Joseph

Sasseville

Joseph

Meet in hotel lobby at 5:45 am for transportation to La Bête Golf Course.

Rock Climbing
Biking

Meet in hotel lobby.

Meet in hotel lobby.

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CIRI Registration Desk

Improve your public speaking skills, gain confidence in your ability to present, and learn to control and manage your fear of public speaking. Dr. Michael Sider will take you through the steps of speaking effectively and dynamically in front of an audience.

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Dr. Michael Sider
Assistant Professor, Management Communications, Richard Ivey School of Business

Woman or man. Senior management or trying to get there. Everyone wants to further their career. This session promises to be vital and inspirational, whether you’re looking to embrace change or stick with the challenge you have!

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Pamela Jeffery
Founder, Women’s Executive Network

Ian Bacque
President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Investor Relations Institute
Andrea Gilpin
Executive Director, Investor Relations and Communications, Theratechnologies
Colleen Vancha
Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs. Viterra

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CNW Group

Justin Trudeau is often quoted on his views about Canada’s future. His work with diverse organizations and levels of government means he travels extensively, helping to ensure that Canada is prepared to meet future challenges and responsibilities. In the next federal election, Mr. Trudeau will run as the Liberal Party candidate in the Montreal riding of Papineau. His inspirational message is sure to be educational and entertaining.

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Justin Trudeau
Education, Environment and Youth Advocate

Marketwire

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Minor tremor or seismic shift…

These days, everything seems to happen much more rapidly and with far less predictability. It’s no wonder that store shelves are crammed with books for those of us who are desperately trying to navigate through this torrent of change.

In this opening session and over the next two days, compare notes with your peers and learn from those who are truly embracing change.

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James Lukaszewski
Author, Why Should the Boss Listen to You? The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor

IR may be perceived as either stock promotion or the function that organizes corporate roadshows and presentations. Overcome these misconceptions by demonstrating that IR is a strategic position. Tactics and strategies to educate senior management and better position IR will be discussed.

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Eddy Miller
Vice President Eastern Canada, Christensen

Pamela Murphy
Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Incyte Corporation

Bob Tait
Vice President, Investor Relations, First Uranium

What are best practices when hosting a conference call for your investors? Are participants scripted? Do you hold a practice run prior to the event? What happens if an answer to an investor question results in new information being leaked during the call? Hear the findings of a recent on-line survey conducted by CICA and CIRI to determine conference call best practices.

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Andrea Bargetzi
General Manager, Chorus Call Canada Corp.

Susan McCracken
Professor, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

John Reucassel
Managing Director, Financial Services - Life Insurance and Diversified Financial Research, BMO Capital Markets

This is a joint presentation by the CIRI Annual Conference Committee and CIRI's Conference Partner, Chorus Call Canada Corp.

How has the U.S. credit crunch affected Canada, and more specifically Canadian IROs? Understand the mechanisms that led to the U.S. credit crisis and how this impacts Canada.

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Gilles Vigneau
Managing Director, Financial Products, BMO Capital Markets

CNW Group

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IROs are often faced with issues of materiality, disclosure, filings, and setting precedents, all of which involve some aspect of security law. This session will provide an overview of the key elements of securities law that most often affect the IRO.

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Ian Bacque
President & Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Investor Relations Institute

Doug Ballou
Partner, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP

Louis-François Hogue
Partner, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

Investor confidence is critical to the efficient functioning of the capital markets, and to the Canadian economy as a whole. Strengthening both legislation and its enforcement – ensuring that individuals and companies violating the public trust face punishments consistent with the seriousness of the violation – are important elements in efforts to bolster confidence in Canada’s capital markets. Learn how cases are reviewed and selected for investigation, and what criteria are used to weigh the significance of referred cases.

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Neil Stewart
Executive Editor, IR Magazine

Norman Inkster
President, INKSTER Incorporated

Thomas Newkirk
Partner, Jenner & Block LLP

Lawrence Ritchie
Vice-Chair, Ontario Securities Commission

What are private equity investors? How do they impact the IRO? What are they looking for and what is their mandate? Private equity investors can play a transformational role in a public company, so get to know these powerful investors who want to be heard.

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Paul Renaud
President and Chief Executive Officer, OMERS Capital Partners

Marketwire

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Institutional investors are increasingly active in corporate governance and with their concentrated voting powers they can exert significant influence to orchestrate change in a company. What is the role of the IRO? How can you prepare? Join our experts for an interactive discussion of the pros and cons of shareholder engagement. Hear from institutional investors who have been successful in influencing major corporate actions. Understand their motivations and expectations and learn how IROs can support the company’s Board and management team in proactively managing these relationships.

