Vanessa Cherenfant

Vanessa Cherenfant is an entrepreneur, engineer and proud STEMinist. After 7 years in management consulting, she founded Elysia a customer engagement startup in the travel industry for which she was recognized by the Bronfman Foundation as one the Top 25 emerging entrepreneurs in Quebec and later the YESMontreal & SAP foundations as Top Startup developing an innovative technology. She recently joined Officevibe a fast growing startup in the HR space that helps companies keep their employees happy and in the span of two years has attracted over a 1000 customers worldwide and world-class organizations like like Apple, Disney, Bose. Vanessa is very involved in the Tech Community and groups working towards bringing more Women in Tech such as the Technovation Challenge working with girls from 11 to 18 to develop an app and the Startup Weekend Women program, a 54-hour bootcamp encouraging women to launch a tech startup.