Agenda

TIME

DESCRIPTION

TOPIC

SPEAKER

8:00 am - 8:30 am

REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Keynote

The SME Landscape in Ontario

SME's and Beyond

Honourable Harinder Takhar, Minister of Business and Consumer Services

Greig Clark, Founding and Managing Partner, Horatio Enterprise Fund & Founder -College Pro Painters

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Plenary Session

Innovation in Established vs. New Organizations - Process, Challenges and Opportunities

• Ty Shattuck, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Trivaris Ltd.
• Marylynn West-Moynes, President, Mohawk College

10:30 am - 11:00 am

COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

11:00 am - 12.30 pm

Break Out Session 1

Exit Strategies for SMEs

• Howard Johnson, President, Veracap Corporate Finance Limited
• Grant Walsh, Director and Co-founder, KPMG Centre for Family Business

Break Out Session 2

Employer/Employee Relations

• Michael Sherrard, Founding Partner, Sherrard Kuzz LLP
• Patricia Diver, Consultant, Knightsbridge Human Capital

Break Out Session 3

SME Governance & Accounting Standards for Private Enterprise

• Jon Grant, Examiner for the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and an Executive in Residence in the ICD's SME Board Effectiveness Program
• Mark Walsh, Principal, Accounting Standards Board (AcSB), CICA

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

NETWORKING LUNCH & KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: SME Success Factors 

Mark Chamberlain, Technology and Social Entrepreneur, former President/CEO of Wescam Ltd., President & Co-founder, Trivaris Ltd.

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Panel Discussion

Debt and Equity Funding Options Available to SME�s

• John Neate, Vengrowth
• Silvio Marsilli, RoyNat
• Eric Ehgoetz, BMO Capital Corporation
• Charles Cazabon, Vice President, Venture Capital, BDC

3:30 pm

WRAP UP