From day one, our purpose has been clear: unite a globally recognized innovation community to create jobs and enduring economic vitality. We’re one community. We thrive when we act as one.

Innovate Edmonton was born of a visionary city council ready to invest in economic diversification and is reinventing innovation with a progressive strategy. In alignment with the City of Edmonton’s Economic Action Plan, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and modern Environmental, Social and Governance principles, we support and promote inclusive innovation aimed at solving the world’s biggest issues, showcasing Edmonton on a global stage and generating economic, environmental and social benefits for Edmontonians.

We welcome all, with an expansive definition of innovation once reserved for certain people with particular skillsets. For us, an innovator can be anyone, and innovation must be nurtured across early-stage founders to multinationals, all sectors and industries, and equitable to all genders, ethnicities, backgrounds, and voices.

Because it starts with one. One community. One great idea. One powerful connection. 

‍Simply put, we are positioning Edmonton as a global innovation capital with innovations that tackle the world's greatest challenges. Through three distinct program divisions - Startup Edmonton, Scaleup Edmonton, and Accelerate Edmonton - we steward equitable innovation-intensive entrepreneurship at every stage of growth.

We are placemakers, transforming Edmonton's downtown and taking innovation into the public realm. We forge partnerships locally, nationally and internationally because we're stronger together. This is innovation made in Edmonton, for the world.