The Canadian Circular Economy Summit has experienced remarkable growth, with back-to-back sold-out events in Toronto (2023) and Montreal (2025), doubling attendance within just two years.
CCES 2027 will be led by the Circular Innovation Council and co-hosted in partnership with the City of Edmonton and Alberta Ecotrust Foundation. Hosted in Alberta for the first time, the event will bring together a diverse network of business and industry leaders, policymakers, innovators, entrepreneurs, academics, and researchers who are shaping Canada’s circular future.
Since 2023, the Canadian Circular Economy Summit (CCES) has become Canada’s leading platform to convene and mobilize stakeholders to reshape our current linear economic model into a circular one.
Achieving a circular economy requires coordinated action across governments, businesses, and value chains to align priorities, unlock investment and scale solutions.
Every two years, CCES brings together key decision-makers, innovators, and practitioners to collaborate, share knowledge, and drive collective progress.
Raise the profile of the circular economy and its opportunities to deliver on the current economic, environmental and societal imperatives critical to Canada.
Contribute towards advancing the circular economy innovation agenda, with a focus on industrial competitiveness and economic development opportunities for Canada as part of the net zero future.
Collaborate with others across workstreams and industries to advance action in policy, innovation, procurement, finance, trade, collaboration models, data, and information sharing.
Connect and engage with other delegates through business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-government (B2G) programming to forge strategic partnerships, agreements, pilot projects, and new research.
Facilitate the development of policies and actions necessary for a circular economy to thrive across Canada.
Identify and showcase the broad and wide-raning benefits of the circular economy for Canada, including innovation, productivity, affordability, and economic development benefits.
Highlight existing and leading-edge examples of circular economy in practice, including projects, initiatives, organizations, and best practices.
Bring partners and networks together across material streams and industry sectors through rich, interactive, outcome-focused programming and match-making.
Engage with a broad group of stakeholders beyond the traditional circularity and sustainability communities.
Map progress toward the critical enablers and priority actions required for advancing a circular economy aligned with the Circular Economy Action Plan for Canada.
Engage in business-to-business transactions, inform policy, and create new relationships.
The Circular Economy Action Plan for Canada is a framework to accelerating Canada towards circularity.
Version 2.0 builds upon the inaugural CE Action Plan, providing new insights, addressing new challenges, and honing in on key impact areas.
Hear from thought leaders on the importance of the circular economy, what is needed to accelerate the transition, and how CCES 2025 has made a difference.
CIC Board Director and Guest interviewee Michael Leering shares his views on the successes of CCES 2025. Watch it below.
Check out the 2025 session recordings such as the “Day 1 Closing Plenary: CEO Leadership Panel” led by CIC Executive Director, Jo-Anne St. Godard.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we humbly extend our respect to Indigenous individuals, communities and Elders, past and present, as the traditional custodians of this land.
Circular Innovation Council is a registered charity.
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