Hearsay #19 - Powering AI, Pride, Indigenous History, etc.
June 9, 2025
📣 Hearsay is a curated newsletter featuring the best business and policy networking events happening in Toronto.
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June is 🧡 National Indigenous History Month and 🏳️🌈 Pride Month
Dear readers: Summer is a quieter time for business & policy events. We will be ramping down our editions for a couple months. Enjoy the sunshine, and feel free to reach out to share upcoming Fall events with us!
Image Credit: Brooke Bourgeois for The New Yorker
Top Picks
📣 Powering Data Centres at TRBOT (June 16)
Editors’ insights: Unpack one of the biggest challenges of the digital era and network with the biggest players in energy and tech. Check out this exclusive discount code for Hearsay subscribers:
🎟️ 25% ticket discount: POWERAI2025
📣 Pride in 2025 at Canadian Club (June 18)
Editors’ insights: An ideal combo of insights and celebration on a Wednesday evening, with a focus on HIV awareness, and almost half off the ticket price with this exclusive discount for Hearsay subscribers:
🎟️ 43% ticket discount: Pride2025
📣 Indigenous Birch Canoe Teachings at TMU (June 26)
Editors’ insights: An excellent opportunity to learn about Indigenous trade and tradition and hear directly from Todd Labrador, a Mi'kmaq artisan who built the canoe.
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*Free event
💼 Pembina: 5th Annual Retrofit Canada Conference
June 9-10
Conference
Beanfield Centre
💼 * Toronto Metropolitan University: The Exclusion Effect: How the Sciences Discourage Girls & Women & What to Do About It
June 9
Talk: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
35 Gould St
🍽️ C.D. Howe: Fortifying Canada's Borders: Strategy, Security, & Sovereignty
June 10
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
67 Yonge St
🧡 * Toronto Metropolitan University: Full Moon Teachings | National Indigenous Peoples Month
June 10
Event: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
288 Church St E
📖 Rotman: Alex Hutchinson on "The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges"
June 10
Book Launch: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
105 Saint George St
🍽️ C.D. Howe: Michael Lindsay (Interim President and CEO, Metrolinx)
June 11
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
67 Yonge St
🍽️ Canadian Club: Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Private Equity
June 11
Lunch: 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM
Sheraton Centre Toronto
🎟️ Exclusive Ticket Discount: PRIVATEEQUITY30
🍽️ Canadian Club: The Honourable Stephen Lecce
June 12
Lunch: 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM
Marriott Downtown
🍽️ TRBOT: Annual Lunch
June 12
Lunch: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Arcadian Court
🏳️🌈 * University of Toronto: Community Pride
June 12
Event: 4:00 - 9:00 PM
7 Hart House Cir
📣 TRBOT: Tech Growth, Grid Strain: Powering the AI Economy
June 16
Breakfast: 8:00 - 10:00 AM
100 Queens Quay E
🎟️ Exclusive Ticket Discount: POWERAI2025
💼 C.D. Howe: On Thin Ice: Asserting Canada’s Sovereignty in the Arctic
June 17
Event: 5:30 - 8:30 PM
67 Yonge St
💼 TRBOT: Infrastructure Symposium: Delivering What's Next for Toronto
June 18
Symposium: 12:00 - 5:00 PM
100 Queens Quay E
📣 Canadian Club: Pride in 2025: HIV Prevention and Access to Treatments
June 18
Event: 5:30 - 8:00 PM
160 Front St W
🎟️ Exclusive Ticket Discount: Pride2025
🍽️ TABE: Transition to Net Zero: University of Toronto recognized as top university worldwide for second year in a row
June 19
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
150 King St W
🧡 * City of Toronto: Indigenous Arts Festival & Na-Me-Res Pow Wow
June 20-21
Festival
250 Fort York Blvd
💼 Toronto Tech Week
June 23-27
Several Events
Various Locations
💼 BetaKit: BetaKit Town Hall: Most Ambitious | Toronto Tech Week
June 23
Event: 1:00 - 4:00 PM
31 King's College Cir
🍽️ C.D. Howe: Hon. Caroline Mulroney
June 24
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
67 Yonge St
💼 CanREA: Clean Power Finance Canada
June 25
Summit: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
81 Bay St
💼 * DMZ: Desjardins Launchpad for Entrepreneurs 2.0 | Toronto Tech Week
June 25
Event: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
10 Dundas St E
📣 Toronto Metropolitan University: Why is the Birch Bark Canoe Important? | National Indigenous Peoples Month
June 26
Event: 1:00 - 3:00 PM
55 Dundas St W
💼 TRBOT: Leaders in Export Excellence
July 17
Event: 5:00 - 9:00 PM
100 Queens Quay E
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