Inclusivity Series: Championing Indigenous Involvement in Innovation

Location: Online.

Join us to learn about the new Guide to Championing Indigenous Employment & Leadership and how you can incorporate these principles!

Our roles and responsibilities around being in the right relationship with Indigenous Peoples extend into the professional spheres of our societies and lives, including decolonizing our workplaces and ways of doing business; embedding the principles and actions of Truth & Reconciliation and UNDRIP; and building equity and inclusion throughout tech and innovation spaces in Canada.

Join Dr. Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook to preview and explore the brand new Guide to Championing Indigenous Employment & Leadership, written in collaboration with Centre for Indigenous Innovation and Technology and Venture for Canada. The Guide responds to growing expressions of interest and dedication by innovation leaders, employers, and organizations to improve their cultural and procedural learning and competencies around building respectful and reciprocal relationships and initiatives with Indigenous Community and Indigenous young professionals.

The Guide brings together core precepts, teachings, tools, protocols, wise cases, spotlight on Indigenous innovation stories, and resources. The aim is to help employers and leaders in the innovation industry learn from Indigenous experiences, perspectives, wisdoms and contributions – enabling the sector to intentionally and appropriately recruit, culturally support and champion Indigenous talent and leadership in technology and innovation across sectors and spheres of practice.

This session is for tech and innovation employers and companies/organizations/start ups across disciplines and sectors interested in working with, skilling and championing emerging Indigenous professionals and established innovation leaders.

Speaker:

Dr. Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, Co-Holder & Advisor @ 7GenCities + Dark Matter Labs

Tanya is the co-founder and co-holder of 7GenCities and project advisor at Dark Matter Labs; advisor to a number of Indigenous, foundation and non-profit organizations; and a part-time lecturer in environmental and urban studies. She is deeply engaged in Indigenous, environmental, transdisciplinary and trans-systemic approaches to education and research, land relationships and stewardship, climate resilience, bioregional regeneration, placekeeping, innovation, and healing justice and mental wellness. She is passionate about reciprocal, collaborative and intergenerational pathways for learning and knowledge co-creation, practice, and partnerships in her roles within project and research leadership, academia, advising, and community building. Her Akawaio-Kapon and mixed ancestry from Guyana and the Netherlands, combined with community and international experiences across cultures, ecologies and geographies, enable her to bring multifaceted perspectives and sensibilities to her work that are both place-based and global.