LGBTIQ Business Chambers play an important role for LGBTIQ businesses and the entrepreneurship within the community.
We provide insights from regional and national chambers in Europe, from a Scandinavian perspective, SGLCC outwards in Europe and we showcase how a common platform, EGLCC, work on Supplier diversity, and how your business can stand to benefit.
We are happy to invite all members to our LGBTI+ Business conference in Malmö Town Hall during WorldPride in Copenhagen! The conference will be held August 17 between 1300-1700 and both as a live event and a digital event. The aim is to highlight the business angle of LGBT inclusion, and, not least, the entrepeneurship of our own community.
There is a significant return on investment for private corporations that implements a sustainable diversity strategy. In order to be successful this need to be a credible, long-term starchy in how these issues can best be implemented in the corporate business strategy, in all parts of the business processes from talent acquisition to workplace inclusion, innovation, sales and supply-chains. This can also be tracked up to the owner-level, by the stock-performance.
The current pandemic has caused severe stress to the business environment across the world. Some have had a very difficult time, and some have done well. Over time, certain areas will go back to pre-pandemic activities, and others will come out with entirely new models and strategies. What has become evident is the need for the diversity and inclusion models to be resilient under stress as well as sustainable in order to be useful, credible and deliver the intended outcome for the business at hand.
One group is sometimes overlooked. Those in our community that who runs and develops businesses on their own. We want to highlight the thriving entrepreneurship within our community and the economic development and innovation it brings. In the USA alone, the LGBTI business community is calculated to add 1.7 Trillion USD annually to the GDP (Witeck,2019), and there is no reason this should be any different in Scandinavia.The entrepreneurs in our own community is the focus of SGLCC and now it is your time to shine!
More information will be found at the conference website and here you can find tickets to the digital event.
Join our friends and partners for the annual East Meets West conference on June 17. It is free for all SGLCC members. East Meets Wests annual conference is always highly anticipated with groundbreaking insights from eastern Europe and across the continent. This year, instead of the usual venue in Vienna, you can all join the livestream from Warzaw.
Klick here for more information and registration
Founded in 2013 in Vienna, Austria, East meets West is a network of LGBTIQ professionals from Western & (primarily) Eastern Europe. East meets West facilitates the exchange of ideas, the sharing of best practices and generates mutual inspiration to improve the social acceptance of LGBTIQ people in the different countries. East meets West is the facilitator of awareness on LGBTIQ businesses and that LGBTIQ people can be successful entrepreneurs and become role models inside and outside the LGBTIQ community. East meets West has also a catalyst function in the LGBTIQ organisational ecosystem by connecting NGOs, diplomatic representatives, officials, corporate players, entrepreneurs and variety of other inspiring personalities. East meets West ‘signature event’ is the annual conference. More info can be found on their website.
We just want to give you a heads up and a chance for you to save the dates. Our friends in Canada – the Canadian LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce will host their annual conference Global Business Summit in June 7-11. This year it vill be digital and it’s a great opportunity for you as a member of SGLCC to participate.
The CGLCC annual Global Business Summit brings together members, certified suppliers, corporate and government partners, and allies from Canada and around the world to discuss LGBT+ entrepreneurship in Canada.
In celebration of the fifth LGBT+ Global Business Summit, this year’s event will be hosted virtually for a unique, digital experience full of business building, innovative entrepreneurship stories, and unparalleled procurement connections.
More information will come – but if you are interested – save the date!
We welcome our partners to a Round Table discussion on the corporate value of LGBT inclusion in a safe and corona-free environment, at the British Ambassadors Residence.
Date: November 11
Time: 15:00-16:00
In Britain the LGBT market is estimated is more than 80 Billion Pounds annually. The Nordic countries alone constitute a potential 2.5 million consumers and more than EUR Bln 30 in net-value. LGBT inclusion is vital for corporations in order to access this market potential. In addition a strategic D&I program attracts better talents and improves the environment for innovation. Yet, many corporations still have some way to go in order to integrate these issues in their business model to the full potential. Our Roundtable aims to provide a constructive dialogue and sharing of best practice examples.
Note that this event is by special invitation only. If you are interested please send us an email.
A very warm Thank You, to all the participants on our On-Line forum on the Economic case for LGBT Inclusion, together with our partners, Swedish Embassy in Manila, and PFIP October 15.
A special thank you to our speakers and panelists, Ambassador Harald Fries, Tony Tenicella, IBM, Drew Fernandez, Coca Cola, Mark Lyndsell, Transcom, Gilda de Rosario, Wells Fargo, Marixa Carlos, Accenture and Weena Ekid, PFIP.
A very special warm thank you to Athena Cartagena at the Swedish Embassy and Chris Eugenio at PFIP for their fantastic work and support, and without whom this event would not have been possible.
If you missed the On-Line Forum you have the possibility to watch it here: