
Toronto Womxn in Data Science Speaker Alumni

Diane Reynolds
Senior Manager, Group Risk Infrastructure
SEB

Leila Pishdad
Senior Machine Learning Researcher Borealis AI

Estherlita Griffiths
Director of Information Technology
The Wesleyan Church

Cathia Badiere
Toronto Organizer- Biohackers Collective Longevity and Health Optimization Market Consultant

Lediona Nishani
Data Scientist
Veeva Systems

Vera Belazelkoska
Director of Programs
Ulula

Elissa Strome
Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
CIFAR

Alaina Aston
VP Regulatory Strategy & Delivery Personal & Commercial Banking RBC

Carol Ebels
SAP Innovation Services, Blockchain
SAP

Christine Hagyard
Director, Analytics
Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General

Amy Bihari
Senior Manager- Data Teams & Emerging Technology
Ontario Digital Service

Cara Scarfone
Analyst
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
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AyÅŸe BaÅŸar
Affiliated Scientist - St. Michael's Hospital Professor- Ryerson University

Sabina Stanescu
Senior Director of Product Management, Data Analytics
Altair

Asmita Usturge
Senior Data Scientist
Microsoft

Mary Loubele
Data Engineer ML

Marina Pavlovic Rivas
Co-founder & CEO - Eli Health

Eyra Abraham
Founder
Lisnen

Sarah Sun
Director- Model Owner, Secured & Small Business Decisioning Scotiabank

Chen Liu
Staff Product and Research Data Scientist
Wattpad

Parinaz Sobhani
Head of Applied Research
Georgian Partners

Ananya Roy
Director Data Science & Principal Technologist
RBC

Maria D'Angelo
Data Science Manager, Growth Data
Shopify
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Carole Piovesan
Managing Partner
INQ Law

Monique Crichlow
Executive Director
Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society

Helen Ngo
Founding Engineer
Cohere

Zoe Katsimitsoulia
Principal AI Scientist
Freshbooks

Mandana Karimi
Principal Measurement Lead Google

Susan Ibach
Head of Amazon Future Engineer Canada
Amazon

Rachade Hmamouchi
Program Manager
Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics
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Dr. Molly Shoichet
Professor, University of Toronto Former First Chief Scientist, Ontario

Claudette McGowan
Global Executive Officer
TD

Faezeh Khabbaz
Head of Data Science & Distinguished Technologist
RBC

Sarah Shoker
Research Scientist
OpenAI

Nataliya Portman
Senior Data Scientist
Cineplex Digital Media

Asa Motha-Pollock
Specialist; Policy Measurement & Analysis
Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation

Charu Jaiswal
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Integrate AI

Meghana Madhusudhan
Group Manager Data & AI Avanade

Serena McDonnell
Senior Data Scientist
Shopify

Jill Cates
Data Scientist
Shopify

Arya Abdool
Service Design Lead
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Rogayeh Tabrizi
Founder and CEO
Theory+Practice

Zainab Bisiolu
Analytics Professional

Divya Sivasankaran
Senior Machine Learning Engineer Autodesk

Cassie Myers
CEO
Lunaria

Yvonne Odonkor
Sr. Lead, HR Business Partner
League

Susan Shu Chang
Principal Data Scientist
Clearco

Heather Chapple
Chief Collaboration Officer at ActiveCity YYC

Raha Afkari
Director Advanced Analytics & AI for Digital Marketing & HR Scotiabank

Aditi Trivedi
Senior Data Analyst- Marketing Mejuri

Afsoon Soudi
Senior Manager, Data Science and Machine Intelligence
CBC/Radio Canada

Janice Liu
Senior Vice President & General Manager
Magnet

Angie Dobbs
VP, Fraud & Risk
Wave HQ

Tobe O'keke
Analytics Manager

Catherine D'Ignazio
Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab

Kristin Wozniak
SVP Analytics Insights & Strategy Cossette Media

Charityn Estevez
Director, Revenue Enablement
Uniphore
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Helen Kontopoulos
Co-Founder and Chief Tech. Evangelist
ODAIA Intelligence

Tamar Huggins Grant
Founder and CEO
Tech Spark

Palwasha Ghani
Product Lead
RBC Ventures

Sahar Rahmani
Director, Data Science- Trust
Shopify
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Ashley Casovan
Executive Director
Responsible AI Institute

Adijat Akinsipe
Director Enterprise Technology & Digital Recruitment

Nilou Afsariardchi
Data Scientist II, Security
Amazon Web Services