Since 2020, the 海外直播b站 Engine has hosted an annual Women in Entrepreneurship Panel to highlight 海外直播b站 Faculty of Engineering alum or student entrepreneurs in Tech. This event is co-hosted with , a student-run club dedicated to creating an open community to support self-identifying female engineers. Operating under the .
2024
About our panelists
Maria Calderbank, CEO & Co-Founder @
- provides an innovative and better way of managing chronic lower back pain. Their unique orthotic device provides on-demand support to the wearer during movement, increasing spinal stability.
- 海外直播b站 BEng, Mechanical Engineering
Cynthia Hitti, Co-Founder & Team Lead @ CRCTS
- (Cricket Rearing, Collection, and Transformation System) is a novel semi-automated device designed to rear and harvest crickets to produce a nutritious powder for human consumption.
- Bioengineering Master's student at 海外直播b站
- 海外直播b站 BEng, Bioengineering
Dr. Yun Yao, Co-Founder & CEO @ Soralink
- offers a complete solution for industrial machine condition monitoring, failure prediction, predictive maintenance, as well as productivity tracking.
- 海外直播b站 PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 海外直播b站 MEng, Electrical Engineering
- 海外直播b站 BEng, Electrical Engineering
2023
About our panelists
Amy Lorincz, Co-founder & CEO @ Vope Medical
- has developed an AI-driven software to address a significant unmet need for clear vision in minimally invasive surgery (MIS).
- 海外直播b站 MSc, Experimental Surgery, 2022 graduate
- Concordia University, BEng, Industrial Engineering, 2019 graduate
Chaity Tarafder, Co-Founder @ NameShouts
- is a SaaS startup that is simplifying the way people make first connections, one name at a time.
- 海外直播b站 B.A., Economics
Flora Uwadiegwu, Technical Program Manager @ Lyft & Co-Founder @ WeTechNG
- is a community of women that intersects through various areas of technology: a community that collaborates, innovates and supports. Join the next generation of Women in Tech today by being an ambassador or fellow at
- 海外直播b站 MEng, Chemical Engineering, 2017 graduate
Justine Massicott, Co-Founder & CTO @ Lighthouse
- is a powerful navigation platform allows users to query for items across and within worlds - significantly facilitating discovery and improving the industry鈥檚 cross-world search capabilities.
- HEC Montreal, Masters, Data Science, 2018 graduate
- Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Masters, Philosophy, 2017 graduate
Nathalie Myara, Co-fondatrice Pr茅sidente Directrice G茅n茅rale @ Eduplan Solutions
- is a company specializing in education, health and social services technologies, which provides various professionals, parents, and students; in particular, learners with disabilities or learning and/or adaptation difficulties intelligent platforms for the development and management of intervention plans, as well as other related platforms and services.
- Universit茅 de Montr茅al, MEd, Orthop茅dagogie, 2006 graduate
- Universit茅 de Montr茅al, PhD, Psychop茅dagogie, 2011 graduate
2022
About our panelists
Guanbingxue (Shirley) Huang 
- Studying Mechanical Engineering
- Co-Founder of
Nina-Marie Martinez 
- Studying Mechanical Engineering
- Co-Founder of
- Vice President External of
Zhi Xin (Joey) Koay 
- Studying Software Engineering
- 2020 Schulich Leader
- Co-Founder of
- VP Products of
2021
About our panelists
Chlo毛 Ryan
- Studying Mechanical Engineering
- Co-Founder of , Director of BRIDGE and Next36 Entrepreneur & Assistant Project Manager at WSP
Celeste Nantel
- Studying Mechanical Engineering
- Co-Founder of , Next36 Entrepreneur
Shlesha Van
- Studying Mechanical Engineering
- Co-Founder of
Christina Katsari
- PhD Candidate in Materials Engineering
- Co-Founder of Alpha Iota Alloys
2020
About our panelists
Naureen Anwar
- Studied Electrical Engineering at 海外直播b站 from 2005-2010
- CEO of NameShouts, a free a web app which helps you pronounce a person's name correctly
Boyana Stefanova
- Studied Mechanical Engineering at 海外直播b站 from 2002-2007
- Community Builder at MAIN, Qu茅bec's first network of business accelerators and incubators
Laura Al Khoury
- Studied Mechanical Engineering at 海外直播b站 from 2013-2017
- Co Founder of Yuma, a weekly meal subscription for employees starting at $7/meal
