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The biennial Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum (CKF or KMb Forum) (French: FCM – Forum Canadien sur la mobilisation des connaissances), founded by Knowledge Mobilization Works, now the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization, is a professional development forum for practitioners and professionals working in knowledge mobilization across fields and sectors.

Since 2022 organized by Research Impact Canada, which was co-organizer of the 2020 KMb Forum.

In 2016 and 2017 incl. President’s Awards for Leadership, Innovation, and Community Building. In 2022 incl. the Peter Levesque Award for Promoting Knowledge Mobilization as a Profession and the Research Impact Canada Award of Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization

Sister Event:

• United Kingdom Knowledge Mobilisation Forum (UK KMb Forum)

Conference History:

The next forum will be taking place in June 2026

10th Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2024, June 19-21, 2024, Montreal, Canada

Conference Theme: From Ideas to Action: Building Capacity for Knowledge Mobilization and Research Impact

Workshops:
Extend your reach: Tools and strategies for effective knowledge mobilization
Amplifying Impact: Engaging Lived Experience in KMb through Advisory Committees
Community Engaged Research During Health Crises
Initiatives en mobilisation des connaissances à l’UQAM: l’appel Connaissances en action et les 2 pôles de recherche partenariale en résilience urbaine et en santé mentale
Maximizing research and knowledge mobilization impact through partnership building
Optimizing Research Impact with an iKT Tool: A Case Study in Mental and Substance Use Health
Mobilizing Knowledge to Defy Dementia: Co-designing knowledge products to raise awareness on dementia prevention
Hearing Unheard Moments: a theatre-based approach to engaging youth in preventing violent extremism
Beyond the Project: Translating Learnings to Action
Research-Informed, Community-led Suicide Prevention: PC CARES: Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide
Letting go of the Reins: How Reader-Response Theory Enables Knowledge Translators to Create Space for Audience Engagement and Collaboration
Beyond Buzzwords: How Knowledge Mobilization can Advance Healthcare Innovation

Lightning Talks: Rapid Insights into Knowledge Mobilization
Who contributed to this work? Developing and implementing an adapted model for recognizing diverse contributions to knowledge products
But will anyone read it? Impact-focused annual reports on research
The power of the program visual: How to tell the story of your work before the work has begun
Guide to Authentic Family Engagement in Research Practices: Knowledge Mobilization Through Innovative Learning Models
Three paintings are worth a thousand words
La recherche communautaire : l’ÉDI et la mobilisation des connaissances en action
Optimizing Knowledge Mobilization to Support Cancer Survivorship Research
Cultivating social media communications capacity for health emergencies
SFU-UBC Implementation Science Training Initiative: Institutional collaborations to build capacity for Implementation Science in British Columbia
From Knowledge Generation to Impacts: McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative
Patient-Oriented Research in Forensic Mental Health Settings: Initial Findings From a Café Scientifique Event
Bridging the Gap: Creating a Digital Platform for Enhanced Community Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization in Canadian Research
ILET Research Hub: Mobilizing Knowledge on English-Language Education in Quebec
Scoping-review sur les méthodes d’évaluation des infrastructures de mobilisation des connaissances
The need to be seen: partnering with patients, unpaid caregivers and clinicians to increase Long-Covid awareness
Inclusive community engagement: Defining the 15-minute neighbourhood collaboratively
Using Dialogue + Action as a knowledge exchange tool to advance system-level changes to better serve people with complex mental health and substance use needs
Enhancing student well-being: Leveraging the Knowledge to Action Framework for stress management in higher education
Partnering with youth in research and building lasting, meaningful relationships
Empowering Communities: Building Critical Health Literacy Through Collaborative Learning

Catalyst Roundtables:
Starting a Journey to Equity and Anti-racism/Anti-oppression in Knowledge Mobilization Practice
Amplifying Impact: Insights from a research funder’s perspective
Plaidoyer pour la formation des personnes étudiantes en mobilisation des connaissances
Research IS Care: Knowledge Mobilization metrics that drive the integration of research and care
What is in our Toolbox? Scaling Evidence for Greater Impact
Navigating the Shift: Exploring the Impact of Fewer In-Person Connections on Knowledge Sharing, Innovation, and Research Impact
Museums and Science Centres as knowledge mobilization hubs
Mesurer les retombées scientifiques et sociétales de la recherche: un projet pilote à l’INRS
Leveraging Communities of Practice for Knowledge Mobilization, Innovation, and Learning
Addressing knowledge mobilization opportunities and challenges: an example of capacity building in an interdisciplinary rehabilitation research center
Exploring knowledge mobilization reporting and assessing practices: A scoping review and discussion
Community-based research towards public policy change

