Our goal is to create A Smart City For Everybody. We believe that the answers to making our city better come from all of us working together. We invite you to join us in exploring ways we can make Mississauga's municipal government more accessible and inclusive for all of our citizens through a creative and fun idea jam*.

There are two parts to the event:

Accessibility & Inclusion Talks - These talks will provide an overview of cutting edge technologies available to aid with Accessibility & Inclusion, and will also provide information on the City's of Mississauga's current initiatives in regards to these issues. These talks are open to the public and everyone is welcome.

Idea Jam - The Idea Jam is when we get down to work. We are looking for creative, innovative and implementable ideas using technology to help ensure that Mississauga feels like a welcoming, safe, efficient, innovative and creative urban city. Technology can help ensure that people of all abilities, backgrounds, ages, socio-economic situations, location in the city - and any other factor that may marginalize people in Mississauga - are able to engage in a wide variety of activities throughout the city.

The Challenge Statement will be revealed on the day of the event.

* So what is an Idea Jam? It is a collaborative brainstorming activity or event, geared towards generating solutions in a fun and creative environment (participedia.net). Teams will work together to solve the Challenge Statement. At the end of the day the ideas will be evaluated by a jury and prizes will go to the top ideas.

Teams of about 6 people are suggested with a variety of backgrounds (tech, urban design & planning, accessibility, inclusion, residents, designers, etc.). You can sign up as a group or as an individual and you will be placed in a team on the day of.

We look forward to your brilliant and creative minds helping to solve local problems!

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Schedule

Time:

9:00- 9:30 am Registration (coffee available)

9:30- 11:15 am Accessibility & Inclusion Talks

` Keynote: Ricardo Wagner, Microsoft Accessibility Lead

City Staff:

Shawn Slack, Director of IT and CIO, City of Mississauga

Jennifer Cowan, Accessibility Specialist

Jennifer Stirling, Manager Digital Library Services & Collections

Steve Czajka, Planning and Building /Data & Visualization

Studio / Open Data

11:15 am – 5:00 pm Partner Booths Open

11:15- 11:30 BREAK

11:30 am – 1:00 pm Idea Jam Overview, Challenge and Workshops: Accessibility

and Inclusion Focus

Prepping for Success: How to Present (Ric Centre)

Prepping for Success: How to Ideate (EDGE)

1:00 pm LUNCH (Free for Idea Jam Participants)

1:45 – 5:00 pm Group Formation & Ideation! (Mentors available at this time)

5:00 – 5:30 pm DINNER (Free for Idea Jam Participants)

5:30 – 7:00 pm Shortlist Presentations to Jury

Jury Deliberations

Winners Announced

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Inclusion:

Please let us know if there are any factors that will prevent you attending this event. This could include requiring a bus ticket to get here, or childcare during the event. We will do our best to remove any barriers so you can be part of this event. contact: anthea.foyer@mississauga.ca

Accessibility:

This event will be held in various rooms on two floors of the Central Library.

- All rooms are wheelchair accessible

- Elevator access is available to all floors and connects to underground parking

- We will provide complementary accessible parking on site. Please let us know if you require this

- Elevators have braille for floor information

- Please advise if you need an American Sign Language Interpreter by, let us know by Monday, Nov 6, and if you will be participating for a half day, or the full day.

- Talks will have closed captioning

- There are accessible and gender neutral washrooms on the main floor of the event space

- Please advise if you need a service animal drinking station and relieving station on site

Please let us know if there are supports that will help you to take part in this event. We will do our best to remove any barriers so you can be part of this event. contact: anthea.foyer@mississauga.ca

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Environment:

We will do our best to create a sustainable event. Please help us by bringing your own water bottles and reusable coffee/tea containers.

We would like to thank the City of Mississauga's Environment Team for supporting us by donating environmentally friendly, reusable cutlery sets.