This cutting-edge discussion will feature political, corporate, NGO, Indigenous and public sector leaders as keynote speakers and panelists. Session themes will feature a mix of the completed research streams of Positive Energy (The Role of Public Authorities in Energy Decision-Making; The Role of Communities in Energy Decision-Making) as well as big-picture reflection on Canada’s progress towards resolving public confidence challenges, and a look to what’s next for Positive Energy as it turns attention to the low-emission energy transition file.

Analysis of the potential for new federal energy policy and regulatory measures to address public confidence and investor confidence challenges will be high on the agenda.

Accommodations:

We have secured a special rate at Novotel Ottawa for conference participants. Please email Novotel Ottawa and mention the name of the event.

Confirmed Speakers include:

• The Honourable James Carr, Minister of Natural Resources

• Meredith Adler, Executive Director, Student Energy

• Kim Baird, Senior Advisor, Hill & Knowlton Strategies

• Stephen Bird, Positive Energy, Associate Professor, Clarkson University

• Chris Bloomer, President and CEO, Canadian Energy Pipeline Association

• Bruce Cameron, former Executive Director, Nova Scotia Dept. of Energy

• Sylvain Charbonneau, Vice-President, Research, University of Ottawa

• Mike Cleland, Senior Fellow, Positive Energy

• Dave Collyer, Advisory Council, Positive Energy

• Elisabeth DeMarco, Senior Partner, DeMarco Allan LLP

• Allan Fogwill, President and CEO, Canadian Energy Research Institute

• Monica Gattinger, Chair, Positive Energy

• Robert Hornung, President, CanWEA

• Louis Legault, Chair, CAMPUT, Canada’s Energy and Utility Regulators

• Guy Lonechild, CEO, First Nations Power Authority

• Gary Merasty, President, Ballantyne Group of Companies

• Dave Morton, Chair and CEO, British Columbia Utilities Commission

• Nik Nanos, Chair and CEO, Nanos Research

• Bryson Robertson, Positive Energy, Professor, University of Victoria

• Vicky Sharpe, Board Member, QUEST, Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow

• Louis Simard, Associate Professor, uOttawa, Positive Energy

• Stéphanie Trudeau, Senior Vice-President Regulatory, Customers and Communities, Énergir

• George Vegh, Counsel, Head, Energy Regulation Practice, McCarthy Tétrault LLP