Leen Li is the Chief Financial Officer of Wealthsimple. Leen received her bachelors degree in China at the Changchun Taxation College. She then moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia to receive her masters in finance at Saint Mary's University. In 2005, Leen moved to Toronto to join Eloqua. In 2012, the founder of Eloqua asked Leen to be the Vice President of Finance and Operations for their new venture, Influitive. Leen talks about closing the technology gap in developing countries, the future of fintech to Elon Musk's neuralink. You can reach out to Leen on LinkedIn.  Stay up to date with Wit ..read more

Eva Lau is the Managing Director and Co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures. Before starting Two Small Fish Ventures, she was Wattpad’s Head of Community and Content and Director of Product Development of Brightspark Labs. Eva currently serves as an Associate in Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Management. She is also involved in many Canadian incubators and accelerators, such as the University of Toronto’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery, Ryerson’s DMZ, University of Waterloo’s Velocity, and Techstars. Eva has a bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto ..read more

Cooper Harris is the current founder and CEO of Klickly, a SaaS platform that predicts who will buy, then lets them purchase easily. Earlier in her life, she worked as a successful actress in Los Angeles and New York. While acting, she started attending hack-a-thons. Cooper furthered her interested in technology as the Director of Innovations and Technology at the conference Collective: Disrupt and then starting her own digital agency, CPK Productions. Cooper talks about pivoting from Hollywood to Silicon Valley, the e-commerce landscape, and biohacking like Elon Musk's neurolink.  Stay ..read more

Marie-Phillippe Gill is a student technology influencer through Girl Knows Tech, and is pursuing a master degree in machine learning. Marie-Phillippe has received many accolades for her work to make technology more inclusive for women, including the Google Women Techmakers Scholarship, an award from the Prime Minister of Quebec, the Forces Avenir award, and the Lieutenant Governor’s Youth Medal. Marie-Phillippe talks about being a bilingual influencer, machine learning in healthcare, and Google's Look Out App.  Learn more about Marie-Phillippe and Girl Knows Tech on Instagram, YouTube, Tw ..read more

Jill Earthy is the CEO of Women’s Enterprise Centre of British Columbia, a provincial non-profit organization helping BC women start, lead and grow their own business. Jill started and grew two businesses, Momcafe Network and Nasco Staffing Solutions. With this experience, Jill now leads various entrepreneurship and funding ventures to support female founders, like Investment Funds Institute of Canada, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, Futurpreneur Canada, the RAISE Collective, Female Funders, and the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship. Jill holds a Bachelors from the Universi ..read more

Ravina Mutha is the Co-founder of Enterprise Bot, a company that builds customer service bots that communicate in natural language and understand users' requirements. Enterprise Bot was awarded Forbes 60 Women-Led Startups. Ravina holds a bachelors of science degree from Bentley University. Ravina talks about navigating entrepreneurship in different parts of the world, how to move past the buzzwords of artificial intelligence to prove business value, and the importance of diversity in founders of startups. Reach out to Ravina on LinkedIn or Twitter. Stay up to date with Witty through our we ..read more

Lidia Yan is the Co-Founder & CEO of NEXT Trucking, a technology platform connecting shippers with carriers. Previously, Lidia was the founder and CEO of 9luxe.com the leading fashion B2C and B2B platform in Shanghai, China. Later in her career, she was the Marketing Director of LA Made and the Mobile Marketing Manager of NewEgg.com. Lidia holds a Bachelor's Degree from Shanghai International University and a Masters Degree from University of Southern California. Lidia talks founding an e-commerce company in China, navigating the trucking industry, and getting the attention of investors l ..read more

Olu Ibrahim is the Founder & CEO of Kids in Tech, Inc.  Kids in Tech partners with school districts and youth development organizations to provide high quality technology education for young children and youth in under-resourced cities in the after school setting in the United States. Previously, she served as an Education Pioneers Fellow with the Memphis Music Initiative, directed a high school technology internship program for high school students and served as a middle school teacher. Her professional interests focus on workforce development; K-12 and post-secondary education; tech ..read more

After earning degrees at the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics, Anna Starasts worked as a marketing manager in an early-stage cleantech startup. She spent the next five years at a leading boutique recruiting agency for tech startups, scale-ups and corporate innovation labs. Anna now works at Ryerson University in Advancement, where she works on philanthropic initiatives at the intersection of innovation and inclusion. In her spare time, she leads one of the longest-running women in tech communities in Toronto, Girl Geeks Toronto.  Anna talks about everything from bu ..read more

Amy Rasdal has over 20 years of experience in Operations, Product Development, Corporate Development and Marketing.  Amy founded three companies, Rasdal Associates, Inc., Billable at the Beach, and Billable with Baby. Amy held a variety of positions at CareFusion, Cardinal Health, Tandem Medical, Epic Cycle Interactive and ASK Computer Systems. Amy has an MBA from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth as well as undergraduate degrees in Computer Science, Music and French.   Amy talks about founding three companies, the value of flexible work life for parents, and 3D printing's impact in ..read more