Collision from Home launches its Employment Initiative scheme to support jobseekers in Toronto

Today, Collision from Home launched its Employment Initiative, a scheme set up to exclusively benefit those in Toronto who are no longer employed due to the economic effects of Covid-19. 

Collision from Home is giving 1,000 Toronto jobseekers free and full access to its first ever online event, offering them the opportunity to learn, be inspired and make meaningful connections with people they otherwise wouldn’t meet.

After liaising with the host City of Toronto, event organisers made the decision in early March to postpone Collision’s physical event until 2021. While the event will not be in Toronto, the Employment Initiative is a way for those in the city to attend Collision from Home for free.

“We want to give back to our host City of Toronto. At the core of this initiative, we want as many attendees as possible to make the most meaningful and long-lasting connections with people they otherwise wouldn’t meet. While Covid-19 has put massive strain on businesses and jobs around the world, and in Toronto, now is also the time to be creative, adapt and upskill. Hopefully those who join Collision from Home through the Employment Initiative will find opportunities by connecting with people who can inspire or advise them through this extremely tough economic time.” – says Paddy Cosgrave, founder and CEO of Collision from Home.

“The Collision Employment Initiative is one of the many ways in which organizations are stepping up and helping us support our residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. This program will help job seekers experience Collision from Home and participate in our growing tech sector. I want to thank Paddy Cosgrave and Collision for initiating this program and for creating opportunities for people to connect and network with tech leaders from around the world.” – says Mayor of Toronto, John Tory.

About Collision

Collision is known by CBC as the “TIFF for tech”, while Inc. Magazine coins it the “fastest-growing tech conference in North America”. Collision is set to move online for 2020 with Collision from Home. Collision will return to Toronto as a physical event for the second year from June 21-24, 2021, at the Enercare Centre.

About Web Summit

Forbes says Web Summit is “the best tech conference on the planet”; Bloomberg calls it “Davos for geeks”; Politico, “the Olympics of tech”; The Guardian, “Glastonbury for geeks”; and, in the words of Inc. magazine, “Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world”.

Whatever Web Summit is, it wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team of over 200 employees based in Dublin, Lisbon, Toronto, and Hong Kong, including world-class engineers, data scientists, designers, producers, marketers, salespeople, and more. They’ve disrupted an old industry by building incredible software and designing mind-blowing events – revolutionising how people and ideas come together to change the world.