{"id":7392,"date":"2019-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/event\/rbc-innovation-entrepreneurship-speaker-series-female-founders-edition\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:29:28","slug":"rbc-innovation-entrepreneurship-speaker-series-female-founders-edition","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/event\/rbc-innovation-entrepreneurship-speaker-series-female-founders-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"RBC Innovation &#038; Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Female Founders Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group wp-block-group--pattern-hero has-white-color has-dark-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n            <div class=\"breadcrumb breadcrumb--center\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/event\/\" class=\"breadcrumb__link\">event<\/a>        <\/div>\n    \n    <h2 class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-post-title\">RBC Innovation &#038; Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Female Founders Edition<\/h2>\n\n            <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-graphic-pattern\">\n            <div class=\"featured-pattern\">\n                    <div class=\"featured-pattern__shape shape--polygon\" style=\"background-color: #a45b85\"><\/div>\n                    <div class=\"featured-pattern__triangle\"><\/div>\n                    <div class=\"featured-pattern__pattern\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-educationwp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/ute-4x4pattern-square4poly.svg\" \/><\/div>\n                <\/div>        <\/div>\n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns wp-block-columns--standard-sidebar is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n    \n    <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n         <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong><em>RBC Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship Speaker Series<\/em><\/strong><\/b>\u00a0is back with our first annual Female Founders Edition\u00a0\u2013 in celebration of International Women&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us Thursday, March 7 to hear from a panel of three emerging U of T founders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leila Keshavjee, Saara Punjani, and Pooja Viswanathan\u00a0will sit down for a panel discussion with Professor Christine Allen to discuss their entrepreneurial paths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>Agenda<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n \t<li>5:00 \u2013 Opening remarks with Professor Cynthia Goh (Director, Impact Centre) and Nora Bieberstein (Innovation Partnerships Lead, T&amp;O Innovation, RBC)<\/li>\n \t<li>5:10 \u2013 Panel discussion<\/li>\n \t<li>5:45 \u2013 Audience questions<\/li>\n \t<li>6:00 \u2013 Networking begins<\/li>\n \t<li>6:30 \u2013 Event ends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[raw]\n<div id=\"eventbrite-widget-container-55538859223\"><\/div>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/static\/widgets\/eb_widgets.js\"><\/script>\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var exampleCallback = function() {\n        console.log('Order complete!');\n    };\n\n    window.EBWidgets.createWidget({\n        \/\/ Required\n        widgetType: 'checkout',\n        eventId: '55538859223',\n        iframeContainerId: 'eventbrite-widget-container-55538859223',\n\n        \/\/ Optional\n        iframeContainerHeight: 425,  \/\/ Widget height in pixels. Defaults to a minimum of 425px if not provided\n        onOrderComplete: exampleCallback  \/\/ Method called when an order has successfully completed\n    });\n<\/script>[\/raw]\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>Speaker Bios<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>Leila Keshavjee<\/strong><\/b>\n<b><strong>Founder,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/happypops.ca\/\">Happy Pops<\/a><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leila Keshavjee graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Kinesiology in May 2016. With a passion for health and nutrition, she started Happy Pops all natural ice pops. She was part of the Impact Centre\u2019s Techno program and appeared on the season premiere of Dragons\u2019 Den in 2018. She is currently part of District Ventures accelerator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>Saara Punjani<\/strong><\/b>\n<b><strong>Chief Operations Officer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/structura.bio\/\">Structura Biotechnology<\/a><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saara Punjani is the Chief Operations Officer of Structura Biotechnology, a Toronto-based startup building machine learning technology and software for structural biologists at pharmaceutical companies and research institutions globally. Saara draws on her experience as a lawyer and her background in science to help run all aspects of Structura\u2019s business including strategy, business development, sales, licensing, intellectual property, recruitment, and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>Pooja Viswanathan, PhD<\/strong><\/b>\n<b><strong>Co-founder and CEO,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brazemobility.com\/\">Braze Mobility Inc.<\/a><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pooja Viswanathan completed doctoral and post-doctoral research in robotics and assistive technologies at UBC, Toronto Rehab Institute, and University of Toronto. In 2015, Pooja completed the elite Techno entrepreneurship training program offered by the Impact Centre (a campus-linked accelerator with a focus on researchers and companies in the natural sciences and engineering), and founded Braze Mobility Inc. She is a recipient of Ontario Brain Institute&#8217;s Entrepreneur Fellowship, and awards from AGE-WELL NCE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>Moderator<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>Christine Allen, PhD<\/strong><\/b>\n<b><strong>Interim Dean, Professor, and GSK Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery<\/strong><\/b>\n<b><strong>Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Christine Allen\u2019s research is focused on the design and development of new materials and technologies for the delivery of drugs and contrast agents. She has received career awards from CIHR-Rx&amp;D, CSPS and AFPC. She is co-founder and President of Nanovista Inc., a startup housed in JLABS @ Toronto, which is focused on the development of multimodal contrast agents to improve the performance of image-guided high precision cancer therapy.<\/p>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rbcseriesfemalefounders2019.eventbrite.ca\">Click here to save your seat.<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n    <\/div>\n    \n\n    \n    <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n        \n        <div class=\"wp-block-columns wp-block-columns--fifty-fifty is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n            \n            <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n                 \n                  <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata event_date \">\n                           <span 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