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C2 Montréal
[edit]C2 Montréal is a nonprofit organization which holds an annual 3-day international conference in Montreal, Quebec. Its intention is to stimulate the economy in the province of Québec by facilitating collaboration and networking within the business and creative communities. The conference was conceived by the Montreal-based creative agency Sid Lee in partnership with Cirque du Soleil and has been held every year in May since 2012. C2 Montréal is subsidized by profits generated by C2 International Inc. Media relations for the C2 Montréal is managed by the public relations firm EGS Group, also based in Montreal.
Conference
[edit]Intended to represent an intersection of commerce and creativity (the "Cs" of C2), C2 Montréal was founded in 2012 by Jean-François Bouchard from Sid Lee and Daniel Lamarre from Cirque du Soleil, with Benoît Berthiaume appointed as Chief Executive Officer at the time. It is held every year in Montreal, Quebec in the month of May. 105 partners currently sponsor the conference, including the Government of Canada, the Government of Quebec, the city of Montreal, BMW, and Facebook. Formal minutes following the conference have been made available since 2015.
The conference requires active participation from the attendees. Participant activities include attending speaker segments, participating in workshops, and one-on-one meetings with other participants (referred to as “Braindates”). Due to the media exposure generated by the conference, attending participants are required to agree to a recording and image waiver.
History of conferences
[edit]Year | Theme(s) | Speakers | Attendees | ||
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2012 | Thinking Pattern
Multi-disciplinary Thinking Creative Spaces Corporate Culture Flexible Business Models Research and Development Success Indicators Collective Creation Path Dependency Startup Mentality |
Francis Ford Coppola
Marc Chapman Robert Safian |
Winy Maas
Robert Wong Bertrand Cesvet |
Dr. Rex Jung
Lotfi EL-Ghandouri Sakchin Bessette Deborah Dugan |
1,200 participants |
2013 | Connection
Inspiration Experimentation Celebration |
Sir Richard Branson | Fred Dust
Tom Gentile Tracey Bleckzinski |
Stephan Ouaknine
Nicole Piasecki Will Travis Sanjay Poonen Steve Brown |
2,000 participants |
2014 | Inspiration
Experimentation & Connection Celebration |
James Cameron
Prof. Muhammad Yunus Abigail Posner Simon Berry Esther Lee |
Ray Davis
John Hardy Denys Lapointe Philip Sheppard Jonas Tåhlin Jonathan Becher |
Kevin O'Brien
Marie Saint Pierre Welby Altidor Graham Douglas Rafik Belmesk Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud |
3,750 participants |
2015 | Choices | Alec Baldwin
Carolyn Everson Jonathan Martin |
Morten Albæk
Marika Anthony-Shaw Terry Stuart Adam Garone David Rose Michelle Dennedy |
Ayah Bdeir
Alex Kazaks David Edelman Carsten Thoma Jordan Brown Rangu Salgame Robert T. Cancalosi Sean McDonald |
5,000 participants |
2016 | The Many | Massimo Bottura
Dr. Kate Darling Prof. Nick Bostrom Tim Brown Paul Bennett Chad Dickerson Dr. David Suzuki A.J. Paron-Wildes David Davies Dr. Beth Altringer Alex Fiance Hon. Bardish Chagger Byron & Dexter Peart Christine Renaud David Manela Diane Bérard Elke Govertsen |
Emily Chang
Estelle Métayer Esther Song Elizabeth Tobey Elora Hardy Guy Crevier Hicham Ratnani & Ethan Song James Cooper James Jackson Joanna Peña-Bickley Jonathan Glencross Justin Kingsley Marc Blanchard Mark Brand |
Dr. Maxwell Anderson
Michel Laprise Mike Yapp Prof. Muhammad Yunus Nanxi Liu Nyla Rodgers Olivier Royant Patrik Frisk Paul DeLong Paul Gray Rangu Salgame Ricky Solorzano Sandy Speicher Stowe Boyd Tasha McCauley Tatiana Fraser Thomas John Muthoot Wanjira Mathai Will Travis |
6,000 participants |
2017 | Ecosystems | Steve Wozniak
Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal Paul Allard Assaf Biderman Linda Boff Jean-François Bouchard Ben Boyd Joel Beckerman Prof. Yoshua Bengio Ian Bernstein Monika Bielskyte Richard Brown Kirpatrick Day Simon Da Baene |
Magaly Charbonneau
Katie Emery Nicola Farinetti Jean-François Gagné Farah Ramzan Golant Gabriella Gómez-Mont Erik Grab Peter Grimaldi Claude Guay Laura Henderson Tom Herbst Amanda Hill Christine Jacovcic Hon. Mélanie Joly Félix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël Nathalie Le Prohon Amy Liu |
Dario Meli
Prof. Gautam Mukunda Maestro Kent Nagano Kyle Nel Prof. Dava Newman Joanna Peña-Bickley Valérie Pisano Howard Pyle Dr. Naveen G. Rao Karim Rasheed Bob Richards Daisuke Sakai & Takashi Kudo Sean Stanleigh Dr. Michelle Thaller Angela Tran Kingyens Neilson Vignola Lauren Wesley Wilson Christian Yaccarini Prof. Muhammad Yunus |
