Change: entrepreneurs react to it, navigate it, drive it. Change creates opportunities and entrepreneurs drive change, seeing what is possible and bringing it to life. Change can happen quickly and creates the need for adaptation. What worked last year or even yesterday may no longer work, it obsoletes plans, products and even skills and experience.
The events of 2025 have threatened changes that have shattered assumptions of businesses and entrepreneurs in Canada and around the world. They have also highlighted long-standing challenges in the Canadian economy in our productivity, supply chain resilience, business R&D investment, and the lack of international trade diversity. Will these threats finally result in changes in the Canadian economy? How should business adapt? How should we adapt training and support of entrepreneurs, new ventures and small businesses for growth, productivity, innovation and resilience in this new environment? As people who support entrepreneurs from post-secondary students to small or medium enterprises (SMEs), the 2025 CCSBE Conference aims to explore the question:
How have we and how might we educate and support entrepreneurs to respond to change and lead the change that the world needs?
The Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship of Humber Polytechnic and ICUBE at the University of Toronto Mississauga are proud to host the CCSBE Conference 2025 to explore how entrepreneurial education and support organizations can adapt to these challenges and showcase the research and success stories of making an impact.
