Announcing Leslie O’Donoghue as the 2017 Distinguished Business Leader

📅 June 22, 2017    🕒 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm    📍 Hyatt Regency Calgary

The Haskayne School of Business and Calgary Chamber both steadfastly believe that celebrating ethical leadership is essential to ensuring the success of our city and business community.

That's why each year we partner to present the Distinguished Business Leader Award, and we are proud to announce Leslie O'Donoghue, Executive Vice Presidentat Agrium Inc., as this year's recipient.

For it's 25th anniversary this June, we would like to invite you to join us in recognizing ethical, cross-generational and inspiring leadership in our community.

What if you challenged everything?

📅 June 5 & 6, 2017    📍 BMO Centre

The 2017 ONWARD Summit is two half-day sessions that bring together some of the smartest minds in business, innovation, technology and global trends. Discover cutting-edge ideas that will move your business forward and keep you one step ahead.

But above all, it's about experiencing the future.

Here's some of the incredible speakers you'll hear from:

• Salim Ismail, Chairman, ExO Works / Founding Executive Director, Singularity University
• Dirk Ahlborn, CEO, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
• Debbie Landers, VP Cognitive Solutions, IBM Canada
• Ryan Holiday, International Marketing Juggernaut

Connect at upcoming events

[Next week] Speed networking

📅 May 2, 2017   🕒 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm   📍 Trolley 5 Brewpub

Join us for a dynamic evening of speed networking. Manage who you connect with based on our pro matching system to minimize the awkwardness of juggling business cards at your typical networking event.

Grab a beverage, and get ready to mingle with new people and expand your network.

[Next week] Business After Hours at Sante Medical

📅 May 3, 2017   🕒 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm   📍 Sante Medical

You only get one chance to make a first impression – Sante Medical specializes in helping people do just that.

At our upcoming Business After Hours, you'll have a chance to network with some of Calgary's finest business leaders as you take a peek behind the curtain of one of the city's largest medical aesthetic clinics.

Join us for this unique opportunity to amp up your first impression.

Uncovering innovation opportunities: Understanding your business environment

📅 May 4, 2017    🕒 9:00 am – 12:00 pm    📍 Calgary Chamber

Traditional business thinking is that disruptions to your company's operations must be avoided at all costs. We want to turn that thinking on its head.

Instead of a threat, disruptions are an opportunity. In this half-day session, you'll get tangible tools to understand your business environment, anticipate disruption, and evaluate adjacent opportunities and unmet customer needs.

Strong corporate governance: Canada's global advantage

📅 May 4, 2017    🕒 11:30 am – 1:30 pm    📍 Calgary Petroleum Club

With cases of corruption, corporate fraud, and instability showing up in the media, corporate governance is now top of mind for many business owners. 

Simply put, good corporate governance is a competitive advantage. So what are the best practices?

Join us to hear from Rahul Bhardwaj, President and CEO of the Institute of Corporate Directors, on best practices around corporate governance, and the link between strong governance and Canada’s economic growth.

[Rev kick-off event] Personal branding: Selling yourself and your business

📅 May 10, 2017    🕒 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm    📍 Avec Bistro

Whether you’re new to the workforce, or an experienced business owner or leader, having a unique and credible personal brand online allows you to achieve both personal and professional goals. In this workshop, you'll learn:

• How to build a powerful and impressive online presence
• How to elevate your LinkedIn profile and optimize your digital image
• Latest trends in personal branding

Rev: It's all about professional development for entrepreneurs 

📅 May 11, 2017    🕒 8:30 am – 4:00 pm    📍 Calgary Zoo

Join 300 of Calgary’s fastest-growing companies for a full-day entrepreneurial growth conference, packed with real learning opportunities laser-focused on driving sales, using market research, tech trends and innovating to drive productivity.

You'll hear from speakers like:

• Jill Belland, award-winning journalist and founder of Barre Belle, on being your strongest self while running a growing business.
• Jim Dewald, Dean of the Haskayne School of Business, on staying innovative but with a purpose.
• Grant Thornton on government incentives that are available to you to help fund research and innovation (SR&ED).

Tips to grow your business

🚀 Get a business boost with the Emerging Entrepreneurs Scholarship Program

Are you ready to innovate and take your business to the next level (maybe you're even interested in the Ignite programs), but could use a scholarship boost to make it happen?

Price should not stand between you and innovation. That's why your Calgary Chamber, in partnership with the Distinguished Business Leaders Award and Coril Holdings, want to help support your growth with the Emerging Entrepreneurs Scholarship Program.

Digital tip: YouTube will now block ads on channels with under 10,000 views

YouTube is taking measures to help ensure your ads don't end up on videos with questionable content. The social network will not allow ads on channels that have fewer than 10,000 views total, across all their posted videos.

This measure has been in development since November, and is intended to block channels which steal content from other sources from deriving revenue from the platform.

What we're reading...

• Yedlin: Agrium's Leslie O'Donoghue earns Distinguished Business Leader Award
• Energy CEOs praise Alberta's carbon tax at Calgary Chamber event
• Flames president Ken King says it’s time to ink a Victoria Park arena 'agreement in principle'
• Softwood lumber: Well, that escalated quickly
• Florence: Lessons from a global innovation hub

Member insights

🌟 2016 Report to Community: Strength in numbers

We're celebrating our 126th year as your Calgary Chamber, and what better way to do that than releasing our 2016 Report to Community?

This year we're shaking up the traditional model of delivering our Report by making it into its own website. That's right, the whole thing is online and paper-free!

Chamber member: Crescent Point Energy

Crescent Point Energy is a leading North American light and medium oil producer with head offices in Calgary, Alberta, and Denver, Colorado, focused on large oil in place resource pools with low recovery factors.

The company has been a pioneer in advancing tight rock waterfloods for secondary oil recovery and implementing new, innovative oilfield technology in order to maximize value for their shareholders. 

Members get exclusive discounts from Lundgren and Young Insurance

As a Calgary Chamber member you have the opportunity to access great discounts from Lundgren and Young Insurance. Take advantage of a 20% discount on automobile policies and 5% discount on homeowners policies.

Our members also get a dedicated broker, Air Miles Reward Miles, a 6 business hour response guarantee, and four Calgary branches to serve you.

From our partners

City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge 2017 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for applicants to showcase their advancements in sanitation, city planning, street maintenance, disaster preparedness, voting and more!

Through their City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, local and regional governments, and private and public schools and districts can get recognized as hubs of innovation in three categories: Best Practices, Partners in Innovation, and Dream Big.

You could win up to $50,000 in promotional credits from AWS to achieve your mission!

The first 100 days: What do they mean for Canadian boardrooms?

📅 May 3, 2017    🕒 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm    📍 The Bow - 54th floor

On May 3rd, 103 days will have passed since the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, and the impact of his new administration's policies is being felt in Canadian boardrooms. At this engaging panel discussion, you'll hear from preeminent leaders on:

• What is the future of free trade and NAFTA? 
• How will the new government’s actions affect our energy industry and global climate action plans? 
• How will the evolving political dynamic affect decision making for our boards?

Community leaders