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Avery Swartz (she/her)

Founder & CEO, Camp Tech

Avery Swartz is an acclaimed tech educator and best-selling author. She is the founder and CEO of Camp Tech, Canada’s most established provider of practical tech and AI skills training, and is co-lead of AI Skills Lab Canada, a national program bridging the AI gender adoption gap for women and non-binary entrepreneurs.

Avery is the resident tech contributor on CTV Your Morning and is regularly heard on CBC Radio. She was ranked number 5 on Search Engine Journal's Top 50 Women in Marketing list and hosted the AI Meets World podcast from Microsoft and The Globe and Mail Content Studio.

Sessions

BDC Women in Technology BootCamp

What's Your Line? Developing Your Own AI Use Guidelines

Entrepreneurs are expected to build AI-forward companies. But somewhere along the way, you'll bump into a use case that makes you wince, and nobody is going to tell you where to draw the line between what's acceptable and what isn't. You have to figure that out for yourself. See More.