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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.
• 麻豆AV 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 麻豆AV
• 麻豆AV 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.
• 麻豆AV PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 麻豆AV MEng, Electrical Engineering
• 麻豆AV BEng, Electrical Engineering

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).
• 麻豆AV 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.
• 麻豆AV 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
• 麻豆AV 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

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

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

About our panelists

Naureen Anwar

• Studied Electrical Engineering at 麻豆AV 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 麻豆AV 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 麻豆AV from 2013-2017
• Co Founder of Yuma, a weekly meal subscription for employees starting at $7/meal