Events
SBC January 10th – Dr. Jennie Christensen, CEO & Co-Founder of TrichAnalytics
I can’t believe that it’s 2019…ya, that’s OK, I’m not getting any older…LOL…Happy New Year everyone! Helping you get back into the swing of things is our January 10th Sidney Breakfast Club meeting. Dr. Jennie Christensen, CEO & Co-Founder of TrichAnalytics (https://www.trichanalytics.com/) will be our guest speaker. TrichAnalytics was a 2018 Peninsula Chamber of Commerce […]
Read MoreSBC December 13th – Humaira Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Locelle
Happy holidays everyone. It’s that time of year again and we might actually get some winter weather this week. I’m so excited to announce our December 13th speaker! Please come and meet and listen to Peninsula based Humaira Ahmed, the Founder and CEO of Locelle (https://locelle.com/), a women only social networking platform that provides women […]
Read MoreSBC November 8th – George Hanson, President of the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance (VIEA)
The Sidney Breakfast Club has been an active story-teller for Peninsula technology, manufacturing and retail businesses for many years. Yet just under the radar and quietly dominant is one of the Island’s most active food and farming industries. Food manufacturing is a major NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) category and Vancouver Island has recently […]
Read MoreSBC October 11th – Bill Collins, Chairman Quester Tangent
We’re gonna have a slightly different format for our October 11th Sidney Breakfast Club meeting…lot’s is going on in our Peninsula business community these days…plus there’s no end of buzz regarding the October 20th municipal election. On October 11th, Bill Collins (Chairman – Quester Tangent) is going to review and describe three exciting activities/events that […]
Read MoreSBC September 13th – Christopher Theeparajah, Account Manager & Aerospace Lead, Export Development Canada
Well…it feels like we last met just a few days ago, my how time flies! So after a great summer of hot weather & activity it’s certainly time to get back to networking and early morning meetings. Trade & export related issues have been dominant through the summer and now continue strong into the Fall. […]
Read MoreSBC April 12th – Tom Morin, CEO, Morinwood Manufacturing
Good morning Sidney Breakfast Club members. It’s our April meeting already! We’re excited to have secured Tom Morin of Morinwood Manufacturing (Keating X Rd.) to help us bring in the Spring season. Morinwood (http://morinwood.ca/) orchestrates interior finishes on institutional construction projects. Morinwood’s work scope includes Architectural millwork, Systems furniture, Metal labs, Acoustic paneling, Wall protection, […]
Read MoreSBC February 8th – “Innovation – The Human Element” – Campbell Black, President, Blackline Marine and Quadrant Marine Institute
We have incorporated an Innovation based theme for our Sidney Breakfast Club meetings this year. Key to understanding the “Innovation Definition” is knowing that it doesn’t simply apply to technology based applications & tools. The dictionary definition of Innovation is “something new or different introduced and/or the introduction of new things or methods”. We have generally attributed innovation activity only to technology based […]
Read MoreSBC Jan. 2018 Meeting – Dr. Tim Walzak, Director, Camosun Innovates & BC Regional Innovation Chair in Sport Technology
Good morning & Happy New Year everyone! I hope that you had a great holiday season and are ready and rested to get back at it 2018. We are intending to incorporate an Innovation based theme for our Sidney Breakfast Club meetings this year. The Sidney & Peninsula Industry community branded as a regional Innovation […]
Read MoreSBC Dec. 2017 – David Calveley – Chair, Sidney Economic Development Committee
Happy Holidays everyone! Our speaker this month will be David Calveley, Chair of the Sidney Economic Development Committee. The Sidney EDC has done outstanding work in 2017 generating business & industry metrics for the Town of Sidney area. We will get a brief summary review from David of the survey work & results at our December […]
Read MoreNov. 2017 – Sidney Breakfast Club – John Espley, Director of Marketing & Communications @ BCHAZMAT Management Ltd.
John Espley, Director of Marketing & Communications @ BCHAZMAT Management Ltd. Happy Halloween Season everyone! Over the years, we’ve had SBC speakers that have highlighted the engineering, operations, financing and manufacturing processes of our local Industrial companies. One of the most important, yet often taken for granted business processes, is Sales. Successful sales propels cash […]
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