JUMPSTARTER 2020
初赛

多伦多
2019年10月16-17日
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一步步迈向成功之路
阶段一
网上申请截止日期 - 2019年9月18日
阶段二
公布初赛入围初创企业 - 2019年9月30日
阶段三
多伦多初赛(首日) - 2019年10月16日
阶段四
多伦多初赛(次日) - 2019年10月17日
阶段五
香港总决赛 - 2020年2月11至12日 – 香港会议展览中心
多伦多初赛日程
2019-10-17
Bay Adelaide East, 8 Adelaide Street West, Toronto ON M5H 0A9, Canada

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时间
节目流程
16:30

Registration

17:00

Welcome and Introduce JUMPSTARTER 2020
Welcome Remarks by Deloitte | Announcement of 4 shortlisted startups

17:05

Pitching
Start-up x 4 teams
(Each Start-up 5mins speech + 3mins Q&A)

17:45
Sharing Session
Speaker
Ivan Cheung, Consultant, Invest Hong Kong (Canada)
17:50
Break
18:00
Panel Discussion
Topic: Opportunities & Challenges for Canadian Startups in Asia
Speakers:
Cindy Chow, Executive Director, Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund
Ling Lorechne, Chief Commercialization Officer, Asia Managing Director, Waterloo Commercialization Office, University of Waterloo
Norm Malloch, Director, Innovation Lab Programs, Deloitte
18:25
Announcement of 4 shortlisted startups
18:30
Pitching
Start-up x 4 teams
(Each Start-up 5mins speech + 3mins Q&A)
19:10
Networking Reception
(Light Refreshment with Beverage to be served)
20 mins | Judges to score & shortlist Top 5 startups
10 mins | Feedback: Jumpstarter & Beyond
5 mins | Announcement of Top 5 Startups
2 mins | MC WRAP UP
当地合作伙伴

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Deloitte is a globally connected network offering a wide spectrum of services including audit & assurance, consulting, risk advisory, financial advisory, tax & business advisory and legal. We employ approximately 286,000 professionals in 150+ countries and territories. The Deloitte brand entered the China market in 1917. Today, Deloitte is one of the leading professional services providers in China with 22 offices and approximately 16,000 people. We have made—and continues to make—substantial contributions to the development of China's accounting standards, taxation system and professional expertise. We serve more than 80% of the Chinese companies in the Fortune Global 500.

Corie McDougall

Director, International Business Growth, Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade

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Corie McDougall is the Director, International Business Growth, at the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. She has been with the Ministry for 11 years and currently leads the team responsible for supporting Ontario’s exporters through the provision of advisory services, educational seminars, and the development and delivery of international business missions around the world.

Prior to joining the Ministry, Corie worked in telecommunications for Rogers (in Canada) and Ericsson (in Sweden and the US), and on two separate occasions as a Singapore-based consultant for Intercedent Asia, delivering market entry strategies within their consulting & research practice. Over the past 20 years, Corie has lived, worked and studied in Asia, Europe and North America.

Corie has a degree in Economics from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business.

唐啟波

戈壁創投
合伙人

唐啟波先生于2009年加入戈壁,拥有逾十年的投资经验。现带领和管理戈壁香港办公室,其中包括对阿里巴巴香港创业者基金的管理。

唐啟波先生成功主导和参与投资了Airwallex, Welab, Urban Revivo, DayDayCook, Aqumon和Sandbox VR等项目,曾被评为“香港2017年度风险投资家”,并获得“2019全球企业风险投资与创新论坛前25名新星”等奖项。

进入戈壁创投以前,唐啟波先生曾在摩立特集团上海管理咨询公司(Monitor Group Asia)担任战略顾问,负责东南亚、中东和北非地区企业的市场拓展及运营服务,并曾在博世集团(Robert Bosch)担任亚太区企业战略高级经理一职。

