Welcome to the Canadian Forum for Social Innovation!
The next edition of the Canadian Forum for Social Innovation will be hosted by Dalhousie University in Halifax, 2-4 June 2025.
What is the Canadian Forum for Social Innovation?
Since 2022 the Canadian Forum for Social Innovation is convening stakeholders from higher education, the social sector, municipal, provincial and federal governments and community nonprofits for panels, catalyst roundtables, deliberative dialogues and concertation workshops. Building on emerging consensus and a wealth of additional evidence, and with the support of valued partners, the guidance of its advisory committee, and the stewardship of the Canadian Collaborative of Society, Innovation and Policy @McMaster University, the Canadian Forum for Social Innovation convenes a national dialogue around key issues around social prosperity and wealth-generating innovation.
In 2024, the Canadian Forum for social innovation leveraged prospective co-design and backcasting methodologies in a series of deliberative workshops in Toronto, Ottawa/Wakefield, Montréal, and Calgary, and collected input from 95 key actors to structure the problem, build a vision and fine-tune the milestones proposed to create a roadmap for Canada’s innovation ecosystem.
In June 2024, 125 delegates and participants collaborated to identify priorities, Take ownership of the vision, set priorities, identify actors to be engaged, reflect on the mechanisms necessary to promote concerted action, and initiate the elaboration of an action plan.
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Request an Invitation to the 2025 edition of the Canadian Forum for Social Innovation
Become a Partner
Shape the Vision
Your voice and vision inform the national dialogue and the concerted roadmap for Canada’s social innovation ecosystem. Workshops are structured to give participants the opportunity to define their own role, and to position their organisation at the heart of the concerted research and action plan for Canada’s social innovation strategy.
Grow your Networks
Connect with like-minded innovation leaders, decision-makers and enablers from across the innovation ecosystem and increase the connectivity of your organisation. Benefit from both formal and informal opportunities, in a space dedicated to fostering connections, mutual impact and collective action.
Increase your Impact
Partners are engaged at every step of the process, from setting the agenda to participating in catalyst round-tables before and during the Forum, to providing insight on the concerted research and action plan. Bring your perspectives. Challenge the status quo. Push boundaries and drive meaningful impact.