Stories from Indigenous Women in Business

Join us on February 10th for a virtual discussion on Indigenous women in business and the resources available in Canada to support them! Creative Destruction Lab - Atlantic, Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH), and Women in Business New Brunswick (WBNB) are proud to co-host this event.

The event will be opened by Elder Debbie Eisan, who will start us off in a good way.

The first part of the event will be a panel discussion featuring Ashley Richard (Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub - WEKH), Natasha Martin-Mitchell (Women in Business New Brunswick - WBNB), and Victoria Labillois (Owner of Wejipeg Excavation Co-owner of Wejuseg Construction Inc.). This panel will be moderated by Kelsie Jonhston of Creative Destruction Lab - Atlantic.

Following this exciting panel discussion, participants will be able to join breakout rooms for more in depth discussions on the topics put forward by the panel.

We invite Indigenous women who are at any point in their entrepreneurial journey to register and join us for this event! A Zoom link will be sent to you once you have registered for the event, closer to February 10th!

We look forward to seeing you there.

ABOUT WEKH

The Women’s Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub is part of the Government of Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy that aims to increase women entrepreneurs’ access to financing, talent, networks and expertise. WEKH is a national network and accessible digital platform for sharing research, resources, and leading strategies in support of women entrepreneurs.. Made up of 10 regional hubs, WEKH operates in both official languages and includes a network of over 250 organizations, reaching more than 100,000 women entrepreneurs.

ABOUT WBNB

Women in Business New Brunswick (WBNB) helps current and aspiring women entrepreneurs realize their full potential by offering quality advice and services. The added value of WBNB lies in a team of development officers who offer bilingual support to all women entrepreneurs, in both rural and urban areas. Three main, well-targeted sectors of intervention meet the current needs of women entrepreneurs: (1) Start-up, (2) Growth and Expansion, and (3) Export and International Trade. We also have a partnership program for women entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada, which aims to bridge the gaps and create opportunities for under-represented women in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Finally, WBNB is proud to provide business counselling to Indigenous women entrepreneurs in all communities of the province.

ABOUT CDL - Atlantic

CDL-Atlantic is located in Halifax, Canada at the Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University. Dalhousie is a world-class research institute with expertise in ocean, clean, and environmental technology, as well as agri-food and bioproducts.

In alignment with Dalhousie’s research initiatives, CDL-Atlantic is home to a Prime stream as well as a specialized Oceans stream. CDL-Atlantic has created partnerships with Atlantic Canada’s leading entrepreneurs, investors, and scientists to foster the development of powerful blue-green technology ventures, in collaboration with the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI), the NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair, and the Canada Research Chair in Organic Agriculture.