OFFSITE | Rewiring for Peak Performance

We give entrepreneurs the mentorship, connections, and community they need to build technology-driven ventures.

Accelerate Okanagan

Join Accelerate Okanagan at Soma Cidery for a full-day retreat designed to elevate your leadership performance.

Soma Craft Cidery

<h3>OFFSITE is back this fall.</h3> In the fast-paced world of startups, founders and senior leaders are constantly pulled into urgent decisions, back-to-back conversations, and never-ending to-do lists. Scaling a business demands relentless focus, resilience, and adaptability, but it also comes with a heavy mental toll. Behind the drive for growth, burnout, distraction, and stress often emerge as the hidden costs of success in high-demand environments.This edition of OFFSITE will feature a mix of sessions throughout the day, including founder panels, fireside chats, and an interactive workshop, all designed to help you recharge, refocus, and elevate your leadership performance for high-pressure environments. <h3>Why Attend?</h3><ul><li>Connect with other founders, leaders, and innovators in a retreat-style setting</li><li>Gain practical, science-backed tools from CEOs and industry experts</li><li>Take part in panels, fireside chats, and interactive discussions</li></ul> <h3>What’s Included</h3><ul><li>Opportunities to connect with fellow founders and local leaders</li><li>Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments throughout the day</li><li>A full day of programming at Soma Cidery &amp; alpaca farm in East Kelowna</li><li>Wellness feature: The Recovery Spa team will introduce the BioCharger, an innovative energy technology designed to restore focus and balance.</li></ul> <h3>Featured Speakers &amp; Sessions</h3><ul><li>Panel &amp; Workshop with Jamie Wood, CEO of Autonomic: An internationally recognized brain performance expert, Jamie will lead the workshop How to Rewire Your Brain for High Performance in a High-Demand World. Drawing from neuroscience and her own journey from burnout to biotech entrepreneur, Jamie will share actionable strategies to boost resilience, decision-making, and focus.</li><li>Fireside Chat with Martine Boucher, hosted by Debbie DaSilva: In a fireside chat, Martine will share insights into leadership resilience and scaling businesses in challenging environments.</li><li>Guardrails for Growth with McCarthy Tétrault: A practical, founder-focused session designed to help leaders navigate key decisions and challenges. </li></ul> Stay tuned for more speaker announcements and details at <a href="https://www.connectoffsite.ca/soma-cidery" title="https://www.connectoffsite.ca/soma-cidery" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">connectoffsite.ca</a> If you would like to participate but the cost is a barrier, please reach out to AO's Member and Events Coordinator, Kelsey Messervey at kelsey@accelerateokanagan.com.

Agenda

Compliments of RBCx. Fuel up with good coffee, a full breakfast, and your first connections.  

Check In + Start Strong Breakfast

Set the tone for a day of growth and community.

Welcome + Opening Remarks

Entrepreneur and angel investor, Martine Boucher, sits down with Debbie da Silva, Partner at KPMG, for a candid conversation on resilience and reinvention. From building ventures to mentoring founders, Martine shares what she’s learned about pausing, pivoting, and protecting what matters most. Expect an honest, energizing, and refreshingly real take on the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

Fireside Chat with Martine Boucher Hosted by Debbie da Silva

Brain Break

Running a fast-growing company means juggling strategy, people, customers, and capital but the hidden pitfalls often lurk in the fine print. In this candid conversation with McCarthy Tétrault LLP partners Dana Siddle, Robert Anton, and Jade Buchanan, you’ll hear real stories from the legal trenches and gain practical insights on scaling securely, navigating M&A, and surviving challenges like data breaches and compliance missteps. Think of it as your legal “health check” — no jargon, just smart, actionable strategies to keep your company resilient and ready for what’s next.

Guardrails for Growth: Lessons from the Legal Frontlines

Take a deeper dive with Jamie Wood in this interactive panel discussion featuring local founders. This session applies global neuroscience research to the unique challenges of startup life, leadership, and high-performance careers. Bring your questions and leave with science-backed strategies to fuel resilience and clarity in your entrepreneurial journey.

Founder Panel hosted by Jamie Wood

Compliments of Xen Accounting. Good eats, new friends, and a wellness tech experience from Recovery Spa.

Lunch &  BioCharger Boost

Facilitated by Jamie Wood, Founder & CEO of Autonomic, this science-backed workshop on how to train your brain for peak performance in high-pressure environments. She will share a bold, data-backed vision for what comes next: real-time tools to measure, train, and optimize brain performance. 

This is not about games or hacks, it is personalized brain training, grounded in neuroscience. Autonomic is a neuroscience-driven platform that combines cutting-edge research and technology to help individuals and teams understand and optimize cognitive performance. Drawing from her personal journey of corporate burnout to biotech entrepreneur, Jamie will share actionable tools to help you manage stress, sharpen focus, and enhance decision-making, so you can perform at your best while building the future.

Autonomic Workshop: How to Rewire Your Brain for High Performance

Close the day with casual conversations and local sips from Soma Cidery.

Networking + Cider Tastings

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