Director of Strategic Alliances

Ellen Hlozan is Director of Strategic Alliances at Trax, a cloud-based building code and standards platform. Prior to Trax, Ellen was a Research Collaboration Manager at Autodesk Research building partnerships that enabled practical testing of research in real world scenarios.

Her professional experience also includes managing a community of over a hundred cutting edge innovation organizations, developing customized programs and experiences to accelerate their success. As a certified facilitator for advanced design-thinking (LUMA) and certified foresight practitioner (IFTF), Ellen enables collaborators to speak the same language and focus on the right problems using state of the art facilitation techniques.

Ellen has a B.A. from York University and a Masters degree from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto centered in critical analysis. She has also volunteered her time with WIN: Women in Innovation as Global Partnerships Lead, a non-profit dedicated to closing the gender gap in innovation.