True North Rising: TOCW’s Official Kick-off (Opening Ceremony)

​Featuring A full day of bold voices, big ideas, and cross-sector collaboration.

Welcome & Opening Remarks from government leaders, institutional champions, and grassroots voices driving Canada’s climate future

Fireside Chats on the current state of Canadian climate solutions, and what it will take to scale them

Panels: What It Takes, a real-world story of collaboration between startups, corporations, and community

Spotlight Talks on climate innovation, local business leadership, and Indigenous and nonprofit perspectives
Performance: We Create Our Futures, an artistic invocation of what climate leadership looks like in Toronto

​Sector Spotlights:

• ​Clean Tech & Innovation

• ​Investment & Finance

• ​Natural World

• ​Policy & Governance

• ​Energy & Transportation

• ​Agriculture & Food

• ​Built Environment

• ​Arts, Culture & Environmental Justice
  

​Each spotlight features a mix of corporate, grassroots, nonprofit, and government leaders.

Because climate action takes all of us.

We’re launching a week that reflects the best of Canada: creative, diverse, and ready to lead. From policy to poetry, tech to community, this moment marks the start of something impossible to ignore and irresistible to join.

Co-hosted by TOCW, the University of Toronto, and MaRS, this event is more than an opening. It is the dawn of Canada’s global leadership in climate.

Will you say you were there when Toronto took the lead?

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Note: Space is limited. Participants can request access to attend, and approved attendees will be confirmed on September 17.