Events

Economics in an Era of Policy Crises

This year, CABE’s Annual Economic Conference will gather in Ottawa with more than one hundred senior economists, analysts, researchers, policymakers, and business leaders to examine our most urgent challenges and identify the way forward. You’ll have a chance to network with other professionals, while learning about:

• Canada’s Economic Outlook: What’s next, now the U.S. election is over?
• Canada’s Great Productivity Slump: Can policy fix it?
• Brave New World Order: How a fracturing geopolitical context is shaping new trade and business realities?
• Labour shortages or surpluses? Aging societies and the need for skills development, immigration and technology?
• Tech At Work: Will artificial intelligence disrupt or enhance the business landscape?

Confirmed Speakers

• Vass Bednar (McMaster University and host of the Globe and Mail’s Lately podcast)
• Brendon Bernard (Indeed, Senior Economist)
• Kevin Carmichael (The Logic, Economics Columnist and Editor-at-Large);
• Frances Donald (RBC, Chief Economist)
• Jonathan Fried (Bennett Jones, Senior Advisor, former Chair of WTO’s General Council)
• Colette Kaminsky (ESDC, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister)
• Nojoud Al Mallees (Economics reporter, Canadian Press)
• Lana Payne (President, Unifor)
• Shannon Proudfoot (Globe and Mail, feature writer)
• Mark Schaan (Privy Council Office, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet on Artificial Intelligence)
• Heather Scoffield (Business Council of Canada, Senior Vice President, Strategy)
• Stephen Tapp (Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Chief Economist)
• Trevor Tombe (University of Calgary, Professor of Economics and Director at The School of Public Policy)
• Armine Yalnizyan (Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers)
• Bryan Yu (Central 1 Credit Union, Chief Economist)
• More to be announced

Event Details

Date:

Monday, December 2nd Evening
Tuesday, December 3rd, Daytime

Location:

Fairmont Chateau Laurier,
1 Rideau Street, Ottawa

Early Bird Registration Rates:

CABE Members: $495 + HST
Non-Members: $655 + HST
Only Available Until November 1st

Registration rates: 
CABE Members: $675 + HST
Non-Members: $825 + HST