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Learn how collaboration in Canada is shaping the future

Compass To The Future

The world is changing.

The ways we work, travel and interact are being reimagined to fit new routines and meet evolving challenges. As a result, businesses are heading in a new direction too…

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Canadian businesses are charting a course into a new age of industry

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The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed

William Gibson

The Economist, 2003

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Watch: A Medtech Revolution

Home to the second-largest number of biotech firms in the world, Canada is leading the digital transformation of the global healthcare sector.

Watch: Reshaping Finance

Canada is home to a globally competitive finance and insurance sector that is driving innovation and luring top talent from around the world.

Watch: The Future of Food

Canada has emerged as a global meeting centre for the agritech industry, bringing together scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to tackle future food needs.

Watch: Targeted Medicine

Canadian innovation in medical isotopes attracts academia and industry from across the world, as they come together in a hunt for new ways to detect and treat diseases.

Watch: The Blue Economy

Canada’s cross-sector “ocean supercluster” is developing an innovation pipeline to chart out a sustainable path for the blue economy.

Watch: Compass To The Future

A new generation of businesses are focused on cross-sector collaboration to solve global challenges, tapping into Canada's ecosystem of innovation.

A Medtech Revolution


From AI to DNA-based vaccines, Canada is leveraging technology to push new frontiers in medical research.

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Reshaping Finance


Canada is serving as a global gateway for fintech firms looking to grow and reshape financial services.

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The Future of Food


Canada is providing fertile ground for agritech innovation, as experts work to address global food challenges.

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Targeted Medicine


Canada’s hive of innovation in medical isotopes is attracting scientists from around the world.

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The Blue Economy


Canada’s ocean technology research hubs are unlocking the vast potential of the sea.

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Field Studies


Investment and innovation in Canadian agriculture is delivering high yields.

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Makers’ Mark


Canada’s join-the-dots innovation clusters have plotted a manufacturing revolution.

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Event Horizons


Canadian innovation is crossing new boundaries as a technological orthodoxy fades.

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In-Person Innovation


Canada’s Life Sciences industry is a testament to the power of interaction.

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The Ascent of Finance


Cooperation is boosting Canadian money markets.

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People Powered


Innovation pushes Canada down the long road from COP26.

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Toronto

Tony Chahine examines how Toronto’s innovation ecosystem supported the creation of a revolutionary new technology.

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Frontenac Castle in Old Quebec City in the beautiful sunrise light.

Québec City

Benoît Gosselin looks back on the interdisciplinary innovation that gave life to a technological ecosystem in Québec City.

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Dusk time Urban landscape of Canadian Parliament building in downtown Ottawa, capital city of Canada. View overlooking Ottawa river, dividing the city on two Provinces (Ontario and Quebec)

Ottawa

Donna Johnston examines how conferences across Canada have shaped new treatments for childhood cancer.

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This is a shot of a morning of 1st week of 2016 in winter. The sunrise is spectacular along with those high-rises buildings.

Toronto

Chris Labelle looks at the role that events have played in scaling his groundbreaking 3D-printing business beyond Toronto.

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Panorama of Toronto skyline at sunset in Ontario, Canada.

Toronto

Professor Michael Fehlings looks back on a conference in Toronto that changed neurosurgery.

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OTTAWA, ONTARIO / CANADA - AUGUST 06 2017: VIEW AT PARLIAMENT HILLS IN THE MORNING

Ottawa

Michael Tremblay explores the conference shaping the future of autonomous mobility in Ottawa.

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Toronto

Jennifer Reynolds examines why Toronto is shining as a global fintech and innovation hub.

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