Name: May 2017 #BDCSeries Panel
Start: 2017-05-02T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-05-02T21:00:00-04:00
Location: TBD

May 2017 #BDCSeries Panel

Venture for Canadais a not-for-profit that recruits, trains, and supports post-secondary students and graduates to work at innovative Canadian startups. VFC Fellows and Interns commit to ambitious placements at startups and other organizations, and through this experiential learning develop the skills and leadership necessary to lead and contribute to further economic growth and innovation in their community.

Venture for Canada

As part of Venture for Canada's BDC Canadian Scale-Up Speaker Series, come join us for a conversation with  Bianca Lopes, Heather Payne, and Steven Uster on what is involved with scaling a Canadian technology company.
The Feel: Relaxed, casual, and conversational The Structure: There is a reception with light food and drink to start, followed by a Q&A between the panelists and the moderator, who is Benjamin Bergen, executive director of The Council of Canadian Innovators. The Audience: Members of Toronto's vibrant tech community.
Below are the bios of the panelists:
Bianca Lopes
Bianca is an owner and Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Marketing at BioConnect, as well as a public & Keynote speaker. Relentlessly motivated from a young age, Bianca immigrated to Canada from Brazil and sold two businesses before joining BioConnect; one in trades and one in software, all before the age of 27.
She is refreshingly vocal (and REAL) about some of the tougher aspects of being an entrepreneur and why mentorship and self-awareness are two things she attributes to her success. "If I hadn’t talked about failure with my mentors, I couldn’t have found fortitude and solutions in the situations that weren't going as smoothly."
Heather Payne
Heather Payne is the founder & CEO of the <A HREF="http://hackeryou.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HackerYou College of Technology</A>, Canada’s original programming bootcamp and the only one of dozens around North America founded by a woman. It is a registered Private Career College under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005. Founded in 2012, HackerYou offers both full- and part-time courses for people who want to learn front-end development, back-end development or design. Serving over 850 students a year, HackerYou operates a 12,000-square foot facility in the heart of downtown Toronto at Queen & Spadina.
In 2011, Heather founded <A HREF="http://ladieslearningcode.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ladies Learning Code</A>, a Canadian not-for-profit organization that runs popular workshops for women (and men, and girls and boys) who want to learn computer programming and other technical skills in a social and collaborative way. Ladies Learning Code now has chapters in 31 cities across Canada and thriving programs for youth. In 2012, Heather spent a year working on a project for the <A HREF="http://mozilla.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mozilla Foundation</A>: her job was to build a community of people and organizations in Toronto who care about raising youth as creators – not just consumers – of technology and the web. The project was granted $365,000 in funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Heather is an angel investor (she was the first investor in <A HREF="http://shoplocket.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ShopLocket</A>, acquired in 2014 by <A HREF="http://www.pchintl.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PCH International</A>), and was recently named one of <A HREF="http://business.financialpost.com/2013/12/03/women-in-power-canadas-100-most-powerful-women/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women</A> in the Trendsetters & Trailblazers category, as well as one of the Globe and Mail’s Top 12 Canadian “Innovators at Work”.
Steven Uster
Steven Uster is the Co-Founder & CEO of FundThrough, an invoice funding service that helps business owners eliminate "the wait" associated with payment terms by giving them the power and flexibility to get their invoices paid when they want, with one click, and in as little as 24 hours. 
Launched in 2014 FundThrough has quickly become one of Canada’s leading fintech start-ups, funding millions of dollars in invoices every month.  
Prior to FundThrough, Steven was an investment banker in New York at UBS and Centerview Partners. Steven has an MBA from The Wharton School and a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from McGill University, where he was a Loran Scholar

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