Ancaster Fairgrounds
Canada’s leading B2B networking event. We bring together visionaries and industry-leading products to help you revolutionize your business strategy. Connect with innovation; stay for the growth.
With 70+ exhibitors, expert speakers, and hundreds of attendees, BizCon delivers real business connections, practical insights, and space for small business growth. Held in Toronto, Mississauga, Waterloo, and Hamilton, this is the networking conference where opportunities take shape.
Thursday, September 24th
Location:
Bingemans Conference Centre
Engage with 70+ exhibitors offering solutions to support and scale your business
Attend expert-led sessions and keynotes designed to inform and inspire
Make high-quality business connections through structured and organic networking
Discover new tools, services, and strategies tailored to business growth
Access a dynamic environment built for entrepreneurs, executives, and small business owners
Targeted Reach: Connect directly with BizCon decision-makers and entrepreneurs.
Showcase Value: Educate your audience on specific products and services.
Network: Build deep roots within the local business community.
Visibility: Maximize brand awareness through high-impact face-to-face interaction.
Pricing: All-inclusive packages starting from $599 to $999.
Standard Inclusions: Every booth includes a table, chairs, black linen, and hydro access.
Available Sizes: Choose from 6’, 8’, 10’, or 10’ Corner layouts.
Ready to Use: Just bring your promotional materials; we handle the setup basics.
Tiered Support: Choose from Title ($5999), Platinum ($4999), Gold ($3999), or Presenting ($2999) levels.
Prime Placement: Secure premium 20’x10′ or 10’x10′ booths in high-traffic areas.
Thought Leadership: Gain up to 30 minutes of speaking time on the Main Stage.
Digital Reach: Includes social media promos, website placement, and post-event email blasts.
Proven Success: Join top firms in IT, Cyber Security, Finance, and Legal.
B2B Diversity: Ideal for Marketing Agencies, HR/Staffing, Software, and Office Solutions.
Service Sectors: Success seen across Accounting, App Development, and Web Services.
Industry Leaders: Benefit from a network of over 40+ diverse business categories.
Arrive early to register, drop your business card for a chance to win valuable door prizes, and connect with early exhibitors before the room fills. It’s the perfect moment to meet fellow attendees, settle in, and prepare for a full day of business networking and opportunity.
Start your day with focused, intentional networking. Whether you are attending as a business owner, entrepreneur, or executive, this session is built to spark real business connections and help you identify strategic relationships right from the start.
Attend expert-led seminars and keynotes designed to deliver practical insights for business growth. Topics are curated to reflect the evolving needs of entrepreneurs and professionals looking to strengthen their strategies, leadership, and impact.
Explore the business expo floor featuring more than 70 exhibitors. Discover innovative products and services, connect with vendors, and have real conversations about solutions that support small business growth, marketing, operations, and expansion.
Upgrade your experience with VIP access that includes a catered meal, exclusive lounge entry, and structured networking sessions. These benefits are designed to elevate your business networking experience and support lasting business connections that continue well beyond the event.
When & Where
Mississauga Convention Centre
Grand Cinnamon Banquet & Convention
Bingemans Conference Centre
Ancaster Fairgrounds
Better Events Management Group Inc.
You walk in with a plan and leave with something more - unexpected insight, new energy, and the right people in your corner. The room is full of decision-makers, builders, and business owners who are serious about progress. Conversations are focused. Ideas move quickly. And the momentum doesn’t stop when the day ends.
You will connect with the community’s most proactive suppliers of business development products and services. You will network with like-minded business professionals and entrepreneurs.
The open networking attracts hundreds of business owners, executives, and entrepreneurs looking for resources and contacts to help them start or grow their businesses.
The dress code is business casual.
We generally recommend showing up at least 30 minutes before the posted start to ensure you find parking and have the chance to sign into the event.
Bring your colleagues, associates and business cards.
Our team would be happy to answer any questions you may have. Call 905-526-9991 or email info@betterevents.ca
“What Do You Do & Where Do You Do It? Train The Algorithm To Show Your Business First.”
Seminar Synopsis:
Every small business is now using Al to create content faster, which means your
marketing sounds exactly like your competitors. Most business owners prompt Al for “professional emails” or “social posts,” but those generic prompts strip out the
personality and trust signals that make customers choose you over the competition. This session reveals the 4 simple principles that separate Al content people engage with from Al content people ignore, and shows you how to train Al on YOUR voice using content you’ve already created. You’ll walk out with practical frameworks you can implement immediately. No technical background needed, just a willingness to make Al work for your business, not against it.
Dave Kerr Bio:
Dave Kerr is the Director of Strategy at Merged Media, matching local businesses with the digital marketing campaigns that generate real, tangible leads and customers with specialized expertise in both SEO & Paid Media Advertising.
“Staying Authentic: Your Marketing Foundation.”
Seminar Synopsis:
Everything online is starting to sound the same: same templates, same tools, same words. Your biggest marketing advantage is the one thing nobody can copy: you.
