| Time | Venue | Thursday, November 3 |
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Ponderosa Arbutus Room | Haworth Pre-Conference Breakfast Integrated Project Delivery: Haworth’s Experience Moving from Theory to Practice |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | CIRS | Registration and light lunch |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | CIRS | Welcoming Remarks |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | CIRS | Celebrating CIRS: John Robinson, UBC Sustainability Initiative |
| 12:40 – 1:40 | CIRS | Opening keynote, hosted by Cisco Steve Rayner, Oxford University |
| 1:40 – 2:30 | CIRS | Theme A From regenerative buildings to regenerative communities Hosted by HB Lanarc Bob Berkebile, BNIM Daniel Pearl, L’OEUF |
| 2:30 – 2:50 | CIRS | Break |
| 2:50 – 3:40 | CIRS | Theme B Community engagement and social action Cara Pike, Pike Productions Sadhu Johnston, City of Vancouver |
| 3:40 – 4:00 | CIRS | Break |
| 4:00 – 4:50 | CIRS | Theme C Partnerships and implementation Hosted by YVR Don Roberts, CIBC Hutch Hutchison, Rocky Mountain Institute |
| 5:00 – 6:30 | Ponderosa Centre | Buffet dinner |
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Chan Centre | Evening keynote: David Suzuki |
| Time | Friday, November 4 | ||||
| Theme A | Theme B | Theme C | |||
| Venue: Walter Gage | Venue: BC Hydro Theatre | Venue: Walter Gage | |||
| 9:30 – 12:00 | Regeneration at the building scale Fionn Stevenson, University of Sheffield Sandy Mendler, Mithun Martin Nielsen, Perkins + Will |
Social and visual media: Tools & techniques for engagement Joe Solomon, 350.org Katy Appleton, University of East Anglia Ian Bishop, University of Melbourne |
The power and potential of strategic alliances Bill Black, Haworth Leon Hawkins, Honeywell Lisa Coltart, BC Hydro Robbie Zhang, Modern Green Development |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch at venues | ||||
| 1:00 – 3:30 | Regeneration at the community scale Bill Reed, Regenesis Clark Brockman, SERA Maged Senbel, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC |
Bridging processes and perspectives into the future Arnim Wiek, Arizona State University Michael Flaxman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jennifer Penney, formerly Clean Air Partnership |
Innovation for Sustainability Natalie Dakers, Centre for Drug Research and Development Keith Culver, UBC Okanagan |
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| 4:00 – 5:30 | Round up: Speakers from Thursday report on conference discussions under each theme and share thoughts on the way forward. Venue: CIRS | ||||
| Time | Venue | Saturday, November 5 |
| 9.30; 10.30; 11.30; 1.30 | CIRS | Guided tours of CIRS for conference attendees |
| 10.30-12.00 | CIRS | Cause-&-Effect Thinking is Not Enough: Using System Thinking to Conceptualize Sustainability Participants will learn about the thinking strategies needed to understand dynamic, sustainable systems, and will discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in applying this thinking in their teaching and in publicising their research. Examples of success will be presented. |
| 12.00-1.00 | CIRS | Pitch your out-of-the-box idea for accelerating sustainability Drop in over lunch to hear ideas about how to change the world. Or tell us your own. |
| 1.00-2.30 | CIRS | Overcoming road blocks to implementing sustainability projects |
| Formal demonstrations 10.30-11.30; 11.30-12.30; 12.30-1.30 |
CIRS | BC Hydro Theatre Demonstrations The BC Hydro Theatre is a leading edge decision theatre where participants can interactively investigate sustainability issues and experience alternative future scenarios. Throughout the conference it will be showcasing projects that are utilizing public engagement processes, interactive visualizations and new technology to accelerate sustainability in local communities.The Theatre will be open throughout the day on Thursday and Saturday for attendees to explore the facility and engage with the projects. Demonstration projects are by the Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture’s Elements Lab, Metroquest and HB Lanarc–Golder, and UBC’s Campus and Community Planning. |
