Join us for the inaugural GIID Global Summit, 9-11 April 2025 in Monterrey, Mexico
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ORGANIZED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
With support from
Catalyst Partners
The inaugural GIID Global Summit on April 9-11, 2025 brings innovation district leaders together with changemakers, visionaries, and investors from around the world.
3
Days
250
Attendees
50
Innovation Districts
18
Countries
PROGRAM & SPEAKERS
Immersive experiences, deep-dive sessions, and collaborative opportunities to advance the practice of innovation districts.
GIID AWARDS: APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
Learn more about three new awards celebrating exceptional districts and their leaders! Applications due April 2.
Winners announced live on April 10.
In the span of a single decade, districts are advancing their unique value proposition through new linkages with industry, R&D institutions, government, intermediaries, and other actors in the innovation ecosystem.
Join us as we investigate how these deeper linkages and innovations—in areas spanning human health, clean-tech, and disruptive technologies—are unleashing new opportunities across nearly every world region.
The Global Summit is organized by the Global Institute on Innovation Districts in partnership with Monterrey Innovation District, led by Tecnológico de Monterrey, and a Host Committee of city and regional leaders.
The inaugural GIID Global Summit details insights into the various roles districts are playing locally and regionally—and increasingly, nationally and globally—as they take on global macro forces, including the imperatives to Diversify Talent, Decarbonize, and De-Risk.
This inaugural Summit also presents:
A well-tested, evolving framework for understanding the innovation district model and each district’s unique value proposition.
Novel research and analysis designed to advance the practice of this evolving model.
Pathways and strategies for repositioning districts as drivers of inclusive innovation and shared prosperity.
Financial models alongside new indicators to measure impact and return on investment across this distinct, in demand asset class.
The Summit will surface new trends and insights and give district leaders and their teams both practical and tactical tools to advance.
The Summit is an avenue for those interested in individual innovation districts—and the overall model—to learn how districts support industry and others to advance and scale ideas for the global market.
The Summit clarifies how districts are evolving to become regional engines that strengthen global competitiveness and how government actors are investing and catalyzing district growth.
The Summit elevates the role of universities and other actors in innovation ecosystems to support the people, places, and platforms that foster innovation and the commercialization of ideas.
Immersive experiences, in-depth sessions, and collaborative exchanges create opportunities to forge new partnerships and alliances and seed groundbreaking programs and transformative ideas. The Summit offers a culturally enriching and engaging environment bringing together changemakers and visionaries across various sectors to advance and shape the innovation district model on a global scale
In the span of a single decade, districts are advancing their unique value proposition through new linkages with industry, R&D institutions, government, intermediaries, and others in the innovation ecosystem.
The inaugural GIID Global Summit is dedicated to defining
The Global Summit details insights into the various roles districts are playing locally and regionally—and increasingly, nationally and globally—as they take on global macro forces, including the imperatives to:
DELIVER
Gain insights on new and proven approaches to comprehensive “people strategies”—how districts attract, train and retain a diverse talent pool for next gen technologies from the earliest stages through the highest levels.
DECARBONIZE
Learn how districts serve as catalysts, facilitators, and repositories of a web of R&D and new technologies to solve and scale the energy transition and the energy-water nexus.
DERISK
Probe new analysis and strategies for leveraging significant shifts in production and supply chains due to national security concerns and the global rise of nearshoring, smartshoring and friendshoring.
The GIID Inaugural Global Summit offers a transformative experience for the world’s top innovation district leaders, changemakers, visionaries, and investors—and we welcome your active participation in this growing community.
Given the highly curated nature and size of this inaugural convening—approximately 300 people from more than 14 countries are expected to join as we gather together April 9-11, 2025 in Monterrey, Mexico—for those not affiliated with GIID or our Host Partner, Monterrey Innovation District, Summit Passes are priced at USD $3,000.
Various ticket levels and group packages are available for district leaders, their teams and partners in innovation ecosystems:
Districts currently affiliated at the Empower and Advance tiers of our Global Network
GIID Partners: learn more about these industry leaders (coming soon!)
Summit Partners: learn more about which organizations we’re partnering with on our inaugural convening (coming soon!)
Districts currently affiliated at the – Connect tier of the Global Network
Alumni of the Global Network
Select districts and individuals working with GIID
To incentivize participation of districts across various stages of growth in Latin America, and seed a nascent Latin American Alliance of district leaders, GIID is offering a substantial 75% discount off the regular cost of a Summit Pass for those located in Latin America. Must register by March 14, 2025 to take advantage of this opportunity.
Early bird registration through February 14, 2025 brings a 20% discount off the regular cost of a Summit Pass.
Contact Summit@GIID.org if you missed the deadline and are interested in joining.
Contact us at Summit@GIID.org if you have any questions.
Three new awards will recognize and celebrate the achievements of innovation districts and the individuals that drive this work. Whether you’re a long-standing pioneer in the field, or an emerging changemaker, GIID is creating a new awards program to celebrate excellence and showcase your achievements on an international stage.
We have negotiated special discounts with nearby hotels for the Global Summit. Take advantage of these exclusive attendee rates by booking with our affiliated hotels: Camino Real Hotel Fashion Drive, City Express Plus by Marriott Monterrey Nuevo Sur, Fiesta Inn Tecnologico. Secure your stay early to ensure availability!
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