Anna Leon

Partner, Management Consulting, Tech Advisory and Digital Strategy, KPMG LLP

Anna is a Partner in KPMG’s Management Consulting practice, leading Tech Advisory and Digital Strategy for Public Sector across Canada.  Anna has been providing advisory services to healthcare and public sector organizations for over 20 years, mainly focused digital solutions, managed services, and cloud to organizations such as the Ontario Provincial Government. Anna joined KPMG in Canada in 2021.

Anna leads KPMG’s digital transformation and technology advisory services for government entities which involve technical solutions, cloud, agile delivery, and managed services and back office transformations.  She has completed a variety of advisory engagements including establishing strategic roadmaps, outsourced service delivery models, data centre transformation and optimization and cloud managed services. These have included large government entities, including Federal departments, Provincial Governments, and various municipal organizations.

Anna’s key strengths include supporting clients achieve efficiencies through cost optimization and transformation leveraging digital solutions, including intelligent automation, cloud, and innovative technologies (including Digital Identity, AI, ML and blockchain).

John Bauer

Partner, Government and Public Sector, PWC

John Bauer is a Partner in PwC’s Government and Public Sector Practice with over 20 years of project and program management experience,  including a number of large-scale public sector change initiatives and technology projects. John helps public sector organizations create new service delivery models, establish new digital service channels, and modernize their operations to deliver services with a customer-centric view.

John is passionate about working with his clients to transform public services, enable digital government, and lead transformational initiatives. Before John began consulting to government in 2007, he spent 5 years in the Ontario Public Service, working on some of the earliest Ontario Government electronic service delivery initiatives. During his time within the OPS, he was also part of the team that developed the OPS’s Integrated Project Management Framework and Methodology, along with a series of related training courses and materials.

John is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and has an International Master of Business Administration (IMBA) from the Schulich School of Business.

Chris Issa

Director, Public Sector Sales, Compugen Inc.

Chris Issa is a Senior Sales Manager at Compugen responsible for sales and partnership strategy in the Ontario Government, its agencies, and municipalities. With over 20 years of experience at Compugen, Chris has held several key positions in Operations and Sales, as well as serving as an Account Executive where he was responsible for driving growth, value creation, and the customer experience for large-scale, public-sector organizations.

Chris is passionate about helping customers realize new possibilities through technology and is driven by initiatives that enable government organizations to deliver citizen-focused services that are accessible to all. He holds a strong belief that culture plays a crucial role in organizational success, and that collaboration, curiosity, and purpose can create meaningful outcomes.

Chris lives in the Greater Toronto Area with his wife, Rita, and two children.

Todd Lane

Manager of Government Relations, Lenovo

Todd Michael Lane joined Lenovo in 2023 as the Manager for Government Relations, responsible for Canada. With more than a decade in experience working with senior elected officials in Canada, Todd recently served as the Director of Communications to Canada’s Minister of National Defence, and as the Director of Communications to the Minister of International Development.

He has extensive experience working with journalists in Ottawa, Toronto and around the world, including the BBC, Reuters, CNN, MSNBC, and other major media outlets.

Todd also served as Senior Advisor for Intergovernmental Affairs to Premier of Ontario. He has worked in numerous markets overseas including Japan, South Korea, Mexico, the United States, India and the Middle East to promote investment opportunities in Ontario.

Todd received a master’s degree from the University of Toronto’s Munk School of International Affairs and a bachelor’s degree from Carleton University.

Darcy Pawliuk

Western Canada Regional Sales Manager , Oracle

Darcy is the Western Canada Regional Sales Manager for Oracle – leading the Government, Education, & Healthcare Cloud Platform Team. He works closely with clients in Ontario through to British Columbia with their digital transformation journeys.

Oracle’s mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities, and Oracle Canada ULC was once again selected as one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2022.

Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Darcy brings 25 years of Sales leadership experience within the I.T. industry, and he prides himself on building long-lasting relationships.

In the off hours, Darcy loves spending time with his Family, golfing, and working with charitable organizations.

Gilbert Sabat

Director for Public Sector, OpenText

25 years of experience in the transformation of public and private sector organizations through outcome-based service modernization, amplified using leading-edge digital platforms and implementation methodologies. I have worked in startups, Fortune 500 companies as well as public sector. I have led teams that have consistently delivered over 20% growth as well as efficiencies. I also enjoy investing ten percent of my time mentoring future leaders.

