You are invited to the Fall 2020 Women Leading Startups: Fireside Chat Series! There is a lot of exciting momentum going on in the startup community in Atlantic Canada and this is your chance to be part of it! If you are currently an entrepreneur, considering starting your own business or want to use your skills to solve a problem but don’t know where to start, this series is for you! Join a safe community each month to hear from established women leading high growth startups in Canada. Ask questions, network with your peers, get advice and exchange ideas. There will be one fireside chat each month. It will run 12:00 pm Atlantic time/12:30 pm NL time for one hour on Sept 29, Oct 20, and Nov. 24. Attend one chat or all three! This series is supported and coordinated by the Canadian Ecosystem Gathering (CEG) in partnership with entrepreneurship centres in the following Atlantic Canadian universities: University of Prince Edward Island Cape Breton University Dalhousie University University of New Brunswick Saint Mary's University Mount Saint Vincent University Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship (Memorial University) We value diversity and inclusion and want to make sure we provide space for everyone interested […]

Join us for the second Fall 2020 Women Leading Startups: Fireside Chat Series! There is a lot of exciting momentum going on in the startup community in Atlantic Canada and this is your chance to be part of it! If you are currently an entrepreneur, considering starting your own business or want to use your skills to solve a problem but don’t know where to start, this series is for you! Join a safe community each month to hear from established women leading high growth startups in Canada. Ask questions, network with your peers, get advice and exchange ideas. There will be one fireside chat each month. It will run 12:00 pm Atlantic time/12:30 pm NL time for one hour on Sept 29, Oct 20, and Nov. 24. Attend one chat or all three! This series is supported and coordinated by the Canadian Ecosystem Gathering (CEG) in partnership with entrepreneurship centres in the following Atlantic Canadian universities: University of Prince Edward Island Cape Breton University Dalhousie University University of New Brunswick Saint Mary's University Mount Saint Vincent University Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship (Memorial University) We value diversity and inclusion and want to make sure we provide space for everyone interested […]

Our Speakers Nicole Tibaldi Senior Manager of Engineering @ Gatsby Nicole is the Engineering Manager for the Cloud team at Gatsby. She cares deeply about improving tech hiring, agile processes, and bridging the gaps between product, design, and engineering. Nicole has previously worked as a frontend engineer for Halifax-based startup Manifold.co and New York travel company Tablet Hotels, and managed the Growth team at CircleCI. Prior to her pivot to the tech industry, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in music performance and spent five years working in banking.   Tyler Pachal Software Developer @ Pager Duty Tyler Pachal, is a software developer at PagerDuty. He spends most of his time working in Elixir, as well as giving talks and running workshops. In his non-work time he enjoys biking, skiing, and Formula 1.   Schedule 7:00pm – Introductions & Welcome We'll do a quick introduction and kick off the evening. 7:10pm – Leadership 101: How to turn “junior” into “senior” with Nicole Tibaldi An engineer looking to learn a new language or framework can find ample resources to help them on their journey, and can often easily apply that knowledge in their day-to-day work. But as engineers look to move […]