Hyatt Regency Calgary
Relive BTF Alberta 2025!
Discover Actionable Growth & Transition Strategies from Top Entrepreneurs
Since 2015, the Business Transitions Forum has been guiding entrepreneurs through comprehensive growth strategies and ownership transitions, including opportunities for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to enhance shareholder value.
Join top entrepreneurs and North America’s leading experts to:
- Increase market share and shareholder value
- Identify growth and scaling opportunities
- Understand the acquisition and sale process
- Assess if M&A is the right growth path for your business
- Implement actionable strategies to elevate your business’s value at any stage in your transition journey
APRIL 21, 2026 • Hyatt Regency Calgary
Introducing Our 2026 Advisory Board
Guided by an accomplished Advisory Board of founders and dealmakers, BTF Alberta delivers practical insights to help entrepreneurs grow, scale, and transition their businesses with confidence.
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Hear from business owners and experts and learn from their experiences.
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You want to come to this conferences years in advance of wanting to sell, because you want to be thinking about how to build your business, you want to be meeting the strategic partners who may help you.
Katie Bennett
Master Certified Forum Chair, MacKay CEO Forums
These are real owners solving real problems. You can feel a difference here that these owners are serious about their business.
Rocky Ozaki
Founder & CEO, NoW of Work Inc. (Sold Starfiish)
I wished I had of participated in something like this before we transacted.
Natalie Benson
Partner & COO, Benson Cabinetry and Millwork
It’s a very welcoming conference, and a conference that anybody can just approach anybody and strike up a conversation.
Jalal Jetha
Managing Director , Cascadia Equity Partners
April 21, 2026 • Hyatt Regency Calgary
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Explore the Latest Articles from The BTF Insider
Helping Businesses Transition
Businesses across North America are facing a huge transition these days and the coming years due to demographics as well as mergers and acquisitions. But this is nothing new – although it may be at a greater scale today. “It’s always been a state of transition and that can be for a variety of different reasons,” said Dana Rosenberg, Managing Partner/Co-Founder of CQL Capital, based in Manhattan Beach, California.
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Looking At Your Business Like It’s A Family
Chris Grant, President of IHT Group, epitomizes resilience and seizing opportunities, influenced by his parents’ enduring mantra: “If you are not happy, make a change.” Grant, who is based now in Toronto, has built a career at multinational plastics manufacturers in Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto. His journey reflects a steadfast commitment to embracing change, navigating diverse challenges, and investing in himself and his employees.
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The Importance Of Bringing The Family To The Table In A Business Transition
In today’s world, the number of business transitions taking place, and about to take place, is staggering across North America. If you are a business owner thinking of moving on, Rachael Fisher-Doak has one simple piece of advice: Don’t forget the family.
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Time For A Business Transition? The Right Connections Can Guide You To A Win
Are you contemplating a transition for your business? How well, or not, that process might play out could depend upon the quality of your connections, according to Nick Olsen, managing director of the M&A practice, Green Bay, Wisc.-based Cornerstone International. Olsen would know about making the right connections as Cornerstone averages 150 M&A deals a year.
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Been There, Done That: The Banker Who Was Also Founder & Seller
Entrepreneurs who work with investment bankers for their business transition can benefit from what that key piece of growth, or the actual exit, can bring to the table. Even better: working with someone who has actually been in their shoes. “I started and sold businesses before I got into banking, so I have that perspective in my approach with clients,” said Steve Laver, managing director at Santa Monica, Calif-based investment banking firm Montminy & Co.
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Hey Gen-X: Instead Of Moving On, Bolt-On
Is the spirit of “business transition,” from a generational perspective, best aimed at business owners in their 50s? That thinking would currently put Generation X entrepreneurs in the sweet spot. “Baby Boomers are exiting, and retiring,” said Nicolas B. Biancamano, managing partner of San Diego-based Pacifica Advisors. The market hasn’t fully transitioned into the next generation,” he said. “They don’t want to give up everything ꟷ they want to keep working.”
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