Latest Past Events

Eval Café: Games & Mingling Night

The Dylan Bar 1276 Danforth Ave, Toronto

Join us for a relaxed, social Evaluation Café where we’ll mix purposeful networking with a couple of light, laughter-friendly games to help folks connect across projects, sectors, and roles. Expect easy icebreakers (think Human Bingo / Speed-Friending energy), evaluator-adjacent shenanigans, and plenty of time to chat. What to expect 5:30–5:50 Check-in, grab a bite, casual...

Eval Café: Quantifying Qualitative Data

Hemingway's 142 Cumberland Street, Toronto

You're invited to join us for an informal Evaluation Café meetup over drinks and conversation at Hemingway’s! This month’s topic: Quantifying Qualitative Data. As evaluators, we’re often asked to put numbers to stories—whether it’s coding themes from interviews, summarizing open-ended survey responses, or making sense of focus group notes. But when does counting help, and...

CES-Ontario / C2025 Watch Party

Online

CES has made select content from the 2025 conference available to chapters, and CES Ontario has asked Evaluation Cafe Ontario to host its conference watch party. Come join us over lunch to watch the session “Let’s Have a Data Party! Stories of Collaborative Learning and Change”, presented by Jakub Nemec, Paula Richardson.  Afterwards, we'll break...

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