SPEAKING & EVENTS

Jess Glowacki is the founder and CEO of EH!, Canada's social network, built on Vancouver Island. She brings 27 years in digital technology, including time at Lululemon and Reddit, and speaks about building Canadian tech that puts communities, privacy and trust first.

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Talk topics

Digital sovereignty and social media: who controls Canadians' data and conversations, and why it matters
Building with intention: chronological feeds, Canadian hosting and saying no to algorithmic manipulation
Scaling a small team with AI: what to automate, what to delegate and what to keep human
Local is the new global: why platforms built for specific communities can grow further than one-size-fits-all
Community, economy and tourism: how Canadian social media helps local businesses and destinations get found
The founder journey: building and launching a national platform from Vancouver Island

Upcoming

Date	Event	Session	Location
Nov 6, 2026	WEDO Canada Vancouver Island Summit	Panel: Accelerate Your Business: Leveraging Automation, AI & Tools to Scale Faster	Crown Isle Resort, Courtenay, BC
Nov 10, 2026	Sidney Breakfast Club	Featured speaker	Sidney, BC
Nov 17, 2026	VIBE Summit	Panel: Backable: How VI's Fast Growing Founders are Scaling with AI	Royal BC Museum, Victoria

Nov 6, 2026

WEDO Canada Vancouver Island Summit

Panel: Accelerate Your Business: Leveraging Automation, AI & Tools to Scale Faster

Crown Isle Resort, Courtenay, BC

Nov 10, 2026

Sidney Breakfast Club

Featured speaker

Sidney, BC

Nov 17, 2026

VIBE Summit

Panel: Backable: How VI's Fast Growing Founders are Scaling with AI

Royal BC Museum, Victoria

Past events

Date	Event	Session	Location
Sept 21, 2026	Victoria Tech Week	Panel: Skip to the Good Part	COAST, Victoria
Apr 23, 2026	IAPP Halifax KnowledgeNet	Co-presenter: Digital Sovereignty and Social Media, with Katie Smith, CIPP/C	Virtual
Oct 28, 2025	VIEA State of the Island Economic Summit	Speaker Series: Connecting Community, Economy and Tourism through Canadian Social Media	Nanaimo, BC

Sept 21, 2026

Victoria Tech Week

Panel: Skip to the Good Part

COAST, Victoria

Apr 23, 2026

IAPP Halifax KnowledgeNet

Co-presenter: Digital Sovereignty and Social Media, with Katie Smith, CIPP/C

Virtual

Oct 28, 2025

VIEA State of the Island Economic Summit

Speaker Series: Connecting Community, Economy and Tourism through Canadian Social Media

Nanaimo, BC

Interviews & podcasts

What The Tech (Boast AI) with Paul Davenport, Aug 2026
CBC On The Coast with Sarah Penton, joint segment with Kalvin Morrow of Northsocial, Aug 2026
CanCon (CBC Podcasts), July 2026

Recognition

BetaKit Most Ambitious 2026 honouree, "The Sovereign Stack"
Finalist, CanadianSME Startup Growth Awards 2026

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