DAY ONE Sunday July 7 10:30 am – Welcome Reception Hyatt Regency 11:50 am Registration and networking brunch Calgary 700 Centre St. SE Imperial Ballroom Emcee: Mary Moran, President & CEO, Calgary Economic Development 4-6-8, 3rd floor Indigenous Blessing Elder Kelly Good Eagle Stampede Investment Forum Welcome & White Hat Ceremony Minister Tanya Fir, Economic Development Trade and Tourism Mayor Don Iveson, City of Edmonton Mayor Naheed Nenshi, City of Calgary 12:00 pm – Transport to Stampede Grounds 12:10 pm Meet in Hyatt lobby for transport 12:30 pm – Calgary Stampede Rodeo Calgary Stampede 4:00 pm 1410 Olympic Way Join us for an authentic western rodeo experience and get up close to the SE action at the exclusive Calgary Stampede Infield Suites. Just metres away from the bucking chutes and chuckwagon barrels, you will experience firsthand why the Calgary Stampede is known as the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. 12:15 pm – Infield group picture 12:30 pm – Stampede Rodeo infield suite 1:00 pm – Welcome remarks o Dana Peers, President & Chairman of the Board at Calgary Stampede o Steve Allan, Chairman of the Board, Calgary Economic Development 1:30 pm – Rodeo 5:00 pm Transportation back to Hyatt or free time at Stampede Last updated: July 5, 2019 1 DAY TWO Monday July 8 7:30 am – Breakfast Hyatt Regency 8:00 am Calgary 700 Centre St. SE Imperial Ballroom 4-6-8 Lobby, 3rd floor 8:00am Emcee: Ken Lima-Coelho, VP, Community Engagement, YMCA Imperial Ballroom 4-6-8 8:05 am – Invest Alberta Profile Imperial Ballroom 8:15 am Dwayne Dreger, Executive Director at Invest Alberta 4-6-8 8:15 am- RSM Canada - Title Sponsor Introduction Imperial Ballroom 8:20 am 4-6-8 8:20 am – Opening Plenary Imperial Ballroom 9:45 am This is Alberta: Feeding, Moving, Powering and Healing the World 4-6-8 Alberta is quickly becoming the destination to watch when it comes to the transformation of the industrial sectors in Agribusiness, Transportation and Logistics, Energy and Life Sciences. This session will provide an overview of the strengths of the Alberta economy and how digital innovation is reinventing the future of these sectors. Participants will leave this session with a macro view of Alberta’s key sectors and how they are evolving. They will learn about Alberta’s business climate, opportunities for investment and how crucial industrial sectors are transforming through the adoption of technology and innovation. Introduction to business in Alberta - Todd Hirsch, Chief Economist at ATB Financial Industry Panel: o Sandy Kennedy, Vice President, Innovation at NovAtel (Hexagon PI) o Joy Romero, Vice-President, Technology and Innovation at Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) o Donald McCaffrey, CEO at Resverlogix Corp. and Zenith Epigenetics Ltd. o Al Driver, CEO at Bayer Crop Science Last updated: July 5, 2019 2 9:45 am – Break Imperial Ballroom 10:00 am 4-6-8 Lobby 10:00 am- Calgary Profile Imperial Ballroom 10:15 am 4-6-8 Mary Moran, President & CEO, Calgary Economic Development 10:15 am – Digital Transformation Showcase Panel Imperial Ballroom 11:30 pm 4-6-8 Alberta is establishing itself at the centre of the New Digital Economy. Learn about some of the highlights of our key industrial sectors that are in the midst of a digital revolution, and how they are scouting and adopting the world’s best technology solutions. In this session you will meet some of Alberta’s early technology adopters to hear first-hand the complex challenges they are solving and how they are reshaping and defining the future of their sectors through adoption of digital technologies including machine learning, AR/VR, AI, IoT and blockchain. Moderator: Margaret Glover-Campbell, Region Director at Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Industry Panel o Chris Paterson, Head of Digital Farming at BASF o Justin Riemer, Senior Provincial Director, Innovation Partnerships at Alberta Health Services o Sandy Martin, Senior VP, Digital & Strategy at Suncor o Denise Man, Head/SVP of Digital at ATB Financial o Karen Kajla, Head of Labs | Digital & Innovation at WestJet 11:30 am – Transport to McDougall Centre 12:00 pm Meet in Hyatt lobby at 11:40 am 12:00 pm – Premier’s Luncheon McDougall Centre 1:15 pm 455 – 6 St. SW Includes delegates and select Alberta companies and key stakeholders Premier Jason Kenney Last updated: July 5, 2019 3 1:30 pm - Stampede Investment Forum Investor Assembly McDougall Centre 2:30 pm 455 – 6 St. SW Government of Alberta Ministers will meet with delegates to respond to questions on investing in Alberta. This session will allow delegates to gain firsthand insights into the political support and stability of Alberta’s investment climate. Space is limited in this closed-door session. 