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Flames! Flowers! Leslie Cramer of the Blazin’ Lily Gals
26 Sep 2016
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Flames! Flowers! Leslie Cramer of the Blazin’ Lily Gals

by Kris Abel
RoleBeakerhead, fire effects, flames, installation art, interactive art, maker, pyrotechnics, special FX, Women In STEM
Here we present the extended version of Kris Abel’s interview with Leslie Cramer of The Blazin’ Lily Girls, a Calgary-based artistic collective who wowed the crowds at this year’s Beakerhead art & science festival with large, LED-decorated, flame-s...
OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Space Mission Special
18 Sep 2016
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OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Space Mission Special

by Kris Abel
RoleAsteroid, astrophysics, Canadian Space Agency, Earth Sciences, OSIRIS-REx, Royal Ontario Museum, Sample Return Mission, Space Exploration
In this look at a bold space mission to send a probe to bring back a piece of a primitive asteroid, Kris Abel speaks with Dr. Tim Haltigin of the Canadian Space Agency, Dr. Kim Tait, curator of mineralogy at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Dr. Rebecca Ghent, associate pro...
Interactive Fire Art With Trish Lamana
11 Sep 2016
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Interactive Fire Art With Trish Lamana

by Kris Abel
RoleBurning Man, fire, fire effects, installation art, Makers, pyrotechnics
Here we present the full version of Kris Abel’s interview with Trish Lamanna of Site 3 Fire Arts about their RiskeeBall interactive flame experience at the Hamilton SuperCrawl festival. For more information visit: www.site3.ca/...
Understanding Blue Whales Through Their Bones With Jacqui Miller
04 Sep 2016
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Understanding Blue Whales Through Their Bones With Jacqui Miller

by Kris Abel
RoleBlue whales, conservation, marine biology, oceans, Royal Ontario Museum, skeletons
Here we present the full version of Kris Abel’s interview with Jacqueline Miller, mammalogist with the Royal Ontario Museum, on the process of preserving two blue whale skeletons and performing valuable scientific research. For more info visit: www.rom.on.ca/en/co...
Converting Animation Into VR with NFB Director Jelena Popovic
28 Aug 2016
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Converting Animation Into VR with NFB Director Jelena Popovic

by Kris Abel
Roleanimation, Kid Koala, National Film Board, virtual reality, women in film, Women in Tech
Here we present the full version of Kris Abel’s interview with Jelena Popovic, VR producer on Minotaur for The National Film Board of Canada. She shares the process of taking Munro Ferguson’s animated film Minotaur and Kid Koala’s soundtrack and conver...
Edible insect Chef Caryn Goldin Of Entomo Farms
21 Aug 2016
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Edible insect Chef Caryn Goldin Of Entomo Farms

by Kris Abel
Rolebugs, crickets, Eating Insects, edible insects, entomophagy, insects, mealworms
Here’s my interview with Chef Caryn Goldin, culinary manager at Entomo Farms, the largest edible insect farm in North America. From crickets and mealworms, in whole or powder form, she dishes on what is driving their growing adoption in our local food industry. Fo...
Jessica Ching On Her EveKit HPV Home Test
14 Aug 2016
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Jessica Ching On Her EveKit HPV Home Test

by Kris Abel
Rolecervical cancer, health, HPV, industrial design, medical device, sexual health, start up, Women In STEM
Here’s my interview with industrial designer and Eve Medical co-founder Jessica Ching who discusses her EveKit home test kit and HerSwab specimen collection device for HPV and sexually transmitted infections. For more information visit: evekit.com/ Here’s th...
The Secret Lives Of Pokemon With Biologist Aaron Phillips
07 Aug 2016
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The Secret Lives Of Pokemon With Biologist Aaron Phillips

by Kris Abel
Rolebiology, evolution, museum, nature, Pokemon, Pokemon Go, science, zoology
Evolutionary biologist and teacher at the Royal Ontario Museum Aaron Phillips has agreed to pretend that the creatures of Pokemon Go are real and, because we know so little about them, new to science. Here he studies the physiology of a selection of Pokemon to offer ins...
Tech Fashion Designer Wendy Ng’s Empowering Jackets
31 Jul 2016
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Tech Fashion Designer Wendy Ng’s Empowering Jackets

