June 7-11, 2023
Cortes Island, British Columbia
Where progressive social change meets digital advocacy.
The sharpest digital minds in politics and advocacy campaigns, nonprofit, labour unions and more, will gather from June 7-11th for five days of hard-skills training in digital leadership, strategy and tactics.
Alex McGowan of Sword Fern Digital: Managing Discord about Discord: Community Technology and Change Management
Oliver Paré of OPS: Progressive Politics in an Age of Affordability Crises
Vidyut Ghuwalewala of Social Currant: Influencer Marketing 101
Leah Bae of The Burnout Project: Preventing Burnout
Daniella Barreto of Amnesty International Canada: Podcasting for Social Impact
Amrita Ahuja of Groundwork: Breaking Cycles & Moving out of Survival Mode
Sara El-Amine of Lyft: The Neuroscience of Persuasion: Using Somatics to Identify Shared Values
Jan Cruz, Point Blank Creative
“Hollyhock's Activate Digital Leadership Conference is truly wonderful and magical. You'll meet people that you'd want to connect with for the rest of your life, and even learn a lot from each other. If you think that you've got nothing to offer, it will come out of you and even surprise yourself! It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience where you'll meet some of the progressive movement's brightest and most inspiring people.”
Amy Baldry, National Association of Federal Retirees
“Activate is an excellent program that rejuvenates, re-energizes and re-focuses participants”
Malcolm Lewis-Richmond, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
“It was great! I'm inspired by the work of others and I will be more creative and effective as a result of this experience.”
Amy Grant, Origin Leadership Consulting
“Activate is five days of wonderful people on a beautiful resort doing amazing things!”
Lead progressive social change with the sharpest minds in advocacy.
When progressive social change meets digital advocacy, real wins happen. Whether you are a digital director at an advocacy organization, a content writer at a political party, an organizer at a labour union, or a senior leader looking to expand into the digital space, Activate is for you.
Activate participants come from a wide variety of professional backgrounds with varying amounts of digital experience. We know that important, exciting, and innovative digital work is happening on the margins and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds to register.
We are grateful to our Partners and Sponsors who provide critical support to ensure success and to increase accessibility by supporting the conference scholarship fund. If you are interested in partnering, please connect with us.
Thank you to our community amplifiers for helping support, uplift, and work together to eliminate barriers to equity and economic access!
