Winnipeg, Manitoba
November 18–20, 2015
SPONSORSHIP GUIDE
Our Goal
To provide a unique,
first of its kind,
national-level social
innovation summit
for Aboriginal people.
Introduction
In the autumn of 2015, the National Association of
Friendship Centres (NAFC) will organize and host a
unique Indigenous Innovation Summit in Winnipeg
aimed at unlocking new ideas and approaches to
address some common challenges.
external shareholders. Social enterprises
can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit,
and may take the form of a co-operative,
mutual organization, a disregarded entity,
a social business, or a charity organization.
Partners
Many commercial enterprises would consider
themselves to have social objectives, but
commitment to these objectives is motivated
by the perception that such commitment will
ultimately make the enterprise more financially
valuable. Social enterprises differ in that,
inversely, they do not aim to offer any benefit
to their investors, except where they believe that
doing so will ultimately further their capacity
to realize their social and environmental goals.
The Summit has emerged through a partnership
between the NAFC and the J.W. McConnell Family
Foundation with the Circle on Philanthropy
and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada playing a key
convening and co-development role.
Beyond these three key partners, the Summit will
involve other strategic partners operating in the
social innovation field. Identified to date are:
• Canadians for a New Partnership
• The Government of Canada
• The Government of Manitoba (TBD)
• Winnipeg Boldness Project
Why Host a Summit Designed
Specifically for Aboriginal People?
What is Social Innovation?
Aboriginal people constitute one of Canada’s
youngest (increasingly urban) and rapidly
growing demographics. There is a great appetite
for change. There also exists within this national
community a tremendous degree of creativity,
energy and knowledge that if tapped would
unlock new ideas and new thinking with
tremendous implications.
Social innovation is the creation, development,
adoption, and integration of new concepts and
practices that put people and communities first.
Social innovations seek to resolve existing social,
cultural, economic, and environmental challenges.
Like never before, Canada’s Aboriginal population
are technologically savvy and socially engaged
both online and offline. This represents a huge
opportunity for communication, collective action
and mobilization.
Put simply, a social innovation is an idea that works
toward increasing the public good. Some social
innovations involve systems-changing to alter
the perceptions, behaviours, and structures that
previously gave rise to challenges.
To date, there has been no national level summit
like this in Canada, especially one designed
specifically for the purposes of network and
partnership building, inclusive of all ideas.
The Summit will seek to bring together public,
private and not for profit actors. It will also invite
participants from Canada’s creative communities.
The Summit will continue to reach out to other
sectors and communities to contribute their
expertise and experience.
Social innovation can come from individuals, groups
or organizations. Increasingly, they are happening
in the spaces between these three sectors as
perspectives collide to spark new ways of thinking.
What is Social Enterprise?
Social enterprise refers to an organization that
applies commercial strategies to maximize
improvements in human and environmental
well-being, rather than maximizing profits for
Creating a Summit with “FieldBuilding” Intention
The very structure of the conference will be
innovative. To this extent, the Summit itself
will take on a unique, participatory format.
The Indigenous Innovation Summit would build on
the incredible work done at the recent CKX Summit
in Toronto in the area of “field-building”.
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to accommodate learning at all levels. The Summit
will help to connect fragmented players in the
social enterprise space, strengthening existing
networks and creating new long-lasting networks,
ultimately fostering an organized industry around
Indigenous social innovation.
The Summit would help the new “field” to
cooperate more effectively and efficiently,
teasing out best practices, improving outcomes
and working together across the emerging area
of social enterprise.
The Summit will feature three unique streams:
1. Emerging Knowledge in Social Enterprise: Suitable for all level of participants (geared towards beginners/intermediate learners)
2. Integrating and adopting Social Enterprise Culture: Suitable for all level of intermediate learners
The CKX team reported that:
“As we reflect on the summit and the journey that
got us there, “field building” is what CKX was
and is all about. Creating and holding a space for
community organizations, academic and research
institutions, governments, funders and grant
makers, and engaged citizens to come together in
the spirit of collaboration and openness.”
