Here are more details about the overall conference experience:

• è Day 1 - #Experience (Cluster Immersion Experience) – An opportunity to choose between 11 cluster tours

• Transportation & Logistics
• Emerging Tech
• Food
• Design
• Low-Carbon Building
• Health
• Energy
• Innovation Ecosystem
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Financial Services
• Water

Our choice was the Financial service tour, in line with the main activities of Veritas Cluster.

Walk to OneEleven

Via Toronto’s PATH

OneEleven is a global scaleup hub focused on helping the most promising, high-grow tech startups build self-sustain, high performance business

Jennifer Reynolds, President & CEO of Toronto Finance International

Sal Naran, Co-founder of Borrowell, a start-up that was housed at OneEleven. The conversation was focused on the experience of and processes around collaboration with CIBC, one of Canada’s five largest banks.

Aviva Digital Garage Space

Day 2 - #Engage   @ Rotman School of management. Among the key topics:

• Clusters, strategy, and creative problem solving – Roger Martin, Institute Director , Martin Prosperity Institute
• Designing Collaborative Networks for Innovation panel (featured local and global stories of collaboration and innovation within different networks and ways to design networks with the goal of maximising collaboration to foster innovation) – Rayan Combs, Jeramy Dabor, Lidia Divry, Pia Kuhnult, Merete Daniel Nielsen
• Mobilising Talent Diversity – Zabeen Hirji – Global Advisor Deloitte Canada ( Zabeen explored guiding principles that business should use as they engage in cluster work in order to harness the innovative potential of diversity and drive inclusive growth)
• Mobilising Talent Diversity panel (explored the stories of creating ecosystems that enable diverse talent to collaborate) - Ulla Engelman, JP Glaudu, Susan Windham-Bannister
• Cluster-based strategies for innovation and growth in regions – Mercedes Delgado, Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Delgado’s keynote explored the cluster-based strategies that foster innovation, encourage the formation and survival of start-ups, and influence the location decision of firms

Supercluster in Canada (THE SUPER panel)

• Minister Navdeep Bains (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
• Dr. Christiny Neuy (Manager, microTEC Sudwest eV)
• Werner Pamminger (CEO, Business Upper Austria)
• Peteris Ustubs (European Union Ambassador of Canada)
• Intro remarks: Meric Gertler, President, University of Toronto
• Jan De Silva, President & CEO, Toronto Region Board of Trade

The bold, $950CAD million investment by the Canadian government for 5 superclusters, each made up of related clusters that cut across jurisdiction boundaries, is expected to generate significant economic returns over the next decade. Representatives from (protein industries, advanced manufacturing and digital technology) together with European experts discussed the future of the Canadian cluster landscape and international lessons learned.

Highlights of topics, discuss across Day 3 - #Exchange

• Improving smart specialisation strategies
• Gender diversity & cluster competitiveness
• Smart digital ecosystem through clusters
• Designing collaborative networks to foster trust
• Governance and tech for cluster effectiveness
• Talent attraction
• Raising competitiveness through models of cluster organisations
• Mapping as a tool
• Measuring & mapping clusters
• Regional cluster competitiveness strategies
• Global Matchmaking

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