Professor Suzanne Stein

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Suzanne Stein is a Special Advisor on Foresight and an Associate Professor at OCAD University, specializing in Strategic Foresight & Innovation and Digital Futures. As a Foresight Analyst, Mentor, and Educator, she brings extensive experience in business strategy, organizational change, and experience design. At The Futures of Creativity and Compassion conference, Suzanne will share her expertise in leveraging foresight to drive innovative solutions and transformative change. She is also the Director of the Super Ordinary Lab at OCAD University, where she leads groundbreaking research and projects in new technologies and foresight, dedicated to creative techniques and participatory methods for complex problem-solving.

Roberto Pires

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Roberto Pires is a Master of Design candidate in Strategic Foresight & Innovation at OCAD University, with a background in UX research and design, and over a decade of experience in the film and television industry. He has contributed to major productions including Hockey Night in Canada, several Olympic Games broadcasts, and Family Feud Canada, bringing a flexible, high-performance approach to design under pressure.

At The Futures of Creativity and Compassion conference, Roberto services as a Producer, applying his production expertise to craft a seamless and engaging event experience. He also serves as a core researcher in the Super Ordinary Lab at OCAD University, where he explores the intersections of foresight and systems thinking with technology, narrative forms and the future of communication.

Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez

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Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez is an award-winning academic, artist, and designer who builds transdisciplinary collaboration across technology, mathematics, science, and the humanities. Castaño-Suárez uses the neuroscience and epistemology of the visuospatial to develop emerging and anticipatory cybernetic research methods that accelerate climate resilience and sustainability transitions. Innovation in their work is inextricably linked to anti-oppression and Indigenous futurities. Castaño-Suárez contributes to research in Canada and internationally, with notable presentations at Harvard University.

Zan Chandler

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Zan Chandler, Adjunct Professor at OCAD University, is a founder and Producer of The Futures of Creativity and Compassion conference. She is a long-time member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and recently completed her term as Executive Board Member. She is a Member of the Global Foresight Advisory Council for TFSX and manages a team of foresight analysts at Policy Horizons, the Government of Canada’s centre of excellence in foresight. Zan will bring her extensive experience in foresight and cultural policy analysis to the conference, contributing to discussions on future trends and strategic innovation.

Danny Ghantous

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Danny Ghantous is a foresight analyst for the Super Ordinary Lab and a current graduate student in OCAD University’s Strategic Foresight & Innovation Master’s program. Aside from his work at the lab, Danny is deeply engaged in a substantial research project examining the impact of the rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence on bots across the web and the current manifestation of the Dead Internet Theory. At the conference, Danny will share insights from his research, exploring the implications of AI on digital ecosystems.

Golnoush Mirsalari

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Multidisciplinary artist, designer, and MFA candidate in Digital Futures at OCAD University. Her practice explores the emotional and sensory relationship between humans and machines through immersive installations grounded in psychology, phenomenology, and posthumanism theory. Her installation, Echoes of the Unseen, will also be featured on site during the Nexus event.. Her work challenges boundaries between human and machine, fostering connection, empathy, and self-awareness through responsive, multisensory experiences.