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Contest

Pitch contest

Present your project, your journey or your idea to a jury and to the audience. The contest opens the evening, and the winners are announced before the cocktail.

Applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a project: see you on October 1 for the pitches.

Poster for the JFN 2026 pitch contest: $1,500 to be won, October 1, 2026, TerroX, Laval. Applications: info@digiwomen.ca

The path

How it works

  1. 1

    Submit your application

    Online.

  2. 2

    Pitch to the jury and the audience

    5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

    On the evening of October 1, as the evening opens.

  3. 3

    The winners are announced

    7 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.

    Just before the closing cocktail.

  4. 4

    Walk away with the prize

    $1,500 offered by Desjardins

    And the visibility that comes with it.

What you can win

The prize

Desjardins
1st prize

$1,500

offered by Desjardins

Who the contest is for

The contest is open to anyone with an idea, a project or an initiative related to technology or the digital sector that they wish to present as a pitch. No prior pitch experience is required.

Applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a project: see you on October 1 for the pitches.

What you can win

The 3 prizes

11st prize

1,500$

offered byDesjardins
22nd prize

500$

Journée de la Femme Numérique

★Jury’s favourite award

Journée de la Femme Numérique

She did it

The 2025 winner tells you about it

Yasmine Ben Arous pitched her project Calmos at the first edition and received the JFN prize. Her invitation, in her own words.

Yasmine Ben Arous, creator of the Calmos project, 2025 winner and DigiWomen ambassador0:44
She did it

Yasmine Ben Arous

Calmos project

2025 winner · DigiWomen ambassador

Her invitation, in her own words

Applications closed

Applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a project: see you on October 1 for the pitches.