BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220512T210000Z DTEND:20220513T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Women\, Wine & Wisdom DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT - Please add your name to the waiting list if interested in attending.\n\n\n\nAn evening designed to create a candid conversation about leadership\, life balance and legacy. Enjoy a beautiful dinner\, share real stories and be inspired by powerful women. Invite all the fantastic women and men you know\; those with ambition\, courage and a desire to live their truth. Everyone is welcome.\n\n\n\nTheme: YOU FIRST!\n\n\n\nIn general women are known for putting others first\, often at the expense of themselves and with an unrealized plan to get to self care someday. This strategy is not sustainable and does not realize the full potential of our local women leaders. We are pleased to welcome three new women to the WWW alumni who are willing to share their story and lead a discussion on how the YOU FIRST approach can lead to business and life success.\n\n\n\nOur amazing panel of dynamic women include\;\n\n\n\n\nMimi Lam\n\n \nMimi Lam is the Co-Founder of Superette\, an award-winning cannabis retailer known for its inclusive\, fun-loving world of weed and fashion. Since 2018\, she has built and scaled the company from an idea to a portfolio of unique retail experiences and a global lifestyle brand.\n\n\nMimi has been a leading voice in the Canadian cannabis industry as a founding member of the Ontario Policy Cannabis Council and is part of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's National Cannabis Working Group. She is passionate about pushing the industry towards a more inclusive\, socially responsible\, and environmentally friendly future through mentoring and national advocacy initiatives.\n\n\n\nMimi was formerly the Director of Corporate Development at Tokyo Smoke and led its merger with DOJA Cannabis as well as acquisition by Canopy Growth. Prior to joining the cannabis industry\, she was an Investment Banker at Macquarie Capital where she was on the transaction teams for over $2 billion of M&A and financings.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Sasha Suda\n\nDirector and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada\n\n\n\nAppointed in February 2019\, Sasha is passionate about the Gallery's ability to serve and resonate with Canadians from coast to coast to coast. She believes that the visual arts have the power to connect the past to the present and that they can help us to forge a more inspiring\, creative\, and equitable future. Sasha has led the revitalization of the Gallery's purpose\, vision\, and mission and its first-ever strategic planning process. As a result of this work\, the Gallery has undertaken an exciting digital rebranding exercise\, transformed its exhibition planning process\, and reimagined its external stakeholder engagement strategy. A new\, and clear\, focus on justice\, equity\, diversity\, inclusion\, and accessibility with a firm commitment to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples embraces the future and positions the National Gallery of Canada for its next chapter.\n\n\nBorn in Toronto to Czech parents\, Sasha studied at Princeton University before completing her Master's degree in art history at Williams College and her PhD at New York University. Her professional career began at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York\, where she worked in various roles in the Medieval Department between 2003 and 2011. Following this\, Sasha returned to her native Toronto to work at the Art Gallery of Ontario\, first as an assistant curator\, and eventually as Curator of European Art and the Elliott Chair of Prints & Drawings. In these roles\, she led major international exhibition projects and spearheaded innovative digital initiatives that presented historical art to audiences in a new light.\n\n\n\n\n\nSheema Khan\n\nPatent Agent\, Kinaxis\n\n\n\nSheema Khan obtained both a Masters in Physics and a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard. She completed post-doctoral appointments in Chemical Engineering at MIT and Chemical Physics at McGill. As an R&D scientist\, she is an inventor on about a dozen patents in drug delivery technology. She switched to patents\, and is now in-house patent agent at Kinaxis\, where she drafts and prosecutes patent applications in software and machine learning\, along with managing the Kinaxis patent portfolio. On the side\, Sheema has been writing for Globe and Mail as a monthly columnist since 2002. She serves on the board of the Harvard Club of Ottawa and the United Nations Association in Canada. She is also the author of "Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman"\, as well as a TedX Speaker. She is a proud mom of 3 kids.\n\n \n\n\n\n\nLooking for sponsorship opportunities? Contact Don Mersereau at Don@ottawabusinessevents.ca\n\n\n\nSponsorship Opportunities:\n\nLead | $5\,000 \n\nWine | $3\,000 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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SOLD OUT - Please add your name to the waiting list if interested in attending.
