Engage with your fellow colleagues as we explore Calgary’s current path to diversifying its robust economy. Consistently ranked as one of the best places in the world to live, Calgary boasts the highest GDP per capita of major Canadian cities, highest labor force participation, and highest average earnings. The city’s solid economic foundations are setting the stage for the creation of a community of lifelong learning and resilient people with skills needed to adapt to an ever-changing economy.

The theme for IEDC's 2023 Future Forum: Communities in Transition will focus on pursuing economic diversification and opportunity through the lens of economic transformation. Talent, Innovation, and Livability must work together and be interwoven with IDEA, collective action, and shared perspectives, to achieve long-term economic prosperity for all.

JOIN 18 LEADING INTERNATIONAL VOICES FROM THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S COMMONWEALTH STUDY CONFERENCE

The IEDC 2023 Economic Future Forum will be hosting 18 delegates from the Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference (CSC). A panel of delegates, each of whom is a global leader from the business, government, labor, or community-building sectors, will be discussing how we can best work together to achieve the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The panel will also be providing universally applicable strategies and insights from around the world, including India, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Namibia, Botswana, Pakistan, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, and Jamaica.

Join us as we bring together economic development professionals, policymakers, stakeholders, and thought leaders to Canada's third most diverse city to discuss how to address the world's most pressing issues.