Vass Bednaris the executive director of McMaster University’s Master of Public Policy in Digital Society program. Her work focuses on the intersections between policy and the innovation ecosystem. She is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and writes the popular newsletter “regs to riches.” Vass was recently recognized as a “Changemaker” by the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business magazine and is the host of the Globe and Mail podcast, Lately, which is all about navigating life in the new economy.