Thank you.
I'm co-founding the Canadian Blockchain Association for Women with Alexis Pappas, currently the chief innovation officer with GuildOne; with Janine Moir, who's the national blockchain assurance leader at Deloitte; and with Pamela Draper, who is the CEO of Bitvo.
Our goal was to make sure that we had gender parity within the space. We feel that blockchain has an amazing opportunity to create better inclusion, not just [Technical difficulty—Editor] but under-represented groups. I believe it was one of our federal ministers who believed we could actually open up billions of dollars in GDP if we could create gender parity in the workspace.
Our organization has produced lots of webinars and events trying to encourage women to explore the space, but we've also done fundraising to develop out bursary programs to help women get educational training within the space and networking opportunities with organizations so they can explore the potential.
Our group is fairly active. We're currently merging with the Canadian Blockchain Consortium through an inclusion committee. We're bringing on about 20 members of diversified, under-represented groups within our inclusion committee, and are able to put the full resources of our consortium behind that to develop even more educational programs. We have a lead for this committee. Her name is Melissa Smith. She's a partner with BLG and is going to be chairing this to make sure we host even more events and support even greater fundraising, to make sure that women and under-represented groups get the educational training they need so they don't get left behind in this new wave of technology coming forward.