Workforce Summit 2024: Participants

Participating organizations

On October 16, Workforce Summit 2024 brought together many experts and senior leaders from across a wide range of sectors to discuss how to foster a modern, inclusive, and productive labour market for the 21st century. A list of organizations that participated can be found below.

Thank you to all who attended. Your active participation contributed to cross sectoral dialogue that will inform priority areas for action.

Educational and training institutions

• ACCES Employment
• Achev
• Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences
• Canadian Career Development Foundation
• Canadian Institute for Energy Training
• Colleges and Institutes Canada
• Hautes études commerciales de Montréal
• Labour Education Centre
• NPower Canada
• Palette Skills
• Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec
• Riipen
• Skills for Change
• SkillPlan
• Southeast Regional Service Commission
• St. John Learning Exchange
• Polytechnique Montréal
• Universities Canada
• University of Saskatchewan
• WCG Services
• Workplace Education Manitoba

Employers and business/industry associations

• Aerospace Industries Association of Canada
• Alliance de l'industrie touristique du Québec
• Amazon Web Services
• Association de la construction du Québec
• Better Way Alliance
• BioTalent Canada
• BuildForce Canada
• Business Council of Alberta
• Canada Green Building Council
• Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council
• Canadian Bar Association
• Canadian Bankers Association
• Canadian Chamber of Commerce
• Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace
• Canadian Council for Indigenous Business
• Canadian Federation of Agriculture
• Canadian Federation of Independent Business
• Canadian Home Builders Association
• Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters
• Canadian Meat Council
• Canadian National Millers Association
• Canadian Renewable Energy Association
• Canadian Skills Training and Employment Coalition
• Carroll & Co Consulting Inc.
• Challenge Factory
• Conseil de la transformation alimentaire du Québec
• Conseillers en ressources humaines agréés Canada
• Conseil du patronat du Québec
• Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada
• Environmental Careers Organization of Canada
• Electric Mobility Canada
• Electricity Human Resources Canada
• Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium
• Fable
• Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec
• Food and Beverage Canada
• Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada
• Food Processing Skills Canada
• Forest Products Association of Canada
• Forum for International Trade Training
• Fruit & Vegetable Growers of Canada
• Hotel Association of Canada
• Patrick Dion Consulting Inc.
• Polytechnics Canada
• Protexxa
• Restaurants Canada
• Retail Council of Canada
• Rio Tinto
• Regroupement des jeunes chambres de commerce du Québec
• SmartICE
• Space Canada
• techNL
• Tourism HR Canada
• Tourism Industry Association of Canada
• Trucking HR Canada

Government, international and other organisations

• Canada Employment Insurance Commission
• Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship
• Employment and Social Development Canada
• Finance Canada
• Halifax Partnership
• Health Workforce Canada
• Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
• Labour Market Information Council
• Natural Resources Canada
• Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen), Canada's Global Innovation Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Prime Minister's Youth Council
• Senate of Canada
• Statistics Canada
• United States Department of Labor
• Youth Employment Services Foundation

Indigenous governments and organizations

• Aboriginal Community Career Community Employment Society
• Aboriginal Labour Force Development Circle
• Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development
• Community Futures Treaty Seven
• Gabriel Dumont Institute
• Indigenous Institutes Consortium
• Indigenous Youth Roots
• Indspire
• Manitoba Métis Federation
• Métis National Council
• National Association of Friendship Centres
• Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada

Think tanks and research institutes

• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
• Atkinson Foundation
• Blue Green Canada
• Blueprint ADE
• Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence
• Canadian Women's Foundation
• The Dais - Toronto Metropolitan University
• Diversity Institute - Toronto Metropolitan University
• Future Skills Centre
• Information and Communications Technology Council
• Institut du Québec
• Institute for Research on Public Policy
• Institute for Work & Health / Inclusive Design for Employment Access
• Magnet - Toronto Metropolitan University
• National Institute on Ageing - Toronto Metropolitan University
• Pembina Institute

Non-profits and community organizations

• AXTRA, Alliance des centres-conseils en emploi
• Business + Higher Education Roundtable
• Canadian Apprenticeship Forum
• Canadian Association for Supported Employment
• Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work
• Carrefour Nunavut
• CERIC, formerly the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling
• Community Economic Development Employability Corporation
• Conseil de développement économique des municipalités bilingues du Manitoba
• Consortium of English-language CEGEPs, Colleges and Universities of Quebec
• Écotech Québec
• First Work
• Futurpreneur Canada
• Futureworx Society
• Inclusion Canada
• Imagine Canada
• Immigrant Employment Council of BC
• Iron and Earth
• The King's Trust Canada
• Parallèle Alberta
• Pathways to Education Canada
• Pride at Work Canada
• Provincial Employment Roundtable
• Regional Development Network
• Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité
• Réseau pour le développement de l'alphabétisme et des compétences
• Society for Canadian Women in Science & Technology
• Students Commission of Canada
• Student Energy
• Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council
• United Way Canada
• World Education Services
• YMCA Canada

Labour organizations

• Canada's Building Trade Unions
• Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion
• Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
• Canadian Labour Congress
• Canadian Union of Public Employees
• Centrale des syndicats démocratiques
• Centrale des syndicats du Québec
• Confédération des syndicats nationaux
• Confederation of Canadian Unions
• Conseil national des chômeurs et chômeuses
• Conseil provincial (International)
• Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Canada
• International Union of Operating Engineers
• National Union of Public and General Employees
• Power Workers' Union
• Service Employees International Union
• Society of United Professionals
• Syndicat québécois de la construction
• Unifor
• Union des producteurs agricoles
• United Steelworkers
• Yukon Federation of Labour