Keynote Speakers
Camille Dundas
Co-founder ByBlacks.com | Keynote Speaker | Racial Equity Consultant
The Human Side of Unconscious Bias
Camille Dundas is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning online magazine ByBlacks.com. She is also the founder of the IDEA Practice, where she leads as a diversity, equity, and inclusion educator dedicated to transforming workplaces through scenario-based learning.
In 2022, Camille created Canada’s first corporate, online micro-credential in workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion, accredited through Dalhousie University. Close to 1,000 people have enrolled in her Inclusive Communications course. As a facilitator, Camille specializes in inclusive leadership and executive coaching.
She has extensive experience facilitating topics such as racial equity, intersectionality, allyship, and anti-racism. Camille’s professional background is in television news. She graduated from the journalism program at Carleton University and spent a decade as a news producer in some of Canada’s largest newsrooms including CTV and CBC.
Camille has led her ByBlacks team to win three national ethnic media awards, and has been acknowledged by the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, for her advocacy work. Camille was also named among the 100 Top Black Canadian Accomplished Women in 2022.
Dr. Bonnie Stewart
Educator | Social Media Researcher | Writer
How Indigenous Education Will Save the World
Dr. Bonnie Stewart is an educator and social media researcher fascinated by who we are when we’re online. Associate Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning at the University of Windsor, Bonnie is a career educator who has worked with learners and professionals on all three coasts of Canada and around the world. Bonnie explores the implications of digital networks for institutions and society, and investigates the relationship(s) between digital and place-based learning. Bonnie was an early MOOC researcher and ethnographer of Twitter as an academic environment, and currently researches what it means to know, to learn, and to belong in a society shaped by our current information ecosystem.