This year’s stage is stacked with entrepreneurs who’ve done it.
Join Natalie Benson, Geoff Bell, and more this October at BTF Vancouver.
VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE WEST
Celebrating 10 Years of Actionable Growth & Transition Strategies
For a decade, the Business Transitions Forum has guided business leaders through pivotal moments of change, delivering strategies for growth, scaling, and ownership transitions, including opportunities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to maximize shareholder value.
In our milestone 10th year, we’re uniting an even more dynamic community of entrepreneurs and experts to shape the next decade of growth.
Join North America’s leading voices to:
- Increase market share and shareholder value
- Identify growth and scaling opportunities
- Navigate the acquisition and sale process
- Assess if M&A is the right path for your business
- Implement strategies to elevate your business’s value at every stage
Full-Day Conference
Half-Day Workshop
Add-On
Debby Carreau
2025 Conference Chair
Debby Carreau is a serial entrepreneur, author, and the Founder and CEO of Inspired HR, one of Canada’s top HR firms. A nationally recognized leader in human capital and workplace strategy, she has been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women four years in a row and is the youngest inductee into Canada’s Top 100 Hall of Fame.
Featured speakers
Learn from the best in the field
Hear from business owners and experts and learn from their experiences.
Hear From BTF Alumni
What I love about BTF is that it’s really that one stop shop for an entrepreneur.
Celine Bacani
Owner & CEO, Lee’s Donuts
The Business Transitions Forum have really fostered that sense of let’s share, let’s learn, let’s grow together and let’s help each other.
Tom Shepansky
Founder, Rethink Communications
BTF is a great place for business owners to potentially find people to buy their business.
I know I made a lot of mistakes and I wish I went to something like this in the past.
Grant Findlay Shirras
Co-Founder, Hylo AI & Director, Startup Grind Kelowna
The earlier you can come to a conference like this in your entrepreneurial journey the better.
Katie Bennett
Master Certified Forum Chair MacKay CEO Forums
October 28, 2025 • Vancouver Convention Centre West
Last Chance!
Save $250 when you purchase 2+ tickets!
Get your tickets now!
Explore the Latest Articles from The BTF Insider
From CrackBerry To Clicks: Kevin Michaluk On Life Before & After The Exit
Every founder dreams of building a business worth millions, few expect the emotional roller coaster that comes after they do. For Kevin Michaluk, better known as CrackBerry Kevin, the journey from a $15,000 bet to a $115 million exit was both exhilarating and disorienting. The Winnipeg-born entrepreneur turned his love for BlackBerry into Mobile Nations, a pioneering tech media company that built passionate online communities around mobile brands.
read article
Mike Milani On Building A Sale-Ready Business
For many business owners, selling a company is the most significant financial and emotional transaction of their life. Yet too often, preparation begins only when the decision to sell has already been made. Mike Milani, Executive Managing Director & Principal at Baker Tilly Capital, LLC and Chair of BTF SoCal 2025, has spent nearly four decades advising owners through M&A transactions. His message is clear: the owners who achieve successful exits start thinking years, not months, ahead.
read article
Why Trust & Culture Define Enterprise Value: Insights From Debby Carreau
Debby has advised countless executives through acquisitions, turnarounds, and restructuring. In every case, the first question is the same: do people believe what you say? “The leader needs to be trustworthy. Without that, no matter what you do, your organization’s not going to be successful because the people… they’re not going to believe your strategy.”
read article
Radical Transparency in a Negative Equity Crisis
Every entrepreneur faces moments when survival feels uncertain. For Mike and his team at Manitoba Harvest, that moment lasted more than two years. The company was in negative equity (its liabilities outweighed its assets) and it was relying heavily on trade credit to keep operations alive. For many leaders, this would have been the time to go quiet, hide from creditors, and hope for a turnaround. Mike chose the opposite path.
read article
Canada Must Focus on Scaling Homegrown Businesses, Says Haskayne Finance Professor
Ari Pandes, Associate Professor of Finance and Associate Dean of Professional Graduate Programs at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, is sounding the alarm on a troubling trend in Canada’s economy: the steady decline of operating companies listed on public markets, and the broader failure to scale up domestic businesses.
read article
10 Years of BTF: Reflecting on the Past and Building the Future
When we launched the very first Business Transitions Forum in 2015, it was driven by one idea: founders needed a better way to prepare for what’s next. Ten years later, that idea has grown into a national series of events and a trusted place for entrepreneurs, advisors, and investors to gather, learn, and connect. To mark the 10-year milestone, I sat down to reflect on how BTF started, what we’ve learned along the way, and where we’re headed next.
read article