MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 |
07:45 - 17:30
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Registration Desk Open
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07:45 - 08:45 |
Continental breakfast |
08:45
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Welcoming Remarks
Grant Buchanan, President, IIC Canada
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09:00
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Keynote
Vicky Eatrides, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
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09:30
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Panel
Legislative Landscape: Developments in Canadian Communications
and Media Law
Monique Lafontaine, Communications Lawyer
Margot Patterson, Dentons Canada LLP
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10:00
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Short Track
Indigenous Connectivity Developments
Mark Saunders, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Matthew Bisson, CRTC
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10:15
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Short Track
Trade Policy and Platform Regulation
Peter Grant, Communications Lawyer
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10:30
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Short Track
Digital Services Taxation
Marla Boltman, Friends of Canadian Media
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10:45
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Short Track
Update on Mobile Virtual Network Operators and High-Speed Access Frameworks
Dennis Béland, Consultant
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11:00 |
Break |
11:15
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Panel
AI, Disinformation and Elections
Moderator: Omayra Issa, CPAC (Cable Public Affairs Channel)
Caroline Simard, Elections Canada
Don Lenihan, Middle Ground Policy Research
Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa
Frank Graves, EKOS Research Associates Inc.
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12:15
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Lunch Keynote
Ryan Straschnitzki, Straz Strong Foundation
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13:30 |
Break |
13:45
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Panel
Competition Act Changes
Moderator: David Reevely, The Logic
Keldon Bester, Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project
Margaret Sanderson, Charles River Associates
Melanie Aitken, Bennett Jones LLP
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14:45
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Short Track
Towards a National Strategy on Online Gambling
Dr. Matthew Young, Gambling Research Exchange Ontario
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15:00
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Short Track
AI and Energy Demands
Julia Muggeridge, Electricity Canada
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15:15
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Short Track
Future of the CBC and Radio-Canada: A View from the Senate
The Hon. Andrew Cardozo, Senator, Senate of Canada
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15:30 |
Break |
15:45
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Panel
AI and Regulatory Responses
Barry Sookman, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Carole Piovesan, INQ Law
Teresa Scassa, University of Ottawa
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16:45 |
Keynote: To be announced |
17:15 - 19:00
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Cocktail reception hosted by the Canadian Telecommunications Association
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 |
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08:00 - 15:30 |
Registration Desk Open |
08:00 - 08:55 |
Continental breakfast |
08:55
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Opening Remarks
Grant Buchanan, President, IIC Canada
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09:00 |
Keynote: To be announced |
09:30
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Panel
Bill C-27 - Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and
Data Protection Tribunal Act
Moderator: Eric Smith, Canadian Telecommunications Association
Deborah Evans, Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
Julie Himo, Torys LLP
Suzanne Morin, Sun Life
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10:30 |
Break |
10:45
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Short Track
AI, Music and Copyright
Amanda Harcourt, Honorary Professor of Practice, Faculty of Laws,
University College London (UCL)
John Rowley, Screen Composers Guild of Canada
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11:15
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Short Track
AI and Emergency Alerting
Maureen Rogers, Pelmorex Weather Networks
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11:30
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Short Track
Equipment Manufacturers as Content Gatekeepers
Claude Galipeau, CBC/Radio-Canada
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11:45
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Short Track
Quantum Computing and Data Centre Capacity
Dr. Georg Serentschy, Serentschy Advisory Services GmbH
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12:00
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Lunch Keynote
Julie Kearney
Chief of the Space Bureau at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
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13:15 |
Break |
13:30
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Short Track
The Future for Satellite Connectivity
Michèle Beck, Telesat
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13:45
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Short Track
Growing Use of Facial Recognition
Wendy Wong, University of British Columbia
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14:00
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Short Track
The View from Bay Street
Maher Yaghi, Scotiabank
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14:15 |
Break |
14:30
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Panel
Bill C-63 - The Online Harms Act
Moderator: Ian Scott, Former Chairperson & CEO, CRTC
Supriya Dwivedi, Office of the Prime Minister of Canada
Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Emily Laidlaw, University of Calgary
Shaheen Shariff, McGill University
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15:30
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Panel
Litigation Landscape: Developments in Canadian and International Communications and Media Legal Cases
Jay Kerr-Wilson, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Jennifer Tatel, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
Stephen Zolf, Aird & Berlis LLP
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16:15
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Closing reception hosted by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters
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