We look forward to welcoming you to our Southern California Summer Reception - an in-person program for us to meet one another to network and hear great content from our featured presenters. Presenting at this event will be partners from two MAPLE member organizations, leading IP law firm, Knobbe Martens, and audit, tax and consulting services firm, RSM US LLP. More information on our program will be shared in the coming weeks!

MAPLE Business Council is honored to partner with the U.S. Commercial Service & U.S. Consulate in Vancouver to co-host a special in-person event on scaling your business in the United States for Vancouver-area tech companies on April 27 at the law offices of Fasken.

We look forward to welcoming you to our B.C. Spring Meeting for members, guests and partners. We have an exciting focus for our first event in British Columbia in 2022. Join us as we examine the future of the Internet. The big buzz in 2022 is about the Metaverse, the next iteration of the internet and a key part of web 3.0. Facebook renamed to Meta Platforms to focus on this opportunity and Microsoft announced a big acquisition of Activision to solidify its entrance into the Metaverse.

We look forward to welcoming members and guests to our first program of 2022. Because of ongoing Covid issues, this will be a virtual program enabling participation from across our network. After presenting our quarterly Report on MAPLE, we are honored to welcome two of our organization members to the virtual podium. Our speakers will be joining us from Investissement Quéebec International and Fasken Law as we explore opportunities to invest, grow and trade with Québec.

We are looking forward to welcoming members and guests to our Southern California Winter Reception for great networking and content-sharing. Our presenting member organizations will be Livingston International, Canada’s largest customs broker and Sterling Capital Brokers, Canada’s largest independent benefit consulting firm.

We look forward to welcoming members, guests and partners to our New York Chapter Fall Reception on November 17th as we turn our focus to a discussion on sustainable energy initiatives in New York State. Joining us will be representatives from Boralex, Hydro Québec and the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium. We are honored to welcome the Delegate General of Québec in New York, Martine Hébert, who will share opening remarks before our panel discussion.

We look forward to welcoming members, partners and guests to our MAPLE British Columbia Fall Reception.

In addition to networking and an update on the work of MAPLE Business Council by MAPLE British Columbia Executive Director Jason Tse, we are honoured to welcome Mr. Eric Eide, Director of Ecosystem Development at the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, as our special guest.

We are looking forward to welcoming members and guests to our Southern California Fall Reception for great networking and content-sharing. Our presenting member organizations will be the Business Development Bank of Canada’s High Impact Advisory Services and Trade & Invest Ontario.

Wa are hosting a special Member Mixer for members of our MAPLE British Columbia Chapter hosted by Executive Director Jason Tse. This is an opportunity for members and invited guests to reconnect with one another in celebration of our growing local community.

We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back for more virtual networking, our quarterly report on the growth and work of our community, a warm welcome to our new members, and expert speakers on cross-border topics of interest. At this event we will be welcoming presentations from AFEX and QA Consultants.

We are excited to share a special virtual event for MAPLE Business Council members and guests hosted by fellow member organization, Edmonton and Orange County-based leadership consulting firm, Unstoppable Conversations. In this one hour talk, you will discover the specific thinking that dooms you to repeat the past, predictably creating a "better version of yesterday" and missing any real opportunity for true innovation or transformation. Find out how to let go of “normal” and create something truly beyond what previously seemed possible.

MAPLE British Columbia is looking forward to welcoming members and guests for the first reception of our B.C. community in 2021.

We are honored to welcome Brookfield Properties in Los Angeles as our featured organization with a presentation on Brookfield’s portfolio in Greater L.A and their significant redevelopment of the California Market Center as the hub of L.A.’s historic fashion district.

We are looking forward to welcoming members and guests to our MAPLE New York Spring Event which will be held online. Our speakers will be Purolator International and TMX Group, owners of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange.

We look forward to welcoming members and guests to our Southern California Spring Reception. Our virtual program will include networking and presentations from leading intellectual property law firm, Knobbe Martens and middle-market audit, tax and consulting firm, RSM.

In 2019, New York exported $14.2 billion in goods and a further $8.3 billion in services to Canada making Canada New York’s #1 export market. And most of what New York sells to Canada as well as imports is with our closest Canadian neighbors - Ontario and Québec. With over 680,000 jobs in New York dependent on trade with Canada and with USMCA, our freshly-minted bilateral trade agreement, as our roadmap, Ontario and Québec have a significant role to play in New York’s economic rebound. Join us as we welcome senior representatives of Ontario and Québec for a discussion with MAPLE New York Executive Director, John Costanzo, on how we can leverage our vital economic ties to accelerate our recovery together.

We are ushering in 2021 with another MAPLE first! We are excited to be hosting our first all-network member mixer to bring together our membership from across Canada and the United States. Our members work in 17 different markets in 21 sectors. With such a wealth of knowledge and expertise, there is a terrific opportunity to get to know fellow members better.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our MAPLE Southern California Winter Reception. While this would normally be a series of 3 events over 2 days in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, we will be coming together virtually for this year’s program. Our focus will be on technology innovations from Canada with presentations from Waterloo, Ontario based TAURIA, a provider of an exciting and secure end-to-end encrypted business collaboration platform and Vancouver-based POWERSHiFTER, a leading digital design agency.

