Making Change Summit
Hosted by the Schulich School of Engineering
Making Change Summit
We warmly welcome you to attend our second annual Making Change Summit. This year's theme is Agile Minds, Brave Hearts: Engineering a Just Future.
This engaging event will bring together academics, students, and emerging engineering professions to learn, collaborate, and drive meaningful conversations around change. It will feature multiple keynotes, interactive workshops, and thought-provoking seminars addressing pressing global challenges around sustainability, education, and the future of technology.
Participants will have the opportunity to develop practical skills for creating impactful solutions, with sessions that reflect our deep commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (EDIA) through innovative approaches and courageous thinking.
We hope you leave the summit feeling inspired, empowered, and ready to drive meaningful change in your community.
Event details
Dates: May 28-29, 2025
Location: ENG 207 at SSE
Stay tuned for registation details!
Call for participation
Do you have an EDIA initiative or research work that you’d like to share? We want to hear from you! Participants may choose to submit a digital poster or participate in a panel on a variety of topics.
The call for submissions is now closed, but attendees will have the opportunity to share their own initiatives and ideas during a lightning showcase session.
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Learn more about the Schulich School of Engineering
The Schulich School of Engineering is passionate about equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, which is why EDIA is a pillar of focus in our strategic plan.
Engineers have many opportunities to make significant positive changes in our communities, but the world also faces complex challenges. Access to reliable and trusted information, secure and affordable energy, clean water and climate resiliency are just a few of the issues our society is up against. These are also areas where engineering know-how and problem-solving will make a difference. Our students, alumni, staff and faculty members continue to innovate and have a meaningful and positive impact in our community. From new programs to creative makerspaces, from transdisciplinary research to technological advances, we celebrate our faculty momentum in educating the engineers of the future.
We are committed to weaving ways of being, ways of knowing, ways of connecting and ways of doing into our learning and research through Indigenous engagement and reconciliation. We are driven to be a national role model in fostering a community through equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. We are preparing tomorrow’s changemakers by providing unique experiences inside and outside of the classroom. We are inspired by the significance that will come from elevating our research and innovation impact.