The Future of Wellbeing: AI, Community & Social Impact

What does it mean to build AI in service of wellbeing? A one-day forum on tech, climate, mental health, community & social impact. From Mental Wellbeing to Community Wellbeing A Community Panel & Networking An evening forum on what it means to build technology in service of wellbeing. As AI reshapes how we live, work, and care for one another, one question matters more than ever: what does it mean to build and adopt technology in service of holistic wellbeing — human, community, and societal — in the Canadian context? The Mindful Impact Forum brings together nonprofit leaders, founders, technologists, youth, and changemakers for a focused day of conversation and practice. We move deliberately from the human to the technical: first setting the foundation of what wellbeing truly means, then turning to how we build and adopt AI responsibly in service of it. After launching our forum series in Vancouver this past March, we're bringing it to Toronto for a single, focused edition — in partnership with Google Developer Groups and The Dais, TMU. What you'll experience • A flagship day of remarks, a keynote, and an opening panel on wellbeing • A creatively facilitated community forum — real cross-sector dialogue • A hands-on AI & technology for social impact workshop • Practical tools for leadership, resilience, and innovation you can use the next morning • A genuinely cross-sector room: founders, youth leaders, community builders, and changemakers The program Session 1 — Framing & Community Panel: What Wellbeing Means Welcome remarks, an opening presentation, and panel, Redefining Wellbeing, with diverse voices setting the tone for what holistic wellbeing means today — beyond the individual, and in the Canadian context of mental health, climate, and technology. Session 2 — AI and Responsible Innovation: From Principles to Practice A fireside chat from The Dais at TMU — Jake Hirsch-Allen and Camara Chambers setting the real standard for responsible AI: not just what it can do, but who it's built for. Then they hand the room straight to tech and AI professionals and Google Developer Groups for live demos of AI built for real impact. Session 3 — Finding our Wisdom Way Forward: Future Community Wellbeing & Leadership A participatory sensemaking session inviting attendees to reflect on the future of community wellbeing and their own practices and pathways to co-create it. Using prompts throughout the room, participants are invited to contribute their lived experiences, questions, and possibilities to a collective Wall of Wisdom to seed dialogue and action. Who This Is For You’ll feel at home here if you are: • Young professionals navigating pressure, purpose, and growth • Youth leaders and students exploring impact-driven careers • Founders, social entrepreneurs, and innovators • Professionals in mental wellbeing, social impact, and community work • Anyone drawn to mindful leadership and meaningful connection Event Details 📍 Location: The Sandbox, TMU (341 Yonge St 3rd floor, Toronto, ON M5B 1S1) 📅 Date: Oct 14, Wednesday 2026 ⏰ Time: 6 PM - 9:00 PM (Door open 5:30 PM) 🎫 Ticket — FREE -$50 All proceeds support Wisdomway Impact’s mental wellbeing initiatives. Student & Youth (under 25, limited spots) FREE Speakers • AJ Kim is a social entrepreneur, global impact practitioner, dedicated to building spaces where inner development and collective change meet. Her work spans leadership development, youth empowerment, and community wellbeing initiatives in Asia, Africa, and Canada, grounded in field experiences, dialogue, and systems thinking. Through forums, education programs, and partnerships, she explores how mental wellbeing can become a foundation for stronger communities, sustainable leadership, and long-term social impact. • Alejandro Castellanos Toronto-based AI Systems Architect, Alejandro builds trustworthy AI technologies for community resilience, public-interest intelligence, and human-centred care. His work emphasizes evidence, human oversight, and technology that strengthens—not replaces—human judgment. • Camara Chambers (Director of Learning and Events, The Dais at TMU) Named one of 100 Black Women in Canada to Watch and a national leader by The Philanthropist Journal, Camara has spent her career where equity meets civic engagement — leading a national policy program for Europe's largest LGBTQ charity, and serving as Executive Director of Volunteer Toronto, Canada's largest volunteer centre. At the Dais she builds community partnerships and designs leadership programs for Canada's next generation of leaders, and she founded Let's Hike T.O., which has introduced over 1,300 people to the trails. She brings the question that keeps the whole session honest: responsible for whom? • Carolyn Shaw is the Co-Founder, President and Chief Creative Officer of Humanity, an independent, Black-owned and female-led agency built for changemakers. With more than 20 years of experience in marketing, branding and design, she helps purpose-driven organizations turn bold ambitions into ideas, experiences and campaigns that move people. Carolyn believes the strongest organizations are built by keeping people—their needs, dignity and lived experiences—at the centre of how we lead, communicate and create change. Her work spans health, education, culture, sustainability and the nonprofit sector, bringing strategy and creativity together to make complex issues more human and meaningful. A lifelong learner and advocate for purpose-led leadership, Carolyn is especially interested in how organizations can pursue progress without losing sight of the people that progress is meant to serve. • Danielle (dane) Cadhit is an experience designer, story weaver, facilitator, and lifelong observer of patterns. At Coralus, she crafts experiences that invite people to connect more deeply, see and do things differently, and (re)imagine new possibilities.Her curiosity tends to live in the spaces between things: between people and ideas, work and life, structure and emergence, the inner world and the communities we build around us. Lately, she has been especially interested in what happens when we stop treating ourselves like something to optimize, and instead pay more attention to the rhythms, seasons, relationships, and conditions that shape how we actually live, work, gather, and create. • Hilary Van Welter is CEO (Chief Exploration Officer) at Ascentia, Coralus Transformation Architect, and Associate Steward at Bounce Beyond. She has spent a lifetime exploring how life, people, organizations, communities and nature flourish, evolve and bring new possibilities into being. Her perspective has been shaped by decades of looking at these questions from many angles, across government, business, social innovation, community and systems transformation. Her work lives at the intersection of strategy, imagination and living systems, with a particular curiosity about the relationships and conditions that reimagine even the term wellbeing beyond the individual into community and society. She brings the wisdom of a long trajectory, a deep trust in life’s intelligence, and an ability to sense patterns and possibilities while they are still emerging. • Jake Hirsch-Allen (Director of Partnerships, The Dais at TMU) Jake works at the intersection of inclusive technology, ethical data, and responsible AI. He built public-private partnerships in workforce development and higher education at LinkedIn, co-founded Lighthouse Labs, and advises impact investors, public-sector leaders, and startups on responsible tech and AI governance.