Name: Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2026
Start: 2026-03-03T08:00:00.000-05:00
End: 2026-03-03T18:00:00.000-05:00
Location: Centennial College Event Centre

Empowering students with entrepreneurial mindsets, changemaking skills, and innovation capabilities valuable to any context. Join our events!

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Can't make the full day to participate as a Jammer? 

for the plenary sessions: keynote & panel discussion (9-10am), Lunch & Learn (11-11:30am) and the final pitch presentations (4-6pm)! 

The Global Goals Jam Canada — COIE's most anticipated event every year — is back, and for the first time ever, IN-PERSON!

📍 Event Centre (Spring/Summer Room), Progress Campus, Centennial College

🍽️ Light breakfast, lunch and refreshments provided

developers, designers, engineers, strategists, and changemakers

 for a fun, purposeful and experiential design jam focused on creating impactful solutions to real-world global challenges.

Do you have a passion for solving social issues and improving lives? Want to collaborate with a diverse group of committed individuals to design and prototype innovative solutions that help Canada contribute to the 

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

 and collaborate to build a more equitable community and a better world — with the chance to 

. Prize money is shared amongst winning team members.

Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (COIE), Centennial College

, in collaboration with Canadian partners and with support from 

17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

 by bringing together students, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, creative thinkers, and community members to tackle pressing social and business challenges.

human-centred design, design thinking, lean methodology, and rapid prototyping

, participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to ensure solutions are meaningful, feasible, and grounded in real-world needs.

Check out last year's event recap to see how it works!

 A new format: one single full day, in person, for maximum impact.

This year, the Global Goals Jam Canada is reimagined as a 

high-energy, one-day intensive design jam

. Instead of spreading the experience across a virtual weekend, we’re bringing participants together 

 for a focused day of collaboration, creativity, and rapid problem-solving.

Expect a fast-paced, hands-on experience designed to help teams move from insight to idea to impact — all in one powerful day.

 is a changemaker passionate about sustainability education, youth empowerment, and social impact. She has worked at the grassroots, community, and institutional levels to champion youth-led solutions to the polycrisis. She is heavily involved in her local community. She is the co-founder of the 

 two youth-founded climate organizations, and she sits on the board of the Guelph Tool Library, a community-led sharing initiative, and is the vice-president of the Canadian Youth Biodiversity Network, which empowers youth to tackle the biodiversity crisis. For her work, she has been previously named a Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalists by The Starfish Canada and a Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leader by Corporate Knights.

Participants will work toward impactful solutions and pitch their ideas for a chance to win awards totaling $4500.

At every Jam, we are proud and grateful to have the support of a diverse network of ecosystem and industry experts to serve as Mentors throughout the Jam. Meet your mentors:

Our esteemed panel of judges will be evaluating our teams' solutions and pitches to decide our Jam winners. We are honoured to have our judging panel with:

Spots are limited so register early — should seats fill up, priority will be given to Centennial students, alumni, staff and faculty members.

You may register as a single participant or as a team, if you already have a group of 4-10 people in mind. People who register as individuals will be placed into a team based on their preferred challenge theme.

To create meaningful change, collaboration must go beyond conversation. The Global Goals Jam creates a space where people from all backgrounds can contribute local knowledge and lived experience, fostering a 

bottom-up, grassroots approach to innovation

Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2026

Prof. Charles Lagat

Mike Defazio

Amandeep Singh Jandu

Israel Tandoc

Dík Portales

shohreh sabaghpour

Garisha

COIE Centennial

Dr Syed Aftab Alam

Maria Nathalia ayala

Forest

Collaborate with a team to design solutions to one of five real-world challenges!