Program

IIC Canada Annual Conference
October 21 and 22, 2024
National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario

Preliminary Program
All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21

07:45 - 17:30

Registration Desk Open

07:45 - 08:45 Continental breakfast

08:45

Welcoming Remarks
Grant Buchanan, President, IIC Canada

09:00

Keynote
Vicky Eatrides, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

09:30

Panel
Legislative Landscape: Developments in Canadian Communications
and Media Law

Monique Lafontaine, Communications Lawyer
Margot Patterson, Dentons Canada LLP

10:00

Short Track
Indigenous Connectivity Developments
Mark Saunders
, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Matthew Bisson, CRTC

10:15

Short Track
Trade Policy and Platform Regulation
Peter Grant
, Communications Lawyer

10:30

Short Track
The Digital Advertising Economy and Its Impacts on Canadian Media
Marla Boltman
, Friends of Canadian Media

10:45

Short Track
Update on Mobile Virtual Network Operators and High-Speed Access Frameworks
Dennis Béland
, Consultant

11:00 Break

11:15

Panel
AI, Disinformation and Elections
Moderator: Omayra Issa, CPAC (Cable Public Affairs Channel)
Caroline Simard, Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections
Don Lenihan, Middle Ground Policy Research
Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa
Frank Graves, EKOS Research Associates Inc.

12:15

Lunch Keynote
Ryan Straschnitzki, Straz Strong Foundation

13:30 Break

13:45

Panel
Competition Act Changes
Moderator: David Reevely, The Logic
Elisa Kearney, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Keldon Bester, Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project
Renée Duplantis, Charles River Associates

14:45

Short Track
Towards a National Strategy on Online Gambling
Dr. Matthew Young
, Gambling Research Exchange Ontario

15:00

Short Track
AI and Energy Demands
Julia Muggeridge
, Electricity Canada

15:15

Short Track
Future of the CBC and Radio-Canada: A View from the Senate
The Hon. Andrew Cardozo, Senator,
Senate of Canada

15:30 Break

15:45

Panel
AI and Regulatory Responses
Barry Sookman, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Carole Piovesan, INQ Law
Teresa Scassa, University of Ottawa

16:45 Keynote
Commissioner Andrew Ferguson, Federal Trade Commission, United States
In conversation with Sylvie Courtemanche, Vice-President, IIC Canada

17:15 - 19:00

Cocktail reception hosted by the Canadian Telecommunications Association

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
08:00 - 15:30 Registration Desk Open
08:00 - 08:55 Continental breakfast

08:55

Opening Remarks
Grant Buchanan, President, IIC Canada
Lynn Robinson, Director General, International Institute of Communications

09:00 Keynote
Patricia Kosseim
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

09:30

Panel
Recent Developments in Canadian Privacy Law
Moderator: Eric Smith, Canadian Telecommunications Association
Deborah Evans, Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
Julie Himo, Torys LLP
Suzanne Morin, Sun Life

10:30 Break

10:45

Short Track
AI, Music and Copyright
Amanda Harcourt,
Honorary Professor of Practice, Faculty of Laws,
University College London (UCL)
John Rowley, Screen Composers Guild of Canada

11:15

Short Track
AI and Emergency Alerting
Maureen Rogers
, Pelmorex Weather Networks

11:30

Short Track
Equipment Manufacturers as Content Gatekeepers
Claude Galipeau
, CBC/Radio-Canada

11:45

Short Track
Quantum Computing: A Double-Edged Sword for Energy Efficiency and Cyber-Security
Dr. Georg Serentschy, Serentschy Advisory Services GmbH

12:00

Lunch Keynote
Julie Kearney
Chief of the Space Bureau at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission

13:15 Break

13:30

Short Track
The Future for Satellite Connectivity
Michèle Beck
, Telesat

13:45

Short Track
Facial Recognition Technology and Human Rights
Wendy Wong
, University of British Columbia

14:00

Short Track
The View from Bay Street
Maher Yaghi
, Scotiabank

14:15 Break

14:30

Panel
Bill C-63 - The Online Harms Act
Moderator: Ian Scott, Former Chairperson & CEO, CRTC
Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Emily Laidlaw, University of Calgary
Shaheen Shariff, McGill University

15:30

Panel
Litigation Landscape: Developments in Canadian and International Communications and Media Legal Cases
Jay Kerr-Wilson, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Jennifer Tatel, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
Stephen Zolf, Aird & Berlis LLP

16:15 Closing Remarks
Grant Buchanan, President, IIC Canada

Closing reception hosted by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters

Thank you to our Sustaining Sponsors

Amazon

CAB

Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)

Canadian Telecommunications Association

COGECO

Dentons

Fasken

Goodmans

McCarthy Tetrault

Quebecor

Rogers

Wilkinson Barker Knauer