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The top 10 reasons to go to #MiC2017 – (reasons 1 through 10 will change your life*)

1. Best panels ever assembled*
   • Digital transformation: Hillary Hartley, Ontario’s Chief Digital Officer – Gabe Sawhney, Code for Canada – Treasury Branch of Canada
   • Civic lab innovation: Civic lab and accelerator leaders from Vancouver, Calgary, Kitchener and Guelph
   • Innovation impact: @josephby from @Communitech & @CODX, @kristoferkelly and @kerrsmithdesign
2. Out of this world* keynote presentations
   • Best-selling, multiple-award-winning author Lawrence Hill
   • Martha Lenio led a NASA Mars Probe simulation in Hawaii for eight months
3. Wonderful workshops

• Failure and innovation in local government: @AGoodFailure, @hillary and @GavinA09 from @LuckyIronFish
  • Accelerator jam with Rick Boersma from Juice Inc.
  • Thinking like a designer with Helen Kerr and the innovation team from the Region of Peel

4. Best pre-conference-municipal-innovation-conference video of all time*
5. The Province of Ontario’s Behavioural Insights Unit. I know, right, mind blowing stuff. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
6. Best partners
   • Public Sector Digest is great and they are hosting a pre-conference workshop with a series of rapid fire presentations from municipal innovators
   • Guelph’s Sleeman Brewery is hosting the best municipal innovation hospitality suite
7. Best MC in the entire history of Guelph municipal innovation conferences—Jay Reid from The Making Box
8. We’re going to help you share what you learned after the conference with a pre-made PowerPoint to impress your colleagues
9. The people. Attendees have already booked their registrations from Abbottsford, British Columbia to Halifax, Nova Scotia
10. It’s in Guelph. Take a look at eight Canada 150-inspired mini films to get a flavour of our city. And take a look at a couple of our innovative projects: Civic Accelerator and the municipal guide for the sharing economy
11. !!BONUS REASON!! Everyone who comes will get their very own @LuckyIronFish with another donated to a developing country