The City of Toronto is proud to welcome more than 40,000 innovators, tech professionals and visitors from around the world for the 2023 Collision conference, North America’s fastest-growing technology conference and the biggest Collision conference to date. The conference starts today and runs through Thursday, June 29, at the Enercare Centre at Exhibition Place.
The Toronto Pavilion at Collision will also open today. Councillor Shelley Carroll (Don Valley North), Chair of the Economic and Community Development Committee, will be joined by partners and tech experts in attendance to foster new opportunities for businesses in Toronto. At the Pavilion, conference attendees can learn about Toronto’s dynamic innovation ecosystem and the various organizations, assets and resources available in the Toronto region to assist technology firms to form, scale and prosper.
This major international conference continues to help Toronto attract foreign direct investment to Canada through company expansions and relocations, promote international trade and partnerships with Canadian companies, entice venture capital investment in Canadian companies, and promote the Toronto and Canadian innovation ecosystems. The 2022 Collision conference in Toronto attracted 35,000 attendees and generated $43 million in direct spending and $68 million in economic impact, including $1.7 million in municipal tax revenue, $5.7 million in provincial tax revenue and $4.3 million in federal tax revenue.
Collision brings together people and companies from the global technology industry. The conference is part of a series of technology conferences that include Web Summit in Europe and Rio de Janeiro. The largest Collision to date, the conference will attract more than 700 speakers, 2,000 start-ups, 1,250 journalists, 950 investors and 100 unicorn companies from 140 countries, and over 120 trade delegations.
The tech sector in Toronto and the surrounding region is fueled by 300,000 skilled workers in Toronto, with over 500,000 additional workers in non-tech occupations within the tech sector, such as sales, administration, business operations, finance and marketing. Collision allows the city to highlight further the growing technology and innovation sector in Toronto and the deep pool of diverse tech professionals to thousands of people worldwide.
The City partnered with Destination Toronto and Exhibition Place to bring this sought-after conference to Toronto, which first hosted Collision in 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was cancelled in 2020 and held virtually in 2021 before returning in person in 2022. Last week the City announced that Collision would return to Toronto in 2024 for a fourth year.
More information about Collision is available at www.collisionconf.com.
Toronto is home to more than three million people whose diversity and experiences make this great city Canada’s leading economic engine and one of the world’s most diverse and livable cities. As the fourth largest city in North America, Toronto is a global leader in technology, finance, film, music, culture and innovation, and consistently places at the top of international rankings due to investments championed by its government, residents and businesses. For more information visit the City’s website or follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.