Nearly every day we hear someone protest their lack of time, so for the first iF series event of 2012, we are exploring the question: iF you had an extra day, how would you use it?

Imagine the possibilities of what you might do, or achieve. How many of us would spend it at home, with friends or use it to explore – physically or intellectuality – something they have always wanted to do? Or to live that extra day like it was your last day – reaching out to make your world a better place.

We hope you will all join us for what will be another inspiring afternoon of conversations and creativity as a number of prominent people from the Calgary business community explore this question on Wednesday, February 29, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Calgary Chamber.

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More than 80 leaders from Calgary’s business community came together on January 16 to welcome in the Calgary Chamber’s newest board chair, Dave Sprague, and hear about his plans for the organization in 2012.

As a former vice president of retail banking for BMO, Sprague is certainly no stranger to making big decisions. He has already served on various committees in the Chamber and said he looks forward to continuing the work already done by the Chamber’s board of directors and its CEO, Adam Legge. More...

The Calgary Chamber of Commerce would like to invite you to participate in an important membership survey. Your input, through this annual survey, helps us remain current on the most important business challenges and opportunities confronting our members.

This confidential 14 question electronic survey is being conducted by Leger Marketing, an international public opinion and research firm, on behalf of the Chamber, who will contact you directly via email on Wednesday, January 18 and Friday, January 20, 2012.

Location: Calgary Chamber of Commerce
ENMAX Ballroom
Address: 100 - 6th Ave S.W.
Date: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Join Antoni Cimolino, one of Canada's leading experts in the arts and general director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the largest arts organization in Canada, in a talk about the opportunities that exist around connecting business and the arts.

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Location: Calgary Chamber of Commerce
ENMAX Ballroom
Address: 100 - 6th Ave S.W.
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Learn how good governance and economic policy can act as a catalyst for successful business relationships with aboriginal communities from Stephen Cornell, co-director of one of the world’s foremost research institutions on aboriginal economic development, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. 

This is the third event in the Chamber’s Aboriginal Business Connections Series, which provides businesses with the tools to forge productive, long lasting relationships with aboriginal communities.

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Get innovations to the marketplace with the Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program

The Government of Canada is hosting a free webinar created to help bolster innovation in Canada's business sector. The program helps businesses bridge the pre-commecialization gap for their innovative goods and services. Click here for more information or to register.