Jacquie McNish Keynote Speaker

For more than 40 years, Jacquie McNish has been on the ground covering major stories in Canada and the United States. Her investigative articles with The Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail have won multiple awards, including eight National Newspaper Awards. McNish has also authored four bestselling books: The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey’s Bay Hustle; Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black, with Sinclair Stewart; The Third Rail; Confronting Our Pension Failures, with Jim Leech; and Losing The Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Blackberry, with Sean Silcoff. Three of her books have won National Business Book Awards and Losing the Signal was adapted into the Blackberry, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2023 and is due to be released this spring in Canada, the United States, and Europe.