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Ways to attend

Individual passes

  • Single Event Pass – Attend a virtual or in-person event of your choice.
  • Annual Pass – Get access to all events plus recordings at a discounted rate.
  • Tickets are non-refundable, non-sharable, and only transferable up to one week before the event.
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Bulk passes

  • Bulk Pass (10+ tickets) – Save even more with grouped access to all events and recordings.
Contact us to learn more

Departmental passes

  • Small Department (<800 employees) – All recordings, unlimited access to all virtual events in 2025, and seats for the Nov. 3-4 in-person event in Ottawa.
  • Large Department (>800 employees) – The best value with expanded in-person access and full virtual coverage.
Contact us to learn more

Why attend: Make your case for purchasing a pass

For public servants

FWD50 is classified as a training event for Canadian Federal employees by the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).
 
If you're like most public servants, you need to give your manager a reason to invest in training resources. FWD50 gives you:
  • Inspiring keynotes from bestselling authors, top public servants, leading academics, and bold changemakers
  • Hands-on workshops, curated panels, and lively debates that tackle the biggest challenges in digital government
  • Built-in tools and structures to connect you with experts, mentors, and peers who can help move your work forward
  • A thriving, year-round community of thousands of public sector innovators
  • Full-day virtual and in-person quarterly events throughout 2025
  • On-demand access to recordings from past events—perfect for catching missed sessions or revisiting insights with your team anytime
 
Include FWD50 in your performance plan and training budget.
Let your department training lead know about the conference, and suggest that they contact us about bulk or departmental tickets.

For industry partners, for academics and civic tech organizations

Industry partners:

FWD50 isn't like other government tech conferences. There's no expo hall, and we're not a media company. What we are is the best way to join genuine conversations about digital transformation, with the people making it happen.
 
For the sponsors and partners who make it possible for us to run the event, we're a trusted platform for executives to share their ideas. FWD50 is a place to run breakouts that showcase the latest industry innovations and to run workshops that demonstrate real value to public servants.
 
Contact us to learn more about partnership opportunities

 

Academics and civic tech organizations:

Change, while necessary, is often uncomfortable. We work closely with foundations, civic tech organizations, and academics around the world who tackle some of society's most thorny problems.

On our stages you'll find leading thinkers on ethics, governance, security, culture, and psychology, all working to put resilient, human-centered design at the core of the public service. FWD50 isn't just a place to discuss the future, but also to shape it into what it can become with a global faculty of thinkers and activists.

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