Global Entrepreneurship Week 2024 at George Brown College
George Brown College is pleased to once again be participating as a delivery partner for Global Entrepreneurship Week, where we will hold 30 events between 15-24 November 2024. During the week startGBC, the gateway to entrepreneurship at George Brown College, will be highlighting George Brown College entrepreneurs and offering events that build entrepreneur skills.
All of the events are designed to help budding student & alumni entrepreneurs network, grow their skillsets and create personal growth. Thanks to our amazing mentor advisor network who will be facilitating our workshops and providing their time free of charge as part of their commitment to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Come out and join us in person and online to network and learn all about laying the foundations to launch and scale a successful business or social innovation.
Upcoming Events - Register Today to Reserve Your Spot
Check out the event offering below and use the following link to register for any of the events.
Register for events below.
We are offering a mixture of in-person and virtual events during the week. We thank our generous mentor advisors who provide their time free of cost to support budding entrepreneurs. We ask that respect be shown to our valuable network, and if you register for in-person events you turn out to show your respect for the commitment our mentor advisors make to helping you grow and develop.
Events
Wellpreneur Mindfulness
9:00 a.m., Monday 18th November 2024 - VIRTUAL
Life as an entrepreneur isn't easy, it can be stressful, lonely, demanding, and manic. We want you to develop a strategy for work-life balance and maintain your health. We advocate a good entrepreneur is a wellpreneur and building in daily mindfulness will help you achieve this.
Moving an Idea to a Business Idea
10:00 a.m. Monday 18th November 2024 - VIRTUAL
Join the startGBC Entrepreneurship Club team as they deliver an informative workshop on how to move your idea to a business idea.
Creating a Business with Sustainability
12:00 p.m. Monday 18th November - IN-PERSON
Come and engage with Alusha Domanska, GBC alumni entrepreneur as she shares tips on how she created the first B-Corp events company in Canada and how building a business with corporate social responsibility has one her business and satisfied customers.
#WhyNotMe GBC Entrepreneurs - Breaking Barriers Panel Discussion
2:00 p.m. Monday 18th November 2024 - VIRTUAL
Join us for an open discussion with 5 amazing GBC entrepreneurs who represent a truly diverse background as they share with with you their personal journeys and the barriers thy encountered and how they over come adversity.
Learning Lab Idea to Business Idea
5:30 p.m. Monday 18th November 2024 - IN-PERSON
This is your chance to attend the Idea to Business Idea workshop in-person so you can engage in a lively discussion on the elements you required to move your idea to a business idea.
Wellpreneur Mindfulness
9:00 a.m., November 19, 2024 - VIRTUAL
Life as an entrepreneur isn’t easy, it can be stressful, lonely, demanding, and manic. We want you to develop a strategy for work-life balance and maintain your health. We advocate a good entrepreneur is a wellpreneur and building in daily mindfulness will help you achieve this.
Morning Masterclass - Assumption Mapping
10:00 a.m., November 19th, 2024 - VIRTUAL
Human minds are hard-wired to make assumptions and this costs businesses dearly. Join this workshop to learn more about producing assumption maps and how to avoid some of the biggest mistakes startups make.
Lunch Lab - Creating an E-Commerce Business
12:00 p.m. Tuesday 19th November 2024 - IN-PERSON
Come and learn some good tips and strategies for creating an e-commerce business. Whether this is as a side hassle or your main business platform you will learn. Delivered by the Digital Mainstreet team who will also be providing follow up tools.
Building Accessible Businesses
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 - Virtual
Date Change to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities - From January 1, 2025, the full impact of the AODA (Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act) comes into force. Every business should be planning and building, to be able to offer fully inclusive solutions to all of their customers, vendors and partners. Come and engage with Access to Success, CEO, Varun Chandak, as he shares with you how to achieve this.
Learning Lab - Assumption Mapping
5:30 p.m., November 19th, 2024 - IN-PERSON
Come and engage in this in-person workshop to gain better insights into assumption mapping. Human minds are hard-wired to make assumptions and this costs businesses dearly. Join this workshop to learn more about producing assumption maps and how to avoid some of the biggest mistakes startups make.
Wellpreneur Mindfulness
9:00 a.m., November 20th, 2024 - VIRTUAL
Life as an entrepreneur isn’t easy, it can be stressful, lonely, demanding, and manic. We want you to develop a strategy for work-life balance and maintain your health. We advocate a good entrepreneur is a wellpreneur and building in daily mindfulness will help you achieve this.
Morning Masterclass Empathy Mapping
10:00 a.m., November 20th, 2024 - VIRTUAL
Join this informative workshop to learn about how to empathize with the end user's needs to help validate your product/service before launch.
Lunch Lab Free Validation Tools
12:00 p.m. Wednesday 20th November 2024 - IN-PERSON
Come join our in-person lunch lab and learn about some incredible free resources available to George Brown College students via Library Learning Commons to validate your business idea.
#WhyNotMe Women Entrepreneur Panel Discussion
2:00 p.m., Wednesday 20th November 2024 - VIRTUAL
Join us for an engaging conversation with GBC alumni women entrepreneurs as they discuss their personal journeys of becoming entrepreneurs, building their businesses and overcoming the hurdles presented to them along the way.
Fireside Chats: City of Toronto Entrepreneurial Supports
4:00 p.m., Wednesday 20th November 2024 - IN-PERSON
We are extremely lucky to be based in the City of Toronto where the city supports, encourages and advocates for entrepreneurial growth. Join us for this in-person session where we will discuss the various supports, programs, incubators and services that can be found within Toronto to support budding entrepreneurs.
Learning Lab - The Power of Persuasion in Your Business
5:30 p.m., Wednesday 20 November 2024 - IN-PERSON
Come and joining the Captivate team as they immerse you in learning the power and art of persuasion and the importance it has in business in creating and closing sales. This is an amazing opportunity, offered free of cost by one of our mentor advisors, Ben Wise.
Wellpreneur Mindfulness
9:00 a.m., Thursday 21 November 2024 - VIRTUAL
Life as an entrepreneur isn’t easy, it can be stressful, lonely, demanding, and manic. We want you to develop a strategy for work-life balance and maintain your health. We advocate a good entrepreneur is a wellpreneur and building in daily mindfulness will help you achieve this.
Morning Masterclass Design Thinking
10:00 a.m., Thursday 21st November 2024 - VIRTUAL
Join our last Morning Masterclass for the week and learn about the principles of Design Thinking and the impact it will have on launching a product/service that aligns with the end user's desires and expectations.
Lunch Lab - Creating Powerful Content Marketing
12:00 p.m., Thursday 21st November 2024 - IN-PERSON
This is a must-attend learning experience for entrepreneurs and marketers in general. Engage and learn from Nancy Lemi, a Geogre Brown College alumni who has proved that her formula for creating powerful content marketing provides an edge over her competitors.
Mocktail Networking Event
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Thursday 21st November 2024 - IN-PERSON
Back by popular demand, join the startGBC team for our annual mocktail networking event. Circulate and engage with like-minded minds. This event is open to all students, alumni entrepreneurs and mentor advisors. Enjoy an evening with a #WhyNotMe GBC alumni entrepreneur panel discussion and join us in congratulating the startGBC Entrepreneur of the Year!
Wellpreneur Mindfulness
9:00 a.m., Friday 22nd November, 2024 - VIRTUAL
Life as an entrepreneur isn’t easy, it can be stressful, lonely, demanding, and manic. We want you to develop a strategy for work-life balance and maintain your health. We advocate a good entrepreneur is a wellpreneurand building in daily mindfulness will help you achieve this.
Lunch Lab - How GBC Can Help Protect Your Intellectual Property
12:00 p.m., Friday 22nd November 2024 - IN-PERSON
All businesses create intellectual property; some IP can be protected and monetized. Come to this informative lab to learn about a new offering from George Brown College that could help fund some of the IP protection journey.
#WhyNotMe Student Entrepreneur Panel Discussion
2:00 p.m., Friday 22nd November 2024 - VIRTUAL
How do you balance your academic studies with launching and running a business? Join us for a panel discussion, as we sit down with entrepreneurs who created their companies whilst still studying at college.
Learning Lab - Design Thinking
5:30 p.m., Friday 22nd November 2024 - IN-PERSON
Design Thinking should be at the heart of the development process of any product/service. Come and learn more about the principles of Design Thinking and how you can use it to validate your business idea.
Learning Lab - Empathy Mapping
6:00 p.m., Friday 22nd November 2024 - IN-PERSON
Join us for the last in-person learning lab series of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Leading on from Design Thinking, we will discuss the principles of developing an empathy map, where listening to our end users will help us define how we trigger customers' emotions to purchase.
