While Calgary businesses are booming, especially in industries such as tech and clean energy, attracting, nurturing, reskilling, and retaining high-end talent is more important than ever before. Supporting the growth of Calgary’s future leading businesses begins and ends with our community’s ability to market our city, not only to possible future Calgarians, but also to homegrown talent. Join us for this important conversation where we analyze how we are attracting and retaining talent, and what more our business community can do to ensure Calgary has the most robust talent pool nationally and across the globe.

Implementing meaningful equity, diversity, and inclusion practices in your workplace can be a challenging, yet rewarding process. In 2022, it is an essential part of doing business, however, a major roadblock for many smaller businesses is knowing where to start.

Join our expert panel for a conversation about how understanding equity, diversity, and inclusion is essential to drive meaningful action in your company, and how implementing an equity, diversity, and inclusion informed culture can kickstart new practices and make your business a better place to attract and retain talent.

Launching and running a businesses can be lonely and isolating during the best of times. But with the ongoing turbulence of the COVID-19 Pandemic, business leaders know that this is not a sprint, but a marathon. The mental health of Calgary's business community is a direct reflection of its economic health. In this panel discussion, we will hear about the ways in which some business leaders are prioritizing their health, and the health of their teams, and learn what we can do better as we move forward into another year of possible uncertainties.