Why Build KADIMA?
Friends and colleagues have been asking me “why are you doing this Susan”? Why would you care about this concept so much?
What I shared in the video is that I am passionate and totally committed to change. It’s our future and change is what has brought us to this point in 2017, where often our cell phones have become one of our most necessary tools. Twenty years ago, it was our laptop. I have no idea where we will be in 2037.
Yet as passionate that I am about change I am equally committed to Canada. A place I’ve called home for 50 years this year. As a young girl, when my family immigrated from the former Yugoslavia (with a short stay in Germany), I watched my parents and their friends start business ventures. I grew to appreciate the gift of being able to try and create something. It’s why I started a business in my late 20s. What I’ve learned is the importance of never giving up and having an attitude that there is always a way to figure things out whenever we have a will. This is what I believe and who I am.
I wouldn’t be here talking to you if I hadn’t had other people who believed in me. And I am committed to paying this forward.
As Canadians, we have an incredible opportunity, as a country, to lead the world. KADIMA is for all of us who have dreams – whether as an immigrant, a solopreneur, an entrepreneur, or a person working in an organization who can see a gap and a way to try and change things for the better.
Anyone is an innovator and I want to see others succeed. This, at its core, is the premise of KADIMA; to do that we need to come together and build on the expertise of research, organizations, and government. Together and through commercialisation of our ideas we can build Canada for the next 150 years and we will be known as a country where everyone has a chance to dream, explore, and risk.
Please join us on this journey to create a knowledge hub and conference in Windsor-Essex, Ontario in 2018. When we all risk a little, we can collectively accomplish more than we can imagine.
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Who Are We Building KADIMA For?
In a nutshell we are building KADIMA for innovators, entrepreneurs, tomorrows’ leaders, global investors and anyone who wants to re-imagine business and the world.
Are you in a growth, emerging or established industry? Are you seeking to connect with forward-looking trailblazers? Is there a prototype that needs testing? Are you tomorrows’ leaders who need help with an unconventional BIG IDEA?
Additionally, we want to meet and collaborate with government decision/policy makers who seek to understand what matters the most to Canadian Industry. As well as academia and research who want to connect with industry to explore emerging and collaborative opportunities.
KADIMA wants to help you achieve your goals. For instance, it will help to streamline Canada's innovation approach, policies and rules to commercialise ideas thereby maximising the benefits of innovation for all participating.
Using an interactive live and virtual conference platform we can provide immediate exposure to new and innovative knowledge and ideas; and experiment with cutting-edge Canadian products and technology. Think 21st Century meets Star Trek Holodeck.
With your help we can show the world that Canada is a ‘country of innovators’.
KADIMA Supporters
We have a growing Group of Champions who are...
- Dedicated, passionate and knowledgeable professionals in research/academia, Municipal Government and industry (i.e. agriculture; advanced manufacturing; and technology to name a few).
- 25 years plus experience creating, producing and delivering global live and virtual conferences for Fortune 500 Canadian and global organisations in manufacturing, pharma, technology, finance, retail, and food distribution.
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Janice Charko, FCPA, FCGA, LPA, CFP, C.Dir, ACCA (UK)
Partner, ENT LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants. Janice’s philosophy is ‘lifelong learning’. In addition to her accounting practice Janice is a Professor at Humber College. She teaches in class and online courses in income tax, intro and advanced; intermediate accounting; auditing; business strategies; Business Case II. www.entcpas.com
Paul Cook
Author and Founder of Planet Planit Ltd, a content consultancy firm. Paul has written for numerous magazines and loves writing copy that challenges assumptions. His first two books are Risk It! and Remotely Engaging, both of which are available on Amazon. www.paulcook.co.uk
Debra Pickfield, MBA
Founder of THiNKSPOT. Debra’s commitment to the study of collaboration evolved from her experience in organizations where the need was great to share knowledge, but the motivation to do so was lacking. Debra founded THiNKSPOT a place that embraces people, place, and process... and through that nurtures creativity. www.thinkspot.ca
Carol Wain
Entrepreneur, Author and Founder of Enlightened Capitalist. Carol founded Enlightened Capitalist to help individuals collaborate, mentor and learn how to reinvent business and use the power of profitable organizations to transform lives and positively impact our planet. She is co-author of Guerrilla Tourism Marketing, available on Amazon. www.EnlightenedCapitalist.org
Here’s Where You Come In
Bootstrapping KADIMA got us this far. Now we need your help to raise $25,000 CAD to help us unlock the true potential of this Project. We need 2,500 backers to donate $10 CAD.
