BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Vienna BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20220110T163136Z UID:2DC27BF5-168E-4FD5-A410-E84C7E4571FA DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20211215T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20211215T190000 DESCRIPTION:F&I Talk # 70: Soodeh Farokhi\, Ph.D. (Tech Entrepreneur\, Prod uct Executive)\nTopic: My Becoming Journey: A Cloud Researcher\, A Tech En trepreneur\, A Working Mom\, and A Strategic Executive.\n\nSoodeh Farokhi\ , Ph.D.\, is a visionary technology entrepreneur and a proven strategic pr oduct executive with over a decade of exponential experience in the enterp rise software space. She has a solid dual tech-business view with broad ex perience building innovative software products from the ground up to pass the product-market-fit and have large-scale customer deployments. She is c urrently the VP of Product at NAKISA\, a global leader in enterprise cloud solutions for Organizational Design and Lease Management. She is the foun der and former CTO of C2RO\, a VC-backed enterprise SaaS startup in Canada \, a leader in AI Video Analytics space\, where she was recognized as the finalist of the Canadian Women Entrepreneurs National Award (RBC\, 2020)\, the finalist of the Young Quebec Entrepreneurs Provisional Award (ARISTA\ , 2018)\, and was recognized as an innovator transforming the AI ​​Vid eo Analytics industry (SAP\, 2021). She started her entrepreneurial journe y by co-founding a software service company based in Iran that automates e nterprise business processes. She is the co-founder and a former executive member of the Women of MENA in Technology Montreal chapter and serves as a business advisor and board member for several tech start-ups and organiz ations. She has a PhD. in computer science from Vienna University of Techn ology and an M.Sc.\, and a B.Sc. in SW engineering. She is a diversity and inclusion advocate as she believes a diverse world is an enabled world! S he is the co-founder and a former executive member of the Women of MENA in Technology Montreal chapter and serves as a business advisor and board me mber for several tech start-ups and organizations. She has a PhD. in compu ter science from Vienna University of Technology and an M.Sc.\, and a B.Sc . in SW engineering. She is a diversity and inclusion advocate as she beli eves a diverse world is an enabled world! She is the co-founder and a form er executive member of the Women of MENA in Technology Montreal chapter an d serves as a business advisor and board member for several tech start-ups and organizations. She has a PhD. in computer science from Vienna Univers ity of Technology and an M.Sc.\, and a B.Sc. in SW engineering. She is a d iversity and inclusion advocate as she believes a diverse world is an enab led world!\n\nThe participation is free of charge but registration is requ ired:\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.at/e/fi-talk-70-soodeh-farokhi-phdtech-ent repreneur-product-executive-tickets-181203072267\n\n---------------------- ---------------------\n\n*** During the event\, photographic and video mat erial will be taken. Please inform the i²c team at the venue in case you do not agree with appearing in this material. The photographic and video m aterial taken at the event will be used by i²c in printed and electronic media for promotional purposes.***\n\nCo-sponsored by: i2c\n\nVirtual: htt ps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/291710 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/291710 ORGANIZER:m.heiss@ieee.org SEQUENCE:3 SUMMARY:IEEE TEMS: Founder & Investor Talks: Soodeh Farokhi\, Ph.D. (founde r and former CTO of C2RO) URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/291710 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><div class="g-group l-lg-mar-bot-6 l-md-mar-b ot-4 ">\n<div class="g-cell g-cell-10-12 g-cell-md-1-1">\n<div class="has -user-generated-content">\n<div class="text-body-medium" data-automation=" listing-event-description">\n<p><strong>F&amp\;I Talk # 70: Soodeh Farokhi \, Ph.D. (Tech Entrepreneur\, Product Executive) <br />Topic: My Becoming Journey: A Cloud Researcher\, A Tech Entrepreneur\, A Working Mom\, and A Strategic Executive.</strong></p>\n<p>Soodeh Farokhi\, Ph.D.\, is a vision ary technology entrepreneur and a proven strategic product executive with over a decade of exponential experience in the enterprise software space. She has a solid dual tech-business view with broad experience building inn ovative software products from the ground up to pass the product-market-fi t and have large-scale customer deployments. She is currently the VP of Pr oduct at NAKISA\, a global leader in enterprise cloud solutions for Organi zational Design and Lease Management. She is the founder and former CTO of C2RO\, a VC-backed enterprise SaaS startup in Canada\, a leader in AI Vid eo Analytics space\, where she was recognized as the finalist of the Canad ian Women Entrepreneurs National Award (RBC\, 2020)\, the finalist of the Young Quebec Entrepreneurs Provisional Award (ARISTA\, 2018)\, and was rec ognized as an innovator transforming the AI ​​Video Analytics industry (SAP\, 2021). She started her entrepreneurial journey by co-founding a so ftware service company based in Iran that automates enterprise business pr ocesses. She is the co-founder and a former executive member of the Women of MENA in Technology Montreal chapter and serves as a business advisor an d board member for several tech start-ups and organizations. She has a PhD . in computer science from Vienna University of Technology and an M.Sc.\, and a B.Sc. in SW engineering. She is a diversity and inclusion advocate a s she believes a diverse world is an enabled world! She is the co-founder and a former executive member of the Women of MENA in Technology Montreal chapter and serves as a business advisor and board member for several tech start-ups and organizations. She has a PhD. in computer science from Vien na University of Technology and an M.Sc.\, and a B.Sc. in SW engineering. She is a diversity and inclusion advocate as she believes a diverse world is an enabled world! She is the co-founder and a former executive member o f the Women of MENA in Technology Montreal chapter and serves as a busines s advisor and board member for several tech start-ups and organizations. S he has a PhD. in computer science from Vienna University of Technology and an M.Sc.\, and a B.Sc. in SW engineering. She is a diversity and inclusio n advocate as she believes a diverse world is an enabled world!</p>\n<p>Th e participation is free of charge but registration is required:</p>\n<p>ht tps://www.eventbrite.at/e/fi-talk-70-soodeh-farokhi-phdtech-entrepreneur-p roduct-executive-tickets-181203072267&nbsp\;</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </div>\n<div class="g-group l-mar-bot-6 l-sm-mar-bot-4">\n<div class="stru ctured-content g-cell g-cell-10-12 g-cell-md-1-1">\n<div class="has-user-g enerated-content" data-automation="about-this-event-sc">\n<div class="stru ctured-content-rich-text structured-content__module l-align-left l-mar-ver t-6 l-sm-mar-vert-4 text-body-medium">\n<p>------------------------------- ------------</p>\n<p>*** During the event\, photographic and video materia l will be taken. Please inform the i&sup2\;c team at the venue in case you do not agree with appearing in this material. The photographic and video material taken at the event will be used by i&sup2\;c in printed and elect ronic media for promotional purposes.***</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</di v> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR