Research and Innovation Symposium 2024 Agenda

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Agenda

Thursday, June 20, 2024

8:30 to
9:00 am 		Pre-event networking & check-in
9:00 to
9:15 am 		Welcoming remarks
9:15 to
9:55 am 		Keynote Address - Craig Mitchell, Principal, Blackbox Offsite Solutions and Project Development of 720 Solutions

Detailing the challenge of addressing housing and public infrastructure needs in the current moment, building on insights from the industry from supply and demand sides. Areas for innovation in the industry (planning, designing, building) with insights from modular and offsite construction.

10:00 to
10:15 am 		Health Break
10:15 to
11:15 am 		Build Better Panel 1 - Next generation materials: what’s next for construction?

Moderator: Dr. Matti Siemiatycki, Professor, Geography and Planning; Director, Infrastructure Institute, University of Toronto

Panelists:

  • Joe Hicken, Vice President, Business Development and Policy, Sublime Systems
  • Natalie Telewiak, Principal, Michael Green Architecture
    • 11:15 am to 12:00 pm Lunch Break
    12:00 to
    12:45 pm     		Research Showcase
    12:45 to
    1:45 pm     		Build Better Panel 2 - Engaging community and building better

    Panelists:

  • Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq/Kitikmeot Heritage Society, an Inuit-led charitable organization that focuses on the priorities of Inuinnait, language preservation and knowledge renewal/transfer and a phase-one RKI recipient located in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
  • Dale Booth, Owner and President, Innovation7
    • 1:45 to
    2:35 pm     		Concurrent Workshops
    Build Better Workshop 1 - The opportunities of single egress reform in Canada

    Conrad Speckert, Architect, LGA Architectural Partners

    		Build Better Workshop 2 - A toolkit for indigenous inclusion in integrated planning and community design

    Jamey Burr, Consultant, Innovation7

    Jonathan Kipling, Senior Consultant, Innovation7

    		Build Better Workshop 3 - Title TBD
    • Dr. Ursula Eicker, Professor Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University
    • Honey Berk, Executive Director, CUNY Building Performance Lab
    • Duncan Prahl, Senior Applied Research Scientist, CUNY Building Performance Lab
    2:35 to
    2:50 pm     		Health Break
    2:50 to
    3:50 pm     		Design Better Panel 1 - Data driven approaches to designing better communities

    Panelists:

    • Craig Jones, Associate Director, Housing Research Collaborative, The University of British Columbia
    3:50 to
    4:30 pm     		Closing Keynote Address
    4:30 to
    4:45 pm     		Closing Remarks
    4:45 to
    6:00 pm     		On-Site Networking

    Friday, June 21, 2024

    8:30 to
    9:00 am     		Pre-event networking & check-in
    9:00 to
    9:10 am     		Day 2 opening remarks
    9:10 to
    10:10 am     		Design Better Panel 2 - Innovative partnerships for future communities

    Moderator: Mary Rowe, President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute

    Panelists:

    10:10 to
    11:00 am     		Concurrent Workshops
    Design Better Workshop 1 - TBD Design Better Workshop 2 - TBD Design Better Workshop 3 - TBD
    11:00 to
    11:15 am     		Health Break
    11:15 am to 12:05 pm Keynote Address - Dr. Colin Ellard, Professor, University of Waterloo
    12:05 to
    1:05 pm     		Lunch Break
    1:05 to
    2:05 pm     		Finance Better Panel 1 - Unpacking how to foster “affordable” housing

    Panelists:

    2:05 to
    2:55 pm     		Concurrent Workshops
    Finance Better Workshop 1 - Supporting renters effectively: unpacking the Canada Housing Benefit.

    Catherine-Leviten-Reid, Associate Professor, Community Economic Development, Cape Breton University

    		Finance Better Workshop 2 - A rental bank approach to housing support

    Alison Smith, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga

    Old Brewery Mission Montreal

    		Finance Better Workshop 3 - The nuts and bolts of BC Builds

    Lisa Helps, Executive Lead, BC Builds Project Origination and Process Innovation, BC Housing

    2:55 to
    3:05 pm     		Health Break
    3:05 to
    4:05 pm     		Finance Better Panel 2 - Financing housing and public infrastructure in the future

    Panelists:

  • Marco Chitti, Research Fellow, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management; Postdoctoral Researcher, McGill University
  • Adam Found, Metropolitan City Fellow, C.D. Howe Institute and sessional lecturer in Economics at Trent University
    • 4:05 to
    4:15 pm     		Closing Remarks

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