MAPLE Business Council is pleased to partner with Fasken and Montréal International to co-host a program on R&D investment opportunities for U.S. businesses in Montréal in tech sectors including ITC, gaming and VFX.

Greater Montréal has established itself as an important international hub for tech companies in the last few decades. Through a mix of an aggressive corporate tax regime, relatively low operating costs, high-quality multilingual talent, and cutting edge university research, the city has reached the top 5 in North America for its concentration of tech jobs.

We will be focusing on the energy sector at this event with two very special speakers both of whom have recently joined our community as executive members.

Joining MAPLE New York Executive Director John Constanzo in conversation will be Robert Catell, Chairman of the Advanced Energy Research Technology Center (AERTC) and Chairman of the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC); and David Manning, former Deputy Minister of Energy in the Alberta Government, past U.S. advisor to the Alberta provinicial government and Director of Stakeholder and Community Relations at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

MAPLE New York is very pleased to be working with the Long Island Association (LIA) together with the Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to co-host an LIA International Trade Committee event looking at the opportunities for Long Island and the New York region that are now available as a result of the new USMCA Trade Agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

To celebrate our new B.C. Chapter we are honored to welcome a very special guest to our Fall Reception. In August, Consul General D. Brent Hardt moved to Vancouver to be the new senior U.S. representative in Vancouver. CG Hardt has graciously agreed to join MAPLE British Columbia Executive Director, Jason Tse, for an ‘online fireside chat’ on the work of the Consulate General team in B.C., his upcoming priorities in his new post, and commentary on the broader opportunities for bilateral economic growth between British Columbia and the United States.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Fall Reception which this year will be held online. While we will certainly miss the opportunity to network in person across three back-to-back events over two days in San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles as we have been doing over the past 5 years, we can now bring our Canada and U.S. - wide community together for our first virtual networking reception. We are honored to welcome Ms. Chelsea Peet, Consul and Senior Economic Officer at the Ontario Trade & Investment Office in San Francisco and Mr. Bill Klages, VP Partner & Influencer Relations at QA Consultants, as our special guest speakers. More information on how to register for our online program will be provided soon.,

MAPLE Business Council® is honored to be partnering with Développement économique Saint-Laurent (DESTL) who represents one of Montréal’s key manufacturing centres. Together we are hosting a special webinar to profile opportunities for Montréal-area exporters in the Greater Los Angeles market featuring Stephen Cheung, President of World Trade Center Los Angeles, as our special guest.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome businesses in New York and across the tri-state region to our inaugural MAPLE New York Chapter event. We will be meeting virtually so as to connect with one another as soon as possible to share the mission of MAPLE Business Council® to be a catalyst for bilateral investment, trade, and entrepreneurship between Canada and the United States. We are honored to welcome Khawar Nasim, Acting Consul General of Canada in New York, as our special guest.

The "Demystifying Intellectual Property Protection in the United States" presentation will focus on procuring and protecting intellectual property (IP) rights in the US for Canadian companies. In particular, attendees will learn about obtaining and enforcing different forms of intellectual property protection in the US that exist in order to help Canadian businesses enter and compete in the US market.

We are looking forward to reconnecting with Vancouver area members and partners for our first online mixer event. After all, just because we are practicing social distancing doesn’t mean we can’t still network together!

The USMCA, the modernized version of NAFTA, goes into effect July 1, promising to boost business as the economy seeks to bounce back from the COVID crisis. Join the Consul General of Canada, Zaib Shaikh and Stephen Armstrong, co-founder and president, and Robert Kelle, co-founder and chairman of the MAPLE Business Council (MAPLE) as they discuss how USMCA will improve the livelihoods of Southern Californians; what sectors will benefit the most from USMCA’s new provisions; the Canadian companies in Southern California aiding with the economic reopening; why North American supply chains and tariff-free trade are key to post-COVID recovery; the work of MAPLE to further Canadian investment in Southern California and what’s next for Southern California and Canada.

James Villeneuve, former Canadian Consul General to Los Angeles together with MAPLE Business Council present a webinar - Doing Business in Canada: Cross-Border M&A and Key Tax Considerations in the Context of Covid-19.

We invite you to join us as for a special webinar that brings together technology experts BlackBerry-Cylance, QA Consultants and xahive to share their perspectives on what we should be paying attention to on the technology horizon from networking, software quality and cybersecurity solutions, including education and governance.

We are honored to welcome the Department of Homeland Security as our special guest.

DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS WE HAVE POSTPONED OUR EVENT WITH THE HEALTH OF OUR GUESTS AND PARTNERS IN MIND. WE REGRET ANY INCONVENIENCE AND LOOK FORWARD TO RESCHEDULING OUR PROGRAM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.