Current Tally
July 14: 2,468 Backers to go
We’ve divided our fund raising efforts into two phases. This crowdfunding campaign is Phase One. Your contribution to this campaign will help us off-set some of the start-up costs (brand & website design and social media support); purchase of crowdfunding perks not donated; our launch event in Windsor-Essex Corridor (Fall 2017); and towards the development of our sponsorship campaign to be used in Phase Two of our fund raising efforts.
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Risks and Challenges
It’s hard to introduce innovation safely. This is the biggest risk and greatest challenge we foresee. To evolve an emerging approach to accelerate innovation and activate commercialisation, requires a level of risk to experiment with what we know and more importantly to learn to be more comfortable with what we don’t know we don’t know.
I believe we’re in a new space of ongoing business and world discovery that will forever change how we live, work and play. And I want to contribute, in some small way, to this evolution and new world we’re creating. At our core, we are all explorers and our sustainability depends on us to keep moving…forward.
If by chance we don't reach our fund raising goal, funds that are raised will go towards the development and production of the sponsorship campaign to build awareness for KADIMA and inspire potential backers.
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What You Get
I have received incredible support and enthusiasm from my Business Advisors, family, friends and Windsor-Essex Champions, that we are confident this campaign will succeed.
Below are more details about the Perks found on the right on this page. Check back here regularly for new Perks we will add weekly. (Items in image not to scale.)
June 8 - New Perk Update
Video Skype w/Susan Radojevic
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June 5 - New Perk Update
Video Skype w/Paul Cook
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Update June 1 - New Perk
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Pro Fit Ball Cap Like The Beatle’s White Album we selected ‘white’ as our other logo colour. KADIMA is breaking new ground and that requires a blank canvas if we are to re-imagine business and the world. Perk Description: Low profile, pre-curved peak and is 100% cotton chino twill woven. Colour: Red. Sizes: One Size.
Guerrilla Tourism Marketing Book Too often business owners, particularly smaller businesses such as independent hotels, B&Bs, spas, golf courses, restaurants and tour companies forget that marketing is continuous and it needs to be measured, split-tested and adjusted.
If you're interested in more than one Perk that’s wonderful! You'll select your first Perk, check out, and enter your payment info. Then make a new contribution for your second Perk. If we’ve inspired you to keep paying it KADIMA (forward), repeat the process.
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Video Skype w/Carol Wain 'I’m a self-taught entrepreneur who followed my desire to be free from stupid rules and policies, dysfunctional silos, inefficient practices, uninspiring leaders, bad managers and a dog-eat-dog culture.' ~ Carol Wain www.EnlightenedCapitalist.org
Weekend Getaway 'Uncork the possibilities' of Windsor-Essex Corridor. Stay at Holiday Inn & Suites Ambassador Bridge Hotel, your home away from home. Browse the current collections at the Art Gallery of Windsor or check out future exhibits like Urban Renewal Today for Tomorrow – The 2017 Art Gallery of Windsor Triennial of Contemporary Art, October 2017 to January 2018. Enjoy wine tasting and dinner for two at Cooper's Hawk Vineyards an estate winery located in Lake Erie North Shore, Ontario offering a unique experience in a pristine setting. Perk Terms & Conditions: Gift Cards & Certificates expire on December 30, 2017. Hotel incidental charges are not included. Reservations must be made prior to arrival date, and are subject to availability and blackout dates. Gift Cards & Certificates cannot be applied to Special Event Dates and have no cash value.
Twitter: @coopershawkwine | Instagram: coopershawkvineyard | www.coopershawkvineyards.com | www.his_windsor.com | www.agw.ca
Our Logo
There’s something about our logo. It’s a work in progress, and limited edition items will be printed using our working logo. Owning one of these items will show your commitment to KADIMA and to Canada.
Can't donate? Consider helping another way...
If you believe and want to help us spread the word that Canada is a ‘country of innovators’ and can't afford to help out by donating please consider sharing this campaign with your family, friends and colleagues. Friends and Allies of Canada are welcome too...
KADIMA Referral Contest!
All supporters of this campaign are able to "win" a Keep moving...KADIMA T-Shirt by referring their family, friends and colleagues to the campaign. Refer 10 people who contribute to the campaign and you'll receive our Limited Edition KADIMA T-shirt!
For you to count as a referrer, you must promote our campaign with Indiegogo’s share tools while logged into your Indiegogo account. This is important because otherwise, your unique ID won’t be attached to any resulting contributions or visits.
All referrals that come between the dates this campaign is launched to when it ends will be tallied, and winners of the referral contest will be notified in the coming weeks.
Thank you very much for your support! Together we’ve got this…
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