Simon Fraser University
IN-2: Innovation 2

The Community Summit is an annual gathering convened by SFU Public Square, that focuses on a local or international issue of public concern, addressing elements of social, economic and environmental sustainability. The Community Summit creates the space for citizens to come together to jointly research, discuss, identify solutions and take action on emerging and relevant issues. SFU Public Square works collaboratively with community partners from across the region to build upon their work, support their efforts and amplify their reach and impact. The Community Summits consist of a week-long series of diverse activities and events revolving around a core summit theme, and includes thought-provoking speakers, roundtable discussions, idea competitions, artistic presentations, and youth focused programming. The Summit themes to date have been as follows: 2012: Alone Together: Connecting in the City on the issue of civic disconnection and discussed ways of strengthening engagement across community and cultural divides. 2013: Charting BC's Economic Future on exploring, engaging with and generating a vision of British Columbia's economic future. 2014: Innovation: The Shock of the Possible, exploring the opportunities and challenges of innovation. Details of each of the summits can be found on the SFU Public Square website: http://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare/community-summit.html

In addition to the diverse engagement, cross-sectoral connections and ongoing, effective awareness raising and conversations that are fostered by SFU Public Square's Community Summits, documentation of the Summit events are made public on the Public Square website. The 2012 Summit: -"Brought together over 10,000 community participants to tackle the issue of isolation and disconnection in the urban environment": https://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media-releases/2013/sfu-public-square-community-summit-charts-bcs-economic-future.html -Contributed to the creation of the City of Vancouver's Mayor's Engaged City Task Force -Inspired the City of Surrey to hold their first Community Summit in spring 2013. -The objectives and outcomes of the inaugural SFU Public Square Summit are covered in the report Alone Together: Connecting in the City Final Report Other outputs of the summit include: -Mayor’s Roundtable Dialogue Report -A Dialogue With Business Leaders Report -Our Voices: Youth Building A Connected City and can be found here: http://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare/community-summit/archive/2012/outcomes.html In advance of the 2013 Community Summit, 100 conversations on British Columbia's Economic Future were convened across the province, guided by the Charting BC’s Economic Future: 100 Community Conversations Discussion Guide. Outputs of the 2013 Summit include: -Citizens’ Agenda for BC’s Economic Future -2013 Community Summit: Charting BC’s Economic Future Research Findings -Forum on BC’s Economy: 2013 Community Summit -Charting BC’s Economic Future Academic Roundtable -Charting BC’s Economic Future: out Future, Our Voice Discussion Guide and can be found at: http://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare/community-summit/2013summit/materials-outcomes.html The 2014 Summit was held from October 19th-24th. The events can be found here: http://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare/community-summit/2014-summit.html Outputs from these events will be published in the near future.