Please check back as more sessions and events are still being added.
| Saturday, June 08 | ||||||
| Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Venue | Track | Career Level | FORMAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
| Annual General Meeting | Plaza AB | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM | ||||||
| Registration | Regency Foyer | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | ||||||
| Leaders Reception | The Roof | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | ||||
| Sunday, June 09 | ||||||
| Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Venue | Track | Career Level | FORMAT |
| 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM | ||||||
| Registration | Regency Foyer | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | ||||||
| CMP and SCMP exam | Constable and Kensington | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | ||||||
| Strategic Adviser Forum: Alignment—How communicators can change the face of leadership |
Zora Artis Stephen Welch |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Workshop (3 Hours) |
| Student event: 3, 2, 1… We have lift off! Launching your communication career |
Catherine Ducharme Lauren Tokiwa |
Boardroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Communication Skills | Foundation | Workshop (3 Hours) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | ||||||
| Lunch, buffet-style *For pre-conference attendees only. | Pacific Ballroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | ||||
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||||
| CMP and SCMP exam | Constable and Kensington | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | ||||||
| Digital signage master class |
Ethan McCarty Monica Bertran James Fine David Defelici Justin Lachovsky |
Prince of Wales/Oxford | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | Workshop (3 Hours) | |
| Gift of Communication | Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | ||||
| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | ||||||
| Opening general session: Soledad O'Brien, State of the media: Trust and the global free press |
Soledad O'Brien |
BC Ballroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | |||
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | ||||||
| Welcome Reception | West Level 3, Terrace, 301-305 | Vancouver Convention Center | ||||
| Monday, June 10 | ||||||
| Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Venue | Track | Career Level | FORMAT |
| 6:30 AM - 7:15 AM | ||||||
| Yoga | Seymour | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
| Coffee and breakfast | Regency Ballroom | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM | ||||||
| Registration | Regency Foyer | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 7:45 AM - 8:45 AM | ||||||
| How to get the most out of your conference experience | Georgia B | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | ||||||
| Driving employee engagement at every level of the organization |
Michael Holste Allison Michels |
Balmoral/Windsor | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| From portal to the palm of your hand: Sparrow Modern Workplace |
Adam Zouak |
Prince of Wales/Oxford | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM | ||||||
| 2019 Speaker meeting | Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
| General session and keynote address: Celeste Headlee: The lost art of conversation |
Celeste Headlee |
BC Ballroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | |||
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
| An employee app for DHL: improving the employee experience for a global frontline workforce |
Simon Puettmann Jason Etter |
Balmoral/Windsor | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | |
| Driving business impact through communication, culture, and employee experience |
Robyn Hannah |
Prince of Wales/Oxford | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | |
| Gold-Quill Award winning case study: Communicating cannabis in Canada—Bringing innovation to a communication frontier |
Brock Penner Tess Messmer John Bowes |
Boardroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | ||
| Authentic storytelling: Rethinking the ups, downs, pitfalls and successes |
Julia Oosterman Lisa Hawthornthwaite |
Saturna Island | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Marketing & Brand | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Bridging the gap between the best and next in communication |
Sunita Venugopal Kellie Cummings Daniel Munslow Darian Kovacs |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Panel presentation (1 Hour) |
| Crisis response: The changing rules of engagement |
Joanne Henry, SCMP |
Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Expand your brand's reach with podcasting |
Brent Bowen |
English Bay | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Marketing & Brand | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| How communication can (and should) be more data-driven |
Maliha Aqeel |
Plaza AB | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| How to build your enterprise social muscles |
Rita Zonius |
Georgia B | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| The AI playbook for communication professionals |
Adrian Cropley OAM, FRSA, SCMP Mary Hills, ABC, Six Sigma IABC Fellow Sia Papageorgiou FRSA, SCMP |
Georgia A | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Business leader | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Trends, competencies and solutions for future-proofing the PR profession |
Ana Adi |
Grouse | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Business leader | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | ||||||
| Lunch, buffet-style | Regency Ballroom | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | ||||||
| Get more out of your internal email |
Joel-Michael Martin Melissa Katski-Berry |
Balmoral/Windsor | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| Putting internal comms in jeopardy |
Chuck Gose Lindsay Williams |
Prince of Wales | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||||
| Diversity and inclusion, deconstructed for communicators |
Chris Lentz |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Reputation | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Cybersecurity communication: An ounce of prevention could save your company |
Michael Zimet |
Grouse | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Demonstrating ROI to move your communication forward |
Sara Jackson |
Saturna Island | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| How teen influencers are changing online communication |
Jen Yamasaki |
English Bay | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Marketing & Brand | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| How to communicate about artificial intelligence and big data innovation |
Krista Davidson Carolyn Fell |
Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Letting a wolf in the hen house: Partnering with media to advance advocacy |
Scott Fry |
Georgia A | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Reputation | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| The TransUnion experience: Aligning associates and increasing engagement during significant change |
Melissa Connolly |
Georgia B | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| The art of digital storytelling |
Ayesha Lett |
Plaza AB | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Foundation | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | ||||||
| Coffee and cookies break | Regency Ballroom | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 2:10 PM - 2:40 PM | ||||||
| Internal communication—from "meh" to "marvellous" |
Matt Frost |
Prince of Wales | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| Simpplr research: What Glassdoor data teaches us about internal communication |
Sam Keninger |
Balmoral Room | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | ||||||
| Gold-Quill Award winning case study: Building brand relationships with cultural storytelling: A digital video series that entertains and engages |
Sylvester Chauke |
Boardroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | ||
| Optimize your internal email strategy with bayer: A case study |
Lisa Noury Melissa Katski-Berry |
Prince of Wales/Oxford | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | |
| The hallmarks of great internal communication |
Lee Smith Matt Frost |
Georgia B | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | |
| C-suite conversations: Words to kill, words to keep |
Cyrus Mavalwala Claire Watson |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Communication Skills | Strategic adviser | Speed Presentation (10 Minutes) |
| Communicating in an age of outrage |
Greg Lyle |
Saturna Island | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Reputation | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Create a social media strategy for your career |
Caroline Leach |
Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Reputation | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Helping communicators navigate transformation with artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace |
Jo Curkpatrick |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Strategic adviser | Speed Presentation (10 Minutes) |
| Predicting the future through research |
Angela Sinickas |
Grouse | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Text-based pitches are dead: Try video pitching instead |
Sandy Pell |
English Bay | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Business leader | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| The secrets of highly effective virtual teams |
Theomary Karamanis |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Generalist/specialist | Speed Presentation (10 Minutes) |
| Transforming the conversation: Communication and organizational change |
Paula Roberts |
Plaza AB | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Reputation | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Workplace at Walmart: A case study on the changing face of work and communication |
Dan Kneeshaw Jami Lamontagne |
Georgia A | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | ||||||
| Networking reception | Regency Ballroom | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 5:00 PM - 10:30 PM | ||||||
| Regional receptions | Various | |||||
| 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM | ||||||
| Dine-around | Various | |||||
| Tuesday, June 11 | ||||||
| Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Venue | Track | Career Level | FORMAT |
| 6:30 AM - 7:15 AM | ||||||
| Yoga | Seymour | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
| Coffee and breakfast | Regency Ballroom | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM | ||||||
| Registration | Regency Foyer | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | ||||||
| Solving the top 3 employee communication problems |
Matt Langlois Kirby Roeder |
Balmoral Room | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
| General session and keynote address: Corporate Rebels: They’ll change what you think you know |
Corporate Rebels |
BC Ballroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | |||
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
| Driving innovation through communication |
Sheryl Lewis |
Prince of Wales/Oxford | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | |
| Evolving the employee experience: How to shift to a global, digital workplace |
Elisha McCallum Dave Carley Agustín Del Vento |
Balmoral/Windsor | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | |
| Gold-Quill Award winning case study: Building Builder’s strategic communication excellence from research |
Mari Lee Elzette Van Niekerk |
Boardroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | ||
| Creating a framework to get 100,000 employees to share a single, simple message |
Fara Alimohamed Miranda Steele James Harper Danica Gatto Kelly Rockliff |
Georgia B | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Business leader | Panel presentation (1 Hour) |
| How do you engage the human workforce to drive man-machine collaboration for intelligent automation transformations when they fear it? |
Preeti Khattri |
English Bay | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| The newest technology that will change the way you communicate |
Shel Holtz |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Thinking forward: Rethinking crisis communication |
Daniel Munslow |
Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Business leader | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Turn your leaders into social media superstars |
Tracy Harlow Micah Laney |
Grouse | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Marketing & Brand | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| What remote workers really want from internal communication teams |
Jenni Field |
Plaza AB | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Who moved my future? Innovate, inspire and create new realities |
Michelle Ray |
Georgia A | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Writing without BS: Business communication for a read-on-screen world |
Josh Bernoff |
Saturna Island | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | ||||||
| Lunch, buffet-style | Regency Ballroom | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | ||||||
| Creating a hub for information and inspiration: how Equinox connected a digital community through a dynamic intranet |
Henderson Chatargun Eric Foltmer Daren Jennings |
Prince of Wales | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| Meet Bananatag: Better emails ahoy |
Chris Wagner Andrew Benes |
Balmoral Room | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||||
| Gold-Quill Award winning case study: How Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) used marketing to help save lives through an impaired driving awareness campaign |
Barbara Cross Toni Ennis |
Boardroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | ||
| 10 steps for building effective, strategic partnerships inside your organization |
Martha Muzychka |
Plaza AB | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Positive business disruption: How ATB Financial transformed its business processes |
Calvin Seaman Mireille Farkouh |
Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| 1:00 PM - 3:15 PM | ||||||
| 7 steps to unforgettable presentations |
Dani Buijtenhek |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Workshop (2 Hours) |
| Changing company culture: Easier said than done |
Mark Schumann |
Saturna Island | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Business leader | Workshop (2 Hours) |
| Develop the influence skills to become a strategic adviser to your clients |
Kellie Cummings |
Georgia B | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Reputation | Generalist/specialist | Workshop (2 Hours) |
| From marathons to sprints: How marketing can adapt to an agile environment |
Tanya O'Callaghan Erin Hutchison |
English Bay | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Strategic adviser | Workshop (2 Hours) |
| How to find your next big idea |
Marilyn Barefoot |
Georgia A | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Business leader | Workshop (2 Hours) |
| The future of PR: How to stand out in a noisy market |
Darian Kovacs |
Grouse | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Marketing & Brand | Foundation | Workshop (2 Hours) |
| 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | ||||||
| Digital signage Q&A panel |
Ethan McCarty Monica Bertran James Fine David Defelici Justin Lachovsky |
Balmoral/Windsor | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | Panel presentation (1 Hour) | |
| Supercharge your employee communication with internal email |
Filza Naveed Kate Kraley |
Prince of Wales/Oxford | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) | |
| How to build an engaging content program in a boring industry |
Inga Batur Alenka Bester |
Plaza AB | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Secrets from the art of improv comedy to help you survive and thrive in a divisive world |
Rob Biesenbach |
Boardroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Using customer pipeline as a new metric to show communication value |
Atle Erlingsson |
Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Marketing & Brand | Business leader | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | ||||||
| Coffee and ice cream break | Regency Ballroom | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | ||||||
| Measuring content with the metrics that matter |
Paul Headley |
Prince of Wales | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| The death of corporate reputation |
Amy Collins |
Balmoral Room | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Solution Provider | ||
| 5:00 PM - 10:30 PM | ||||||
| Excellence Gala | BC Ballroom and Pacific Ballroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | ||||
| Wednesday, June 12 | ||||||
| Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Venue | Track | Career Level | FORMAT |
| 7:30 AM - 11:00 AM | ||||||
| Registration | Regency Foyer | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | ||||
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
| Coffee and breakfast | Pacific Ballroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | ||||
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | ||||||
| Here's what it takes to become a 2020 IABC World Conference speaker |
Nic Pearce |
Grouse | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | |||
| 3 design principles that increase traffic to your digital content |
Michelle Horner |
Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| From message fatigue to memorable moments: How to perfect the internal communication formula |
Philip Nunn Stuart Frampton |
Georgia B | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Employee Engagement | Business leader | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Making an impact beyond communication: What communicators need to know to stay at the top |
Stephen Welch Maria Constantinescu |
Saturna Island | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Business leader | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| The newest technology that will change the way you communicate |
Shel Holtz |
Georgia A | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM | ||||||
| Executive Summit: The CEO as the North Star |
Bridgitte Anderson |
Plaza AB | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Business leader | Workshop (2 Hours) |
| Join a "communi-hack": Case studies on crisis communication, diversity, and ethics |
Christine Gillies Heather Young |
Waddington Room | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Workshop (2 Hours) |
| 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | ||||||
| Developing a new identity and a new narrative for a 100+-year-old organization |
Charmane Russell |
Plaza C | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| How gender differences in communication styles influence communication and PR practice |
Amelia Reigstad |
Georgia A | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Business leader | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| How to build an engaging content program in a boring industry |
Inga Batur Alenka Bester |
Georgia B | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Generalist/specialist | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| The art of digital storytelling |
Ayesha Lett |
Grouse | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Communication Skills | Foundation | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| The ultimate strategy: Identifying, connecting and mobilizing internal influencers |
Mike Klein Michael Nord Lydia Tay |
Saturna Island | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | Leadership & Strategy | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| Transforming the conversation: Communication and organizational change |
Paula Roberts |
English Bay | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | Reputation | Strategic adviser | Traditional Breakout (1 Hour) |
| 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM | ||||||
| General session and keynote address: Peter Sheahan: Accelerated growth and innovation |
Peter Sheahan |
BC Ballroom | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | |||