Specialties: Maximizing corporate returns by doing more with less.
Integrating cross-functional processes to drive common corporate objectives.
Leveraging cost-effective innovative technologies to deliver high-value low-cost programs.
Consolidating and simplifying Big Data to deliver decision making information.
Proven record in driving growth directly and through partners

Parag Saigaonkar

Partner, Consulting, Deloitte

Parag is a Partner with Deloitte Consulting in Canada and has worked with Deloitte for over 30 years. He brings with him a global exposure having worked across the Asia-Pacific region based in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Mumbai. In Canada, he is focused on growing Deloitte’s technology footprint at the Government of Ontario.
In the past year, he has helped ministries and agencies in establishing their IT Strategies, developing digital/technology roadmaps and defining key technology ‘signature’ projects for modernizing legacy technology environments. He also been asked to review large scale project portfolios to identify key risk and validate project timelines.
Prior to moving back to Canada, he led the growth of Deloitte’s off-shore IT consulting services organization from a few hundred to approximately 10K professionals from 2005 to 2014. His focus on leadership development, service delivery quality, global operating models and overall industrialization of digital delivery services has laid the foundation for Deloitte’s Indian based centers to becoming the de-facto delivery engine for Deloitte globally.

The industrialization of the offshore development capability involved developing and executing plans for establishing these centers as the first CMMi L5 certified delivery centers globally within Deloitte. This required stringent focus on project development methodologies, estimation frameworks and data-focused approach to reviewing and refining project timeline estimates.

Kellie Scott

Vice-President of Consulting, CGI

After serving in the Ontario Public Sector, she is focusing on delivering digital transformation services through management consulting, technical solutions, cloud, AI, agile delivery, and managed services. The goal is to facilitate public sector modernization, and more broadly; transforming the delivery of services to citizens, businesses and visitors to Ontario.

Kellie brings a strong leadership skill set to CGI after serving 25 years in technology and 15 in public service. She led large scale mission-critical projects in public safety communications networks, data centre transformation and optimization, and development of business and citizen-centric digital online services.

Kellie also led the development and implementation of strategic roadmaps, business process improvement, and operational and service delivery models across multiple sectors.

Mike Semansky

Senior Strategy & Public Affairs Director, Canada, D2L

As Senior Strategy & Public Affairs Director for Canada at D2L, Mike leads the company’s strategy,  advocacy and industry partnership work across the country. Mike’s experience includes over 15 years experience working in the Ontario government, in both public service and political roles, including serving as the Director of Communications to a former Minister of Education. Mike also spent just over two years at a leading Toronto-based government relations firm, providing strategic advice and counsel to clients on how to effectively engage government. Mike has been at D2L since July 2020.

Bud Vasudeva

Regional VP Sales - Public Sector Ontario, TELUS Enterprise

A telecommunications industry leader – it is Bud Vasudeva’s combination of technical knowledge, business acumen and sales experience that has led him to his current role as Sr. Director Enterprise Sales at TELUS. He supports a direct B2B Enterprise sales team on leading digital transformation engagements across the public sector including the Government of Ontario and the Healthcare vertical.

With more than 20+ years in the telecommunications industry, Bud has leveraged his B2B, sales and engineering background to lead business development strategy and establish long-term strategic relationships with Canadian, US and International clients. Bud is an expert on the Canadian telecommunications industry and is well known for helping his customers navigate the regulatory environment and evolving industry dynamics to excel their businesses.

Bud holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario. He lives in Toronto and is a proud supporter of the TELUS Day of Giving and the SickKids Foundation.

Jody Zedor

Client Executive, Fortinet

Jody Zedor is a Major Accounts Manager with Fortinet who has over 20 years of experience of solution sales in the IT Industry. Jody has held various sales leadership roles throughout his career at GE Capital, Compaq and HP. Throughout his career he has extensive involvement with Channel Sales, Enterprise, Midmarket and Public Sector customers in Canada.

Jody’s experience includes over 11 years’ experience working with the Ontario government where he has been involved in the development and implementation of several business projects to help drive business transformations. Throughout this time Jody has developed experience in working across many departments, Ministries, Crown Corporations and Agencies in the OPS.

Jody is passionate about working with customers to help transform public services, enable digital government, and lead transformational initiatives.