Laura Silvester is a Canadian technology entrepreneur and advisor, community-builder, educator, and life-long learner. Laura is Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Product at Anthill, an AI-native workforce management platform built to train, engage, and retain frontline workers. Laura has held product management and operational leadership roles at Hootsuite, Lululemon Athletica, and McKinsey & Company. Laura was recently named on The Peak’s Emerging Leaders List in Tech.

Building learning communities is a joy for Laura. She is Co-founder of Sauder: In Real Life, a life strategy program for students at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is a Board Director for alumni UBC, the alumni association at UBC. Laura was also the Co-founder and Director for the Associate Product Management (APM) Vancouver Chapter and has served as a Board Director for the non-profit organization JDC West. All of these organizations champion and deliver community-based learning to prepare us for the future of work.

Laura’s purpose is to elevate the world by solving big problems together with other life-long learners. Laura’s biggest learnings to date come from parenting two energetic children alongside her husband in Vancouver, Canada