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Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023

Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023 (March 10-12)

Calling change makers, developers, designers, engineers, strategists, social innovators, and all enthusiasts to design impactful solutions for grand challenges: March 10-12th!

About this event

Do you have a passion for solving social challenges to improve lives? Do you want to be part of a select group of committed people who will spend a weekend designing and hacking innovative solutions to challenges that can help Canada contribute to achieving Global Goals?

Join us for the #GlobalGoalsJamCanada Winter 2022 on March 10-12th — let’s jam for a better planet and win awards worth $4500*!

To register for The Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023 (March 10-12), click here

The Global Goals Jam Canada Fall 2022 program is organized by the SDG Innovation Lab, Centre of Entrepreneurship, Centennial College with OSPE and Canadian Partners, and the support from UNDP and Digital Society School Amsterdam. It is a weekend program to contribute to Global Goals by collaborating and building solutions to pressing social or business challenges and invoking the participation and engagement of students, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, creative thinkers, and the public community. The program uses a design process and lean methodology to guide participants ensuring that any potential solutions actually solve the problem at hand.

This 2 ½-day program was developed to engage participating designers, engineers, developers, strategists, and all community members to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals by creating solutions with long-term impact.

Participants will work on their problems and solutions with mentor support addressing the themes using design thinking and lean methodology. Participants work towards solutions resulting in presentation and pitching to a panel of eminent judges for a chance to win awards*. During the weekend while teams are working, they are extensively mentored by subject matter, design thinking, business model, and pitching experts.

You are invited to jam for a better Canada and a better world! Get to know design thinking and lean methodology in practice. Virtually meet like-minded people to develop cool solutions for global problems.

The Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2022 is based on two selected Global Themes with three topics each. As part of registration, you will be asked to choose one of the following Themes/Topics:

Theme #1: Designing a Thriving Planet for All

Solutions to address issues contributing to climate change

1a) Solutions to develop sustainable and affordable energy

1b) Solutions to develop sustainable mobility/transportation

1c) Solutions to ensure sustainable tourism

Theme #2: Designing Equitable Communities for All

Solutions contributing to healthy and thriving communities

1a) Solutions to ensure the health and well-being for all age

1b) Solutions to develop equitable social infrastructure

1c) Solutions to ensure food security and eliminate food waste

To collaborate, we need to engage in a way that goes beyond talking, towards creating a space for people from all backgrounds to bring in their local knowledge, ensuring a bottom-up, grassroots approach.

More than just a weekend, it is the beginning of a community to create a real impact.

*Note: Awards payable only in Canada

Calling community leader volunteers!

Do you have knowledge and experience in building social enterprises? It takes many community leaders to put together an event like this. We also invite facilitators or volunteer experts to join us by sharing their experiences and expertise. If you are interested, kindly RSVP HERE.

To register for The Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023 (March 10-12), click here

*Note: Awards payable only in Canada

It takes many community leaders to put together an event like this. We invite you to join us by sharing your experience and expertise as a facilitator, or volunteer expert. Kindly RSVP here.

Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023 Program Details

The Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023 is based on selected Global Themes/Topics as below. The participants are required to choose one topic of their interest. (Details Coming Soon)

Themes & Topics

Our Judges

Our Speakers

Our Organizers

Our Youth Organizers

Our Mentors

Our Community Partners

SDG Innovation Lab- Sustainability Institute

The SDG Innovation Lab is an annual experiential program to equip individuals with knowledge, skills, motivation, and action plans to contribute toward the achievement of SDG solutions through social entrepreneurship.

This is an initiative to engage the youth, young professionals, and the community as an agent of change to bring about socio-economic and environmental impact through SDG-driven solutions with the use of an entrepreneurial mindset, new business models, and disruptive technologies. This provides participants with lifelong learning & opportunities to implement their own social entrepreneurship initiatives addressing the most pressing challenges of humanity.

By engaging students in the highly agile experiential, entrepreneurial process and cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset in students, we can empower and engage them to remain adaptable when facing obstacles, persist through failure, communicate better, and become problem-solvers, opportunity finders, and next-generation innovators. This lifelong learning enables them to achieve their personal and career goals.

The SDG Innovation Lab consists of five experiential modules providing comprehensive experiential programming:

Module 1: SDG Training Bootcamp
Presentations on SDGs and their implementation by experts followed by an introduction to the design thinking process.

Module 2: Global Goals (SDG) Challenge
An intense, hands-on, team-oriented, and thoughtfully mentored program to design, build, and pitch strategies for an originally- or collaboratively-hatched idea focusing on Global Goals/SDGs.

Module 3: Tech for SDG Bootcamp/Hackathon
An intense, hands-on, team-oriented, and thoughtfully mentored program to design, build, and pitch strategies for an originally- or collaboratively hatched technology idea focusing on Global Goals/SDGs.

Module 4: Build Your Venture (Incubation Experience)
A 10- to 12-week intense, team-oriented, and thoughtfully mentored program to build solutions to pressing social or business challenges using Lean LaunchPad methodology developed by Steve Blank in 2011 and introduced at Stanford University, Columbia Business School, and UC Berkeley, a method for teaching entrepreneurship that combines experiential learning with the three building blocks of a successful lean startup: Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, Blank’s customer development model and agile engineering.

Module 5: Make Your Venture Investment-ready
A mentoring, advisory, and lending program for underserved social enterprises with growth potential. Support and partnerships are planned to operationalize it