Where diverse talent and access meet.
The Imagine Summit makes mental wellness–informed professional development accessible to high-potential, underserved artists, leaders, and teams.
We teach both the skills needed to grow careers and the nervous system regulation tools required to sustainably self-manage success.
More than a large-scale conference, The Imagine Summit is a curated, intergenerational gathering of the music, creative, and cultural industries. Each year, we intentionally design the audience, learning experiences, and programming to bring together 750+ innovators, emerging artists, and leaders from over 40 organizations and brands—creating meaningful connection, mentorship, networking and shared learning across generations.
Our Commitment to Impact, Inclusion & Access
A portion of every sponsorship and ticket sold directly funds accessible tickets for equity-deserving young professionals and emerging artists who face systemic barriers to quality training, networking, and career development.
Programming
Our immersive programming build’s creativity, mental health capacity, financial literacy, skills development, leadership and networking for artists, leaders and teams. Our mission is to advance creative intelligence and expand mental, artistic, and economic capacity.
Imagiin Lab — Diverse Minds, Emerging Companies & Creative Leadership
Training for Teams & Leaders
Creativity, Music & Artistic Development
Mental Wellness & Nervous System Regulation
Digital Wellness & Technology
Financial Literacy & Economic Sustainability
Imagiin Talks
Conversations with award-winning international artists, thought leaders, and innovators exploring creativity, leadership, and sustainable success.
Our Why
Professional development can transform people and careers — but theres a gap, preventing those who need it most from accessing it..
1. It is often financially inaccessible to emerging talent who need it most.
2. The mental wellness and nervous system regulation tools required to manage pressure, uncertainty, and career growth are rarely taught, alongside industry knowledge
3. Traditional training is not designed for diverse, creative, and neurodivergent talent, who make up a significant portion of Canada’s creative, corporate, and cultural sectors.
The Imagine Summit changes that.
We deliver high-impact professional development and wellness training for all, with intentional programming for BIPOC, gender-diverse, and neurodiverse leaders, emerging artists, and teams, who experience barriers to access.
Our immersive model blends; professional development, mental wellness capacity building, financial literacy, digital wellness, nervous system regulation, financial literacy, and conversations with Grammy- and Juno-winning innovators to unlock sustainable success.
We open doors to experiential, transformative professional development for artists, professionals, and teams who have always had potential, but too often face financial or systemic barriers to accessing it.
Inside The Imagine Summit
Our Experiences
2026 coming soon
Our Partners
2026 announcements coming soon!
We design an an international program, featuring a day of training paired with international conversations led by Global Innovators, thought leaders, Grammy and Juno award winning artists redefining sustainable success. We curate programming for all, with an intentional focus on BIPOC, gender-diverse, and neurodiverse leaders and creators.
Professional Development.
Together we create impact, by contributing a portion of all sponsorships to making 400 tickets accessible to attendees who systematically experience barriers to high quality professional development, networking and training (BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ2IA+, women, youth in not for-profit housing).
We Create Access.
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Previous Talks
We curate mindfulness and innovation talks with some of the leading creative thought leaders. We’ve curated talks on our Imagine Summit stage, in addition to at some of the leading international music festivals, conferences and corporate events.
Vanessa Craft
Global Head of Lifestyle and Education at Tik Tok, Former Chief Editor at Elle
Evan Carmichael
Author, Venture Capitalist, Youtube Creator
( 4 million Subs)
Jully Black
4x Juno award winning Singer/ Songwriter & Founder of Jully Black Entertainment
Tyler Tasson
Lead, Brand & Artist Marketing
Amazon Music
Amanda Dorenberg
Global CEO Arthouse Media Group
(Billboard Canada, Rollingstone, Arthelp)
Melanie Fiona
Grammy award winning Singer/ Songwriter & Founder of Mellie Bellies
Gabe Obadia
Manager, Youtube Music Partnerships Canada
Monique Miller
Manager, Purpose Projects - Unilever ( Dove)
Domanique Grant
Award winning Singer/ Songwriter, Imagine Summit Founder
International Programming
Toronto
Saskatoon
Germany
Presenting Sponsor
Venue Sponsor
Hydration Sponsor
Visionary Sponsor
Community Champion Sponsors
CREATIVE PROGRAMMING
The 2024 Imagine Summit focused on the transformative theme of digital wellness, brought to life through inspiring collaborations with leading digital platforms, visionary thought leaders, and award-winning artists.
This exclusive, invite-only event gathered some of Canada’s most influential thought leaders, innovative creatives, and trailblazing entrepreneurs for an unforgettable day celebrating gender-diverse women in entrepreneurship and wellness.
Building on the incredible energy and groundbreaking conversations from 2024, we’re thrilled to continue the momentum in 2025. Get ready for even more dynamic sessions, impactful collaborations, and opportunities to connect with the changemakers shaping our future. Stay tuned—big things are coming!
What to expect?
An inspirational day of mental wellness and professional development,
Mindfulness, visualization and nervous system regulation training
Inspiring intergenerational talks, Q&A and presentations by international award-winning talent and thought leaders
Networking
Keynote presentations and panels from some of the leading women in creative industries
Financial therapy and transforming your financial habits to TEDx your annual revenue
Live performances
Apply to attend
The Imagine Summit is invite only and attendees are selected through partnerships with over 20 not for profit organizations and charities. We understand that accessibility to groups and individuals outside of our partner networks is important, and so annually we make a limited number of spots available, through applying to attend.
Please fill out the application below and someone on our team will be in touch. If you have any accessibility needs while applying, please let us know! This application should take under 15 minutes.
SELECTION & ATTENDANCE
We recognize that certain groups experience barriers to access. The Imagine Summit works with sponsors, community champions and brands to select attendees , who have historically experienced barriers tied to the access and equity of mental health, financial literacy, and professional development support, but are doing incredible things in their industry and communities. We make the two day summit free, to those selected to attend.
Entrepreneurs must identify as being from one or more of our 5 categories in order to be considered;
1. BIPOC
2. Gender-Diverse Women
3. From a not-for-profit housing community ( Foster Care, TCHC, Coops)
4. A new immigrant
5. 2SLGBTQ2IA+
CONTACT
For media or enquiries
manager@grantcreativity.com