Schedule
Conference Schedule
Please note: this is our current schedule. We will continue to update it as more presenters are confirmed. Be sure to check back regularly to see the exciting new presentations we’ll be offering.
Tuesday September 23
8 AM
Registration Open
9:00 AM to 9:15 AM
Morning Welcome - Land Acknowledgement
9:15 AM to 9:30 AM
Welcome and Prayer - Milton Tootoosis
9:30 AM to 9:45 AM
City Welcome - Mayor Tony Sernick
9:45 AM to 10:00 AM
Provincial Welcome - Mr. Barrett Kropf MLA
10:00 AM to 10:50 AM
Creating a Successful Rural Techhub. Aaron Genest , Gordon More, Tania Andrist, Steven Hensen
10:50 AM to 11:05 AM
Networking Break
11:05 AM to 12:00 AM
Small Modular Reactors in Rural Communities with Lisa McBride Country Leader GE Vernova Hitachi’s SMR Canada Business and Rhea Brown Executive Vice-President of Customer Experience and Procurement for SaskPower
12:00 AM to 12:50 PM
Lunch
12:50 AM to 1:00 PM
Afternoon Announcements
1:00 PM to 1:50 PM
Southeast College CS Training Elevates Métis Tech Entrepreneur - Jill Ruep, Tania Andrist , and Ryan Gustafson
1:50 PM to 2:30 PM
Networking Break
2:30 PM to 3:20 PM
From Wind to Watts: Siting, Developing, and Building Wind Energy Projects. - Keith Talyor, Errol Halberg, and Ashleigh Barnwell
3:20 PM to 4:00 PM
Nuclear 101 - Dr Arthur Situm
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Back to your hotel to prepare for the big evening event
6:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Cocktails
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Stand UP Dinner
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Saskatchewan Rural Pitch Competition 2025 hosted by Jesse Wiebe and Gordon More
Wednesday September 24
8 AM
Registration Open
8:50 AM TO 9:00 AM
Morning Welcome
9:00 AM TO 9:45 AM
Saskatchewan Indigenous Economic Development Network (SIEDN) - Christian Boyle , Albert Derocher and Chief Jonathan Pasap
9:45 AM TO 10:30 AM
Univesity of Regina's New Energy Systems Engineering Program and Energy Transistion - Dr Phillip Choi
10:30 AM TO 10:45 AM
Networking Break
10:45 AM TO 11:30 AM
DATA In A New Way Project - Suncrest College - Alesia Malec
11:30 AM TO 12:15 AM
Turning Coal to Graphite - Dr Wagner George Washington University
12:15 PM TO 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Real World Rural Community Energy Projects - Mitchel Beer, Scott Jansen, P.Eng. and Rebecca Âcikahtê
1:45 PM TO 2:30 PM
From Rocks to Power: Building Saskatchewan’s Battery Cluster - Zach Maurer
2:30 PM TO 3:20 PM
