The theme of #CZC2025 is: “Strengthening Coastal Resilience and Relationships”.

Recognizing the importance of sharing different perspectives, knowledge systems, experiences, and efforts within coastal zones, the focus of this year’s conference is relationships. Whether the relationships are with land, water, ice, wildlife, or humans, their strength and diversity are critical in building collective resilience.

As Canada’s national conference for coastal zone management, we invite everyone who works within coastal zones to come and connect to share our passion for advancing knowledge building, best practices, and social and policy awareness. Drawing engineers, scientists, youth, artists, planners, climate change practitioners, community leaders, and more – this conference looks to push coastal zone management to new heights by bringing together different actors and knowledge holders to facilitate a better understanding of different pressures and opportunities as well as enable more impactful collaborations.