Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Professional Development Day

7:30 am – 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

7:30 am – 8:30 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 am – 8:40 am
Welcoming Remarks
Tara Dinsmore, Chair, 23rd Real Property National Workshop

8:40 am – 9:00 am
Opening Address
Strengthening the Real Property Community in an Evolving Public Sector
Christine Perry, Co-chair Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property Director General Steering Committee and Director General, Corporate Operations Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

9:00 am – 4:15 pm
Training Sessions

Creating the Optimal Facility Management Plan
Marcia O’Connor, President, AM FM Consulting Group Inc.

Real Property Business Case Development
Brian Acheson, Principal, Focus Management Consulting, Senior Associate, Goss Gilroy Inc.

Project Risk
Frank Townson, Vice President, CRG Consulting

Does Climate Change Really Matter to Real Property?
Curt Benson, Region of Niagara

10:00 am – 10:30 am
Refreshment Break

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm
Refreshment Break

2010 Welcome Reception at the CN Tower presented by Canada Lands Company.

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm RPIC AGM 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Welcome Reception

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

7:30 am – 4:15 pm
Registration

7:30 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast in Trade Show Area

8:30 am – 8:45 am
Welcoming Remarks
Tara Dinsmore, Chair, 23rd Real Property National Workshop

8:45 am – 9:00 am
ADM Champion Address
Scott Stevenson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Infrastructure and Environment, Department of National Defence

9:00 am – 10:00 am
ADM Panel
Real Property Innovation: Enabling Public Service Renewal

Scott Stevenson, 2010 RPIC ADM Champion and Assistant Deputy Minister (Infrastructure and Environment), Department of National Defence
John McBain, 2008 RPIC ADM Champion and Assistant Deputy Minister, Real Property Branch, Public Works and Government Services Canada
Alain Seguin, 2011 ADM Champion and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Marc O'Sullivan, Assistant Comptroller General, Acquired Services and Assets Sector, Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat and ADM Champion for the federal real property community.

10:00 am – 10:30 am Refreshment Break in Trade Show Area

10:30 am – 11:45 am
Concurrent Breakouts

1. From Pilot to Sustainment: Lessons Learned Implementing the Policies on Investment Planning and on the Management of Projects

2. Your Role in Sustainability: Employee Engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility

3. Development of Federal Best Practice in Public-Private Partnership Projects

4. Does Your Big Picture Drive Your Bottom Line?

11:45 am – 12:15 pm Lunch

12:15 pm – 12:45 pm Luncheon Address The Honourable David Crombie, Chair of Toronto Lands Corporation, former Member of Parliament and former Mayor of Toronto

12:45 pm – 1:15 pm Dessert Break in Trade Show Area

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Breakouts

5. Guide to Real Property Management: Aboriginal Context – Putting it into Practice

6. Sustainable Facilities Can Pay Off

7. PWGSC Client Service Strategy

8. Lessons Learned from Labs21: Retrofitting of Chemistry Laboratories at the University of Toronto

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Refreshment Break in Trade Show Area

3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Concurrent Breakouts

9. Capacity-Based Real Property Transaction Approval Limits

10. Campus and Portfolio Management - The Road to Sustainable Integration

11. Rockcliffe Redevelopment: A new business model?

12. Innovative Laboratories from an MEP Perspective: State-of-the-Art and Beyond

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Gala Evening Reception at the InterContinental Toronto Centre Hotel

6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Gala Evening and Awards Ceremony with Entertainment at the InterContinental Toronto Centre Hotel

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Thursday, November 25, 2010

7:45 am – 9:00 am
Registration

7:45 am – 8:45 am Continental Breakfast

8:45 am – 9:00 am
Welcoming Remarks
Tara Dinsmore, Chair, 23rd Real Property National Workshop

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Live Twitter with the Experts

10:00 am – 10:30 am Refreshment Break in Trade Show Area

10:30 am – 11:45 am
Concurrent Breakouts

13. Construction and Remediation Project Implementation in DND – Not better, Not Worse, Just Slightly Different

14. Climate Change and Sustainability: Does It Really Matter to You

15. Labour Shortages: Fiction or Reality

16. EEEL, The Energy, Environment, Experiential Learning Project at the University of Calgary

11:45 am – 12:45 pm Lunch

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm
Luncheon Address
Real Property: Where it’s Always Sunny
Suzanne Cyr, VP Sales and Marketing, SolPowered Energy Corp

12:45 pm – 1:15 pm Dessert Break in Trade Show Area

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Breakouts

17. Transport Canada’s GIS Application

18. Using Sustainability Data to Inform Decisions

19. DND: Past, Current and Future Partnerships in the Delivery of Infrastructure

20. Challenges of Minimizing Energy and Resource Consumption in Laboratories while Maintaining High Levels of Safety and Security

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Closing Keynote Managing a Changing Workforce Dr. Linda Duxbury, Professor, Carleton University School of Business and Director of Research, Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Closing Remarks
JP St-Amand, RPIC President

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