You are invited to the launch of Global Chamber Alberta — a bold new movement designed to connect Albertans to the world with ambition, integrity, and unstoppable momentum. This launch event marks the beginning of a province-wide ecosystem that empowers entrepreneurs, exporters, investors, community leaders, and policymakers to collaborate across borders, seize global opportunities, and build resilient, future-ready businesses and communities.
The Global Chamber® Alberta is part of the Global Movement that is Global and UNSTOPPABLE.
The Global Chamber® is founded on one simple belief: Alberta’s people, products, and ideas are world-class, and with the right platform they can scale beyond local markets into global success. Our launch brings together diverse voices from Calgary to Grande Prairie, Lethbridge to Lloydminster, and every corner of the province, creating a hub where international perspective meets Alberta grit. Whether you’re an early-stage founder seeking partners, a seasoned executive exploring new markets, a cultural leader promoting creative exchange, or a public servant shaping trade policy, this is your moment to plug into a purposeful, practical network.
Global Chamber® is a global network dedicated to supporting companies in international business development and trade. With chapters and members around the world, Global Chamber helps organizations grow across borders by providing connections, expertise, and strategic insight.
Global Chamber® is a trusted community of CEOs, executives, investors, professionals and leaders in 605+ metro regions and 195 countries focused on creating strategic connections, greater access and more sustainable business growth.
- We're the only chamber in the world operating in hundreds of locations that proactively connects members to help them export, import, trade and invest through targeted warm introductions and hundreds of events and member meetings.
- Our platform uses AI and warm, personal connections to create new clients, partners and projects in order to make doing business across regions and borders as easy as doing business across the street. Be global and UNSTOPPABLE!
- We help leaders succeed faster with less risk across metro regions and borders. Our global and virtual approach uses AI and personal touch, and so is built just right for today and the future.
- All along the way we’re dedicated to supporting member success, increasing exports, imports and trade overall.
At the launch we will reveal the vision, mission, and strategic roadmap of Global Chamber Alberta and how it integrates with the international Global Chamber® network.
Our objective is to accelerate Alberta’s international engagement, diversify export markets, and create high-quality jobs across the province.
Why attend? Because now is the time to be global and unstoppable. The economic landscape is changing rapidly — those who build connections, adapt early, leverage the momentum Canada is building globally will lead. By joining Global Chamber Alberta at launch, you become part of a collaborative force that amplifies Alberta’s voice on the global stage, attracts capital and talent, and unlocks new revenue streams for businesses of all sizes.
We invite entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, civic officials, Indigenous partners, educators, investors, and civic-minded citizens to attend, participate, and shape this movement. Help us write the next chapter of Alberta’s prosperity: one that’s outward-looking, resilient, inclusive, and powered by strategic global engagement.
Speaker:
Barbara McKenzie - Executive Director at Global Chamber Alberta
Ms. McKenzie is a change maker and disruptor. She has over 30 years’ experience in leadership, entrepreneurship and corporate growth, and strategic disruption. She is CEO and Founder of Ignition CEO, a venture that provides support to build and grow a new generation of business leaders and CEOs. She is also the Managing Director of DB McKenzie Group and the Executive Director of the Global Chamber, Alberta Chapter.
Ms. McKenzie has an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, as well as a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta and a Diploma in Marketing from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. She holds several certifications in corporate governance, project management and economic development.
Ms. McKenzie is known for her innovative thinking, with a passion for disruption and a deep passion for community. She has been involved in technology and innovation, economic development, banking, social enterprise, justice, and pensions sectors throughout her career, focusing on corporate change management as well as start up and scaling ventures. Ms. McKenzie has led several of her own successful entrepreneurial ventures. She also currently instructs a course on Innovation and Intrapreneurship at her alma mater the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
Ms. McKenzie also gives back to her community and is currently the board chair of the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton and a board director and chair of the Governance Committee, with the Canadian Council of Indigenous Business, and a board director with Lift Impact Partners. She held the role of co-chair for the Edmonton Regional Innovation Network, was member of the Red Deer Polytechnic Centre for Innovation in Manufacturing (CIMTAC) advisory board and is the past chair of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology School of Business Entrepreneurship Program Advisory Committee. She is a seasoned public speaker and has won awards for many of her initiatives and projects.
About Global Chamber
Global Chamber® is a diverse, innovative and positive worldwide platform for CEOs, executives, investors and industry leaders across 195 countries and 605+ metros around the world to find opportunities and effectively empower growth, success and progress. We're the only chamber of commerce operating in hundreds of locations that delivers strategic connections, information and resources to facilitate exporting, importing and investing across regions and borders, while addressing climate change and advancing sustainability. Be global and UNSTOPPABLE! Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber, LLC since 2014.
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