Thank you to everyone who joined us in Ottawa!
We look forward to seeing you next year at the FIRST event of its kind, addressing the most pressing governance challenges facing crown corporations.
OUR 2025 PROGRAM IS IN DEVELOPMENT
Take a look at the lineup of speakers and event highlights from our 2024 event:
2024 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Carol Hansell
Senior Partner
Hansell LLP
Simon Kamel
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Royal Canadian Mint
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS
Randy Jackiw
Assistant Deputy Minister
Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, Ontario
Okenge Yuma Morisho
Deputy Minister
Ministry of Municipal Affairs Government of British Columbia
CROWN EXECUTIVES AND DIRECTORS
Jane Halford
Chair
Farm Credit Canada
Teresa Woo-Paw
Chairperson
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Colleen Ouellette
Director & Corporate Secretary
Export Development Canada
Melanie Debassige
Chair – First Nations Committee
Ontario Clean Water Agency
LAW PRACTITIONERS AND CONSULTANTS
Shea Coulson
Partner
DLA Piper Canada LLP
Marco Falco
Partner
Torkin Manes LLP
Amy Syed
Director, Cloud & Data
PwC Canada
Thomas Yeo
Partner
Torys LLP
2024 Conference Highlights
- Federal Election 2024: Understanding How Federal Elections Affect Crown Corporations
- Fireside Chat with Privy Council of Canada: Understanding what the Privy Council Looks at When Making Board Member Appointments
- Governance Roundtable: Developing Strong Relationships Between Crown Corporations and Ministries
- AI Anticipation: Understanding How Crown Corporations can Use AI Systems Effectively
- How to Create a New Crown Corporation
ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE
Assisting Crowns with developing approaches to address impeding challenges in a post-pandemic world.
Gain the highest-level knowledge and practical solutions to obstacles and challenges impeding on Crowns today. Our speaker faculty, comprised of leaders from the public sectors, federal and provincial crowns, and academia, will impart their deep knowledge to assist Crown Corporations amid fast-evolving landscape.
CPD Accreditation
This 3-day conference program can be applied towards 3.5 of the 9 substantive hours, 3 of the 3 professionalism hours, as well as 1 EDI hour, of annual Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as required by the Law Society of Ontario. Workshop participants will also receive 3 professionalism hours for each workshop. Learn More
HOT TOPICS
Automated Intelligence (AI)
The use of AI systems has exponentially grown over the past year and Canadian Government has released directives on how Crowns may use AI to perform certain tasks.
LEARN about the different AI systems that exist and identify the best system to implement for the success of your Crown.
Crowns and Ministries
Open communication between Crowns and their Ministries is essential to the ongoing success of meeting specific mandates for each Crown.
GAIN critical strategies on how to strengthen your relationship with the Ministry and ensure you obtain best practices for the overall governance and success of your Crown.
Diversity and Inclusion (DI)
Public perception demands that Boards and public agencies have representation that reflect the demographics of the people they serve. But how is this being achieved?
DELVE into actionable recruitment initiatives, practical human capital metrics, crisis communication, and critical Equity, Diversity and Inclusion policies.
A MUST-ATTEND EVENT FOR
Federal and Provincial Crown Corporations and Agencies
- Chairs
- Directors
- Chief Executive Officers
- Presidents
- Chief Financial Officers
- Chief Operating Officers
- General Counsel
- Corporate Secretaries
- In-House Counsel
- Chief Risk Officers
- Risk Managers
- Compliance Officers
AND:
- Governance Consultants
- Governance Lawyers
- Public Sector Accountants
- HR Professionals
- Risk Managers and Directors
- Public Relations Firms
A SNEAK PEEK AT OUR PAST CONFERENCE
WHAT OUR DELEGATES HAVE TO SAY
The best gathering of crown corporation representatives in Canada each year.
This was my 1st Governance conference & overall I enjoyed the presentations and topics.
All topics presented were very current & topical. Lots of ideas to bring back.