Preliminary Agenda


SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2nd:
(10 am – 7:00 pm)

10:00 AM-7:00 PM: Registration & Community Fair, Journaling 
  • The Community Fair. Co-curated by the EFF production team and volunteers from the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce, the fair will feature a collective merch table and 10-15 community groups, associations, media enterprises, or projects focused on elevating or supporting the entrepreneurial feminist community. 
  • Journaling: Enjoy a quiet, meditative space with chairs, tables, pillows, markers, art supplies etc. where you can go to dream up new ideas or digest your experiences.  
 
10:00 AM-11:00 PM: Movement Workshop 
  • Most learning situations lead with the head. We lead with the whole body. Try to be open, curious, and nimble. Nourish your body before moving into intellectual learning spaces! Movement facilitator Savoy Howe. 

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Welcome & Foundational Talk #1
  • Welcome, Petra Kassun-Mutch & Lex Schroeder
  • Foundational talk #1. Carol Ann Hilton: ​Indigenomics: A Global Power Shift.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch, networking, community fair and writing workshop
  • Take some time to yourself, think, set intentions, prepare, or just empty your mind to be ready to receive.
  • Writing Workshop: Grab your lunch and join this 40-minute session! Take the time to write and enjoy being challenged by feminist writing prompts we embark on the EFF experience.  Participants will have the option to share—or not!

1:00PM-4:00 PM:  Deep Dive Workshops
These 3-hour workshops are designed to kickstart your projects. Move one of your mountains in these sessions!  
  • Feminist Businesses Require Feminist Business Models: Design yours with the FBMC, Dr. CV Harquail and Petra Kassun-Mutch
  • Feminist Marketing for an Emerging, More Inclusive Economy, Kelly Diels
  • What Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Can Learn from Activists, Rivera Sun
  • Generative Decision Making - Sharing Power in Our Organizations, Samantha Slade

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Break, networking

4:30 – 7:00 Harvest Wall, Poster “Inspirations” Walk, Community Fair
  • Harvest Wall - Share what you are learning and are curious about!
  • Ask & Offer Posters & Poster Walk - Make your new venture, project, or idea visible. Peruse and learn about other ventures at their leisure. Presenters may stand by their poster to answer questions and get feedback.

4:30 PM-7:00 PM: Reception, Radical Generosity Practice, Entertainment
  • Light nourishment (including free non-alcoholic drinks). Wine and beer for sale.
  • Radical Generosity Practice facilitated by Vicki Saunders, Founder of SheEO.

* Note: To keep costs down, we will offer coffee, tea, and healthy snacks throughout the day. Bring your own lunch or purchase food from the cafe on site. 
 
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3rd:
(8:00 am – 5:30 pm)

8:00 AM-2:30 PM: Registration & Community Fair, Journaling

8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Embodied Resilience workshop with Jane Clapp

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM:  Welcome, Foundational Talk #2
  • Welcome, Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi & Lex Schroeder
  • Foundational talk #2. Dr. CV Harquail: ​What Makes a Business Feminist?

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM: Break, Harvest Wall, Community Fair, Networking

10:45 AM – 12:15 pm: Workshop Series A
  1. Designing & Unleashing the Power of Enterprise Ecosystems, Dr. Barbara Orser & Petra Kassun-Mutch
  2. Make Better Decisions in Your Business Using a Personal Governance Framework, Theresa Yuan
  3. Put Your Feminist Values into Policy and Practice in Your Business, Chris Mitchell and Christina Zeidler, Gladstone Hotel

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch, Networking, Harvest Wall, Community Fair, Journaling
 
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM:  Lightning Talks
3 Rooms, 3 Themes, 3-5 speakers (6 min each) Plus 15 min Q & A.
  • Theme 1: Starting and Running a Business on Your Own Terms
    • Vicki Saunders, Founder, SheEO (Moderator)
    • Pauleanna Reid, Co-founder, New Girl on the Block
    • Cher Jones, Founder, Socially Active
    • BE (barbara) Alink, CEO, Founder and Inventor, The Alinker
    • Bianca Sprague, CEO, bebo mia & Baby and Me Fitness
  • Theme 2: A Feminist Look at the Cannabis Industry
    • Lisa Campbell, Founder, Lifford Cannabis Solutions (Moderator)
    • Reena Rampersad, Owner/operator, The Limin Coconut & High Society Supper Club
    • Madi Fuller, Manager, ncTakeOff
    • Sabrina Ramkellawan, Founder & CEO, Canadian Institute for Medical Advancement & VP of Clinical Affairs,  TerrAscend
    • Michelle Cliffe, Founder & CEO, Stashie and Founder, Love Collective
    • Alyson Morris, HR Manager at Auxly
  • Theme 3: Why We Gather: How to Create Community Through Feminist Content, Practices and Values
    • Chanèle McFarlane, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Do Well Dress Well (Moderator)
    • Amanda Laird, Feminist nutritionist and host of Heavy Flow Podcast
    • Rachel Kelly, Founder, Make Lemonade
    • Karlyn Percil-Mercieca, CEO, KDPM Consulting Group Inc. and Founder, SisterTalk Group
    • Nancy Wilson, CEO, Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce

​2:00 PM – 3:30 PM:  Workshop Series B
  1. This is What a Feminist Business Looks Like: Insights and Actions from the Front Lines: Suzanne Siemens and Madeleine Shaw, Lunapads
  2. Whiteness without White Supremacy: generating new models of whiteness: Dr. Dori Tunstall
  3. Negotiating as a Feminist: Olga Semenovych

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Break, Harvest Wall, Community Fair, Networking

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM: Foundational Talk #3.
Dr. Dori Tunstall: Diversity and Inclusion is not enough: decolonized feminism and design

4:45 PM – 5:30 PM: Closing Talk, Ritual, Share Harvest Highlights​

* Note: To keep costs down, we will offer coffee, tea, and healthy snacks throughout the day. Bring your own lunch or purchase food from the cafe on site. ​
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