Episode #58: Valeria Cortez Vaca Diez, Senior Data Scientist at Monzo Bank

Welcome to Le Wagon live. Our guests today are Roger Dudler, Founder & CEO of Frontify and Christian Reber, Founder & CEO of Pitch.Roger was previously a Software Engineer and Product Designer for over 10 years, before leading his organization to the forefront of brand management, with a powerful and holistic cloud-based experience.Christian previously founded the award-winning app, Wunderlist and is now an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses. He’s also received the Forbes 30 under 30 Award in both 2014 and in 2016.Learn more about their products and how they’ve come to work together.Podcast and music production: yoann.saunier.me Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.