University College of the North: Linkages announces Keynote Speaker for Look North Dinner

On Wednesday, November 7th, Linkages will host their Look North Dinner. We are excited to present our keynote speaker, Murad Al-Katib, CEO & President of AGT Foods.

Mr. Al-Katib is the guiding vision in all aspects of the business, also serving on the Board of Directors. A strong financial and strategic business thinker, able to anticipate and mitigate the risks in international trading and commodities, Murad completed his MBA then worked in trade promotion for the Saskatchewan government. In 2001, he founded Saskcan Pulse Trading, providing the nucleus for AGT, growing the company into a world leader in value-added pulses, staple foods and pulse ingredients for markets around the globe and building a Canadian start-up into a global billion dollar company.

Murad has served on the Boards for the Canadian Special Crops Association, Pulse Canada, as the Chair of the Advisory Board for Small and Medium Enterprise for the Canadian Minister of International Trade and as a panel member for the Government of Canada’s renewal of Canada’s Global Commerce Strategy and the Advisory Committee for the Review of the Canada Transportation Act for the Minister of Transport. Currently, Murad serves on the Board of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and is the current Chair of Economic Development Regina.

Murad has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including the 2017 “Oslo Business for Peace” Foundation Honouree, the 2017 Ernst and Young “World Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Prairie Entrepreneur of the Year”, the 2016 United Nations Association of Canada “Global Citizen Laureate” Award, PROFITGuide Magazine’s “30 Most Fabulous Entrepreneurs of the Past 30 Years” list, the Globe & Mail’s “Canada’s Top 40 under 40” as well as the Western Producer’s list of “44 Innovators Who Shaped Prairie Agriculture”.

Linkages is a partnership conference with Look North, the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce and University College of the North. The two-day conference is being held at the Kikiwak Inn on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.

Registration for the Linkages Conference is now accepting waitlist entries at www.eventcamp.ca/event/linkages. If you are interested in only attending the dinner, please email kelly@plannersplus.ca or 204-391-4419. Limited spaces available.

Full List of Conference Speakers

Jon Bitner, Executive Director, Alaska Small Business Development Centre Kevin Chief, Vice-President, Manitoba Business Council Chuck Davidson, Co-Chair, Look North

Derek Earl, Vice-President, World Trade Centre Winnipeg Andrew Forward, General Manager, Nisokapawino

Ryan Land, Manager, Corporate and Indigenous Affairs, Vale Canada Don Lathlin, Executive Director, Swampy Cree Tribal Council

Doug Lauvstad, President & Vice-Chancellor, University College of the North Gary Merasty, The North West Company Grand Chief Ted Moses

Honourable Blaine Pedersen, Minister of Growth, Enterprise and Trade, Province of Manitoba Liz Pelton, Regional Director, MB, SK, Nunavut, NWT, Futerpreneur Canada

Alisa Ramrattan, Executive Director, Broadband Communications North Joel Semeniuk, Founder & CEO, HOIZONthree

Nathan Snider, Program Manager, Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) Oneakenew Christian Sinclair, Opaskwayak Cree Nation

Linda Whitfield, Vice-President of Advertising and Communications, Travel Manitoba Karl Wixon, Kaiarahi Maori

Tony Zandos, Global Director, AIAC for Sales and New Business Development, Canadian Kraft Paper

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