Afflatus Hijab is women’s clothing brand that is designed in house locally. Afflatus started in 2014 out of a need for modest but yet fashionable clothing, which was something that was missing from the market. As a Muslim woman I could not find anything that was modest but also fashionable so I decided to create a clothing line. While having that in mind I wanted to have a social platform as well, our primary focus is women empowerment and de-stigmatizing mental illnesses.

Every collection that comes out has a specific campaign attached to it such as: Indigenous women, women dealing with a mental illness, refugees, single mothers, teachers, entrepreneurs, and mothers who have a child with a disability just to name a few. We then pick women who correspond with the specific campaign and name a piece after them while telling their story. When you are buying a piece from Afflatus you are actually buying someone’s story, which in return has helped many people. The reason we name them after specific women and tell their story is because we want to bridge gaps in the community, let other women know they are not alone, get the help they may need, and lastly we want to give women a platform, where in most cases they wouldn’t have that opportunity.

We are located at 5509 130 Ave. in Edmonton, Alberta. Learn more: afflatushijab.com

Based in Pincher Creek, Alberta, Bio-Agtive Emissions Farming is a Canadian innovation that recycles internal combustion emissions from biofuel into rich plant nutrition that is simultaneously returned to the crop environment from any mechanized agricultural equipment passing over landscapes as a farmer seeds, sprays, or harvests. The technology is licensed to farmers who collaborate and practice the Bio-Agtive Method to aggregate their offsets to sell on voluntary carbon markets.
Worldwide, and working with farmers to farm more than 110,000 acres today, the Bio-Agtive Method is allowing producers to leave behind conventional farm practices to the benefit of a regenerative approach to enhance soil health, biologically grow nutritious food, and drawdown CO2 from the atmosphere.

Gary Lewis is a 4th generation farmer and the innovator behind this new way to farm. In the early 2000’s, challenging farm economics forced him to think about how he could become more efficient on his family farm, which lead him to initially capturing emissions from the natural gas motor that ran his irrigation system, to eventually commercializing the 6th generation of the technology since 2019 that retrofits to any farm machinery. Many of Gary’s professional family members are engaged in diverse areas of the business.

Farming is the lifeline of many small and rural Canadian communities. If humanity is ever to succeed at climate mitigation and food security, what Bio-Agtive is out to achieve is to re-ignite life in rural communities through farming, and with farmers engaging in the entire agrifood value chain to create consumer food products that are net negative, nutritious, and restoring topsoil season after season, instead of the well-documented, current decline of soils. Experts have warned that only 60+ harvests remain in the world if we stay on this present-day track, but emissions farming can rapidly scale to reverse this trend. Learn more: bioagtive.com

CHRC is a coffee company and lifestyle brand based out of Calgary, AB. Our mission as a company is “Fuelling your outdoor pursuits to conserve our wild places.” We currently have one iconic/heritage coffee shop located in Ramsay and a newly minted roasting facility located just outside of Calgary in Rocky View County. We have successfully been in business for 7 years as of November 2, 2022 and strive to keep the train rolling on for years to come.

Our company has three key team members alongside eight incredibly talented employees. Our goal is to fuel your passion while giving back to our wild places. We create products that enhance peoples experience and interaction in the outdoors. Initially we started with a Calgary focused whole bean roasted coffee. We would roast and package coffees with natural tasting notes of chocolate, caramel, smoke, and toffee. We believe everything tastes better in the outdoors and we wanted to be a coffee brand synonymous with camping. We have since created a national focused SKU line and offering named Canadian Heritage Roasting Co which collaborate credited art of a Grizzly, Bison, Salmon Run, and Burnt Timber on the bags designed by a local artist Michael Sydoryk (Wildform Art).

We sell our coffee nationally and internationally giving exposure to Canada’s beauty, Mikes art, and our tasty coffee. We also sell “Flash Fuel” – a first to market craft instant coffee that we produce in house. We wanted to create a craft instant coffee that actually tasted good using only high quality coffee and launched our Flash Fuel in December of 2021 with a distinct matchbox look containing 10 individual servings of instant coffee. In addition, we developed an outdoors-inspires clothing brand built for the harshness of our Northern Climate. We design, and locally build down filled wax canvas vests right here in Calgary along with other unique garments. We have built all of these products in an endeavour to fuel our customers outdoor pursuits. Learn more: calgaryheritageroastingco.com

Educating AMY (AMY stands for All Me and You) specializes in Montessori/Waldorf/Reggio-inspired and stage-based interactive Quiet Books for Children aged 0-7 years. The product is curated using the latest science in Brain Development. A Social Entrepreneurship with a vision to create the greatest value for humanity, which it believes is through education. We focus on the first years of a person’s life because the full Brain Architecture is developed in them. Hence, Educating AMY focuses on providing means for little children and parents to be effectively educated (product and free content) and bring education to girls in impoverished communities (India) who do not have the chance to get a formal education. Educating AMY provides a positive social impact, taking into account the unwanted negative consequences of the typical one-for-one models by tackling a root cause of poverty, lack of education for girls. Enabling these girls would allow a large population to contribute and create value for society. Books are also manufactured in India by a woman-led team of Artisans.

Educating AMY has been in operation since January 2021 and is a Calgary, Alberta based company. Educating AMY was founded by Holly Lear who is a science nerd with degrees in Medical Sciences from University of Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh. Originally from Scotland, her goals are education and women empowerment. The core business is E-Commerce, wholesale and retail based. Educating AMY is active in the Calgary Local Market scene and had pop-ups in CF Market Mall and CF Chinook Mall. Learn more: educatingamy.com

moovez is a managed marketplace where consumers and businesses can get a vehicle of any size, ready on-demand. Simply put we’ve tapped into the network of moving and delivery vehicles on the road and built a platform to connect supply and demand more efficiently, and in doing so we better optimize the entire grid. If you have something big & bulky that doesn’t fit in your car and needs to be moved, we have vehicles and movers ready on-demand to help. ONE of our early users said it best, “it’s like Uber for Moving”.

Our current web application was launched in January of 2021. Version 2 of the Web app, including Customer and Mover Mobile Apps, will be launched in the coming months. Our goal is to serve young people in urban areas who are increasingly choosing to not own vehicles or own small vehicles for day-to-day intracity travel. This makes having a convenient and affordable option to move big and bulk items very important. Consumers have been programmed by the on-demand nature of today’s world, most industries have adapted to keep up with this change but for whatever reason the the moving industry hasn’t until now. Learn more: wemoovez.com