CES Ontario Virtual Conference: Politics, Progress and Possibility

Join us for a conference on the theme of Politics, Progress and Possibility! Network, learn, and grow with evaluators like you!

The Canadian Evaluation Society Ontario Chapter (CES Ontario) is pleased to invite evaluation practitioners, researchers, academics, emerging evaluators, and students to join us for CES Ontario’s 2025 Virtual Conference.

Evaluation is a constantly changing field of practice, informed by new and emerging technologies, approaches, and political pressures. We will survey these topic areas, explore their interplays and connections, and discuss how to integrate them into our work.

Topic Areas:

• New and next approaches to program evaluation: new evaluation processes, frameworks, and models, alternative funding models, and decolonized evaluation approaches
• Technology: how AI (and other tools!) are changing evaluation, and considerations of utility and equity
• Political considerations: evaluation politics in Ontario, Canadian, and international contexts, as well as managing projects and stakeholders

Conference participants will:

• Gain a deeper understanding of current trends, innovations, opportunities, and challenges for enhancing and integrating approaches in evaluation.
• Gain important evaluation skills to address current and future trends.
• Enhance connections with other evaluators, networks, and organizations.
• Contribute to discussions about the importance of evaluative thinking and evaluation practice in the areas of new approaches, technology, and politics.

Visit our Virtual Conference website for session descriptions, speaker bios, and more!