Media Advisory - Leaders to tackle key urban challenges at Canvas, CivicAction's 2019 Summit
TORONTO, April 25, 2019 /CNW/ - Five hundred of the Greater Toronto Region's most creative civic minds will gather at Canvas, CivicAction's 2019 Summit, next Monday, April 29 at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).
Canvas will convene senior and emerging leaders from all sectors, communities and experiences to roll-up their sleeves and generate an action plan for five pressing challenges that affect the region's prosperity and quality of life:
- Preparing for the future of work;
- Unlocking inclusive leadership;
- Preventing sex trafficking;
- Tackling housing affordability; and
- Supporting resilience to extreme weather.
Come hear from and speak to experts on these topics, as well as people with unique lived experience, and see CivicAction crowdsource solutions.
Every resident in the region can participate in the day thanks to a facilitated livestream focusing on housing affordability, and engagement through social media using #CanvasGTHA. A link to the livestream will be published on CivicAction's website the morning of the event.
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Monday, April 29, 2019 |
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8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; program begins at 9:00 a.m. |
Interview opportunities throughout the day. |
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Click here for a full event agenda and list of speakers. |
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Location: |
Art Gallery of Ontario |
317 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON, M5T1G4 |
Our thanks to Cision for sponsoring this announcement.
CivicAction would like to acknowledge all Canvas – Summit 2019 Event Partners for their support. A special thank you to our Catalyst Partner Deloitte; our Presenting Partner TD Bank Group; Summit Champions Royal Bank of Canada and Scotiabank; Summit Leaders Intact Financial Corporation, LiUNA, Rogers Communications Inc. and Toronto Pearson International Airport; and our Media Partners Toronto Star and Toronto Life; and pro-bono partner Edelman.
About CivicAction: Complex challenges need an all hands on deck approach, and collective impact is what CivicAction does best. As a premier civic engagement organization in Canada CivicAction has nearly two decades of experience creating and implementing effective solutions to the most pressing challenges in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and beyond. Every four years CivicAction holds a Summit to identify which issues are keeping the region up at night and then leverages partnerships across sectors to create initiatives that transform our region.
Out of 2015's Summit, Better City Bootcamp, CivicAction launched major initiatives like MindsMatter and HireNext that encouraged employers to tack action on workplace mental health and better hiring practices for young diverse talent. To find out more visit civicaction.ca or follow @CivicActionGTHA.
Building on a decade of high-impact and award-winning leadership programming, CivicAction launched the CivicAction Leadership Foundation to further elevate and catalyze our region's leadership potential. With a focus on advancing education, the Foundation harnesses the power of diverse leaders and empowers and activates all voices to influence and shape our region. For more information visit leadership.civicaction.ca.
SOURCE CivicAction
please contact: Jeff Junke, Communications Manager, CivicAction, [email protected], 416-309-4480 x 533, C: 647-471-9957
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