Unconference

Virtual Posters / Case Studies:
TBD

2024 Awards Ceremony

9th Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2022, June 13-17, 2022, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Virtual venue + In-person venues in Canada

Conference Theme: Responding to New Realities: Learning from the past and present to inform the future / Répondre aux nouvelles réalités : Apprendre du passé et du présent pour informer le futur
(Host: Knowledge Mobilization initiative, Library, Simon Fraser University)

Keynotes:
Our Co-creation Story: Knowledge Mobilization & Reconcilia(c)tion in Health Research
Faire du conseil scientifique, du global au local / Taking Science Advice from Global to Local
Knowledge Mobilization versus Public Scholarship: A Podcasting Perspective

Workshops:
Cited Media: Mobilizing Knowledge Through Podcasts
The how-to of creating a research-to-policy workshop for your institution
Applying the Participatory Research to Action (PR2A) Framework authentic engagement to co-design questions, knowledge and knowledge mobilization products with patients, families and citizens
Knowledge Equity Through Mentorship: Fraymes KMb Fellowship Program
Lessons learned for sustainable communities of practice | Leçons apprises pour assurer la long vit de communautés de pratique
Building Research Impact in a Justice-Seeking World: An Introduction to Critical Community Engaged Scholarship
Preparing and Implementing KMb During a Research Project: Longterm KMb projects
Lessons learned from completing and evaluating a multi-phase science-art residency
Effective data visualization tools and techniques for any budget
Healing Through Community: The Reflection Room in the Time of Covid-19
Knowledge Translation in Gynecologic Cancer Research: Patient-led, Patient-inspired (CANCELLED)
Strategies for mobilizing knowledge, expertise and experiences from youth to inform public health interventions
Holding Space: A Community Engagement Toolkit from SFU Public Square (was: Ten years of university-community engagement: Lessons from SFU Public Square)

Lightning Talks:
Examining Network Weaving as a Knowledge Mobilization Strategy in Medical Education Using System Evaluation Theory and Network Analysis
Diverse Communities Facing Multiple Barriers to Engagement in Patient Oriented Research: Early Insights and Findings
Techniques and mechanisms used by researchers and stakeholders for knowledge sharing in healthcare: what s useful?
Immunizations for children and youth with medical vulnerability: A review of current evidence and knowledge tools
Use of an Impact Evaluation Framework to Advance the Science of Knowledge Translation in Childhood Disability
Creating Great Big Stories (GBS): How to support meaningful engagement in knowledge mobilization
Mobilizing Knowledge from Experts-by-Experience to Enable Mental Health Conversations with Older Adults at the Point-of-Care in the Community
How to Be a Key Resource for Journalists
Engaging youth in knowledge mobilization: Lessons from the Halton Youth Impact Survey
Learning and Growing in KMb: Key Factors for Successful, Meaningful Engagement

Catalyst Roundtables:
Beyond the good intentions of the mission-driven impact agenda: How to create a grant funding program to mobilize research for real world benefits
Co-creation of Knowledge Products with Underserved Groups: Insights from an intermediary organization
A Strategic & Design-led approach to Research Communications: Case Study of Under Layered Suspicion
Reimagining knowledge mobilization: Sharing our journey
Decolonizing Urban Research? Tactics, strategies and methods for capacity-building and Knowledge Mobilization between across and beyond local contexts hosted by NUICC and the National Urban Indigenous Knowledge Mobilization Hub
CivicLabTO: City-wide knowledge mobilization
Maximizing Research Impact through GEEK: Increasing access to care by investing in community-led KMb and evidence-implementation
How to Build Capacity for Social Innovation through Experiential Learning Partnerships. Examining a Prototype
Knowledge Management and Communication: Ontario University Research Collaboration microcredential
Anti-Oppression and Knowledge Mobilization
Demonstrating research ROI in a digital world
Collaboration, Co-creation, and Ongoing Capacity Building for Impactful Research in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living: Engaging Clinician, Academic and Patient Partners

Panels:
Living Lab Panel: How two Canadian universities use the campus as a living lab for climate solutions

Poster Presentations:
Collective Impact: Shared Vision for Social Innovation
…n.a.

Closing Plenary/Wrap-Up
Speed Networking

Co-located events: (In-person)

Jun 17, Calgary
Calgary Knowledge Mobilization Meetup
(Host: University of Calgary: Knowledge Engagement team, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI), Office of Sustainability, Simpson Centre for Agricultural and Food Innovation and Public Education)

Guelph, Jun 13
Knowledge Mobilization Forum: Sharing Knowledge with Indigenous Communities
(Host: Waterloo Wellington Knowledge Mobilization Community; Research Innovation Office, University of Guelph)

Ottawa, Jun 17
Mobilization Morning – hear about the amazing KMb work being conducted by the various KMb organizations in Ottawa
(Host: Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre)

St. Catharine, Jun 17
Mobilizing Knowledge for the Adoption of Best Management Practices in Horticulture Production: A Guided Discussion
(Host: Niagara Community Observatory, Brock University)

Toronto, Jun 17
Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum Gathering: The Future Skills Needed for KMb Work – Keynote, Panel & Breakout Tabel Discussions
(Host: Knowledge Mobilization Unit, York University)

Vancouver, Jun 16
4th Health xChange & CKF Get Connected: How can youth-led and youth-engaged approaches help to re-define research and knowledge?
(Host: Michael Smith Health Research BC; Knowledge Mobilization Initiative, Simon Fraser University; Vancouver Foundation)

8th Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2020, November 24-26, 2020, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Virtual venue

Conference Theme: Welcoming New Talent, Skills, and Perspectives / Accueillir de nouveaux talents, compétences et perspectives
(co-organizer: Research Impact Canada)

Note: The forum was scheduled for June 8-9, 2020 and November 24-25, 2020

Séances plénières:
Évaluation de l’impact : apprendre à déterminer si les stratégies de mobilisation des connaissances fonctionnent
…

Tables rondes des catalyseurs:
C’est la mobilisation active des universités de recherche canadiennes qui garantira l’avenir de la MdC et l’impact de la recherche
« Ils sont vivants ! » – Négocier l’évolution des extrants de la MdC avec les partenaires communautaires
Renforcer la capacité à mobiliser les connaissances
Le courtage de partenariats multisectoriels
La diffusion des résultats : études de cas
Les communautés praticiennes en valent-elles la peine ? Histoires d’initiés
Approches de la MdC dans les Centres d’excellence, les trois organismes subventionnaires fédéraux et le Programme d’innovation dans les collèges et la communauté
Perspectives canadiennes et internationales sur les retombées de la recherche
Modèles et structures de courtage des connaissances
Systèmes et structures des établissements
La MdC, de l’innovation à la pratique
…

Ateliers de perfectionnement professionnel:
Tables rondes sur le perfectionnement professionnel
Tables rondes en perfectionnement professionnel : partenariats en application des connaissances
Ouvrir le sentier à mesure qu’on avance : partager les connaissances à l’interne en période de changement
Désinformation : c’est aussi NOTRE faute ! Sylviane Duval
Quel impact avons-nous ? Développement d’un cadre de référence pour l’évaluation des stratégies de transfert des connaissances
Table ronde sur le développement professionnel : des communications remarquables
De la diffusion à l’implantation : introduction au jeu de la mise en œuvre comme moyen de planifier l’implantation
Solutions durables : approches de pointe pour une planification efficace de la viabilité
SPARKing Change et l’application des connaissances : mobilisation réfléchie des actants et agents du changement
Outil de visualisation des données
…

…Affiches et causeries éclair; Agora; Séances de réseautage

(POSTPONED)
8th Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2019, June 10-11, 2019, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

TBD

7th Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2018, June 10-12, 2018, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Conference Theme: Mobilizing Evidence for Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals

Pre-Forum (Deep Dive Skills) Workshops (Jun 10):
Knowledge Mobilization Supports Research from Application to Impact
Is KMb in Need of a Nudge: How Behavioural Economics can Inform Behaviour Change
Creating a Critical Mass of Practitioners Using Intersectionality as a Knowledge Mobilization Tool
Measuring Mobilization: Skill Development in KMb Evaluation
Co-created Research for International Development: Making a Lasting Difference by Deepening Engagement, Building Capacities, and Managing Pitfalls
Learning From “Strangers at Home”- Tensions and Tactics of Human Rights

