When checking in, attendees pick up a piece of paper and are encouraged to journal/write in it throughout the conference

Join us for opening remarks and goal setting. What would make this conference a success?  

CLEAResult Canada will convene a panel with federal and provincial representatives, including Natural Resources Canada, to discuss the Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program. The session will review progress from across the country.

 Enjoy snacks, visit booths and network

TED-Style Lightning Talks: In this fast-paced session, we will explore simple, easy-to-implement actions that, if done consistently and at scale, could completely change the game on energy poverty. Spotlight underrated ideas that deliver outsized impact.

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 4 speakers with high-impact stories.

Ottawa Climate Action Fund (OCAF)’s Fill It First strategy focuses on adding housing units within existing areas, like infill and secondary suites. This approach aims to reduce emissions, energy, and transportation costs, and housing unaffordability. Analysis suggests it creates affordable housing while curbing urban sprawl and greenhouse gas emissions.

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 4 speakers with high-impact stories.

While rebates and retrofits are important, true progress requires a holistic approach—one that supports affordability, helps households transition from oil to electrification, and ensures vulnerable customers are not left behind. We will examine the critical role of partnerships with government, industry, and community organizations, the challenges of program growth and capacity, and strategies to balance immediate needs with long-term climate and economic goals.

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

Enjoy snacks, visit booths and network

Each table will have a specific problem statement or scenario, and attendees will work together to discuss and problem-solve as a group.

Topics

• Effectively Engaging Historically Underprioritized Communities
• Working with Trades
• Indigenous Energy Efficiency and Sovereignty
• Municipal Retrofits and Energy Poverty
• Including Youth and Diverse Perspectives
• Retrofits and Co-benefits
• Rural Energy Poverty
• Maintaining your Sanity in Energy Justice Work
• Energy Poverty Data and Mapping
• Non-Energy Benefits, Measuring Success
• Building Energy Labelling
• Behavioral Factors and Energy Poverty
• Retrofits in Social Housing
• Income-qualified Energy Support Programming in Ontario
• Efficiency and Grid Resilience
• CGHAP – no-cost home retrofits for low-to-median-income homeowners and tenants
• A Climate Lens on Energy Poverty and Cooling in Rental Housing and Max-temp Bylaws
• Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities 
   

Wrap up with a reflection.

EnviroCentre 

 Please join us for cocktails, drinks, and snacks to end the day together.

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

Speakers will give us compelling short stories of experience → insight → action from their perspectives “on the ground.” They’ll offer a peek behind the curtain: what happens after programs launch, what they learned, what we should learn, and what motivates them to keep doing this work every day.

 Enjoy snacks, visit booths and network

Renter Home Energy Justice: Building Performance Standards
Embedding equity into design and implementation of building performance standards, perspectives from Toronto case study.

Energy Poverty Coalition and the Framework
Following last year’s foundational dialogue on energy poverty and energy justice, this session examines what’s needed to advance a national framework to end energy poverty. It will address the key pillars of the framework, identify policy and programmatic priorities, and consider strategies to drive lasting change through coordinated action.

Indigenous Home Energy Justice: Reconciliation in Action

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.
 

Enjoy snacks, visit booths and network

Each deep drive moderator will reflect on the key takeaway. 

Priorities wall – Join us with sticky notes!