A public presentation today — Thursday, Oct. 7 — is intended to spark discussion of how to take what we have learned from this pandemic to design projects based on local and regional strengths.

Roseann O’Reilly Runte, president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, will address building back even better in her talk, entitled “COVID as Catalyst: Innovation and Discovery.”

The event is part of the Envision community speaker series, which offers thought-provoking discussion about what’s next in the post-COVID future.

Join the live event at 8:30 a.m. on the Microsoft Teams teleconferencing platform. A question-and-answer period will follow Runte’s formal presentation.