CSPC 2018

Organized by: Deborah Currie, Director, SHAD Fellow Network

Everybody’s talking about inclusion – and ensuring that Canadians from every sector have opportunities to excel in STEM or now STEAM. That's a good thing. But if inclusion is going to be about more than photo-ops and catchphrases, we have to have real discussions about the challenges of genuine, deep inclusion. Meaningful gender, economic, regional, and philosophical diversity are easy to talk about but tough to achieve in any organization – even in entrepreneurial settings where diversity is widely known to be an engine for creativity. SHAD, Canada’s premier entrepreneurship program empowering high school aged youth to become change-makers, was established in 1980 and is based in Waterloo, Ontario. For this panel discussion SHAD will present four young SHAD Fellows from diverse backgrounds who will address diversity and inclusion from their own perspectives and experiences, and whose stories show why it’s critical to get it right.