Date and Time
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Fees/Admission
Click Here to Register All Access Ticket - $45.00 Livestream Ticket - $9.99
TICKETING TIERS
> Early Access to the Connecting Salon to create your professional profile and meet & greet with the WOI Community
> Live Q&A with Anu, Fatima & Yvonne, following their in-studio panel conversation with CTV's Marcia MacMillan
> Invitation to join curated break-out rooms moderated by Women of Influence
> Access to a Digital Swag Bag with offers and products from Canada's top women entrepreneurs and leading organizations
> Unlimited 30 day post-event access to the event recording and digital swag bag
> Live Q&A with Anu, Fatima & Yvonne, following their in-studio panel conversation with CTV's Marcia MacMillan
> Unlimited 30 day post-event access to the event recording
Description
Disrupting the Status Quo: From Corporate Executive to Tech Entrepreneur
As we transition into a fully digitized era, opportunities abound to do things differently. Women across the country are discovering exciting new ways to disrupt current models, create more accessible landscapes, and turn a profit. But it’s one thing to have a big idea — and yet another to take the monumental risk of leaving a secure corporate position to pursue it. On March 30th we sit down with three brilliant innovators who did exactly that.
Meet the Panelists:
- When Anu Bidani discovered her children weren’t engaging with STEM in school, she went on the hunt for alternative solutions, but couldn’t find one — so she left a 20+ year career in finance and launched her own. Today, her organization STEM MINDS has reached 40,000+ students and is on track to further expand throughout the US and India.
- With a 15-year background in HR, Yvonne Lau knows that the word feedback carries a negative connotation. After conducting countless feedback sessions, she learned it was quite rare to receive honest and vital feedback from employees. She set out to solve this problem by launching Retainify, a data-driven software that helps her growing roster of clients build cultures of transparency, ultimately driving organizational growth.
- Fatima Khamitova always felt that entrepreneurship was something she was born to do, but didn't know where to start. After navigating a corporate career, she leveraged her passion for artificial intelligence and ventured out on her own to launch Veer AI, a software company that aims to help retail companies make data-driven decisions. Despite all the challenges of Covid, Fatima has experienced remarkable growth in under 2 years and is set to service 100 clients by this summer
Join us for the season premiere of the Women of Influence Spotlight Series, with presenting partner ventureLAB, as our panelists sit down with CTV News Anchor Marcia MacMillan for a compelling discussion on:
- What it takes to leave a corporate career and turn your idea or interest into a profitable business
- How to access resources to grow and scale your business to compete on a global stage
- Leveraging your network, the importance of cultivating connections and aligning with partners that are invested in championing your advancement
- What needs to happen to foster a more inclusive, thriving, and impactful tech industry in the future
TICKETING TIERS
All Access Ticket - $45.00
> Early Access to the Connecting Salon to create your professional profile and meet & greet with the WOI Community
> Live Q&A with Anu, Fatima & Yvonne, following their in-studio panel conversation with CTV's Marcia MacMillan
> Invitation to join curated break-out rooms moderated by Women of Influence
> Access to a Digital Swag Bag with offers and products from Canada's top women entrepreneurs and leading organizations
> Unlimited 30 day post-event access to the event recording and digital swag bag
Livestream Ticket - $9.99
> Live Q&A with Anu, Fatima & Yvonne, following their in-studio panel conversation with CTV's Marcia MacMillan
> Unlimited 30 day post-event access to the event recording
Our Panelists
Meet Anu Bidani
Anu Bidani is the CEO of STEM MINDS, a company that focuses on empowering youth to become fearless leaders by developing agility and a love of learning through STEM (science, technology, engineering, math). STEM MINDS' mission is to bring the best in learning experiences to youth to create #Fearless Learners. She believes in creating our future leaders, game changers and problem solvers to build a better world. With a dedicated teaching staff, a state-of-the art learning environment and a network of strategic partnerships, she has built a business that is successfully expanding the reach and impact of education to all children!
She is a passionate innovator, leader, revenue generator and an entrepreneur with solid experience as a corporate executive where she witnessed the evolution and impact of accelerated technology changes on business processes from a Corporate lens. She has delivered large multi million dollar projects at a global scale from systems implementations to electronic platform product launches. With vetted expertise in the areas of strategy, product development, solutions development, project delivery, information security and audit, Anu has built a solid foundation for her latest entrepreneurial venture – STEM MINDS. She is also a SHEEO activator and supports other women entrepreneurs in their journey of following their passion.
Meet Fatima Khamitova
Fatima Khamitova is a cofounder and CEO at Veer AI, a marketing SaaS startup that helps retailers target their marketing with actionable, tailored insights. She is a strategist who has spent her career transforming customer experiences using AI based tools. She spent 6 years in the consulting field, focusing on strategic marketing projects that specifically leveraged her expertise in data science and machine learning. She led teams to build customer segmentation-based journeys, helping guide customers along an optimal journey to maximize value for her clients.
Fatima’s consulting clients included a diverse mix of Fortune 500 corporations and high growth start-ups. Before her graduate studies in analytics, Fatima spent time at an incubator in Milan, helping start-ups in fashion, retail, fine arts, and luxury goods. Fatima also worked in London and Zurich in the investment banking industry.
Meet Yvonne Lau
Yvonne Lau is the Founder of Retainify. Retainify’s mission is to help organizations make feedback normal in the workplace. Their unified SaaS solution helps companies increase the frequency of giving and receiving feedback by tracking the sentiment of employees throughout their employment lifecycle and sharing the feedback data back to business leaders. Improving the frequency of feedback helps organizations proactively identify and address issues early to mitigate business risks.
Yvonne grew up surrounded by entrepreneurship in her family. After working in the corporate human resource space for over 17 years, Yvonne decided to take the leap and branch out on her own, starting her entrepreneurial career.
