Vélo Canada Bikes hosted a series of National Bike Summits from 2017 to 2019 to gather stakeholders and advance Canada’s conversation on everyday cycling. The summits were instrumental in our successful campaign to establish a National Active Transportation Strategy and an Active Transportation Fund.
Bike Summit 2019
The 3rd National Bike Summit took place in Ottawa on May 13th-14th, 2019.
Building on the success of the 1st and 2nd National Bike Summits, this event will bring together cycling and active transportation stakeholders from across the country, so that together, we can take tangible steps towards building a bike friendly Canada.
The theme of the 3rd National Bike Summit is “Pedal Power: People, Planet, Profits”
Summit Objectives:
- Illustrate how investments in cycling will lead to a healthier, greener and more prosperous Canada
- Demonstrate the need and importance of Federal leadership to advance everyday cycling in Canada
- Mobilize cycling stakeholders to work together to achieve a bike and active transportation friendly Canada
- Meet with Parliamentarians and elected officials from all levels of government and discuss cycling
Who should attend?
- Representatives of local and provincial cycling organizations
- National stakeholders from allied sectors of health, sustainable mobility, environment, education, law, equity and more
- Government – Municipal, Provincial, Federal departments and ministries representing Parks and Recreation, Health, Small Business, Tourism,
Sports, Environment, Transportation and Infrastructure - Industry – outdoor and sporting equipment, clothing, mobility, food and beverage , data collection, information technology, logistics and
financial institutions - Thought leaders, academics and students on the cutting edge of sustainable urban mobility research
MAY 12 – PRE CONFERENCE SESSION:
National Trails and Greenways – A meeting and discussion of the future of greenways and federal policy on trails across Canada.
Bike Summit 2018
The 2018 Canadian National Bike Summit will be unlike any conference you have attended because its not a conference! It is:
- A gathering of stakeholders and decision-makers from across Canada
- Designed to bring attention to the array of benefits to Canada of investing in safer, more convenient, more accessible cycling for all ages and abilities in all localities in Canada
- A multimedia, experiential national networking opportunity
- Your chance to move the needle on cycling in our country
See the Program
Carefully curated to showcase cycling as an ideal, cost-effective tool for accomplishing the goals the federal government has set for itself.
To this end, we will be sharing how cycling
- is timely,
- is youth-friendly
- benefits the middle-class
- is fiscally prudent
- is a solution that stems from evidence-based approaches to Canada’s challenges,
- Impacts the whole-of-government
Who should attend?
- Representatives of local and provincial cycling organizations
- National stakeholders from allied sectors of health, sustainable mobility, environment, education, equity and more
- Government – Municipal, Provincial, Federal departments and ministries representing Parks and Recreation, Health, Small Business, Tourism,
Sports, Environment, Transportation and Infrastructure - Industry – outdoor and sporting equipment, clothing, mobility, food and beverage , data collection, information technology, logistics and
financial institutions - Thought leaders, academics and students on the cutting edge of sustainable urban mobility research
Bike Summit 2017
Thank you to everyone who participated in the first annual National Bike Summit.
On June 1st, 2017, Canada Bikes, with support from Mountain Equipment Co- op (MEC), The Co-operators, the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA), and in partnership with Senator Nancy Greene Raine and “National Health and Fitness Day”, convened the first Canadian National Bike Summit on Parliament Hill. There was a full-house of 90 delegates attending by invitation, and a further 200+ people or organizations participating via a live webinar link from coast-to-coast-to-coast.
