Session 3B: The 5 Year Plan: Myth or Must? Strategically Act to Create your Career

Time and Date: 3:00-4:00 PM on Saturday, May 23
Session Type: Co-Speaker
Location: Blusson Hall, Room 10011

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do…”
- Steve Jobs

What are your interests, preferences, personal style, and your unique value proposition? How do you pursue your dream while being practical at the same time and establish the best foundation for your career direction? 

Speakers: Angela Robert, Kristine Steuart
 

Angela Robert: CEO and Co-Founder of Conquer Mobile

Angela founded Conquer Mobile with a vision to transform the way people work by effortlessly embracing mobile technology. She leads with effervescent passion and inimitable style – driving an unusual combination of innovation and process efficiency.

Angela established her credentials as a software engineer at Scotiabank, IBM and Electronic Arts (EA). At EA she worked on more than 20 games in five years and as Development Director for Skate™ and Skate 2™.

She is an active voice in many trade associations including BCTIA, Acetech, Wavefront, LifeSciencesBC and Surrey’s Innovation Boulevard. Angela graduated from University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science.

When she’s not inspiring and energizing everyone, Angela has a talent for scoring goals on the ice and creating disturbingly healthy smoothies.

Kristine Steuart is CEO and co-founder of Allocadia, an enterprise cloud software company that helps marketers plan and measure their return on marketing investment. After years of experiencing the pain of managing marketing budgets in cumbersome spreadsheets, Kristine and her twin sister Katherine Berry, co-founded Allocadia in 2009. Inspired with the belief that there had to be a better way and driven by a passion to help people succeed, Kristine has led Allocadia from a bootstrapped start up with a handful of customers to a global organization with more than 130 customers and thousands of users worldwide. Kristine channels her passion for people into an unwavering commitment to helping her customers succeed and to building and leading the world-class team of 60 team members at Allocadia. Her experiences as a women executive in technology have further inspired her to mentor and support fellow women tech entrepreneurs, and she is a regular speaker at various local and global events. Kristine is an alumni of Simon Fraser University.