Andrea Palmer-Boroski

Andrea Palmer-Boroski

Andrea is an entrepreneur, autism health advocate, and exponential tech geek based in Vancouver, BC. She is the Founder and CEO of Awake Labs, an autism health company committed to improve the lives of those living on the autism spectrum. She is also a World Economics Forum Global Shaper in the Vancouver hub.

A young entrepreneur motivated by social impact, quantified health care, and democratizing technology, Andrea is dedicated to building and mentoring companies and to creating strong entrepreneurial communities. She currently mentors teams of entrepreneurship students from her Alma Mater, UBC. Previously, she led the Global Engineering Team at Engineers Without Borders UBC, and was the Technical Captain of the UBC Thunderbots, a team designing, building, and competing autonomous soccer-playing robots.

Andrea is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Option from UBC. She just returned from developing Awake Labs in Santiago as part of Start Up Chile.

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