Polytechnics Canada's Annual Meeting Agenda (Subject to change)

Updated: May 5, 2010

Registration is now closed. Thank you to everyone who has registered, we look forward to seeing you next week!

May 10, 2010 (Internal Working Day for Polytechnics Canada MEMBERS ONLY) Please note that on May 10, the public session of the meeting starts at 3:30pm for all registered guests.

9:30     Registration
10:00     Welcome/ Day's Objectives
10:30     Parallel Discussions - International/Academic/Research/Marketing
12:00     Informal Lunch
  1:00     Parallel Discussions - International/Academic/Research/Marketing
  3:00     Networking Break
  3:30     External panel of media experts: Getting our message through: public advocacy for polytechnic education
  4:30     Break before dinner
  6:00     Dinner/Reception at Whistle Bear Golf Club
               Key note speaker: Frank Vermaeten, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)

May 11, 2010 (External Day with outside guests, and select non-member colleges who have already registered.)

  7:45     Breakfast
  8:15     Live version of Academica Top 10 with Ken Steele
  8:30     Opening Speaker: Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
  9:15     Panel Discussion: Making the link between Regional Economic Development and Polytechnic Education and Research
10:45     Panel Discussion: Polytechnics Canada National Strategy Group leaders
12:00     Lunch/Keynote Speech: Preston Manning, founder, President and CEO of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy
1:30       Wrap up

 

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For more information, please contact:

Ken Doyle
T: 613-688-0690
E: kdoyle@polytechnicscanada.ca