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Two former engineers pursued their passion a few years ago to establish the ‘spirits’ making company Bridgeland Distillery

Daniel Plenzik and Jacques Tremblay are founders and owners of Bridgeland Distillery. The former engineers pursued their passion a few years ago to establish the ‘spirits’ making company just outside the downtown core in Calgary where they distill award-winning beverages.


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Learn how to accelerate your online presence to get past your competition with Erica Hakonson

Erica Hakonson is the award-winning entrepreneur at the helm of the B2B digital marketing agency, Maven Collective Marketing. Hakonson has been awarded Female Entrepreneur of the Year, Silver Award by the international Stevie Women in Business Awards, Editor’s Choice by the CanadianSME National Business Awards and Top Small Business Female Executive Bronze Award by DataBird Business Journal.

Leading the team of “Mavens”, primarily female technology marketing consultants, alongside long-term clients, Maven Collective Marketing has been awarded a MarCom Gold B2B Website Award, Website Category Winner for Ragan Content Marketing Awards, 2X dotComm Gold for B2B Website & Website Creative/Copy, as well as the Standard of Excellence Award for B2B Website by the WebAwards.

Beyond Maven Collective, Hakonson also co-founded a new Vancouver-based B2B SaaS company, Orchestry, to Make Work Simple with transparent governance, adoption tools and self-service provisioning for organizations in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online and across Microsoft 365.


Canada’s Trade Accelerator Program is presented by the World Trade Centre Vancouver. It gives BC-based businesses the training and support needed to become a successful exporter. Go to www.wtcvancouver.ca/tap and find out more.

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Quand le Girlpower mène un mouvement de sacs véganes

Mélissa Lambert est une femme de tête et de convictions qui, ne trouvant pas le produit de ses rêves sur le marché, a décidé de lancer sa propre marque de sacs à dos et sacs à main. Avec plus de 10 ans d’expérience en communication et en gestion de marque, Mélissa a voulu se lancer un nouveau défi; celui de réinventer la mode du sac à dos. Étant convaincue qu’il est possible d’allier confort avec élégance, l’entrepreneur lance sa marque de sac en cuir végane, certifié Peta en 2017. Lambert est issu d’une histoire d’amour entre la maternité et l’envie de changer le monde, un achat consciencieux à la fois. C’est lorsqu’elle attendait son 3ème enfant que Mélissa eut l’idée de lancer son entreprise, avec le rêve d’un modèle d’affaires responsable, écologique et du slow fashion.


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Jayson Krause, Founder of Level 52 & award-winning jack of all trades talks leadership & success

Jayson Krause is an award-winning jack of all trades. As an author, leadership strategist, speaker, executive coach, and the founder of Level 52, Jayson is disrupting the industry and elevating meaningful leadership to an unforeseen territory.

Jayson caters to a wide range of clients. Businesses want him to train their leaders and leaders tap into his expertise to elevate their abilities. In the last year, Level 52 has had to pivot along with their clients, but Jayson and his team work closely with their clients to create some certainty in such uncertain times.


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Bill Collins discusses the longevity superfood: why & how to farm it, champion it, and consume it!

Join Host, Angela Faye on Canada’s Podcast speaking to Bill Collins about seaweed as a longevity superfood, plus how you can get involved in farming it, championing, and consuming it!

Dying is not good for business! Living a healthier, active lifestyle by farming and consuming SEAWEED is a value proposition poised to help accelerate Canada to the Global Top 3 Best Sustainable Fish & Seafood Producers by 2040. Helping lead the movement is Bill Collins, Founder of Cascadia Seaweed where they are helping human and planetary wellness happen from their basecamp on Vancouver Island, BC Canada.

Pressures on the ocean are intense and growing. Most community leaders are increasingly concerned about food security and stable job creation. Mounting fear around the preservation of coastal communities around the world. And the dire need for major transformations towards a lower-carbon food future.

