The City of Toronto's Small Business Forum 2025

Experience the City of Toronto's Small Business Forum 2025: Small Business, Big World - our free premier full-day event dedicated to celebrating and supporting small businesses.

This year focuses on helping small businesses navigate and find opportunities in a rapidly changing globalized economy and international business landscape:

• Main stage sessions featuring spotlight speakers, fireside chats and expert panels,
• Speed mentorship with international business leaders and seasoned entrepreneurs ready to share insights and tackle your biggest questions, and
• Trade show of diverse small business services and goods providers.

View the full agenda and program guide online at: www.toronto.ca/BusinessForum

Thank you to our sponsors:

Info: Start your day early at the Small Business Forum! Check in at the registration desk and explore the trade show floor, where a wide range of business service providers and organizations are ready to help you grow, diversify, and expand your reach—locally and globally.

Info: Join the City of Toronto in opening the Small Business Forum 2025 with welcoming remarks and announcements in support of Toronto’s entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Info: Enjoy a fireside chat with one of Canada’s leading experts in the international economy on how a globalized outlook can strengthen Toronto’s small businesses.

Info: From logistics to free trade agreements, explore the strategies, challenges and considerations involved in scaling your small business to trade internationally at this panel discussion.

Info: Learn how one of Toronto’s leading small business founders took her business from the streets of Toronto to more than 10 thousand locations worldwide and her advice on how you can do it too.

Info: Learn more about Interac’s commitment to empowering small businesses through secure, inclusive and innovative payment solutions.

Info: Explore best practices in building and diversifying both domestic and international supply chain partnerships at this panel discussion to make your Toronto-based small business stronger in a global economy.

Info: Learn from two globalized entrepreneurs on how they travelled through international markets before settling in Toronto as the right fit for their business, and how you too can translate your global business idea here in Canada’s largest city.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Meridian Hall, 1 Front Street East, Toronto, Canada