🆕 Making your voice heard in Canada's renewed Senate

📅 April 26, 2017    🕒 11:30 am – 1:30 pm    📍 Delta Calgary Downtown

One year after his appointment as Government Representative in the Senate, the Honourable Peter Harder will speak to Calgary business leaders about building a more independent, accountable and transparent Senate.

Senator Harder will also discuss what Canadian businesses need to know about the Senate's increasing independence – and how their voices can be heard on critical issues that affect their business.

[Next week] Speed networking with It's Date Night

📅 April 4, 2017   🕒 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm   📍 Last Best Brewing & Distilling

Join It's Date Night and the Calgary Chamber for a dynamic evening of speed networking. Manage who you connect with based on It's Date Night's 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] Is your business trade show-ready?

📅 April 5, 2017    🕒 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm    📍 Nexus Exhibits

Trade show season is coming up fast and while each one is a unique opportunity for your business to shine, maximizing your impact can be a challenge. To help your business get trade show-ready (both online and in real life), our next Business After Hours is happening at the hub of great display solutions: Nexus Exhibits.

Don't miss this unique opportunity on how to combine digital and display to make your booth the star of your next trade show.

🆕 Get involved with a CEO Peer Mentoring roundtable

📅 April 27, 2017   🕒 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm   📍 Calgary Chamber

As the entrepreneurial leader of a growth-oriented company, it can be hard to find a group of peers in a similar set of circumstances to help talk through the tough stuff. The Calgary Chamber's CEO Peer Mentoring programs can help you with that.

In this introductory session, learn how an ongoing CEO roundtable could help your business grow quickly and be more successful as you find your tribe and develop a meaningful business network.

🚨 Rev: Two weeks down, tickets 70% sold! Got yours?

📅 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, 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 innovation and the power of the entrepreneurial mindset.
• William Joseph Communications on rational and emotional branding.

PS: Members get sweet Early Bird ticket pricing until April 14th.

Tips to grow your business

🚀 Ignite: Accessible innovation, for business owners like you

Building innovation into your business doesn't have to be daunting. It's about finding a new opportunity for your business. It's making a new idea reality. It's about bringing a new product to market.

Sounds good, right? That's what the Ignite programs are here for!

🤑 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: Pre-roll video ads are coming to Periscope

As video viewership on Twitter continues to grow, video has become an increasingly important channel for publishers, creators and brands to reach their audiences.

Today, the platform announced a new opportunity for publishers and creators to monetize their content, and for brands to advertise against it, with pre-roll ads on Periscope video within Twitter.

What we're reading...

• Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau says worst of oil shock appears to be over
• If brainstorming doesn’t work for your team, try these three alternatives instead
• Elon Musk launches Neuralink to connect brains with computers [Paywall]
• Growth hackers: How 8 entrepreneurs supercharged their companies
• What today’s small businesses can do to beat giant competitors

Member insights

Chamber member: Agrium

As a global leader in agricultural products, services and solutions, Agrium helps growers increase crop yields sustainably – so together they can provide more high-quality food to a rapidly growing population.

On the wholesale side, they produce and market three critical crop nutrients – nitrogen, phosphate, and potash – while on the retail side, they supply farmers with seed, crop protection products, and nutrients.

Members save time and money with G Suite

The G Suite gives your business an all-in-one suite to communicate, store and collaborate. Whether you need to work on the go, have more productive meetings or sync projects in real-time, the G Suite help ensure that no matter where your team is, everyone is on the same page.

As a Calgary Chamber member, you can get 20% off your first year of G Suite.

From our partners

Join the City of Calgary Business Perspectives Panel

The City of Calgary is looking for input from local businesses on how to improve their services, and the Chamber has partnered to help do just that.

The City is inviting business owners, leaders, and managers from across Calgary to join its Business Perspectives Panel. By joining the panel, you'll be helping both the City and the Chamber serve you better:

• The City gets your guidance on how it can improve to better serve the needs of your business and other businesses in Calgary.
• The Chamber gets your input on how we can tailor our programs, services, and activities to meet those needs.

Innovating Alberta's Energy Future Showcase

📅 April 19, 20017   🕒 1:00 pm – 5:15 pm   📍 Jack Singer Concert Hall

On April 19th the Energy Futures Lab, with special guests Mayor Naheed Nenshi, Nick Parker, and Andrew Ference, are inviting all Calgarians to learn about the initiatives being developed and how they will impact our local economy, our community, and our natural resources.

Canada and the future of the economic regions in the Americas Pacific

📅 April 25, 20017   🕒 8:00 am – 9:00 pm   📍 The Westin

CCA Alberta invites the business community to our International Business Forum and Gala Dinner “Canada and The Future of the Economic Regions in the Americas Pacific”.

The program will include keynote presentations and business panels for an in-depth conversation about business opportunities in the Americas and Pacific regions, with recognized experts in international trade and foreign policy.

Community leaders