Bring the operational headache you keep meaning to fix. We map it on a whiteboard, put a real dollar number on it, and build a working fix live in front of the room. No pitch deck. No sales script.
Forty local owners and ops leads, coffee, and a whiteboard. Real problems worked through in real time, with people who get it.
We interview an owner and draw their real process on the whiteboard, step by step, then circle the one step where the time actually disappears. No frameworks, no jargon, just what actually happens between opening and closing.
Hours a week lost, times what an hour of that work is worth, times 52. One number, done in front of everyone, so it stops being a vague annoyance and starts being a line item worth fixing.
Scoped to the broken steps only, built on screen while it's explained out loud, for as long as it takes to get it right. Not a demo, a working thing, and you see how it works. Whatever gets built stays with the owner, not us.
Order tracking that used to be chaos. One broken step, fixed. No overhaul, no big project. It's still running today, and the owner opens the night with his own story, in his own words.
That's not a pitch. That's his shop, still running the thing we built, told in the room where we're hosting you.
We started the Efficiency Table to be the room where owners understand the tools, and know the people helping them build it.
Kav started in accounting, and kept watching the real days disappear into small stuff: logging hours after the fact, writing the same client email for the fourth time that week. So he started automating the parts that don't need judgment and leaving the parts that do alone. AI drafts, a person still decides, and the morning still comes back. Every system he builds has to survive inside a real firm with real deadlines and real client books.
Noah started a marketing agency helping local businesses launch e-commerce stores and branded content, and kept finding the same thing underneath: the "marketing problem" was actually an operations problem. Now he builds the systems instead of promoting around them, including a dashboard that helped a local running store stop losing thousands in sales. Lifelong Winnipegger, ultramarathoner, and a former bartender who loves to talk.
Admission covers coffee and light snacks from a local partner. It's capped at forty because past that it stops being a table and starts being an audience.
Want to be the one in the hot seat? Tell us your biggest time-suck when you register, that's how we pick.
We will be donating these proceeds to Harvest Manitoba.
No. Nobody sells you anything on the night. If you want us to look at your own process afterward, there's a free ops audit you can book, that's the whole ask.
Only if you volunteer. We ask for a show of hands and pick from people who put theirs up.
Not a thing. You need to know your own business, which you already do. We handle pointing the technology at the mess.
Yes, photos and video for the recap. You consent at registration, and we don't publish anything from a hot seat without that owner's sign-off.
City Park Runners, 2091 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3J 0L1. Doors at 6:30pm — grab coffee and write your time-suck on the card before the table session starts.
Kavisha Wanigasekara and Noah van den Berg, two Winnipeg founders who both come out of running real operations, not a marketing agency selling AI hype. Their full backgrounds are in the Who's Running the Table section above.
Your seat for the whole night, coffee and light snacks from a local partner, and a spot in the room where an owner's real problem gets fixed live. Proceeds go to Harvest Manitoba.
You get a confirmation email right away with your ticket and a QR code. Screenshot it — that's what gets scanned at the door, no printing needed.
You didn't build a business in Winnipeg to spend your nights on invoicing. Come watch us fix someone else's first. Yours might be next.