by Kris Abel
Rolefashion, hack clothes, hacking, maker, tech fashion, wearable tech
Here’s my interview with civil engineer and fashion designer Wendy Ng about her Dystropolis collaborations for conceptual tech clothing and her Hack-Your-T-Shirt workshop from this year’s Maker Festival. dystropolis.com/ www.facebook.com/Dystropolis.by.wendy...
Emma Mogus, Weston Youth Innovation Winner, On Tongue Tech
24 Jul 2016
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Emma Mogus, Weston Youth Innovation Winner, On Tongue Tech

by Kris Abel
Roleaccessibility, ALS, girls in STEM, science award, science fair, spinal cord, Women In STEM
Here’s my interview with Emma Mogus, 17 year-old inventor from Oakville, Ontario and winner of the 2016 Weston Youth Innovation Award for her T.I.C. (Tongue Interface Communication) device. For more info visit: www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/innovationaward/ bookswit...
The Portrayal Of Scientists Within Ghostbusters With Alex Leitch & Rachel Ward-Maxwell
17 Jul 2016
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The Portrayal Of Scientists Within Ghostbusters With Alex Leitch & Rachel Ward-Maxwell

by Kris Abel
Roleastronomer, astrophysics, Ghostbusters, Makers, science, science movies, Women In STEM, Women in Tech
Here’s our Ghostbusters round table with astrophysicist Rachel Ward-Maxwell of the Ontario Science Centre and creative technologist Alex Leitch, co-founder of Site 3 coLaboratory. www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/ www.site3.ca/ Here’s the full episode of What She...
Erin “RobotGrrl” Kennedy On Beach-Cleaning Robots
10 Jul 2016
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Erin “RobotGrrl” Kennedy On Beach-Cleaning Robots

by Kris Abel
Role"tech women", beaches, cleanup, environment, lakes, robots, shoreline, Women In STEM
Here’s the extended version of my What She Said interview with Erin Kennedy who is leading an initiative to inspire makers and technologists to design robots that can assist in clean-up of public beaches and shorelines from the constant build-up of ecology-harming...
Scanning Sculptures With Art Gallery of Ontario’s Lisa Ellis
24 May 2016
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Scanning Sculptures With Art Gallery of Ontario’s Lisa Ellis

by Kris Abel
Roleboxwood, NASA, Nebula, scanning, Science Fiction, sculpture, Tilt Brush, virtual reality, women in science, Women In STEM
Lisa Ellis, conservator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, joins us to share her international investigation into the Boxwood micro-sculptures. Crafted 500 years ago, little is known about who made the astonishingly detailed wooden items that often bear a religious theme, a...
Science Fair Winner Rachel Brouwer On Water Filtration
17 May 2016
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Science Fair Winner Rachel Brouwer On Water Filtration

by Kris Abel
RoleAstronaut, Canadian Space Agency, Environmental Science, Girls In Tech, Ladies Learning Code, science fair, Space Exploration, Water Filtration, Water Purity, women in science, Women In STEM
Winner of both the Canada-Wide and World-Wide Science Fairs, Rachel Brouwer joins us from Nova Scotia to share her water filtration and purification system as action is being taken to test her design in Uganda and Kenya. cwsf.youthscience.ca/ We also celebrate David Sai...
Planetary Scientist Dr. Marianne Mader On Meteorites & Meteor-wrongs
10 May 2016
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Planetary Scientist Dr. Marianne Mader On Meteorites & Meteor-wrongs

by Kris Abel
RoleChris Hadfield, maker, Mars, Matt Damon, Met Gala, meteorites, planets, Science Communication, Space Exploration, tech fashion, wildfire, women in science, Women In STEM
What’s it like performing with Chris Hadfield? What’s the difference between a Meteorite and a Meteor-wrong? Dr. Marianne Mader, Managing Director for the Centres for Earth & Space and Fossils & Evolution at the Royal Ontario Museum joins us to discu...
NASA Space Apps Hackathon Winners A Kid On The Moon
04 May 2016
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NASA Space Apps Hackathon Winners A Kid On The Moon

by Kris Abel
RoleApp Developers, apps, Dyson, hackathon, hair dryer, Kids Apps, Lunar Landing, Moon, NASA, Samsung, Space Exploration, vacuum, virtual reality camera, women in science, Women In STEM, Women in Tech
From NASA’s international Space Apps Challenge, we’re joined by Huanning Wang and Tanya Oleksuik, two of the Toronto Hackathon winners responsible for the creative kids app A Kid On The Moon. They represent a team that was among 15,000 people competing acros...
Hairstyle Archaeology, Ellen Rilpley, & Bull Whips
01 May 2016
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Hairstyle Archaeology, Ellen Rilpley, & Bull Whips