This idea of “field-building” is crucial to
success of social innovation and enterprise in
urban Aboriginal communities. Using a series
of workshops, conversations, jam sessions and
open spaces the Summit team would create
an innovative and responsive schedule for
approximately 300 participants. It is designed
3. Creating New Networks: Suitable for all level of advanced learners
Potential Speakers
Speakers will be finalized in the coming
months. The types of speakers will be individuals
with an exciting story and/or knowledge to share.
This would include leaders in social innovation,
representatives of the NAFC, activists,
academics/research, political figures (past
and present), youth leaders, leaders in technology
and the digital space, business strategists,
entrepreneurs, artists and representatives of the
news media (domestic and international), culture
jammers, hackers, men and women who “think
outside of the box” and the “disruptive”.
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Key Dates
Format
November 18
evening welcome reception at the WAG
The Summit will seek to develop demonstrable
new enterprises, connections and collaborations.
Formatting will:
November 19
morning and afternoon programming
(specifics forthcoming)
November 19
evening reception at CMHR
November 20
morning and afternoon programming
(specifics forthcoming)
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Encourage interaction and networking
Enable “field building”
Seek to overcome communications, cultural, economic and geographic hurdles
Facilitate new partnerships, connecting supply and demand in a variety of fields
Use the latest in social media
and digital integrations
Be truly innovative in both design
and programming
Primary Venue
Programming
Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)
We have moved from a world of Infotainment
and Edutainment to one of crowdsourced
Idea-tainment. In other words, we have moved
from a world of Monologues to Dialogues. This
event is designed to embrace these changes
by way of its venue, format and programming,
harnessing new possibilities in technology to
|foster deeper engagement.
The WAG is an unconventional, adaptable space
with many floors and rooms of various sizes.
It has a beautiful auditorium perfect for lecture
style or TED Talk style events.
Secondary Venue
Canadian Museum of Human Rights
Thursday Evening Cocktail Party
Canadian Museum of Human Rights is a
downtown and historically significant location.
Exhibits can be made available to participants and
a discounted ticket can be provided for individuals
interested in visits the following day.
- with Exclusive VIP/Sponsorship Reception
This is an exclusive and very special cocktail
event for dignitaries and sponsors. It features
a stunning view of the Museum and overlooks
the cocktail reception area “Garden of
Contemplation”. Attendees can wander
through the museum afterward.
Since this is a Social Enterprise/Social Innovation
event, these principles must be reflected in the
programming. There are number of ways to
achieve this by adopting new approaches to
knowledge transference and collaboration. Content
is increasingly user-generated both online and now
offline through new experiential and participatory
event formats. In other words, we have too much
information and not enough time to digest it.
Today events have to be able to crunch,
disseminate and present several new and fresh
ideas in smaller and smaller packages of time. The
Summit will seek to accommodate more 2-way
conversations, feedback and Q & A sessions
to leverage more value from our audiences,
attendees and clientele.
Certain formats allow for a greater volume of
grassroots actors and local level social innovators
to be included and to share their knowledge.
Our Summit will be as inclusive as possible,
strengthening our event and better achieving
our stated goals.
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INDIGENOUS INNOVATION
SUMMIT SCHEDULE
NOVEMBER 18–20, 2015
ECKHARDT HALL
MURIEL RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM
PENTHOUSE
LECTURE ROOM
Beginner Sessions
Intermediate Sessions
Advanced Sessions
Solution labs
9 AM
10 AM
11 AM
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
3 PM
4 PM
5 PM
ALL DAY
WELCOME
SPEAKER
SPEAKER
SPEAKER
COLLABORATION CONTACT
SPEAKER
SPEAKER
LUNCH
SPEAKER
SPEAKER
SPEAKER
KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ
SPEAKER
SPEAKER
GUIDED NETWORKS
MAIN SPEAKERS
SPEAKER
The Winnipeg Boldness
Project is a new initiative
in Winnipeg’s North End
community working to
improve outcomes for
children in Point Douglas.
Using a community
action research process,
the Winnipeg Boldness
Project capitalizes on
existing community
knowledge in the North
End to tailor strategies
that work for the area.
Together with The
Winnipeg Boldness
Project, our Summit
will feature an onsite
Solutions Lab. This is
a two-day interactive
session and conversation
that will tap Summit
participants’ knowledge
and skills to provide real
feedback to an existing
real world challenge
facing the community.
