Thursday, October 5

Networking Breakfast

Morning Greetings & Announcements

Keynote: You Get What You Pay For: How Should We Finance Urban Infrastructure?

Stretch Break

Public Engagement with LEGO ®

located in the PKE

Breakout Sessions

A variety of options are available

Interactive Training: 60  minute sessions designed to teach specific skills or concepts, and to address specific planning-related issues. These sessions will provide skill development for planners and may incorporate.

Ignite sessions: Fifteen minute, rapid-fire presentations with 5 minutes for questions at the end. These come in groupings of 2 or 3. Stay for one session or stay for all! 

Interactive 60

These sessions feature 60 minutes of interactive content.

Planning Program Directors Panel

Dear Dilemma: LIVE AND IN PERSON (not your everyday ethics blab-fest)

Dispute Resolution Approaches - Mediation and Arbitration

Beyond Airbnb: Balancing Community Interests in the Sharing Economy - Lessons Learned from regulating Short Term Accommodations in the Town of The Blue Mountains

From Source to Tap – What Planners Should Know to Help Keep Drinking Water Utilities Safe, and Drinking Water Sources Clean and the Quantities Sustainable

Partnering With Planning Professionals to Secure Industrial Investment Projects in Ontario

Sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Development and Growth

Ignite Sessions

Ignite sessions are fifteen minute, rapid-fire presentations with 5 minutes for questions at the end. These come in groupings of 2 or 3. Stay for one session or stay for all!

A Case Study in Sustainability: Infrastructure Resiliency Though Low Impact Design

A Canadian Planner in China: What Works, What Doesn't and What's Missing?

Student Ignite

How Planning Trees as Infrastructure Benefits our Cities

Ignite

Refreshment Break

Breakout Sessions

Interactive Training: 60  minute sessions designed to teach specific skills or concepts, and to address specific planning-related issues. These sessions will provide skill development for planners and may incorporate.

Ignite sessions: Fifteen minute, rapid-fire presentations with 5 minutes for questions at the end. These come in groupings of 2 or 3. Stay for one session or stay for all! 

Interactive 60

These sessions feature 60 minutes of interactive content.

A Means to Amend: Mediation in Planning

Advancing Resilience and Transformative Learning Through Storytelling: A New Drinking Water Narrative in Ontario

How an Appreciation of Economics Will Make You a Better Land Use Planner

Land Use Planning & Climate Change

The Changing Landscape in Purchasing Planning Services

Panel

The Importance of Speaking Effectively

The OPPI Leadership Pipeline

Ignite Sessions

Ignite sessions are fifteen minute, rapid-fire presentations with 5 minutes for questions at the end. These come in groupings of 2 or 3. Stay for one session or stay for all!

IK1: Are property rights human rights? Reducing inequalities for Indigenous women with the First Nations Land Management Act.

Student Ignite

Student Ignite

IK2: Harnessing the power of Canada’s biosphere reserves for sustainable development, conservation, and reconciliation

Student Ignite

Student Ignite

IK3: Breaking Down Farmland “Red Tape” Guiding Farmers Through Planning Applications

Student Ignite

Student Ignite

Networking Lunch

In the Bear Pit with the OMB!

Presented by Ontario Municipal Board