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RubyConf 2022: Building an education savings platform, with Ruby! by Tyler Ackerman

Wealthsimple Foundation is a Canadian charity working to enable a brighter future for everyone in Canada through access to post-secondary education. The Foundation is supported by Wealthsimple, which builds a variety of digital financial tools trusted by over 2.5 million Canadians. In this talk we'll go over: - How an organization supporting for-profit and non-profit activities is structured (and the ethical considerations that can arise from that) - Responsibilities of engineers working in a non-profit space - Opportunities and challenges of digital products addressing systematic inequalities

November 29, 2022