Bobbi Bidochka

We are &OR Collective, a sustainable clothing brand for the conscious and contemporary consumer. Founded in Vancouver, Canada, we focus on style, not trends and hold the belief that we all need to do more for our planet. Our pieces are durable, modern, ultra-versatile and mold to your lifestyle, your needs, your moments. But more than clothing, &Or Collective reflects the ethos of living freely, consciously, purposefully - with the goal of reducing your impact on the environment while celebrating all that life has to offer. Consume less and/or give more, buy less and/or wear more, lounge and/or dance, be still and/or be well. Launching in 2022.

The51 is a financial platform and venture firm investing in innovative and ambitious founders, shaping the future. We activate capital into scalable, women-led ventures, accelerate growth with our network and expertise, and reshape who builds wealth, leads companies and drives economies forward.

Founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal, Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence that now brings together over 1,200 specialized researchers in machine learning. Based in Montreal, Mila’s mission is to be a global center for scientific advancements that inspire innovation and the growth of AI for the benefit of all. Mila is a globally recognized non-profit organization for its significant contributions to deep learning, especially in the fields of language modeling, automatic translation, object recognition, and generative models. Scientific Mission: Understanding of fundamental principles Supervised learning and pattern recognition Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning Representation learning, and deep learning of representations Computer vision applications Applications in natural language processing Applications in modelling signals such as speech Applications to healthcare Applications on large scale data (big data)

We are &OR Collective, a sustainable clothing brand for the conscious and contemporary consumer. Founded in Vancouver, Canada, we focus on style, not trends and hold the belief that we all need to do more for our planet. Our pieces are durable, modern, ultra-versatile and mold to your lifestyle, your needs, your moments. But more than clothing, &Or Collective reflects the ethos of living freely, consciously, purposefully - with the goal of reducing your impact on the environment while celebrating all that life has to offer. Consume less and/or give more, buy less and/or wear more, lounge and/or dance, be still and/or be well. Launching in 2022.

The51 is a financial platform and venture firm investing in innovative and ambitious founders, shaping the future. We activate capital into scalable, women-led ventures, accelerate growth with our network and expertise, and reshape who builds wealth, leads companies and drives economies forward.

The McGill Innovation Fund (MIF) is the largest entrepreneurial program at McGill University. Open to all Faculty with a Report of Invention, or McGill spinoffs, it offers generous funding and a full support porgram to help guide projects through the commercialization process.

TandemLaunch is a venture capital fund and a venture studio that partners with driven entrepreneurs to create successful and disruptive deep tech companies. By collaborating with researchers and inventors from the world’s best universities, we create exceptional technology companies. Founded in 2010, we have built an extensive network of inventors, industry experts and investors that we leverage to accelerate academic innovations and solve real world problems. Our portfolio includes over 35 hardware and software companies with high value offerings in the fields of artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, video processing, advanced sensors, computer vision, and audio technology. Are you interested in helping innovative research get out into the world? Have you always wanted to be an entrepreneur? Together with TandemLaunch, you can realize your entrepreneurial aspirations! At TandemLaunch, we flip the script on the usual startup statistics. By recruiting the best tech talent and matching them with outstanding technologies, we monumentally increase your success! If you have a degree in a technical discipline, apply to the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program on our website. Our Program offers: - A Stipend - Early Investment – 600K - Workshops & mentorship – Everything you need to know for a successful tech startup! Secured Intellectual Property - Backend office support - Benefits package - Fun Startup Environment - Check out our website for more details Follow us! https://www.linkedin.com/company/tandemlaunch/ https://www.facebook.com/TandemLaunchInc/ https://www.instagram.com/tandemlaunch/ https://twitter.com/TandemLaunch https://www.youtube.com/user/tandemlaunch