Our Program

Day 1 - Conference

Thursday, April 27 | 8 AM – 5 PM EST (In-person & Livestream)

Registration (7:45am-)

Breakfast and Welcome (8:00 - 8:45am)

Introductions and Land Acknowledgement (8:45 - 9:00am)

Keynote Panel: Decolonizing design and data (9:00 - 10:00am)

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)

Networking break (10:00 - 10:20am)

Behavioural interventions for more inclusive government policy (10:20 - 11:05am) 

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 (11:05am - 12:05pm)

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)   

Lunch (12:05 - 12:50pm)

Creating inclusive contracts: insights about the law (12:50-1:50pm)

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 (1:50pm - 2:35pm)

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, Forbes 30 Under 30)

Moderator: Adil Sethi (Senior Manager, Business and Content Strategy, Bell Media and Former GATE MBA fellow)

Networking break (2:35 - 2:55pm)

Responsible AI and machine learning (2:55 - 3:40pm)

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 (3:40 - 4:40pm)

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)

Launching you into an inclusive future (4:40 - 5:00pm) 

Ryan Webb (Associate Professor and Academic Director of the Management Data and Analytics Lab (TD MDAL), Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)  

Networking (5:00 - 5:30pm)    

Participants with a 2-day pass can choose one of the three industry-specific, advanced level, small-group workshops:

  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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 will help you develop the skills you need to do your own intersectional gender-based analysis for product, service or policy design. In them, you 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.

Day 2 - Add-on advanced workshops

Friday, April 28 | 8 AM – 4 PM EST (In-person only)