2023 Program Recap
Day 1 - Conference
Thursday, April 27 | 8 AM – 5 PM EST (In-person & Livestream)
We recorded the exciting panel discussions from the conference in the limited-edition podcast series Designing for Everyone! Each episode captures one panel discussion.
Introduction
Sarah Kaplan (Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Keynote Panel: Decolonizing design and data
Jacqueline Quinless (Associate Faculty, Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement; Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria)
Dori Tunstall (Dean, Faculty of Design, OCAD University)
Moderator: Darrell Bowden (Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Behavioural interventions for more inclusive government policy
Alia Kamlani (Partner, Deloitte, Government & Public Services; Leader, Human & Social Services)
Dilip Soman (Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics, Director of Behavioural Economics in Action (BEAR), Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Moderator: Kate Bezanson (Special advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada; Professor of Sociology, Brock University)
Gender Analytics in financial services
Kelly Baldoni (Head of Global Women’s Strategies, Impax Asset Management LLC)
Stephanie Kelley (Assistant Professor, Western University’s Ivey Business School)
Sylvia Kwan (Chief Investment Officer, Ellevest)
Myan Marcen-Gaudaur (Director, Social Impact, Scotiabank)
Moderator: Jackie VanderBrug (Head of Sustainability Strategy, Putnam Investments)
Creating inclusive contracts: insights about the law
Joy Anderson (Founder and President, Criterion Institute)
Charlene Theodore (Chief Inclusion Officer, McCarthy Tétrault)
Sara Wolfe (Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife and Director of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative, Grand Challenges Canada)
Moderator: Sarah Kaplan (Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Using a gender lens in sports analytics
Meghan Chayka (Co-Founder, Stathletes; Data Scientist in Residence, TD Management Data and Analytics Lab, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Jacie deHoop (Co-Founder, GIST)
Moderator: Adil Sethi (Senior Manager, Business and Content Strategy, Bell Media and Former GATE MBA fellow)
Responsible AI and machine learning
Annie Veillet (Partner, Data Analytics and AI, PwC Canada)
Allison Cohen (Senior Applied AI Projects Manager, Mila)
Moderator: Brian Keng (Research Director, Borealis AI; Data Scientist in Residence, TD Management Data and Analytics Lab, and Adjunct Professor in Data Science, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Inclusive product and service design
Reginé Gilbert (Industry Assistant Professor, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering)
Jahan Mantin (Co-founder, Project Inkblot)
Vanessa Raquel Raponi (Senior Product Development Engineer, Spin Master; Founder, EngiQueers Canada)
Moderator: Sonia Kang (Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Identity, Diversity, and Inclusion and University of Toronto Mississauga’s Special Advisor on Anti-Racism and Equity)
Closing remarks: Launching you into an inclusive future
Ryan Webb (Associate Professor and Academic Director of the Management Data and Analytics Lab (TD MDAL), Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Networking
Day 2 - Add-on advanced workshops
30 participants attended one of the three industry-specific, advanced level, small-group workshops:
Gender Analytics for corporate innovation for people from the business sector
Led by Sarah Kaplan (Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Gender Analytics and GBA+ for government/policy innovation for government staff and policy analysts
Led by Stephanie Paterson (Professor, Political Science, Concordia University and GBA+ expert)
Gender Analytics for community organizations for members of the non profit community
Led by Chanel Grenaway (Equity and Anti-Racism Facilitator and Consultant, Non-profit Sector Leader)
These workshops helped participants develop the skills they need to do their own intersectional gender-based analysis for product, service or policy design. In them, they will work with leading experts to (1) learn more about gender and its intersections, (2) explore qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis approaches, (3) gain insights on incorporating intersectional gender-based insights in to creation and co-creation of products, services and policies, and (4) identify opportunities for organizational transformation. You will come away with worksheets and project templates for your own work, gain a network of other professionals interested in Gender Analytics, and earn a digital and print certificate of completion at the end of the day.
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