by Kris Abel
RoleAlien Day, Archaeology, bull whips, diversity, Gender Parity, Hair Tutorials, Hairstyles, Intel, Sigourney Weaver, stunts, Women In STEM, Women in Tech
We explore the internal pushback Intel has received from their $300 million diversity initiative, the incredible Hairstyle Archaeology research of Janet Stephens, the Bull Whip skills of Neuropsychologist Jessica Cail, and give a nod to Ellen Ripley as fans celebrate #A...
Forensic Science Pathologist Dr. Chitra Rao
19 Apr 2016
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Forensic Science Pathologist Dr. Chitra Rao

by Kris Abel
RoleCanada, Detective, food hacking, forensics, Hamilton, Homicide, Law, low-sodium, Mystery, Quantum Computing, women in science, Women In STEM
In 1984 Dr. Chitra Rao became Canada’s first full-time female pathologist. She was also the first in her profession to visit the bodies at the crime scene before they arrived at her morgue. She joins us to share her career as director of pathology at Hamilton Gene...
Video game creators Emma Westecott & Samantha Stahlke, Astronaut Jeremy Hansen
13 Apr 2016
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Video game creators Emma Westecott & Samantha Stahlke, Astronaut Jeremy Hansen

by Kris Abel
RoleAstronaut, Canadian Space Agency, Ontario Science Scentre, Space Exploration, Space Simulation, Video Games, Women In Games, Women In STEM, Women in Tech
Spirit, a video game of possession and platform puzzles, won Best Technical Achivement at this year’s Level Up! student showcase. We’re joined by Lead Programmer Samantha Stahlke to discuss her UOIT team’s win. youtu.be/RkhU61v_E6E The organizer of Lev...
Tattoo Collector & Expert Louise Schiffmacher
06 Apr 2016
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Tattoo Collector & Expert Louise Schiffmacher

by Kris Abel
Rolemusic fashion, public speaking, Royal Ontario Museum, tattoos, wearable tech, Women In STEM, world culture
A world renown tattoo collector and expert, Louise and her husband Henk are the proprietors of the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum and the famous Schifmmaker & Veldhoen Tattooing Studio. They are leading experts on the history of tattoos and their cultural use around the wo...
Jurassic Park Science With Palaeontologist Victoria Arbour
29 Mar 2016
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Jurassic Park Science With Palaeontologist Victoria Arbour

by Kris Abel
Rolecloning, Dinosaurs, inventions, Jurassic Park, Moon Shot, palaeontology, space, women in science, Women In STEM, WomenInTech, YouTube
Canadian palaeontologist Victoria Arbour is helping us update the science of Jurassic Park as we explore two amazing discoveries that ignite our imagination. Does the recent discovery of a pregnant T-Rex with intact DNA mean we can clone dinosaurs? Will a chicken, recen...
SciBabe Yvette d’Entremont On GMOs, Gluten, & Critical Thinking
23 Mar 2016
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SciBabe Yvette d’Entremont On GMOs, Gluten, & Critical Thinking

by Kris Abel
RoleCritical Thinking, Food Myths, Sceptic, Science Communication, women in science, Women In STEM
Using her background and training as a chemist, Yvette d’Entremont uses her blog to navigate the online world of self-proclaimed nutritionists and mommy bloggers with a mixture of laughter and common sense to filter out the reliable from the woefully misleading, a...
Twitter Engineer Helen Zeng & Girls Crack The Code
15 Mar 2016
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Twitter Engineer Helen Zeng & Girls Crack The Code

by Kris Abel
Roleairplanes, aviation, Bank of Canada, Canadian history, Currency, girls code, Regent Park, Twitter, Women In STEM, Women in Tech, WWII
Twitter software engineer Helen Zeng talks to us about the joy of coding and the importance of tech camps for kids like Toronto’s own Girls Crack The Code. After getting the chance to meet Helen and check out Twitter Canada’s headquarters, three of the Girls...
Maker Workshops For Kids With Steam Labs’ Lindy Wilkins
08 Mar 2016
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Maker Workshops For Kids With Steam Labs’ Lindy Wilkins

by Kris Abel
Roleaerospace, aviation, hackathon, Maker Kids, Maker Space, March Break, Star Wars Rey, Summer Camp, UV light, Women In STEM, Women in Tech, women's day
Community technologist and instructor Lindy Wilkins is our special guest to help us discuss the cool March Break workshops and summer camps you can find at Maker Spaces across Canada. Her own group at Toronto’s steamlabs.ca/ is running a week-long series of worksh...
The Remarkable Women Who’ve Won Sci-Tech Oscars
01 Mar 2016
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The Remarkable Women Who’ve Won Sci-Tech Oscars

