Culture & Ideas
TEDx conferences and intellectual events in Quebec
Quebec is bursting with ideas. Conferences, forums, symposia, book fairs: the intellectual life of the capital is as lively as its summer festivals. For those who nourish the mind as much as the body.
TEDxQuébec
Ideas worth sharing
For several years, TEDxQuébec has gathered brilliant minds around short and powerful talks that resonate far beyond the city.
The TED format, born in San Francisco, has found fertile ground in Quebec. TEDxQuébec brings together every year speakers from science, art, entrepreneurship, and philosophy to share, in 18 minutes flat, ideas that challenge, inspire, and transform. Like a qualifying lap: intense, precise, memorable.
★ Must-see TEDxQuébec
The annual event gathers hundreds of participants in an electric atmosphere where each conference can change a perspective. The talks are then posted online on the TED channel, allowing listeners worldwide to discover the voices of Quebec.
The most notable conferences
Over the editions, TEDxQuébec has welcomed scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, and activists who have left a lasting mark in the public memory. Topics range from artificial intelligence to Indigenous spirituality, including urban planning and sustainable gastronomy.
Forums & Colloquia
Quebec, city of dialogue
From economic forums to scientific symposia, Quebec is a stronghold of French-speaking intellectual debate in North America.
Quebec Economic Forum
Every year, business leaders, elected officials, and researchers gather to discuss the major economic issues of the region and Quebec. An intense networking event often held in the grand hotels of Old Quebec, just steps from Carrera Café.
Laval University symposia
Laval University, one of the oldest universities in Canada, organizes hundreds of symposia and conferences open to the public every year. From marine biology to political philosophy, including history and the arts, the program is remarkably rich.
Acfas in Quebec City
The Francophone Association for Knowledge (Acfas) organizes every year the largest French-speaking scientific gathering in the world. When held in Quebec City, it transforms the city into a vast intellectual campus open to all.
Book Fair
Words in Celebration
The Quebec International Book Fair is one of the most important French-speaking literary events in America. Every year, it attracts more than 100,000 visitors.
Literature The Quebec Book Fair
Founded in 1968, the Quebec International Book Fair welcomes every year more than 300 authors and illustrators, hundreds of publishers, and over 100,000 reading enthusiasts. A true celebration of the book and the French language in North America.
University Life
One Campus, One City
Laval University, with its 45,000 students, is a cultural and intellectual catalyst for the entire city of Quebec.
Laval University is much more than a university campus: it is a city within a city, a magnet for talent from around the world that enriches the cultural and intellectual life of Quebec. Its libraries, laboratories, and public spaces are as many places of creation and exchange that Quebecers freely share with students. Laval University is the oldest French-speaking university in North America, founded in 1663.
Barista's Tip
Great ideas often are born around a coffee. At Carrera, we firmly believe the best espresso is the one shared after a conference that shook you. Our counter is open to exchanges, debates, and challenging conversations, as long as they are accompanied by good coffee.
The Café of Ideas
Carrera Café, where conversations pick up speed
Between two conferences, Carrera Café is the natural stop for curious minds visiting Quebec.
The world of motorsport shares with intellectual life the same obsession: performance, innovation, self-surpassing. At Carrera Café, in Petit-Champlain, this dialogue between speed and reflection takes shape in every cup. Speakers, researchers, and curious visitors find here a space where ideas gain speed, fueled by caffeine and the Italian atmosphere of our café.
The Post-Conference Ritual
For minds stimulated after a conference, our selection of intellectual recharge.
Philosopher Espresso
Simple, concentrated, uncompromising. Our high-intensity Sicilian espresso, served black in our signature cup. The drink for those who have just received an idea to digest.
Sweetness and Reflection Latte
For ideas that take time: our hot, velvety latte, carefully prepared. The caffeinated equivalent of a slow read in a leather armchair by the fire.
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