After a century of robust development of technological and business innovation, plus several decades of cracking the code of social innovation, the time has come to create an integrated innovation system.

Speaking to an over-200-person audience at MaRS Discovery District on November 24, Stephen Huddart, President and CEO of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, challenged the growing contemporary narrative that our future is bleak and looming ahead with daunting uncertainty.

May 27-29, the annual SIX Summer School was held in North America for the first time, bringing nearly 160 leading social innovation thinkers and practitioners, grassroots activists, and policy makers from over 20 countries to Vancouver, BC to explore: How can we increase our impact? Shifting cultures, changing systems and preparing for surprise.