Ascend Vancouver Year-End Gala

Ascend Vancouver holds its year-end gala on Friday, November 20, 2026, at the Pan Pacific, 999 Canada Place, Suite 300. Doors open at 5:00 PM. The program begins at 6:00 PM, dinner service at 6:30 PM, and the listing runs until 10:30 PM. The theme is Thrive in the New Era. The ticket includes the program, networking, and a seated dinner. The panel names on the page are Queenie Choo, chief executive of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation, and Doug Lui, co-founder of NorBot, co-founder and managing director of Misfit Ventures, and founder of Globo/Porto. S.U.C.C.E.S.S. is the large Vancouver settlement agency. The page says more speaker names may still be added.

Ascend Canada lists this night as Vancouver's year-end celebration. Vancouver is the Lower Mainland chapter of Ascend, the pan-Asian leadership network. Early-bird tickets are $229 through October 28. After that the page lists $259. Those are Canadian dollars on a Canadian checkout. Read the fee line before you compare it with a U.S. ticket. The listing allows refunds until 14 days before the night.

This is right for Vancouver members and for Richmond, Burnaby, and downtown professionals who want one pan-Asian leadership night before December. The two announced panelists are a settlement-agency chief executive and a founder. If you are going for someone whose name is not on the page yet, wait for the update. Toronto's Ascend grid still lists an AI session for October or November with no day, room, or price. This ticket is the Vancouver gala.

Canada Place is on the waterfront, a walk from Waterfront station, and a slow Friday arrival by car at 5:00 PM. Use the Pan Pacific entrance. Screenshot the Eventbrite ticket. If the early-bird price is still on the page after October 28, trust the live price over this sentence. If another speaker is added in November, read the name before you decide the night is the dinner and the two people already listed.