ScaleUP Summit | Calgary

Check in, grab coffee and network before taking your seat in the GRAND Theatre for the official Summit Launch & Welcome remarks

What separates good companies from world-class ones isn’t luck or capital — it’s how they operate. In this keynote, Mike Fata unpacks the operating system behind scaling enduring businesses, sharing the rhythms, structures, and leadership disciplines that drive consistent performance. From leadership cadence to accountability and alignment, leaders will gain a practical lens on how to design their organization for scalable, intentional growth.

What holds companies back isn’t always the market — it’s the gap between intention and execution. Following Mike Fata’s keynote, this panel explores the real barriers to scaling, from risk appetite and decision-making to constraints around capital, talent, and control. Designed for CEOs and leadership teams, the discussion focuses on how to operate with greater clarity, move faster, and build organizations designed for performance at scale.

The next wave of growth won’t come from hiring more people — it will come from enabling the people you already have to do exponentially more. In this keynote, Cory Janssen explores how leaders can move beyond tools to redesign systems, embed AI into workflows, and build organizations that are both AI-enabled and change-ready. From sales to operations, participants will gain a practical lens to unlock productivity, accelerate execution, and create businesses where revenue scales faster than cost.

Following the technology keynote, this panel brings together leaders working at the forefront of AI to explore where it is already delivering real impact — and where it remains more hype than reality. From augmenting teams and redesigning workflows to accelerating execution across functions, the discussion highlights how organizations are identifying high-value opportunities and translating them into tangible outcomes. For CEOs and senior leadership teams, this session provides a practical lens on where to start, what to prioritize, and how to lead adoption — setting the foundation for the AI in Action roundtables that follow.

As organizations move beyond founder-led growth, the challenge shifts from closing deals to building a repeatable engine that can generate and convert opportunities at scale. In this hands-on workshop, Joseph Fung explores how leadership teams can codify how they sell, build team capability, and increase capacity to manage and convert more opportunities. Designed for CEOs and senior leaders, the session helps teams move from insight to action — strengthening the systems required to deliver consistent, scalable revenue growth.

For scaling companies, visibility isn’t a vanity project — it’s a growth lever most leaders have yet to fully deploy. In this keynote, Heather Kernahan reframes visibility as a deliberate operating strategy, showing how leaders can position themselves and their companies to attract customers, talent, partners, and capital. Drawing on insights from Unstuckable, she equips leaders with practical tools to think bigger, break through inertia, and build businesses that are not just successful — but seen, understood, and remembered.

Following Heather Kernahan’s keynote, this panel brings the concept of strategic visibility into practice. Leaders will share how they have built brand, reputation, and market presence as deliberate growth levers — influencing customer acquisition, talent attraction, and investor confidence. Through real-world examples, the discussion will explore how scaling companies move from founder-led storytelling to a more structured and scalable brand strategy.