Sem Ponnambalam, founder and president of Canadian cybersecurity firm, xahive, discusses Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through the lens of her own DEI journey as a racialized woman entrepreneur launching and growing her own tech business in Canada and the U.S.
In part two of our Conversation with Sem Ponnambalam, founder and president of Canadian cybersecurity firm, xahive, Sem discusses the importance of training and policies & procedures for an organization to make progress in its DEI journey, the benefits her own organization has experienced by making DEI a priority and the importance of lending a hand to the next generation.
Sem Ponnambalam, founder and president of Canadian cybersecurity firm, xahive, discusses her experience with unconscious bias as a racialized woman entrepreneur raising funds for her firm in the tech sector. Sem points to research that correlates diverse leadership teams with higher investment returns and discusses the importance of looking beyond diversity to the DEI policies & procedures that can measure & sustain diversity in companies.
In this episode, we speak with Bill Klages, Vice President Influencer & Partner Relations at Toronto-based software QA firm, QA Consultants, about key trends in quality assurance testing as part of agile software design and development.
"It's a whole different mindset." In part two of our Conversation on software quality assurance, Bill Klages of QA Consultants, discusses the criticality of software quality assurance for non-dormant software that is driving product 24 hours a day and the resulting heightened needs for software test coverage for applications such as autonomous vehicles that impacts the safety and security of people and assets.
In our second episode on the topic of "Freedom to Operate", Dan Altman, partner at IP law firm, Knobbe Martens, discusses the need for a firm to assess how much effort it wants to devote to Freedom to Operate based on it's industry, other IP right holders and the firm's own risk tolerance. Because patents and the analysis of patent infringement can be different between Canada and the U.S., separate analyses may be required.
In this episode, we discuss patents in the context of what is referred to as "Freedom to Operate" (FTO) with Vlad Teplitskiy, partner at leading IP law firm, Knobbe Martens. Vlad defines FTO and discusses the management of risk related to third party claims as businesses enter new international markets.
This video is a compilation of excerpts from across many of our MAPLE Conversations with members. This is a window on the tremendous breadth of expertise within our community as members comment on growing and collaborating across the Canada-U.S. border from their unique vantage points. We are also honored to share the perspectives from Canada's Consul General in Los Angeles, Zaib Shaikh, and Acting Consul General in New York, Khawar Nasim.We are sharing these voices at a time when Canada and the U.S. are looking to one another to support each other in economic rebound. There is so much expertise to help us grow and rebound when we do so together!
We have the pleasure of speaking with Daniel Silverman, Vice President of Foreign Direct Investment at Investissement Québec International to hear about why Québec is North America's best kept secret, its key sectors, and the opportunities for U.S. businesses to invest and grow in Québec Canada. Dan also highlights the services of the Invest Québec team.