2019 Spring Symposium

Economic Development: The Human Factor

The Westin Trillium House
220 Gord Canning Drive
The Blue Mountains, ON L9Y 0V9

May 8, 2019 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

• Opening reception, Whistler Blackcomb Room
  

May 9, 2019 - 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

• 8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast, Panorama Room

• 9:15 am - 9:30 am Opening Remarks and Welcome from EDCO President Delia Reiche and WOWC Economic Development Chairperson, George Bridge

• 9:30 am - 10:15 am Opening Plenary: Business Retention and Expansion - The Private Sector Approach to the Human Factor with Guest Speaker Andrew Siegwart, President, Blue Mountain Village

• 10:15 am - 10:30 am Refreshment Break

• 10:30 am - 11:15 am Ontario's Youth - They Matter! with Guest Speaker Emily Morrison, Launch Pad Youth Activity and Technology Centre

• 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Transporting Workers - A New Consideration to Workforce for Employers and Communities with Guest Speaker Brennan Kenny, Innisfil UBER
  

• 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Practical Applications to the Human Factor: Field trips with boxed lunch
• Agnora and MacLean Engineering
• BTI Mining and Thornbury Cidery
• Blue Mountain Fruit Company
  
• 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Closing Plenary: Communities and Local Business Moving Forward.  Where do we go from here?
• Anthony Griffiths, MacLean Engineering
• Kim Marshall, Innovative Automation
• TBC
• 4:30 pm Closing Remarks
  

Download the program with full session description (as of May 6, 2019)

Hosted in partnership with the Western Ontario Wardens' Caucus.