A conference may last a week, its legacy lasts far longer
When you bring your sector’s international conference to Toronto, its impact reaches well beyond the event itself, advancing research, strengthening professional communities, generating economic impact, expanding access, and leave a lasting legacy.
What a conference creates
The impact of hosting reaches well past the closing session.
Bringing your international conference to Toronto will:
- put your institution on the world stage,
- draw knowledge and investment into the city,
- strengthen your sector at home, in fields from life sciences to technology,
- create opportunities for global collaboration and future research,
- and create something lasting for the community and the generations who follow.
The economic impact
in estimated economic impact has been generated for Toronto and the surrounding region through conferences supported by the program.
international attendees came to Toronto last year.
The research grant: a legacy you can fund
Impact is not only economic. After a bid is won, the Leaders Circle Research Grant supports a project tied to your conference’s focus, up to $50,000, so the conference creates new knowledge that lasts. To date, $345,000 has been awarded across 11 projects, in life sciences, technology, finance, sustainability, and student access. Recent examples:
16th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, the grant funded a lupus treatment database.
25th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
25th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the grant funded registration for students.
24th World Congress of Soil Science
At the 24th World Congress of Soil Science, the grant supported the digitization of the Canadian Soil Thin Section database.
Ambassadors: Prof. Richard Heck, Dr. Jacynthe Masse
Leaders Circle operates within the standards of the international meetings community, and its partners are members of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), the global body for international congresses.
Widening who gets to take part
A legacy is also about access. When Toronto won the 25th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the grant covered registration for 65 students, widening access to a sector that needs more voices in it. Increasingly, international conferences are measured not only by who attends, but by who they open the door to, and the lasting good they create in the community.
In their own words
“The main theme we have for this Parliament is the promise of inclusion and the power of love.”
