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Un grand merci à la Délégation générale du Québec à New York pour votre accueil chaleureux at our MAPLE NY Fall Reception yesterday. It was great to be back at the home of Québec in New York to welcome members, partners and guests for a great discussion on green construction and sustainability in the sector with distinguished speakers, Etienne Frenette, VP at Quebec-based Ecosystem and Michael Daschle, Senior Vice President Sustainability with Canada's Brookfield Properties. A special thank you to Québec Delegate General David Brulotte for your partnership and welcome. We are grateful to our MAPLE NY Executive Director John T. Costanzo for hosting a very special gathering. Thanks to all who joined us to celebrate Québec-New York economic ties. Ce fut un grand plaisir de travailler ensemble. Québec Government Office in New York

It was a special evening last night at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the LA Phil's principal concertmaster, Martin Chalifour from Québec, with an outstanding program of chamber music. Great to enjoy this milestone and musical artistry with MAPLE members, guests, and our chers amis from the Québec Government Office in Los Angeles and Investissement Québec together with our families.

Our November issue of MOMENTUM is coming to your inbox this week and features articles by MAPLE Business Council Advisors Sem Ponnambalam, co-founder of XAHIVE and Eric Eide, Managing Director of the Alliance for Southern California Innovation. Sem discusses the cybersecurity challenges for SMBs when using generative AI tools with solutions to address. Eric shares the Alliance's most recent research profiling the Southern California innovation ecosystem in the context of benchmark regions like Boston, New York City and the Bay Area that was prepared in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group. The fresh insights reveal exciting trends in SoCal's startup and VC landscape, the growth of our world-class academic institutions, and how we compare to other major tech hubs. Not a subscriber? Sign up at https://lnkd.in/gc2Be-N

"From Ottawa to Orange County". We're celebrating a cross-border connection in the arts community this morning with the announcement by the Pacific Symphony in Orange County that their next Artistic and Music Director will be Alexander Shelley who among his current commitments is the Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada. Read more about Maestro Shelley here: https://lnkd.in/gikXRGgp Photo credit: Doug Gifford.

We're excited to share our upcoming Southern California Hybrid Winter Reception. We will be returning to Orange County for our next event and are grateful to our friends and member organization, IP law firm, Knobbe Martens, for hosting us at their conference center. Make a date to join us on Tuesday, December 10th when we will be welcoming Delilah Panio, VP U.S.. Capital Formation at the Toronto Stock Exchange/TSX Venture Exchange and Kimberly Wright, Economic Development Manager at Riverside County Office of Economic Development to the podium. More details and register at https://lnkd.in/gAPZs9i6

Our New York Fall Reception is one week from today. Join MAPLE New York Executive Director John T. Costanzo who together with the Québec Government Office in New York will be welcoming members, partners and guests to explore the topic of green building/construction and sustainability in commercial real estate. We are looking forward to the presentations by Etienne Frenette, Vice President Business Development at Ecosystem, specialists in energy systems and building decarbonization and Michael Daschle, Senior Vice President Sustainability at Brookfield Properties. And the location could not be more special as we will be gathering in Québec's home in New York located in Rockefeller Plaza. Join us for a very special afternoon of cross-sector networking and timely insights. More details at: https://lnkd.in/gFDctSPe

Together with MAPLE Colorado Executive Director Rob Mancey, we're looking forward very much to welcoming members, partners and guests to our MAPLE Colorado Fall Reception this afternoon at Ogletree Deakins in Denver. We are honoured to host a fireside chat with former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Derek Burney and are delighted to be hearing from Sean Clark, Consul and Senior Trade Commissioner at the Consulate General of Canada in Denver and Jamie Marr, Immigration Attorney at Ogletree Deakins. And we'll be getting things started with cross-sector networking as we celebrate Canada-Colorado economic ties. There's still time to join us too! Register at: https://lnkd.in/d6MS-iQU

We are delighted to welcome LuAnne Morrow, Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property, Advertising and Entertainment at Locke Lord LLP as our newest Executive Member. LuAnne has many years of experience counselling clients on trademark and brand and consumer issues as well as advertising law.?She brings her experience as a Canadian, born in Saskatchewan and raised in Alberta, and a Southern California resident of 10 years, to help clients navigate cultural, business, and legal differences to help assist their businesses open new markets in the U.S. and Canada. In her over twenty years of legal practice, she has guided companies from start-up to IPO providing intellectual property strategy and commercial counsel.?LuAnne is qualified to practice in Alberta and California, and is Senior Counsel in the Los Angeles office of Locke Lord LLP.?Read our full announcement on the News page of our Community website: https://lnkd.in/gVnVg8AN

Let us pause to reflect, remember and honour all who served and sacrificed to protect our freedoms with gratitude and respect to all who bravely serve today. #lestweforget2024

Save the Date for our MAPLE British Columbia Hybrid Winter Reception on Tuesday, December 17th from 9-10:30am. We are excited to be returning to BDC and their beautiful office at The Stack in downtown #Vancouver for cross-sector networking hosted by MAPLE BC Executive Director Jason Tse, CFA. We have many great memories of our program at BDC's headquarters for BC and the North last year and are looking forward to welcoming members, partners and guests in-person and online next month. More details will be coming soon!