# Event Details - **Event Name**: Second Circle Connections: Building Your Network - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Founders, executives, and investors in one room. Learn how to work a room, then actually work it.About this EventThe people you already know tend to know the same people. Your next deal is in a room your own network would never reach.Second Circle Connections brings founders, executives, and investors into one room; people who would otherwise never meet. Different industries, different backgrounds, different parts of the country. That mix is the whole point.This is our first room, and the way into everything that follows.Go with a Plan. Leave with Results.Brent Edwards leads this practical, interactive session. After seven years at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and more than three decades in revenue-generating roles, he now helps entrepreneurs and business leaders across Canada develop stronger business relationships through strategic networking.Fall is Ontario's busiest business event season. Conferences, trade shows, chamber events, and industry gatherings fill the calendar. Too many people attend without a plan, spending valuable time but leaving with few meaningful connections.In this session, you'll learn how successful professionals prepare before an event, identify the right people to meet, start purposeful conversations, and follow up in ways that create real opportunities.Then you'll practice.The second half is a hands-on workshop. Brent will coach you on introducing yourself with confidence, explaining what you do, and building genuine connections with other participants.You'll leave with practical experience, a networking cheat sheet, and a strategy you can use at your very next event.No standing alone in the corner. No awkward speed networking. Just authentic conversations that lead to meaningful business opportunities.Then we eat and talk.An hour to mingle, with food and drinks. This is where the connections happen.Who this is for:Second Circle Connections is for people who run things.Founders and entrepreneurs with real businesses. Staff, revenue, and reach past this city.Executives. CEOs, presidents, VPs.Investors.Partners and principals of professional firms. Accounting, law, architecture, engineering.Leaders from chambers of commerce and trade bodies.Everyone in the room is running something. Every background, every age.The details:Thursday, August 27, 2026Doors at 5:30 PM. We start at 6:00. Done by 8:30.OneHub, 205 Torbay Road, Unit 1, Markham, ON L3R 3W4.Registration closes when the room is full.Your hosts:Brent Edwards. Founder of BrentCanada Experiences and a keynote speaker, with more than thirty years in business development. He teaches entrepreneurs across Canada how business relationships actually get built.Fadi Yaacoub. President of FYRST and former vice-president at the Toronto Star, with twenty-two years in Canada’s largest media companies. He now works with entrepreneurs and CEOs, and his book, Executive to Enterprise, arrives at the end of the year.Eddie Lee. Thirty years in operations finance and business transformation, twenty of them at Acer, running the numbers across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Today he runs OneHub Business Consulting firm in Toronto as a business consultant and fractional COO.Second Circle Connections is building a private group of founders, executives, and investors. The event is the way in. Come to a gathering, and if it's a fit, you'll be invited to join the private group that lives beyond the events. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/markham/second-circle-connections-building-your-network/100001996177405355 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Business, Exhibitions, Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 62.15, max: 62.15, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Markham - **state**: ON - **country**: Canada - **location**: OneHub. Business Consulting - **lat**: 43.8163883 - **long**: -79.3456829 - **full address**: OneHub. Business Consulting, 205 Torbay Road, Markham, Canada ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Second Circle Connections: Building Your Network - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/fdb509687482a0b40b7e13c8c2598fd1cb9213474ea997084caf4ad9a1d6e893-rimg-w1200-h600-dc080808-gmir.jpg?v=1786248842 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Second Circle Connections: Building Your Network being held? - **A:** Second Circle Connections: Building Your Network takes place on Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 pm at OneHub. Business Consulting, 205 Torbay Road, Markham, Canada. - **Q**: Who is organizing Second Circle Connections: Building Your Network? - **A:** Second Circle Connections: Building Your Network is organized by Second Circle Connections | Toronto. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Second Circle Connections: Building Your Network is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Markham, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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