520 E 1st Ave | Room C4245

In this speaker series, hear from six entrepreneurs, designers and tech pioneers who’ve put together wildly successful startups, worked with top companies, and developed new and incredible products and business models. This series of guest lectures brings together a phenomenal breadth of experience in entrepreneurship practices, with a focus on the creative sector.

Lectures are free; a limited number of seats are open to current students, industry practitioners and alumni. The speaker series is produced in partnership with the Discovery Foundation through the Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship.

The October 1 event features Joanna Buczkowska-McCumber, Executive Director of League of Innovators, who will be discussing Business Model Canvas. See all upcoming events here.

About the Speaker:

Joanna is an impact leader, a start up strategist, and an entrepreneur advocate, whose focus is to explore new ways to rewire business to create social change. Joanna’s career has been driven to rally people around the power of using business for social good. She has mobilized individuals and their purpose in all of her roles: at the Centre for Social Innovation and Impact Investing, at the Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub, at the Next Big Thing, running the Propelling Social Ventures Conference, or bringing key stakeholders to the BC Social Venture Mapping Study. She is currently the Executive Director of the League of Innovators, a national charity mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs through a series of programs such as Crash Courses, Connectors Hubs and the LOI Labs Accelerator.