Cathryn Abbott
Research Scientist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Mark Blaxter
Head of the Tree of Life Programme and Senior Group Leader
Wellcome Sanger Institute

Kaylee Byers
Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia

Warren Cardinal-McTeague
Assistant Professor, Forest and Conservation Sciences
University of British Columbia

Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University

Roxan Chicalo
Wildlife Biologist

Federica Di Palma
Chief Health Genomics Officer and VP of Research, Laboratory Services and BCCDC
PHSA

Kerstin Howe
Head of Production Genomics
Wellcome Sanger Institute

Steven Jones
Co-Director and Head, Bioinformatics
Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer

Shelley Joseph - Hekwa’gila’ogwa
Elder-in-Residence
Genome British Columbia

Harris Lewin
Chair
Earth Biogenome Project

Roger Linington
Professor, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, High-Throughput Screening and Natural Products Discovery
Simon Fraser University

Orlando Rojas
Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair
University of British Columbia (UBC)

Michael Running Wolf
Technical Director, First Languages AI Reality
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

Zelalem Taye
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems and Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Stewardship
University of British Columbia

Zachari Turgeon
Principal Scientist - Microbial Research and Innovation
Renaissance Bioscience

Jeff Ward
CEO
Animikii Indigenous Technology