CCEC Webinar - 2026 - Is your Chamber Future-ready?

2026: Is your Chamber Future-ready?  Speaker - Todd Letts
Overview:
In this thought-provoking webinar, Todd will challenge participants to think ahead four years:

• What is the new normal for Chambers? What's meant by Chamber 4.0 the new era?
• What innovations have we adopted during the COVID years?
• What new innovations in lead acquisition, dues structure, event delivery and governance will be commonplace by 2026?  

1. Reflections on WCF Bi-enniel in Dubai and on Geneva 2023
2. Chamber Innovation: what is top of mind? What have we learned in last 2 years?
3. What if?: How can we best use blockchain/AI etc. to develop new trade opportunities for our members? Meriado
4. The Honeycomb Model: 6-step strategic template for future-proofing your Chamber?
5. Q and A

Speaker: Todd Letts
Todd has been building strong businesses and healthy communities for more than 25 years. He currently serves as CEO to the Board of Trade in Brampton, one of Canada's fastest growing and multicultural suburban communities.
Todd's career has included senior roles in the technology, economic development, finance and business advocacy fields. He has enjoyed 20 years as a chamber executive and has also been a banker and a municipal economic developer in the greater Toronto area.

Through his speaking and consulting practice, specializing in strategy and operational effectiveness, Todd's clients have included leading chambers of commerce, state and provincial associations from across Canada and the United States. Recent Chamber clients include Greater Sudbury; Greater Oshawa, Barrie; and Brantford-Brant Chambers of Commerce. Todd recently spoke at the 12^th World Chambers Federation Bi-ennial Congress, in Dubai, on the topic of Chamber Model Innovation.

Highly respected by his peers, in 2015, Todd was awarded the James Carnegie Award for leadership and mentorship by Chamber Executives of Ontario.  In 2019, Todd was elected as Canada's representative to the World Chambers Federation Governing Council of the International Chamber of Commerce. In 2020, he was named as a Commissioner to the international Certified Chamber Executive Commission.

Active in a number of economic development collaborations, he is a founding member of the Canadian Global Cities Council and Canada's Innovation Corridor Business Council. Todd is a Ford fellow in Regionalism & Sustainable Development, an honour bestowed by the United States Ford Foundation. He is the former President of the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Canada (CCEC) and a past director of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE).

Designations include CCE (Certified Chamber Executive) and ACE (Accredited Chamber Executive), a degree in Science from the University of Western Ontario, and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Rotman School at the University of Toronto.

Todd is an active distance runner, having raced in more than twenty marathons world-wide. Todd can be reached at 416-457-4331.