Program

07:45 - 17:30

Registration Desk Open

08:45

Welcoming Remarks
Grant Buchanan, President, IIC Canada

09:00

Keynote
Vicky Eatrides, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

09:30

Panel
Legislative Landscape: Developments in Canadian Communications
and Media Law
Monique Lafontaine, Communications Lawyer
Margot Patterson, Dentons Canada LLP

10:00

Short Track
Indigenous Connectivity Developments
Mark Saunders, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Matthew Bisson, CRTC

10:15

Short Track
Trade Policy and Platform Regulation
Peter Grant, Communications Lawyer

10:30

Short Track
Digital Services Taxation
Marla Boltman, Friends of Canadian Media

10:45

Short Track
Update on Mobile Virtual Network Operators and High-Speed Access Frameworks
Dennis Béland, Consultant

11:15

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.

12:15

Lunch Keynote
Ryan Straschnitzki, Straz Strong Foundation

13:45

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

14:45

Short Track
Towards a National Strategy on Online Gambling
Dr. Matthew Young, Gambling Research Exchange Ontario

15:00

Short Track
AI and Energy Demands
Julia Muggeridge, Electricity Canada

15:15

Short Track
Future of the CBC and Radio-Canada: A View from the Senate
The Hon. Andrew Cardozo, Senator, Senate of Canada

15:45

Panel
AI and Regulatory Responses
Barry Sookman, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Carole Piovesan, INQ Law
Teresa Scassa, University of Ottawa

17:15 - 19:00

Cocktail reception hosted by the Canadian Telecommunications Association

08:55

Opening Remarks
Grant Buchanan, President, IIC Canada

09:30

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

10:45

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

11:15

Short Track
AI and Emergency Alerting
Maureen Rogers, Pelmorex Weather Networks

11:30

Short Track
Equipment Manufacturers as Content Gatekeepers
Claude Galipeau, CBC/Radio-Canada

11:45

Short Track
Quantum Computing and Data Centre Capacity
Dr. Georg Serentschy, Serentschy Advisory Services GmbH

12:00

Lunch Keynote
Julie Kearney
Chief of the Space Bureau at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission

13:30

Short Track
The Future for Satellite Connectivity
Michèle Beck, Telesat

13:45

Short Track
Growing Use of Facial Recognition
Wendy Wong, University of British Columbia

14:00

Short Track
The View from Bay Street
Maher Yaghi, Scotiabank

14:30

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

15:30

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

16:15

Closing reception hosted by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters