Stephany Lapierre is the founder/CEO of Tealbook, a highly coveted supply chain thought leader, and one of the most influential minds in emerging data technologies.

She has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain, and her company, Tealbook, has both been named a Top 50 company to watch by Spend Matters and won the Cool Vendor Award by Gartner.

Prior to Tealbook, Stephany spent 10 years building a successful strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm focusing on large scale sourcing optimization projects.  Given her experience and visibility into the data issues crippling procurement she has made it her mission is to deliver a ‘Trusted Source of Supplier Data’ to an ever-growing eProcurement space. 

Currently, Tealbook is the only Big Data company that provides a self-enriching and self-maintaining mechanism to fix enterprise supplier data, forever.

Leen is the Chief Executive Officer at Wealthsimple Foundation, a charity focused on enabling a brighter future for everyone in Canada through access to post-secondary education. Leen has over 20 years of experience in the technology and financial services industry where she held a number of senior positions including the Chief Financial Officer at Wealthsimple and the Vice President of Finance and Operations at Influitive. She was voted one of Canada’s 50 Best Executives by the Globe and Mail in 2020.

An immigrant from China, Leen is actively involved in the community and lends her time and energy to a number of technology and education initiatives, while simultaneously acting as an advocate for women and people of colour. Currently, she sits on the board of CanadaHelps and George Brown College Foundation, and on the advisory board of #Movethedial and Medchart.

Leen holds an MBA in Finance from Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University. 

Michelle  is passionate about working with amazing technology entrepreneurs applying disruptive technologies to solve problems in enterprise, health and consumer markets. Michelle is a skilled business professional with many years of combined operational and venture capital experience.

Her background includes 16 years of venture capital investing early- and later-stage companies in ICT and Health, managerial and product development experience as well as sales and marketing roles in both engineering and scientific industries.

Michelle co-founded StandUp Ventures in 2017, and leads investments in early-stage companies health and technology companies.

Michelle is currently on the Board of Directors of several companies as a Board member or Observer and these include Sampler, tealbook, ODAIA, StoryTap, Emovi, MiMS & Acerta. She is also an investor in Figure1, Maple, Rank & Rubikloud who have raised substantial follow-on financings. 

Michelle holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from McMaster University and Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ottawa.

Martha is a partner in the Financial Services Group in Osler’s Vancouver office. Martha has broad experience in all types of commercial lending files, including term and revolving facilities, participation and syndicated agreements and convertible facilities.

Her lending experience includes traditional covenant-based loans, asset-backed lending, project finance, real estate financing and construction loans, cross-border transactions and experience with trust indentures, intercreditor agreements and other multi lender arrangements.

Martha regularly acts for lenders, debtors, administrative agents and trustees. Martha also acts for purchasers and vendors in connection with commercial real estate acquisitions and leasing transactions, including sale and leasebacks.

Laith Shukri is a senior market development manager for SVB in Toronto, where his role is to build and strengthen relationships between the bank and early-stage companies in Canada. To this end, he consults with innovators to identify ways that SVB can best serve their needs as they scale.

Laith is particularly passionate about using his background and talents to help founders move to the next opportunity; his services include providing feedback on pitches and business models as well as fostering connections between Canada’s upcoming game-changers and the most influential peers, organizations and programs in Canada’s innovation ecosystem that can help set new ideas in motion.

Prior to joining SVB, Laith served as a senior analyst for ScaleUP Ventures, a Toronto-based VC fund. In this capacity, he was responsible for deal-flow management, coaching founders and cultivating partnerships with significant programs and conferences.

Laith holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the American University of Beirut and a master’s degree in international business and emerging markets from the University of Edinburgh.

Jodi is a passionate community builder who galvanizes people to take action. From board seats to movements of change, Jodi’s own journey of self-reflection, self-discovery and finding her passion led to her true calling—helping people, propelling industry forward and making the world a more inspired place.

Currently, Jodi Kovitz is the Chief Growth Officer @ Vetster a global telemedicine platform for pets.  She was previously founder and CEO of #movethedial, a global movement and organization to advance the participation and leadership of all women in tech.  Leveraging Jodi’s vision, leadership, wealth of experience, pioneering spirit, and passion for advancing the full talent pool in the new economy, #movethedial touched over 60,000 people at events throughout Canada, the US, the UK and Israel.

Featured in Forbes Women, Jodi was recognized as an Adweek Brandstar in Toronto in 2018, One of Canada's 25 Women of Influence in 2018, one of WXN's Canada's 100 most powerful women in 2017 & 2019 and co-chaired the re-election campaign for Toronto's Mayor in 2018, John Tory. Jodi sits on several tech company advisory boards, the board of Directors of Toronto Global and the Sickkids' hospital Capital Campaign Cabinet raising $1.3B to transform paediatric health.

Jodi holds an HBA from Ivey and an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School. Jodi is a connector, problem solver, and builder.