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\nAn evening designed to create a candid conversation about leadership\, life balance and legacy. Enjoy a beautiful dinner\, share real stories and be inspired by powerful women. \;Invite all the fantastic women and men you know\; those with ambition\, courage and a desire to live their truth. Everyone is welcome.
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\nTheme: YOU FIRST!
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\nIn general women are known for putting others first\, often at the expense of themselves and with an unrealized plan to get to self care someday. This strategy is not sustainable and does not realize the full potential of our local women leaders. We are pleased to welcome three new women to the WWW alumni who are willing to share their story and lead a discussion on how the YOU FIRST approach can lead to business and life success.
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\nOur amazing panel of dynamic women include\;
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Mimi Lam
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Mimi Lam is the Co-Founder of \;Superette\, an award-winning cannabis retailer known for its inclusive\, fun-loving world of weed and fashion. Since 2018\, she has built and scaled the company from an idea to a portfolio of unique retail experiences and a global lifestyle brand.
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\nMimi has been a leading voice in the Canadian cannabis industry as a founding member of the Ontario Policy Cannabis Council and is part of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce&rsquo\;s National Cannabis Working Group. She is passionate about pushing the industry towards a more inclusive\, socially responsible\, and environmentally friendly future through mentoring and national advocacy initiatives.
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\nMimi was formerly the \;Director of Corporate Development at Tokyo Smoke and led its merger with DOJA Cannabis as well as acquisition by Canopy Growth. Prior to joining the cannabis industry\, she was an Investment Banker at Macquarie Capital where she was on the transaction teams for over $2 billion of M&\;A and financings.
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Dr. Sasha Suda
\nDirector and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada
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\nAppointed in February 2019\, Sasha is passionate about the Gallery&rsquo\;s ability to serve and resonate with Canadians from coast to coast to coast. She believes that the visual arts \;have the power to connect the past to the present and that they can help us to forge a more inspiring\, creative\, and equitable future. Sasha has led the revitalization of the Gallery&rsquo\;s purpose\, vision\, and mission and its first-ever strategic planning process. As a result of this work\, the Gallery has undertaken an exciting digital rebranding exercise\, transformed its exhibition planning process\, and reimagined its external stakeholder engagement strategy. A new\, and clear\, focus on justice\, equity\, diversity\, inclusion\, and accessibility with a firm commitment to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples embraces the future and positions the National Gallery of Canada for its next chapter.
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\nBorn in Toronto to Czech parents\, Sasha studied at Princeton University before completing her Master&rsquo\;s degree in art history at Williams College and her PhD at New York University. Her professional career began at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York\, where she worked in various roles in the Medieval Department between 2003 and 2011. Following this\, Sasha returned to her native Toronto to work at the Art Gallery of Ontario\, first as an assistant curator\, and eventually as Curator of European Art and the Elliott Chair of Prints &\; Drawings. In these roles\, she led major international exhibition projects and spearheaded innovative digital initiatives that presented historical art to audiences in a new light.
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\nSheema Khan
\nPatent Agent\, Kinaxis
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\nSheema Khan obtained both a Masters in Physics and a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard. She completed post-doctoral appointments in Chemical Engineering at MIT and Chemical Physics at McGill. As an R&\;D scientist\, she is an inventor on about a dozen patents in drug delivery technology. She switched to patents\, and is now in-house patent agent at Kinaxis\, where she drafts and prosecutes patent applications in software and machine learning\, along with managing the Kinaxis patent portfolio. On the side\, Sheema has been writing for Globe and Mail as a monthly columnist since 2002. She serves on the board of the Harvard Club of Ottawa and the United Nations Association in Canada. She is also the author of &ldquo\;Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman&rdquo\;\, as well as a TedX Speaker. She is a proud mom of 3 kids.
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\nLooking for sponsorship opportunities? Contact Don Mersereau at Don@ottawabusinessevents.ca
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\nSponsorship Opportunities:
\nLead | $5\,000 \;
\nWine | $3\,000 \;
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\n LOCATION:National Arts Centre - O'Born Room 1 Elgin Street Ottawa\, ON K1P 5W1 UID:e.3330.2870 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260525T202224Z URL:https://business.ottawabot.ca/events/details/women-wine-wisdom-2870 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR