March 2020 Major events in Toronto
Toronto Networking Events
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ICCC BUSINESS RECEPTION FOR INDIAN DELEGATION TO PDAC (INDO-CANADA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE)
PDAC International Convention, Trade Show & Investors Exchange 2020, which is the world’s leading convention for people, companies and organizations in, or connected with, mineral exploration.
Date: Monday, Mar 2nd, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Venue: Ontario Investment and Trade Centre 250 Yonge Street Toronto, ON M5G 1B1
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GLOBAL BUSINESS SEMINAR – TORONTO, CANADA (INVEST BARBADOS)
This complimentary, networking seminar, which is also open to non-PDAC registrants, will give potential investors an opportunity to learn more about the Barbados value proposition and the jurisdiction’s attributes as a global financial centre.
A cadre of noted speakers will present on a range of topics including: Canadian developments and opportunities that investors should be mindful of when setting up business in Barbados; Implications of legislative updates in Barbados for structuring activities; An investor’s experience of doing business in Barbados
Date: Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Centre (Room 205B)
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NEW NAFTA: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE (AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN CANADA)
Amcham Canada, Toronto-GTA, together with its partners at the Mississauga Board of Trade, will hold a seminar on the prospective USMCA now that the ratification of this agreement by each of the three countries appears to be close at hand. The New NAFTA What You Need to Know to Take Advantage of North American Free Trade will take place on Thursday, March 5 from 7:30am until 10:00 am at the Four Points by Sheraton Toronto Airport located at 6257 Airport Road in Mississauga
Date: Thursday, Mar 5th, 2020
Time: 7:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Four Points by Sheraton Toronto Airport, 6257 Airport Road, Mississauga, Ontario
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WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP FORUM (TORONTO REGION BOARD OF TRADE)
In honor and celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day, Casa Foundation for International Development will host the Women in Business and Leadership, as a showcase of Women who Inspire. Casa Foundation will co-host the Forum with Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT) – Toronto, World Trade Centre Toronto, Toronto Region Board of Trade. The Forum will focus on women that have advanced Canada’s trade and economic development landscape and will also celebrate inspiring women in Canada that have distinguished themselves in the business and trade sphere.
Date: Thursday, Mar 5th, 2020
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Venue: Lennox Hall, Toronto Region Board of Trade
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ICCC’S EIGHTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION (INDO-CANADA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE)
International conference women’s day.
Date: Friday, Mar 6th, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Venue: Pearson Convention Centre 2638 Steeles Ave E, Brampton, ON L6T 4L7
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ACCE MAGNOLIA CLUB– WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEUR GROUP EVENT (ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE CANADIAN ENTREPRENEURS)
Celebration of International Women’s day with a focus on Women Entrepreneurs – Wellness & Beauty
Date: Sunday, Mar 8th, 2020
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue: Seneca College Newnham Campus, HELIX – K2000
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COMMONWEALTH DAY FLAG-RAISING (BY ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY TORONTO BRANCH)
Join the Royal Commonwealth Society Toronto Branch for an annual celebration of the Commonwealth’s values and contributions on Commonwealth Day. The occasion will be marked by the customary raising of the Royal Union Flag, the officially recognized symbol of the Commownealth in Canada.
Date: Monday, Mar 9th,2020
Time: 11:00 AM
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TRADE ACCELERATOR PROGRAM (TORONTO REGION BOARD OF TRADE)
A dynamic, hands-on six-week workshop for small to medium-sized enterprises, providing essential knowledge, resources and coaching to scale up, develop and execute an export plan. TAP provides companies with access to Canada’s top exporting advisors and contacts; giving them the training and support they need to become successful international traders in their specific business sector.
Date: Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2020
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Toronto Region Board of Trade Room: 3rd Floor – KOMB
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CANADA’S BIGGEST RETAIL, MARKETING & TECHNOLOGY EVENT (METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE)
Through interactive installations and provocative content, Dx3 is your one-stop-shop for taking advantage of everything digital marketing has to offer.
Date: Tuesday, Mar 10th and Wednesday Mar 11th, 2020
Time: 9:00 PM
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
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WOMEN’S NETWORKING LUNCHEON (MARKHAM BOARD OF TRADE)
On-line registration will close 2 business days prior to the event. Registrations after this timeline will be accepted by phone or email.
Date: Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2020
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Venue: 10080 Kennedy Rd, Markham, ON L6C 1N9
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U.S.-CHINA PHASE I TRADE DEAL – ITS IMPACT ON CANADIAN BUSINESS WITH CHINA ( CANADA CHINA BUSINESS COUNCIL)
China and the United States signed a “Phase One” Economic and Trade Agreement in January. The agreement covers a number of issues that impact Canadian businesses and includes a clause where China has committed to purchases of US goods and services.