唐啟波先生拥有哈佛大学应用数学与经济学学士学位,并在哈佛上海校友会(Harvard Club of Shanghai)董事会任职6年。

周骆美琪

阿里巴巴香港创业者基金执行董事

周骆美琪女士自2015年起担任阿里巴巴香港创业者基金执行董事。周女士于2007年加入阿里巴巴集团,曾担任阿里巴巴国际高级财务董事,主要负责集团财务管理和企业规划。在加入阿里巴巴集团前,周女士曾于香港多间上市公司任职,负责融资、企业规划和财务报告方面的工作。周女士为一名注册会计师并拥有工商管理硕士学位。周女士更委任为创新、科技及再工业化委员会非官方委员,同时积极参与多间青少年发展机构的义务工作。周女士希望透过阿里巴巴香港创业者基金创立不同项目,致力帮助香港的创业家和青年人于充满活力的城市中实践他们的梦想。

Duncan Senclair

Chair, Deloitte Canada and Chile

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Duncan is the Chair of Deloitte Canada and Chile. Duncan is also a member of the Deloitte Global Board including a member of the Governance, Risk and Information Security Oversight Committees. He also attends the Deloitte US Board and the US firm’s Strategy Committee.

Duncan is passionate about growing and developing those around him, and building a better future for Canada and Chile. His deepest belief is that leadership is about rolling up your sleeves and getting to work on shared challenges. Throughout his career, Duncan has focused on the future of Canada and the impact that business leaders can have to shape outcomes for the benefit of our communities.

Over his 31-year career, his professional activities include serving clients who are global institutional investors, public and private family owned global businesses in the mining, telecommunication, consumer business, manufacturing and real estate and construction industries, as well as national and regional governments. Prior to his role as Chair, Duncan held leadership roles as the local Director of Audit and then Managing Partner of Edmonton, the Regional Managing Partner of British Columbia, and the Vice Chair and inaugural Dean of Deloitte University North responsible for thought leadership, public policy, major sponsorship programs and leadership development nationwide.

In addition to his professional responsibilities, Duncan is an active member in the community and currently serves as Chair of the Long Term Investment Organization and he Chairs the Governance Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee and Board of The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Projects Centre at Stanford University, the Lazaridis Institute at Wilfred Laurier University, the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University and the Board of Governors of Junior Achievement of Central Ontario. He was previously a member of the Board of the United Way of the Lower Mainland and the Board of Governors of the BC Business Council.

Ellis Odynn

Executive Director & Chief AI Officer, Digital Finance Institute

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Ellis Odynn champions the title of Canada’s first Chief AI Officer. Ellis is the Executive Director and Chief AI Officer of the Digital Finance Institute (DFI), a global technology think tank. In this capacity, she heads the Institute’s key initiatives — from building partnerships, supporting innovation development, growing the Canadian FinTech & AI communities, and managing international affairs.

Ellis has fully immersed herself in the tech world. Ellis is the Producer and Co-host of the Let’s Tech Podcast, the Founder and Executive Producer of Canada FinTech Week, a financial technology festival, the Executive Producer of Canada’s annual FinTech & AI Awards, and the host of both North America’s global Artificial Intelligence forum the AI World Forum and Canada’s National FinTech conference, FinTech Canada. Ellis Odynn is a prominent figure in the global FinTech and AI ecosystem. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has spoken at the Financial Action Task Force on financial crime risks of FinTech, at APEC on law and AI, and at ACAMS on FinTech issues and financial crime, among others.

When she isn’t uniting the AI industry, Ellis dedicates her time to running a charitable organization that brings education, security and inclusion to refugee girls in Africa and the Middle East.

Ivan Cheung

Consultant, Invest Hong Kong (Canada)

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Ivan is a Consultant for Invest Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HKSARG) agency dedicated to promoting inward investment in Hong Kong.

Ivan specializes in investment promotion and facilitation. He provides sector-by-sector information, advice and assistance to facilitate Canadian companies in setting up and expanding their business in Hong Kong. Invest Hong Kong in Canada is based in the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in Toronto.

