Afternoon Seminar & Networking Reception: Is your Organization Innovating Successfully?

David Saltman

David Saltman has built successful cleantech companies for three decades. He was Chairman & CEO of Malama Composites, the first company to manufacture rigid urethane foams from plant-based polymers, receiving the Award for Composites Excellence (ACE) in Innovation from the American Composites Manufacturers Association. Saltman was CMO of Flexform Technologies, the first natural fiber composite facility in North America. This product enabled Ford, GM, Chrysler and Tesla to produce automotive interiors that were stronger, lighter, less expensive and far more easily recycled than glass reinforced plastics. He served on the presidential task force that established green procurement guidelines for the US government, was co-founder of CleanTECH San Diego and is Chairman of the Okanagan Sustainability Leadership Council.

Ian Andrew Bell

Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993, and is a renowned, sought-after strategy consultant, mentor and "sanity checker" for company management. He is the creator of such market-defining services as Tingle, RosterBot - which he pitched on CBC’s Dragons’ Den in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He is a co-creator of RingCentral (NYSE:RNG) and a former Product Manager at Cisco and Telus. He was an Apple Research Fellow from 1991-1995. In his advisory work he has helped steer dozens of large and early-stage corporations through periods of disruption, challenge and opportunity. Ian is Vancouver based, he co-authored the book “HTML Studio Skills” in 1996 and tweets as @ianb.