Delegate Registration Continued (BC Foyer)

Breakfast (British Room)

Opening of Exhibits

Welcoming and Keynote (Columbia Room)

• Words of Welcome: Charlie Coffey, Executive Vice President,
  Government and Community Affairs,
  RBC Financial Group
• Speaker: Joanne Thomas Yaccato,
  "The 80% Minority: Reaching the Real World of Women Consumers"
  

Plenary Session (Columbia Room)

• Honourable Minister Ida Cong, BC Minister of State for Women's & Senior's Services
• Presentation of Findings from the Prime Ministers' Task Force on Women Entrepreneurs — Federal MP Sarmite Bulte, Chair of the Task Force
• Julie Weeks, Executive Director, National Women Business Council, USA
• Angela Balan, Women Presidents' Organization
• "Economic Empowerment Has Curves",
  Astrid Pregel, Past Consul General, Canadian Consulate General, Atlanta, Georgia
• Wendy McDonald, Chair and CEO, BC Bearing Group

Meet the Experts Sessions AM:
Choose one of the following:

1. "Playing with Someone Else's Money". Accessing and Negotiating Growth Financing. -- Linda Graupner, Director SME Financial Services, Export Development Corporation
   (Moresby Room)
   
2. International Trade Advisory Services from USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand
   * Bill Johnston, Director and Senior Trade Commissioner, ITC Vancouver
   * Lee Boam, Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs Canada
   * Anne Chappaz, Trade Commissioner & Consul General, NZ Consulate General Vancouver
   * Nerella Campigotto, President, Boomerang Consulting Inc. & President, CANZBA, Vancouver
   (Vancouver Island Room)
   
3. "Taking the World by Storm: Winning the World's Biggest Clients". Doing Business and Winning International Contracts — Dana Peebles, Kartini International & Judy Bradt, Summit Insight
   (Columbia Room)

Light Lunch (British Room)
Open to the Business Community

Keynote Speaker: Sally Armstrong, Author of "Veiled Threat" and co-producer of "The Daughters of Afghanistan" documentary

Business Matching (Columbia Room)
Pre-arranged meetings for qualified delegates, January 30th deadline required.

OR

Meet the Experts Session PM: [2:00 - 3:15]
Choose one:

1. "Navigating Women Through the Global Marketplace" Women's Enterprise Initiatives. — Laura Small, Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan. Bev Suek, Women's Enterprise Centre of Manitoba. Sharon Hughes-Geeky, Women's Enterprise Initiative of BC. Allison Gray, Alberta Women's Enterprise Initiative Association.
   (Vancouver Island Room)
   
2. "Show Me the Money, With Service Exports" Marketing your Service Internationally - Dr. Dorothy Riddle
   (Moresby Room)
   
3. "Making a Foreign Market Less Foreign"
   Laura McGowan, Senior Trade Manger, RBC BC international Business Divisions
   (Cortes Room)

Refreshment Break

Business Matching (Columbia Room)
Pre-arranged meetings for qualified delegates, January 30th deadline required.

OR

Meet the Experts Session PM: [3:30 - 4:45]
Choose One:

1. "The Power of Positive Linking! Building Strategic Alliances and Making Networking Work for You."
   Robyn Henderson, Global Networking Specialist, Australia and
   Donna Messer, ConnectUs, Canada
   (Vancouver Island Room)
   
2. Innovation & Commercialisation: "Inventive Women Taking a Wealth of Ideas to Market"— Mrs. Bola Olabisi, Founder & CEO Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network.
   (Moresby Room)
   
3. "Encouraging International Trade with:
   Aboriginal, Ethnic, Indigenous, Not for Profit, and Disabilites"
   Sue Hammel, Executive Director, Aboriginal Cultural Society, Canada and Margherita Coppolina, Diversity Consultant, Australia
   (Cortes Room)

Gala Reception (Pacific Ballroom Foyer)

Gala Dinner (Pacific Ballroom)
Open to all Business Community

MC
Pamela Martin, CTV News at Six Anchor

Welcomes

• Welcome from Anne Sutherland, Senior VP, Client Segment Strategies,
  RBC Financial Group
• Welcome to Vancouver, Mayor Larry W. Campbell, City of Vancouver
• Welcome to Canada, Prime Minister Paul Martin [invited]

Keynote Presenter
Jackie Kallen, Author, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and inspiration behind the film "Against the Ropes: The Jackie Kallen Story" starring Meg Ryan as Jackie Kallen.