{"id":67405,"date":"2023-07-18T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=67405"},"modified":"2023-07-18T09:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:09:26","slug":"the-true-disruptors-at-collision-2023-were-asking-us-to-slow-down-and-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2023\/07\/18\/the-true-disruptors-at-collision-2023-were-asking-us-to-slow-down-and-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"The true disruptors at Collision 2023 were asking us to slow down and listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, Shawn Micallef wrote in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/2023\/06\/18\/your-no-1-election-question-who-and-what-is-toronto-for.html\">regular column<\/a> for the Toronto Star about the chunky red COLLISION signs that had popped up in public parks. These conspicuous consumers of public space were meant to build awareness for the Collision tech conference, a yearly congregation of 37,000 people packed into the Enercare Centre.<\/p>\n<p>I snagged a media pass for the event to see what the fuss was about. Day One opened with words from Chief Stacey LaForme (Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation). He seemed pretty pumped about the whole thing and delivered a sotto voce barb near the end of his welcome address: \u201cyou can stay as long as you like; I still got a little bit of land left.\u201d Was he talking about colonialism or the signs?<\/p>\n<p>After that, things moved fast. Talks were scheduled with the precision of an atomic clock and lasted from only 5 to 15 minutes each. Chairs materialized under the glow of massive LED pillars to accommodate a \u2018fireside chat.\u2019 Panelists summarized their positions in 45 seconds. Nobody wore socks.<\/p>\n<p>I could feel myself growing more and more cynical. The event was set up as an extended-play commercial, with \u2018disruptors\u2019 and \u2018visionaries\u2019 taking the stage one after the other practically finishing each others\u2019 sentences. There were no questions allowed; the speakers just talked, imparted wisdom, and then left.<\/p>\n<p>The first respite came at Noon when Indigenous rights and water activist Autumn Peltier (Wikwemikong) came out and addressed the crowd about sustainability. \u201cThe key to understanding sustainability is listening,\u201d she said, the first person so far to admit they might not have all the answers. \u201cIn 2023, technology may help, but I strongly believe \u2026 in listening to our knowledge keepers, our elders, in collaboration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67406\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-67406\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007901847_00d56a8653_o-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007901847_00d56a8653_o-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007901847_00d56a8653_o-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007901847_00d56a8653_o-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007901847_00d56a8653_o-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007901847_00d56a8653_o-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007901847_00d56a8653_o-627x940.jpg 627w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007901847_00d56a8653_o-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Peltier, Indigenous Rights &amp; Water Activist at Collision 2023 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. Photo by Vaughn Ridley\/Collision via Sportsfile. Used with permission <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/legalcode\">Creative Commons BY 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are plenty of companies pitching \u201cAI for sustainability\u201d solutions, including Clean Water AI, ClimateAI, and Sipremo (\u201can AI-driven solution for proactive resilience building\u201d). These are just the latest in a long line of companies that promise a utopian future through technology. \u201cIndigenous people for generations have offered knowledge and a true understanding of sustainable traditional approaches,\u201d Peltier continued. \u201cSorry Alexa, Indigenous people practiced plant-based medicine long before Alexa recommended it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Autumn later as she ate lunch between engagements. \u201cWhen we talk about technology we talk about a loss of connection,\u201d she says. Peltier has long been advocating for deep and sustained engagement from the Government of Canada to end boil-water advisories across Canada. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely made promises,\u201d she says of Prime Minister Trudeau, \u201cbut also has a long history of broken promises.\u201d In 2016, at the age of 12, Peltier got a chance to meet Trudeau at the Assembly of First Nations. She was told to just give him a gift and not say anything but instead she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A33XRMLBbOc&amp;ab_channel=CBCKidsNews\">scolded him<\/a> for not doing enough.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling very anti-tech, I sat on a wall outside the Enercare Centre like a grump and watched people interact with the big red sign; the <em>original<\/em> sign, the ur-sign, of which all park signs were mere clones. People took selfies, action shots, and freeze-frame snapshots where you jump up and go \u201cweee!\u201d Strangers offered to take photos of fellow conference-goers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67408\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-67408\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007965316_bce8e8a455_o-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007965316_bce8e8a455_o-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007965316_bce8e8a455_o-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007965316_bce8e8a455_o-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007965316_bce8e8a455_o-1536x988.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007965316_bce8e8a455_o-2048x1318.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/53007965316_bce8e8a455_o-940x605.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science &amp; Industry, Government of Canada, walks past the original Collision sign at the Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. Photo by Vaughn Ridley\/Collision via Sportsfile. Used with permission <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/legalcode\">Creative Commons BY 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One such encounter allowed for the meeting between an Italian entrepreneur (photographee) and Frank Horn (Kanien\u2019keha [Mohawk]), Senior Manager of Community Engagement for Indigenous Relations at Rogers (photographer). \u201cHe asked where I was from and I said \u2018here\u2019,\u201d says Horn, \u201cwe\u2019re Indigenous.\u201d He continued to explain: \u201cwe\u2019re the people who were here before Europeans came.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horn is part of a team at Rogers, led by National Director Jennifer Campeau (Saulteaux\/Cree\/Metis from Yellowquill First Nation), who are enacting Peltier\u2019s call to listen. \u201cWe\u2019re not a sales team,\u201d says Horn, \u201cwe\u2019re community engagement. We ask \u2018what\u2019s your need,\u2019 and \u2018how can we help\u2019?\u201d The technology on display at the conference is capable of remarkable things, Horn says. He gestures at the sign; \u201cwhat this is talking about, Indigenous people want to be part of, but they need Internet as a first step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campeau tells me Rogers helped connect Chief Stacey LaForme\u2019s community and are working on an even bigger project in B.C. \u201cAs part of TRC\u2019s Call to Action 92,\u201d she tells me, which focuses on the role corporations can play in reconciliation, \u201calong Highway 16, the Highway of Tears, we\u2019re putting up towers and two rest-stops by winter-time so that whole corridor will be wired up for safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67412\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67412 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/IMG_6155-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/IMG_6155-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/IMG_6155-600x347.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/IMG_6155-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/IMG_6155-1536x888.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/IMG_6155-2048x1184.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/IMG_6155-940x543.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People love the ISION sign. Photo by Joseph Wilson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Horn also sees value in technology helping to preserve dying Indigenous languages. \u201cThere\u2019s a worry that the languages of our elders are going to be gone,\u201d he says, \u201cbut broadband creates opportunities to save it, record it, transmit it.\u201d His Mother and Auntie are both fluent Mohawk speakers. \u201cWith the pandemic we have regular Zoom calls so they can teach the family Mohawk. That\u2019s the power of what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was feeling less cynical so I took a picture of the sign. There were people in the way so it only said \u201cISION\u201d but I didn\u2019t mind. There should always be people in front of signs like this. It\u2019s a reminder that if you can manage to look past the comic sans font of the intruding infrastructure, there are real people around who want to make a difference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><em>Top photo: A rainbow of lights on the Main Stage during day one of Collision 2023 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Collision via Sportsfile. Used with permission\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/legalcode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Creative Commons BY 2.0<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, Shawn Micallef wrote in his regular column for the Toronto Star about the chunky red COLLISION signs that had popped up in public parks. 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