The HKETO is the permanent representative of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HKSARG). The HKETO’s mission is to represent the HKSARG in strengthening the economic, trade, investment and cultural ties between Hong Kong and Canada.

Ivan has over 14 years of experience in operations, international sales and marketing in Hong Kong and the Asia market.

Jake Deutsch

Manager, Innovation Lead, Dspace, Deloitte

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Jake Deutsch is an Innovation Lead at DSpace, Deloitte Canada’s corporate innovation lab that is focused on solving business problems with emerging technology. Responsible for managing the project pipeline at DSpace, Jake frames problems, assesses the desirability, viability, and feasibility of new ideas while coaching stakeholders on lean startup and human-centred design methodologies. Jake holds a Master of Business, Entrepreneurship, & Technology from the University of Waterloo.

Janet Lin

Head of Customer Engagement Technology, Loblaw Technology

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Heading Loblaw’s Customer Engagement Technology, Janet’s leadership are invaluable in delivering Loblaw’s digital technology transformation strategy. Over the past years, she has led teams that successfully launched or enhanced some of Canada’s most innovative programs to support Loblaw Company’s commitment to Live Life Well.

Her successes as an innovative digital technology leader include:

  • PC Optimum, Canada’s largest and most trusted loyalty program offering subscribers points and custom offers. PC Optimum was recently honoured by Brand Spark.
  • Loblaw’s innovative, Digital Identity Platform supporting one third of the Canadian population with access to 26 different sites with one single login. Recipient of Innovation Award from Oracle Open World in the fall.
  • Loblaw Payment portfolio that includes best Retail Reward President’s Choice Mastercard, Loblaw Gift Card and third-party Gift Cards.
  • Loblaw CRM Platform that manages customer profiles and is leveraging the most innovative Artificial Intelligence technology to deepen relationships with customers.
  • Loblaw digital marketing, content and media business.
  • Loblaw PC Insider Subscription service that offers customer life style enhancement experiences.

Despite a challenging and exciting portfolio, Janet carves out time to support the Loblaw Technology gender parity strategy, include:

Loblaw Women in Technology (WIT) and Loblaw Cooperate Women’s leadership committee.

Jeff Brown

Head of Retail Business Banking, HSBC Bank Canada

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With almost 20 years of financial services experience, much of it in the SME sector, Jeff Brown is currently the Head of Retail Business Banking at HSBC Bank Canada. In this role, Jeff oversees the development and execution of HSBC’s Small Business strategy. Prior to joining HSBC, Jeff was Vice President of Retail Banking at Meridian Credit Union, where he led a very successful branch expansion strategy in the GTA. Jeff graduated with his MBA from Laurier, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Professional Accountant and Certified Financial Planner designations.

Joseph Fung

Managing Partner, Saltagen Ventures

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Joseph, based in Hong Kong and Canada, he works at the crossroads of business execution and strategic development both as an investor and operator since 2002. He is the Managing Partner of Saltagen Ventures (a corporate partner of CDL-West), managing a portfolio of USD 400MM+ on education, media, finance, property development and technology investment.

He actively focuses on bringing in the public policy support from Canada and Hong Kong to help start ups successfully expand growth opportunities on an international level. A notable responsibility includes the role of Special Advisor of Hong Kong (ABLAC) for the Asia Pacific Foundation, a think tank that directly advises Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Joseph is also the faculty advisor of the University of British Columbia, along with being a committee board member of China’s Maritime Silk Road trade initiative.

Prior to leading Saltagen Ventures, Joseph served at Citigroup Alternative Investments and at Morgan Stanley in the buy-side divisions. Thereafter, he drove the expansion of Hong Kong’s largest quad-play media company, PCCW Media, in developing their overseas content acquisition and broadcasting departments.