by Kris Abel
RoleAcademy Awards, Ben Jerry's, bioluminescense, diversity, ice cream, ILM, Kodak, lighting, Oscars, U2, virtual reality, VR Cinema, women in science, Women In STEM, Women in Tech
To complement the issue of diversity that has dominated the conversation around this year’s Oscars, we look at the Academy’s Scientific-Technical Awards to profile the embarrassingly short list of women who have won during the ceremony’s 18 year histor...
Neutron Stars With Astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi
22 Feb 2016
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Neutron Stars With Astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi

by Kris Abel
RoleArchaeology, Astronomy, astrophysics, Egypt, Honda, hoverboard, McGill, mobility device, neutron stars, pulsars, satellites, scooter, self-balancing, TED, women in science, Women In STEM
Having just won the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, Canada’s highest science honour and won that includes a $1 million prize, Professor Victoria Kaspi joins us to share her study of neutron stars, pulsars, and the mystery of Fast Ra...
Tech Fashion Designer Kathryn Blair On MakeFashion.ca
18 Feb 2016
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Tech Fashion Designer Kathryn Blair On MakeFashion.ca

by Kris Abel
Rolefashion, gravitational waves, hacker women, hacktivism, LIGO, tech fashion, wearables, women in science, Women In STEM
She creates clothes that shape-shift, illuminate, and change to match your mood, temperature, and popularity on social media. Tech fashion designer Kathryn Blair joins us from Calgary to discuss her runway designs with MakeFashion.ca, the influential Calgary-based show ...
Bats & Woolly Mammoths With Cylita Guy
11 Feb 2016
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Bats & Woolly Mammoths With Cylita Guy

by Kris Abel
RoleBats, disease, gene editing, Ice Age, Mammoths, miscarriage, Ontario Science Centre, women in science, Women In STEM
We love bats and so does our guest this week. Cylita Guy is a PhD researcher at University of Toronto studying zoonotic diseases and their wildlife reservoirs and she talks to us about her focus on bats. She also works for the Ontario Science Centre which has just launc...
Anonymous Researcher Gabriella Coleman & Super Bowl Tech
04 Feb 2016
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Anonymous Researcher Gabriella Coleman & Super Bowl Tech

by Kris Abel
Roleactivism, Anonymous, anthropology, cycling, doping, drones, GoDaddy, Hackers, quadrocopters, Super Bowl, women in science, Women in Tech
Are there women in Anonymous? And what actions would get you kicked out of the international hacker group? Our special guest Gabriella Coleman has spent years using her background in cultural anthropology to study Anonymous and find out the answers to such questions. Sh...
Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan & Lilly Wyden of Instagram
27 Jan 2016
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Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan & Lilly Wyden of Instagram

by Kris Abel
RoleGoogle Cardboard, Instagram, Liberal MP, science centre, STEM, Sundance, virtual reality, women in science, Women in Tech
The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Canada’s new Minister of Science joins us this week to discuss science institutions, social media, and the need to inspire more women to take an interest in science. kirstyduncan.liberal.ca/ www.instagram.com/sciencemin/ Lilly Wyden o...
Cisco Offers Free Tech Courses For Women Entrepreneurs
20 Jan 2016
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Cisco Offers Free Tech Courses For Women Entrepreneurs

by Kris Abel
RoleCisco, entrepreneurs, fashion, fashion tech, small business, tech courses, wearable tech, women entrepreneurs, Women in Tech
Willa Black and Donna Cooney of Cisco Canada join us to share Cisco’s Women Entrepreneurs Circle, an initiative that offers 90 hours of free online tech and business courses while providing guiding experts and digital resources to assist women looking to start the...
Hacking Online Harassment & CES Tech Women
12 Jan 2016
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Hacking Online Harassment & CES Tech Women

by Kris Abel
Rolecats, dogs, Lady GaGa, Online Harassment, pet tech, robotics, tech fashion, wearables, Women in Tech
With the Consumer Electronic Show over, we discuss our favourite stories from the Las Vegas show including Intel’s announcement of the Hack Harassment Initiative, a campaign to focus the tech industry’s efforts against online harassment that will include Lad...
First Doll In Space & E-Drink On The Tonight Show
05 Jan 2016
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First Doll In Space & E-Drink On The Tonight Show

