Webinar: Beyond the Competition – Elevating Your Competitive Intelligence (CI) Strategy

Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP) invites you to our next webinar, Beyond the Competition. Discover emerging insights into advancing your company’s CI strategy from Rostyk Hursky from the Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows, Saskatchewan Chapter and Dave Bunney, Director of Sales, CanMar Foods Ltd.

In this one hour session, you’ll learn innovative ways to set your foundation for competitive intelligence, key resources to consider when implementing and revisiting your company’s CI efforts, context on additional events that may be beneficial for your company to consider and first-hand insights for monitoring industry competitors and key considerations when preparing for trade shows and outbound communications to potential and existing customers. In addition, Doug O’Brien, Senior Market Intelligence Specialist, STEP will lead a Q&A at the end of the presentation.

This event is complementary, however, please Register via Zoom to attend. You will receive a link directly from Zoom upon registration.

Rostyk Hursky
Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows, Saskatchewan Chapter

Rostyk Hursky has been working in the competitive and strategic intelligence field for over 18 years. Prior to joining the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation as the Director of Impact and Strategy, Rostyk helped establish and grow an intelligence team that was one of the first few in the world specifically structured for a Research and Technology organization. 

One of his passions has been to captivate an audience of decision-makers in understanding how collaborative intelligence and insights can influence and enable their organizational growth, better their decision-making and help avoid or deal with risks and uncertainty. In 2018, he was officially inducted as a Fellow with the Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows.

Dave Bunney
Director of Sales, CanMar Foods Ltd.

Dave Bunney has been working in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods industry for the last 31 years. He worked with FritoLay, Nabisco and Kraft Foods in Sales, Strategy and Consumer Insights. He called on Loblaws, Safeway, Federated Coop, SaveOn Foods, A&P, and Metro.

At CanMar Foods, as Director of Sales, he has called on Costco in Canada, the USA, Spain, Mexico, Japan, Korea, and the UK. He has done the trade show circuit including FoodEx Japan, Seoul Food Show, Expo West, PLMA, Sial, CHFA, BioFach, SupplySide West, Pet Food Forum and SuperZoo.

He resides in Red Deer with his wife, Kristina. They have 4 adult children.