Theme: Adapt-Recover-Succeed

Tuesday Morning Keynotes – Anna Pollock and Bill Reed

Session Description:
Every challenge presents an opportunity for transformation and regeneration. Keynote speakers Anna Pollock and Bill Reed share ways to learn, strategize, collaborate, and move forward.

Biographies

Anna Pollock

Based on an extensive career as a researcher, strategist and change catalyst serving the international tourism and hospitality sector, Anna is passionate about its capacity to generate well-being, wealth and welfare for people and places provided that it is managed properly i.e. with respect for the interdependence and connectedness of all life and in harmony with the laws of nature. Recognised by the industry as a visionary, she sees herself as a sense maker, communicator, and catalyst with a knack and drive to delve beneath surface details in order to discern and describe the shape and power of underlying forces. Anna is a highly acclaimed keynote speaker, founder of Conscious Travel, international tourism consultant, and change agent.

Bill Reed, AIA, LEED

Bill Reed is an internationally recognized planning consultant, design process facilitator, lecturer, teacher, and author in sustainability and regeneration. He is a principal of Regenesis, Inc. – a regenerative design, living systems integrator, and education organization. His work centers on creating the framework for and managing an integrative, whole and living system design process. This work is known as Regenerative Development. The objective: to improve the overall quality of the physical, social and spiritual life of our living places and therefore the planet. The more immediate benefits of this process include higher efficiency, lower costs, reduced waste, faster time to market, and the realization of exponential value to the social, ecological, financial and human qualities of a project, the community and its ecosystem.

An author of many technical articles and contributor to multiple books including co-authorship of the seminal work, “Integrative Design Guide to Green Building”; he is a founding Board of Director of the US Green Building Council and one of the co-founders of the LEED Green Building Rating System. In addition to being considered one of the leading thinkers in this field, Bill has also consulted on over two hundred green design commissions – buildings and city master plans. He is also a keynote speaker at major building and design events as well as a guest lecturer to universities throughout Europe, North America, and Oceania including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and UPenn.

Tuesday Session 1 Speaker – Erin Walton

Session Description:
We’ve all been asked to adapt and recover, and by now we’re starting to understand what that means. This session will touch on what we’ve done so far, but will focus on what success looks like for us now, without any historical data or obvious metrics to use to measure our success.

Biography:

Erin has been managing Conference and Event Services at MacEwan University for 12 years. Prior to that she was the Coordinator of Conference Services at the King’s University College. Erin has taught Guest Services for the Edmonton Oilers Hospitality Institute and is a past President of CUCCOA.

Wednesday Session 2 Speaker – Justin Ankenmann

Information to come shortly.

NOTE: This meeting will be held using ZOOM - Please be sure that you have downloaded the most up to date version.

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