BluWave-ai's next session in its Global Energy Transition Summit series will feature women from around the world who are leading initiatives to drive climate change mitigation.

The summit will offer multiple key perspectives on the challenge, including business insights from funding bodies and government departments working in the cleantech and energy industries, as well as engineering experts leading the development of key technologies, specifically artificial intelligence (AI), as they apply to climate change mitigation.

Registration is free.

DATE

WEDNeSDAY NOvember 18, 2020

TIME

10:00 AM
Eastern Time

Online Summit

global energy transition summit series

For more information please contact:

Marlene Alt Corporate Marketing, BluWave-ai Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 613-608-0116

This online summit will be co-hosted by Invest Ottawa.

Introductions

Sonya Shorey
Vice President of Strategy, Marketing & Communications, Invest Ottawa

Sonya launched her career as the Manager of Communications and Member of the Vice-Presidential Cabinet with the 10G Organization of Optical Networks for Nortel from 1999 to 2002, and then served as the Director of Marketing Communications for CMC Microsystems until 2007. Building on a decade of experience, Sonya launched her own strategy company in 2008, addressing the needs of S&T organizations, innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development agencies across Canada, and key global partners.

Full biography here.

Introductions

Caroline works to help Ottawa’s start-ups and scale-ups connect to the right resources, services, and programs they need to take their company to the next level. Caroline takes pride in helping her local business ecosystem grow, and seeing the incredible companies that Invest Ottawa supports become globally competitive firms.

Full biography here.

Caroline Croft
Manager, Scale-Up Program,Invest Ottawa

Speaker

April's company, S Curve Strategies develops electric vehicle (EV) programs for utilities, municipalities, state governments and advanced technology companies. S Curve has implemented some of the most innovative EV programs that have increased adoption in regions across the country.

Full biography here.

April Bolduc
President, S Curve Strategies

Speaker

Wrenna 's program aims to increase the number of women innovators in the cleantech sector. Her work in the Canadian public service has focused on diversity and inclusion in the natural resource sectors. She brings to this role first hand experience as a female scientist, as well as extensive experience working with women and minority communities across Canada.

Wrenna Robertson
Natural Resources Canada, Program Lead for Women in Cleantech Challenge

Speaker

Leah is a lifelong advocate for engineering, entrepreneurship and the environment. Over the years, Leah has served on many corporate and non-profit boards, including serving as president of the Ottawa chapter of the International Women’s Forum, the chair of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, and the president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA). In 2018, she was honoured to receive the Centennial Leadership Award, APEGA’s highest distinction for a member who has achieved exemplary achievements in their career. In 2019, Leah was listed in WXN’s Top 100 list as one of the nation’s most powerful women in business, recognizing her drive and passion for innovation.

Full biography here.

Leah Lawrence
President & CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada

Moderator

Nasrin, prior to her work at BluWave-ia, was a Ph.D. scholar at the smart grid team in IDLab. During her tenure at IDLab, Nasrin successfully applied AI in four major industry projects, developing solutions using statistical modeling, machine learning, and deep reinforcement learning, to facilitate practical demand response algorithms for residential customers and electric vehicles in the smart power grid.

Nasrin's Ph.D. research led to several high impact international publications. In 2018 she obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from the Faculty of Engineering at Ghent University in Belgium.

Full biography here.

Dr. Nasrin Sadeghianpour
Senior Smart Grid and AI Scientist, BluWave-ai

Speaker

Meera has been a career public servant for over 16 years, including at Health Canada and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Her strengths are working across disciplines and programs to build bridges and lead collaborative initiatives. Her academic foundations are science and business degrees which keep her anchored to facts, figures and strategy.

Full biography here.

Meera MakimProgram Manager, Energy Technology Sector, Natural Resources Canada

Speaker

Camilla's career started in mechanical design for motors and generators. Later her focus became research, a lot in robotics and mostly with collaborative robots. She's really interested in Industrial design and the area of user experience and design thinking. Camilla's role at ABB is to scout global startups and scale-ups in Robotics, Automaton and Energy. Through SynerLeap, ABB can help to accelerate these companies through collaborations with them.

Full biography here.

Camilla KullborgVP, Global Technology Startup Scouting, Synerleap, ABB

Speaker

Prior to joining Cycle Capital, Shirley was the Director of Investments for the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) and responsible for investment recommendations and decisions, portfolio management, sourcing and partnering. Previously, Shirley spent over 12 years acting as advising biotech, ag-biotech and advanced manufacturing and materials companies. She holds her ICD.d (University of Toronto), an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Waterloo.

Full biography here.

Shirley SpeakmanSenior Partner, Cycle Capital