Background:

For the first time ever, Canada’s Capital Region is coming together for Ottawa Innovation Week 2025 — a city-wide celebration of bold ideas, brave founders, and breakthrough innovation.

In today’s dynamic geopolitical and economic landscape, we need unity, ambition, and collaborative action now more than ever. This is a movement. And one that belongs to all of us.

Whether you’re scaling a startup, building community, creating culture, or shaping policy — this is your time, and this is your platform. Join us to learn more.

Initiative:

Ottawa Innovation Week (June 9–13, 2025) is a bold new initiative that brings together our community and organizations driving our City forward. From smart mobility and AI to arts, academia, sustainability, and social enterprise, it’s a week-long collision of ideas, industries, and impact.

Ottawa Innovation Week will include a calendar of events showcasing anything and everything from pitch competitions, live demonstrations, interactive art exhibits, hands-on maker labs, and robotic showcases (just to name a few) in boardrooms, studios, streets, labs, restaurants and concert halls. It’s all here!

This is our moment to show the world what we’re made of — together.

Join Us:

Join the Invest Ottawa team and many collaborators on April 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM via Zoom for our second Ottawa Innovation Week 2025 Community Information Session.

Register now to participate!

We look forward to sharing the following helpful information:

• Learn more about the goals and vision for Ottawa Innovation Week
• Explore how you and your organization can get involved
• Access the tools and resources to promote your event, story, or initiative that will take place during this week
• Meet fellow champions of innovation across our region

All Are Welcome:

Ottawa Innovation Week is for everyone. We are committed to building a critical mass of events, voices, and stories that reflect the full diversity of our city — across every sector and community.

We’re calling on all individuals, teams, and organizations who believe in the power of bold ideas, creative collaboration, and inclusive innovation to join us. Whether you’re a founder, artist, researcher, educator, policymaker, student, or citizen — you have a place in this movement.

We need champions. We need allies. We need builders, dreamers, and doers. Real asting impact happens when we come together.

Special Notes:

• This webinar-style event will take place virtually via Zoom. We look forward to sharing a link closer to the session.
• A chat will be available, where you may ask questions in real time throughout. You may also send your questions in advance to [email protected].
• We will publish a recording of the info session on the Invest Ottawa Youtube channel for those who can’t attend.
• This is the second of two Information Sessions we will be hosting for Ottawa Innovation Week. Our first Information Session will take place on Thursday April 24 at 2:00 pm. You are welcome to join the session that works best for your schedule as the content will remain the same.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Ottawa Innovation Week 2025 Information Sessions.