by Kris Abel
RoleCanada, dolls, dolphin, European Space Agency, sensory tech, space, STEM, STEM toys, women in science, Women in Tech
We start the new year off by celebrating an international effort to send a STEM doll into space that began with the dreams of a 6 year-old Canadian girl named Abigail. www.lottie.com/blogs/blog/817716…-year-old-abigail We’re also thrilled to see student inventor A...
Blue Whales & Singing Mice with Jacqui Miller of the Royal Ontario Museum
15 Dec 2015
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Blue Whales & Singing Mice with Jacqui Miller of the Royal Ontario Museum

by Kris Abel
RoleAstronaut, Blue whale, Halifax, Helen Sharman, mice, museums, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Royal Ontario Museum, teddy bear, Wildlife Photographer, women in science, Women in Tech, xmas music
Jacqueline Miller from the Royal Ontario Museum joins us this week to talk about recovering the bodies of two Blue whales from the coast of Newfoundland. She shares her career transition from being an ER nurse to a mammalogist and natural history technician plus her ear...
Ladies Learning Code & YTV Discuss Hour of Code Programming Workshops
08 Dec 2015
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Ladies Learning Code & YTV Discuss Hour of Code Programming Workshops

by Kris Abel
Role"Hour of Code", "women in tech" "programming girls" "programming women" "STEM" "mobile navigation" "card games" "coding workshops"
Mylie Taylor from YTV’s The Zone and Nat Cooper of Ladies Learning Code join us for Computer Science Education Week to discuss the coding workshops of the global Hour of Code initiative and their own fun week-long TV series of lessons. www.ytv.com/blog/coded-holiday-car...
NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson & #GivingTuesday
03 Dec 2015
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NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson & #GivingTuesday

by Kris Abel
RoleAugmented Reality, Charity, Climate Talks, GivingTuesday, NASA, STEM, virtual reality, women in science, Women in Tech
She’s been given the Medal of Freedom. We share the inspiring story of NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson who joined the space agency during the height of segregation to play an influential role in the Apollo missions. www.nasa.gov/feature/katherin...
Bay Bloor Radio’s Danu & Izabela, Nanoleaf Bulbs, & Vinyl DJs
24 Nov 2015
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Bay Bloor Radio’s Danu & Izabela, Nanoleaf Bulbs, & Vinyl DJs

by Kris Abel
Roleaudio tech, headphones, record player, turntable, vinyl, vinyl collector, vinyl DJ, Women in Tech
Danu Mandelshon and Izabela Miziala of Bay Bloor Radio joined us this week for a #TurntableTues special. Danu’s family has maintained their Hi-Fi studio store in Canada for three generations, going back to 1946! He speaks about how vinyl has changed over the years as it...
Prof Molly Shoichet, See Jane Drill, & Levitating Cakes
18 Nov 2015
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Prof Molly Shoichet, See Jane Drill, & Levitating Cakes

by Kris Abel
RoleBlindness, Cake Design, Cake Innovation, DIY, Home Maintenance, Home Repair, Polmer, Regenerative Medicine, Spinal Injury, Stem Cells, Stroke, women in science, Women in Tech, YouTube viral
Winner of the prestigious Fleming Medal, Prof. Molly Shoichet is our live guest this week. She holds Canada’s Research Chair in tissue engineering and is responsible for a breakthrough polymer that potentially could help deliver drugs, stem cells, and scaffolds into the...
Virtual Reality Architect & Dancing Engineer Layla Mah
11 Nov 2015
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Virtual Reality Architect & Dancing Engineer Layla Mah

by Kris Abel
RoleAMD, Ballroom Dancing, Dancing, engineering, virtual reality, Women in Tech
She is the inventor of LiquidVR for chipmaker AMD, a new technology that will counteract the effects of motion sickness in virtual reality systems. We chat with Layla Mah about what causes some people to feel queasy in movie experiences and explore her sense of adventur...
GoDaddy VP Jill Schoolenberg, Twitch Creative, Russian Women On The Moon
03 Nov 2015
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GoDaddy VP Jill Schoolenberg, Twitch Creative, Russian Women On The Moon

by Kris Abel
Roleart, Crafty, Female Astronauts, Gender Parity, GoDaddy, Lunar Mission, Russian Space, Superbowl Ads, Twitch.TV, WomenInTech
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… GoDaddy’s expansion into Canada brings new women in tech leadership roles such as Vice President Jill Schoolenberg who discusses with us issues on #Wom...
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