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Speakers
Innoversity’s speakers never fail to impress. They will inspire you, illuminate you and provoke you. Don’t miss this year’s exciting line-up, including:
Pier Giorgio DiCicco
Toronto's Poet Laureate
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco is Toronto's Poet Laureate and he has a unique way of looking at the world. Since his appointment as Toronto's second Poet Laureate last year, Pier Giorgio has turned the spotlight on the role diversity plays in the development of a creative and vibrant city.
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Pier Giorgio Di Cicco's Opening Speech
The project of creativity depends entirely on the commonality that citizens feel, and not their differences. Diversity is never strength until we feel bonded by something credibly beautiful.
We respond to the beautiful in each other; not ideas, not interesting customs, not the exotica of cuisines, not the fascination of languages. The foreign remains just foreign, until the recognition of the universally beautiful cuts in. What is universally beautiful is the sheer code of humanity that transcends cultures and life-styles.
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Paresh Solanki
Creative Director, BBC/The Mailbox Collaboration
British Diversity- The Next Generation
Some British organizations, such as the BBC, have achieved remarkable results in the serving new audiences and employing talent people from minority groups. But there's a new challenge.
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Mike Colle
The Hon. Mike Colle, Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Mike Colle was first elected as an Ontario MPP for Eglinton-Lawrence in 1995 and has since been appointed as the Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration in June 2005. Previously, Mr. Colle was a councillor in the City of York and Metropolitan Toronto, and was Commissioner and Chair of the Toronto Transit Commission. Mr. Colle immigrated to Toronto as a child from Italy and is a life-long resident of Toronto where he lives with his wife, Sharon, and their four children.
- Khalid Baksh, lawyer, partner in Baksh Kutty
- Leesa Barnes, career transition expert
- Silva Basmajian, Executive Producer with the NFB
- Julia Bennett, Executive from Alliance Atlantis/Discovery Health
- Gloria M. Castañeda, Program Director/Casting Liaison Media Access Office/Employment Development Department
- Ben Chin, Senior Media Advisor, the Office of Premier Dalton McGuinty
- Charles Clement, Manager of Programming, APTN
- Cardiss Collins, Honorable Cardiss Collins, U.S. Representative in Congress (Ret.)
- Hubert Davis, Academy Award-nominated director of Hardwood
- Pier Giorgio DiCicco, Toronto’s Poet Laureate
- Tarek Fatah, Communications Director of the Muslim Canadian Congress - MCC & host of The Muslim Chronicle on CTS-TV.
- Jian Ghomeshi, musician, writer and broadcaster
- Robert Hurst, President of CTV News
- Raja Khanna, CEO, Snap Media
- Karen King, Production Executive, Dramatic Programming, Global Television - a Division of CanWest MediaWorks.
- Dr. Minelle Mahtani, Journalism Professor, University of Toronto
- Trina McQueen, former President & COO of CTV Inc.
- Weyni Mengesha, Director, Da Kink In My Hair
- David Mirvish, head of Mirvish Productions
- Marie Moliner, Regional Executive Director, Ontario, Dept. of Canadian Heritage.
- Michelle Nadon, Managing Director, MediaINTELLIGENCE
- Phyllis Platt, President, Platt Productions
- Bill Roberts, President and CEO of VisionTV
- Dr. Joyce Smith, Ryerson School of Journalism
- Kate Taylor, Columnist, Globe and Mail
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