Hoffmann is an entrepreneur who has successfully founded eight companies over the last 26 years in the fields of preventative medicine, health care, technology, mobile health and education. Her natural ability to lead and inspire has resulted in numerous awards and honors throughout her career. As CEO and Founder of TellSpec, the company behind the world’s first food scanner for consumers, she leads a team of researchers, mathematicians, software developers and designers towards their mission to build a healthier world by empowering people to make informed choices about what they eat.

Hoffmann has embodied the entrepreneurial spirit from the age of 19 when she started her first company. She has founded eight successful companies, taking companies from $0 to $75 million, and has negotiated strategic investments with groups such as CBS Corporation and Mitsubishi International. Hoffmann has raised equity investment and convertible debenture notes in Wall Street, New York City, and Bay Street, Toronto. She was also the main strategic negotiator on several business acquisitions, including a US$28M acquisition of Corel Multimedia business division. More recently, she has shared her experiences as an entrepreneur and as knowledge on commercializing technologies by teaching MBA-level entrepreneurism courses at the University of Porto.

As a sought-after keynote speaker, she’s presented at conferences around the world. Her presentations have covered topics including Preventative and Predictive Health at the Sixth Annual International Congress on Anti-Aging SP Brazil, Delivering the Right Message at the Women of Influence Luncheon Series, Leadership at The Rotary Club, A New Vision of Aging at the CARP conference and Entrepreneurship and Innovation at TED City Toronto.

Her awards in the technology and entrepreneurial field include The Women in Technology Award presented by Bell Canada and the Toronto Sun; Canada‘s National IWAY Award for Leadership in the Application of Technology presented by CANARIE Inc. and the Royal Bank; Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award presented by the University of Toronto, Canada; Top 40 Under 40 award presented by the Financial Post, CIBC and Caldwell Partners, Canada; Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award presented by Ernst & Young; and MacLean’s Honor Roll for Canadian Excellence presented by MacLean’s Magazine.

Rafael Grossmann, MD, FACS, originally from Caracas, Venezuela, is a General, Trauma, Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic surgeon who now lives and practices in Maine, USA. As a FutureMed / Singularity University graduate, his passion is about the intersection of innovative technology and healthcare.

Rafael is an avid blogger and social media user (Twitter @ZGJR). He is one of the few Google Glass Explorers in the world, and was the first doctor to ever use Google Glass during live surgery ("Inside the Operation Room with Google Glass”) and in medical education (“OK Glass – teach me medicine!”). Rafael was also a TEDx speaker at TEDxDirigo 2011 ( "An ipod could save a life"), TEDx Bermuda 2013, and TEDxDirigo 2013 ("OK Glass – disrupt healthcare”). He has also participated in the prestigious MedicineX conference in Stanford, CA in 2013. He was a featured keynote speaker at the "Games for Health" conference in Amsterdam, Holland, in October 2013. Practicing in a rural area like Maine, and being a telemedicine innovator, he is a strong believer in the power of technology to better connect providers and patients. He is convinced that innovation in healthcare technology along with the current developments in mobile and wearable platforms will exponentially improve healthcare connectivity, communication, and data management and result in more efficient, intuitive, less expensive, and ultimately better patient care.

Dr. Louis Florence is a Finance faculty member and the Director of the Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Mississauga. In this capacity, he is responsible for the quality of the education of almost 1100 Commerce and Management students. In addition, Louis teaches courses in corporate finance, financial management, mergers and acquisitions, and financial derivatives, and has won a series of teaching excellence awards. Louis received his BSc in mathematics from Queen’s University, MSc in mathematics from the University of Toronto, MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Higher Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - also part of the University of Toronto.

Louis has extensive business and finance experience. Louis was the President of a software training company, which he founded in 1984 and sold in 1998, and thereafter served in senior management positions in several national software training corporations, where he was instrumental in the firm winning a Canadian Information Productivity Award (CIPA) for a national training initiative for Microsoft Windows NT. Louis has extensive experience as an educator and instructor in mathematics, statistics, and software applications in addition to finance. Louis makes a special effort to bring the real world of business and finance into the classroom, to ensure the participants see the connections between the material covered in class, and the contents of the pages of the financial press.