Events

Inspire Series with Robert Young and Fennella Bruce
Inspire: Breaking Down Barriers to Success This event is the launch of the new Hub series meant to inspire, enlighten and educate participants on how to approach and break down barriers to success as they apply to women, people of colour, and other underrepresented groups in the world of entrepreneurship. This event is your opportunity to meet an extraordinary entrepreneur and media producer, Fennella Bruce. Learn more about her extraordinary journey in media and entrepreneurship, from journalist and media creator to producer for CTV News Channel, Your Morning, and Canada AM.

Inspire Series with Sylvia Chan & Asia Nelson
Inspire: Breaking Down Barriers to Success This event is the second in the new Hub series meant to inspire, enlighten and educate participants on how to approach and break down barriers to success as they apply to women, people of colour, and other underrepresented groups in the world of entrepreneurship. This event is your opportunity to meet two extraordinary women entrepreneurs: Sylvia Chan and Asia Nelson.  Sylvia is the founder of Sylvia Chan Art, a business that is focused on art education and which has expanded during the pandemic, achieving great success. 

Inspire Series with Jasmine Williams
The Hub’s Inspire series aims to enlighten and educate participants on how to approach and break down barriers to success as they apply to women, people of colour, and other underrepresented groups in the world of entrepreneurship. In the fourth session, Fennella Bruce will interview Jasmine Williams. She is an award-winning writer, content marketing expert, and the founder of Jasmine Williams Media, a boutique content marketing consultancy serving a global roster of industry-leading companies and visionaries. She’s also the founder of Click-worthy Creatives, an education hub and community for freelance creatives. Jasmine helps creative entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, and growth-stage startups scale their businesses with strategic storytelling.  

Inspire with Michael Chambers and Robert Young
Fennella Bruce interviews innovative artists Michael Chambers & Robert Young About this event

Fireside Chat with Chef Robert Rainford
Donovan Dill interviews Chef Robert Rainford. About this event

Inspire Series with Melisa Ellis and Itah Sadu
Fennella Bruce Interviews Community Influencers Melisa Ellis & Itah Sadu About this event

July 2022
Events: Book a Consulting Session (https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/thehub/book-your-coaching-session) Join a Drop-in Session*Calendar Invitation Join Board of Trade Event*Calendar Invitation Featured: Mounib Real Food Only, Founded by Iman Mounib (https://mounibrealfoodonly.ca/) Wellnamic, Founded by Edina, Nicola and Ronesca Bijvoet (https://www.wellnamic.com/)

August
Events: Book a Consulting Session (https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/thehub/book-your-coaching-session) Join a Drop-in Session*Calendar Invitation Join Board of Trade Event*Calendar Invitation Featured:

Welcome to the Hub with Gray Graffam
Former director of The Hub, Gray Graffam, welcomes the new term to The Hub. Gray is an entrepreneur, mentor, and coach with a background in tech development.  Connect with Gray, The Hub and it's surrounding community of innovative entrepreneurs. 

Branding Your Business Using Video Workshop with David Cowdery
David’s commercial directing career spans over 25 years, working for brands such as HP, P&G, Kelloggs and Canadian Tire. David is also the founder of Nine Hundred Pictures Inc. a boutique corporate video production company. His experience spans beyond the entertainment industry into education and the start-up ecosystem – as a co-founder of Fixtimate (an early stage platform app in the automotive space). David’s passion for designing and delivering winning pitches and his love of helping entrepreneurs across all industries, including the arts, serves as an invaluable asset to those seeking to add value to their businesses.