The Strong Cities Network Sixth Global Summit, co-hosted by the Strong Cities Network and the city of Toronto, will take place from 9th to 11th December 2025 in Toronto, Canada. Bringing together over 200 mayors, local leaders, and practitioners, the summit will highlight how cities are preventing and responding to increasing levels of hate, extremism, and polarization under the theme “stronger together: forging safer, connected, thriving cities in a changing world.”
Registration link for hybrid sessions.
Credit: Strong Cities Network
Purpose
- Firstly, the summit will serve as a platform to share ideas, innovative strategies, and evidence-based solutions aimed at fostering global collaboration to build resilient communities, enhance community safety, and promote economic and digital inclusion as a key part of a “Strong City.”
- Secondly, the summit will highlight the implementation process for the priority areas and lessons learned from the previous global summit, held in Cape Town, South Africa, in December 2024.
- Thirdly, the summit marks the highlight of the Strong Cities’ 10th anniversary year. It will celebrate progress in empowering local leaders and driving city-led solutions to prevent and respond to hate, extremism, and polarization, while also setting the course for a second decade of initiating city-led action.
Agenda
The summit features high-level plenaries, interactive workshops, and tabletop exercises. Themes include:
- community safety and wellbeing, with a particular focus on the role of cities in secondary and tertiary prevention;
- countering hate and other online harms;
- digital and economic inclusion for all residents as crucial enablers of social cohesion and local resilience
- national-local cooperation as the foundation for effective prevention and response.
It will also highlight Toronto’s approach to community safety, resilience, cross-sector collaboration, and inclusive communities.
Venue and support
- The summit will be held at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre.
- The primary language will be English, with Arabic, French, and Spanish interpretation available during plenary and breakout sessions.
- Travel support may be provided upon availability to enable participation.
Credit: Strong Cities Network