IFL SPEAKER & NETWORKING EVENT w/ Tasha Kheiriddin & Daniel Debow

Join now to secure one of our limited 40 seats for this special event!
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🎟️ You must get your ticket here → tinyurl.com/ifltojune18 to attend.

As Canada transitions into a new political chapter following the 2025 Federal Election, the implications extend far beyond Parliament Hill.

This exclusive event will explore how the election results are poised to impact capital markets, influence the innovation and technology sectors, and define the landscape for entrepreneurship and investment.

Topics

1. Entrepreneurship
2. The Political Economy

On June 18th, 2025, IFL-Toronto will host 40 of Canada’s brightest young leaders aged 25-35 to engage with timely topics, learn from the expertise of the guest speakers and create valuable networking opportunities.

Venue: The National Club, Toronto
Date & Time: June 18th 7:00-9:00 pm
Dress Code: Business Casual

This is a private event but you are welcome to invite a plus one young leader who you think is a good fit to join the IFL community!

Speakers:

1. Tasha Kheiriddin - “Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada”
2. Daniel Debow - Former VP of Shopify, Canada's Largest Tech Company

Soon, we are annoucing our second speaker an unique Leader, ex-VP of one of the largest Tech companies in Canada.

🎟️ You must get your ticket here → tinyurl.com/ifltojune18 to attend.

About Daniel:
Daniel Debow is a leading figure in Canadian entrepreneurship and a key contributor to Build Canada. Most recently, he served as VP of Partnerships and Corporate Development at Shopify, following its 2019 acquisition of Helpful, a startup he founded and led as CEO. Previously, he was SVP of Emerging Technologies at Salesforce, which acquired Rypple—a company he co-founded—in 2011. He also served as VP of Marketing and Corporate Development at Workbrain, acquired by Infor in 2007.

An active angel investor, Daniel has backed over 50 technology companies, including North, Layer6, Spell, Wealthsimple, Ritual, GoInstant, SkipTheDishes, Clearbanc, Kindred, Borrowell, and Clio. In 2015, he was named Canada’s Angel Investor of the Year.

Daniel holds a JD/MBA (Gold Medalist) from the University of Toronto, an LLM from Stanford University, and a BA in Psychology from Western University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto and a founding partner of the Creative Destruction Lab, Root Down Studios, and 42 Developments.

About Tasha:
Tasha Kheiriddin is a political opinion leader who has written two bestsellers, Rescuing Canada’s Right and The Right Path. Based in Toronto, she is also the national political columnist for the Postmedia chain of newspapers and a lecturer at McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy.

With a humanities degree from Brébeuf and a law degree from McGill University, Ms. Kheiriddin practised law in Montreal and worked as legislative assistant for the Attorney General of Ontario. She then hosted and produced news shows for CBC Newsworld, CPAC, CTV News Channel, and Global News Radio, and was a political analyst for Radio-Canada and a member of the editorial board of the National Post. Ms. Kheiriddin has also worked for the Montreal Economic Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and ran her own communications consultancy. In 2016, the Women’s Executive Network named her one of Canada’s “Top 100 Most Powerful Women” in the media and communications sector.

Ms. Kheiriddin has served on numerous boards of directors, including for the Old Port of Montreal Corporation, the Manning Centre for Building Democracy, Apathy is Boring, Resources for Exceptional Children and Youth, and the COVID-19 Social Impacts Network. She currently serves on the boards of directors of Centre Ice Canadians and of 2 Intelligence Company Senate.