This week we have Claire Parker, Senior Product Manager from the Financial Times speaking to us. Claire is responsible for both the Nikkei Asian Review and the FT partnership, accelerating business growth by improving consumer-facing products, as well as internal ones. She’ll share her secrets on how she climbed the ranks from data analysis to product management, and what this means for her role. Keep listening to hear her insights into working for one of the biggest media outlets in the world.

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Laviva Mazhar is an investment analyst at Luge Capital. She is focused on sourcing fintech startups, performing due diligence and supporting portfolio companies. Laviva is also a VC advisor for Front Row Ventures and advisor for Holt Accelerator. She was selected to be on the 2017 Global Women in FinTech Powerlist. Born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Laviva moved to Canada to complete her BCom degree at McGill University. In this inspiring talk, she talks about her first steps in investment management and her role in helping build fintech champions of tomorrow. 

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Alexis Smirnov is the co-founder and CTO of Dialogue, the leading Canadian virtual care service. Prior to that, he led the design and development of a social analytics system; incubated a semantic search engine and a platform for conversational mobile apps; and co-founded and successfully sold, a pioneering cloud technology startup. Alexis Smirnov is passionate about designing products powered by transformational technologies and bringing them to market. He believes in the near future, healthcare will be digital first. In this talk, he considers what motivated him to start Dialogue, and how his role changed overtime, as the startup grew. The trick, he says is to stay grounded in the product you are building.

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Vikrant Tomar is a scientist and executive with 8+ years of speech recognition and machine learning experience. He pursued a PhD in automatic speech recognition from McGill University and founded Fluent.ai Inc. in 2015. Prior to that, he has worked at Nuance, and Vestec as a Research Scientist. In this incredible talk, Vikrant Tomar takes us on his journey of moving to Canada from a small village in India. He came to Montreal to continue his studies and successfully launched his startup in artificial intelligence to allow everyone to communicate with smart devices in their native language.

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Sun Knudsen is a tech entrepreneur, vlogger in the making, and the founder of Lickstats, an analytics platform of the future. Recently, Sun has started to invest a significant part of his time advocating for internet privacy. This new passion is reflected in the roadmap of Lickstats which is set to become one of the very few analytics platforms that embrace privacy by design. Sun became an entrepreneur thanks to his passion for problem solving. In this talk, he discusses users data and how they are used by big companies, and gives practical tips about regaining power over our data as customers.

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Judith Fetzer is the co-founder and CEO of COOK IT, a Montreal-based startup established to disrupt the food industry in Canada through technology and logistics. COOK IT simplifies the planning of weekly meals and helps Canadians to become chefs at home. COOK IT aims to be the leading meal kit company in Canada. The food revolution is already here! Listen to Judith’s incredible entrepreneurial journey.

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Vanessa Cherenfant is an entrepreneur, engineer and proud STEMinist. She is the Managing Director at SADAX Technology Services, a professional service firm specialized in delivering enterprise technology solutions based on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Windows Azure platforms. She is committed to causes such as the promotion of diversity and the advancement of women in Technologies and is a strong believer of the "Be the Change you want to see" mantra. In this inspiring talk, she shares with us how she works to bring more women in STEM after dealing for so long with the challenge of always being “the only woman in the room.'' In her everyday work, she aspires to not only to embrace diversity but also make sure that people understand their own biases.

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LP Maurice is one of the most active entrepreneurs in the Canada startup community. He is passionate about leading teams that create products which solve problems and challenge status-quo. LP has already worked in Silicon Valley, earned a degree from Harvard, founded a startup at 16 and spoke at TedX. He is also the co-founder of Busbud, the bus travel booking website with the largest coverage in world. In this podcast, he shares everything that he learned from the startup ecosystem and from the challenges he faced while starting his own startup.

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Welcome to Le Wagon live, today we have Melinda Roylett from Square speaking to us. Melinda is Square's Head of Europe, growing the region since 2018, after a 10 year stint at PayPal. She started her career as a lawyer then was a consultant for BCG, and now is an expert in card payments and FinTech. Melinda's also been included in Management Todays 35 Women to Watch in Business Under 35. She’s a complete power woman so we hope you enjoy the podcast on her career and the payments industry.

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Welcome to Le Wagon live, today we are listening to Zach Grosser. Zach is a freelance designer based in Amsterdam and we’re super excited to welcome him in London for this rare Q&A about design. Previously he’s worked at Apple, Square and Figma, so is a font of knowledge about building awesome products. He’s also studied glassblowing and yoga, as well as developing a resource called presentation.design AND co-hosts a podcast called ‘Charged’. Keep listening to hear all his secrets!

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