Professional Development Workshops:
How Broad Are Your Impacts? Tools From an International Collaboration of Impact Networks
Opportunities and Challenges for Knowledge Mobilization Within Large Scale Science and Research Programs Simon Landry, Knowledge Mobilization Strategy in Action – Accessibility and Municipalities/National Housing Strategy: Research, Data and Demonstrations
Building KT Connections to Advance Equity in Mental Health: Promising Practices in Immigrant and Refugee Engagement
From Rumblings to Report to Mobile App: Lessons Learned in the Evolution Process
Where to Next? Refreshing an Organizational Approach to Knowledge Mobilization
Mobilizing Knowledge Through Communities of Interest in Mental Health and Addictions
Navigating Complex Content: How We Made a Course on Human Trafficking
Infographics for Knowledge Mobilization
Developing Policy Dialogues as a Strategy to Advance Human Rights for Children With Disabilities
The Right to be Meaningfully Engaged – Partnering with Emerging Adults With Lived Experience
Graphic Design For The Non-Designer: Creating Research Materials for Marginalized Populations
Visualizing Sustainability and Well-Being at the Community Level – Localizing the SDGs Through an Open-Source, Map-Based Community Indicators Platform
Data Visualization Toolkit
Why Guide and Service Dog Users Are Working Together to Ensure Access Rights
Deep Dive on “How To” Mobilize: Using Implementation Science to Mobilize Evidence and Improve Health and Social Outcomes
Accessibility in Knowledge Management
Weaving Research With Social Change Work
Unpacking Needs Assessments: The Challenge of Identifying Shared KMb Priorities Amongst Diverse Stakeholders
The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum Beyond 2020

Open Space Session:
Feeling Like an Imposter and How to Overcome It
Is It Time to Professionalize the Field of KT?
Knowledge Mobilization and Research Impact as a Platform for the Future of Post-Secondary Education in Canada

6th Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2017, May 17-18, 2017, Ottawa-Gatineau, Québec, Canada

Conference Theme: Connections and Partnerships: Collaboration as a Key to Knowledge Mobilization

Training Workshops:
Creating a knowledge mobilization strategy for knowledge networks
Cross-sector collaboration and partnership to implement youth justice programming
Building a knowledge network- theory, challenges, and what really happens
Mobilizing a province to early childhood: how Alberta created and mobilized 100 early childhood coalitions to put children on the map
Thinking together: a space and method for reflecting on knowledge mobilisation (and other philosophical questions!)
Research team collaborations that work
Engaging end-users to develop KT tools and build meaningful network capacity: the TREKK experience
Make resilience matter: using a research contribution framework for knowledge mobilization to help professionals help children exposed to intimate partner violence
The Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research: Leading and implementing a systems approach to knowledge mobilization in Ontario
Infographics Toolkit
Just because you build it, they will not come: Creating an engagement strategy for online communities of practice
International perspectives on networks and on-line spaces. Are you “naïve enthusiasm” or “oh ye of little faith”
Systematizing and automating Knowledge Management workflows for fun and non-profit
Stories: The magic that makes your message resonate
Collaboration and Partnership Building: Exploring consensus building in Knowledge Exchange to inform policy change in mental health using the Innovation to Implementation (I2I) guide
An integrated approach to knowledge transfer and communication for occupational health and safety
Helping it happen: Engaging the right stakeholders in the right way around a practice change in palliative radiotherapy

Open Space Discussions:
Practicing what we preach: Let’s get better at teaching KMb
A discussion about how to address workplace bullying in an effective manner: informing the priorities for research and KT by understanding stakeholder needs
Building organizational capacity for knowledge translation: A not-for profit associations leap into KT
Hacking knowledge mobilization: A guided tour
Resource based Collaboration: The SERENE-RISC toolkit for cybersecurity education
Knowledge brokering: Evaluating the impact
KMb and the Innovation Landscape
Exploring the role of knowledge brokers (KBs) in mental health and substance use: Working together to enhance partnerships through a Community of Practice (CoP)

Pre-conference Unconference (May 16):
Social Media & Research: What Works? What’s Next?

