TIME

Monday, November 6: Songhees Room

8:00—9:00

a.m.

Registration & Breakfast

9:00—10:30

a.m.

Land Acknowledgement & Welcome Remarks

Session 1/Keynote: Postdoctoral Fellows - Agent of Change Toward a Regenerative Science

Speaker: Adel Guitouni, Professor in Management Sciences, Operations Research and

Decision Support Systems at the Gustavson School of Business

10:30—11:00

a.m.

Break

11:00—12:00

p.m.

Session 2: Navigating Change in Leadership

Speakers: Koassi d’Almeida, Agent de recherche et de planification

Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, Université Laval, Lisa Haley, Senior Advisor and Manager, Graduate Program Completion and Postdoctoral Services, University of Toronto, James Fraser, Professor, Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Queens's University, Peter J. Simpson, Professor, Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, Associate Provost, Academic Affairs and Strategy, University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus

Moderator: Renee Audet-Martel, Manager, Office of the Vice-President Research, University of New Brunswick

12:00—2:00

p.m.

Networking luncheon and Annual General Meeting

Speakers: CAPA Board

2:00—3:00

p.m.

Session 3: Promoting Postdoc Engagement

Speakers: Stephen Tuffs, Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Valerie Chappe, Professor Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie, Padmapriya Muralidharan, Chair, Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars

Moderator: Janie Bandringa, Postdoctoral Affairs Coordinator, University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus

3:00—3:30

p.m.

Break

3:30—4:30

p.m.

Session 4: EURAXESS for Postdocs

Speaker: Jackson Howard, Regional Coordinator, EURAXESS North America Moderator: Sabrina Jackson, Postdoc Administrator, University of Victoria

6:00 p.m.

start

Offsite brewery tour, dinner, and reception

(10 min. walk from hotel, details below)

TIME

Tuesday, November 7: Songhees Room

8:00—9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00—10:00 a.m.

Session 5: The Future of Postdocs

Speaker: Fraser Hof, Associate Vice-President of Research, University of Victoria

10:00—11:00 a.m.

Session 6: Funding Updates from Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Mitacs Speakers: Victoria McGovern, Senior program officer at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Nolan Beise, Senior Advisor Mitacs Vancouver Island

11:00—11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30—12:30 p.m.

Session 7: Immigration

Speakers: Representatives from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)

Moderator: Alina Roman, Manager Immigration Services, Simon Fraser University

12:30—2:00 p.m.

Luncheon and Tri-Agency Updates

Speakers: Olaf Ellefson, Manager in the Research Training Profolio at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Matthew Vincelli, Deputy Director, Schoalrships and Fellowships, NSERC, Francois Zegers, Lead for the Vanier-

Banting Secretariat in the Research Programs Portfolio, CIHR