6,500 participants |
2018 | Transformative Collisions | Snoop Dogg
Noelle Acheson Dr. Foteini Agrafioti Hon. Dominique Anglade Katie Bardaro Rev. Dr. Christopher Benek Sakchin Bessette His Excellency Omar Bin Sultan Olama Alex Bodman Diane Brady Brian Braiker Mark Brand Emma Carrasco Stephanie Carrulo Bertrand Cesvet Buffy Childerhose Ted Chung Louis-Yves Cloutier Kim Cope Her Excellency Hon. Linda Dessau AC Ryan Detert Dr. Sylvia Earle Robert Elliott Annalisa Enrile Daniel Franklin |
Jean-François Gagné
Luca Gamberini Erik Gatenholm Timnit Gebru Suzanne Gibbs Howard Lex Gill Françoise Girard Anna Gong Adam Greenblatt Kelsey Halling Arlan Hamilton Kyle J.J. Kemper Hon. Mélanie Joly David Jones Dennis Kastrup Tunde Kehinde Justin Kingsley Tom Klein Tim Kobe Jessica Lauretti Dominique Leclerc Eamon Leonard Bruce Linton Andrew Lufty Arwa Mahdawi Heather Mann Dr. Carl Marci Philippe Meunier Christofer Mowry Sean Mullin Jessica Neal |
Jimmy Nelson
Anna Neistat Jowan Österlund Her Excellency the Right Hon. Julie Payette Marie-Joëlle Parent Dr. Joëlle Pineau Jean Raby Dr. Noah Raford Katerine-Lune Rollet Colombe Saint-Pierre Richard St-Pierre Martine St-Victor Beth Schechter Siim Sikkut Jordan Soles John Stackhouse Sean Stanleigh Christine Sunu Dr. Robert Sutor Dawn Taketa Riordan Ciara Trinidad Illiana Oris Valiente Stephanie van der Wiel Corrine Vezzoni Austin Wang Freya Williams John Winter Russell Lauren Yoshiko Terry Dave Zaboski |
7,000 participants |
Governance
[edit]Fourteen administrators govern C2 Montréal, two of whom are representatives from the organization’s cofounding partners (Sid Lee and Cirque du Soleil).
Board of Directors (as of 2018)
[edit]- Jean-François Bouchard - Chairman and Co-founder of Sid Lee - Chairman
- Richard St-Pierre - President, C2 Montréal - Treasurer
- Michel Boislard - Partner, Fasken Martineau - Secretary
- Claudine Blondin Bronfman - Co-Chair Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation
- Jade Raymond - Group General Manager, Electronic Arts
- Jean Novak - President Vidéotron Business Solutions, Vidéotron
- Luc Bernard - Chief Executive Officer, Groupe Multi-Prêts
- Michel Leblanc - President and Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montréal
- Myriam Achard - Director of Communications and Public Relations, Centre Phi
- Pierre Larochelle - Vice-President, Power Corporation
- Roger Duguay - Managing Partner, Boyden
- Simon Olivier - Senior Vice-President, Agropur
- Stephane Lefebvre - Chief Financial Officer, Cirque du Soleil
- Yves Lalumière - President and Chief Executive Officer, Tourisme Montréal
- Richard Masse - Director of Public Health for Montreal
Leadership team (as of 2018)
[edit]- Richard St-Pierre - President and Chief Executive Officer
- Génifère Legrand - Chief Creative Officer
- Anick Beaulieu - Vice President - Growth and Partnerships
- Chris Cowley - Vice President - Digital Innovation and Technology
- Julia Cyboran - Vice President - Marketing and Audience
- Yannick Bocquet - Vice President - Production
- Nicolas Fontaine - Interim Vice President - Finance
- Linda Leroy - Vice President - Talent and Culture
C2 International Inc.
[edit]Created in 2015, C2 International Inc. specializes in the facilitation and logistical services for international high-profile events. It is owned by the Montreal-based creative agency Sid Lee. Earnings gained by C2 International finance C2 Montréal. The for-profit company shares expenses with C2 Montréal, which includes employees. C2 International also produces the Movin' On Summit and C2 Melbourne (now cancelled).
C2 Melbourne
[edit]C2 International was preparing for the C2 Melbourne conference, scheduled for October 2018. Arrangements for this event came to a halt upon an announcement from its creator Martin Enault claiming health issues. It would later be confirmed by Richard St-Pierre that low ticket sales and the retraction of a major partner were the cause of cessation of C2 Melbourne. Thirty employees were discharged from C2 International as a result.
Criticism
[edit]Economy professors François Vaillancourt of Université de Montréal and Amine Ouazad of HEC Montréal stated that C2 Montréal's $167.5 million economic impact affirmed in a 2017 study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers produced "exaggerated" claims. The professors declared issues with the study, one being that C2 Montréal doesn't follow the method mandated by Tourisme Québec to calculate economic impact, and the other being that the value of the contracts between the participating Québec institutions and C2 Montréal is unknown.