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Reminder: Business & Education Partnership Breakfast

This annual breakfast brings together over 200 business and education leaders, as well as students. Gavin Armstrong will give a keynote address on "Making Hunger History: How Students and Business are Changing Our World". Gavin Armstrong is the first Canadian recipient of the prestigious William Jefferson Clinton Leadership Award and he is one of the Guelph Mercury’s ‘Top 40 Under 40’. Gavin was the principal architect and organizer of the 6th Annual Summit “Hunger has No Boundaries”. He has spent time in the refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya where he has worked to improve education and build sustainable communities. Currently he is working as a volunteer at the world food programme head office in Rome.

Introduction from Dr. Alastair Summerlee, President & Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph

Event Dates: Friday, April 13, 2012 to Friday, April 13, 2012
Location: Delta Guelph Hotel & Conference Centre, Guelph, Ontario
Audience: business, students, educators
OBEP Contact: Lori Arsenault, Career Education Council
OBEP Contact Email: career.education@ugdsb.on.ca