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 will convene a panel with federal and provincial representatives, including NRCan, to discuss the Federal Low Income Rental Retrofit Program. The session will review progress, opportunities for improvement, and what’s next.

Explore posters from the previous sessions, leave your thoughts on post-it notes, and share ideas 

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 7–8 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 7–8 speakers with high-impact stories.

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

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

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
•    Tenant Rights and Empowerment
•    Cooling in Rental Housing and Max-temp Bylaws
•    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
•    Energy Poverty in Quebec
•    Income-qualified Energy Support Programming in Ontario
•    Efficiency and Grid Resilience
•    CGHAP - Federal Low-income and Rental Retrofit Program
•    A Climate Lense on Energy Poverty
•    Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities 
 

Silent reflection and participants fill in their personal sheets.

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.

1. Energy Poverty Coalition and the Framework
   What do we want of the Framework, and how do we work together?
    
2. Renter Home Energy Justice: Building Performance Standards
   Embedding equity into design and implementation of building performance standards, perspectives from Toronto case study.
   Abhilash Kantamneni, Efficiency Canada
   Bryan Purcell, The Atmospheric Fund
   Magda Barrera, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario
   Jaqueline Wilson, Canadian Environmental Law Association
   Zee Bhanji, Low-Income Energy Network (LIEN)
   ACORN

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. Indigenous Home Energy Justice: Reconciliation in Action
   Yasmin Abraham, Kambo Energy Group
   Shahed Shafazand, Aboriginal Housing Management Association
   Adam McLaren, Ishkoday | First Nation Energy Sustainability Association
    

Each deep drive moderator will reflect on the key takeaway. 

Priorities wall – Join us with sticky notes!