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Martin Patriquin has been a journalist for 25 years. He served as Quebec Bureau Chief for Maclean’s Magazine. A National Magazine Award winner, Patriquin has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Walrus, Vice, BuzzFeed, The Globe and Mail, amongst others. He is currently the Quebec correspondent for The Logic, and lives very happily in Montreal.
Fenwick McKelvey is an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He is co-director of the Applied AI Institute and leads Machine Agencies at the Milieux Institute. He studies digital politics and policy. He is the author of Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) winner of the 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award. He is co-author of The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics (Peter Lang, 2012) with Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois.
Hélène Messier is a lawyer specializing in intellectual property and has been working in the cultural sector for more than 30 years.
Since 2015, she has served as President and CEO of the Association québécoise de la production médiatique after being for more than 17 years at the helm of Copibec, a non-profit social enterprise specializing in copyright management.
She was director of the Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois from 1988 to 1992, then worked for six years as director of the copyright department and director of business development and new media at Radio-Canada.
In addition to sitting on the board of directors of the Coalition for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and being its co-chair, she is a member of the boards of directors of the Institut national de l'image et du son (Inis) and its training mutual, of the professional representation committee of Québec Cinéma, of the Observatoire de la Culture et des Communications du Québec and of the Canadian Retransmission Collective.
Member of the Barreau du Québec, Mrs Messier also holds a master’s degree in public administration.
Jeanette Patell is the Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy for YouTube in Canada. In this role, she leads YouTube’s engagement with Canadian governments on policy issues impacting YouTube’s creator and user communities.
Jeanette began her career as a diplomat with Global Affairs Canada focused on international trade policy, with postings to Washington D.C. and the European Union. Prior to joining YouTube, Jeanette led government affairs for General Electric Canada. She is bilingual (English & French) and is a graduate of Mount Allison University with a B.A. (Hons.) in International Relations.
As Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, Jeffrey Remedios is committed to broadening opportunities for artists on both the domestic and world stages, fostering artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship.
He is a longstanding champion of ground-breaking artists, promoter of independent thinkers, and fierce advocate of distinct voices, with a decades long track record as a thought-leader making an impact as a dynamic executive and passionate volunteer supporting Canada’s leading cultural institutions. In April 2022, Remedios was named to Billboard magazine’s coveted International Power Players list, an annual round-up recognizing the contribution of top music industry leaders and international music executives from around the globe.
A proud Scarborough-raised, first-generation Canadian, he holds an Honours Commerce Degree and a minor in Music from McMaster University, who inducted him into their Alumni Gallery in 2013. Jeffrey lives in Toronto with his wife Lucia, their son Silas, and daughter Luna.
Alain Saulnier has been a journalist for over 30 years. He has also devoted a large part of his career to advocating for quality journalism in Quebec, both within media companies and within professional journalists’ organizations. It was under his presidency at the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) that the first Guide de déontologie de la profession journalistique au Québec was adopted.
After working as a journalist and producer on several television news programs, Alain Saulnier headed Radio-Canada’s radio news service from 1999, and then all of its French news services from 2006 to 2012. As Director General, he brought a vision of investigative journalism to Radio-Canada’s news service, which helped to uncover scandals in the Quebec construction industry, corruption, political party financing and other important issues. It was under his direction that the program Enquête was created.
After being pushed out of the news directorate by Radio-Canada’s senior management in 2012, Alain Saulnier taught journalism at the University of Montreal for the DESS program in journalism until last December. In September 2013, he also became associate producer of the program Arrêt sur le monde, produced by CÉRIUM (Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal) and broadcast on Canal savoir.
In November 2014, he published Ici ÉTAIT Radio-Canada with Éditions Boréal, a book that had a significant impact on the future of the public broadcaster. An English edition, Losing Our Voice, Radio-Canada Under Siege, was published in 2015. He has also contributed to several collective works on journalism.
In addition to teaching, since 2012, he has contributed to the reflection on culture in the digital universe with the organization Culture Montréal. He was a member of the board of directors until 2019. In 2017, he also co-chaired the Digital Commission of the same organization, which brought together all the cultural actors of the greater Montreal area to address digital issues and foster digital creativity.
He was also the director of content at Le Trente journalism magazine from 2015 to 2017.
In February 2022, he published Les Barbares numériques. Résister à l’invasion des GAFAM at Écosociété.
Alain Saulnier is a recognized expert and commentator in the fields of journalism and media for several programs and publications in Quebec.