Participants will apply
tools and techniques
from various fields like
social innovation, design
thinking, change management and social
movement theory to
come up with remedy
to challenge outlined by
the project coordinators.
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Potential Formats
Pecha Kucha | Ignite Talks
Knowledge Cafes | World Cafes
From the Japanese for “Chatter” or ” Chit chat”,
these are now familiar to many in design-based
or creative industry events. They involve a series
of short 5 minute stand up talks, usually 8-15
sessions in total. These may or may not contain
multi-media presentations. Some events restrict
presentations to “20 images in 20 seconds”.
Presenters talk about their passions, brave new
ideas or news ways of problem-solving.
A workshop styled event format that kicks off
with a general keynote address event. A facilitator
provides open ended questions based on a predetermined topic or puts forward a problem that
needs solving. The group gets into small round
table groups, discusses, digests the problem and
submits feedback for the larger group at the end
of the round table pod sessions. Conversation and
participation are key to the process.
Lightning Talks | Data Blitz
Crowd Sourced Installations
A fast succession of 1-10 minute talks with
no multimedia.
The visual arts world is engaging more festival goers
and members of its community with crowd sourced
installations that get centre stage display rights
during the event. This brings a sense of ownership
to all contributors who are bound to spread the
word virally and attend to view the end result.
Fishbowl Conversations | Unpanel
A concentric circular arrangement of seats whereby
an inner ring of people discusses a topic. They are
surrounded by a larger circle of audience members
who may just observe or dip into the debate by
taking turns sitting in the inner active ring in order
to gain speaking rights.
Crowdsourcing ideas with a hashtag
Displaying tweets and ideas on the day via
multimedia as a backdrop to the event. These
crowd-sourced ideas are put into a Pinterest board
pre-event, turning this into a large scale visual
backdrop at the event. This is a real world display
wall or slideshow.
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Sponsor Opportunities
Presenting Sponsor - $100K
Delegation Sponsors - $20K
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One of our goals is to create lasting partnerships
between members to increase access, and develop
new relationships and networks with a community
of professionals, policy makers, executives,
investors, entrepreneurs and thought leaders.
We want your team there!
Ideally a three year commitment
for title sponsorship of the event
6 tickets to the event
Exclusive invitation to VIP reception
at museum (private cocktail reception
with special guests)
Opportunity to make opening remarks from
the podium at event as presenting sponsor
Ongoing special recognition from emcee
Premier logo recognition at event, in
sponsorship material, newspaper ad
and event website
WAG Venue Sponsor - $50K
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Naming rights to major areas / workshop spaces within the venues
4 tickets to the event
Exclusive invitation to VIP reception at museum (private cocktail reception
with special guests)
Premier logo recognition at event,
in sponsorship material, newspaper ad
and event website
Technology Sponsor - $25K
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Logo rights to the key technology installations
4 tickets to the event
Exclusive invitation to VIP reception
at museum (private cocktail reception
with special guests)
Recognition from the podium
Premier logo recognition at event,
in sponsorship material, newspaper ad
and event website
Advantages include:
• Sponsor a delegation of five participants from your organization (or firm) to share
their ideas on a national stage
• Logo recognition in marketing materials,
newspaper and web advertisements
• Recognition from the podium
• 5 tickets the event, plus discounted tickets
for additional guests
• Option to host either a branded Knowledge
Cafe or Lightening Talk where your
organization becomes the focus of
the Summit
Sponsor - $10K
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2 tickets to the event
Exclusive invitation to VIP reception at
Museum (private cocktail reception with
special guests)
Logo recognition at event, in sponsorship
material, newspaper ad and event website
Recognition from podium
Friend of the Conference - $5K
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2 tickets to the event
Recognition from podium
Logo recognition at event, in sponsorship
material, newspaper ad and event website
Keynote Speaker or CMHR Cocktail
Reception Sponsor - $25K
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Naming rights to the keynote presentation
or cocktail event
Exclusive invitation to VIP reception at
museum (private cocktail reception with special guests with photo opportunity)
Opportunity to make remarks at cocktail
reception
Premier logo recognition at event,
in sponsorship material, newspaper ad
and event website
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