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Join the Institute for Research on Public Policy for Canada’s Next Economic Transformation: Industrial Policy in Tumultuous Times, a one-day conference to be held in Ottawa on Tuesday, September 16.
Canada is facing a range of urgent challenges. Disruptions to the global trading system, threats to our sovereignty and security and rapidly evolving artificial intelligence will affect how we work and live. Add to that concerns about a changing climate, an accelerating energy transition, the need to address housing affordability and the impetus for Indigenous economic reconciliation and it’s clear the next decade will be pivotal.
Governments do not have the fiscal capacity to address these challenges on their own. They need to collaborate with the private sector to build, manufacture, and innovate to achieve results as quickly as possible.
To discuss how to best approach these challenges, Canada’s Next Economic Transformation: Industrial Policy in Tumultuous Times brings together public servants, academics, researchers, corporate leaders and other policy influencers from across Canada. Focused panel sessions will be dedicated to key issues related to industrial policy:
The opening conference keynote will be given by American economist and author Noah Smith. The lunch keynote will be given by Premier R.J. Simpson.
Featured panelists include Steve Verheul (former assistant deputy minister of the Trade Policy and Negotiations branch of Global Affairs Canada); Matthew Holmes (Canadian Chamber of Commerce); Corinne Pohlmann (Canadian Federation of Independent Business); Matthew Foss (Canadian Council for Indigenous Business); Ralph Torrie (Corporate Knights); Karen Restoule (Macdonald-Laurier Institute); Marisa Beck (Canadian Climate Institute); Jeffrey Collins (University of Prince Edward Island); Craig Stone (Canadian Forces College); Raquel Garbers (Centre for International Governance Innovation);Patricia Goff (Wilfrid Laurier University); Chris Ragan (McGill University); Emna Braham (L’Institut du Québec); Jim Stanford (Centre for Future Work); Glen Hodgson (Momentus Global); Jesse McCormick (First Nations Major Project Coalition); Lise Birikundavyi (BKR Capital); Chris Bataille (Centre on Global Energy Policy); and Tim Hudak (Counsel Public Affairs). More information and the full conference line-up will be announced later this summer.
Early bird tickets are now available for $400. Registration will increase to $600 on July 23. This covers admission to all conference sessions, as well as breakfast, lunch, and a cocktail reception.
This conference is the culmination of the IRPP’s two-year research project on industrial policy. In advance of the conference, the IRPP — and the expert steering group guiding the research project — will publish a paper outlining recommendations for industrial policy, drawing from four workshops held in 2023 and 2024. Learn more at https://irpp.org/canada-next-economic-transformation/.
For more information, please contact belliott@irpp.org.
