2016 Ontario Bike Summit Agenda (updated: April 15, 2016) "What's Next for Cycling" - #OBS16

Summit Venue: Eaton Chelsea Hotel 33 Gerrard Street West, , ON

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Pre-Summit Sessions

9 to 4.30pm (Hotel Lobby) Registration Open

10 to 1pm Toronto Bike Ride and Tour (Sold Old) (Meet at Hotel Entrance) o Mobile workshop and discussion led by Jacquelyn Hayward Gulati, Cycling Infrastructure & Programs Manager and City of Toronto staff. Explore some of 's newest cycling infrastructure including separated bike lanes on Wellesley Street and Sherbourne Street, contraflow lanes on Simcoe Street and the Waterfront Trail's multi-use paths. Bikes will be provided by Bike Share Toronto.

2 to 5pm (Gerrard Room) Bicycle Friendly Communities Seminar (max. 60 participants) o The Bicycle Friendly Community Award (BFC) Program provides incentives, hands-on assistance, and award recognition for communities that actively support bicycling. Join this ever-popular in-depth session for participants looking to learn more about the BFC program, from submitting your first application to moving up the ranks. This year’s seminar theme is “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” and we will be exploring high-impact, low cost projects that have been implemented across Canada to create more bicycle-friendly communities.

5 to 6pm (Gerrard Room) Committee ‘Speed Dating’: Get to Know Professionals at Work, Hosted by APBP o Ever want to know who’s doing what in Ontario for cycling? This session, hosted by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (Ontario Chapter) is a chance to find out about various committees working to advance cycling in Ontario. You’ll hear their purpose, who is part of it, and opportunities for you to get involved.

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Official Summit Programming

5pm (Mountbatten Lane) Registration Open

6 to 9pm (Mountbatten Salon) Reception & Awards Dinner o Welcome from Share the Road o 2016 Bicycle Friendly Communities Awards o Address from Members of the Provincial All Party Cycling Caucus o Presentation of the Wheels of Change Advocacy Award o Keynote Address from Nicole Freedman, Chief of Active Transportation and Partnerships with the City of Seattle

9 to 11pm (BB33) Evening Social o Meet and engage with summit delegates

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

7:30 to 8:30am (Mountbatten Lane) Registration Opens + Hot Breakfast

7:30 to 5pm (Mountbatten Lane) Exhibits Open

8:30 to 10am (Mountbatten Salon) Keynote Breakfast o Welcome to Toronto - Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon o The Honourable Glen Murray, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change o Kathryn McGarry, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Transportation o Welcome from Share the Road - Jamie Stuckless, Executive Director

10 to 11am Concurrent Sessions (#1) o Successful Implementation = Partnerships (Wren Room) . “From Bike Month to Bike Lanes: How Getting People Riding Can Get the Wheels Turning for New Bike Projects” by Councillor Egerton Boyce and Robert Jakes, City of Belleville and Belleville on Bikes . “What’s Next for Maximizing Public Health and Transportation Partnerships to Grow Cycling: a Consultation with Transportation Professionals” by Fabio Cabarcas and Sue Shikaze, Ontario Public Health Association . “Partnering Builds Cycling Communities” by Erica Duque and Trudy Ledsham, Region of Peel and Toronto Centre for Active Transportation o Connected! Building a Cycling Network (BB33 Room) . “Connecting Communities, Maximizing Opportunities: Creating the Hudson/Arundel Active Living Corridor” by Adam Krupper and Matthew Miedema, City of Thunder Bay . “Evaluating Transportation Networks” by Christina Bouchard, City of Toronto . “Building a Network of Cycle Tracks for Calgary” by Ryan Martinson and Pauline Craig, Stantec Consulting Ltd. o If you Build it, it Must be Maintained (Gerrard Room)

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. “Winter Maintenance Standards in Peterborough” by Susan Sauve, City of Peterborough . “Winter Cycling in Ottawa” by Kate Whitfield, Parsons . “Maintenance Along the Cannon Street Cycle Track” by Daryl Bender, City of Hamilton

