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Monday, October 7, 2024
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM	VIP Reception Hotel X
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
7:45 AM - 8:45 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM	Technical Workshop #2 - Demystifying BESS Insurance	Technical Workshop #1 - Optimizing Stationary Storage for Grid Connected Solutions
9:20 AM - 10:20 AM	Technical Workshop #4 - Engineering the Mega Storage Projects - Practical Perspectives & Considerations	Technical Workshop #3 - Current Status of ITCs & the Critical Considerations for their Implementation
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM	Tradeshow & Break
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM	Technical Workshop #6 - Microgrids Research Review	Technical Workshop #5 - Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Stormwater Management Design
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM	Opening Remarks & Keynote Address Debbie Scharf, Natural Resources Canada
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM	CEO Roundtable - Optimizing Our Energy Grid Mark Sidebottom, Nova Scotia Power Robby Sohi, Independent Electricity System Operator ( IESO ) Sonia St-Arnaud, EVLO Energy Storage Annette Verschuren, NRStor Inc
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM	Bio Break
2:20 PM - 3:10 PM	Fireside Chat - Politics of Energy Storage Brad Duguid, Sussex Strategy Group Lisa Raitt, CIBC
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM	Tradeshow & Break
3:40 PM - 4:40 PM	The Energy Storage Decade - Global Perspectives Isshu Kikuma, BloombergNEF Julia Souder, Long Duration Energy Storage Council
4:40 PM - 5:10 PM	Third Annual Energy Storage Canada Awards
5:10 PM - 6:10 PM	WiRE Speed Mentoring Session
5:10 PM - 7:10 PM	Evening Reception & Networking Event
7:00 PM	Afterparty - Renewables UnWind Toronto Bier Markt \| Toronto
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Buffet Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:20 AM	Keynote Address
8:20 AM - 9:30 AM	CEO Roundtable - Leveraging Energy Storage for Ontario's Future Grid Amanda Klein, Toronto Hydro Susanna Zagar, Ontario Energy Board Jon Norman, Hydrostor
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Tradeshow & Break
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Considerations for Financing Energy Storage Pelino Colaiacovo, Morrison Park Advisors Sashen Guneratna, Canada Infrastructure Bank Trish Nixon, Vancity Community Investment Bank
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM	You Have a Contract for Storage - Now What? Brandon Dyck, IBEW Brad Kyte, Atura	Relieving the Pressure - Integrating DERs in our Electricity Grids Matthew Sachs, Peak Power Inc. Sarah Simmons, Power Advisory Mike Voll, Stantec Consulting Ltd.
12:00 PM - 1:10 PM	Luncheon Keynote Phil Fontaine, Former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
1:10 PM - 2:00 PM	The Role for Energy Storage in Meeting CleanBC Goals Kwatuuma Cole Sayers, Clean Energy BC Nicola Vaughan, Innergex Renewable Energy	Canadian BESS Supply Chain & Trade James Larsen, e-Zinc Suzanne Leta, Fluence Martin Rheault, EVLO Energy Storage
2:10 PM - 3:10 PM	Canadian Opportunities for Long Duration Storage Melissa DeValles, Energy Dome Barbara Ellard, Independent Electricity System Operator Andrew Mitchell, TC Energy
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM	Tradeshow & Break
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM	Keynote Address Nathan Neudorf, Government of Alberta
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM	Where Does Energy Storage Fit in Alberta's Revised Energy Market? Jessica Kennedy, Bennett Jones LLP
4:50 PM - 4:55 PM	Closing Remarks

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