7:00 pm

Doors open

7:30 - 9:00 pm

From Where I Stand: Thinking Big About BC

with greetings from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson

Five dynamic speakers share their BIG ideas on how to transform BC

Paul Taylor

Executive Director, Gordon Neighbourhood House | Food Justice

Ivan Coyote

Author/storyteller | Trans rights and inclusion

Ginger Gosnell-Myers

Aboriginal Relations Manager, City of Vancouver | Reconciliation

Jack Saddler

Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia | Forestry reinvented

Vi Nguyen

Director, Grants and Community Initiatives, Vancouver Foundation | Refugees and immigrant voices

MC: Jocelyn Macdougall, community organizer and former Development Director, PuSh Festival

7:30 - 8:45 am

Registration

9:00 - 9:30 am

Summit Opening

• First Nations Territorial Greeting
• Opening remarks from Broadbent Institute Chair Ed Broadbent

9:30 - 9:45 am

The cooperative economy as a model for BC

Q&A with Tamara Vrooman examining Vancity’s work creating a progressive, forward-looking cooperative economy in BC, and how that model can be expanded and advanced in the decades ahead.

Tamara Vrooman

President & Chief Executive Officer, Vancity

In conversation with

Janet Austin

CEO, YWCA Metro Vancouver, and former Chair, Greater Vancouver Board of Trade

11:00 - 11:15 am

(Re)building citizenry: Indigenous legal resources

Val Napoleon

Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Justice and Governance, University of Victoria

11:15 - 12:30 pm

The BC we want to build

Presenters:

Michael Tippett

CEO and founder, Wantoo | High-tech sector and the new economy

Ken Boon

Peace Valley Landowner Association | Beyond Site C: alternative economic pathways for rural development

Dr. Farah Shroff

Faculty member at UBC in the field of Public Health; elected advocate for public education | Public education

Josha MacNab

Regional Director, British Columbia, Pembina Institute | Climate and clean technology policy

Seth Klein

Director, BC Office, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Tax fairness and inequality

Irene Lanzinger

President, BC Federation of Labour | Poverty reduction and good jobs

Moderator: Tzeporah Berman, Adjunct Professor, York University Faculty of Environmental Studies, Broadbent Institute Leadership Fellow

1:30 - 2:45 pm

Retrieving affordability: progressive policy solutions for BC's housing crisis

Panel:

Jackie Wong

Writer, editor, journalist

Margot Young

Professor, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia

Heather Tremain

Chief Executive Officer, Options for Homes

Moderator: David Beers, Founding Editor, The Tyee, and adjunct professor, University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

3:10 - 4:40 pm

Campaign Mapping

Campaigns:

Ban Big Money

Mary Leighton, provincial organizer, Dogwood Initiative

Living Wage

Deanna Ogle, campaign organizer, Living Wage for Families Campaign

Protecting Place: No Pipelines, No Tankers

Jasmine Thomas, Yinka-Dene Alliance, and Lucy Neville, Haida Gwaii CoASt (Communities Against Supertankers)

Write the Future

Kris Archie, Manager, Fostering Change, Vancouver Foundation

Fair fees

Scott Nunn, head organizer, BC ACORN

Moderator: Peter Wrinch, director, politics and advocacy, Nationbuilder