The Oct. 4 event in at Vancouver's Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel featured speeches and workshops designed to help entrepreneurs grow their companies. Photography by Katherine Scarrow/The Globe and Mail
The official Small Business Summit brochure is on display, feature a list of all of the speakers, including keynotes Marla Kott and Skip Swain
Organizers of the event arrange the name tags at the registration table
Attendees, which include small business owners and operators from across British Columbia, start to file in
Registration for the summit, sponsored by Globe partners such as Telus, KPMG, BMO, TD, Shaw, Small Business BC and Kudos, begins bright and early at the hotel
Guests enjoy a continental breakfast, with coffee, before taking their seats in the ballroom
Complimentary copies of The Globe and Mail available at the event
Report on Small Business editor Sean Stanleigh, accompanied by Achilles Media events manager Nagar Rahmani, puts the final touches on his address to the audience
Event staff hand out schedules to attendees
Sponsors spend much of the day fielding questions from small business owners and stakeholders
B.C. Small Business Minister Naomi Yamamoto speaks with attendees before taking the stage
Report on Small Business editor Sean Stanleigh reveals the venture capitalists, corporate investors, banks and angel investors in attendance
Marla Kott, CEO at Inprint Plus, delivers keynote address entitled 'Take a Calculated Risk, From the Desk of an Entrepreneur'
Attendees enjoy a lunch break and chat with fellow delegates
Delegates swap business cards
A venture capitalist, a banker, and an entrepreneur outline ways to effectively raise money in the growth financing panel
Mayors from the Lower Mainland discuss the importance of small businesses to their respective communities, and outline what their municipalities are doing to encourage and assist entrepreneurs
Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson is interviewed by Report on Business web editor Katherine Scarrow
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