Dr. Dawn Jutla is the Scotiabank Chair of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Sobey School of Business, and founder of Peer Ledger Inc., a blockchain-based responsible supply chain startup.

Dawn has wide-ranging interests across technology and business. She has co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications, a book in Pearson’s Information Professional Series entitled “e-Business Readiness: a Customer-Focused Framework”, and an issued USPTO patent for a blockchain identity translator. She is a recipient of a World Technology Award in the software category for her socio-technical work on online privacy. Dawn also has 16 years of Board experience across university, hospital and IT organizations. She served for 6 of those years on the OASIS international standards organization’s Board of Directors.

Today, her multi-disciplinary multi-sector experience as a woman in technology and business continue to cross-fertilize her contributions and interactions with government, university, and industry.