​AI and tech can feel like a world with invisible gates. Rewire your network and your trajectory alongside the powerhouse women shaping North American tech.

​Join us for a panel discussion on building an irreplaceable career in an agentic world followed by a mentorship mixer with tech leaders joining us from across AI, ML, SWE, data science, product and more.

​Celebrate where you've come from and where you're going next in a room where you'll save a number afterward, find a mentor, and ask the "embarrassing" question because we're women lifting each other up.

​Meet the panelists

​Patricia Thaine | Co-Founder & Chair, Limina

​Patricia Thaine is the Co-Founder and Chairwoman of Limina, a Microsoft-backed AI startup building the privacy layer for data. Limina helps organizations identify, redact, and protect personally identifiable information across 52 languages in text, audio, images, and documents.

​Named a World Economic Forum 2023 Technology Pioneer and featured on Maclean's Power List in AI, Patricia built Limina out of her graduate research at the University of Toronto, where she studied computational methods for deciphering lost languages. She is also the host of The Data Frontier Podcast and co-author of the upcoming PII Minimization Handbook.

​Margaret Wu | Lead Investor, Georgian

​Margaret Wu is a Lead Investor at Georgian, a Toronto-based growth equity firm investing in AI-driven technology companies. Over eight years at Georgian, she has led investments and sits on the boards of companies spanning AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing, and enterprise software, including ClickUp, You.com, Xanadu, and Dominion Dynamics.

​Before venture, she built her career across consulting at Accenture, startup operations, and product management at Amazon UK. She holds an MBA from Cornell Johnson and a degree from the University of Waterloo.

​Ania Halliop | Senior Director, GitHub

​Ania Halliop is a Senior Director of Engineering at GitHub, where she leads engineering organizations of over 160 engineers and managers across North America and EMEA, delivering AI-driven developer experiences at scale. Before GitHub, she served as Head of Software at Waabi, helping build the engineering foundation of a next-generation self-driving technology company from day one.

​She holds a BSc in Computing and Information Science from Queen's University and is also a certified coach, with over 15 years of experience growing technical leaders and driving organizational change across the Canadian tech ecosystem.

​The evening

​5:30 – 6:15 PM | Check In, Mingling + Food

​Settle in, grab a drink, and start building relationships before we hit the stage.

​6:15 – 7:00 PM | Panel + Q&A

​Hear from powerhouse women shaping North American tech.

• ​How they got their start.

• ​What they wish they knew.

• ​What they're looking for in the next generation.

​Bring ALL your questions! Yes, even the ones you think are "too basic" (they're not).

​7:00 – 8:30 PM | Mentorship + Networking

​Have a bite and sit down with some of the most incredible women in tech across AI, ML, SWE, data science, product and more. Swap numbers and ideas, and find your next champion.

​About Georgian

​Georgian is growth equity firm investing in B2B software companies and building software to help those companies scale faster. We seek to identify and accelerate leading growth-stage software companies in our thesis areas of Applied AI and Trust.

​Based in Toronto and founded in 2008, Georgian’s team brings together investors with machine learning professionals, software entrepreneurs and experienced operators.

​About Waterloo Venture Group

​WVG is a student venture community and talent network based out of Waterloo, providing pro-bono consultancy for founders from ideation through Series A. Collectively, we’ve supported ventures in raising $8.8M+, hosted flagship programming on founder education, and curated the rooms where teams form and hires happen.

​​​​​​​Ready to build or partner? Contact the WVG team.