An Open Innovation Event & Inaugural Partner Awards
We are pleased to invite you to our quarterly McGraw Hill Partner Supper Club, An Open Innovation Event, where you will have the opportunity to connect with business leaders, learn new ideas, explore trends, and discuss new partnership opportunities over food and drinks.
We’re also pleased to also announce our Inaugural McGraw Hill Partner Awards that celebrate exceptional individuals and teams who personify collaboration and teamwork and who break new-ground to deliver innovative, market-driven solutions. Our distinguished partners span the globe and have superpowers to solve some of the most complex and unique industry challenges.
The celebration is real, and you can join a party showcasing McGraw Hill’s standout partners to celebrate successful open innovation!
Agenda
5:00pm – 5:45 pm: Wine & Cheese Networking Mixer
Includes selection of local wines & fine cheeses. Background music provided by DJ Howie.
5:45pm – 6:00 pm: Food Innovation: A Story
Discover a diverse food palette, with ingredients that fuel your brain and spirit with innovative energies, and preparation that’s inclusive of all spices! Experiment. It’s all about our food and its nutritional connection to sustainable, environmental, and societal pursuits.
Join Anika Dhalla and Maiya Ahluwalia, Registered Dietitian and Founders of Nourishing Balance, along with Sonam Singh, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who will story tell the benefits you can earn with your relationship to food, your relationship to yourself, and your relationship with your body!
Learn about the big picture of what health truly is, where we can connect to develop a sustainable, and realistic relationship with food passion. This is something that holds great importance for this team as they honour individual cultures when talking about food, mental health, and their medical needs. These are often overlooked within the healthcare system, and this is what makes them uniquely differentiated!
Owner, Registered Dietitian
Registered Dietitian
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
6:00pm – 6:15 pm
Team ENERGIZING Activities provided throughout the night by the UpSkill Corporation and McGraw Hill
6:15pm – 6:45pm: Food: A Cultural Experience
Enjoy food and culture with the variety of flavors that Indian cuisine has to offer! Prepared on site by local Mississauga celebrity chef and entrepreneur Anjali from Served!
In Anjali’s words, there is nothing more live than serving fresh food right from the chef and onto the guests' plates! This is a cultural practice in which she will prepare some of the dishes in front of you in an open setting and serve it fresh. This makes the food even more mouth-watering and provides a sense of engagement.
6:45pm – 7:00pm: Innovation Bites: A 5-Minute Showcase (Part 1)
Inclusive Leadership Generative AI Use-Case
by Ametros, UpSkill Corporation and McGraw Hill
Speaker: Robert Clapperton is an Associate Professor in Professional Communication at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University. Robert earned his PhD in English Language and Literature with a Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Science at the University of Waterloo. He specializes in computational linguistics with an emphasis on the critical application of natural language processing understanding in education Robert’s teaching focuses on the digital enterprise and communication research methods. Robert is co-founder of Ametros Learning, a natural language understanding experiential learning platform. The Ametros platform is currently used by universities, corporations, and professional associations across North America.
Dr. Robert Clapperton
Associate Professor, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University
The Metaverse, Ignore It at your Peril. The Impact on SME and on Learning
by JCWG
Speaker: John Torella, JCWG Managing Partner. He has been a member of the faculty at Ryerson Institute’s Fashion Department, as well as co-author of Building a Winning Retail Strategy for the Retail Learning Initiative at Ryerson, and A Guide to Retail Success for the National Retail Federation in the USA. He is the author of Stop Talking, Start Doing Retail Branding, Whole-Being Retail Branding, re|think Retail Branding, The Evolution of Retail Marketing (e-book), and his latest e-book Brands in the New World of the Omni-channel Marketplace.
John Torella
JCWG Managing Partner
7:00pm – 7:15pm: Team Energizing Activity
7:15pm – 7:30pm: Innovation Bites: A 5-Minute Showcase (Part 2)
Consume, Transform, Model, and Visualize data in Microsoft Excel
by Devant and McGraw Hill
Speaker: Denis Gravelle MEd. He is the Co-Founder and Stakeholder Engagement at Devant, a subsidiary of Academica Group, leading career, and skills development projects in collaboration with industry and academia. Denis has led workforce development projects focusing on newcomers and international students. An experienced educator and trendsetter, his focus lies primarily on workforce development and skills training in the age of disruption. Denis has held previous leadership positions in adult learning and workforce development at three large Ontario Colleges and earned his BA from Western and MEd from OISE University of Toronto.
Denis Gravelle MEd.
Co-Founder and Stakeholder Engagement at Devant
From Inclusive Insights to Meaningful Business Actions
by UpSkill Corporation and McGraw Hill
Speaker: Michel Shah is the CEO of UpSkill Corporation. Today the UpSkill Community (The UpSkill Corporation Inc) is engaged in Open Innovation and strategic partnerships with leading organizations such as McGraw Hill, Schulich Executive Education Centre, Immigrant Working Centre, Centre for Social Innovation, Black Creek Community Health Centre, and Asian Management Program York University.
We offer online and in person training, assessments, consultation, coaching and post-support programs to address the unique development needs at all levels of your organization.
Skill development and UpSkilling is a process. We facilitate the processes through which leaders reflect, gain fresh perspectives, learn new skills, share stories, and best practices to level up. In an ever changing world, where our transactions are more seamless and our interactions more complex, UpSkill is your solution.
Michel Shah
CEO, UpSkill Corporation
7:30pm – 7:50pm: Partner Awards
7:50pm - 8:00pm: Closing Remarks
Networking Mixer concludes in the Main Foyer. Dessert prepared by local chef Anjali!
Missed our last event?
Check out the fun from our last McGraw Hill Supper Club!