All of these have mobilized Bill Collins to harness his experience as a “Master of Science’ in geology, military/government salesmen for leading-edge sonar systems, executor of sound businesses, and promoter of Vancouver Island as a unique global Foreign Trade Zone, to co-Found Cascadia Seaweed.


Shape your future in #Lethbridge. Bold. Vibrant. Technological. The bright, affordable choice for business builders. Grow now at https://entrepreneur.chooselethbridge.ca

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Amy Emberling’s radical ‘community of food business’ shares multi-million-dollar secrets on how to supersize your impact!

This radical ‘community of food business’ shares multi-million-dollar secrets on how to supersize your impact!

Canadian Amy Emberling is amongst the Managing Owners of Zingermans community of businesses. Experience what a Community of Businesses is about, learn three multi-million-dollar secrets from this radical ‘community of food business’ on how to supersize your impact, AND take advantage of the invitation to jump on the ZingTrain!

While currently residing in Ann Arbor Michigan, Canadian Amy Emerling is from Cape Breton and has Maritime in her blood. Before coming to Zingerman’s Amy studied social movements at Harvard College, attended L’ecole de Gastronomie Francaise at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, France, worked in many restaurants and bakeries and received an MBA from Columbia University. She’s been combining her interests in organizational design, making delicious food and business management at Zingerman’s since 1992. She believes that business can be the source of positive social change and create value all at the same time.


Shape your future in #Lethbridge. Bold. Vibrant. Technological. The bright, affordable choice for business builders. Grow now at https://entrepreneur.chooselethbridge.ca

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David Chevrier s’ouvre sur les enjeux et les défis d’être entrepreneur et nous dévoile un nouveau projet pour créer un beau réseau d’entraide!

Entrepreneur créatif, passionné par le facteur wow, David Chevrier a fondé la Licornerie. En quelques années, il a su faire sa place dans la vente au détail de différents produits de l’univers fantastique et de la licorne. La Licornerie possède dorénavant 3 succursales dont 2 à Montréal et 1 à Québec en plus d’une boutique en ligne. David aime les choses qui sortent de l’ordinaire et ensuite il veille à les rendre populaires!


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Thomas Girard, Emerging Scholar award recipient discusses the evolution of design & where it’s going

Thomas Girard (http://www.thomaskgirard.com) is a 4x Emerging Scholar award recipient and has taught undergraduate level interaction design in three countries. One of his notable Emerging Scholar awards was granted at the Design Principles and Practices Conference in Barcelona, Spain, where the theme was “No Boundaries Design”. He is based in Vancouver, Canada, where he was born and educated.


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Tyler McCombs Founder of Devon + Lang, is bringing better pouch boxers to the market!

Devon + Lang was founded by Tyler and Dayna McCombs in 2019, but the idea for better boxers began much earlier. During an uncomfortable walk in the Hawaiian heat, Tyler decided that he was done with buying boxers that easily ripped and chafed his legs. After searching for the perfect pair, he came up empty and decided to make a better pouch boxer than what was on the market. After over a year of working with professional designers and engineers, Devon + Lang was born.


Shape your future in #Lethbridge. Bold. Vibrant. Technological. The bright, affordable choice for business builders. Grow now at https://entrepreneur.chooselethbridge.ca

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Julie Gaudry discusses how to attract talent and keep employees happy with RBC Insurance’s Group Benefit Solutions

Julie Gaudry leads a team with overall responsibility for the product development and strategic direction for RBC Insurance’s Group Benefit Solutions (GBS). With a focus on innovation and thought-leadership, the team is committed to differentiating RBC Insurance through product and service enhancements that make it easier for employers to manage their group benefit programs so they can best support the health and wellness of their workforce.

Through Group Benefit Solutions, business owners and their employees have access to a range of flexible solutions: A state-of-the-art wellness program, employee assistance program, virtual healthcare, mental health support services, life, disability, health and dental insurance and more.

For more information, visit rbcinsurance.com/group-benefits or contact one of their Group Benefits Advisors at 1-855-264-2174.


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