5th Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2016, June 28-29, 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Conference Theme: Systems and Sustainability – Creating enduring Knowledge Mobilization

Workshops:
Deliberative dialogues as a tool for knowledge mobilization: Reflections from our experience in West Africa
Wisdom 2 Action events as a real-time route for knowledge mobilization and network building
Changing the mindset – Encouraging Canadians to Plan for Aging in Place
Planning for Sustainability
Developing and sustaining the knowledge broker role within Ontario’s transitioning child and youth mental health sector
Development of systems and tools to build knowledge mobilization capacity and sustainability in rehabilitation through a national community of practice
How and will provide an overview of research impact evaluation, from planning, to implementing, to understanding and using the results
Building and maintaining networks for knowledge mobilization
Mobilizing French as a Second Language: A model for disseminating new language teaching resources
Supporting integrated KT with embedded evaluation
A taste of our own medicine: tips and tricks to harness the literature for evidence-informed K* practice
The Hybrid KT Planning/Project Management tool
UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum: Make sure it does something!
The Long Term Success Tool: a pragmatic approach to improve your chances of sustainability?
A day in the life: Real life examples of knowledge broker core competencies
How PREVNet is Mobilizing Canada to Promote Healthy Relationships and Prevent Bullying among Children and Youth
EENet Rapid Reviews: Providing evidence to impact system change
La réalisation d’une activité de formation professionnelle réflexive… dont vous êtes le héros (gamebook style!)
Knowledge Mobilization: A Variety of career paths
Keeping your garden of flourishing networks and partnerships healthy, flowering and weed-free
How accessible is your knowledge product? A four-level framework for accessibility
Partnering for sustainable knowledge mobilization in long-term care and retirement living: Stories from the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging and Schlegel Villages
Creating a Knowledge Mobilization Strategy in Government – Reflections on a new Approach
DOCTalks: Cross-sector Partnerships for Knowledge Mobilization using Documentary Media
Developing a knowledge mobilization network across the public education system: Lessons learned and future approaches from Ontario’s Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (KNAER)
Assessing Research for KTE Readiness: A Tool for End-of-Grant KTE
A Knowledge Exchange Structure in Support of System Impact
Entrepreneurship Education and Urban Indigenous Youth
The Sustainability of the At Home/Chez Soi Housing First Programs in Canada
Knowledge Brokering in context of Healthy Aging – What, Who, How?

4th Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2015, May 14-15, 2015, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Conference Theme: Creativity as Practice: Mobilizing Diverse Ways of Thinking

Pre-Forum Activity:
Communication Strategy: Part of a Knowledge Mobilization Toolkit

Professional Development Workshops:
Définir un projet vidéo documentaire dans son milieu et identifier les facteurs de réalisation
The Guidance Is Not Enough: The use of frameworks to bring knowledge into action for improvement
Narratives, video and smartphones as KT tools for youth
Performing knowledge mobilization: Moving our experience
Vous avez dit : Mobilisation inclusive de connaissances ? La médiation intellectuelle; une pédagogie critique à la jonction de la philosophie et des arts.
Mobilizing your message through documentary video: research findings as cinematic narrative
The Innovation to Implementation (I2I): a how-to guide to driving change using knowledge translation activities in the areas of health
Infographic for KMb
Le design thinking comme approche créative de mobilisation des connaissances
Utiliser l’information en ligne pour soutenir la créativité

3rd Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2014, June 9-10, 2014, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Conference Theme: Putting Research to Work: Social & Economic Innovations

Interactive events:
“Knowledge In Motion” Café: Top Innovation Issues
Innovation World Café
Value Creation World Café
KMb Forum takeaways: Top Innovation Ideas
KMb Game: Knowledge Mobilization Pyramid
KMb Kwicky Konnections session (active facilitated networking)

2nd Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2013, June 3-4, 2013, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Conference Theme: Working together in Knowledge Mobilization: closing the loop between research and practice

Panel Sessions:
Building a KT Friendly Organization (+ Small Group & Discovery Discussions)
Networking the Networks: How to Ensure Networks Don’t Become “Not-works” (+ Group Discussion)

Interactive events:
KMb Kwicky Konnections – Speed Networking and Synergy Session: Connecting Across Sectors
KMb Synergy Session: Connecting Across Sectors
KMb Knowledge Skill Testing Game

1st Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2012, June 19-20, 2012, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Conference Theme: Bringing the science and art of Knowledge Mobilization practice together

Knowledge Café:
What have been your best results with knowledge mobilization practice?
What supports do you need for knowledge mobilization?
What are the three actions you can take right now to improve knowledge mobilization in your organization?

Knowledge Mobilization Springboard:
Resources: What do we need to pool our resources together and to attract new resources?
People & Partners: How do we attract, train, and retain the best people to support our activities?
Growth: How do we measure growth and success?