Upcoming Salons
Our salons are designed to bring people together in meaningful conversation, creating space for exchange, reflection, and connection. While our next gathering is still in the works, we invite you to stay connected—details will be shared here soon. In the meantime, we encourage you to explore past events, connect with us on social media and join our mailing list to be the first to know about what’s ahead.
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We are excited to announce our next Tzavta Dinner Salon in collaboration with Calgary Climate Week. We are honored to host Nicky Swan - CEO of Mossman Botanical Gardens, on June 3rd. Based in Australia, she is recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts in biosecurity. She spent decades working at the intersection of environmental risk, tourism, emergency response, and ecosystem protection. Her work has helped shape how governments, industries, and communities prepare for increasingly complex biological and environmental threats in a rapidly changing world. Nicky is also one of the first women to ever walk to the North Pole.
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The Details
Date: June 3rd
Location: Park by Sidewalk Citizen 340 13th Ave SW
Doors Open: 5:30
Talk Starts: 7pm
Price: $110
Nicky Swan is an innovation, transformation, and new paradigm strategist who creates solutions for businesses across economic development, governance, stakeholder engagement, marketing, and sustainability. She worked with government, not-for-profit, and private- sector organisations to develop practical, community-focused strategies that support regional growth and long-term resilience. Nicky has delivered economic development and tourism strategies for local governments, authored business and governance plans for major community initiatives, including the Mossman Botanic Garden Masterplan, leading up to her role there.
Her work has taken her to Papua New Guinea and Bougainville, Southern Africa, New Zealand and South America helping businesses in their development and certification processes in entering the medicinal cannabis and hemp industry. She is recognised for her collaborative approach, strong global and regional networks, and an innate ability to align economic, environmental, and community outcomes, while thinking outside standard business paradigms.
Nicky Swan is an innovation, transformation, and new paradigm strategist who creates solutions for businesses across economic development, governance, stakeholder engagement, marketing, and sustainability. She worked with government, not-for-profit, and private- sector organisations to develop practical, community-focused strategies that support regional growth and long-term resilience. Nicky has delivered economic development and tourism strategies for local governments, authored business and governance plans for major community initiatives, including the Mossman Botanic Garden Masterplan, leading up to her role there.
Her work has taken her to Papua New Guinea and Bougainville, Southern Africa, New Zealand and South America helping businesses in their development and certification processes in entering the medicinal cannabis and hemp industry. She is recognised for her collaborative approach, strong global and regional networks, and an innate ability to align economic, environmental, and community outcomes, while thinking outside standard business paradigms.
Odem’s World Foundation Presents Dr. Robert Thirsk in conversation with Sarah McCullough, National Director of the XPRIZE Canada Hub at the University of Calgary, they will explore the ethics of space exploration.
Date: Friday, December 12th
Time: Doors open at 5:30 p.m. | Dinner at 6:00 | Talk at 7:15
Cost: $350
Location: Park by Sidewalk Citizen
Your ticket includes dinner, welcome drink, wine and conversation
We are honored to host Canada's legendary astronaut, engineer, physician, and Order of Canada recipient, Dr. Robert Thirsk, for our very FIRST kids' salon.
Robert will sit down with 25 young people for an intimate conversation about space, answer their questions, followed by a magic show and, of course, snacks and hot chocolate with marshmallows.
This is the inaugural Hot Chocolate with a Marshmallow, Odem's World Foundation's new youth science series created in collaboration with the University of Calgary's Faculty of Science, with Dr. Thirsk as our ambassador.