DELTA HOTEL WINNIPEG

A Conference For Entrepreneurs About Growth & Transition

Join us on October 16, 2025 in Winnipeg!

Presenting The BTF Experience

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

Full-Day Conference

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Half-Day Workshop

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Mike Fata

2025 Conference Chair

Mike Fata is a best-selling author, podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and natural health advocate who co-founded Manitoba Harvest in 1998 and led it to a $419M strategic sale to Tilray. With over 25 years of experience in health, wellness, and sustainable business, Mike has completed three nine-figure exits, serves as CEO of Fata & Associates, and continues to mentor and invest in the next generation of purpose-driven entrepreneurs. He was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014 and one of the Top 100 Health Influencers in 2017.

Mike Fata

Entrepreneur, Investor, Author

(Sold Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods)

Featured speakers

Learn from the best in the field

Hear from business owners and experts and learn from their experiences.

SEE ALL 2025 SPEAKERS

Joshua Simair

Co-founder & Former CEO, SkipTheDishes

Co-founder, Pivot Subscriptions (Sold SkipTheDishes)

Jenna Cohen

VP Treasury & Special Initiatives

Produce Pay Inc.

Ed Dornn

Co-founder & Chair

Greenstone Building Products & Excel-7 Ltd

Rishona Hyman

President & CEO

Aqua Essence Swim Academy

Mitch Tetrault

President & CEO

Monarch Industries

Polly Craik

Corporate Director

(Sold FineLine Solutions)

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 16, 2025 • Delta Hotel Winnipeg

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Canada

Your Business Will Grow To The Extent That You Do

Husband and wife team Celine and Allan Bacani took over ownership of Vancouver-based Lee’s Donuts six years ago and have grown the business from one location to its current six and a commissary in the region with plans for national growth.

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USA

Attention Entrepreneurs: How Solid Is The Infrastructure Of Your Life?

You’ve started, grown, and possibly transitioned your business, but how are you doing? Business owners can understandably get deeply wrapped up in what they do as entrepreneurship, and leadership, is often tied to the metrics, passion, and, hopefully, success, of what had originally been just an idea.

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Canada

Strategically Growing Your Business For A Future Sale

Cheryl Zealand, Founder and CEO of Cranked Energy, based in Winnipeg, started her business as a personal thing. “I wanted wholesome, quality energy for myself and my family. The truth is that I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something that’s freshly made from quality ingredients and is full of energy and protein. I was also not willing to sacrifice taste—and neither were my kids!

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Canada

Every Path Is Different In A Business Transition

Today when someone refers to a tech startup, you may picture a young person sitting behind a computer writing code. But think again. After building and evolving her last business (FineLine Solutions) for more that 25 years, the time came in 2015 for Polly Craik to sell it to a much larger company that could take it to the next level.

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USA

Who Is The Quarterback Of Your Business Transition?

The time may have come for you to start thinking about transitioning your business, so what’s next? What you might come to realize is that while you’re busy running your business, you find you’re in need of some to help guide the transition team down the field for the eventual score. Moreover, how big will that score be?

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USA

Visualizing A Business Transition Is The First & Most Important Step

As a lawyer, Jenny Tran is well experienced in the area of mergers and acquisitions and serving as general counsel to privately held businesses. Tran, based in Newport Beach, California, is a partner with the firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth.

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