This year’s World IP Day theme, “Powering Change: Women and Innovation and Creativity,” celebrates the ingenuity and importance of the women who are driving change and creating a better future across the world. To help celebrate this year’s theme, IP Osgoode will be featuring a Q&A series with female entrepreneurs from the Innovation Clinic. In the days leading up to World IP Day on April 26, the Q&A series will not only showcase the entrepreneurs’ innovative ideas and creativity but also their perspectives on navigating the IP commercialization process.

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Lara Hammoud, co-founder of Lawyerly, is a B.Comm. and LL.L graduate of the University of Ottawa. Lara’s career epiphany – to use her knowledge, skills, experience, time and energy on helping others – transpired as she was working as a Financial Operations Analyst at a large American bank. That year marked the beginning of a challenging, yet very exciting journey to master law and all the legal tools to serve her aspiration of making the world a better place. After graduating law school, Lara decided to continue pursuing her dream of improving access to justice by working on her new venture, “Lawyerly”, an online marketplace that connects clients in need with legal professionals to provide unbundled legal services fully online.

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Roya Mahboob is a serial entrepreneur, CEO and President of Digital Citizen Fund, Bright Citizen (Coffee& Tea) and EdyEdy. She is focused on building #Digital Literacy for women and children in developing countries. Her personal goal for #Digital Literacy is to bridge the gap between education and job markets by offering practical online skills in her new company and platform EdyEdy for women and youth in developing countries.

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This week, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will make a long-awaited appearance on Capitol Hill. With Facebook under new and increased scrutiny in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) following the Cambridge Analytica data breach, Facebook’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is set to be grilled by representatives of both the Senate and the House. The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica affair has spooked users as well as investors, igniting a #deleteFacebook campaign and sending the company’s stock price off a cliff. Questions from US lawmakers are likely to focus on fundamental issues surrounding how Facebook collects, protects, and commercializes user data on its platform. These matters strike at the heart of Facebook’s advertising revenue model, meaning that Zuckerberg’s congressional moment may potentially become an existential threat to his company’s operations as well as the data-driven operations of his peers in the technology industry.

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