SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

MaRS Discovery District
101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario (map & directions)

Room Legend
Auditorium - on lower concourse
Conference Room 2 AB - on main floor
Conference Room 3 - on main floor


* Click presenter names for further information

Time Event
7:45 - 8:30 Registration & Continental Breakfast - Concourse
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome Remarks:
Gail Krantzberg, Ph.D. (Director, ArcelorMittal Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy, McMaster University)
Nadine Miller, P.Eng. (Director, OSPE)
The Honourable Linda Jeffrey (Minister of Natural Resources)
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Address: John Campbell, P.Eng. (President and Chief Executive Officer of Waterfront Toronto) "Revitalization of the Toronto Waterfront"
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break & Networking
10:15 - 10:50 Janet Holder (President, Enbridge Gas): "How energy utilities can work to address climate change in the coming decades"
10:50 - 11:25 Allan Douglas (Program Manager, Climate Change Adaptation, Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and Adaptation Resources): "A framework for assessing and managing climate change vulnerability and risks in Ontario communities – applications to Infrastructure"
11:25 - 12:00 Merril Mascarenhas, CMC (Managing Partner, Arcus Consulting Group): "What if we can’t get greenhouse gases under control?"
12:00 - 12:30 Buffet Lunch
12:30 - 1:15 Keynote Address: George Smitherman (Toronto Mayoral Candidate) "Why I Want to be a Great Lakes Mayor"
1:15 - 1:30 Coffee Break & Networking
1:30 - 2:10 Mitigation
Lian Zhao, Ph.D., P.Eng and Jim Liovas, President (SouthPoint Wind): "The intensive opportunities of great lakes offshore wind energy"
Resilience
Marc Rosen, Ph.D., P.Eng. (Professor, UOIT and President, Engineering Institute of Canada): "Using energy and thermodynamics to enhance ecological and environmental understanding and stewardship"
Adaptation
Gail Krantzberg, Ph.D. (Director, ArcelorMittal Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy, McMaster University) "Climate Change predictions relevant to Great Lakes water quality and quantity: examples of Adaptation Strategies"
2:10 - 2:50 Resilience
Shafique Chowdhury, P.Eng, PMP (Gerdau Ameristeel, Whitby): "Zero effluent discharge to Lake Ontario"
Adaptation
Michael D’Andrea, P.Eng, Patric Chessie, P,Eng and Grace Lin, P.Eng (City of Toronto): "A climate change adaptation strategy to address urban flooding in the City of Toronto"
2:50 - 3:20 Coffee Break &Networking
3:20 - 4:00 Mitigation
Sunil Kumar, Iakov Gordon, Rick Brown, Luke Westfall, Ian Cameron, Michael Freislich and Steve Gale (Hatch): "Addressing climate change, a novel greenhouse gas carbon abatement process (G-CAP) for the North American iron and steel industry"
Resilience
Michael Roth, Ph.D., P.Eng. (Project Director, RWDI Consulting Engineers and Scientists): "Practical engineering approaches for assessing future climate conditions: case studies"
Adaptation
Richard St-Aubin, P.Eng (Director of New Product Development, Ipex Inc): "Energy savings from using molecularly oriented pipe (PVCO) in municipal water distribution systems"
4:00 - 4:55 Keynote Address: Ian Burton, Ph.D. (Scientist Emeritus with the Impacts and Adaptation Research Group of the Meteorological Service of Canada): "Ontario's Climate Change Adaptation"
4:55 - 5:00 Conference Wrap Up