Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Time: 1:00-4:30pm
Location: Faculty Hall – Pearl Sullivan Engineering (formerly E7), room 7303 (1:00-3:00pm)
Social Activities: CPH Courtyard (3:00-4:30pm; Faculty Hall if inclement weather)
Cost: Free, registration required for lunch and treat
Audience: Women in Engineering students
Register Here: WiE Fall Kickoff with Wealthsimple
Please note: Separate tickets are required to attend the panel and social portions of the event.
About the Event
Kick off Fall 2026 with a discussion panel and roundtable networking with Wealthsimple + a fun, welcoming drop-in event with social activities and a chance to connect with other women and gender-diverse students in engineering!
Lunch will be provided for students registered for the panel, with treats provided for students registered for the social portion. Waitlist and walk-ins welcome while supplies last.
Wealthsimple is looking to hire winter 2027 interns; come get connected!
Event Schedule
1:00-3:00pm: Wealthsimple panel, networking, and lunch in Faculty Hall – PSE 7303.
3:00-4:30pm: Social activities and treats at CPH Green. In case of inclement weather, the social portion will take place in Faculty Hall.
Who is Wealthsimple?
Wealthsimple is a Canadian financial technology company on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom. We use smart technology to make investing, trading, saving, spending, tax filing, and other financial services simpler, more transparent, and more accessible for millions of Canadians.
Check out more about the work Wealthsimple does!
Meet the Attendees:
Mojan Benham
Mojan is a 2017 graduate from the engineering program at uWaterloo, working in tech for a majority of her career from Meta, Shopify, and present-day at Wealthsimple. While at Shopify, she completed her MSc in computational math from the University of Washington, and is currently the senior manager of data science for the banking department at Wealthsimple. Mojan is also a new mom, and enjoys long distance running in her spare time.
Hannah Yeates
Hannah graduated from Management Engineering at uWaterloo in 2017, and has spent the majority of her career working in the financial technology space. Hannah has experience in product development, data engineering, and security engineering. Presently, Hannah is a Staff Engineer at Wealthsimple on the security team focused on client identity and access management. Outside of work, Hannah lives in Kitchener with her husband and two young children. She also loves to knit, crochet, sew, spin, and do embroidery in her spare time.
Flora Zhang
Flora is a 2016 Waterloo Math graduate, with experience in public accounting, software analytics, product management, and data science. Having spent the majority of her career in financial services and tech, she is currently the senior manager of data science for the fraud department at Wealthsimple. Outside of work, Flora loves travelling and learning new things, the latest being cooking and horse riding.
Masha Kuznetsova
Masha is a Senior Software Developer at Wealthsimple, where she builds platform systems that improve reliability and help teams understand and improve the engineering health of their domains. She enjoys helping engineers navigate growth, feedback, and career decisions, and believes engineering careers are less like ladders and more like choose-your-own-adventure books, with plenty of perfectly respectable wrong turns along the way.
Madi Fuller
Senior Specialist for the Talent & Performance Programs.