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Nastaran Bisheban on the TechTO stage

Nastaran Bisheban

Chief Information Officer, VetStrategy

EnterpriseTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2024

Nastaran Bisheban is chief information officer of VetStrategy and national vice president of the CIO Association of Canada. She was chief technology officer of KFC Canada when she joined the TechTO stage in 2024, and has held technology leadership roles at Rakuten Kobo, Canadian Tire, BlackBerry, Siemens and CGI.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2024. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Nastaran

In their words

companies will come and go projects will come and go but the networks and people that you make their life different will stay

TechTO, Mar 2024 · watch at 1:23

the failure only ends when we are dead

TechTO, Mar 2024 · watch at 3:47
A few quotes can’t cover everything Nastaran said on the TechTO stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Nastaran

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Quick answers

Who is Nastaran Bisheban?

Chief information officer of VetStrategy, where she runs technology strategy and IT operations, and national vice president of the CIO Association of Canada.

What was her role at KFC Canada?

Chief technology officer. That was her title when she appeared on the TechTO stage in March 2024 for a fireside chat on data strategy and agile culture.

How did she get into engineering?

She planned to be a brain surgeon and failed Iran's medical school entrance exam by three places in her province. She sat the engineering exam the following year and never went back.

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