THE FUTURE OF CANCER CARE STARTS HERE.

The new Calgary Cancer Centre opens in 2024, representing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to establish Alberta as a world-leader in cancer care, research and innovation.

To learn how you can help, visit OWNCANCER.CA

Read the Fall issue of Avenue Calgary to learn more about the next generation of leaders helping to OWN.CANCER in your own backyard.

The first Avenue innovation issue came out in June of 2020, a period mostly characterized by great uncertainty. The most optimistic among us held out hope that the widespread pandemic-induced lockdowns in place were merely temporary; the least felt a sense of impending doom. But, wherever you landed on that spectrum, stories about innovators and the innovation mindset became something of a balm, a reminder to look above and beyond what was weighing down the here and now.

Four issues later, we’ve emerged warier, if not wiser, but just as dedicated to celebrating the innovation sector and the bright minds within it. Our city is fertile ground right now for those who see our current hand and would raise it one better. From new approaches to the old-stock industries that built this city (oil and gas, agriculture) to tech startup enterprises in a range of fields, the innovation economy in Calgary is a hive of activity and this issue pinpoints some of its buzzworthy individuals and organizations.

Along with the innovation issue, we’re once again staging our annual Innovation Event on June 14 at Platform Calgary. It’s a chance for readers and stakeholders to join us as we dive deeper into some of the themes represented in these pages and expand upon them as well. For tickets and information, visit AvenueCalgary.com/InnovationEvent.

While the innovation event traditionally includes a focus on the “food of the future,” this issue focuses on the treats we’re craving right now with a new

SHELLEY ARNUSCH EDITOR IN CHIEF sarnusch@redpointmedia.ca