Canada Towards 2030 Project
The Canada Towards 2030 Project is a non-partisan and non-prescriptive foresight research initiative with multiple events and features. It includes gatherings in at least four Canadian cities (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal) and this website dedicated to sharing long-term research and thinking about Canada’s future.
The Canada of tomorrow may not be the country it is today, and positioning ourselves, our cities and our organisations is key. What will you do in 2030, where will you be? Seventeen years will pass quickly and macro-changes, from globalisation, demographics, deleveraging, climate change, tech revolutions or security events will have reshaped our lives, organisations or communities. Even if impacts will vary according to where we live in Canada or what we each do, they could be transformative for our children and grandchildren.
Mission: to offer a high quality forward-thinking experience to people interested in exploring the future of Canada, increasing their awareness of long-term trends, helping them improve their ability to anticipate change and facilitate the creation of or adaptation to the future they want.
Values: intellectual rigor and honesty; independence (no political views); idea sharing; respect and optimism.
Beliefs: Preparedness, plans and provisions are necessary to create or manage change. Change has consequences, quick or slow, positive or negative, and it’s not because nothing is certain that we should be certain of nothing. Exploring uncertainties and their strategic implications is the first step in managing long-term changes. Change affects prosperity and our well-being, so we have a shared responsibility to respond. Making Canada a great country for future generations requires more long-term thinking and planning, and less short-termism and shortsightedness. We harvest what we plant. Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The Canada Towards 2030 Project is a non-partisan and non-prescriptive foresight research initiative with multiple events and features. It includes gatherings in at least four Canadian cities (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal) and this website dedicated to sharing long-term research and thinking about Canada’s future.
The Canada of tomorrow may not be the country it is today, and positioning ourselves, our cities and our organisations is key. What will you do in 2030, where will you be? Seventeen years will pass quickly and macro-changes, from globalisation, demographics, deleveraging, climate change, tech revolutions or security events will have reshaped our lives, organisations or communities. Even if impacts will vary according to where we live in Canada or what we each do, they could be transformative for our children and grandchildren.
Mission: to offer a high quality forward-thinking experience to people interested in exploring the future of Canada, increasing their awareness of long-term trends, helping them improve their ability to anticipate change and facilitate the creation of or adaptation to the future they want.
Values: intellectual rigor and honesty; independence (no political views); idea sharing; respect and optimism.
Beliefs: Preparedness, plans and provisions are necessary to create or manage change. Change has consequences, quick or slow, positive or negative, and it’s not because nothing is certain that we should be certain of nothing. Exploring uncertainties and their strategic implications is the first step in managing long-term changes. Change affects prosperity and our well-being, so we have a shared responsibility to respond. Making Canada a great country for future generations requires more long-term thinking and planning, and less short-termism and shortsightedness. We harvest what we plant. Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Toronto - 24 juin 2013Agenda
4:30 pm Participant check-in 5:00 pm Canada Towards 2030
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Calgary - 25 juin 2013Agenda
4:30 pm Participant check-in 5:00 pm Canada Towards 2030
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ERIC NOËL
Initiator – Canada Towards 2030 Project
SVP North America, Oxford Analytica
A Canadian macro-change tracker, geo-economist and long-term thinking advocate. Contributed to several foresight exercises in Canada, the US, Europe and Asia. With Oxford Analytica for 20 years. He has been involved in projects in more than 30 countries representing FDI or M&A flows above $30B, providing decision-support research contents to multinationals, governments and international agencies.
Initiator – Canada Towards 2030 Project
SVP North America, Oxford Analytica
A Canadian macro-change tracker, geo-economist and long-term thinking advocate. Contributed to several foresight exercises in Canada, the US, Europe and Asia. With Oxford Analytica for 20 years. He has been involved in projects in more than 30 countries representing FDI or M&A flows above $30B, providing decision-support research contents to multinationals, governments and international agencies.