Many of you will have seen the blog posts I wrote last October from Winnipeg, when I attended Centrallia. That conference, a business-to-business "speed dating"  powerhouse, was unlike anything I'd been to before and I was pretty "over the moon" about it. Between the 14 30-minute meetings, walk-ups at our trade show booth, lunches, receptions and impromptu elevator encounters, I left that conference with my feet barely touching the ground. Representing Central Alberta: Access Prosperity at that conference was a most meaningful experience that gained a great deal of exposure for the region and has gotten some really good traction for foreign direct investment.

Centrallia was and is a conference developed by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, modeled after Futurallia, a long-running B2B conference in France that is now being hosted around the world.

That brings me to this May 18-20 and Futurallia Kansas City. You should come! If you are a Small or Medium Enterprise that either wants to expand your business in Central Alberta by developing business relationships around the world or you are ready to branch out and start doing business in other countries, you can't beat this for "shooting fish in a barrel". In fact, even if you just want to expand your business across Canada, this is a golden opportunity.

There will be over 800 companies, also small and medium enterprises, from 40+ countries, all wanting to connect and see what kismet may develop. You'll have somewhere between 16 and 20 30 minute power-dating B2B meetings. We're taking a delegation from Alberta, which will include companies from Calgary, Edmonton and Central Alberta.

Give me a call at 403.347.4491 or drop me a line at dklooster@reddeerchamber.com to talk more about this. Deadline for registrations is April 23rd though, so I hope to hear from you soon.