Unleashing Potential: A Black Entrepreneurship Summit in Alberta
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November 20, 2023
6:30 am—2:30 pm
Hotel Arts
Hosted by:
Hosted By: Africa Centre @ Hotel Arts
The Africa Centre has been instrumental in empowering Black entrepreneurs across the cities, of Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Calgary in Western Canada.
This summit, Unleashing Potential: Black Entrepreneurship in Alberta is the first ever entrepreneurship capacity building summit for Black entrepreneurs in Alberta. It is intended to provide an empowering environment that fosters growth, success, and economic empowerment of Black entrepreneurs in Western Canada. Through a series of workshops, panel discussions, and keynote addresses, Black businesses will learn approaches to increasing and diversifying resources, strengthening leadership and governance sustaining their operations and building strong networks.
The purpose of this summit is to foster and support the growth of Black business owners in Western Canada. The summit will provide a platform for networking, learning, and collaboration among Black entrepreneurs, investors, industry experts, and other stakeholders.
Monday, November 20th, 2023 | 7:30am-3:30pm + Networking Reception
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 | 7:30am – 2:00pm
DETAILS
- Date: November 20 – 21, 2023
- Time: 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM
- Location: Hotel Arts
- Cost: Free
- Website: https://forwardslash.regfox.com/unleashing-potential-a-black-entrepreneurship-in-alberta
HOSTED BY
- Africa Centre
119 12 Ave SW Calgary, Alberta T2R 0G8
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We honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. We respect all Nations who live, work, play, innovate and build things on this land, and in so doing honour and celebrate the territory.