Global Entrepreneurship Week runs from Nov. 17 to Nov. 23 and Carleton experts and entrepreneurial students and graduates are available to discuss entrepreneurship at Carleton and throughout Ottawa.
Myles Foster
Email: myles@fast2eat.com
Foster is a Carleton Sprott student who disliked waiting in line at the food court. By bringing his idea for a pre-order, pre-pay application to a local entrepreneurship event, Startup Weekend Ottawa, he was able to find technical co-founders and start Fast2eat. Foster discovered long lines turn away hundreds of diners an hour in busy locations and directly impact revenue by five to 10 per cent. Fast2eat provides a cutting-edge approach for the busiest vendors to take more orders and reduce lineups at the same time. On top of that, diner’s emails are captured and behaviour patterns can be better understood, allowing for more effective marketing.
Natasha D’Souza
Email: natdsou@gmail.com
D’Souza is a Carleton graduate and owner of Virtual EyeSee. She is a creative and innovative engineer who brings her out-of-the-box perspective to every project. She combines deep technical, marketing and business/customer understanding to solve complex business problems.
She advises businesses, organizations and individuals on the optimization of their business strategies, processes and workflow to achieve their goals – whether it’s building a new product/service or launching a new program.
Mary Herbert-Copley
Executive Director of 1125@Carleton – Ottawa’s Living Lab
Phone: 613-520-7606
Email: MaryHerbertCopley@CUNET.CARLETON.CA
Herbert-Copley is currently executive director of 1125@Carleton –Ottawa’s Living Lab, a space that connects campus and community in order to solve problem.
Herbert-Copley joined 1125@Carleton through a senior executive exchange from the federal government, bringing a wealth of experience in policy and program development and implementation in the public and not-for-profit sector. Committed to building more sustainable communities in Canada, she has been engaged in both teaching and applying a strategic deliberative design approach to problem-solving in our public and social spaces for the last several years.
Tony Bailetti
Associate professor at the Sprott School of Business
Phone: 613-520-2600, ext. 8398
Email:
Bailetti@sce.carleton.ca
Bailetti is an expert on business ecosystems, growth through technology innovation and open source. He has been instrumental in developing successful local ecosystems, including Lead to Win (LTW) and Coral CEA. The LTW companies represent a significant portion of the successful startups in Ottawa over the past two years.
Giovanna Mingarelli
Canadian chair for Global Dignity, CEO and co-founder of PlayMC2 and Entrepreneur in Residence at 1125@Carleton.
Phone: (office): 613-421-8985 (mobile): 613-608-8328
Email: giovanna@mcrowdsourcing.com
As the CEO and co-founder of PlayMC2, Mingarelli plays the dual role of international technology entrepreneur and thought leader. She has contributed to and been interviewed by numerous publications for her contributions to various social entrepreneurship and youth engagement initiatives. Mingarelli has served in the press office of a former prime minister and has been a parliamentary witness, a guest lecturer and a keynote speaker on many youth empowerment initiatives such as Global Dignity Day, which she chairs in Canada.
With a growing reputation as an expert on gamification of politics, social engagement and crowdsourcing, Mingarelli has attended and been an active contributor to events such as the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and the United Nations World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in New York. She holds a degree in political science and international relations from Carleton, where she is an entrepreneur in residence with 1125@Carleton.
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Monday, November 17, 2014 in Experts Available
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