Over the last 17 years, marketing trainer and coach Ina Toncescu has built businesses from the ground up, led a nonprofit to national status, and landed multi-million dollar deals with the same foundations of marketing she teaches today.
Through real client stories, she shows what finding your voice actually does for a business. You’ll learn how to tell your story, how to use the words your customers search with, and you’ll walk out with a challenge to act on the same day, one that can change how your business shows up everywhere.
Ina Maria Toncescu Bio:
Ina Maria Toncescu is a marketing strategist with over 17 years of experience helping businesses grow with focus, purpose, and measurable results. Across small business, non-profit, and government sectors, she’s led transformative marketing strategies, built systems that last, and landed multi-million-dollar deals using the same frameworks she teaches today. As the founder of noLMIT Marketing, Ina works with clients through corporate marketing training, digital strategy building, website development, search and AI engine optimization, email marketing, and more.
Her philosophy is simple: in a world obsessed with AI and flashy branding, the businesses that win are the ones that get the foundations right, storytelling, strategic systems, and genuine connection with the people they serve.
“Revenue Is Vanity, Profit Is Sanity, Cash Is Reality.”
Seminar Synopsis:
Profitable on paper, broke in the bank? CFO Muhammad Murtaza Khan, CMA, MBA, with 27 years in the finance seat, reveals why growing businesses run out of cash, and the simple 13-week forecasting habit that lets you see trouble weeks ahead. Interactive, practical, and ready to use Monday morning.
What you will learn:
Why profit and cash tell two different stories, and which one to trust
How to build a 13-week cash flow forecast in 30 days with the REAL method
The 15-minute Monday habit that turns cash surprises into decisions
Muhammad Murtaza Khan Bio:
Muhammad Murtaza Khan, CMA, MBA, is the Founder and CEO of CFOs In Action Inc., a fractional CFO firm that has served hundreds of businesses across the GTA and beyond, in most industries, from million-dollar companies to high eight-figure businesses. With 27 years in the finance seat, he helps owners turn cash flow from a monthly worry into a weekly advantage. He is a sought-after keynote speaker on cash flow forecasting for small and medium-sized businesses.
“The One Percent Shift
Capability got you in the game. Capacity keeps you in it.”
Seminar Synopsis:
Most business owners aren’t stalling on skill. They’re stalling on capacity. And closing that gap doesn’t take an overhaul. It takes one honest step, repeated, until it compounds.
Nile Saïd, founder of GoOneUp and a Capacity Growth Strategist, brings 35+ years studying human behaviour and 25+ years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience, including building a multi-million-dollar e-commerce fulfillment operation that served Canada coast to coast.
Built for owners who already know they’re capable, and are ready to find out what’s actually been costing them.
Nile Saïd Bio:
Most founders don’t stall because they lack drive, direction, or ideas. They stall because growth outpaces the structure underneath it, and both the founder and the business start running out of room.
This is where Nile Saïd lives.
As founder of GoOneUp and the Capacity Growth Strategist to growth leaders, Nile helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and high-performers install the strategies, structures, and clarity that let both the business and the leader grow. His work addresses both sides of that equation: the personal capacity and sustainability of the entrepreneur, and the operational capacity and sustainability of the business itself, each backed by focused certifications built around that same foundation.
Since the age of 15, Nile has spent 35+ years studying what moves people forward: human behaviour, peak performance, mindset and business development. He pairs that with 25+ years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience, including building a multi-million-dollar e-commerce fulfillment operation that served Canada coast to coast. He’s also co-founder of The Ultimate Life Climb, leading transformational climbs of Mount Kilimanjaro. His work comes back to one idea: capacity builds everything.
“The Leadership Rhythm: Alignment, Accountability, and Follow-Through What to Expect”
Seminar Synopsis:
Every leadership team runs on a weekly rhythm of priorities, numbers, meetings, and follow-ups. In today’s environment of lean teams and stretched leaders, that rhythm is often held together by manual chasing and good intentions. The cost is familiar: goals that drift out of alignment, numbers that surface too late to act on, and discussions that never become owned commitments. This keynote focuses on closing that gap: building a leadership rhythm where business management is proactive rather than reactive, every team is aligned to the same goals, and accountability is structural, not aspirational, with every decision becoming an action item that has a named owner and a due date. We’ll show how an AI operating partner can run that rhythm end to end, so leadership meetings stop being conversations and start becoming next steps.
Presented by Spencer Lloyd and Peter Jowahir.
Spencer Lloyd Bio:
Spencer Lloyd, Director of Client Success at Evolved Technology Group, brings extensive experience in supporting organizations as they navigate the complex world of cybersecurity and IT solutions. With a passion for bridging technical innovation and business success, Spencer specializes in guiding clients toward robust strategies that enhance security, streamline compliance, and empower teams. As a representative of Evolved Technology Group, a leading technical success partner in the region, Spencer is dedicated to helping businesses unlock their full potential in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.
