Shaping a Better Economic Future with Aboriginal Procurement

Procurement is playing an increasingly important role as a tool to stimulate employment and encourage economic and business development but are Aboriginal businesses making the most of these opportunities? If not, then what can corporate Canada do to encourage Aboriginal access to procurement opportunities?

With the upcoming launch of the council’s exciting new procurement workshop at Inclusion Works ’10, participants will:

• Learn how Aboriginal business start-up and growth can be radically increased.
• Enter into a dialogue with an expert panel with insightful thoughts.
• Prepare for a powerful discussion with innovative ideas that may surprise you.
• Gain at least ten new ideas for business and economic development.

Available online or at your workplace after Inclusion Works ’10, this workshop provides the skills and information you need to help your company work with Aboriginal businesses and communities on procurement strategies. You’ll learn how to bring value to your organization and build relations with First Nation, Inuit and Métis people, communities and businesses.

This newly development workshop is a first-of-its-kind, designed to help you source your product and service needs with more than 27,000 Aboriginal businesses in Canada. We’ll show you where to find them, how to work with them and how to grow and expand your business through procurement.

This session will be of great interest to procurement officers and managers working in large organizations. Small and medium Aboriginal businesses will want to be there to learn what they can do to seize procurement opportunities.

The procurement workshop, scheduled for April 27, 2010, costs $450 and is likely to sell out quickly at Inclusion Works ’10 – register early. This workshop is only open to Inclusion Works ’10 attendees and workshop maximum capacity is 60 participants.

Inclusion Works ‘10: Voices of Change

Date: April 27-29, 2010

Location: Toronto – Westin Harbour Castle