CCSBE-Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

It's hard to believe it was already two weeks ago. The CCSBE-Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 2025 Conference, brought together leaders and students from across the country to the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business. On our final day we had the opportunity to see our members share insight on #AI as a learning tool, #entrepreneurial #finance, #strategy and #ecosystems. And the expert panels were incredibly engaging, starting with 'The Perils of Eyes Wide Shut Entrepreneurs-Heeding #VentureCapital Siren Calls', a great discussion with some of the City of Calgary's top entrepreneurs and investors Alan Campbell, Nikhil Bedi and Adrian S. M. Startup TNT, Alberta Enterprise Corporation (AEC), UCeed Investment Funds This was followed by a panel on #Inclusive #EntrepreneurshipEcosystems featuring research and forward thinking strategies from Wendy Cukier, Gina Grandy, Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D. and facilitated by Shannon Pestun Overall we could not have been more thrilled with the turn out of educators, entrepreneurs and practitioners in the field. The planning is already underway for 2025, so stay tuned! John MacRitchie Chad Saunders Leah Bortolin Alon Eisenstein Christopher Holt, PhD Wen Teoh Howard X. Lin Joyline Makani Donna Heslin Mike Henry Innovate Calgary IDEA Mississauga Taylor & Francis Group Humber’s Centres of Innovation Network Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics Diversity Institute

And that's a wrap. It was the first time in five years that the CCSBE-Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship conference was back in person and what a wonderful event. Thank you once again to the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business for hosting us on their beautiful campus. This hybrid event started with a packed online schedule on Day 1, followed by 2 days of in person panels, sessions and incredible networking opportunities. Over the next few days we will highlight some of these sessions and panels. Today we want to celebrate the well deserved winners of the #CCSBE2024 Awards, which were presented at the Gala Dinner. Congratulations to University of Waterloo - United College for their GreenHouse program, whose outstanding supports of social impact entrepreneurs made them this year's choice for The Inclusive Venture Creation and Community Engagement Excellence Award. And a huge round of applause to Dr. Wendy Cukier for decades of world class research and program development including the foundation of the Diversity Institute. We were honoured to award Dr. Cukier the first ever Mary A. Kilfoil Award for Advancing Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education.  The heartfelt tributes for Dr Mary Kilfoil from her husband Dr Ed Leach and from Dr. Cukier made the evening extra special and underscored Mary's incredible impact on the #entrepreneurship community. John MacRitchie Gina Grandy Chad Saunders Leah Bortolin Alon Eisenstein Christopher Holt, PhD Wen Teoh Howard X. Lin Joyline Makani Donna Heslin Mike Henry Shannon Pestun Tania Del Matto Diversity Institute Innovate Calgary IDEA Mississauga Taylor & Francis Group Humber’s Centres of Innovation Network Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics

Welcome to Day 1 of the CCSBE-Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 2024 Conference. We are at the University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business and looking forward to the online sessions with the opening ceremonies beginning at 8:30 am MT. Check out our special guest Andrea Parker from FunX at 12:30 MT The F Word: Life and Business GET to be FUN! So many informative panels and discussions on the agenda #EntrepreneurialIntentions #FinanceforWomenEntrepreneurs #IndigenousEntrepreneurship #EntrepreneurialEcosystems #Agriculture #EntrepreneurialCareers #ImmigrantEntrepreneurship #2SLGBTQI+Entrepreneurship  #EntrepreneurshipEducation #EntrepreneurialTeams #UniversityEntrepreneurshipCoop #SocialEntrepreneurship #SustainableGrowth John MacRitchie Chad Saunders Leah Bortolin Alon Eisenstein Christopher Holt, PhD Wen Teoh Howard X. Lin Joyline Makani Donna Heslin Mike Henry Diversity Institute Innovate Calgary IDEA Mississauga Taylor & Francis Group Humber’s Centres of Innovation Network Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics

We would like to highlight the wonderful sponsors of this year's CCSBE-Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 2024 Conference. It's thanks to the generous support of our sponsors that #CCSBE is able to offer this national event, engaging drivers of #entrepreneurship from across Canada and internationally. www.ccsbe.org Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary Diversity Institute Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics IDEA Mississauga Innovate Calgary Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship Taylor & Francis Group John MacRitchie Chad Saunders Leah Bortolin Alon Eisenstein Christopher Holt, PhD Wen Teoh Howard X. Lin Joyline Makani Donna Heslin Rafik Kurji FCPA, FCMA

Only 4 days to the big event! #CCSBE2024 We are looking forward to an amazing group of speakers, panels and this Fireside Chat. The Price Family of Sunterra Quality Food Markets Inc. Group shares their journey from a startup family farm to a thriving agribusiness. Grounded in core values, they focus on #innovation, mission-driven #growth, and #investment in what matters most. This panel will highlight their “One-Health” approach, connecting the health of people, animals, and the environment and how this vision is shaping the future of their business, and discuss their approach to leveraging emerging technologies shaping the future of their business. Kendra Donnelly, Glen Price, Kim McConnell Sunterra Quality Food Markets Inc. Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE) Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 Time: 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. www.ccsbe.org John MacRitchie Chad Saunders Leah Bortolin Alon Eisenstein Christopher Holt, PhD Wen Teoh Howard X. Lin Joyline Makani Donna Heslin Diversity Institute Innovate Calgary IDEA Mississauga Taylor & Francis Group Humber’s Centres of Innovation Network Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics

We are only 17 days away from the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE) 42nd annual conference! #CCSBE is excited to partner with University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business and the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking - UCalgary for this year's #inperson and #virtual event. Register today! https://lnkd.in/g3J4bWGh This year's conference theme is “Technological Convergence: Bringing a new energy to SMEs and entrepreneurship.” Our focus is on the convergence of multiple platform technologies that offer unprecedented opportunities and challenges for #entrepreneurs, #educators and #policymakers, #students and more! Alon Eisenstein John MacRitchie John Lam Christopher Holt, PhD Usha Srinivasan PhD, IVLP Alumna Chad Saunders Howard X. Lin Rafik Kurji FCPA, FCMA Cassandra Dorrington Joyline Makani Muhammad Mohiuddin Wen Teoh Dhirendra Shukla USASBE- United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship GCEC Global Foundation Startup Canada

The CCSBE Conference Award deadline has been extended to Oct. 17th. Shout out your favourite entrepreneurship program, accelerator or educator today! https://ccsbe.org/awards/

Great news! The deadlines for the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE) 2024 conference have been extended. Abstracts, papers, workshops & panels now due: Oct. 7th Awards Applications now due: October 17 The early bird registration date is October 10 Register and get your submissions in today! www.ccsbe.org John MacRitchie Alon Eisenstein Chad Saunders Christopher Holt, PhD Wen Teoh John Lam

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