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SUMMARY:She Talks Tech: Building Confidence as a Founder
DESCRIPTION:At She Talks Tech: Building Confidence as a Founder\, we’re creating space for honest\, practical conversations about what it really means to lead a company\, make decisions with conviction\, and grow into your voice as a founder. \nThis event brings together women founders and leaders to share candid stories\, real-world lessons\, and actionable advice for building confidence through every stage of entrepreneurship. From navigating uncertainty and asking the right questions\, to building strong relationships and representing your vision with clarity\, this session is designed to help founders lead with greater trust in themselves and their direction. \nWhat to Expect: \nFounder Stories and Lessons Learned: Hear from women who have navigated the realities of entrepreneurship\, including the moments of doubt\, growth\, and decision-making that shaped their leadership.\nLeading with Clarity: Explore how founders can communicate their vision\, build trust with partners and teams\, and make confident decisions even when they don’t have every answer.\nConfidence in Action: Move beyond surface-level advice and into practical strategies for showing up with presence\, asking stronger questions\, and leading through uncertainty.\nCommunity and Connection: Whether you’re just starting out or growing your company\, this is a space to listen\, learn\, and connect with others who understand the founder journey. \nJoin us for a session rooted in shared learning\, leadership\, and possibility. \n  \nModerator: Danielle Joworski  \nDanielle Joworski is the AC:Incubate Program Manager at the Accelerator Centre\, as well as an entrepreneur\, and speaker. She helps founders and entrepreneurs start\, grow\, and scale their businesses from idea to impact. With over 20 years of corporate experience and more than five years as an award-winning entrepreneur\, Danielle brings a unique blend of strategic insight\, leadership experience\, and practical support to her work. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build confidence\, and create meaningful impact through their businesses. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTara Khani  \nTara Khani\, MSc\, Co-Founder & CEO\, Moorcheh.ai by Edge AI Innovations. \nTara Khani brings over 14 years of experience bridging engineering\, product management and enterprise software sales. She holds an MSc in Engineering from Concordia University. Throughout her career\, she has managed engineering and product management at Keyence and Mitutoyo\, and driven multi-million-dollar software sales at SaaS companies\, including Synopsys and SOTI. \nIn 2024\, Tara co-founded Moorcheh.ai by Edge AI Innovations to build memory infrastructure that helps AI agents remember and process information efficiently. She guided the company from its initial prototype to a live product that currently has two scientific papers\, a patent\, over 17\,000 downloads and multiple active paying enterprise customers. \n  \n  \nAjoa Mintah  \nAjoa Mintah is the Founder and Chief Ice Cream Maker of Four All Ice Cream\, a Kitchener-Waterloo-based company creating hand-crafted ice cream with all-natural\, locally sourced ingredients. \nAjoa founded Four All with a simple but powerful dream: to make high-quality ice cream that offers a better choice for all ice cream lovers\, without compromising on taste\, ingredients\, or well-being. Her love of ice cream-making began during a heatwave in August 2003\, when she chose to buy an ice cream machine instead of an air conditioner. That small decision sparked years of experimentation and eventually grew into Four All Ice Cream\, now known for its fresh\, seasonal flavours and two scoop shops in Kitchener-Waterloo. \nAt Four All\, Ajoa’s team starts with fresh\, all-natural Guernsey cow milk from Eby Manor Farm. The milk contains A2 beta-casein protein\, which is often gentler for people with dairy sensitivities. The ice cream base is pasteurized in small batches at Four All’s gluten-free production facility in Kitchener\, then combined with local and responsibly sourced ingredients to create flavours that are rich\, real\, and rooted in the region. \nThe name Four All was inspired by Ajoa’s family of four and their very different ice cream preferences: classic flavours\, vegan options\, childhood favourites\, and adventurous foodie combinations. That idea became the foundation of the company’s four flavour categories: Classic\, Vegan\, Childhood\, and Foodie. \nThrough Four All\, Ajoa is building more than an ice cream company. She is creating joyful\, inclusive treats that celebrate local ingredients\, support regional farmers and makers\, and offer something delicious for every kind of ice cream lover. \n  \nGharsa Amin  \nGharsa Amin is the Founder of Kavodax\, a compliance-first fintech company building stablecoin-powered cross-border payments infrastructure for enterprises and financial institutions. \nA software engineer and fintech founder\, Gharsa brings experience across AML compliance\, financial crime management\, and startup ecosystems in Canada\, the U.S.\, and Asia. She holds a master’s degree in public administration with a specialization in financial crime management\, giving her a unique perspective at the intersection of technology\, regulation\, and global financial infrastructure. \nThrough Kavodax\, Gharsa is working to modernize international payments by combining stablecoin settlement rails with rigorous AML and regulatory frameworks. Kavodax enables businesses to move value globally with near-instant settlement and fees under 1%\, using U.S. and Canadian dollar-backed stablecoins. \nUnder Gharsa’s leadership\, Kavodax has gained significant momentum\, including winning the CodeLaunch Canada 2025 National Championship\, the TechTuesday Pitchfest $10K Prize\, and the Africa Trade Summit Pitch Contest. The company has also been selected for the RBC FinSec Incubator and has raised $300\,000 in non-dilutive funding. \nGharsa was named one of Spark Centre’s Top 10 Women to Watch 2026\, and is a nominee for the RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award. She is passionate about building trusted financial infrastructure that makes global commerce faster\, more transparent\, and more accessible.
