Bridges to Better Business 2020

Millworks - Centre for Entrepreneurship

Bridges to Better Business is an annual event that targets targets entrepreneurs in the Sault Ste. Marie & Algoma Region

Bridges to Better Business is an annual event that targets entrepreneurs in the Sault Ste. Marie &amp; Algoma Region and is hosted by the Millworks - Centre for Entrepreneurship.Each year during BDC&#x27;s Small Business Week, this event brings together businesses in various stages of development for an open exchange of ideas, advice and feedback lead by dynamic speakers and mentors. This year&#x27;s theme is Forging the way forward: Join us as we recognize entrepreneurial resilience and forge a way forward in uncertain times.The Top 2 businesses for this year’s Pitch Competition are BookBuds and Kapptive Studios. They will have the opportunity to share their business idea with the audience and the judging panel. The audience will then get to vote for their favourite business idea and the winner will receive a Grand Prize valued at $15,000 !We&#x27;re proud to introduce Barb Stegemann as our Keynote Speaker this year!Barb’s entrepreneurial vision was formed after her best friend—a soldier—was severely wounded in Afghanistan. Understanding that supporting Afghanistan’s economy was key to building stability for its people, Stegemann launched The 7 Virtues out of her garage armed with only a dream to help war-ridden nations rebuild. Her company sources organic, fair trade essential oils from countries experiencing turmoil (such as Afghanistan, Haiti, Rwanda and beyond). Despite addressing complex global matters in her talks, Stegemann uses humour to show how individuals can use business for good and effect change, both at home and across the globe.A decade later, The 7 Virtues is now an award-winning social enterprise. It’s also the first and only Canadian brand to be sold through Sephora’s “Clean at Sephora” space across North America. Through her inspiring entrepreneurial story, Stegemann shares powerful messages of triumphing over adversity, and empowers her audiences to embrace their inner disruptor.Stegemann first became known to millions of Canadians when she landed a venture-capital deal on CBC hit show Dragons’ Den — the first woman from Atlantic Canada to do so. She went on to become the “Top Game Changer” in the history of the popular reality show for creating her social enterprise.Since then Stegemann and her hypo-allergenic fragrance collection have been celebrated in major media outlets around the world, including Vogue, Elle Canada, Fast Company, Forbes, The Cut, Women’s Wear Daily, The Globe and Mail, as wells as CBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and more.Stegemann has been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by WXN; won the Ernst &amp; Young “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” in the emerging Entrepreneur category for Atlantic Canada; was ranked as one of Profit Guide magazine’s “Top 30 Cool and Fabulous Canadian Entrepreneurs”; and was also made the first female Honorary Colonel in the history of 14 Wing Greenwood base, Royal Canadian Air Force, completing her term in 2015.Stegemann is also the author of the bestselling book, The 7 Virtues of a Philosopher Queen, now in its 8th edition, and the subject of the feature-length, award-winning documentary, Perfume War.11:00 - 11:30a.m. - Welcome &amp; Introductions11:30 - 12:15 - Top 2 Pitch-Off &amp; Audience Voting12:15 - 1:00 - Keynote Speaker, Barb Stegemann1:00 - Winner Announcement!Tickets are free.If you have any questions, please contact: Harleen Puaar Shukla at h.puaar@cityssm.on.ca OR Jessica Maione at j.maione@cityssm.on.ca

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