Date: Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2020
Time: 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Venue: 100 King St W 16th floor
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TECH FORUM 2020 (BY BOOKNET CANADA)
Tech Forum is Canada’s largest conference for book industry professionals, now in its 14th year. With a focus on data, technology, and collaboration, it’s where the book industry comes to share ideas, network, and discuss the future of publishing and selling books.
Date: Monday, Mar 23rd, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
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TRSM EXECUTIVE EDUCATION – INCREASING SELF-AWARENESS (TORONTO REGION BOARD OF TRADE)
IN THIS INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP, YOU WILL GAIN AN:
Increased self-awareness of strength and challenges within your personality. Enhanced vocabulary of the value of diversity of personality (mirroring and opposites)
Increased ability to speed-read others and develop rapport with others to better meet communication needs and Increased ability to cope with stress
Date: Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2020
Time: 8:00 AM
Venue: Toronto Region Board of Trade Room: 3rd Floor – Rid out
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NETWORKING & CONNECTING WITH THE CANADIAN WOMEN’S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (VIBE CENTRE)
VIBE Centre and Lola Macanowicz Insurance & Financial Services are delighted to bring to you an evening of networking & connecting with the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce. Join for this wine and cheese reception to meet and network with other liked minded women in business and find out how CanWCC is shaping the future of women’s entrepreneurship in Canada.
Date: Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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THE RISE OF WOMEN IN TECH LEADERSHIP (BY GOOGLE CLOUD)
Tech has a gender problem. For every four men working in tech, there’s just one woman. That disparity is even higher in executive roles, where women make up only 19 per cent of senior vice-presidents and 15 per cent of CEOs. This is a gap we simply can’t ignore – not just because gender diversity is the right thing to do, but because it has very real impact on employee engagement, talent acquisition, customer satisfaction, decision-making and even returns.
Date: Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2020
Time: 8:00 AM
Venue: 111 Richmond Street W, 9th Floor Toronto, ON M5H 2G4
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2020 NATIONAL MOMPRENEURS CONFERENCE – TORONTO, ON (MOMPRENEURS)
The National Mompreneurs® Conference combines 2 days of education, inspiration, connections, and insights for women entrepreneurs across Canada, featuring practical and informative presentations by industry experts, panel discussions on topics relevant to today’s shifting marketplace, and interactive stations for networking, connecting, and business-building. The event also includes the Awards Ceremony for the 2020 Mompreneur® Awards, where winners are announced, and Mompreneur businesses from across Canada are recognized. There’s really nothing quite like being in a room with hundreds of other female entrepreneurs who are all like-minded and ‘get’ the craziness of running your own business and managing your family to boot.
Date: Friday, Mar 27th and Saturday Mar 28th, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: Delta Hotels Toronto Airport & Conference Centre 655 Dixon Rd, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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CARIBBEAN STREET FOOD FESTIVAL (BY PASSPORT TO CARIBBEAN FOOD/JAMAICANEATS MAGAZINE)
2nd Annual Caribbean Street Food Festival… the end of winter edition. Good Food. Good Vibes. Let’s get together and feel irie.
Date: Saturday, Mar 28th, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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2020 ACCE CHINESE CANADIAN ENTREPRENEUR AWARDS (ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE CANADIAN ENTREPRENEURS)
The ACCE is Canada’s premiere, national, Chinese-Canadian business association. With the support of thousands of members, our directors and our sponsors, the ACCE has developed a vast network of community members promoting business success.
Date: Saturday, Mar 28th, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building – Constitution Hall 255 Front St W,
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2W6
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FRITES NIGHT (BELGIAN CANADIAN BUSINESS CHAMBER)
Every last Tuesday of the Month meet the Belgian Community in Toronto for an after work round of Belgian beer! Open to everyone!
Participate in our business card raffle and win incredible prizes such as Belgian chocolate, Belgian beer, tickets to BCBC events, concerts and plays!
The event is free for BCBC and EUCCAN Chamber members, there is a fee of $10 for non members.
Date: Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Venue: Prenup Pub, 191 College St, Toronto. Canada M5T 1P9
Toronto Social Events
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TORONTO LIGHT FESTIVAL (DISTILLERY DISTRICT)
Brighten up your winter at this fabulous festival of lights featuring local and international artists.
Wander through the cobbled, pedestrian streets of The Distillery District and experience artworks curated to educate, warm hearts, inspire or just put a smile on your face.
