Take your career or business to the next level.
Hear from fearless women who've smashed glass ceilings.
Join our vibrant community that shares your passions.
Plus, learn how to cultivate wellness and balance for sustainable success.
Stay connected and access resources through our UPLIFT Community APP.
The UPLIFT Women’s Business Summit is the ultimate event for empowering women in business.
At UPLIFT, you will gain valuable tools and resources to enhance your entrepreneurial journey and to curate a positive shift in your life. You will learn how to overcome common entrepreneurial challenges, gain financial literacy and investment guidance for long-term success, discover marketing strategies and techniques, and prioritize self-wellness to maintain creativity and inspiration.
Additionally, you will be able to connect with other like-minded women and forge meaningful connections.
Like our attendees, this event will be well-rounded, offering insight into everything needed to become a successful modern-day businesswoman.
Anticipated Business Women
Speaker Sessions
Visionaries
Jamie Kern Lima is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker and Founder of IT Cosmetics, a company she started in her living room, and leaned on her faith and calling while enduring hundreds of rejections, to eventually grow it to the largest luxury makeup brand in the country. She sold the company to L’Oréal in a billion-dollar deal and became the first female CEO of a brand in its 100+ year history. Her love of her customers and remarkable authenticity and belief eventually landed her on the Forbes America’s Richest Self-Made Women list. She recently partnered with Oprah to teach the 2022 Life You Want Class, and is the author of the book Believe IT: How to Go From Underestimated to Unstoppable, an instant New York Times bestseller, USA Today bestseller, #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, #1 Amazon bestseller, #1 Publisher’s Weekly bestseller and #1 Barnes & Noble bestseller. She’s a mother of two and an active investor, speaker, and thought leader who is passionate about inspiring and elevating women. She’s also an active philanthropist who has funded leadership training in over 100 prisons and shelters in the US in 2022 and has donated over $40 million in product and funds to help women face the effects of cancer with confidence. She donates 100% of her author proceeds for Believe IT to Feeding America and Together Rising, amounting to more than 3 million meals donated so far. Learn more at JamieKernLima.com
As one of the most influential social voices in the body confidence space, Sarah brings people together by sharing honestly about her journey of divorce, self-worth, living beyond your body, and love. Her vulnerability resonates with followers globally inspiring them towards radical acceptance in their own life.
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The UPLIFT Women’s Business Summit is more than just a conference, it’s a game-changer for your career. We understand that securing funding for professional development can be a challenge, but we’ve got you covered. Our unique ‘UPLIFT Company”’ package is designed to help you make the case for why attending the UPLIFT Women’s Business Summit is a must-do investment for your professional growth.
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The UPLIFT Community App is an exclusive platform designed to help you stay connected with a vibrant community of like-minded women.
With the app, you can access exclusive content, participate in discussion forums, and connect with other attendees from past and future UPLIFT events.
You can also take advantage of opportunities to network, share resources, and collaborate on new ideas with other women entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Plus, the app allows you to stay up-to-date on the latest news and announcements from UPLIFT, so you never miss out on valuable insights and opportunities to grow your career or business.
At UPLIFT, we believe in using our platform to make a positive impact in the world. We are excited to partner with Mamas for Mamas, a national charitable organization committed to empowering mothers and caregivers facing poverty-related struggles. Through their innovative approaches to financial barriers, they strive to change the landscape of poverty and ensure that no mother or child is left behind. Mamas for Mamas welcomes caregivers of any gender identity or expression and envisions a future where everyone can thrive. Join us in our mission to create a world where all families have access to the support and resources they need to flourish. A percentage of our sales will be donated to Mamas for Mamas, and we will also be accepting donations of formula for infants at our events.
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Mission Statement:
Our mission is to create a better life for working parents through child-friendly workspaces.
Our Core Values
At ProducKIDvity, our core values aren’t just something we put in a document and ignore — we live and breathe our values as they guide us in our business.
We are committed to our clients, our staff, and our families who allow us to do our best work each and every day. Click into each value to learn more about how we practice what we preach.
The Scotiabank Women Initiative® breaks down barriers to help increase economic and professional opportunities for women to be successful now, and in the future.
Unbiased access to capital and tailored solutions
We provide equal access to capital and tailored solutions, including ESG-focused services, for women.
Bespoke specialized education
We offer resources, tools, and workshops to advance women’s careers and elevate skills, financial confidence, and technical expertise.
Holistic advisory services and mentorship
We provide inclusive, women-centric advisory services and mentorship that connect women with peers, tailored development opportunities, and expert mentors.
MisMacK Clean Cosmetics is Canada’s most award-winning clean beauty brand. Created by internationally acclaimed makeup artist Missy MacKintosh, MisMacK is leading the clean beauty revolution with innovated, award winning multi use products that perform better than mainstream. Missy built MisMacK from the ground up in her small-town basement of Canoe, BC. She worked alongside two Canadian female chemists to create and perfect each product. After outgrowing her basement during a global pandemic, MisMacK opened its first storefront in downtown Salmon Arm and the second in downtown Victoria, BC. MisMacK goes beyond products. They offer free pampering sessions, one-on-one lessons, professional makeup applications, headshot events, makeup workshops, and so much more. Their mission is to education and empower humans everywhere to ignite their creativity, have fun with makeup and be unapologetically themselves. “Makeup does not define you. It’s merely a tool of empowerment” – Missy MacKintosh
Our success is rooted in strength and stability, delivering tech-forward solutions and expanding our connections to the financial services ecosystem.
We’re 4,000 employee entrepreneurs working with our clients and communities to solve problems that matter. And we’re on a mission to build brave futures through the power of connection.
We deliver technology and investment solutions that connect the financial services industry. We find opportunities that others can’t because we’re at the center of it all.
Our Purpose
As BC’s leading business resource organization for women, our passion is to support women entrepreneurs along their small business journey.
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Our Story
In 1994, Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan), which was then known as Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), identified critical gaps in access to financing and services for women entrepreneurs. To fill these gaps, they committed funds to create Women’s Enterprise Initiatives (WEI’s) in the four western provinces.
The Women’s Enterprise Initiative includes WeBC, Alberta Women Entrepreneurs, Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan and Women’s Enterprise Centre of Manitoba. Since 1995, we have collectively provided over $220M in direct and leveraged financing and created or maintained over 7,700 jobs in Canada.
SINCE 1995
$2.29B
in economic activity created, as a result of our funding
68,850
one-on-one business advisory services provided
48,591
women hosted in 2,333 training sessions
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The making of a hospitality management leader.
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Our core values are the foundation by which we conduct ourselves with our coworkers, our guests, our owners and our hotels. We strengthen our Atlific family by celebrating our diversity and encouraging inclusivity.
We encourage our hotels to get involved locally and to make donations of time, products and funds that support the needs within their communities. We believe that by building an inspired culture, we are better able to serve the communities in which we work and live in.
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Sororal is a social purpose travel company guided by the UN’s Fifth Sustainable Development Goal and dedicated to social and economic empowerment for womankind. Knowing that the travel industry already employs more women than the global average and features twice as many women employers as other sectors, SORORAL’s mission is to use the power of travel to advance gender equality and fight gender-based violence in every part of the world. We take small groups of women-identifying travellers on fully curated trips of a lifetime, partnering with local female hoteliers, restaurateurs, guides, vendors, and creators at every destination. We also advocate alongside and commit a share of our trip proceeds to supporting grassroots organizations in each destination that focus on ending violence against women so that our sisters all over the world can lead secure and self-determined lives. Sororal is all about promoting positive change through travel experiences that inspire connection, growth and restoration. Each journey presents an opportunity to embrace a mindful and empathetic approach to the people and places we encounter. With upcoming trips to Costa Rica, Denmark, Kenya, Morocco and Sicily, come #TravelLikeASister with us!