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DESCRIPTION:The Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI) at ÂĚñÉç is
  delighted to introduce the inaugural SME Round Table: 'SMEs and the Road 
 to Sustainability.' SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises) constitute 
 a staggering 99.8% of all businesses in Canada\, employing 88% of the tota
 l private labour force. Our event will explore the challenges that SMEs en
 counter on their journey toward sustainable transition and growth.\n\nAgen
 da\n\n\n	10:00 – 10:15: Opening Remarks by Javad Nasiry\, Professor of Oper
 ations Management\, Director of ÂĚñÉç’s Sustainable Growth Initiative (SG
 I)\n	10:15 - 11:15: Keynote Speech: Anne-Josée Laquerre\, Executive Directo
 r and co-founder of Québec Net Positif\n		\n			The progress of Quebec SMEs as t
 hey navigate the path towards a low-carbon economy (Presentation in Englis
 h)\n		\n	\n	11:15 - 11:45: Daphne Ferguson\, Directrice au développement indus
 triel et durable\, PME MTL\n		\n			Canal de Lachine 4.0 : initiatives\, défis e
 t mesures proposées pour mobiliser et appuyer les PME dans leur transition
  écologique (Présentation en français)\n		\n	\n	11:45 - 12:00: Jennie Coleman\
 , President of Equifruit Inc.\n		\n			Equifruit and Global Fairtrade Banana Dom
 ination: a Case Study\n		\n	\n	12:00 – 13:00: Lunch\n	13:00 – 13:50: \n		\n			Dror E
 tzion\, Professor of Management and Sustainability\, University of Vermont
  Grossman School of Business\, Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainabl
 e Business\n				\n					Insights from social science to encourage SME climate action
  (Presentation in English)\n				\n			\n			Véronique Beaulieu-Fowler\, Director of Ph
 ilanthropic Development of Quebec Food Banks\n				\n					Hunger for Change: Sustain
 able Innovations to Fight Food Insecurity (Presentation in English)\n				\n			\n		
 \n	\n	13:50 – 15:00: Panel: Food Convergence Innovation: A Digital-Powered\,
  Person-Centered\, Ecosystem-Building Approach to Achieving Economically V
 iable Enterprise and Sector Sustainability\n		\n			Laurette Dubé\, Professor\, 
 James ÂĚñÉç Chair of Consumer and Lifestyle Psychology & Chair and Scient
 ific Director\, ÂĚñÉç Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics
 \n			Mehmet Gumus\, Professor at ÂĚñÉç\, Co-founder of Analytica
 \n			Jonathan L. Belanger\, Founder and CEO of Maturin Inc.\n			Louis Frenette\,
  President and CEO of Colabor\n			Felipe Almeida\, Senior Researcher at Micro
 soft Education\, Microsoft Green Design Lab Co-Lead\n		\n	\n	15:00 – 15:15: Co
 ffee break\n	15:15 – 16:05: \n		\n			Hamid Etemad\, Professor of International B
 usiness and Marketing\, ÂĚñÉç Desautels School of Management\n				\n					Canadian 
 SMEs and Challenges of Environment\, Sustainability & Governance: Analysis
  and Implications (Presentation in English)\n				\n			\n			Francesca Bonetti\, Assis
 tant Professor of Marketing at HEC Montréal & Visiting Scholar at Universi
 ty of Southern California\, Marshall School of Business\n				\n					An Investigatio
 n into the Impacts of Brexit\, COVID-19 and Climate Change/ Sustainability
  on the UK Fashion and Textile Industry\n				\n			\n		\n	\n	16:05 – 17:00: Networking
  session\n\n\nRegister here by October 25th\n\n\n	\n	About Anne-Josée Laquer
 re\, M.Sc.\, APR\n\n	As Executive Director and Co-founder of Québec Net Pos
 itif\, Anne-Josée works to raise awareness\, mobilize\, and equip business
 es to accelerate their transition to a low-carbon economy. Anne-Josée is t
 he recipient of a 2020 Clean50 award that recognizes her as one of the 50 
 Canadians who have contributed the most to accelerating the country’s gree
 n economy. Anne-Josée co-founded Québec Net Positif and assumes its genera
 l management after having worked for over 25 years in corporate social res
 ponsibility and public relations with major companies: Aimia\, Bombardier 
 Aerospace\, Merck Frosst\, FPInnovations\, Domtar and Noranda. She has als
 o worked as a sustainable development consultant for Maillon Vert and Mill
 ani.\n\n	During her time as Director of Social Purpose\, Aimia was twice re
 cognized by Corporate Knights as one of the 50 Best Corporate Citizens in 
 Canada.\n\n	A Certified Public Relations Professional with a Master of Scie
 nce in Management and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the École
  des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal\, Anne-Josée completed Harvard
  University's Executive Program: 'Aligning Sustainability with Corporate P
 erformance' and served on the Board of Directors of Montreal's Sustainable
  Finance Initiative. She was a recipient of the Directors College 'Diversi
 ty on Boards' Fellowship (2018)\, funded by McMaster University and the Co
 nference Board of Canada.\n\n	\n	Parking located near ÂĚñÉç's downtown camp
 us: The Montreal Parkopedia website provides information about parking nea
 r the downtown campus\, including several private non-ÂĚñÉç parking lots 
 and garages open to the public. The Parkopedia website is not maintained b
 y ÂĚñÉç and is provided for informational purposes only.\n\n
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LOCATION:Room 365/370\, Donald E. Armstrong Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\,
  H3A 3L1\, 3420 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Inaugural SME Round Table presented by the Sustainable Growth Initi
 ative (SGI)
URL:/desautels/channels/event/inaugural-sme-round-tabl
 e-presented-sustainable-growth-initiative-sgi-351380
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