For municipal leaders
Mayors, city managers, and senior teams.
Presented by FWD50 and the City of Montréal
Civic intelligence for tomorrow’s cities
AI is already changing how cities serve residents, support public servants, and make decisions. Muniavenir is a two-day gathering for municipal leaders who need to understand what works, what to watch out for, and where to begin.
Tickets: CAD $750
From strategy to action
Concrete cases, practical tools, and implementation lessons.
Responsible and trustworthy
Governance, privacy, protection, and equity.
Measurable results
Better services, stronger teams, and visible public value.
By and for cities
A community that shares, learns, and advances together.
What is Muniavenir?
Muniavenir is a bilingual conference about civic intelligence in tomorrow’s cities: the practical, responsible, measurable use of artificial intelligence in municipal government.
It is not a technology showcase or a hype-cycle checkpoint. It is a working event for mayors, city managers, service leaders, digital teams, IT, data, HR, communications, procurement, legal, and innovation teams who need to turn interest in AI into public value.
Over two days, Muniavenir will focus on case studies, implementation lessons, practical tools, and candid conversations about the choices cities face now: which use cases to start with, how to build public trust, how to support staff, how to govern risk, how to measure success, and how to move from pilots to lasting capability.
Why now?
Cities are on the front line. They answer resident requests, manage essential infrastructure, support vulnerable communities, issue permits, maintain streets, plan neighbourhoods, respond to crises, and are asked to do more with limited resources.
AI can help. But only if it is implemented with care.
Muniavenir looks at AI where it becomes real: in services, workflows, data, rules, budgets, teams, and public trust.
What you’ll learn
You will leave with practical answers to questions cities are already asking:
Where should we start?
How to identify early use cases that create value without creating unnecessary risk.
How do we build public support?
How to explain benefits, limits, safeguards, and accountability in plain language.
How do we support public servants?
How AI can reduce administrative burden, improve access to information, and give staff more time for higher-value public work.
How should we govern AI?
What policies, roles, procurement practices, data foundations, and oversight mechanisms need to be in place.
How do we measure success?
How to define useful indicators: shorter wait times, better service quality, satisfaction, equity, productivity, trust, and organizational learning.
Who should attend
Muniavenir is for the people who need to make real decisions about municipal AI:
- Mayors and elected officials
- City managers and senior executives
- Resident service and operations leaders
- Digital, data, IT, and innovation teams
- Communications and public engagement teams
- Procurement, legal, finance, and risk leaders
- HR and organizational transformation teams
- Public partners working with cities
Themes
Resident services
Permits, requests, call centres, personalized information, accessibility, multilingual service, and resident experience.
Public-servant productivity
Internal search, drafting, summarization, automation, document management, decision support, and reducing repetitive work.
Trust, governance, and public legitimacy
Transparency, security, privacy, bias, equity, accountability, and public communication.
Data, procurement, and sovereignty
Preparing data, choosing tools, avoiding vendor lock-in, buying responsibly, and building internal capability.
Measurement and scaling
Moving from a pilot to a reliable service: metrics, costs, benefits, learning, training, and change management.
Why attend?
Because municipal AI is not simply a tool-selection problem. It is a service, governance, culture, and trust challenge.
Muniavenir will help you compare priorities with other cities, learn from work already underway, avoid common traps, and leave with a clearer 90-day path for your own organization.
2
days of focused content
30+
cities represented
50+
case studies and practical examples
1
community advancing together
Who’s behind it
Muniavenir is presented by FWD50 and the City of Montréal.
Since 2017, FWD50 has brought together public servants, technologists, and civic changemakers around a simple question: how can we use technology to make society better for all? Muniavenir applies that same practical, public-interest lens to one of the most urgent questions facing cities: how to turn AI into real, responsible, measurable public value.
Logistics
- Dates
- July 6–7, 2026
- Venue
- Grand Quay of the Port of Montreal
- City
- Montréal, Québec
- Languages
- French and English
- Ticket
- CAD $750
- Audience
- Municipal leaders, executive teams, and the people transforming public services
Ready to participate?
Join municipal leaders who are putting AI to work for residents, public servants, and public trust.
Contact
- General questions
- contact@muniavenir.ca
- Partnerships and sponsorship
- partners@muniavenir.ca
- Media
- media@muniavenir.ca