Kristy Ehman is three-time business owner, two-time mom and one-time wife. Based in Lumsden, Saskatchewan, Kristy launched tech company Hyon Software Inc in 2018 to help advance the circular economy in Canada. Hyon has ten full-time employees and works with large organizations in the public and private sectors. Kristy currently chairs the Governance and Nominations […]
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Steve Fletcher
Steve Fletcher is currently the Executive Director of the Ontario Automotive Recyclers Association, a 180 member industry association, and Managing Director of the Automotive Recyclers of Canada national association, an umbrella group of seven provincial recycling associations representing 350 professional auto recyclers across the country. He has managed auto recycling associations at the national and […]
Cody Irwin
Cody is a 2x founder, sits on the Technical Advisory Committee for Metro Vancouver’s Solid Waste Management Plan as well as the Green Industrial Innovation Districts’ steering committee, and is a big-time circular economy nerd. He enjoys problem-solving, hands-on building, and big-picture thinking. Cody was born on a remote farm in Manitoba, raised in Toronto, […]
Emma Cain Louden
Emma Cain Louden is an astrophysicist and space entrepreneur on a mission to help people find their place in space. She works at the intersection of academia and the space industry and is a strategic thinker and leader who is passionate about being a steward of the story of the relationship between space exploration and […]
John MacInnes
John is the Founder and CEO of Earthware Reusables Inc., a return-for-reuse takeout container service headquartered in Calgary Alberta. Earthware’s mission is to stop billions of single use takeout containers from being garbage on our streets or entering our landfills. Earthware is just over one year old but in that time has already replaced thousands […]
Christine Tizzard
Christine believes that good food values can make a real difference. She cares about the environment, our farmers, where our food comes from, and how it gets to our tables. Through her platform, The Zero Waste Kitchen, she aims to teach easy and accessible cooking strategies, along with intuitive and responsible eating with culinary content […]
Sam Dietrich
Sam Dietrich is the Co-founder and CEO of Prairie Robotics – a Canadian Clean-Tech startup focused on making recycling simple. He first started working in the Waste Industry at 16 as a driver for “To-D-Dump Disposal”. He continued employment until he began studying Engineering at the University of Regina where he majored in Industrial Systems […]
Heidi Sanborn
Heidi has been a leader in the industry for over 32 years working as a consultant, regulator at CalRecycle serving as Policy Advisor to the Chair 200-2002, and advocate for producer responsibility and a circular economy as the founding director of the California Product Stewardship Council a 501c3 and the National Stewardship Action Council a […]