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

Keynote Speaker to Be Announced 

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.

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

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

Silent reflection and participants fill in their personal sheets.

EnviroCentre 

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. 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
   Dylan Heerema, Ecotrust Canada
   Zee Bhanji, Low-Income Energy Network (LIEN)
    
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!