2025 Sponsorship

Become a Sponsor!

ATESL invites you to become a sponsor for the virtual 2025 Conference on October 17-18, 2025 - Teaching Forward: Reimagine, Connect, Empower.

ATESL enthusiastically thanks the following sponsors for their generous support of the 2025 conference:

Platinum

CCIS

CCIS is a non-profit, non-denominational agency committed to making immigration a positive experience for refugees, immigrants, and the community. Since our inception in 1981, we have been a community leader with solid experience in the design and delivery of comprehensive services for our newest neighbours. We deliver these services through a dynamic multi-cultural, multi-denominational and multi-disciplinary team of professionals working out of 26 locations throughout Calgary and Southern Alberta. Supporting all aspects of settlement and integration, CCIS offers over 95 programs and services in the areas of employment, community and development, resettlement and integration, health and wellness, and families and children. Our roster of over 400 staff collectively speaks 70+ languages, making us the largest immigrant-serving agency in the Prairies and one of the top five in Canada.

NorQuest

SAIT

The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta is a leader in applied education, delivering relevant, skill-oriented education to more than 31,000 people annually. With more than 250,000 alumni in more than 110 countries, SAIT offers three baccalaureate degrees, three applied degrees, 88 diploma and certificate programs, 28 apprenticeship trades and more than 600 continuing education, corporate training, camps and other open registration courses (2021/22). SAIT established in 1916 and completed its largest campus expansion in 2012. The $400-million Trades and Technology Complex added 740,000 square feet of state-of-the-art learning space. In 2019, SAIT launched the School for Advanced Digital Technology to empower tomorrow’s workforce with digital skills. We provide expertise and resources to industry and real-world learning experiences to students #HereAtSAIT. SAIT is a member of Polytechnics Canada.

Gold

Centre for Newcomers

Established in 1988, the Centre for Newcomers (CFN) provides training and collaborative support services to promote integration, cultural diversity, and community participation. In the past fiscal year, CFN served over 67,000 newcomers. At CFN, you will find a full suite of cost-free services and programs for immigrants and refugees in Calgary, including Settlement & Integration Services; Career & Employment Services; Language Programs; Ethnicity Catering work experience; Children & Youth Programs; Multicultural Peer Mentorship; Volunteer Development; Volunteer-led Refugee Integration; LGBTQ+ Newcomer Settlement; Mental Health Workshops & Referral Assistance, Seniors Programs, Financial Empowerment Workshops, and a host of Vulnerable Population Services CFN is a key not-for-profit resource centre with a mandate to not only work with newcomers towards their personal settlement and integration goals, but to also equally work with the broader Calgary community to welcome them. It is CFN’s mission to support newcomers and the receiving community in becoming diverse and united, through services and initiatives that create conditions of success for newcomers and that foster a welcoming environment in Calgary. We view the integration of newcomers as a two-way process of experience, influence and impact between newcomers and the communities that welcome them. Services at the Centre are influenced by and embody our values; the values of equality and respect, collaboration, communication, professionalism, caring, along with diversity and inclusion. Our vision is a community that values diversity, in which people of all backgrounds find and create opportunities to fulfil dreams and participate fully as citizens. We strive to always welcome newcomers, and support them to settle and integrate, to work collaboratively and in partnership with others, and to create a workplace culture that is founded on respect, cooperation, and trust.

Silver

Cambridge

Bronze

Ellii

Ellii is a comprehensive digital platform that empowers English language teachers around the world with high-quality content and interactive courseware. Ellii can be easily integrated into an existing curriculum, or it can serve as the primary source of teaching materials for both in-person and online classes.

New Language Solutions

New Language Solutions is a charity that creates technology-based solutions to assist newcomers and adult learners in achieving their language learning and settlement goals. The organization achieves this through the development of Canadian-centric resources that support online or blended (hybrid) learning with computer-mediated activities, and by training language educators to engage clients using open-source technologies.

Student Ticket Sponsorship

Why Sponsor?

ATESL's annual conference brings together hundreds of ESL educators, administrators, and academics from both adult settings and K-12. We anticipate the conference will draw over 400 delegates from every region of Alberta and from across Canada.

Our lineup of keynotes for this year will attract language professionals from beyond our provincial and national borders as well!

The ESL professionals attending this conference strive to welcome newcomers and help provide them with essential life and language skills needed to successfully adapt to life in Canada.

You can help recognize the dedication of the learners, teachers, and leaders in the ESL field by supporting the ATESL 2025 Conference as a sponsor.

Your organization has the potential to impact thousands as conference participants return to their institutions to share their material and memorable experiences gained at the conference.

Download the ATESL 2025 Sponsorship Package

Sponsorship Levels

ATESL offers a range of sponsorship packages. If you can't find what you're looking for in the packages below, we can design a custom sponsorship package according to your needs.