
In today’s atmosphere of global chaos and uncertainty, the perception of technology and its impact on humanity has shifted.
The democratization and hyper-acceleration of technology has empowered developing populations, businesses and nations to compete against entrenched oligarchic incumbencies, but it has also made it much more difficult to build trusting, lasting content and relationships; the types of relationships that will spark growth, community and collective prosperity. In a world where “post-truth” has been added to the Oxford dictionary, it is impossible to ignore the call to serve, to act, to create and to lead with life or death urgency.
As the creators of Politik, The Canadian Cloud Council and Highrise, we have long embarked upon a lifelong mission to ensure innovation is applied for the benefit of the greater good and have been recognized by the United Nations, Avenue Magazine, Globe and Mail and HotTopics as one of the world’s preeminent creators of groundbreaking digital content. Along the way, our agency has helped create the early policies outlining the commitment of the Government of Canada to build open systems, utilize cloud-first methodologies and reshape decisions to eschew the short-term gains of offshore delivery to recommit to employment and opportunity for its own people.
Politik is the first creative agency to integrate meaningful human connection into the era of singularity. Through a gestalt of distinguished digital touchpoints, we help our clients engage, educate and delight in the rapidly interceding circular economy.
We passionately believe that adaptive, contextual, and accountable relationships between two people are the only way forward; the only way to reset expectations, reconnect to regional resilience and reestablish trust with both clients and community.
There has never been a better time to redefine, reimagine and reconstruct the face of business and how it consociates with society at large. Kindly allow us the opportunity to usher your people into a room reverberating with an audience starving for a meaningful two-way conversation. Then, and only then, can we collectively break down the barriers of incumbency and inertia and pertinaciously commit to a more equal, enlightened and prosperous society.
Our distinguished series of events have driven discussions and disruption that firmly tipped the scales of history in favour of open and accessible technology and away from closed ecosystems that benefit the select few.
Politik is coalition of global leaders who share an unwavering commitment to sustainable economic development, the courage to challenge incumbency and inertia and a passionate desire to reconstruct the digital economy for the greater good of all of humanity.
The Agency

ROBERT BRENNAN HART
Managing Partner and Executive Director of Strategy

Jonathan Molina
Partner and Executive Director of Accounts
Janross Denise Cacayuran
Manager of Design and Creative
Nicole Kanderka
Manager of Social Media
Gurk Sangha
Manager of Brand Marketing
Kevin Shepheard
Manager of Marketing Technology
The Digital Assembly
KATIE CLEARY
Founder of Peace4Animals and World Animal News
CHRIS C. KEMP
Founder of Astra and OpenStack and the Former Chief Technology Officer of NASA
RHONDA VETERE
Chief Information Officer at Herbalife and Former Chief Information and Technology Officer at Estee Lauder
ARNE JOSEFSBERG
Chief Information and Chief Innovation Officer at GoDaddy and former Chief Technology Officer of Service Now
MICHELLE FINNERAN-DENNEDY
CEO of DrumWave and Former Chief Privacy Officer of Cisco, McAfee and Intel
JOSH CRUMB
Co-Founder of GoldMoney and Coffee Flour. He recently launched Abbax, a foreign exchange designed to enable the invisible handvvav
CHELSEA RUSTRUM
Co-Founder of Instigation Protocol and Alchemy Spaces
JOHN KOETSIER
Technology and business columnist at Forbes, Business Insider and Inc.
JOSHUA MCKENTY
Co-Founder of OpenStack and Piston Cloud and former Field Chief Technology Officer at Pivotal
VASU JAKKAL
Chief Marketing Officer at FireEye
BRYSON KOELER
Chief Information Officer of Equifax and former Global Chief Technology Officer at IBM
JIMMA ELLIOT-STEVENS
Chief Privacy Officer and General Counsel for Thomson-Reuters and former Chief Privacy Officer at Rackspace
Sofia Fairweather
Sophia has already won Canada 150 Women of Inspiration Award, ASTECH Award, Manning Innovation Award Alberta, TECVenture Award, ATB BoostR Award, and Alberta’s Leaders of Tomorrow Award
JESSIE ADCOCK
General Manager of Development, Building and Licensing and former Chief Technology Officer at the City of Vancouver
MICHELLE ZATLYN
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Cloudflare
JONATHAN FELDMAN
Jonathan Feldman is the Chief Information Officer at City of Asheville
Lance James
Founder and CEO of Unit 221B and Former Chief Scientist at FlashPoint; an Intel Company
FERSHTEH FOROUGH
Founder and CEO of Code to Inspire and building Afghanistan 2.0
The Commission
With offices in Calgary, Los Angeles and New York City, our agency has over thirteen years experience designing and producing distinguished events for the bold and enlightened digital enterprise.
Along the way, we’ve been recognized by the United Nations, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, HotTopics, The Future Economy and Avenue Magazine as one of the most socially impactful digital agencies in the world.