Emilie Boutros joined TandemLaunch in early 2012 as Partner and CFO. TandemLaunch scouts, accelerates, and commercializes early-stage technologies from the world’s top universities in close partnership with major Consumer Electronic brands. During Emilie’s tenure, TandemLaunch has more than doubled every year, raising over $100M in third party investment, creating more than 25 ventures valued at more than $350M today. In addition to Finance, Emilie oversees operational activities across multiple departments and coaches projects on entrepreneurship, management and financing for start-ups. In the entrepreneurship journey she says, there will be failures but at the end of the day, it’s the end result that counts, you have to focus on the main objective.

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Andy Mauro worked on some of the first speech recognition softwares ever made. Since then, he lives and breathes conversational marketing and today he is one of the most respected entrepreneurs in conversational AI. He is the co-founder of Automat, a Marketing Cloud platform that uses AI to allow companies to have personalized one-on-one messaging conversations with their customers to better understand and serve them. He shared with us his vision on AI, marketing and entrepreneurship.

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Vincent-Charles Hodder is the co-founder and CEO of Local Logic, a software company that provides brokerages with a new and innovative approach in using lifestyle based data to attract and convert more buyers in their given market. He is passionate about cities, tech, and how they can work together to change the way we live. Before starting Local Logic, he worked in real estate development and he has a background in finance and urban planning.

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Today we are listening to Colin Payne, Vice President & Head of NextGen Banking at Capgemini Invent. Colin is a highly experienced Digital Consultant with an international, award-winning portfolio for global consulting. He develops strategic vision and executes detailed plans to create solutions based on over 25 years experience at the leading edge of technology and change management. With a particular focus on product design, robotics and AI in relation to consumer-led banking software, he inspires teams with an open, dynamic style, motivating them to deliver world-class, innovative solutions.

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Alex Shee has a personal mission to democratize Artificial Intelligence. His curiosity and forward-thinking style lead him to be one of the most influential leaders on AI in Montreal and in the world. He states that AI is a great tool that offers great opportunities to do good, and he wants to use AI to provide better services to people around the world. As a Director of Industry Solutions and Corporate Development at Element AI, Alex Shee leads the company’s strategic partnership to offer a scalable, customizable and sustainable suite of core AI-enabled products for the world's biggest organizations. In this podcast, he shares many valuable advices with everyone who wants to work with Artificial Intelligence.

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David Dufresne is passionate about finding and investing in technologies that are disrupting businesses and changing paradigms. He acts as a mentor and advisor to many startup accelerators and incubators across Quebec, Canada and the United States. David is partner at Panache Ventures, Canada’s most active seed stage venture capital fund. If you want to invest in or work at the best early stage tech startups, better hear what he has to say!

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Minh-Anh Pham & William Walcker faced a big challenge when they launched their startup: they wanted to sell cricket-based food in Canada, a country that doesn’t have the culture to eat insects. But they had ambition and they believed they could offer everyone, and especially athletes, a more sustainable option as their source of protein. Minh-Anh and William developed a business strategy and invested in a strong brand. Now, their company, Naak, is a leading maker of insect-based food that help athletes perform better and lead healthy lifestyles.

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Welcome to le wagon live, where tonight we’re talking to Scott Simpkin. Previously an entrepreneur himself, Scott joined Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs as a Campaigns Associate in April 2017. Scott’s role at Seedrs is to work with businesses from the very beginning of their fundraising journey, helping them undergo a successful campaign. Holding a 95% success rate, in the last year Scott’s campaigns on Seedrs have raised over £10 million on the platform.

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Welcome to Le Wagon Live! This week, we’re talking to Alice Bentink. Alice started her career at McKinsey & Company and went on to co-found Entrepreneur First, an organisation that helps the world’s most ambitious technologists build their own tech startups from scratch. They have more investments in AI than any other fund in Europe!

She also set up Code First Girls, a not - for - profit that has taught over 5,000 women to code for free whilst still at university. She’s a really inspirational woman, and has some amazing stories, so sit back and enjoy!

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