​​​​Draft Agenda – Subject to Change

7:30am – 8:30am
Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast

8:30am – 8:45am

Welcome Remarks
Emcees – CBN President Krista Barfoot (SLR Consulting), Conference Chair Andrew Macklin (WSP Canada)
CBN Executive Director – Meggen Janes

8:45am – 10:00am

Prioritizing Brownfields: Are Brownfields the Solution for New Attainable Housing?
We’ll kick off our 2024 national conference with a targeted and timely discussion on the important role
of brownfields in solving our national housing crunch. We’ll provide a State of the Nation to understand
the incentives available and the progress that has been made, whether a property’s status as a
brownfield helps or hurts its chances for redevelopment as housing, and whether commercial buildings
have become the more viable brownfield investment.

• Meggen Janes, CBN Executive Director, moderator
• Chris DeSousa, Toronto Metropolitan University School of Urban and Regional Planning
  • Status of brownfield incentives across the country
• Tom Li, Parsons
  • A Comparison of Regulatory and Permitting Requirements of Various Canadian Jurisdictions in Converting Brownfield Sites into Residential Use.
• Mark Richardson, Technical Lead, Housing Now!
  • Public Land initiatives on brownfield sites and how to directly incentivize.

10:00am – 10:30am
Networking Break

10:30am - 11:45am

Brownfield Development: Finding Balance with Conflicting Needs
This discussion will look at how brownfields help solve community needs, and which needs they are best
suited to address. Are they best suited to help right-size employment lands? Prop up attainable
housing? Strengthen industrial land offerings? Or perhaps even a combination of needs via multiple use
development?

Our panel of experts will explore these issues and more to help us better understand how best to work
with municipal and developer partners on redevelopment projects.

• Suvish Melanta, Grounded Engineering, moderator
• Jeremy Dunn, Commercial Vice-President, HOPA
• Kyle Nichols, Vice President, Environmental Health and Safety, Triovest

11:45am – 1:15pm
Lunch, Networking, and Keynote Presentation

Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie is the City Councillor for Scarborough-Rouge Park and Chair of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee. Dr. Jennifer McKelvie was elected in 2018 as the Toronto City Councillor for Scarborough–Rouge Park. After being elected to her second term of office in 2022, Jennifer was appointed Deputy Mayor, and in this capacity, assumed the responsibilities of the Office of the Mayor during its vacancy from February to July of  2023.  Deputy Mayor McKelvie also serves as Chair of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee tasked with advancing Toronto's climate action, ravine and vision zero strategies.

1:15pm – 2:15pm

Exemplary Brownfield Restoration and Remediation: Shining examples of brownfield restoration with
new breathtaking ideas that will revolutionize the way brownfield redevelopment is done.

• New Management Approach for Divesting Imperial Oil’s Surplus Sites
  • Maurice LeBlanc, Commercial Portfolio Manager, Environmental and Property Solutions, Imperial Oil.
  • Tammy Lomas-Jylha, President, Lomas-Jylha Consulting.
• AI and Brownfield Redevelopment: Options, Applications, and Outcomes
  • Kathryn Matheson, SLR Consulting (Canada) Limited​​
• Combining District Energy and In-situ Bioremediation
  • Dr. Magdelena Krol, York University

2:15pm – 2:45pm
Networking Break

2:45pm – 3:45pm

Brownfield Prevention: Lessons learned from climate-related mitigation.

3:45pm – 4:45pm

The Evolution of Standard of Care
In this session, we take a deeper dive into the issues surrounding how the Standard of Care in our
industry has changed, and will continue to evolve. How are brownfield professionals addressing this?

How is technology helping or hindering? Do sustainability and resilience considerations help evolve
newer, better industry best practices? Is the Standard of Care changing too quickly/too slowly? How do
we account for legacy issues surrounding the Standard of Care? How does the labour shortage/mass
retirement being experienced across the industry impact Standard of Care expectations? Do new
graduates understand the evolving needs? How do we utilize AI in our work without impacting the
Standard of Care?

• Joanna Vince, Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP, moderator.
• Janet Bobechko, WeirFoulds LLP
• George Boire
• Paul Bowen

4:45pm – 5:00pm

Final Exercise – To implement a #BrownfieldsFirst approach to development in Canada, we must
______ ?

5:00pm – 5:05pm
Closing Remarks

5:10pm – 5:30pm
Presentation of the HUB Awards