Countdown to Impact X!

Summit on Entrepre­neurship & Social Change

ST.FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY

Join post-secondary and high school students from across the Maritimes in Antigonish, Nova Scotia for this inaugural summit.

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Develop and pitch your social impact venture ideas and learn about entrepreneurship while networking within the Maritimes’ ecosystem!

Workshops

Learn. Refine. Pitch. 

Choose workshops that best suits your learning: 

  • Learn: New to Entrepreneurship? Choose workshops for those who are curious about entrepreneurship and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.
  • Refine: You have an early-stage idea? Choose workshops that help you develop your new venture.
  • Pitch: You are ready to go? Pitch your new venture idea and compete for funding!

Pitch Competition

Impact X provides students with the opportunity to practice their pitches and get support from Impact X mentors before competing in a pitch competition for more than $10,000 in prizes.

Renown Entrepreneurs in Social Impact

Hear from renown entrepreneurs making a social impact- such as Tareq Hadhad, the CEO and Founder of Peace by Chocolate and Mallory Yawnghwe, the founder of Indigenous Box Inc – in addition a panel of founders who will share their start-up journeys.

Hear about it on the radio

Listen to Isaac Hierlihy, a second year business student and founding member of the Impact X Summit, on the radio discussing Impact X.

See what people are saying about Impact X!

ImpactX is what students have been asking for! It’s more than a pitch competition. It allows us to get together to learn, network, and engage with our peers and experts so that we can bring our ideas to the next level.”

Inka Mittler

4th year StFX student, UNB APEX winner