October is Small Business Month in Canada, a time to celebrate this country’s many innovative and visionary entrepreneurs. The event began in 2006 as an offshoot of Small Business Week, which launched 42 years ago.
There may be no other place in the world better suited to celebrate small businesses — there are approximately 1.2 million active SMBs here, representing 97.9 per cent of Canadian employers.October has become the time of year to recognize and laud the significant contributions they make to local communities, provinces, and the entire Canadian economy.
At AWS Canada, we’ve long been committed to helping small and medium businesses grow. But the COVID-19 pandemic has made our efforts more important than ever. Since March 2020, Canada’s SMBs have been profoundly impacted by the crisis. They’ve had to kickstart efforts to digitize and to enhance the online customer experience, as well as shifting their employees to remote work.
They’ve done so by taking advantage of our suite of tools, workshops, and upskilling opportunities via training and certification. All of these AWS offerings have allowed us to support SMBs every step of the way as they’ve navigated the maze of the COVID-19 pandemic and its on-again, off-again restrictions and shutdowns.
Events like Small Business Month not only celebrate the important role SMBs play as the backbone of the Canadian economy, they also provide opportunities to learn, brainstorm, network and collaborate with other small businesses and entrepreneurs. This is particularly important for SMB operators and builders on the frontlines at most organizations as the pandemic continues to pose operational challenges for businesses of all sizes.
Canadian SMBs, however, have proven remarkably resilient. On Oct. 21, Canadian Small-Medium Business Day, AWS is hosting a virtual learning event to celebrate that resiliency and hear their stories of growth. We’ll also provide details on how we’ve helped them not just survive, but thrive.
Our session, aimed at SMB operators and builders, will also provide details on how cloud technology can accelerate growth for any business, how companies can build with AWS, and how our courses allow business leaders and team members to upskill. Tailored for an audience that wants to learn how embrace the cloud and other critical AWS offerings, the session will delve into the foundational architecture and steps of cloud adoption, along with the technical and business impacts of the cloud.
It will explain:
- How teams can experiment and innovate faster
- How they can easily scale up or down with the needs of the business
- How they can lower upfront expenses by only paying for what they need
- How they can begin focusing on business differentiators, not infrastructure
- How they can easily and quickly scale globally
- And how they can do all this while reducing operational costs and saving money
Speakers from the AWS team include:
