Program

Wayne Gretzky Foyer

JW Marriott Foyer

JW Mariott Foyer

JW Marriott

Wayne Gretzky Ballroom

JW Marriott

Wayne Gretzky Ballroom

Foyer

Moderator : Cartler Li, CEO and Co-Founder, SWTCH

Charging Infrastructure Benchmarks and Charging Reliability : Louise Lévesque, Director of Policy, Electric Mobility Canada

Customer Focus Must Be a Key Attribute to 2030 EV Strategy and Regulation : Mike Wenzlaff, Senior Program Manager, EV Services, BC Hydro & James Carter, Principal Consultant, Vision Mobility

Equitable and Accessible EV Charging From the Ground Up : Yvette Jones, Project Leader, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) & Joey Dabell, Project Leader, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

Assessing the Consumer EV Charging Experience in Canada: Cedric Smith, Director, Transportation, Pollution Probe

Cracking the Code of MHD Awareness : Theresa Cooke, Head of Global Customer Success, Managed Charging, Siemens Canada Limited & Shayna Rector Bleeker, Cofounder & VP Strategic Partnerships, 7 Generation Capital

The Roadmap to Zero Emission MHDVs in Canada : Adam Thorn, Director, Pembina Institute

The Road to Net Zero : Meena Bibra, Senior Policy Advisor, Clean Energy Canada

Prince Edward Island – Leading the EV School Bus Transformation From Fossil Fuels: Matt Collins, Manager of Engineering Services, PEI Department of Transportation & Infrastructure

Canadian Electric School Bus Association Initative : Valérie Tremblay, Project Manager, Sustainable Mobility, Équiterre

Moderator: Sanjeev Pushkarna, Director, Business Development, Nova Scotia Power

Utility EV Integration – Insights from EMC’s Utility Committee : Daniel Carr, Head, Smart Cities, Alectra Utilities

(on behalf of EMC’s Utility Committee)

How EVs Will Impact the Grid – Lessons Across Canada : Emma Hill, Principal Analyst, Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors

GIS Driven Charging Infrastructure Planning : Arif Rafiq, Transportation Industry Manager, Esri Canada

EV Charging for Grid-Challenged Locations : Frederick Prigge, President, YULtek Inc.

ATCO: An Update from Alberta’s Largest EV Infrastructure Provider: William York, Senior Engineer, ATCO

Danielle Weiss, Director of Transportation Initiatives, Community Energy Association

Charge Up : Supporting Indigenous Communities and Businesses : Jessica Tait, Program Coordinator and Sustainable Transport Lead, Indigenous Clean Energy

Moderator: Tomasz Suszycki, Managing Director, Hydro-Québec

Energy Storage Solution (BESS) Supporting EV Fast Charging Infrastructure : Brian Walters, Chief Executive Officer, Vortex Technology Group & Curt de Gourville, VP Business Development, Vortex Technology Group

Light EVs and the New Paradign in Residential Energy Management : Ronald Denom, COO, dcbel Inc.

Battery Innovation Road Map and Battery Blue Print : Matthew Fortier, President & CEO, Accelerate-Accélérer

Hugo Normand, R&D Director, Ingenext

Isabel Cyr, Government Relations & Public Affairs, Lithion Recycling Inc.

Driving EVs Home with Carbon Credits : John Stonier, President, Electric Advantage Systems

Using Carbon Credits to Expand Electrification : Trevor Egan, Load Consultant, LeadingAhead Energy and Maxime Charron, President, LeadingAhead Energy

Supporting Fleet Electrification Through Clean Fuel Programs : Todd Trauman, CEO, e-Mission Control

Revision of Quebec’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Standard : On the Road to an Electric 2035 : Marilou Gosselin, Coordinator, Quebec Ministry of Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (MELCC)

Insights from Ontario’s New Public EV Infrastructure Funding Program : Victoria Prouse, Senior Policy Advisor, Emerging Technologies Office, Ontario Ministry of Transportation

Exploring the ISO 15118-20 Protocol and Load Management in Electric Vehicles : Luis Leal, Business Development Manager, E-Mobility, Phoenix Contact & Gabriel Hernandez, E-Mobility Project Engineer, Phoenix Contact

Employing End-of-Route Charging to Enable Full Electrification of Transit Bus Fleets : Hajo Ribberink, Senior Research Engineer, Natural Resources Canada

Accelerating the Transition to Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) Through Research, Development and Demonstrations : Charles Crispim, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Energy Research, Natural Resources Canada

Advancing Clean Transportation in Nova Scotia with Micro-mobility, Transit, and Used EV Incentives : Krista Phillips, Head of Strategic Electrification, Nova Scotia Natural Resources and Renewables

Bridging the Last Mile : SFU’s Innovative Leap in Sustainable Transportation and Electric Mobility : Sid Mehta, Senior Director Ancillary Services, Simon Fraser University & David Agosti, Director – Parking & Sustainable Mobility, Simon Fraser University

Join us on November 16 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Banquet Bar, a luxury bar located in Edmonton’s ICE district, opposite the JW Marriott Hotel.

With a 10-pin bowling alley, arcade games, ping-pong tables and more, our Banquet Bar reception is the perfect way to wrap up our first full day of conference programming!

