She Talks Tech: The Neurodiverse Advantage

At She Talks Tech: The Neurodiverse Advantage, we’re creating space for honest, thoughtful conversation about what it really means to work in tech as someone who identifies as neurodivergent — and what it means to build teams, companies, and ecosystems where neurodiverse talent can thrive. This event brings together founders, professionals, leaders, and allies to share lived experiences, challenge assumptions, and explore how diverse ways of thinking strengthen innovation. What to Expect: Lived Experiences in Tech & Leadership: Hear from women who identify as neurodivergent about navigating careers, entrepreneurship, and leadership — on their own terms. Inclusion in Action: Learn from team leaders and allies who are rethinking hiring, communication, management, and workplace culture to better support neurodiverse colleagues. Beyond Awareness: Move past surface-level conversations and into practical insights on fostering environments where different thinking styles are valued — not accommodated as an afterthought but recognized as an advantage. Community & Connection: Whether you identify as neurodivergent or want to be a stronger advocate, this is a space to listen, learn, and build meaningful connections. Innovation thrives on difference. By embracing neurodivergent perspectives, we build better products, stronger teams, and a more human tech industry. Join us for a conversation rooted in experience, respect, and possibility. Meet the Speakers: Wanda K. Deschamps Wanda is the founder and principal of Liberty Co – a consultancy focused on increasing neurodiverse employment with a special emphasis on autism due to her own diagnosis at midlife. A champion for inclusion, she enjoys speaking and writing under the banner of the Inclusion Revolution, a worldwide movement launched in 2018 to spearhead broader thinking about disability, especially disability employment. As part of this, Wanda is a proud advocate for autistics, including as an advisor and participant in research into autistics experiences in the workplace and beyond. Prior to founding Liberty Co, Wanda enjoyed a twenty-five-year career in the philanthropic sector serving with leading Canadian institutions. Now a neuroinclusion thought leader and speaker, she partners with public, private and non-profit organizations across Canada, and is known for bringing creativity and passion to every session, panel and keynote. In recognition of the impact she is making, Wanda is the 2024 recipient of the Phillip Emmerson Award for Employment Excellence from CASE (Canadian Association for Supported Employment) and the 2023 Life Sciences Ontario volunteer award. Sarah-Beth Bianchi Sarah-Beth Bianchi wears many hats – coach, community organizer, mom, spouse, friend, and lifelong learner. Through these roles, she understands firsthand the balancing act of building a fulfilling life while managing the many demands of career, family, and personal growth. Sarah-Beth works with individuals navigating the wonderfully messy middle of their careers and lives. She coaches through the lens of her lived experience with neurodivergence and evidence-based, ADHD-affirming approaches to motivation, strengths, and goals. Sarah-Beth supports clients in moving from feeling overwhelmed to feeling empowered, helping them make intentional changes and design lives that reflect their values, priorities, and aspirations. Isabella Chawrun Isabella Chawrun is a PhD candidate supervised by Lili Liu, where she has interest applying wearable health technologies that have been successfully adopted by people living with dementia to populations of older autistic adults with and without intellectual disability. Her dissertation focuses on the lived experience of heath, health care experiences, and aging for older autistic adults. In addition to being a graduate researcher at the AIRP, she is a research trainee at the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health, at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, where she applies big data and machine learning techniques to cohorts of underserved populations, specifically older autistic adults with and without intellectual disability. Isabella completed her Honors Bachelor of Science in Biological Anthropology at University of Toronto, Mississauga in 2018 and her Master of Arts at York University in Social Anthropology in 2020. Isabella has lived experience of autism and mental health, which guides her research and advocacy work. Isabella loves learning about all things technology, machine learning and big data, and mixed methods research, and is happy to connect. Jennifer Seberras, P.Log. Jennifer Seberras is an entrepreneur, business coach, and founder of LeadershipHub.ca, dedicated to supporting women as they step into — and grow within — entrepreneurship. She built and scaled a transportation and logistics company in a male-dominated industry, growing it from the ground up into a multimillion-dollar business and eventually selling it. Navigating rapid growth, industry barriers, and high-stakes decision-making gave Jennifer a deep, firsthand understanding of what it truly takes to build and lead a business from the inside out. Through that experience, she recognized a recurring gap: many women were capable, driven, and ambitious, yet lacked practical support, confidence, and real-world guidance to navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. After selling her business, Jennifer founded LeadershipHub.ca to help fill that gap. Today, Jennifer works with women across all stages of business — from those just starting out to founders leading established, high-growth companies — helping them build clarity, confidence, and sustainable strategies. What sets her apart is simple: she’s been there. She understands the pressure, uncertainty, wins, setbacks, and everything in between. Jennifer often describes her work as being the person she wished she had while building her own business — someone who offers honest, practical insight rooted in lived experience, not theory or hype. Her approach is grounded, strategic, and real — focused on helping women not just dream about growth, but actually build it. Meet the Moderator Stefanie Bruinsma Stefanie Bruinsma is the founder of AutoCate, a Canadian automotive technology and education company focused on transparency, empowerment, and accessibility in car care. She is a licensed Automotive Service Technician, a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo, and an entrepreneur whose lived experience with ADHD informs how she thinks about problem-solving, leadership, and innovation. Stefanie is passionate about creating more inclusive pathways into skilled trades and technical fields, and her work has been recognized through business award nominations and media coverage for its impact in advocacy, innovation, and community building. Thank you to our sponsor!