Timeline
Our first LCBN ADAPT event in 2020. Live webinar and online networking event where keynote speakers from our network presented tools, reflections, and real-life experiences of business adaptation in challenging times.
Location: Online
LCBN presented this virtual conference live and in Portuguese on the Canadian government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. This conference was presented by Peter Fonseca, a member of Parliament.
Location: Online
Educational institutions at all levels are facing huge challenges that demand great creativity, communication, and teamwork. In this webinar, Dr. Pedro Cortina and Francisco Cano, members of our network in the field of education, shared the experiences, reflections, and implementations that they went through during the COVID-19 shutdown.
Location: Online
Partner: IG Wealth Management
Sarah Khoshnavazi and Sheldon Lal discussed how a holistic financial plan can help pre-retirees and retirees weather the current economic storm.
Location: Online
Facilitators: Anna Zavalishyna, Mohamed Helaly, Nicolas Hernandez, and Alyssa Burtt
Sponsor: Vancity
In this series of online networking events, attendees made genuine connections while gaining knowledge about the needs in the business world. Facilitators from our network also presented tools, reflections, and real-life experiences of business adaptation in challenging times.
Location: Online
In this webinar, Ricardo Alves de Castro explored what professional skills we need to acquire in order to transform our knowledge into effective and qualified action and, thus, nurture our professional development and consolidate our career in Canada.
Location: Online
Partner: ISSofBC
This webinar focused on discovering our strengths and exploring alternative careers in entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 era. Experts Craig Lu and Sadaf Rahmi were the speakers for this LCBN ADAPT event.
Location: Online
In this interactive webinar, our guests shared the lessons they learned from their successes and failures during their journey building businesses or careers while navigating the complex world of motherhood. Valeria Levchenkova, Claudia Muñoz and Halia Valladares were the speakers for this event.
Location: Online
Valentina Pinzon shared the 5 key aspects that every person should consider when starting a business in Canada, based on her own experience and knowledge as an entrepreneur.
Location: Online
Luis Persechini is the CEO and co-founder of Sherwa and “Financeiro” channel. In this webinar, he talked about the state of the gaming industry in Vancouver and the world, the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as about the trends, emerging companies in the industry, and much more.
Our continued effort to raise awareness of our roots and origin is extremely important to all of us, the Latino residents in B.C. It is our job to highlight the best of Latin America. Ten amazing years of bringing people together, promoting culture, supporting communities, empowering people, and connecting businesses, all of which has brought even more happiness to a country that has received us with open arms. Ten years of showing the power of Latinos around the world, and dreaming of having a physical space to join up the Latin American community in Vancouver. Today, we call this dream The Latin Plaza Hub. In 2018, we launched the first coworking space connecting Canada and Latin America, where we offer a fun and vibrant space for entrepreneurs and freelancers to work.
Location: Online
Female immigrant entrepreneurs face specific obstacles and barriers in developing businesses. In this webinar, our speakers Paola Murillo, and Eli and Mafer explored the journey of Latin American entrepreneurs in Canada and shared the stories and lessons learned from overcoming the challenges to their growth and success.
We co-created the SheLatina project with a group of amazing women, with whom we designed events and activities to contribute to female empowerment in Canada and Latin America. During Carnaval del Sol we gave priority to acts that had female members, and most of our team was composed of women.
Location: Online
In this presentation in Portuguese, we discussed the professional skills that will be necessary in the coming years, for the growth and career development of anyone in the job market. Henrique Alves de Castro is an economist and public manager and was the speaker for this LCBN ADAPT webinar.
Location: Online
Consulates: Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica
This was a conversation about how the Latin American consulates in Vancouver are connecting their countries to British Columbia, and how they are supporting their communities in the new reality.
Location: Online
In this webinar, we learned why and how we must and can rise to become powerful leaders right now. This approach can bring us in better alignment with our higher purpose, increase our confidence and grounding, and enable us to use crucial soft skills that will help us grow our careers and make a strong impression on management and companies at large. The speaker was Farnoosh Brock, business and leadership coach, and author of “The Serving Mindset”.
Location: Online
The team behind Carnaval del Sol festival—Murillo, Zacarias, Acero, Pizzaia and Aiken—shared how they ideated, designed and transformed it into a series of experiences following the motto “We are not cancelling, we are expanding”.
Location: Online
In this LCBN ADAPT webinar, the ales and marketing consultant Seth Killian discussed best practices to market yourself and build a strong network on LinkedIn.
Location: Online
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to sweeping changes and disruptions in nearly every aspect of daily life. And, one thing is certain, adjusting to change can be challenging. In this webinar, the speakers shared opinions about how we can keep in touch with our friends and practice solidarity with each other.
Location: Online
Pilar Portela was awarded the 2020 Women of the Year Award: Entrepreneurial Leader. In this webinar, she shared her resilience journey, and the challenges she had to overcome to become a successful entrepreneur.
Location: Online
The traditional approaches to education changed overnight due to the pandemic. Online learning is now the norm. But the switch from campus- to e-Learning has brought a new set of challenges for both students and teachers. Our speaker Marcel Sangsari presented a few topics around how to improve your online learning in challenging times.
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