Business & Economics Conferences
Business and economics remain the widest-attended conference track we run, and for a practical reason: the questions practitioners bring to these events rarely have a single right answer. Interest rates, supply chains, labor markets, and trade policy interact in ways that shift from quarter to quarter, and the people best positioned to make sense of that shift are the ones sitting across a table from each other, not reading the same three articles alone.
Who attends
Our Business & Economics conferences draw a genuinely mixed room: economics faculty presenting peer-reviewed research, MBA students testing early-stage ideas, corporate strategy and finance professionals benchmarking against academic thinking, and public-sector economists working on policy modeling. That mix is deliberate โ a session on monetary policy lands differently when a central-bank analyst and a small-business owner are both in the audience asking questions.
What gets discussed
Sessions typically span macroeconomic policy, corporate finance and valuation, international trade, behavioral economics, entrepreneurship and small-business strategy, and increasingly, the economic implications of automation and AI adoption on labor markets. Paper presentations sit alongside panel discussions and case-study workshops, so attendees get both the rigor of published research and the practicality of what's actually happening on the ground.
Why organizations send people here
For researchers, it's publication and citation โ accepted papers go into our official conference proceedings, giving international academics a recognized outlet and, for many, a documented reason for a Canada or USA visit that supports their institution's funding requirements. For business attendees, it's the calibration you can't get from a report: hearing directly from economists and peers about where their read on the numbers diverges from the consensus.
What to expect on site
Expect a full day of parallel tracks, a keynote from an invited economist or business leader, structured networking breaks (these are where a surprising number of actual collaborations start), and a closing session that pulls the day's threads together rather than just ending on the last speaker's slide.