Mallika Chopra is the daughter of world renowned author Deepak Chopra, and founder of Intent.com, a website focused on personal, social and global wellness. Her mission is to harness the power of social media to connect people from around the world to improve their own lives, their communities and the planet. She is the author of two books, 100 Promises to My Baby and 100 Questions from My Child, and has served as a spokesperson for UNICEF, raising awareness for orphans affected by HIV and AIDS. Chopra was the founder and executive at MyPotential Inc, a multimedia company focused on the self-help industry, which was profiled in Forbes, W Magazine, Femina, and the Los Angeles Times. In addition to her entrepreneurial work, Chopra has also served as a marketing and strategy consultant for Disney's Go Network, Yahoo, and MTV International, and has produced two movies, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and How to Know God, based on books written by her father, author Deepak Chopra. Chopra is a graduate of Brown University and has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Andrew Nichols is anchor of CBC News Today: Weekend Edition. He joined CBC after a three-year stint as a Global news and entertainment reporter. Andrew moved to the anchor desk with CBC Country Canada in 2001. Since May 2004, he has been a regular anchor on a variety of CBC Newsworld programs. He holds a Joint Honours Degree in Political Science and History from McGill University and a Master of Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. He's a bilingual native of Montreal, where he was born and raised.

Wayne Clarkson has dedicated his career to increasing the profile of Canadian filmmakers and their films. After graduating from Carleton University (where he later taught film), Clarkson worked for the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa. In 1974, he completed graduate studies in film at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England and returned to Ottawa to serve as director of the National Film Theatre.

In 1978, he was appointed Director of Toronto's two-year-old Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival). Under his directorship, the Festival developed into one of the most successful in the world. Clarkson accepted the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the newly created Ontario Film Development Corporation in 1986. Under his stewardship, the OFDC came to play an integral role in the development and production of quality, Canadian film and television. Prior to joining Telefilm Canada as Executive Director in January 2005, he was the Executive Director of the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) since 1991. Under his leadership, the Film Centre became the country's premier training and production centre for film, television and new media with 16 feature films produced, 115 short films, 30 new media prototypes and more than 700 graduates.

Adam Giambrone is a Canadian politician who is currently a Toronto City Councillor, representing the southern of two Davenport wards. Elected at 26, he was the youngest member of the 2003-2006 Toronto council. He is also a former president of the federal New Democratic Party. He is the 2008 recipient of NOW Magazine's "Best City Politician" award. As Chair of the Toronto Transit Commission, he has led the largest-ever expansion of bus service in Toronto, and seen record transit ridership. Giambrone secured over $8 billion in new funding to build light rail into areas of the city currently not served by rapid transit. An expansion of two subway lines also forms part of an overall $18 billion long-term expansion plan driven by Giambrone.

Jessica Rose, a hip young artist and designer with little direct magazine experience, but with a considerable resume for someone of 29, has been named Toronto Life's new art director. She played a key role at the Drake Hotel in Toronto where, from 2003 to 2005, she was its in-house art director and curator. She has also worked as a designer for Pod 10 Art & Design, a firm led by the highly regarded creative director Carmen Dunjko (former art director of Saturday Night) that branded the Drake, Soulpepper and the National Ballet of Canada. In 2005, Rose was one of the organizers of the inaugural Nuit Blanche, the annual city-wide all-night arts festival, and curated the exhibition "My Secret City" in 2006.

Mike Wise hosts the iDesk segment on CBC News: Toronto, each night at 5, 5:30 and 6:00 in Toronto. He looks at the impact of technology, the Internet and social media on our daily lives, as well as on the daily news. Most recently, Mike was the Ontario Legislative reporter for CBC TV and Newsworld, a beat he held for seven years, three Premiers, four opposition leaders and two provincial elections. While there, he initiated several groundbreaking journalism projects aimed at finding new ways of connecting viewers with the world of politics. His award winning series "Queen's Park: Making the Grade" followed several high school students as they developed their own private member's bills, attracted political support, and ultimately saw their bills introduced and debated in the Ontario Legislature. He also collaborated with Student Vote and Facebook on a series called "The Great Canadian Wish List." It marked the first time the social networking site had partnered with broadcaster.

Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program and the new business models for news project at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He writes a new media column for The Guardian and is host of its Media Talk USA podcast. He consults for media companies. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and #1 international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is being translated in over 25 languages. In 2009 it won the inaugural Warwick Prize for Literature. The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice Biennale and Toronto International Film Festivals.

Her first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into over 28 languages with more than a million copies in print. The New York Times called it "a movement bible."

Peter Kent was first elected to the House of Commons in 2008. Prior to his election to the House of Commons, Mr. Kent was a broadcast journalist having spent more than 40 years working as a writer, reporter, producer, anchor and senior executive in Canada, the United States and around the world. Internationally, he covered stories that shaped the 20th century, including momentous events such as the Yom Kippur War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.

Mr. Kent has a long record of community service. He was a member of the board of ParticipACTION, the Ontario Cabinet of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Honest Reporting Canada, and The Accessible Channel. Mr. Kent has also served as a mentor with the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council and remains an active supporter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, the Canadian Opera Company, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

Lynne Russell is a radio host on the Toronto AM radio station 1010 AM CFRB News Radio, part of the Astral Media, and has been since April 2008. She is best known for anchoring prime time newscasts on CNN Headline News from 1983 to 2001, which made her the first woman to anchor a nationally-televised prime time news program. She has also served as a substitute news reader on then-CBC Newsworld from May 2006 until early 2008. She primarily anchored the one-minute newscasts called "CBC News: Now" at the top of every hour throughout the primetime schedule of then-CBC Newsworld.

Amber MacArthur is a Canadian television and netcasting personality currently CP24's Web/Technology Specialist along with the host of Web Nation. She produced and hosted a video podcast she created called commandN[2], and co-hosts the TWiT podcast network's net@night (successor to Inside the Net), and is developing a social networking website with Tony Robbins. She is well known for the series Call for Help, but has also hosted on Torrent and Gadgets and Gizmos for G4techTV Canada. She worked for more than a year for Citytv's CityNews and CP24, and has recently returned to the now CTV-owned CP24 as New Media Specialist. She is currently hosting and producing a show for XBOX called "Girls Go Geek" with Christopher Dick that highlights women in technology. Guests have included Felicia Day, Casey McKinnon, and Cali Lewis.

Centennial College graduate, director, celebrity interviewer and TV host George Tsioutsioulas has been selected to screen his new film Furious Pete at the Hot Docs International Canadian Documentary Festival in April 2010. His film, The Story of Furious Pete was named one of the top five to watch by Toronto Life Magazine. Over the last seventeen years, George Tsioutsioulas has proven to be a versatile figure in the broadcasting field by juggling a television career in front of the camera, as well as one behind the scenes. He has interviewsed hundreds of hundreds of celebrities, including everyone from Brad Pitt to Britney Spears. He has hosted, produced and created shows for networks such as Omni Television, City TV, Global, W Network, Rogers TV, APTN, High Fidelity HDTV, the Biography Channel and CTV.

Cassandra Rae "Cassie" Steele is a Canadian actress and singer-songwriter best known for portraying Manny Santos on Degrassi: The Next Generation. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She began crafting her own songs to go with her poetry when she was in the first grade, she then began taking singing lessons. She attended London School of Dance in Scarborough, Ontario and trained in ballet and jazz dance. Steele has been a regular cast member on Degrassi: The Next Generation playing the character of Manny Santos since she was eleven years old. Steele also appeared in the 2007 MTV movie, Super Sweet 16: The Movie

Elmer Sotto is the head of growth at Facebook Canada, and was the first Canadian hired to establish the Facebook Canada office in Toronto in 2008. In this role, Elmer is responsible for setting the strategy to further grow and engage Facebook's Canadian user base, and for helping Canadian businesses, celebrities, politicians and non-profit organizations understand and use Facebook to connect directly with their fans and supporters. Before JumpTV, Elmer spent more than five years at eBay, where he was a member of the management team responsible for the ongoing development of eBay in Canada including strategy, operations and marketing. While at eBay, Elmer also spent three months in Shanghai to help establish the newly-formed eBay China business. Elmer began his career at Compaq Canada where he started and managed the company's consumer e-commerce business. Elmer is on the digital advisory board for UNICEF.

Hugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian and the founder and former director of the Oaktree Foundation. Hugh is one of the key leaders behind the successful Make Poverty History campaign. He and close friend Dan Adams ran the Make Poverty History concert involving major Australian artists as well as U2 frontman, Bono.

Hugh's advocacy work in the aid and development sector has taken him to over 30 countries around the world, including the Philippines; India, where he spent six months studying at Woodstock School as part of the 1999 William Carey Scholarship; The Hague in the Netherlands, where he was part of the Australian Schools delegation to The Hague International model United Nations; South Africa, where he worked for one year in 2002 as the inaugural World Vision Youth Ambassador and participated in the World Congress on Children's Rights; Minneapolis in the USA, where he spoke at a HIV/AIDS conference; Japan, where he spoke to the Junior Chamber International in 2004; Ghana, and Israel, where he studied the NGO and youth sectors as part of the 2006 National Australia Bank Yahad Scholarship.

Hugh's first book, Stone of the Mountain: The Hugh Evans Story, was published in November 2004 and recounts the year he spent living and working in the poverty-ridden communities of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. He is currently working on his second book, The Future By Us, which is to be published in March 2009 by Hardie Grant Books.

Charles Officer's is a Canadian / Jamaican director whose credits include When Morning Comes (premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival). Short Hymn Silent War (2001), Pop Song and Urda/Bone (2003), a music video for K'naan's "Strugglin'" (2005) and television pilot Hotel Babylon (2005).

The 57th Berlin International Film Festival selected his feature screenplay Nurse.Fighter.Boy for its Sparkling Tales writer's lab in 2007. Inspired by Officer's sister's battle with sickle cell anemia, the film was produced while Officer was a student at the Canadian Film Centre. Nurse.Fighter.Boy premiered at TIFF 2008 and won the audience award for Best in World Cinema and a jury prize for Best Cinematography at the Sarasota Film Festival.

Lloyd Robertson is the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV's national evening newscast, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson. Robertson, a Canadian broadcasting icon, started his broadcasting career in 1952 at CJCS radio in his hometown of Stratford, and moved to CJOY in Guelph in 1953. He started in television in 1954 when he joined CBC, spending four years in Winnipeg and two years in Ottawa, before hosting CBC Weekend in the late 1960s, and later anchor of The National from 1970 to 1976, before joining CTV in October that year.

Robertson has covered many major events throughout his career, including the 1967 opening of Expo 67 in Montreal, the 1969 Moon landing (along with Percy Saltzman), many Olympic Games, Terry Fox, the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, both the 1980 Quebec referendum and the 1995 Quebec referendum on separation from Canada, many federal elections, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the power outage crisis on both sides of the border. On the scene, he has covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the deaths of four Canadian prime ministers, the elections of nearly half of Canada's prime ministers, state funerals, and royal, papal, and U.S. presidential visits.

Born in the Philippines, Kris Reyes is a regular reporter and TV host for City TV well known for her use of social media in defining the New Journalism. Kris began her career interning at CNN Washington, CTV National and CTV Newsnet, where she later became a Freelance Producer/Writer. She then moved to Winnipeg where she was a reporter and producer for CKY News and Global News Winnipeg. Two years later, in 2004, she joined in the team at Citytv. Kris is currently a television presenter on Citytv Toronto's CityNews at 6 and CityNews Tonight (weekdays) and on Breakfast Television Toronto. She is previously the host of the CityNews talk show ‘CityOnline' (weekdays at 12:35) on Citytv Toronto.

Chris Adams is an internationally recognized new media pioneer, entertainment industry executive and social entrepreneur and co-founded Participant Productions in 2004 with Jeff Skoll, eBay's first President.

