300 companies on the topics of innovation and digital transformation. In 2019, Wolf was recognized as a SHEInnovator with UNWomen, TECTERRA Woman of Impact and Trailbalzer STEM Universal Women's Network. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Hunter Hub and Hunter Centre and was the Haskayne Distinguished Graduate. Wolf is a Founding Member and Director of the International Association of Virtual CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers).