Financial Insights | March 4, 2013
Julia Deans, CEO, CYBF believes financial literacy is key to achieving start-up success. Read more here. Join us on (today) March 4th at the Bridging the Financial Literacy Gap Live series.
In partnership with Intuit and the Canadian financial literacy Community, BRIDGING THE FINANCIAL LITERACY GAP is the first event of the Startup Canada 2013 LIVE Series, delving more deeply into issues to advance Canadian entrepreneurship.
BRIDGING THE FINANCIAL LITERACY GAP is a conversation with leading experts within the Canadian financial literacy community on trends, challenges, opportunities and tools to advance the financial literacy agenda in Canada to cultivate a large and healthy crop of early-stage startups to produce major high-growth companies with a more ambitious global reach that can be anchors in their communities.
March 4, 2013 (TODAY)
10:30am – 12:30pm
Registration opens at 10:00am
10.00am Registration Opens
10.30am Introduction and Welcome
Rick Spence, Entrepreneur Columnist at the National Post (Moderator)
10:35am Welcoming Remarks from Startup Canada
Sophia Leong, Director of the Telfer EMBA & Startup Canada Advisor
10:40am Opening Remarks
Maxime Bernier, Minister of State for Small Business
10:50am Keynote Address – Bridging the Financial Literacy Gap
Jeff Cates, CEO of Intuit Canada
11:10am Panel Debate
Jeff Cates, CEO of Intuit Canada
Garry Rabbior, President of the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education
Lance Laking, Investment Director at the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund.
Julia Deans, CEO of the Canadian Youth Business Foundation
12.10pm Entrepreneur Pitches
Three entrepreneurs pitch their solutions to the problem of “Bridging the Financial Literacy Gap” in a 5 minute Pitch
12.30pm Closing Words and Adjourn
Tickets to attend are sold out, but you can still join in via livestream! Click to RSVP to stream online here.
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