Conference

Annual National Conference

Whether you are a public servant, consultant, practitioner, educator, researcher or evaluation user, this event is for you! For over 40 years, our National Conference has been the place to meet, train and share your experiences with your evaluation colleagues.

Plan to join us in 2025

Access the dedicated C2025 website

C2025 will take place virtually. In holding a virtual conference, we aim to explore new methods of learning, sharing, and elevating the profession that move beyond the simple (and likely unrealistic) recreation of an in-person conference through our computer screens.

Past Conferences

  • 2025: Virtual - "Doing good (in) evaluation: the basics and beyond"
  • 2024: Fredericton, NB - "Renewal and Confluence: Navigating the Future of Evaluation" 
  • 2023: Quebec City, QC - "Evaluation in a Changing World"
  • 2022: Winnipeg, MB - "Diversity, Our Interwoven Experiences"
  • 2021: Virtual - "Evaluation Utilization: Reaching Our Potential?"
  • 2019: Halifax, NS - "Bridges"
  • 2018: Calgary, AB & Yellowknife, NT - "Co-creation"
  • 2017: Vancouver, BC - "Facing Forward: Innovation, Action and Reflection"
  • 2016: St. John's, NL - "Evaluation on the Edge"
  • 2015: Montreal, QC - "Evaluation for the World We Want"
  • 2014: Ottawa, ON - "35 Years: Celebrating Contributions to Canadian Evaluation"
  • 2013: Toronto, ON - "Evaluation Across Boundaries"
  • 2012: Halifax, NS - "Valuing Difference"
  • 2011: Edmonton, AB - "Generations: Multi-generational Approach to Evaluation"
  • 2010: Victoria, BC - "Going Green, Gold and Global"
  • 2009: Ottawa, ON - "Value in Evaluation"
  • 2008: Quebec City, QC - "Sharing Heritages"
  • 2007: Winnipeg, MB - "Culture, Community and Social Justice in Evaluation — Do the Pieces Fit?"
  • 2006: Charlottetown, PE - "Improving the Human Condition: Critiquing the Past, Confronting the Future"
  • 2005: Toronto, ON - "Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries"
  • 2004: Saskatoon, SK - "Evaluation, a Co-operative Enterprise"
  • 2003: Vancouver, BC - "In the Public's Best Interest: Evaluation, Accountability and Transparency"
  • 2002: Halifax, NS - "Evidence for Better Decision-Making"
  • 2001: Banff, AB - "The Odyssey Continues: Powering Up for Evaluation in the New Millennium"
  • 2000: Montreal, QC - "Evaluation and the New Governance: The Challenge of Reconciling Humanism and Technology"
  • 1999: Toronto, ON - "Evaluation: An Essential Contribution"
  • 1998: St. John's, NL - "Hard Times: Evaluation Works"
  • 1997: Ottawa, ON - "Evaluation in Partnership"
  • 1996: Winnipeg, MB - "Communities in Transition: The Evaluation Perspective"
  • 1995: Vancouver, BC - "International Evaluation - Evaluation for a New Century: A Global Perspective"
  • 1994: Quebec City, QC - "Diversity in Practice and Culture"
  • 1993: Banff, AB - "The Changing Face of Evaluation"
  • 1992: Ottawa, ON - "Program Evaluation and the Service Culture"
  • 1991: Vancouver, BC - "The Politics of Evaluation: A Challenge to Ethics, Issues & Skills"
  • 1990: Toronto, ON - "New Perspectives on Evaluation for the 90's"
  • 1989: Fredericton, NB - "Evaluation Towards Accountability"
  • 1988: Montreal, QC - "Evaluation with Limited Resources"
  • 1987: Ottawa, ON - "Evaluation: An Integral Part of Management"
  • 1986: Banff, AB - "Making Evaluation Work: Threat, Challenge or Value in Evaluation?"
  • 1985: Toronto, ON - "Exploring the Uses and Contributions of Evaluation"
  • 1984: Ottawa, ON - "Linking Program Evaluation to Decision-Making"
  • 1983: Victoria, BC - "Competing Perspectives in Evaluation"
  • 1982: Toronto, ON - "The Bottom Line: Utilization of What, By Whom?"
  • 1981: Toronto, ON - "The Conduct of Evaluation: Planning, Implementing and Utilizing Evaluations"
  • 1980: Toronto, ON - "Evaluation: The Canadian Challenge"