Moderator : Laura Miller, Director, Public Policy & Communications, Uber

Women and EVs – Mind the Gap! : Cara Clairman, President & CEO, Plug’n Drive & Joanna Osawe, CEO, Women in Renewable Energy

Promise and Potential for EVs in Atlantic Canada : Alyse Wilton, Manager of Environmental Health Program, NB Lung

EVerything EVs : Research Driven Solutions to Overcoming Barriers to EV Adoption : Jennie Wadden, Supervisor, Marketing, Newfoundland Power

Moderator : Sunny Attarde, Electric Vehicle Expert, CSA Group

NEVI (National Electric Vehicle Instrastructure Program), CFI (Charging and Fueling Infrastructure), and You : Lessons Learned for Canada : Mike Frisina, Public Policy Manager, ChargePoint

Emerging Trends in North American Light Duty EV Charging Regulation : Elizabeth France, Director, FLO & Travis Allan, Chief Legal & Public Affairs Officer, FLO

Charging and Hydrogen Refuelling Infrastrcuture Initative: Melissa Chow, Director, Investments, Canada Infrastructure Bank

State of Public EV Charging Experiences in North America and Impacts on Policy Decisions: Simon Ouellette, CEO, ChargeHub

Moderator: François Girard, Research Council Office, Programs Advisor, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies, National Research Council

Alberta’s AZETEC Hydrogen Project and the Transportation Ecosystem in Alberta : Marcel Pouliot, Co-Founder & President, IQ Trucking Consultants Inc.

Ivette Vera-Perez, President & CEO, Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association

Shuttles to trade show at Edmonton Expo, running all day until end of trade show.

Trade Show Floor

An equity-focused speed mentoring session organized in partnership with Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE) President & CEO Joanna Osawe and Plug’n Drive President & CEO Cara Clairman, giving students and other young people either entering or curious about opportunities in the EV industry a chance to meet with established leaders and innovators from various sectors in transportation electrification 

Facilitated by Kelly Jackson, Vice-President of External Affairs & Professional Learning, Humber College, with participation from representatives from Canadian post-secondary institutions.

This discussion is open to all registered conference delegates interested in sharing challenges and opportunities for talent recruitment and retention and discovering how polytechnics and colleges are working with industry to upskill workers to meet the needs of the electric mobility sector. 

*Offered in English only

Onsite at the Edmonton EXPO Centre during the trade show hours.

Program details to follow.

Trade Show Floor

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Wayne Gretzky Ballroom

Managed Charging the AlectraDrive Way : Daniel Carr, Head, Smart Cities, Alectra Utilities & Averyl D’Souza, Spcialist, Business Analysis, Alectra Utilities

EVEMS : Is it the Key to Making Condos and Apartments EV Ready? : Leo Viger-Bernard, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Recharge Véhicule Électrique

Are You Ready for This?!? : Affordable Solutions to Scale ‘EV Ready’ Buildings : Brendan McEwen, Managing Consultant, Dunsky Energy + Climate & Jason Wang, Senior Analyst, Pembina Institute

Charging Ahead : increasing EV Equity Through Charging & Energy Management Systems : Mike Mulqueen, Director – Commercial Partnerships, SWTCH

Policy Leadership in Canada : Suzanne Goldberg, Sr. Director Public Policy, North America, ChargePoint & Travis Allan, Chief Legal & Public Affairs Officer, FLO (on behalf of EMC’s National Government Relations Committee)

Federal ZEV Outlook : Zoiey Cobb, Director, On-Road Decarbonization and Electrification, Environmental Policy, Transport Canada

Infrastructure Programming : Anna Vanderkamp, Director, Innovation Policy, Natural Resources Canada

Update on Federal ZEV Infrastructure Investments : Louise Tanguay, Senior Officer, Transportation and Alternative Fuels Division, Natural Resources Canada

Increasing Public Confidence in ZEVs and Equity : Thierry Spiess, Deputy Director, On-Road Transportation Division, Natural Resources Canada

All-Solid-State Hybrid Electrolyte for Safe and Cost-Effective Metal-Ion Batteries : Lingzi Sang, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science – Chemistry, University of Alberta

Seeing Inside Lithium-Ion Batteries Using In-Situ and Operando Techniques : Mike Fleischauer, Senior Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada

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Municipalities in the Electric Transition : Calvin Lechelt, Program Manager, Sustainability Services, Alberta Municipalities

Key Components of an Equitable Regional EV Charging Strategy : The Case of Metro Vancouver : Lindsay Wiginton, Managing Consultant, Dunsky Energy + Climate & Eve Hou, Senior Manager, Policy Development and Decision Analysis, TransLink

Langley’s Municipal Fleet Electrification Study : Greg Dennis, Project Engineer, Township of Langley (BC)

Moderator: Matthew Bartolone, Director of Sales, Public Charging, ABB E-Mobility

Nationwide Infrastructure Needs for Zero-Emission Vehicles Across Canada : Ben Sharpe, Senior Research and Canada Lead, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)

Assessing the Needs for Charging Infrastructure Across Canada : Jeff Turner, Director, Clean Mobility, Dunsky Energy + Climate

Edmonton’s Success Story in Electric Buses

Electric Buses in Canada: Past, Present and Future : Klaus Peter Canavan, President & CEO, Kiepe Electric Canada

Acceleration of the Transition to Zero-Emission Fleets in Public Transit : Alexandrine Gauvin, Public Affairs and External Communications, Nova Bus

Repowering from Diesel to Battery Electric/Hydrogen : A Great Way to Help Fleet Operators Achieve GHG Reduction Goals Sooner : Gara Hay, President, MTB Transit Solutions

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