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
Speaker

Carol Hansell

Senior Partner
Hansell LLP

Speaker

Simon Kamel

Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Royal Canadian Mint

GOVERNMENT MINISTERS
Speaker

Randy Jackiw

Assistant Deputy Minister
Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, Ontario

Speaker

Okenge Yuma Morisho

Deputy Minister
Ministry of Municipal Affairs Government of British Columbia

CROWN EXECUTIVES AND DIRECTORS
Speaker

Jane Halford

Chair
Farm Credit Canada

Speaker

Teresa Woo-Paw

Chairperson
Canadian Race Relations Foundation

Speaker

Colleen Ouellette

Director & Corporate Secretary
Export Development Canada

Speaker

Melanie Debassige

Chair – First Nations Committee
Ontario Clean Water Agency

LAW PRACTITIONERS AND CONSULTANTS
Speaker

Shea Coulson

Partner
DLA Piper Canada LLP

Speaker

Marco Falco

Partner
Torkin Manes LLP

Speaker

Amy Syed

Director, Cloud & Data
PwC Canada

Speaker

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

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.

Crown Corp

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

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
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The best gathering of crown corporation representatives in Canada each year.

Chair, FCNB
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This was my 1st Governance conference & overall I enjoyed the presentations and topics.

Sr Advisor Business Services, Nunavut
Business Credit Corporation
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All topics presented were very current & topical. Lots of ideas to bring back.

Policy Advisor, WDBA
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