2:30pm Transport to Hyatt 2:30 pm – B2Government/B2B Meetings (if already pre-arranged) 5:00 pm 6:30 pm – Evening Event Calgary Central 10:30 pm Public Library Join us for an evening reception at the New Calgary Public Library, a facility 800 3 St SE, Calgary that Architecture Digest named one of the 12 most anticipated buildings of 2018. For all available delegates to attend, with invitations to select Alberta companies, government partners and Economic Development Associations. 6:30 pm Reception/Self-Guided Library Tours Emcee: Robyn Bews, Vice President, Business Development, Calgary Economic Development 7:00pm Welcome Remarks - Paul Lane, Director, Corporate Services, Calgary Public Library - Minister Rick Wilson, Alberta Minister of Indigenous Relations - Mayor Don Iveson, City of Edmonton - Jeff Davison, City of Calgary 7:30 pm Traditional blessings – Hal Eagletail, Indigenous cultural performance 7:45 pm Musical Guest Performance – Belle Cabin 8:00 pm Doors open to Shaikh Family Welcome Gallery Last updated: July 5, 2019 4 DAY THREE Tuesday July 9 8:00 am Breakfast Imperial Ballroom 4-6-8 Lobby 8:30 am – Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association Profile Imperial Ballroom 8:45 am Mark Plamondon, Executive Director at Alberta’s Industrial 4-6-8 Heartland 8:45am- Welcome Remarks 8:50am Associate Minister Dale Nally 8:50 am – Keynote: The Future of Energy in Alberta Imperial Ballroom 10:00 am 4-6-8 The energy game has changed, and Alberta is at the heart of it. Alberta sits on the third largest oil reserves in the world, has the potential to fuel the world through LNG and supply the building blocks of modern life with petrochemicals in Canada’s only deregulated power market, has procured the cheapest wind power in Canada, and is home to the Carbon X Prize carbon commercialization test site. Join renowned energy economist and author, Peter Tertzakian for an enlightening conversation on how Alberta and Canada will innovate to remain a global energy leader in a world increasingly polarized about energy and the environment, oil and gas and renewables, and the growing importance of low cost and low carbon. Keynote/Moderator: Peter Tertzakian, Executive Director at Arc Financial Industry Panel: o Bill Whitelaw, President at June Warren Nickels Energy o Candice Paton, Executive Director, Clean Technology at Alberta Innovates o Apoorv Sinha, President at Carbon Upcycling Technologies o Brian Harschnitz, Executive Vice President at Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd. (JACOS) o Ahmad Alenezi, Senior Project Engineer, Petrochemicals Industry Company (PIC) Last updated: July 5, 2019 5 10:00 am – Break Imperial Ballroom 10:15 am Lobby 10:15 am – Breakout (B1): Canadian Cannabis Breakout (B2): The Modern Breakout (B1) – 11:30 am and Hemp: Global Opportunities Business of Agriculture in Herald-Doll Room at our Doorstep Alberta Breakout (B2) – As the first industrialized country to Agriculture is an economic driver in Bannerman-Walker nationally legalize cannabis, Canada Alberta due to its abundant has blazed a trail to global markets and agricultural resources, diverse best practices. This is an educational landscape, wealth of raw materials, session about the role of cannabis and world class research and hemp in the disruption of food and development capacity, and preferred beverage, pharmaceuticals, wellness market access. Today the province products and manufacturing and how continues to be a global leader and Alberta is taking an active role in this centre for agribusiness with the new and emerging global sector. integration of innovation and new technology. Learn about the diversity of investment opportunities in Alberta Hear from industry leaders about through the entire value chain and how the Alberta agriculture industry meet some of Alberta’s leading is transforming by producing companies who will give an in-depth globally competitive products, perspective of growth of the sector in services and technology in areas the first year and the global such as intensive agriculture opportunities presented. production, value-added processing, ag-tech, and food and beverage Moderator: Carla Campbell, manufacturing. Manager, Invest Alberta Industry Panel: Immerse yourself in the agricultural o Adam Coates, CCO at ecosystem in Alberta and discover Westleaf how this province is attracting industry headquarters, cutting-edge o Rex Kary, COO at research facilities and the very best FluroTech LTD talent. Sheldon Croome, o President & CEO at Atlas Moderator: Robert Saik, Growers CEO at SAIK Management o Adam Janikowski, Group and CEO of DOT Executive Director, CIBC Ready Retail o Cam Battley, CCO at Industry Panel: Aurora Cannabis o Paul Shumlich, Founder & CEO at Deepwater Farms Last updated: July 5, 2019 6 o David Chalack, International Sales Manager at Alta Genetics Inc.
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