Time to Build

By 2050, Canada needs to more than double the amount of electricity currently being supplied to meet the growing demand for electricity to power its economy.

Following the Electricity Roundtable, join Electricity Canada at the National Arts Centre for this half-day symposium where we bring together government, industry experts, leaders in the electricity sector and major stakeholders to determine what is needed to get building the next phase of Canada’s electricity grid.

Topics and speakers include

The opportunity

A keynote… and a call to action to build something important on a national scale.

Overcoming the bottlenecks

This panel will look at the barriers to building—and explore possible solutions.

• Moderator: Jay Khosla, Executive Director, Economic and Energy Policy (Public Policy Forum)
• Brian Bentz, President and CEO (Alectra Inc.)
• Monica Gattinger Director for Science, Society and Policy (Positive Energy)
• Philippe Dunsky, Founder and President (Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors)
• Carla Vicente, Country Managing Director (Hitachi Energy, Canada)

Navigating the way ahead

Three speakers, three topics… and 30 minutes to explore three major areas that we need to address to build the electricity system of the future —wildfires, geopolitics and Indigenous relations.

• ON WILDFIRES - Damien Quentin, Vice President of Strategy (Engineered Intelligence)
• ON INDIGENOUS RELATIONSHIPS – Jim Reid, Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Chief Legal Officer (Fortis Inc.)
• ON GEOPOLITICS – John Stackhouse, Senior Vice President, Office of the CEO (RBC)

Load growth and economic development

What are the key drivers for surging electricity demand and load growth—and what does this mean for the future economy? A panel discussion.

• Moderator: Adam Radwanski, Columnist (Globe & Mail)
• Laura Arnold, Vice President, External Affairs, Regulatory and Market Policy (TransAlta)
• Heather Ferguson, Senior Vice President, Business Development & Corporate Affairs (OPG)
• Michael Gullo, Vice President, Policy (Business Council of Canada)
• Pauline Martin, Leader, Government Industry Advisory, Americas – Worldwide Public Sector (Microsoft)

The Pan-Canadian electricity grid

This panel will discuss how do we begin building more East-West connections and secure our energy sovereignty?

• Moderator: Julia Muggeridge, Vice President Communications, Electricity Canada
• Pat Dalzall, Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Market Development (Bruce Power)
• Jeff Mocha, Chief Operations and Electrification Officer (Oakville Enterprises Corporation)
• TBD (Nova Scotia Power)
• Chris Milner, President and CEO (Yukon Energy)