Join us for opening remarks, where we’ll set the stage and invite you to reflect: What would make this conference a success for you?

Keynote Speaker to Be Announced 

TED-Style Lightning Talks: In this fast-paced session, speakers will each deliver a 5-minute talk responding to the question: What’s the smallest thing we could do consistently to completely change the game on energy poverty? Expect bold, underrated ideas that deserve more attention.

TED-Style Lightning Talks: In this fast-paced session, each speaker will deliver a 5-minute presentation highlighting one successful project that delivered clear public health, economic, or social benefits. Featuring 7–8 speakers with high-impact stories.

Walk the room, add your thoughts, and spark conversation by leaving post-it notes on whiteboard posters from the previous session’s presentations.

Participants sign up in advance for one themed table (e.g. renter energy justice, Indigenous perspectives, municipal programs). Each table will have a specific problem statement or scenario, and attendees will work together to discuss and problem-solve as a group.

5 minute Ted-Talk style presentations where each speaker will highlight one big and new-ish idea ready for primetime in Canada

Silent reflection and participants fill in their personal sheets.

EnviroCentre will welcome us to a Drinks reception following closing remarks.

Hear how the Mayor of Bridgewater is driving innovative, community-led solutions to advance energy justice and affordability.

In fast-paced, 5-minute TED-style talks, speakers share powerful stories of experience,  insight and action from their on-the-ground work. We will discuss what happens after programs launch, what lessons stick, and what keeps them coming back to this work every day.

1. Building energy labeling
2. Indigenous home energy justice: reconciliation in action
   Yasmin Abraham, Kambo Energy Group
   Shahed Shafazand, Aboriginal Housing Management Association

1. Energy poverty in the digital age
   Emerging tools like real-time utility data (e.g., Green Button), AI-based modeling, and disaggregated energy use analysis are transforming how we identify and serve households in energy poverty
    
2. Renter Home Energy Justice: Building Performance Standards
   Abhilash Kantamneni, Efficiency Canada
   Bryan Purcell, The Atmospheric Fund
   Magda Barrera, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario
   Jacqueline Wilson, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Each deep drive moderator will reflect on the key takeaway. 

Priorities wall – Join us with sticky notes!