all it takes is an idea.

a weekend of the world’s greatest celebration of making.

Socratica Symposium 2026

The Socratica Symposium is an annual celebration of making.
It is a gathering that honours what happens to individuals when they take the risk to act on their dreams.
Socratica, an interdisciplinary group focused on passion projects, organizes the Symposium, which is an annual display of work that includes but not limited to art, science and technology.
The 2026 Symposium gathered over 2,500 people to Waterloo, with over 70 students presenting projects in art, engineering, business, design, poetry, and everything in between.