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Dec 03 2024

CABE Outlook Conference 2024 (Group Registration)

Economics in an Era of Polycrises

 

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 that 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?
  • Debating Canada’s Economic Future: What elements of the short-term might define the medium-term outlook?
  • Professional Development/Roast: How can economists do a better job?

 

Event Details

Dates:

Monday December 2, doors open at 7:30 pm ET

Social Event and Evening Session at the Laugh Lounge, 61 York Street, Ottawa

Tuesday December 3, 8:45 am ET to 4:30 pm ET

In-Person Only Conference at the Chateau Laurier, 1 Rideau Street, Ottawa

Group Registration rates (8 people): 

$2500.00 + HST

Please send a list of names and emails for those included in the group registration so that they can be added to the attendees list to manager@cabe.ca

 

Schedule

Monday, December 2, 2024

Doors open at 7:30pm Economic Journalist Panel: Policy In A Pub  

Location: The Laugh Lounge, 61 York Street, Byward Market

Moderator: Heather Scoffield (Business Council of Canada)

Speakers: Kevin Carmichael (The Logic); Nojoud Al Mallees (Canadian Press)

Note: Finger foods available, but not a fine-dining experience. 

Casual attire recommended…it’s time for fun!

Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Chateau Laurier: Drawing Room

8:55 – 9:00am Opening remarks Bryan Yu (CABE Outgoing President and Central 1 Credit Union, Chief Economist)

9:00 – 10:00am Session 1: Macroeconomic outlook: Soft landing or delayed recession?

Moderator: Bryan Yu (CABE, Past President, and Chief Economic of Central 1 Credit Union)

Speaker: Frances Donald (RBC, Chief Economist)

10:00 – 10:15am Break

10:15 – 11:00am Session 2: The Great Canadian Productivity Slump 

Moderator: Tyler Meredith (Meredith Boesenkool & Phillips)

Speaker: Trevor Tombe (University of Calgary, Professor of Economics)

11:00am – 12:00pm Session 3 Labour Markets/Immigration/Demographics

Moderator: Marwa Abdou (Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Senior Research Director)
Speakers:

  1. Colette Kaminsky (ESDC, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister)
  2. Brendon Bernard (Indeed, Senior Economist)
  3. Angella MacEwen (CUPE – Canadian Union of Public Employees – Senior Economist

12:00 – 12:30pm Break

12:30 – 2:00pm Lunch: Session 4: Keynote speaker: Jonathan Fried (Bennett Jones, Senior Advisor, former Chair of the WTO’s General Council)

Moderator: Stephen Tapp (CABE, Incoming President and Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Chief Economist) or Jay Allen, Minister (Economic) at the Embassy

2:00 – 2:15pm Break

2:15 – 3:15 pm Session 5: What’s Next: Disruptions from AI/Technology 

Moderator: Jordan Zed (Privy Council Office, Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet – Artificial Intelligence)

Speakers:

  1. Vass Bednar, (McMaster University, Globe and Mail podcast Lately)
  2. John Weigelt (Microsoft, National Technology Officer)

3:15 – 3:30pm Break

3:30 – 4:25 pm Session 6 Debate on Canada’s Economic Future 

Moderator: Shannon Proudfoot (Globe and Mail)

Speakers: 

  1. Armine Yalnizyan (Atkinson Foundation, Fellow on the Future of Workers)
  2. Doug Porter (BMO, Chief Economist)

 

4:30 pm  Conference Concludes

Event Details

Fairmont Chateau Laurier, 1 Rideau Street, Ottawa
Dec 03, 2024 - EST

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