Why attend?

• Connect with peers, gain new perspectives and bring practical solutions that matter back to your community.
• Explore through study tours showcasing the best and the brightest of the "Forest City", from a biomass plant to a brewery.
• Experience delegate-driven content delivered through facilitated dialogue and learning that bring fresh insights to the challenges we all face.

Who should attend?

Whether you're an elected official, a municipal staff member, property developer, consultant, or from the not-for-profit sector - you are committed to achieving a more sustainable future for your community. The SCC brings sustainability leaders together from across the country to share their challenges and successes, learn from each other, and collaborate to build their own momentum on the path to sustainability.

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Program highlights

Sharing Failures: What it takes to learn from what didn't work
Ashley Good is just one of this year's inspiring keynote speakers - discover why learning from our failures is just as important as sharing our successes.

Advanced Training: Instilling a Sustainability Mindset within Your City Hall
Connect with a network of municipal sustainability champions and learn from leading expert Bob Willard about the value of corporate sustainability strategies.

Closing Dinner and Keynote: Building momentum for sustainability
Join closing keynote speaker Jennifer Keesmaat and find out why now is the time to take ownership of our shared and sustainable future.

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What challenges stand in the way of food security today?
What is being done to tackle them

Join us for an insightful and compelling discussion with renowned Canadian changemakers working in the field. They’ll share their efforts and challenges in establishing sustainable food systems, educating farmers, influencing policy and promoting healthier and safer foods for the 4 million Canadians – and millions of others around the world – who lack food security today.

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This is a speakers panel & event hosted by SEE Change Magazine
Sponsored by: Whole Foods Market

Speakers/Panelists:

Michael Sacco, Founder/Owner of ChocoSol Traders that produces organic, artisanal chocolate using cacao beans sourced directly from indigenous communities and forest gardens in Mexico with whom they’re engaged in unique trade relationships. They use compostable and reusable packaging, produce their own soil through worm composting and conduct 80% of their deliveries on bike.

Vanessa Ling Yu, Founder of FoodSpokes and caterToronto, who brings over 15 years of expertise across community food systems in areas of food security, food justice, and food-related entrepreneurship.

Gavin Dandy, Executive Director & Co-Founder of Everdale, where he’s worked since 1996 as a farmer and educator specializing in the training of a new generation of ecological farmers and the re-vitalization of local food economies. Gavin is currently focusing on the development of Everdale’s newest teaching farm, Black Creek Community Farm, located in Toronto’s Jane-Finch neighbourhood.

Moderator: Elisa Birnbaum, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, SEE Change Magazine

And enjoy some refreshments from Whole Foods Market too!

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Mountain Time

This session, hosted by the Battle River Alliance for Economic Development and Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities, will be geared to business owners from all disciplines and business service providers (municipalities, EDOs, CAOs, etc.) who seek to deepen their understanding and begin the process of succession planning. Succession planning is a natural process in a successful business and one that can (and should) be positive and empowering.

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Please Join Shauna for this Informative Webinar:

Shauna is the Executive Director of the Alberta Business Family Institute and former Project Manager for the Creating Pathways for Entrepreneurial Families Rural Initiative.
Shauna’s background includes a variety of experience, including banking and accounting along with project and event management. Shauna is a certified Family Enterprise Advisor and has successfully supported many small to medium sized businesses successfully transition to the next phase of ownership.

Living throughout rural Alberta growing up, Shauna has a unique understanding of the issues of rural sustainability and from being a partner in her own family business, she understands the need to readily access further education, information and resources in order for both the family and the business to thrive, grow and transition successfully.

Shauna is currently Treasurer and Audit Committee Chair for the Alberta Chamber of Commerce, Past- President of the Camrose Chamber of Commerce, Advisory Board Member for the Rural Alberta Business Centres, Volunteer Mentor with MentorNation/Futurepreneur and Volunteer Screener for the TEC Edmonton VenturePrize Awards.

For more information visit www.acsrc.ca or contact:
Naomi Finseth, Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities
780.679.1672780.679.1672 | Email: acsrc at ualberta.ca
 
Or visit www.brandonu.ca/rdi/

1:30pm Eastern Time

Wondering how to move beyond youth involvement to youth engagement? Where can you find a powerful professional development program for staff? Are you looking for creative ways to market your credit union/co-operative within your community?

With the release of On Co-op’s new “CYL Sponsor and Youth Engagement Guide,” co-operatives and credit unions now have access to a comprehensive all-in-one resource which provides the collected best practices and necessary steps as to how your co-op can use CYL as the “centrepiece” around which to build your youth recruitment and engagement strategy - not to mention key pieces to your social media and staff professional development strategies!

This comprehensive step-by-step toolkit has been designed to guide your co-op’s year round involvement with CYL. The Youth Engagement Guide goes beyond "just" CYL and includes:

• Youth engagement Best Practices and sample initiatives
• Leveraging your staff’s professional development and team building initiatives
• Youth recruitment and selection guidelines/resources
• A year-round calendar of events and timelines  
• Sample youth engagement agreements with youth
• Guidelines for creating a powerful community/youth outreach program by pairing  CYL with On Co-op’s award-winning All 4 Each School Program

To get your advanced copy of the CYL Sponsor and Youth Engagement Guide, e-mail youth@ontario.coop.

To get the most from this, combine the Youth Engagement Guide with our informational Webinar on real world youth engagement and CYL at 1:30pm on Wednesday, January 14th.

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