C2 Montréal Unveils Additional Programming; Adds Speakers From Facebook, GE, Deloitte

C2 Montréal, a leading annual international conference that explores the intersection between commerce and creativity, today announced additional business and creative leaders who will appear at its 4th edition, from May 26 to 28, 2015, at Arsenal in Montreal. Facebook’s Carolyn Everson will join Kevin Spacey, Andre Agassi, Phyllis Lambert and other previously announced speakers on the C2 stage. C2 Montréal, “the #1 Most Innovative Meeting of 2014” according to leading trade publication BizBash, also today unveiled the overarching theme for this year’s edition: “Choices.”

C2MTL expects 4,000 participants for this year’s event, who will get involved in hands-on, collaborative workshops, experiment in creative labs and experience exclusive creative happenings, music events and artistic performances.

C2 Montréal was founded and imagined in 2012 by the Sid Lee creative agency, in collaboration with Founding Partner Cirque du Soleil, Leadership Partner Microsoft, and Content and Media Partner Fast Company magazine.

New Speakers

Among the new C2 speakers this year are Carolyn Everson, Vice President, Global Marketing Solutions - Facebook (NASDAQ: FB); Morten Albæk, CMO and Group Senior Vice President - Vestas Wind Systems A/S (NASDAQOTH: VWDRY); Bertrand Piccard, Initiator, Chairman and Pilot & André Borschberg, CEO, Co-Founder and Pilot - Solar Impulse; Marije Vogelzang, Eating Designer; Raghu Krishnamoorthy, Vice President, Executive Development and Chief Learning Officer – GE (NYSE: GE); Caithrin Rintoul, CEO and co-founder - Provender; Terry Stuart, Chief Innovation Officer - Deloitte; and Neil Grimmer, CEO and co-founder - Plum Organics (NYSE: CPB).

C2 Montréal’s Theme for 2015: “Choices”

C2 Montréal’s 2015 theme – which will be experienced at every level of the event - focuses on the choices we are called upon to make as consumers, as citizens and as the leaders of the world's most influential organizations.

3x3 Tracks: Food, Health, and Energy

While the full program will explore a wide range of topics and industries, specific vertical tracks will also focus on food, health and energy, three sectors that have the power to most strongly influence our collective future, and are ripe for disruption in search of more sustainable and impactful solutions. Horizontal tracks will focus on social business (in partnership with the Grameen Creative Lab), investment (in partnership with Capital Innovation), and technology.

Supported by workshops, labs and master classes, each vertical track will be highlighted by speakers on the main C2 stage.

Health:

• Joe Kiani, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Masimo and Founder and Chairman, Patient Safety Movement
• Adam Garone, CEO and co-founder, Movember foundation

Food:

• Marije Vogelzang, Eating Designer
• Neil Grimmer, CEO and co-founder, Plum Organics
• Caithrin Rintoul, CEO and co-founder, Provender

Energy (clean tech):

• Bertrand Piccard, Initiator, Chairman and Pilot & André Borschberg, CEO, Co-Founder and Pilot, Solar Impulse
• Morten Albæk, CMO and Group Senior Vice President, Vestas Wind Systems A/S

About C2 Montréal – 2015 Edition: May 26-28

C2 Montréal aims to reinvent the concept of the annual international conference in a three-day immersive event that assembles renowned innovators from varied backgrounds. Participants are plunged into an intellectual and experiential environment that stimulates the left and right sides of their brains in order to develop their creative leadership skills, all presented in an unconventional “Innovation Village” conceived exclusively by and for C2 Montréal. For more information, go to the web site at www.C2MTL.com.