Participant's first slate of films including Syriana, starring George Clooney and Matt Damon; North Country, starring Charlize Theron; Good Night and Good Luck, starring David Strathairn and George Clooney were nominated for an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards. Chris is also proud to have identified and helped develop former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth which, along with Gore's work, participated in his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kevin McMahon is the Director of WATERLIFE, partner of Primitive Entertainment, celebrated journalist, author and writer. In May of 2007, Kevin was honored with a retrospective of his films at Hot Docs in the Focus On program. In 2005 Kevin won two Geminis for Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii, a feature-length documentary that follows the cultural rejuvenation of the Haida people. He has also won a Gemini Award for the Discovery Channel series Cod: The Fish that Saved the World.

Feature films Kevin has directed include The Face of Victory; An Idea of Canada; McLuhan's Wake (Chris Award, Columbus Film Festival); Intelligence (Best Documentary Feature nominations at Hot Docs and Gemini Awards); In the Reign of Twilight (Award, Columbus Film Festival) and The Falls (Best Documentary Feature nomination, Genie Awards; Toronto International Film Festival selection). Kevin's films for television include Lifting the Shadow, Truth Merchants, and The Music Garden, a collaboration with cellist Yo Yo Ma.

Murtz Jaffer began his career at the age of 17 while still in high school. He e-mailed the online editor of The Sports Network's website repeatedly and eventually was given the opportunity to write for the newly-launched wrestling section of TSN.ca. After reporting for the site from 1997-1998, Jaffer wrote for a variety of wrestling websites before deciding to launch his own internet property in 2001. His expertise in reality television led to him working as a producer at Entertainment Tonight Canada, while also giving him stints at the Toronto Sun, Z103.5, Virgin Radio 99.9 and CTV.ca. He has also freelanced for the National Post and TV Guide Canada. Jaffer is currently host of Reality Obsessed which airs on the TVTropolis network in Canada. The show is a behind-the-scenes look at reality television answering big-picture questions about the genre and the first season included appearances from many of Jaffer's reality star friends including Survivors Jonny Fairplay, Ozzy Lusth, Eliza Orlins, Rupert Boneham and Rob Mariano. Jaffer moves back to LA in July to film his third season.

Michael Coren is host of the nightly Michael Coren Show on CTS television. The station is on basic cable in Ontario and Alberta and much of the rest of Canada and available on satellite and digital throughout the country. Michael is a weekly columnist, published every Saturday, with the Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg Sun and The London Free Press and in more than a dozen other daily and weekly newspapers across Canada. He is also a columnist for Women's Post, The Catholic Register, The Landowner and The Interim.

He is the best-selling author of twelve books, including biographies of GK Chesterton, HG Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. He has contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography and several other anthologies. He is published in many countries and in more than a dozen languages. He has received several honorary doctorates and awards for his writing and broadcasting. In 2005 he won The Ed Murrow Award for Radio Broadcasting, in 2006 The RTNDA Radio Broadcasting Award, in 2007 the Communicator Award in Hollywood and in 2008 the Omni Award for his television show

David Newland has built built a career as a web content specialist. At Discovery Channel Canada , David managed the Interactive unit and was the founding producer of Jay's Journal featuring Jay Ingram - born on the web, and still alive and well on TV's Daily Planet. He subsequently co-hosted the podcast "Jay Ingram's Theatre of the Mind." He led web production and social media for CBC.ca as the web producer for The Gill Deacon show, Underdogs, The Hour, and No Opportunity Wasted with The Amazing Race host and guru Phil Keoghan.

As one of the founding VJs of MuchMusic, Michael Williams is a Canadian television personality who is best known for his work at MuchMusic from 1984 to 1993 where he hosted various shows including Soul in the City, Rap City, Electric Circus, Power Hour and The NewMusic.

He was recently a radio personality in Hamilton, Ontario as host of the program College of Musical Knowledge on Wave 94.7. Previous radio work included Montreal's CHOM-FM and CKGM-AM, and in Toronto at CHUM-FM. Williams also owns Black Rose Recording Studios in Toronto and since January 2003. Recently he has been expressing his unique opinion on CFRB 1010.