Lunch n' Learn - How Small Businesses Are Using AI to Take Back Their Week
Date and Time
Thursday Jun 25, 2026
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM MDT
11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Networking & Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Presentation
Location
The Station at The Crossing
360 Railway Street West
Cochrane, AB
Fees/Admission
$20 for Members
$25 for Non-Members
Contact Information
Michelle Hrabi
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Lunch n' Learn - How Small Businesses...
Description
Join us for an AI themed Lunch n' Learn - refuel and connect over a fresh lunch spread with sandwiches, fruit and veggies and a sweet treat to enjoy!
11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Networking & Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Presentation
Presentation Description:
Most small businesses don't have an AI problem. They have a systems problem and AI just exposes it. In this 30-minute session, Aaron LeBlanc, founder of Cochrane-based Hypelocal, breaks down exactly how local businesses are using AI today to eliminate the invisible bottlenecks that quietly eat 5–10 hours out of every week. No theory. No buzzwords. Real examples from real businesses, trades, real estate, retail, and professional services, that have automated the boring-but-critical work and won back their time.
11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Networking & Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Presentation
Presentation Description:
Most small businesses don't have an AI problem. They have a systems problem and AI just exposes it. In this 30-minute session, Aaron LeBlanc, founder of Cochrane-based Hypelocal, breaks down exactly how local businesses are using AI today to eliminate the invisible bottlenecks that quietly eat 5–10 hours out of every week. No theory. No buzzwords. Real examples from real businesses, trades, real estate, retail, and professional services, that have automated the boring-but-critical work and won back their time.
Attendees will walk away with a simple four-question audit to identify which tasks in their own business are ready to be automated this month, a take-home handout with the five highest-leverage automations every Cochrane business should have in place by year-end, and a live demo showing how AI automation can save time and make your business more profitable.
If you've ever felt like your team is too busy doing low-value work to focus on growth, this session is for you.
If you've ever felt like your team is too busy doing low-value work to focus on growth, this session is for you.
Session Content:
- A new way to look at your business. A simple framework that helps you spot the invisible bottlenecks costing you 5–10 hours a week and a clear sense of which of those AI can actually fix.
- Real examples from real businesses. Not theory or buzzwords. Specific stories from trades, real estate, retail, and professional services including one cautionary tale about what happens when nobody checks the system's work.
- A live demo you can actually use.
- A four-question audit you can run the next morning. A simple test to identify exactly which tasks in your business are ready to automate this month and which ones aren't.
- A take-home one-pager. Five high-leverage automations every Cochrane business should have in place by year-end, plus the audit on the back.
- The AI search shortcut. Three things every local business can do this month so Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overview can find you before your competitor figures it out.
