7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.  Registration Open

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshops

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Workshops

5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Opening Reception

7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.  Registration Open

7:30 – 8:45 a.m. Networking Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Opening Keynote

Embracing the current: Amplifying strategic leadership 

Cyrus Mavalwala, ABC, MC, Founding Partner, Advantis Communications Inc.

Session details

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Networking Refreshment Break

10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch

12:30 – 1:10 p.m. Luncheon Address

How to stop worrying and love artificial intelligence

Dan Browne, Media Creator and Communications Specialist, University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

Session details

1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Networking Refreshment Break + Dine Around sign up closes

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. General Session

4:15 – 4:45 p.m. Keynote

4:45 – 5:45 p.m. Communication and Wine: The Perfect Pairing

6:00 p.m. Dine Around Dinner groups (depart from hotel lobby)

7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast

8:00 – 8:45 a.m. Morning Remarks & Keynote

How to Communicate When you are Always in Crisis

Jenn Houtby-Ferguson, CMP, CMM, Professor, Vancouver Island University

Session details

9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions

10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Networking Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions

12:00 – 1:15 p.m.  Networking Lunch & Role of Master Communicator in your Career Journey presented by McMaster University

1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions

2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Networking Refreshment Break

3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Closing Keynote