Christine Renaud

Biography

Christine Renaud is the CEO and co-founder of e180 and its flagship product, Braindate. She obtained her Master's in education as a Knox Fellow from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she studied informal learning. Before creating e180 in 2011, she harnessed the power of media as a force for change as a podcast producer for Learning Matters in New York City.

e180 is, a Benefit corporation (B Corp) based in Montreal, whose mission is to reinvent the ways humans learn across the world. In 2011, , e180 created the web app Braindate.com, which allows participants to have one-on-one or small group, face-to-face knowledge-sharing conversations about a chosen topic. Over 100,000 users from 100+ clients such as Airbnb, GE, Salesforce, C2 Montreal, Morgan Stanley, the Cannes Lions Festival and TED have participated in braindates and helped transform the learning culture at the international events they attend.

She was recognized in 2018 as one of the inaugural Canadian Inspiring Fifty, honouring 50 women shaping the future of technology in Canada as well as the Female Entrepreneur of the Year by Startup Canada in 2016, and one of the Most Innovative People in the Event Industry by Bizbash in 2015. She has shared her groundbreaking work on collaborative learning as a speaker in events such as SXSW & SXSWedu (Austin, USA), Morgan Stanley Women Leadership Summit (Chicago, USA), C2 Montreal (Montreal, Canada), Creative Mornings (Montreal, Canada), re:publica (Berlin, Germany).