Harnessing Data to Advance Women and the Canadian Economy - A Panel Discussion. PLUS: Special Announcement from the Honourable Minister Mary Ng

It's time to cultivate inclusive innovation. Good data about women's entrepreneurship helps us understand the base conditions, assets, and the size of the opportunities that Canadian women are navigating.

Currently, however, there's a data deficit when it comes to women's entrepreneurship and economic potential.

The insights that new, shared data can provide can propel us forward as a community.

Join SheEO Founder Vicki Saunders, SheEO Venture and Eve Medical Founder Jessica Ching, Dr. Wendy Cukier, professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, founder and academic director of Ryerson’s Diversity Institute, home to the newly formed Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH), and special guest the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion, for a morning discussion about Canada's female data deficit and the opportunity to drive inclusive innovation with new research, insights, interventions and ecosystems.

PLUS: There will be a special announcement from the Honourable Mary Ng.

AGENDA:

8:30 am - Registration and Networking - Light Refreshments will be served
9:00 am - Welcome
9:15 am - Special Announcement from the Honourable Minister Mary Ng
9:25 am - Panel Discussion: Harnessing Data to Advance Women in the Economy
10:00 to 11am - Networking

Dr. Wendy Cukier, Professor Entrepreneurship & Strategy, TRSM & Academic Director, Diversity Institute

Dr. Cukier is the founder of The Diversity Institute, home to the newly formed Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH) at Ryerson; prior to that she was Ryerson University's Vice-President of Research and Innovation and the first Associate Dean of the Ted Rogers School of Management. She's an award-winning innovator and holds an MA and MBA from the University of Toronto, a PhD from the Schulich School of Business, York University.

Jessica Ching, SheEO Venture & Founder, Eve Medical

Jessica Ching is the Founder of Eve Medical, a social enterprise dedicated to improving women’s health – They are the makers of Eve Kit, Canada’s first at-home HPV and STI screening service. Cervical cancer is very preventable, yet 1 in 3 Canadian women are not screened regularly. Their mission is to change this.

Minister Mary Ng, Canada’s Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion

The Honourable Mary Ng is the Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion and is leading the Women’s Entrepreneurship Strategy, which seeks to double the amount of women entrepreneurs by 2025. Throughout her 20 years of public service, Minister Ng has been a devoted community leader and an advocate with a proven track record of results in the areas of public policy, job-creation, entrepreneurship, and scale.

Vicki Saunders, Founder, SheEO

Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. Vicki has co-founded and run ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley and taken a company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. She is the founder of SheEO, a network-based, ecosystem approach to selecting, funding, supporting and scaling women-led Ventures building new models, new mindsets and new solutions for a better world.