Generation1.ca, a North American professional community association advancing immigrant inclusion and workforce innovation, will present new research at Esomar’s LATAM 2026 Conference in Rio de Janeiro in March 2026.
Founder and CEO Arundati Dandapani will deliver her paper Modelling Migration, Synthetic Foresight and the Future of Latin America: From People to Possibility: How Generation1.ca is Reframing Latin America’s Talent and Innovation Landscape, reframing migration from a retrospective count of arrivals to a forward-looking system of capability formation across the Americas.
The research draws on Generation1.ca’s multi-year Global Industry Skills Study (GISS 2025) and integrates anonymized census microdata in partnership with Livepanel with their ethically governed synthetic population modelling techniques to address persistent representational gaps in immigrant and diaspora research.
What the Research Shows
The study demonstrates that:
- Social inclusion is a stronger predictor of long-term immigrant retention than arrival pathway. Furthermore, experiences of bias and discrimination reduce immigrants’ intention to remain in North America.
- AI and technological readiness strengthen long-term settlement confidence.
- Latin American immigrants exhibit high ambition, digital literacy, and a strategic emphasis on mentorship and professional networking, signaling readiness for leadership and innovation.
These findings challenge deficit narratives that frame immigrant integration primarily as a cultural adjustment issue. Instead, they identify structural inclusion, economic absorption and future-of-work preparedness as decisive drivers of retention and contribution.
A Cross-Continental Partnership
This research is being conducted in partnership with Livepanel, an Argentina-based global research technology platform. Together, Generation1.ca and Livepanel combine census-aligned population scaffolding with privacy-preserving machine-learning modeling to simulate forward-looking migration and labour market scenarios across Canada, the United States, and Latin America.
The approach enables:
- Expanded representation of mobile and hard-to-reach immigrant populations
- Cross-border comparability across statistical systems
- Scenario testing for long-term immigration and workforce outcomes
- Strong data governance and privacy protections
By anchoring synthetic augmentation to trusted source data, the partnership demonstrates how methodological innovation can strengthen both public trust and policy relevance.
Reframing Latin America’s Role in Global Research
Latin America is among the fastest-growing regions in global research yet remains uneven in infrastructure and sampling stability. Generation1.ca’s presentation positions the region not as a peripheral market, but as a frontline laboratory for adaptive, foresight-driven research design.
With one in six people in high-income countries projected to be migrants by 2035, institutions must move beyond reactive crisis management toward proactive modelling of talent mobility, innovation pathways and transnational contribution. See you in Rio, and e-mail arundati@generation1.ca if you would like to book an appointment during this visit!
“Migration is inherently future-oriented. People move based on possibility. Our research systems must evolve to measure not just where people arrive, but what all they can become and belong to. A lot of our own internal research and the census-based synthetic modelling in collaboration with Livepanel is testament to the powerful pathways and systems we are building with Generation1.ca’s Future Ready Innovators Credential.”
Arundati Dandapani, Founder and CEO, Generation1.ca
