Let's Connect.
Join us at Connect, the Canadian platform for collaboration and innovation in the pet industry!
We are dedicated to bringing together Canadian and global pet industry leaders-including manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers-to foster strong relationships and drive success.
At Connect, you'll find invaluable opportunities for networking, education, and dialogue, all designed to help pet businesses thrive in an ever-evolving market. Our Connect Tool Box vendors and expert speakers are here to share powerful insights and strategies to help you grow your business.
This event is more than just a gathering-it's a community committed to empowering retailers
with the knowledge, skills, and connections they need to succeed. We advocate for innovative solutions and ensure retailers have access to brands that truly support them.
Built by pet professionals, Connect values your input! We invite you to share your vision and insights to make this experience even more impactful for your business. Join us in shaping the future of the pet industry-let’s grow together!
Connect:
A B2B pet trade event celebrating the Canadian pet industry hosted and created with a team that is 100% built with individuals and vendors from the Canadian Pet Industry.
Attendees and Exhibitors can enjoy all the amenities of the Connect Lounge. A spacious seating area with beverages, charging stations and plenty of seating area for impromptu meetings.
Connect brings 2 days of educational talks to attendees. Visitors will hear from Jennifer Murray, Jordan Milgrom, and financial advice through RBC, Moneris and ADP.
A highlight of the show is Connect's Fresh Food Showcase featuring a variety of frozen and gently cooked products from many of the Connect Exhibitors. Thanks to Habco for the great looking freezer setup.
Thursday night features Connect Live at the NFCC with the Orange Man Band. The evening will kick off with $10,000 in cash giveaways to retailers and exhibitors.
Raised Right - Doing Pet Food the Right Way
We’re a family-owned company that works with veterinarian, Dr. Karen Becker and pet food formulation expert Steve Brown to formulate “home cooked style” whole food recipes that are high in protein & low in carbs through using limited ingredients. The primary reason our recipes are so high in protein is because we don’t use any high carb fillers like potato, rice, oats, yam, pasta, or barley – putting most of our recipes at less than 2% carbs.
One of the most unique things about our food is that we were able to formulate our adult dog recipes to meet AAFCO’s requirements for a complete & balanced diet through using ONLY whole foods without having to add any synthetic vitamins and minerals. Our recipes have very simple ingredient decks as all of our adult dog recipes have 10 ingredients or less, with some recipes having as few as just 7 or 8 ingredients.
We can proudly make the human-grade pet food claim as every ingredient in our food has passed the same standards necessary for human consumption and all our food is gently cooked in a human-grade facility. Low temp cooking meets the USDA pathogen kill-step, while maintaining high levels of moisture and nutritional integrity.
We take safety very seriously as every single batch we cook gets lab safety tested for pathogens like E.coli, listeria, and salmonella. We have a hold release program where we don’t ever ship our food unless it passes the lab safety test. For transparency, we post the results of every lab safety test on our website for everyone to see, along with a map tracing our ingredients to their source and a video showing how our food gets made.
Adam Valadao
Director of Initiatives
For more information on Raised Right check out their website: https://www.raisedrightpets.com/