Conference Opening, Breakfast & Plenary

Sponsored and Hosted by Deloitte

Open to the business community. For additional breakfast tickets, click here.

MC: Belle Puri, Broadcast Journalist, CBC

Traditional Prayer for Squamish Nation: Shamantsut (Amanda) Nahanee

Welcoming Remarks: Vancouver Deputy Mayor Geoff Meggs

Welcome Greetings by BMO Bank of Montreal: Lisa Milburn, Chief Operating Officer, BMO Insurance & Executive Sponsor BMO for Women, BMO Financial Group

Plenary Session:

Business & Innovation in First Nations: “When Enlightened Leaders transform poverty into prosperity”

Moderator: Lisa Ethans, Financial Advisory Partner at Deloitte and Founder of Deloitte’s National Aboriginal Client Service Practice.

Panelists:

Sophie Pierre, OBC, OOC, and Ktunaxa Hereditary Chief
Ray Gerow, President, Eagle Spirit Community Solutions
Shelly Vermillion, BMgt, CAFM, PAED, CEO of Naoka Incorporated, & Founding Principal Partner of In Synch Consulting Inc.
Chastity Davis, Owner of Chastity Davis Consulting

Ray Gerow

Shelly Vermillion

Shelly Vermillion

Presenting Sponsor
Accolades

Excellent location, food, really enjoyed the Plenary sessions. Met some wonderful women in business.

An absolutely outstanding conference. It was world class. The quality of speakers was the best. It was also a very worthwhile event for me. I was able to sell some tests and make some connections that may prove valuable. I really appreciate your encouragement and support to attend.

dnaPower Inc

Exceptional conference!! The content, quality and quantity of speakers, venue, scheduling, are all exceptional. It is engaging and motivating, and I don’t know of any other event where you’d have the opportunity to hear from so many “keynote” speakers.

The 2017 EXCELerate Conference exceeded my expectations. The plenary sessions alone were worth the fee … the level of speakers gathered— and their synergy—was absolutely brilliant. Regarding the break-out sessions: Ann Gomez’s session, ‘Focus Your Time to GroYourBiz: Personal Productivity for Busy People’, blew my socks off with its relevance and practical applications. Her book, ‘The Email Warrior’, is easy to read and the tips within it are easy to implement. Wow!

Click Media Works

EXCELerate was Transformational. I hope that this will be an annual event as it is something I would like to mark in my calendar as the most important thing to do.

Shehnaz Hussain OwnerIntuitive Financial Solutions

Epic conference, memorable speakers and loads of positive feedback from delegates!

Shirley Bennie

I am feeling inspired, educated and frankly blown away by the many amazing women and men that we encountered over the three days. What a fantastic and first-class event! It so exceeded any expectations that I had and I have been passing the word around at BMO that we should be very proud to be the presenting sponsor at this event.

BMO Bank of Montreal

Thoroughly enjoyed the conference and learnt so much from amazing thought leaders, high quality panel speakers. It is refreshing to see that as we continue to grow as women entrepreneurs we are impacting the quality of lives of ours, our family and the community at large. Thank you for putting together an exceptional conference that can have a far larger reach in the future. It was definitely worth the long distance travel and excited to grow GroYourBiz in the UK.

Claris Coaching

There is no question that this was once again one of the most captivating conferences that I have attended—with not only one good idea—but many. It is wonderful how the panels all have different points of view that foster challenging perhaps our previous opinions or at the very least give us more information to have an informed opinion. Our team thought it was time well spent indeed!

McCurdy Financial

Wow what a powerful three days of speakers, workshops, networking and collaboration.

GroYourBiz Surrey/White Rock
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