MAIN STAGE SPEAKERS 2026
Michael Campbell, Business Analyst | Broadcaster | Author
Michael Campbell is one of Canada’s most respected business analysts. He is best known as the host of Canada’s top rated business program – MoneyTalks. Each week, Michael and his guests track financial trends and investment markets to help listeners survive and thrive in today’s tumultuous environment.
Michael is also Senior Business Analyst for Global News in BC, and author of the national bestseller “Cooking the Books with Mike: 50 Recipes for Instant Financial Success”.
Michael is also very active as a volunteer in the community, currently spending countless hours on the executive of the B. C. Special Olympics.
Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics
Martin Armstrong is the Founder of Armstrong Economics which provides analysis for the average person to comprehend the global economy and for professionals to access the most sophisticated international analysis possible.
Mr. Armstrong developed the Economic Confidence Model, which focuses on the impact of the 8.6 year business cycle on the world economy. Armstrong Economics uses this model to provide an integrated understandable global model approach that is free of personal bias, bravado, or other nonsense to enable you to see the inherent inner-workings of the world economy to grasp how everything is truly integrated into a single enterprise driven by international capital flows.
Martin Armstrong is the subject of the movie The Forecaster.
Heather Exner- Pirot, Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment, Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Heather Exner-Pirot is a Senior Fellow and Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa. She is a Special Advisor to the Business Council of Canada, Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook and a Research Advisor to the Indigenous Resource Network.
Tony Greer, Owner & Operator, TG Macro
Tony Greer founded TG Macro in August of 2016 to create an independent research firm where he could combine 25 years in trading and 15 years writing a daily newsletter into one analytical platform. Tony provides fundamental, technical and behaviroural analysis of global markets to a group of institutional clients and a personal subscriber base.
Tony established himself as a macro market analyst for what he believes will be the next iteration of the Wall Street ecosystem. Tony’s style has led him to become a lauded contributor on Seeking Alpha and Real Vision.
Dr. James E. Thorne, Capital Market Strategist, CNW Group/Wellington-Altus Private Wealth
Prior to joining Wellington-Altus Private Wealth, Dr. James Thorne was most recently chief capital market strategist and senior portfolio manager at a leading independent investment management firm. He also held various senior investment management positions in the U.S., including chief investment officer of equities, managing director and chief capital market strategist. During his tenure he developed small, mid and large-capitalization investment strategies, which employed a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis and achieved top-quartile performance. Dr. Thorne received a Ph.D. in economics in the fields of finance and industrial organization from York University and worked as a professor of economics and finance at the Schulich School of Business and at Bishop’s University.
Joey Temprile, Founder & Host, Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast
Joey Temprile is the co-host of the Canadian Bitcoiners podcast and has been in the Bitcoin space since 2017. Joey has appeared on shows like Your Life Your Terms, MoneyTalks and others, discussing Bitcoin, equities, policy frameworks, and the politics around Bitcoin and digital assets.
Sarah Weber, President & CEO, C3 Alliance
Sarah brings over 20 years of experience in Canada’s natural resources sector, specializing in strategic advisory and partnership development among Idigenous Peoples, government and industry. Sarah contributes her expertise as Independent Chair of Relevant Gold Corp and as a director for Snowline Gold Corp and Happy Creek Minerals. Through C3 Alliance, she leads initiatives including the BC Natural Resources Forum and the BC Indigenous Resource Opportunities Conference, supporting responsible resource development and amplifying Indigenous voices in the sector. Sarah holds a B.Sc. in Geological Sciences from the University of British Columbia and an Executive MBA from Simon Fraser University.
Victor Adair, VictorAdair.ca
Victor Adair began trading markets as a university student over 50 years ago. He subsequently had a 44- year career as a commodities broker and stockbroker, where his primary business was corporate risk management using exchange-traded derivatives. Victor retired from the brokerage business in 2020, but still actively trades in the derivatives markets. He has been a regular analyst and occasional host of the MoneyTalks show for more than 20 years.
Paul Beattie, BT Global
Paul Beattie has over 30 years as a professional in finance with extensive international experience. He earned an MBA from INSEAD, France and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), Queen’s University, Canada. Paul co-founded with Jacques Lacroix the investment firm BT Global Growth in 2006.
Mr. Beattie began his career as Investment Banker and was involved in a diverse range of advisory assignments and capital markets activities including M&A mandates and new equity issues for Canadian clients with private and public financing on these transactions exceeding CAD $850 million.
Kevin Muir, The Macrotourist
Long passionate about markets, Kevin grew up in a household where his father was an equity research director. Being exposed to market talk as long as he can remember, Kevin’s true love was always macro. In fact, his first trade was in the US dollar index, which promptly went limit-locked against him.
Not deterred, Kevin persevered and got a job on institutional equity desk for a big Canadian bank in the 1990’s. Kevin moved into a proprietary group where he was in charge of the equity derivatives book. Kevin had a ringside seat for the madness of the DotCom bubble, but in 2000, with a new young family, and the desire to no longer work for a bank, Kevin set off on his own. For the next 17 years, Kevin would trade his own account with another former co-worker and a full time computer programmer student they hired. Since then, Kevin has joined a well-established prop group.
Ryan Irvine, Keystone Financial Independent Equity Advisors
Keystone specializes in uncovering, before the broader market, under followed small to mid-sized companies that are financially sound and producing solid growth in both revenues and earnings. Mr. Irvine has annually presented conference attendees with the World Outlook Conference Small-Cap Portfolio which has been up double digit percentages every year since inception.
Ozzie Jurock, Jurock.com
President of Jurock Publishing Ltd (since 1993), Ozzie Jurock (FRI) is the author of Forget About Location Location, Location, What, When, Where, and How to Buy Real Estate in Canada and The Real Estate Action Book. Ozzie is the only Canadian real estate advisor featured in Donald Trump’s book: Trump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received: 100 Top Experts Share Their Strategies. Ozzie is also featured in a prominent chapter in the US Bestseller The Trendsetters.
Josef Schachter, Author, Schachter Energy Report
As a 40-year veteran of the Canadian Investment Management Industry, Josef Schachter has experienced several exceptional and turbulent global economic and stock market cycles. With his primary focus on the Energy Sector, Josef is able to weave global political, economic and monetary issues with current energy data into a compelling story of what’s going on in the sector, what is to come, and why.
After Providing Oil & Gas Research for Institutional Investors for over 15 years, Josef launched the Schachter Energy Report in April 2017 to provide crucial energy investment information to individual investors. He sees a vibrant new Energy Bull Market beginning in 2019 and believes that the time to become fully invested in energy is NOW! The Schachter Energy Report Coverage List includes 31 Energy and Energy Service Companies.
Martin Straith, Trend Letter
Martin Straith is the founder of Trend News Inc., publishing since 2002 with readers in over 45 countries. Their three services: Trend Letter, Trend Technical Trader & Trend Disruptors, are dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable research that is easy to action for the average investor. The goal of the Trend News is to point out trends, not opinions, and to assist investors with understanding the global flow of capital, and how currency, bond, equity and commodity markets are all connected, providing investors and excellent path to success.