11 to 11:30am Networking Break

11:30 to 12:30pm Concurrent Sessions (#2) o Innovative Engagement (Wren Room) . “Creating Cycling Accessibility for Under-served Communities” by Johanna Bleecker and Andrew Hibma, New Hope Community Bikes . “First Nation Involvement in the TCT Lake Huron North Channel Waterfront Trail” by Michael Wozny, Tourism Northern Ontario/Waterfront Regeneration Trust . “Increasing Cycling Participation in Low Density Suburbs: Identifying and Releasing Latent Demand for Cycling for Transportation” by Beth Savan and Trudy Ledsham, University of Toronto o Leveraging Technology & Open Data (BB33 Room) . “Improving la Route Verte; Getting the Cyclists Involved” by Louis Carpentier, Velo Quebec . “Hamilton Bike Share: Data, Culture Change and its Impact on Modal Shift” by Peter Topalovic and Chelsea Cox, City of Hamilton and . “Using GPS Traces and Permanent Bike Counters to Identify Cyclist Desire Lines” by Fraser McLaughlin, Eco-Counter o APBP Workshop - Best Practices Intersect with Municipal Challenges (Gerrard Room) . This workshop will focus on experiences and best practices around issues submitted in advance by OBS attendees. Issues will be announced at the workshop and you can choose to join in a roundtable discussion on ones that are relevant to your community. Each roundtable will be facilitated by an Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals member who is an expert in the field: Yvonne Kaczor, York Region; Dave McLaughlin, MMM Group; Norma Moores, IBI Group; Susan Sauve, City of Peterborough; Matthew Sweet, City of Cambridge; Kate Whitefield, Parsons.

12:30 to 2pm (Mountbatten Salon) Keynote Lunch o The Value of Partnerships - Jeannie Shore, Strategic Client Manager - Ontario, The Co- operators o Update on CycleON Action Plan 1.0 - Ministry of Transportation, Policy and Planning Division o Keynote Address - Peter de Jager, Change Management and Problem Solving Consultant

2 to 3pm Concurrent Sessions (#3) o Making the Case for Cycling: Monitoring and Data Collection (Wren Room) . “Using Data to Inspire a Bold Vision for Cycling in York Region” by Shawn Smith, York Region . “Cycling Data, Predictions, Measurement and Meaning” by Zlatko Krstulic, City of Ottawa . “Do Painted Cycle Lanes Reduce Cycle-Vehicle Collisions: A Study in the City of Toronto” by Dr. Sarah Richmond, Hospital for Sick Children o Open Space: Growing Cycling in Rural and Northern Ontario (Gerrard Room) . This Open Space session is an opportunity to engage in small group conversations that matter. Discuss your ideas, strategies and challenges for

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growing cycling in rural and Northern Ontario with session facilitators and participants from across the province. Submit your conversation ideas in- person by posting them to the "Wall of Inspiration", found in the Mountbatten Lane. o 20 Slides in 20 Seconds Presentations (BB33 Room) . “No One Rides Bikes in Sudbury and I Have the Photos to Prove it” by Matt Alexander, Sudbury Moves . “Engaging Businesses” by Lisa Gallant and Bea Clark, Niagara Region Public Health . “Bike and Pedestrian Counting in Ontario and Beyond” by Marian Mithani, Eco-Counter . “Marketing Cycling through Pedal-Powered Story Telling” by Thomas Hasan . “#OttBike – Rolling with partnerships” by Kale Brown, Safer Roads Ottawa . “Gamification of Bicycling” by Benita van Miltenburg, McMaster University

3 to 3:30pm Networking Break

3:30 to 4:30pm (Mountbatten Salon) Closing Panel Discussion o What’s Next for Cycling Education in Ontario . Cycling education is changing in Ontario. The Share the Road Cycling Coalition and Cycling Canada are working together to build a more accessible, engaging and sustainable CAN-BIKE model that will see thousands more Ontario residents trained each year. Join us for this discussion and be the first to learn how the program is changing and what this means for your community.

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