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SUMMARY:She Talks Tech: The Neurodiverse Advantage
DESCRIPTION:At She Talks Tech: The Neurodiverse Advantage\, we’re creating space for honest\, thoughtful conversation about what it really means to work in tech as someone who identifies as neurodivergent — and what it means to build teams\, companies\, and ecosystems where neurodiverse talent can thrive. \nThis event brings together founders\, professionals\, leaders\, and allies to share lived experiences\, challenge assumptions\, and explore how diverse ways of thinking strengthen innovation. \nWhat to Expect: \nLived Experiences in Tech & Leadership: Hear from women who identify as neurodivergent about navigating careers\, entrepreneurship\, and leadership — on their own terms. \nInclusion in Action: Learn from team leaders and allies who are rethinking hiring\, communication\, management\, and workplace culture to better support neurodiverse colleagues. \nBeyond Awareness: Move past surface-level conversations and into practical insights on fostering environments where different thinking styles are valued — not accommodated as an afterthought but recognized as an advantage. \nCommunity & Connection: Whether you identify as neurodivergent or want to be a stronger advocate\, this is a space to listen\, learn\, and build meaningful connections. \nInnovation thrives on difference. By embracing neurodivergent perspectives\, we build better products\, stronger teams\, and a more human tech industry. \nJoin us for a conversation rooted in experience\, respect\, and possibility. \nMeet the Speakers: \nWanda K. Deschamps \nWanda is the founder and principal of Liberty Co – a consultancy focused on increasing neurodiverse employment with a special emphasis on autism due to her own diagnosis at midlife. \nA champion for inclusion\, she enjoys speaking and writing under the banner of the Inclusion Revolution\, a worldwide movement launched in 2018 to spearhead broader thinking about disability\, especially disability employment. As part of this\, Wanda is a proud advocate for autistics\, including as an advisor and participant in research into autistics experiences in the workplace and beyond. \nPrior to founding Liberty Co\, Wanda enjoyed a twenty-five-year career in the philanthropic sector serving with leading Canadian institutions. Now a neuroinclusion thought leader and speaker\, she partners with public\, private and non-profit organizations across Canada\, and is known for bringing creativity and passion to every session\, panel and keynote. \nIn recognition of the impact she is making\, Wanda is the 2024 recipient of the Phillip Emmerson Award for Employment Excellence from CASE (Canadian Association for Supported Employment) and the 2023 Life Sciences Ontario volunteer award. \n  \nSarah-Beth Bianchi \nSarah-Beth Bianchi wears many hats – coach\, community organizer\, mom\, spouse\, friend\, and lifelong learner. Through these roles\, she understands firsthand the balancing act of building a fulfilling life while managing the many demands of career\, family\, and personal growth. \nSarah-Beth works with individuals navigating the wonderfully messy middle of their careers and lives. She coaches through the lens of her lived experience with neurodivergence and evidence-based\, ADHD-affirming approaches to motivation\, strengths\, and goals. Sarah-Beth supports clients in moving from feeling overwhelmed to feeling empowered\, helping them make intentional changes and design lives that reflect their values\, priorities\, and aspirations. \n  \n  \nIsabella Chawrun \nIsabella Chawrun is a PhD candidate supervised by Lili Liu\, where she has interest applying wearable health technologies that have been successfully adopted by people living with dementia to populations of older autistic adults with and without intellectual disability. Her dissertation focuses on the lived experience of heath\, health care experiences\, and aging for older autistic adults. In addition to being a graduate researcher at the AIRP\, she is a research trainee at the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health\, at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics\, where she applies big data and machine learning techniques to cohorts of underserved populations\, specifically older autistic adults with and without intellectual disability. \nIsabella completed her Honors Bachelor of Science in Biological Anthropology at University of Toronto\, Mississauga in 2018 and her Master of Arts at York University in Social Anthropology in 2020. Isabella has lived experience of autism and mental health\, which guides her research and advocacy work. Isabella loves learning about all things technology\, machine learning and big data\, and mixed methods research\, and is happy to connect. \n  \n Jennifer Seberras\, P.Log. \nJennifer Seberras is an entrepreneur\, business coach\, and founder of LeadershipHub.ca\, dedicated\nto supporting women as they step into — and grow within — entrepreneurship.\nShe built and scaled a transportation and logistics company in a male-dominated industry\, growing\nit from the ground up into a multimillion-dollar business and eventually selling it. Navigating rapid\ngrowth\, industry barriers\, and high-stakes decision-making gave Jennifer a deep\, firsthand\nunderstanding of what it truly takes to build and lead a business from the inside out.\nThrough that experience\, she recognized a recurring gap: many women were capable\, driven\, and\nambitious\, yet lacked practical support\, confidence\, and real-world guidance to navigate the ups\nand downs of entrepreneurship. After selling her business\, Jennifer founded LeadershipHub.ca to\nhelp fill that gap. \nToday\, Jennifer works with women across all stages of business — from those just starting out to\nfounders leading established\, high-growth companies — helping them build clarity\, confidence\,\nand sustainable strategies. What sets her apart is simple: she’s been there. She understands the\npressure\, uncertainty\, wins\, setbacks\, and everything in between. \nJennifer often describes her work as being the person she wished she had while building her own\nbusiness — someone who offers honest\, practical insight rooted in lived experience\, not theory or\nhype. Her approach is grounded\, strategic\, and real — focused on helping women not just dream\nabout growth\, but actually build it. \n  \nMeet the Moderator \n \n \nStefanie Bruinsma \nStefanie Bruinsma is the founder of AutoCate\, a Canadian automotive technology and education company focused on transparency\, empowerment\, and accessibility in car care. She is a licensed Automotive Service Technician\, a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo\, and an entrepreneur whose lived experience with ADHD informs how she thinks about problem-solving\, leadership\, and innovation. Stefanie is passionate about creating more inclusive pathways into skilled trades and technical fields\, and her work has been recognized through business award nominations and media coverage for its impact in advocacy\, innovation\, and community building. \n  \nThank you to our sponsor!
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