On Feb 23rd, 2022, Delphine Adenot - Owusu ( NEOMA), Executive Managing Director, European Union Chamber of Commerce in Canada (EUCCAN) was our guest. She gave us very interesting insights on CETA and on the role of EUCCAN. Thank you Delphine ! Thank you Tudor Alexis , Consul General of France in Toronto for introducing the topic as France is holding the presidency of the EU
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Great Panel on Jan 26th, co-organized by AAGEF Ontario and INSEAD Alumni Association Canada on "Post Covid Trends in Healthcare : How Canadian medtech companies are meeting patient needs" moderated by Miklos Tomka and with the following speakers : Joshua Liu co-founder/CEO at SeamlessMD, Keith Loo co-founder/CEO at Skinopathy, Lisa Boreanaz Technology Advisor at NRC Government of Canada, Rodey Wing, Partner at Kearney, Jeffrey Kadanoff P.Eng., MBA, Managing Director at Espanades Ventures, Avnish Mehta, Corporate Chief, Family Medicine at Scarborough Health Network. Special thanks to Nurjan D'Mello, Karen Bozynski and Felipe Peng for organizing. Recording available upon request
Nov 24th Great success for our 7th annual AAGEF Ontario Annual Entrepreneur Challenge ! Congrats to our finalists Hamza Shaikh, CPA, Simone Godbout, Nadia Ladak and to our winners Anneke van Heuven and Elias Trouyet from Algo Bio who won both awards ( Grand Jury Award and the Audience Award ) ! Thank you to our MC Veronique Hamel, our Jury Audrey Heurzeau (Pedreira), Loren Rafeson and Peter Traynor. Thank you to our last year winner Rachel Bartholomew testimonial. Thank you to our sponsor Rum It Yourself! and all our benefactors. Thank you to the organizing team Felipe Peng, Christian Osterman, Claire Canu, David Nanta, MSc, PMP®, Miloud Alain Hassene, Gilles Chatelain. Thank you to all participants for attending including Tudor Alexis, Consul General of France in Toronto
Roland Lescure ( Polytechnique, ENSAE, LSE) , MP of French citizen based in North America , President of the Economic Affairs Commission at the French Parliament, ex- Executive Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) was our guest on Aug 25th and went over the "Economic situation in France, Canada and North America" . The event was be moderated by Mathieu Goetzke ( Polytechnique, Ponts, Stanford), Vice President Planning at Metrolinx. We also had Tudor Alexis, Consul General of France in Toronto, join in direct live from Paris. Thank you allJean-Elie Aron ( Centrale Paris, INSEAD) founded LooksGoodAI on the idea that AI had matured enough to save millions of daily PowerPoint users countless hours of productive time wasted on formatting their slides.
On May 26th , our keynote speaker was Stephen Gardiner (INSEAD) , Managing Director for Accenture Digital in Canada. Very interesting presentation which you can find below. Thank you Stephen
On April 28th, 2021, the Minister of Finance of the Ontario Government, Peter Bethlenfalvy ( UofT, McGill, HEC Paris) was AAGEF Ontario keynote speaker . He explained how he is ensuring Ontario’s long-term fiscal sustainability and providing the fiscal firepower needed to protect the health and wellbeing of Ontarians in the face of COVID-19. Record audience on zoom with over 130 participants. Thank you very much Minister ! Thank you Thomas Chanzy (ESCP Business School) for moderating and Felipe Peng ( Centrale Supelec) for the tech support
On March 31st, Veronique Hamel (EDHEC), General Manager at Terrascend Canada gave us a fantastic presentation about "The societal, legislative and economic impact of the cannabis industry in North America in a “novel industry” context which is rapidly evolving. Record attendance with 131 registrations . Presentation below. Thank you Veronique !
This year was a record breaking both in terms of project submissions (24) and registered participants (229) and the first time on zoom (link https://youtu.be/i3Ye31hsh8k )
Our 3 finalists who pitched in front of the jury and the audience: - hyivy :Rachel Bartholomew (UWaterloo), Founder & CEO - Steadiwear : Mark Elias (UofT), Co-Founder & CEO - Xesto : Sophie Howe (UofT), Founder & CEO Our Moderator : -Jeremy Daveau (LBS), GM, Mars Wrigley Our Prestigious Jury : -Lisa Mattam (McMasterU), Founder & CEO, Sahajan -Charles Losa (HEC Paris), Partner at PwC -Veronique Hamel (EDHEC), Executive Coach - Patrick Imbert , EVP Business France North America - Sebastien Gendron (Supaero),CEO Transpod Agenda : 5:30-7:30 pm : Intros. Pitches . Q&A. Live Votes . Awards 7:30-8:30 pm : Networking Congrats to Sophie ( Jury Award winner ) and to Rachel ( Audience Award winner ) "Industry 4.0 Panel with MI-GSO | PCUBED " Presenters : - Jonathan Brodeur (Ecole Polytecnique Montreal): IT Project Delivery Manager and - Ludovic Pasquereau (INSA Toulouse) : Toronto Hub Manager, MI-GSO | PCUBED Thank you both for a great event ! Presentation attached below
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