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Lauren Smith

PhD Candidate, University of Waterloo | CEO & Co-Founder, PolyGone Technologies

gender equity, water decisions, water research, mortality salience, behaviour change, innovation, microplastics, microplastics detection, plastic pollution, cleantech

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Elizabeth Sheehy

Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law | University of Ottawa

Violence against women, Sexual assault, Battered women, Women who kill, Criminal law and procedure, Law reform

Dr. Nadja Bressan

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering | University of Prince Edward Island

Lead of the Mechatronics Applied to Biomedicine Laboratory at the FSDE, UPEI where she develops solutions for Veterinary Medicine and Applications of Mechatronics in space

Caroline Riseboro

President & Chief Executive Officer | Trillium Health Partners

Gender equality, girls' rights, early enforced marriage, women in leadership, youth leadership, adolescent girls' health and rights, gender stereotypes, international development, poverty alleviation

Mani Keerthi Nagothu

Cybersecurity Lead | Ballard Power Systems

Cybersecurity, information security, incident response, information technology (IT) governance, risk assessment, cyber incident response, security and awareness