2:00pm

Registration opens

@Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation

2:45pm

Peer Session #1 – Peer Meet and Greet

• Board Chairs
  Kinnear Centre Room 305
• Executive Directors & CEOs
  Kinnear Centre Room 101 & 103
• Artistic Directors & Chief Curators
  Kinnear Centre Room 302
• Emerging Leaders
  Kinnear Centre Room 306
• Foundations, Government & Funders
  Kinnear Centre Room 308

4:30pm

Welcome

@Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation

5:00pm

Keynote Presentation:

Futurisms: AI, humanity and the arts

• Dr. Richard Lachman
• Dr. Sageev Oore

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6:30pm

Social hour and Open Studio Tour

@Glyde Hall Studios: Walter Phillips Gallery

7:00am

Breakfast

@The Vistas Dining Room

9:00am

Coffee and Day 2 Welcome

@Kinnear Centre: Cenovus Great Hall

9:35pm

Banff Centre Cultural Leadership Program Update

@Kinnear Centre: Cenovus Great Hall

• Kelly Wilhelm
  Consultant, Banff Centre Leadership Programs
• Mark Wold
  Executive Director, Leadership, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity

9:45am

Session#1: Collective Action

Resilience from Crisis: Conversations on the Future of Working Together

@Kinnear Centre: Cenovus Great Hall

• Aileen Burns
  Co-Executive Director and CEO, Remai Modern
• Johan Lundh
  Co-Executive Director and CEO, Remai Modern
• Ben Dietschi
  Senior Consultant, DeVos Institute of Arts Management
• Devyani Saltzman
  Writer, Curator, Incoming Director for Arts at the Barbican

10:45am

In Conversation with Michelle Chawla

Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts

@Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation

11:30am

Session #2: Organizational Capacity

Attracting and Retaining Future Arts Leaders

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• Charlie Wall-Andrews
  Executive Director, SOCAN Foundation
• Cynthia Lickers-Sage
  Executive Director, Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance
• maxine bailey
  Executive Director, Canadian Film Centre
• Nick Chambers
  Partner, Boyden Executive Search
• Moderated by: Sanjay Shahani
  Executive Director, Edmonton Arts Council

12:30pm

Lunch

@Sally Borden Building: The Vistas Dining Room

1:30pm

Peer Session #2

• Group A
  Kinnear Centre Room 101 & 103
• Group B
  Kinnear Centre Room 306
• Group C
  Kinnear Centre Room 305
• Board Chairs Group A
  Kinnear Centre Room 302
• Board Chairs Group B
  Kinnear Centre Room 304
• Foundations, Government & Funders
  Kinnear Centre Room 310

2:55pm

Session#3: Advocacy

Future Proofing the Arts: Funding Models and Economic Sustainability

@Kinnear Centre: Cenovus Great Hall

• Maya Choldin
  Executive Director, Theatre Calgary
• Simon Mallett
  Executive Director, Rozsa Foundation
• Paul Genest
  Senior Vice-President, Power Corporation of Canada
• Rags Davloor
  Chair, The National Ballet of Canada
• Moderated by: David Maggs
  Fellow on Arts and Society, Metcalf Foundation

3:55pm

Remarks from MP Taleeb Noormohamed, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage

@Kinnear Centre: Cenovus Great Hall

4:00pm

Happy Hour

@Kinnear Centre: Room 105

Featuring a performance by Jennie Harluk, an emerging artist from Calgary and participant in the First Up with RBCXMusic program.

6:00pm

Delegates Dinner

@Vistas Dining Room

7:30pm

Mariya Stokes Live

@Maclab Bistro

7:00am

Breakfast

@The Vistas Dining Room

9:00am

Coffee and Day 3 Welcome

@Kinnear Centre: Cenovus Great Hall

9:30am

Ask the Expert

Session 1: AI and the arts
@Kinnear Centre Cenovus Great Hall

With expert:

• Dr. Richard W. Lachman

Session 2: Advocacy
@Kinnear Centre Room 305

With experts:

• Sean Casey, Managing Director, PAA Advisory | Conseils
• Andrew Walker, Director (Arts, Culture, and Procurement), PAA Advisory | Conseils
• Elizabeth Seip, Senior Advisor with the Arts and Culture group, PAA Advisory | Conseils

Session 3: Data-Driven Audience Development
@Kinnear Centre Room 301

With experts:

• Rachael DiMenna, Senior Manager, Strategy and Partnerships, Fever
• Rajan Kalsi, General Manager, Fever

10:50am

Peer Session #3

• Performing Arts
  Kinnear Centre Room 101 & 103
• Heritage and Multi-Arts
  Kinnear Centre Room 301
• Board Chairs – Performing Arts
  Kinnear Centre Room 302
• Board Chairs – Heritage and Multi-Arts
  Kinnear Centre Room 304
• Visual Arts & Film
  Kinnear Centre Room 306
• Music
  Kinnear Centre Room 308
• Foundations, Government & Funders
  Kinnear Centre Room 310

11:50am

Lunch

@Vistas Dining Room

1:00pm

Session #4: Culture Shifts

Urgent Optimism: The Role of Arts and Culture Moving Forward

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• Julia Lafreniere
  Head of Indigenous Ways and Learning, Winnipeg Art Gallery—Qaumajuq
• Nick Stillman
  Executive Director, Prospect New Orleans
• Rose-Ingrid Benjamin
  Senior Engagement Strategist, Community & Partnerships, National Arts Centre
• Sarah Garton Stanley
  Vice President of Programming, Arts Commons
• Moderated by: Jean-François Bélisle
  Director and CEO, National Gallery of Canada

2:15pm – 3:00pm

Optional Programming

A Curator’s Tour – Cassils: Movement

@Walter Phillips Gallery

A Reading from the Slaight Theatre Creation Residency

@Margaret Greenham Theatre

6:00pm

President’s Dinner

@Kinnear Centre