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Glenn Keeling
Partner

Sharon Mathers
Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations, Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.

Eric Rosenfeld
President & CEO, Crescendo Partners, L.P.

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Does your board know what your investors are thinking? Do your investors have confidence in your board? How can IROs ensure that the Board understands how existing and prospective investors feel about the company’s opportunities and challenges? Get real life examples from our experienced panel to help engage your board. Gain a new perspective on improving shareholder/board communications to boost your company’s success.

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Tom Enright
President and Chief Executive Officer, CNW Group

Andy Burgess
Co-founder and President, Somerset Entertainment Income Fund

Beverly Topping
President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Corporate Directors

This is a joint presentation by the CIRI Annual Conference Committee and CIRI's Conference Partner, CNW Group.

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Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Canada

The future starts now. Star Wars. Star Trek. Buck Rogers. H.G. Wells. What is your vision? The future will be what we make it.

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How does the CEO perceive the role of IR during change? Hear about this issue and many more from our Canadian CEO.

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Michael Roach
President and Chief Executive Officer, CGI Group Inc.

This clinic will provide you with dozens of tips for effectively managing the three most critical components of an IR roadshow – logistics, content and take-away materials. Our panel of road-tested experts will tell you how to make sure you’re meeting the right people, effectively using senior executives’ time, delivering core corporate messages, satisfying the needs of investors and analysts, and providing effective materials for investors and analysts to take back to the office.

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Naomi Nemeth
Vice President, Investor Relations, Homeland Energy Corp.

Rhonda Chiger
Co-President, Rx Communications Group

Michelle Dodokin
Vice President, Investor Relations, ING Canada Inc.

With the Internet becoming a key medium for communicating financial information, and the IR sections of corporate websites becoming an integral part of the reporting process, companies must stay on top of best practices in web-based reporting. The panel will discuss recently published guidelines by CIRI and the CICA on best practices for web-based reporting.

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Michael Nowlan
President and Chief Executive Officer, Marketwire, Incorporated

Tim Herrod
Manager, Investor Relations, PotashCorp

Viki Lazaris
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, BMO Financial Group

Jerry Trites
Project Director, XBRL Canada

This is a joint presentation by the CIRI Annual Conference Committee and CIRI's Conference Partner, Marketwire, Incorporated.

IROs are increasingly looking to the international marketplace for investment capital. Doug McCutcheon will describe what he looks for when deciding whether to invest in a company.

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Doug McCutcheon
Managing Director, UBS Investment Bank’s Global Health Care Team

Marketwire

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The list of services seems endless: shareholder targeting, proxy solicitation, M&A consulting, disclosure management, perception surveys, writers, designers, IR consultants. You can buy it all, but using outside suppliers can be expensive, confusing and time consuming. Our panel of experts will explain how they decide what services to buy, how to pick and manage suppliers and how to get the most from every dollar spent on outsourcing.

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Tracy Lutz
President, Keystone Investor Relations Inc.

Marguerite Manshreck-Head
President, MMH Investor Relations Inc.

Karen Taylor
Manager, Investor Relations, Freehold Royalty Trust

What makes an award-winning annual report stand out? Viewed by many as a company’s most important investor communications document, our panel discusses the best ways to effectively communicate your content and message plus impress the judges with your annual report.

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Michael Murray
Director, Investor Relations, The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc.

Chuck Midgette
Consultant, Blunn & Company Inc.

Darrell Rae
Manager, Investor Relations, TELUS Corporation

Nexen was ranked first on the Top 25 Boards in Canada by Canadian Business magazine in 2007. How did board evaluations result in this recognition of corporate governance and disclosure? How did this affect Nexen’s share performance? Learn the inside scoop from this award-winning company.

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Sylvia Groves
Chief Governance Advisor and Assistant Secretary, Nexen Inc.

CNW Group

Ranked among the top three teams of economists for the past five years, Clement Gignac is welcomed back to share his predictions about the changing environment that faces IROs in the coming year.

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Clement Gignac
Senior Vice President, Chief Economist and Strategist, National Bank Financial

In 2002, Michael Oxley co-authored the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which transformed the investor relations profession and devastated the audit industry.

How does he feel about this change today? The architect of the law designed to stamp out corporate corruption recently said he thought he and Paul Sarbanes could have done a better job.

Hear Michael Oxley’s predictions about the future of the Act, both in America and abroad, and the chances for any reopening in the next Congress.

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The Honorable Michael Oxley
Vice Chairman, NASDAQ

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IR Magazine