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| Friday, October 14 | Biosciences Complex Auditorium, Queen’s University Campus | ||
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| 5:15pm–5:45pm |
Welcome and Opening Remarks Jean-Baptiste Litrico, Director, Centre for Social Impact Wanda Costen, Dean, Smith School of Business |
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| 5:45pm-6:45pm |
Keynote Address Desirée Bombenon, EMBA'22 CEO & Chief Disruption Officer, SureCall Contact Centres Ltd.; Diversity Board Council Member, Womens’ Executive Network; Chair, Calgary Chamber of Commerce Moderator: Adé Adéyemí, MBA'23, President, Women in Leadership (WIL) Club |
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| 6:45pm-8:00pm | Networking Event | |
| Saturday, October 15 | Goodes Hall, Queen’s University Campus | ||
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| 9:00am-9:45am |
Session #1: Indigenization Lindsay (Kawennenhá:wi) Brant, PhD’23 Candidate, Adjunct Profressor, Indigenous Curriculum and Ways of Knowing, Smith School of Business Shyra Barberstock, MA’17, President and CEO, Okwaho Equal Source Inc.; PhD Candidate, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University Moderator: Audrey Marie-Nely, MMIE ’23, Business Development Manager, Futurpreneur Canada |
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| 9:45am-10:45am |
Session #2: CleanTech Jane Savage, BASc, President, J.E. Savage and Associates Dr. Warren Mabee, Associate Dean (Policy Studies), Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen’s University Sebastian Alamillo-Falkenberg, Entrepreneur in Residence, KPM-Accelerate Ross Belot, Energy and Climate Consultant, Poet Moderator: Lisa Anchalia, MBA'23, Forté Fellow, Vice President of Consulting Club |
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| 10:45am-11:00am | Break | |
| 11:00am-11:45am |
Session #3: Tech for Good Dr. Kathryn Brohman, Associate Professor & Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Digital Technology, Program Director, Master of Digital Product Management Morgan Lehtinen, BScH’16, PhD’22 Candidate, Director of Commercialization, Reaction (RXN) HUB Dr. Anh Tran Ly, Co-Founder, CO2L TECH; Entrepreneur-in-incubator, Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre Moderator: Ashton Seebaran, Comm’25, Treasurer of ComSoc, Venture Manager of inQUbate |
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| 11:45am-12:15pm | Student Awards Ceremony | |
| 12:15pm-12:45pm | Lunch | |
| 12:45pm-1:30pm |
Session #4: Accessibility Dr. Mahadeo Sukhai, Vice-President, Research and International Affairs and Chief Accessibility Officer, CNIB Dr. Tim Ross, Scientist, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital; Assistant Professor (Status), University of Toronto Leah Riddell, Owner, SignAble Vi5ion Inc. Moderator: Deepak Naithani, MMIE ’23, Senior Purchasing Manager, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi |
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| 1:40pm-2:30pm |
Session #5: Social Impact Leadership Hakeem Subair, MMIE’17, CEO, 1 Million Teachers Ruvimbo Chimutsa, MMIE’20, President and Founder, The Grace and Nelly Project Inc. Ampai Thammachack, Founder and CEO, Step Above Stigma; Co-Founder and Co-President, Glass Slipper Organization; L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth, 2022 Moderator: Maddy Spriet, Comm’24, D&R Sobey’s Scholar, EDI intern for the Centre for Social Impact |
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| 2:30pm-2:45pm |
Closing Remarks: Jean-Baptiste Litrico, Director, Centre for Social Impact |
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