Events

Seeking Investors or Partners?

WADE Canada can help! As the voice of Canada's decentralized energy industry, our mission is to support the accelerating growth of clean decentralized energy through innovation and collaboration.

So view PART I of a two-part investment boosting program (valued at $1,200) to grow your company by attracting clients, partners and investors to your clean energy technology business*. Through our extensive network, we thought you might also like to connect with more like-minded professionals across the country, so watch the webinar and receive a free 1-year membership with WADE Canada too!

Funded by Western Economic Diversification Canada and delivered by WADE Canada, the  Building Capacity Program offers you tools to prepare a business centric company pitch, which you will use when speaking with your desired audience.

•	Understand your target market
•	Communicate who you are and what you do so your audience will listen
•	Distinguish your product and service so clients immediately see value and commit

PART I: Building Capacity Program, Live Webinar
This 2-hour webinar will provide professional business training, offering ways to strengthen your business proposal and verbal pitch, a "12 questions" methodology to better tailor your value proposition. Armed with improved selling tools, viewers of the webinar will be invited to meet with investors and potential business partners at a clean energy event this spring (Part II).This webinar was originally recorded on February 13, 2012

Meet Your Coach:
	As Manager, Industry Engagement with Innovate Calgary, Kevin Dahl provides support and connections for advanced technology companies in Calgary, and helps to develop and promote specific business clusters and industry associations in Alberta. He is actively involved in Alberta’s tech sector and currently sits on various boards including Digital Alberta and the Calgary Council for Advanced Technology (CCAT).
As Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Innovate Calgary, Alex Raczenko, brings a breadth of experience to his role. His experience with establishing the correct priority and alignment between market, business and technology domains has proven effective in helping technology enabled/based companies establish a strong market and business centric foundation for future growth and evolution.
Innovate Calgary is a full service organization offering technology transfer and business incubator services to researchers, entrepreneurs and businesses within the advanced technology sector. We support commercialization by providing a variety of services and programs including: business and technical advice, workshops, screening of technologies for commercial potential, access to sector resources and networking events, licensing and intellectual property protection strategy, company creation/incubation programs and office and lab space - tenancy and business resources and facilities for technology companies.

PART II (Optional):
Building Capacity Program, Dealmakers' Lounge, will introduce clean energy technology companies with financial and business service providers to broker deals and discuss investment opportunities. The Building Capacity Program Dealmakers' Lounge will be held in conjunction with upcoming clean energy events in Western Canada this spring. Registration for PART II will be offered to viewers of the webinar only. Questions? Contact Clare McWilliams, Director of Marketing & Communications at cmcwilliams@wadecanada.ca.

What do past participants say?

"Capacity growth exploding in Vulcan, AB," says
Building Capacity Program participant and new WADE Canada member.

For any questions, please contact Clare McWilliams, Director of Marketing & Communications at cmcwilliams@wadecanada.ca.

* For this offer, SMEs (Small-to-Medium-Sized Enterprises) who consult, manufacture and/or distribute clean energy technology will be entitled to a FREE 1-year WADE Canada membership. Registration for the Building Capacity Program, Dealmakers’ Lounge will be offered to viewers of the webinar only. This offer expires March 30, 2012.