Meet our sponsors

CIBC is a leading North American financial institution serving 13 million clients in Canada, the US, and around the world. Our CIBC Commercial Banking team creates end-to-end financial solutions to support your business’ financial needs at every stage of your company’s growth. We are a relationship-oriented bank that helps companies finance growth, manage cash flow, increase efficiency, and mitigate risk.

Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, voice, and artificial intelligence—to connect to their customers in a whole new way. The Salesforce Customer 360 is an integrated CRM platform, powered by AI, that unites marketing, sales, commerce, IT and analytics departments. Salesforce is one of the leaders on Fortune’s Change the World list, and has been one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, for twelve years in a row. For information, please visit www.salesforce.com.

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) & TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), owned and operated by TMX Group, are home to Canadian and global companies, from micro-cap to mega cap, across a diversity of sectors. Over 3,000 companies are listed on the Exchanges, with a total market capitalization of almost $3.0 trillion. TSX is Canada's oldest and largest public equity market, with more than 160 years of experience. TSXV is the world’s leading public venture marketplace for early-stage companies. The market provides emerging companies with capital formation opportunities to fuel their growth, while providing investment opportunities for investors who participate in a company’s development. For more information, visit www.tmx.com.

The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, leading the national discussion and causing policy change through brave and independent journalism since 1844. With award-winning coverage of business, politics and national affairs, The Globe and Mail newspaper reaches 6.4 million readers every week in print or digital formats, and Report on Business magazine reaches 2 million readers in print and digital every issue. The Globe and Mail’s investment in innovative data science means that as the world continues to change, so does The Globe. The Globe and Mail is owned by Woodbridge, the investment arm of the Thomson family.