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SUMMARY:Women Entrepreneurs Vernon Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Our We Thrive BC women entrepreneur support program will be concluding with its final sessions over the next couple of weeks\, and our community greatly appreciates the valuable support provided by WeBC. An in-person gathering in Vernon is scheduled for March 21\, and I wonder if any member of your team would be interested in attending. There will be 24 participants\, and a free lunch will be provided.  \nWomen Entrepreneurs Gathering in Vernon\nDate: Saturday\, March 21\, 2026\nTime: 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM\nLocation: Kawakubo Japanese Restaurant\n3315 30th Ave\, Vernon\, BC \nThis in-person gathering is a welcoming opportunity for women to connect\, share experiences\, exchange ideas\, and build meaningful local relationships. \nFree lunch will be provided. \nRegistration is required to attend. \nhttps://forms.office.com/r/EuHQp9pL1P?origin=lprLink \n  \n \n 
URL:https://occabc.ca/event/women-entrepreneurs-vernon-gathering/
LOCATION:Kawakubo Japanese Restaurant\, 1460 Inkar Rd\, Kelowna\, British Columbia\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Women Entrepreneurs Session 8: AI Tools for Everyday Business: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
DESCRIPTION:Doing everything yourself in your business? \nNo marketing team. No designer. No extra time. \n\nIf creating content\, making visuals\, replying to clients\, and staying organized keeps piling up\, this free webinar is for you. \n\n\nJoin Session 8 of the We Thrive BC Women’s Entrepreneurship Program and learn practical ways AI can help you save time\, create faster\, and handle everyday business tasks more efficiently. \n\n\n✅ Create content more quickly\n✅ Make simple visuals without starting from scratch\n✅ Improve outreach and communication\n✅ Reduce time spent on admin and daily tasks \n\n\nCompletely free to attend \n\n\n📅 March 31\, 2026\n🕕 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM\n💻 Online via Zoom\n🎟️ Free registration required \n👩‍🏫 Facilitator: A K M Amanat Ullah \nTopics: \nManaging social media. Use AI to write post captions and suggest hashtags. Take one piece of content and adapt it for Instagram\, Facebook\, and LinkedIn instead of writing three separate posts. Generate simple graphics with AI image tools such as Canva and Gemini. \nEmail. Draft professional emails faster for replies\, follow-ups\, or initial reach out. Summarize long email threads so you can summarize and understand what are the requirements. Build reusable templates for the messages you send most often: inquiries\, invoices\, thank you. \nTo-do lists and productivity. Hand AI a messy list of everything on your plate and get back an organized plan sorted by urgency. Break a big goal (“launch my online store”) into actual steps you can work through day by day. \nManaging your calendar. Use Calendars to find open slots\, avoid double-booking\, and block off time for focused work. Set reminders for deadlines so nothing slips through. \nMarketing. Write product descriptions and ad copy without staring at a blank page. Come up with campaign ideas aimed at your local audience. Put together a simple email newsletter. Figure out who your target customers actually are using a few well-crafted prompts. \nTranslating content to English. Translate business materials (menus\, flyers\, product labels) into clear English. Check grammar and tone so everything reads professionally. Create bilingual (both English and a different language such as Chinese) social media posts for multilingual audiences. \nCollecting news\, ideas\, and opportunities. Get AI to pull together summaries of industry trends. Search for local grants\, events\, and networking opportunities you might otherwise miss. Look into what competitors are doing or whether a new market is worth exploring. \nAnalyzing information and planning. Summarize customer feedback or survey responses to spot patterns. Compare pricing or supplier options side by side. Draft a simple business plan or pitch outline. Make sense of basic financial numbers without a spreadsheet headache. \n\n  \nA K M Amanat Ullah\nA K M Amanat Ullah is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia\, with over four years of university-level teaching experience. He has taught courses in Human-Computer Interaction\, Machine Architecture\, and Parallel Computing at UBC\, and has lectured at multiple universities. His research focuses on user interaction and emerging technologies including virtual reality. Amanat has published 15 papers\, including work at top venues such as ACM CHI and IEEE VR. He is also a VR developer and has experience building practical technology solutions for healthcare and housing. \n\n 
URL:https://occabc.ca/event/women-entrepreneurs-session-8/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
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