Name: ScaleUP%20Summit%20%7C%20Calgary%20%7C%20Day%202
Start: 2026-06-10T14:30:00.245Z
End: 2026-06-10T18:00:59.056Z
Location: Hyatt Regency Calgary

Doors Open & Check-In

Day 2 Summit Welcome

Most businesses don’t fail — they simply never reach their full potential. In this keynote, Kelly Schmitt draws on her experience scaling companies like Solium Capital, Benevity, and SMART Technologies to challenge leaders to think beyond incremental growth and design businesses built for global scale. Blending strategy with human performance, she equips leaders to build the mindset, resilience, and capacity required to pursue — and sustain — their boldest growth ambitions.

Thinking Bigger: Designing the Billion-Dollar Business

Following her keynote, Kelly Schmitt is joined by Ray DePaul for a candid conversation on what it takes to turn bold ambition into a globally scaling business. The discussion explores the critical decisions around markets, talent, capital, and leadership that shape a company’s trajectory. For CEOs and senior teams, this session offers a practical, behind-the-scenes look at how leaders navigate growth, build resilience, and sustain performance at scale.at it actually takes to move from potential to scale — and the choices leaders must make along the way.

From Ambition to Reality: Building a Business That Scales

Ideas don’t scale businesses — application does. These interactive roundtables bring AI into practice through a simple but powerful framework — Problem, Platform, Process, People (4Ps). Designed for CEOs and senior leadership teams, the sessions help leaders identify high-value use cases, assess the platforms and infrastructure required to support AI, rethink workflows and operations, and navigate the people and change needed to embed AI into how work gets done. The result is a practical pathway to unlock capacity, accelerate execution, and move from incremental gains to exponential performance.

AI in Action: Problem, Platform, Process, People for 10x Scale

Networking Break

Scaling doesn’t happen in isolation — it happens through the right support, at the right time. These advisor-led roundtables connect leaders with ScaleUP’s trusted network of partners across leadership, technology, market expansion, and capital, offering practical insight and real-time problem solving. Designed as interactive conversations, the sessions help CEOs and senior teams identify priorities, access the right expertise, and take the next steps to move forward with confidence.

ScaleUP Drivers Roundtables: Strategic Resourcing for Your Growth Journey

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Summit Closing Remarks

Wednesday, June 10

Day 2 of Western Canada's Premiere Summit for Scaling Businesses

Day 2 of the ScaleUP Summit shifts the focus from insight to application. Hosted at the 

, the morning begins with a keynote exploring the leadership and strategic capabilities companies need to scale in an uncertain environment.

Following the keynote, participants will join 

curated roundtable conversations with fellow CEOs and senior leaders

. These small group discussions create space to reflect on the ideas explored throughout the Summit, exchange perspectives with peers, and share practical lessons from the scaleup journey. It’s an opportunity to turn insight into action alongside leaders facing many of the same challenges.

ScaleUP Summit | Calgary | Day 2

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The New Network

Deloitte

Copoint

Emission Reduction Alberta (ERA)

Catch Digital

McLeod Law LLP

Business in Calgary

Miller Thomson LLP

TD | Women in Enterprise

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