Ling Lorechne

Chief Commercialization Officer, Asia Managing Director, Waterloo Commercialization Office, University of Waterloo

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Mrs. Ling Loerchner is working at the University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada as the Chief Commercialization Officer, Asia Managing Director. She is responsible for the international research collaboration, innovation management, entrepreneurship and commercialization with focus in Asian market. She is responsible to create spin-off companies from UW technology portfolio, and help the spin-off companies seeking for venture capital and angel investment. In recent years, she initiated and created 3 early stage investment funds, with the collaboration with several Asia VC firms, institutes and high-tech parks. She serves as one of the Investment Committee members for these venture investment funds. She has been served as board member on several UW spin-off companies. Mrs. Loerchner is an active annual conference program committee member of Association of University Technology Management (AUTM), and a member of Licensing Executive Society (LES). She is the AUTM Canada Committee member and the Chair of Training and Professional Development subcommittee. For the last 3 years, she has been invited to be one of the judge panelists for Shenzhen Business competitions, Shanghai Business Competitions and LES business Plan Competition. She has been frequently invited as panel discussion moderator and keynote speaker for the international technology transfer, entrepreneurship education and early stage Venture Investment topics.

Before her academic innovation leadership role, she had an over 15 year’s career in industry of information technology management and product development. Mrs. Loerchner also spent several years in Silicon Valley, California working for Cisco Systems and start-ups, and helped start-up companies fund raising from VC communities. Mrs. Loerchner is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and served as Director of Professional Development at the PMI local chapter.

In addition to her responsibilities at UW, Mrs. Loerchner also teaches in the School of Business at local University and College. Mrs. Loerchner has been served as the Senior Adviser for the Mayor of the City of Waterloo and in charge of the city's Innovation management and Asia strategy.

Mrs. Loerchner received a Certificate of VC Business training at the NVCA and Stanford Law School, and the VC Academy Certificate issued by NVCA and UC Berkeley Law School. She has a BEng degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, an MSc degree from University of Waterloo and an MBA from Laurier University.

Mohan Markandaier

Managing Partner, Good News Ventures

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Mohan Markandaier is a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits. He co-founded his first company Pulse Voice in 1996, where as the CEO, his focus was on Sales and Marketing with responsibility for overall strategic vision and growth of the company.

Currently, as the Managing Partner at Good News Ventures, Mohan is actively involved in providing capital and mentorship to early and mid-stage companies in the high growth technology space. He also serves on the Board of Directors for York Angel Investors. Mohan graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in Engineering.

Ozan Isinak

President, Keiretsu Forum Canada

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Ozan is an active investors and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of international experience within the angel investment, venture capital and private equity sectors. Based out of Silicon Valley during the first dotcom boom in the 1990’s, Ozan worked closely with Fortune 1000 companies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Toronto, Hamburg, Stockholm, London and Istanbul. Ozan later acted as General Partner in various angel investment and private equity practices.

He is currently the President of Keiretsu Forum Canada, the world’s largest angel investment network operating on four continents. The global network specializes in syndication of deals and invested over $84 million USD into 180 early stage companies in 2018 alone.

Ozan also holds a Partner position in Trendwell Ventures Inc., a Toronto based boutique M&A practice. He actively participates in portfolio investment decisions and helps technology enabled companies scale through hands-on management toward exit transactions.

Ozan received his MBA in Finance from the University of San Francisco – McLaren School of Business in 1998 and holds a double major in Economics & Political Science from the University of Western Ontario (1994). He speaks English, Turkish and French.

Norm  Malloch

Director, Innovation Lab Programs, Deloitte

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Norm leads the Deloitte DSpace Innovation Labs in Waterloo Region. The labs create digital prototypes that are used to identify and validate new product and service value propositions now possible because of emerging technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, and IoT. The labs challenge partners and clients to think differently about innovation, the problems they are trying to solve, and value creation in this new economic environment.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Norm worked as mentor at the Laurier LaunchPad Program and co-founded two technology companies. As a founder, he was responsible for leading teams through early stage technology product development, customer development, and fundraising, resulting in viable and sustainable businesses. Norm is a graduate of the computer engineering program at the University of Waterloo and holds an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University. He is passionate about creating and growing new product ventures.