Women Doing Cool $h!t: A Toast Fireside Panel
Join us for our first-ever Women Doing Cool $h!t panel: Toronto Meetup Edition 🍞
This month’s Women Doing Cool $h!t panel brings together Shirin Merchant and Kate Grant, two powerhouse leaders who’ve built careers at the intersection of innovation, purpose, and community.
Shirin Merchant is the founder of Code-it Hacks, a Toronto-based education company helping kids discover coding, robotics, and AI through creativity and play. After two decades leading large-scale data and analytics transformations, Shirin stepped away from corporate life to build a space where learning could be imaginative, inclusive, and hands-on. Growing up with undiagnosed ADHD and raising a child with special needs inspired her to champion neurodiversity and empathy in tech education. Today, she blends technology and compassion to empower the next generation of creators.
Kate Grant is a leader in Canada’s startup and innovation ecosystem, with a decade of experience in venture capital, strategy, and product. She’s worked across FinTech, CleanTech, LegalTech, and SaaS, helping early-stage companies grow, raise capital, and create meaningful impact. A familiar face in the Toronto and KW tech scenes, Kate frequently speaks on panels, mentors entrepreneurs, and advises accelerators across North America. Her mission? To make Canada the global leader in innovation.
Moderated by Rishega Selvaraj, Toast Community Manager and experienced host!
What to Expect:
An interactive fireside chat, with some time to network before and after.
Registration:
This event is open to everyone!
Accommodations:
All our event venues for member meetups are wheelchair accessible. If you require any accommodations to attend this event, please reach out to [email protected].
About Toast:
Toast is a collective for women in tech by women in tech. We work with mission & impact-based companies that are committed to gender diversity in order to help women get the jobs they want, the pay they deserve, with a community that supports them. Become a Toast member here: https://www.trytoast.ca/membership