TEDWomen 2015 is a TED event curated by TED and Pat Mitchell that focuses on women and women’s issues. TEDxWomen events are TEDx events hosted around the live webcast of TEDWomen, and may also feature local speakers. Our event is called TEDxVaughanWomen and is one of many TEDx events happening around the globe on May 29 that will expand on the ideas brought up at TEDWomen.

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Amanda Fleising , Eyal Gleanz

Amanda Fleising is a professional Latin American dancer representing Canada throughout the world with her partner Eyal Gleanz. She is the President of Crystal Clover Canada and Aida Dance Shoes Canada which distribute and retail specialized European fabrics and Russian handmade dance shoes. She graduated with an MBA from Concordia University in 2013 and started Crystal Clover Canada in October 2014.

Angela Miles

Dr. Angela Miles' research interests include feminist theory, critical theory, social movements, globalization and local and global resistance, community education, organizing, development and change, and alternative development paradigms. Scholars in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education are engaged in a range of theoretical and practical fields: leadership and administration, policy and change, social diversity and community engagement.

Ann Cavoukian

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. Her Privacy by Design framework seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In October 2010, regulators at the conference of International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Jerusalem unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an essential component of fundamental privacy protection. This was followed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s inclusion of Privacy by Design as one of three recommended practices for protecting online privacy – a major validation of its significance.

Bonnie Stevens

She is the Director of the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, the Co-Director of the Pain Centre at SickKids, and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. As the scientific basis underlying pain in infants and children has expanded exponentially over the past decade. she and her colleagues are determining the optimal approaches for assessing pain in healthy infants and children, as well as in those with cognitive and neurologic impairments. they are also determining the efficacy and safety of interventions to prevent or alleviate acute pain, the impact of consistent pain management, and factors that influence health professionals' integration of pain research into clinical practice. Finally, they are examining how pain influences the quality of life of children with chronic illness and how alternate models of health care delivery, such as home care, affect child, family, and economic outcomes.

Catherine Middleton

Catherine Middleton holds a Canada Research Chair at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. She has been studying the provision and use of internet services in Canada, and internationally, since her student days at York University's Schulich School of Business. She travels extensively, taking photos of telephone poles and broadband installations wherever she goes. She and her colleagues share their research findings with policy makers and the public by participating in consultations, conferences and giving talks like this one.

Christy Anderson

Christy Anderson is an architectural historian with a special interest in the buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque. Christy Anderson studies the ways architecture changes us emotionally. She works on both historic and contemporary buildings in order to understand how we are shaped by history and the present. Students at the University of Toronto praise her enthusiastic teaching style. The author of several books on architectural history, Christy is now writing a history of the connections between architecture and natural history.

Vicki Saunders

Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. Vicki is Founder of SheEO; a two-decade long initiative to dramatically transform how we support, celebrate and finance female entrepreneurs building new models, new mindsets and new solutions for a better world. Vicki has co-founded and run 4 ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley including Zazengo (an online platform for consumer and employee engagement for Fortune500 companies focused on sustainability), KidsNRG/The NRG Group (which went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2000) and Impactanation, a global consulting firm focused on engaging youth to tackle the grand challenges we are facing. In 2001, Vicki was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.