Founders in Focus Lunch: Create your own table - Women leading ventures

Name: Founders in Focus Lunch: Create your own table - Women leading ventures
Start: 2026-03-24T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-24T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Sheridan College - Hazel McCallion Campus, Room no. C506

Schedule

Tue Mar 24 2026 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Sheridan College - Hazel McCallion Campus, Room no. C506 | Mississauga, ON

Founders in Focus is a monthly speaker series bringing together a diverse panel of voices to share honest stories and hard lessons.
About this Event

In this session of the lunch speaker series, panelists will explore how women are defining entrepreneurship on their own terms - forging new paths, building spaces for themselves and others, and leading ventures with purpose. Whether you're navigating your first venture or scaling an established business, the journey is a shared human experience.

Panelists

Shazia Javed: Founder & CEO, LifeSketch Media
Allison Williams: Founder, Black Women Collective
Theresa Evanoff: Executive Director, Global Angel Investors Network

The discussion will be moderated by Shahrzad Farzinpak, Dean of the Pilon School of Business at Sheridan College.

Program Overview

11:30- 12pm Registration and lunch
12 – 1pm Panel discussion
1-1:30pm Optional networking

We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for making this event accessible and free to all attendees.