Date: Sunday, Mar 1st, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Venue: Distillery District
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THE WIZARDS BEER FESTIVAL: TORONTO
You are formally invited to the most magical beer festival of the year! transport you into a mysterious and magical wizarding world.
A variety of magical onsite entertainment will be available, including local DJs, tarot card readers, wand making classes and dry ice to set the mood.
Included in your ticket, will be a 12oz welcome beer and five tokens that will give you access to various beer! This festival is sure to offer plenty of magic, making it the perfect night out with your friends!
Date: Sunday, Mar 1st, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 8:30 PM
Venue: CRAFT Beer Market 1 Adelaide St Toronto, ON M5C 2V9
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RAW (GARDINER MUSEUM)
In recent years, artists have begun exploring the medium of unfired clay in startlingly new and original ways. From sticky and wet to dry and powdery, raw clay has the power to transform its physical state while transmitting deep connections to primal themes like the land, sentience, the body, and memory.
RAW features four new installations by leading artists working with unfired clay: Cassils, Magdolene Dykstra, Azza El Siddique, and Linda Swanson. Featuring artworks that will change their physical forms over the course of the exhibition’s run, RAW invites viewers to see, hear, smell, and possibly feel raw clay as a time-based medium in the hand of today’s artists.
Date: Saturday Mar 5th, 2020
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue: Gardiner Museum,111 Queens Park
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SPRING FEST TORONTO (EXHIBITIONS PLACE)
SpringFest offers Toronto families an indoor fun park with the latest in children’s entertainment, games and activities taking place March 16-21, 2020. they are thrilled to be back for our 17th year of quality entertainment at the Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. their indoor fun park has entertainment to thrill the whole family with over 25 mechanical and inflatable rides, food vendors, a little tot’s area for kids under 5, arts and crafts, and 3 daily Children’s Shows. SpringFest Fun Park is Toronto’s ultimate March Break destination for Family Fun!
Date: Monday, Mar 16th to Saturday Mar 21st 2020
Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Venue: Better Living Centre, 195 Princes’ Blvd, Toronto
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TORONTO COMICON 2020 (METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE)
A pop culture convention for fans of comics, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, anime, cosplay and gaming. Three full days of exciting family-friendly activities, geek shopping, celebrity meet & greets, photo ops and more.
Date: Friday, Mar 20th to Sunday 22nd, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
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TERRA LUMINA (TORONTO ZOO)
After nightfall at the Toronto Zoo this winter, you are invited to pursue an immersive experience along a 1.5 km walking path that travels into the future and back. Your journey begins when a portal carries you into the luminescent wonders of the year 2099, a time when humans and nature have learned to live in harmony.
Let yourself be transported by vibrant lighting, multimedia effects, breathtaking video projections and an original score to an enchanted world filled with possibility. And explore this bright and hopeful future to reveal the powerful secrets of tomorrow.
Date: Every Saturday March, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Venue: Toronto Zoo
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GHOSTS AND SPIRITS OF THE DISTILLERY (HAUNTED WALK)
Ghosts, graveyards, hangings and haunts. Hear some of the most spine-tingling ghost stories from the earliest days of the city, including haunted theatres, unsolved mysteries and the terrifying encounters at Mackenzie House. You will never look at the city the same again!
Date: Every Saturday March, 2020
Time: 8:00 PM – 9:15 PM
Venue: Distillery District, 55 Mill St
Toronto Fundraiser Events
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ART AUCTION WITH IMPACT (BY ART WITH IMPACT CANADA)
An evening of local artwork, live painting, music, food, drinks, award-winning films and young artists sharing their journeys to wellness. All proceeds from the evening will support Art with Impact Canada’s programs that use the transformative power of film and media to create conversations about mental health with young people.
Join AWIC to the 3rd annual art auction – an evening of community and art in support of life-changing mental health programs!
Date: Thursday, Mar 5th, 2020
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM
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WINGS OF DESIRE (CICS FOUNDATION)
CICS Foundation is partnering with Dramaone Toronto, another non-profit organization, to produce a Fundraising drama show on March 21st, 2020 at the Chinese Culture Centre of Greater Toronto in Scarborough. This is a drama of three women’s journeys: One from Hong Kong SAR who wrestles with her own inner demons. One from China with an unspeakable secret. One from Toronto, hardened and embittered by life. Their stories will transform the way you see yourself, and open your eyes to the needs of others in the community
Date: Saturday, Mar 21st, 2020
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Chinese cultural Centre of Greater Toronto, 5183 Sheppard Ave
