Convening and Connecting

Policy Ready hosts and co-convenes various events to spark conversations and create spaces for research and practice communities to connect. These events range from applied workshops, hosting lectures and talks, to participation in international conferences and symposiums. We are always exploring partners and ideas for events.

Some of our recent and planned events are below

Prototyping for Policy (June 2026)

This curated convening brought together policy practitioners from a range of domains to explore prototyping for policy. It saw conversations on why and how prototyping occur, and explored the main barriers and enablers to prototyping to improve policy processes and outcomes

Policy Innovation (2025)

Two convenings with a mix of senior and junior officials in Ottawa took a deep dive into all things policy innovation. In candid exchanges the past, present, and future of policy innovation in Canada were explored leading to two blog posts in the policymaking today series.

Creativity and Policymaking (June 2024)

Building on the success of our earlier dialogue on ‘what is policymaking today’ we will try out a small group dialogue technique developed by Politics for Tomorrow. Participants will be guided through the approach, and invited to share an experience with policymaking. We will then develop storyboards, to explore where creativity shows up, or may be possible in policymaking. The session will close with a large group discussion and share back.

Digital Disruptions and Policy Making Workshop (March 2019)
A full day academic workshop that featured six scholarly papers on a range of topics linked to disruption. From social media use by public servants, to public opinion of government digital competency, to management and policy making practices in the digital era

Training Public Servants for Today’s Policy Landscape (May 2019)

This first of its kind workshop brings together public and non-government sector trainers who are engaged in helping government build capacity and delivery training. Representatives from the Government of Canada, Ontario, and City of Toronto will be joined by private and non-governmental organizations to share best practices, discuss trends and training needs, and to share case studies.

Defining and Measuring the Impact of “Digital Transformation” on Policy making (June 2019). This International Public Policy Association Conference panel integrates current enthusiasm for digital era governance with established literature on policy process theory, policy work and policy capacity. Leading scholars will present empirical and theoretical work examining how we understand and measure the impact of ‘digital transformation’ on policy making.