{"id":1545,"date":"2024-12-04T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1545"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:46:25","slug":"business-networking-expo-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/news\/business-networking-expo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Networking Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 5, 2024 the Self Employment Program hosted their first ever Business Networking Expo, a free event designed to connect local entrepreneurs with the community! For both seasoned or new business owners, this was the perfect opportunity for business owners to network with professionals across various industries, collaborate with like minded entrepreneurs, and discover new resources to drive business growth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Networking Expo Recap\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S2V5p2Fw9HY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video Credit: Kofi Visionz by Dominic Dunyo<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of the businesses that participated! Here&#8217;s a full list of the businesses\/owners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greatest Blends, by Shereen Barnett<\/li>\n<li>Larysa Chorna<\/li>\n<li>Asha Kanojia<\/li>\n<li>Olena Rikunova<\/li>\n<li>Trang Ngo, by Thuyen Quyen<\/li>\n<li>Tetiana Ostapchuk<\/li>\n<li>Kateryna Odenchuk<\/li>\n<li>Shawl &amp; Snuggle, by Valentyna Mulova<\/li>\n<li>Tatiknitting, by Tetiana Kolesnikova<\/li>\n<li>Svitlana Nemonova<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Masalta<\/li>\n<li>Tetiana Protcheva<\/li>\n<li>Sifa\u2019s Cakery, by Serah Ruwah<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Avenda\u00f1o<\/li>\n<li>AFRODITA candles and soaps, by Iryna Shvihel<\/li>\n<li>Chorizo de Cebu-Toronto, by Nina Salapang<\/li>\n<li>Teresita Sanchez<\/li>\n<li>Judith Flores<\/li>\n<li>Lilya Guerra<\/li>\n<li>Miriam Perez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the recap on our Business Networking Expo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1547,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[45,78],"class_list":["post-1545","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-programs-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}