Real Talk St. John’s: Career, Stories & Networking
March 24 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Real talk: Career, Stories, and Networking is an empowering evening designed to bring together professionals (women and men) from the Ocean sector to share authentic career journeys, exchange insights and build meaningful professional connections.
Join ECO Canada and Oceans Advance to hear from women who have carved unique paths, to connect with like-minded professionals and open conversation about challenges, growth and success.
Agenda:
4:00 – 4:30 – Check-in and Networking
4:30 – 5:00 – Speaker Session
5:00 – 5:30 – Networking
Speaker:
Shelly Petten is the Executive Director of Oceans Advance, the ocean technology cluster group in Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. Shelly joined Oceans Advance in 2023 and brings over 20 years’ experience in the ocean technology sector from both private industry and the public sector to the organization. Prior to joining Oceans Advance, Shelly was a Sales Manager with Kraken Robotics and held previous roles as Marketing & Communications Manager with Kraken as well as with PanGeo Subsea. Throughout her career with industry and as an Economic Development Officer with the government of Newfoundland & Labrador, Shelly has fostered many professional relationships with partners throughout the province, country and the world and she is eager to continue to use those relationships to not only support the growth of the ocean technology sector in Newfoundland & Labrador, but also to position the province as the leader in this sector for technology development and ocean technology capacity.
