Congress 2025 - Virtual Platform

By bringing together nearly 7,000 scholars, apprentices, graduate students, policymakers, and community members from across Canada on GBC’s campuses, Congress 2025 will invite the research community to bridge the gap between colleges and universities, and promises to be a catalyst for transformative discourse and collaboration.

This historic convergence will inspire attendees to explore new avenues of interdisciplinary learning, foster meaningful connections, and ignite dialogues that will shape the world of tomorrow.

As the first college to host Congress, George Brown invites researchers, students, educators, policymakers, and the public to reframe what it means to coexist with other humans, the environment, and technology. With an invitation and a challenge, we aim to open a collaborative space that bridges different ways of learning and producing knowledge in order to rethink our roles and responsibilities in these times of climate and humanitarian disasters, ever-evolving technologies, social isolation, dislocation, and increasing polarization.

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George Brown College prepares innovative, adaptable graduates with the skills to thrive in a rapidly changing job market. With three campuses in the downtown Toronto core, the city is our classroom and essential to our delivery of experiential learning, research, and entrepreneurship opportunities. George Brown offers over 200 certificate, diploma and degree programs and 182 continuing education certificates/designations across a wide variety of professions to more than 30,000 full-time students and receives more than 53,900 continuing education registrations annually. We are a leading, publicly accredited college in Canada's economic and cultural hub – Toronto. For over 50 years we have helped students reach their career and personal goals through our industry-informed programming and knowledgeable faculty. Learn more at georgebrown.ca/city.

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is honoured to visit, and learn about, the Indigenous lands across Canada. We acknowledge the diversity of Indigenous peoples from coast to coast to coast, and we extend our respects to all First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples for their valuable contributions, past and present.

George Brown College is located on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and other Indigenous peoples who have lived here over time. We are grateful to share this land as treaty people who learn, work and live in the community with each other.

We also recognize the City of Toronto Land Acknowledgement and other Land Acknowledgements that may apply to members visiting today and participating in Congress.

Explore the Congress 2024 Events Calendar

The Big Thinking series is held throughout Congress and brings together leading scholars and public figures who present forward-thinking research, ideas and solutions to the critical questions and issues of our time. The series is open to all Congress registered attendees and to members of the general public registering with a community pass.

This year’s spectacular lineup includes: