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Welcome to Le Wagon Live, our guest today is Nathan Larue, Co-Founder & CTO at Bliinx. Previously a software engineer at Ubisoft and Google, Nathan created Bliinx, a startup that syncs touchpoints and generates a 360° view of how you and your colleagues have interacted with contacts, projects or companies. Bliinx was recently accepted into the prestigious 500 Seed Accelerator, a program with a less than 1% acceptance rate. Learn more about Nathan’s journey from being a software engineer to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon Live, our guest today is Pascale Audette, CEO at Carebook. A senior executive-turned-entrepreneur with over 20 years of business management experience including leading The Walt Disney Company’s Club Penguin. Pascale has an established track record of building teams of experts committed to sustainable growth. Carebook is a patient-focused, patient-facing platform for pharmacy and clinic groups that addresses the needs of health professionals and individuals. Dive into Pascale’s people-first vision for her healthcare platform, and her journey as an entrepreneur. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon Live! Our guest today is Patrick Elie, co-founder & CEO of Metrio, a certified B corp that helps businesses manage their ESG with sustainability reporting software. Patrick’s expertise lies in management, sustainability and data strategy, marketing, and business development. Over the past decade, he and his team have planned and built sustainable business ventures for clients like Air Canada, ALDO Shoes, Cascades, RBC, and Target.  In our conversation, Patrick tells us about what it’s like bootstrapping a company with a long-time friend, and doing something that you really believe in, even if you’re a few years ahead of the curve. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon Live, our guest today is StartupFest’s Founder, Philippe Telio. Philippe is a serial entrepreneur passionate about the startup world. The International Startup Festival also known as the Startupfest, a successful series of international conferences on the business of startups. As a result of the event’s success, Philippe also founded two related initiatives: ResolveTO and the Elevator World Tour. Learn more about how Philippe’s passion to create his own job which led him to build one of the most recognized events for startups. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon live, our guest today is Virgile Ollivier, Co-Founder & CEO at Livescale. Video, digital media and innovation expert, Virgile is a French entrepreneur and an active player in the Montreal startup scene. Livescale is the first live streaming platform that allows you to create a real-time interactive eCommerce experience, known as LIVEShopping.  Listen as he shares what he learned from his experience as an entrepreneur, and how his team is adjusting to the COVID-19 situation. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon Live, today’s guests are key players from Montreal’s innovation scene who have joined us for a conversation on the benefits and challenges of open innovation projects, especially in times of crisis. They are leaders fro m Centech, Osmo, Desjardins Lab and Radio Canada, who shared with us their valuable insights for fostering more collaboration between startups and the corporate world. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon live, this week we have Barney Jackson speaking to us, Head of Engineering at allplants. Barney has spent the last 10 years working on social impact and environmentally-focused companies and he joined allplants to make a change. allplants offers vegan hand-prepared meals that can be delivered all over the UK. They secured 3.9 million euros this year! Keep listening to hear about sustainability in the food tech industry. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon live, this week we have Melanie Yencken, UX Design Lead at Google talking to us about optimization. Starting her career as a graphic designer, Melanie now manages the Google my Business team across the UK and US. In her previous roles she built and led UX teams globally at Startups, Schibsted and eBay, and is currently the founder and co-ordinator of London Tech Ladies which is a women’s network of over 4,000. This is one episode not to miss! Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon live, this week we have Valeria Cortex Diez speaking to us, Senior Data Scientist at Monzo, online app-based challenger back. Valeria is on the borrowing team at Monzo, building credit models and analysis to provide the best options for customers. Previously working with Machine Learning at Lloyds Banking Group, she’s also an advocate of ethics and responsible AI. Keep listening to hear about data at Monzo. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon live, this week we have Jan Teichmann, Senior Data Consultant at Trainline, speaking to us. Jan is a thought leader in and data consultant, with a track record of transforming companies into commercial production usage at scale. Trainline was created to revolutionize rail & coach travel and has seen huge growth. In 2015 it was acquired by KKR and in 2019 it was listed on the London Stock Exchange with a closing valuation of >£2bn. Keep listening to get introduced to the fundamental principles of data science. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon live, this week we have 2 guests! One is Robbie Coomber, who’s the CTO and Co-Founder of Blueheart, the sexual therapy app helping people have a happier taboo-free sex life. Blueheart is also part of the Antler program, an early stage VC. Joining him is Walter Cegarra, the Founder of startup TRIBAM, helping people share their favourite recommendations with their community and friends. Launching his startup after a career in banking, Walter did our first part-time bootcamp at Le Wagon so knows what it’s like to be both technical and non-technical. Keep listening to hear their insights! Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Le Wagon live, this week we have Kim Nilsson speaking to us, CEO at Pivigo. Also running Europe’s largest data science training program, Pivigo is a marketplace connecting data freelancers with organisations. Kim has a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management...as well as awards like ‘Women in IT’’s ‘entrepreneur of the year’ and one of the ‘top 50 most influential women in IT in the UK’ for 2 years in a row. This is one not to miss - keep listening to hear all her secrets. Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.