Join us in celebrating the recipients of the 14th Annual Surrey's Top 25 Under 25 Awards. Enjoy delicious hors d'oeuvres, make new business contacts, and celebrate the achievements of our future leaders!

Winners will be presented with awards at a celebratory networking reception, featuring guest speaker Tara Bosch, Founder of SmartSweets.

Tara Bosch made Canadian history by scaling her company to be the fastest growing CPG brand created by a solo female founder...ever.

When a love affair with candy devolved into an unhealthy relationship with food, Tara became inspired by a conversation with her grandmother about the detrimental effects of sugar. She soon dropped out of college to fulfill her dream: to create the future of candy. With distribution in over 180,000 stores across North America and over 5.6 billion grams of sugar kicked, she landed a $360M majority acquisition just 4 years after launching the company from her basement.

As a leader, Tara is wildly passionate about empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs and believes their big impact-driven visions are needed more than ever before in the world, leading her to create a first-of-its-kind initiative- Bold Beginnings. In addition to fostering connection and tailored support for Canadian entrepreneurs, Tara is working to normalize the feelings of self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and insecurities that all entrepreneurs face, while putting funds back into the ecosystem supporting entrepreneurs to bring their visions and companies to scale.

Publicly, Tara has been recognized for how she beat the statistics of women in entrepreneurship not only by being a solo founder, but maintaining ownership of her brand, keeping gender parity on her board and scaling a team that has always been 80% female-identifying.

She is the recipient of several entrepreneurial awards, including being named Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 Award, Forbes 30 under 30, Inc 30 under 30, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year’s National Product Innovation awardee.

In the media, Tara’s work has been profiled in Entrepreneur, Inc, Forbes, Fortune, the Globe and Mail, CNBC, and Business Insider.