Friday, May 15th, 2026 | 1:00–2:15 PM EST | Online via Zoom | Free and open to all
Coming to the Civil Society Summit on AI in Montreal, May 22nd – 23rd? This is your orientation.
You’ll get a sense of who else is in the room, what the summit is designed to build, and a chance to shape the agenda before it’s set. If you’re not attending the Summit, you’re still welcome, and you might find yourself wanting to be.
The Summit brings together people working across environmental advocacy, labour organizing, Indigenous rights, legal practice, journalism, research, and more — many of whom have never been in the same room.
We want to get a clearer picture of what we’re each carrying into it: where there’s shared ground, where there’s tension, and what needs to be named before the work begins. We might meet one another at the Summit not with perfect clarity, but with a clear vision of where we are going.
This is free and open to anyone who cares about the unchecked expansion of AI and its consequences for our communities, our ecosystems, and our democratic way of life.
Civil society has a role to play in shaping what comes next, and that will require us to find each other across sectors and build something that lasts beyond two days. This session is where that starts.
We’ll move through a guided inquiry together — get oriented, name what brought us here, and begin to understand who else is organizing on this terrain and why. Facilitators will introduce themselves and the arc of the Summit. This will be a space to ask questions and connect.
Inspired by the Clearing the Field framework developed by the Meta-Relationality Institute.
Go to AIcivilsociety.ca to register for the Summit!
Membership builds our movement
Become a member of the Council of Canadians for as low as 1$/year
