Cultivating Ideas
Ideas are fragile as they emerge.
These are a few that we’re working on right now, with the help of our civil society partners and friends.
TEDxCalgary
Since 2009. TEDxCalgary has been sharing ideas that are worth spreading in the local community via the amazing TEDx platform. They’ve featured more than 150 speakers whose ideas have reached hundreds of thousands and growing! Learn more
Resourceful Human Project
We are living in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (V.U.C.A.) times as noted by the U.S. Army War College over thirty years ago. The world was as simple as it was ever going to get yesterday. Today and tomorrow are going to be more complicated, and we need to prepare more resourceful humans for that journey. Learn more
Knowledge District
Inspired by London’s (UK) Knowledge Quarter, we envision a future destination in Calgary and other Canadian cities for knowledge-sharing and knowledge-seeking institutions, organizations, and individual collaborations. Stay tuned for more!
Intentional Canada
The Canada we know today is a unique historical construct, and still very much an evolving work in progress. Taking our country to its next level of achievement, informed and guided by the wisdom of all our many and varied peoples, is the next step in our national journey. Get intentional!
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before (s)he is born.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.