Agenda

DIVERSITY@WORK 2019 CONFERENCE

AGENDA

• Sep 20, 2019

  Conference Agenda

• • 
    8:00am – 9:00am:
    Registration and Networking
  • 
    9:00am – 9:05am:
    Land Acknowledgement & Welcome Address by Surranna Sandy (CEO, Skills for Change)
  • 
    9:10am – 9:40am:
    Keynote Address 1: Helen Peng, Sunlife
  • 
    9:40am – 10:10am:
    Keynote Address 2: Dr. Aaron Barth, Founder, Dialetic
    
  • 
    10:10am – 10:40am:
    Joint Q&A
    
  • 
    10:40am – 11:00am:
    Networking Break
    
  • 
    11:00am – 12:15pm:
    Panel Discussion
  • Moderator: Wendy Cukier, Diversity Institute
  • Panel: Rahima Mamdani, VP, Human Capital, UW
  • Vivian Li (RBC), Senior Manager, Inclusive Recruitment, RBC
  • Eleanor McIntyre, Managing Director, BlackRock
  • Kristine Remedios, Chief Inclusion and Social Impact Officer, KPMG 
  • 
    12:15pm – 1:15pm:
    Lunch
    
  • 
    1:15pm – 2:30pm:
    Workshop Session 1:
  • Dean Delepeache, Fiix Software
  • Janey Buzugbe, Talent X
  • Natai Shelsen, Goldblatt Partners LLP; Wade Poziomka Ross & McBride, Duncan Burns-Shillington DLA Piper
  • Vivian Li, RBC
  • 
    2:30pm – 2:45pm:
    Networking Break
    
  • 
    2:45pm – 4:00pm:
    Workshop Session 2:
  • Robyn Connelly, GTAA,
  • Mridula Nair, Skills for Change,
  • Surranna Sandy, Skills for Change
  • Lisa Kelly, Abilocity
  • Cassie Myers, Lunaria 
  • 
    3:45pm – 4:00pm:
    Closing Remarks
    
  • 
    4:00pm – 5:30pm:
    Cocktail Reception