​Future of Small Business Finance | Capital Innovation Series

​The future of small business finance depends on collaboration across institutions, technologies, and markets.

​Join a gathering of capital providers, fintech innovators, business leaders, and entrepreneurs exploring the ideas, partnerships, and strategies shaping the future of small business finance.

​The Session

​Designed to energize innovation, Calpe’s City Studio Sessions create a dynamic environment, part social, part action lab, where live market challenges, emerging ideas, and practical solutions are explored in real time.

​The Toronto session convenes a curated mix innovators exploring the future of small business finance across underserved and rapidly evolving business markets.

​Featured Perspectives

​Arron Lin | Vice-president | RBCx /arronlin

​Bobby Bedi | Founder and CEO | Factiiv /bobby-bedi-17b2211b2

​A founder. A closed door. An open conversation.

​One of our speakers built and lost a small business. They will come not to celebrate, not to blame, but to help a room full of finance people understand what it actually feels like from the other side.

​Who it is? You’ll find out at 7:15.

​Evening Flow

​🕡 6:00 PM | Arrival + Drinks
Good people. Good food. Good conversations.

​⚡ 7:00 PM | Welcome + Introductions
What’s breaking, what’s shifting, and where capital is headed?

​🎤 7:15 PM | Spark Talks
Fast insight from people building in it.

​🧠 7:45 PM | Capital Design Wall
Ideas on the wall.

​🥂 8:30 PM onward | After Hours
Where the night usually gets interesting.

​About CALPE LABS

​Calpe Labs is a capital innovation firm and venture studio focused on designing and building investment platforms for underserved and understructured markets.

​About EVATECH GLOBAL

​Evatech Global is a fintech and credit risk technology infrastructure company that helps financial institutions assess, underwrite, and serve small and medium-sized businesses more effectively.