The 2024 - 2025 Season is on Now
All events will be held at the Maury Young Arts Centre unless listed otherwise.
Doors & Cash Bar at 5.30pm | Talk Starts at 6pm | Audience Q&A 7pm | Speaker Mix & Mingle 7.30pm
*NEW: Series Pass*
My Journey to the Invictus Games
Overcoming mental and physical limitations through sport
Mother Nature v. Okanagan Wineries: a Climate Conundrum
The future of Okanagan wine
AI: Ethics, Empathy & Humanizing Technology
Exploring the intersection between creativity & artificial intellience
Raising Healthy, High Performance Athletes
Aiming beyond the podium to raise global citizens
Democracy & Science* (working title)
Exploring how one cannot exist without the other
Healthy Watersheds – From Glaciers to the Sea
In Partnership with the Whistler Lakes Conservation Foundation
Event Format
All our speaker events are held at the Maury Young Arts Centre, located at 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC.
Doors open at 5.30pm with the speaker (or panelists) starting at 6.00pm. An audience Q&A follows all presentations.
A cash bar is open in the Gallery from 5.30pm onwards.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Attendees are encouraged to arrive at 5.30pm, when doors open. There is a cash bar open at that time, too, serving light refreshments. Speakers begin at 6.00pm.
Topics are selected based on a blend of community input, global conversation trends, and input from our Global Perspectives Speaker Series Committee. If you would like to suggest a future topic, please complete the post-event survey or share suggestions with contact@whistlerinstitute.com.
The 2024-2025 Global Perspectives Speaker Series features six different events from September through to April. Individual events cost $30.00, or you can purchase a Season Pass for $150. If you plan to attend all six events, the Season Pass option means you get one event for free!
Yes, absolutely! Speakers are typically onsite for doors opening; otherwise there is the opportunity to meet speakers post-event (7.30pm).
Yes; please contact Executive Director Mandy Rousseau mandy@whistlerinstitute.com / 604-932-7600 to learn more about our sponsorship opportunities.
About the Global Perspectives Speaker Series
The Global Perspectives Speaker Series (GPSS) is produced by one of the Whistler Institute’s working committees. Topics are selected based on a blend of community input, contemporary global conversations, and access to speakers. These evening events focus on the world’s greatest challenges, elevating leading experts and game changers to share bold ideas, new perspectives, and disruptive concepts that have the potential to create positive change in the world today and into the future.
The Whistler Institute’s goal with these events is to enhance our understanding of the world, alerting us to change and its impacts, and inspire meaningful action within our community and beyond.
Featuring accomplished international thought leaders, the Global Perspectives Speaker Series features influential leaders who have made a global impact in their field of expertise. Topics are prioritized based on four directions:
1. Topics must be global in nature, but have a local impact;
2. Respected experts are selected based on their effectiveness in presenting and discussing the subject matter;
3. Each event provides a roadmap for action; and
4. Whistler is the stage for speakers to reach a global audience.
Past Speaker Series Events:
- Concussions: Advances in prevention, identification and treatment (April 2024)
- The Future of Health Care (March 2024)
- Higher Education: The Next Paradigm (October, 2023)
- Canada, the Asian Century, and what comes next (Sept, 2023)
- A Roof Over Our Heads: Exploring Mountain Resort Housing Possibilities (April, 2023)
- The Role of the Olympic Movement in an Ever-Changing World (April, 2022)
- Climate Emergency – An Action Guide for Citizens (Dec 9, 2021)
- Tourism: Building Back Better (May 14, 2021)
- How Autonomous Vehicles Could Shape Whistler (Sept, 2020)
- Gearing Up for the Electric Vehicle Economy (Nov, 2019)
Stimulating discussion and inspiring action around major issues facing Whistler and beyond.
