Courses and seminars

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2025-2026 Schedule

Course Location Date Value Registration Deadline
Fundamentals in Community Economic Development (Year 1)  WATERLOO May 3-8, 2026 10
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April 13, 12 am

(Midnight, April 12th)

Advancing Economic Development Opportunities (Year 2) WATERLOO May 31-June 6, 2026 10
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May 11 , 12 am

(Midnight, May 10th)

Advancing Economic Development Opportunities (Year 2)  SAULT STE. MARIE April 13-17, 2026 10
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March 23, 12am

(Midnight, March 22nd)

Seminar archive

We've offered the seminars and webinars below in the past. Let us know if you want to see them on the schedule again.

We can also bring them to your community on demand. 

Seminars Webinars
  • International Opportunities and Best Practices
  • Performance Measurement in Economic Development
  • Content Marketing for Economic Developers: Promoting Your Community
  • Social Media for Economic Developers
  • Economic Development Writing Webinar
  • ​Proposal Writing for Economic Developers
  • ​Economic Development Writing Retreat: Three Days to Done
  • ​Building Sustainable Communities: Growing the Green Economy
  • ​Tourism Development Strategy and Implementation
  • Youth Strategies for Economic Development
  • Digital Manufacturing: New Opportunities
  • Investment Attraction, Readiness & Partnerships
  • Delicious Development: Economic Opportunities in Value-Added Agriculture
  • Planning 101 for Economic Developers
  • Real Estate, Employment Lands and Site Selection
  • Project Management: Tools and Case Studies for Small to Large Communities
  • Optimizing Your Economic Development Website
  • ​Economic Development Writing Webinar
  • ​Entrepreneurship 101
  • EDOs: Provocateurs of Entrepreneurship
  • Business Retention and Expansion Basics: How to Move the Community Forward
  • BR&E Lessons from the Trenches: Identifying Trends - Where Business Goes Next
  • Time and Project Management