Past Events - Business Consulting Conference / Convention in Toronto Canada
Inaugural Scenario Planning
Highlights:
• Explore the key components of scenario planning
• Look at the potential uses and applications of the process: role of scenario planning..
Workforce Metrics
Highlights:
• Implementing and managing your workforce scorecard
• Justifying how dollars spent on workforce initiatives translate to bottomline..
Strategic Planning Skills
Highlights:
• Get an overview of the resources you’ll need to build a realistic strategic planning process
• Foster a strategic vision throughout the..
Leadership Succession Management
Highlights:
• Successful practices for leadership transitions
• Conducting a retirement audit and situational analysis
• Understanding and leveraging..
Business Process Re-Engineering
Highlights:
• Making the business case for BPR
• Creating a dynamic governance structure with decision-making protocols
• Winning leadership..
Communicating Compensation and Benefits
Highlights:
• Learn best practices for executing a strategy for total rewards communication
• Discover leading tools used for communicating changes..
Strategic Project Management
Highlights:
• Focusing on the business case for strategic project management and the basis for an organization’s desire to bridge the gap between its..
Managing Absenteeism in the Public & Private Sectors
Highlights:• Discover best practices and innovative programs for preventing and managing absenteeism from leading Canadian organizations• Learn how to..
Building Union-Management Partnerships
Keynote Speaker: Stacey Allerton, Vice-President, Human Resources, Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd.
Highlights:
• Hear 10 joint presentations,..
Social Media Risks
Highlights:
• Get leading-edge advice on avoiding liability and litigation over the improper use of social media from Canada’s top internet law..
Predictive Analytics World - Toronto
Predictive Analytics World, March 18-21 in Toronto is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought..
Reinventing the Corporate Secretary
participating organizations
Bennett Jones LLP
Catalyst Consulting
Central Gold-Trust
Chubb Insurance Company of
Canada
Citibank..
Workplace Investigations
Optional workshops
Developing a Procedure for Investigating Workplace Harassment in Light of Bill 168 Barbara Benoliel, President, Preferred..
Advanced Creating and Enforcing Municipal By-Laws
participating organizations
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
City of Hamilton
City of Mississauga
City of Niagara Falls
City of Oshawa
City of..
Anti-Money Laundering Forum
Important regulatory changes to the Canadian anti-money laundering regime have been announced or are expected to be announced over the next few..
ProjectWorld and Business Analyst World Toronto
ProjectWorld * BusinessAnalystWorld Toronto offers a unique experience for attendees, bringing together experts, practitioners, certifying bodies,..
Public Sector Life Cycle Costing for Asset Management
Workshop Included: Developing an Asset Management Plan
participating organizations
City of London
Corporation of the Town of Oakville
IBM Global..
Public Procurement Law
Highlights:
• Learn about the latest development in procurement law
• Discover how to ensure compliance and minimize the legal risks
• Hear how to..
Business Franchise & Investment Expo
Reasons to Exhibit
• Meet face to face, secure new business contacts & develop highly qualified prospects.
• Canadian entrepreneurs turn to..
Structuring and Negotiating Public Private Partnerships
Highlights:
• Hear from industry experts and the best legal minds in the business on how to focus negotiations and contract development so as to..
Inaugural Reinventing Construction
Highlights:• Practical approach to integrated project delivery: key principles• Principles of collaborative project delivery• BIM collaborative..
Public Construction Contracting & Tendering
Highlights:
• Examine legal developments in public construction procurement
• Look at best practices in drafting enforceable public construction..
Essentials of Real Estate Development
Highlights:
• Site selection and analysis: pre-acquisition due diligence
• Effective marketing for your development project
• Current issues in..
Inaugural Expert Witnesses in Business Litigation
Highlights:
• Explore how to prepare powerful and defensible export reports
• Examine practical and real world issues related to retaining and using..
Essentials of Commercial Contracts
Workshop Included: Commercial Contract Dispute Resolution
Participating Organizations:
• Aird & Berlis LLP
• Bennett Jones LLP
• Blake,..
Board and CEO Assessment
participating organizationsAecon GroupBorden Ladner Gervais LLPBrown Governance Inc.Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLPFraser Milner Casgrain LLPHugessen..
FATCA Compliance Solutions
Now that the final regulations are in place, your planning should be well under way to ensure you are allocating sufficient operational resources in..
Reinventing Maintenance
Highlights:
• Hear how Tembec incorporates reliability excellence as a business strategy
• Learn how Purolator is improving training of maintenance..
Tax-Effective Planning for Insurance & Investment
Highlights:
• Use of tax shelters involving insurance products
• How funding with life insurance works
• CRA risks and fl exibility leveraged..
Tax-Effective Succession Planning for the Owner-Manager
Highlights:
• Tax considerations in business succession alternatives
• The use of estate freezes in succession planning
• Alternatives to family..
The National Franchise and Business Opportunities Show - Toronto
This exciting 2 day event is perfect for exploring the option of self-employment. Buying a Franchise means you are in business for yourself... but not..
ICEMBIT-International Conference on Economics, and Management of Business, Innovation and Technology
The XXXIV. International Conference on Economics, and Management of Business, Innovation and Technology aims to bring together leading academic..
The Franchise Show / Le Salon de le Franchise (Montreal)
The Franchise Show is designed to let you meet the industry's most accomplished franchisors face-to-face! Meet with some of Canada's largest..
IT Contracting and Purchasing
Highlights:
• Learn from Xerox, Grand and Toy, e-Heath Ontario and others how to develop an IT governance model as well as how to avoid key legal..
Understanding Natural Resources Taxation
Highlights:
Hear how the experts are providing Canadian resources companies with the best tax planning advice
Including:
• Recent tax trends in..
Understanding Canada-U.S. Taxation
Highlights:
• Explore key provisions of the Canada-US Tax Convention and the impact of the Fifth Protocol
• Examine the process of resolving disputes..
Pension Law & Litigation
Highlights:• Get the latest on current regulatory and legislative issues• How to avoid being outclassed in pension class actions• Developing an..
The Real Estate Forum
The Real Estate Forum has become Canada's largest annual national conference on real estate investment and management issues. It has earned this..
HR Legal Risks
Highlights:
• Hear what leading HR experts from top Canadian organizations are doing to avoid liability for
non-compliance in HR practices
• Get the..
Optimizing Mentoring Programs
Highlights:
• Learn how to develop the leaders of tomorrow through mentoring
• Explore ways to enhance change communication through mentoring
•..
Taxation of Inbound Investment
Highlights:
• Review the impact of the Fifth Protocol to the Canada-U.S. Income Tax Convention
• Examine the current issues surrounding taxable..
Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement
Highlights:
• Hear leading tax experts and executives as they discuss tax-effi cient executive compensation
• Learn about the latest trends in the..
Mini MBA for Lawyers
Highlights:
• Discover how to properly analyze fi nancial statements and interpret a company’s
fi nancial signals
• Firm up your grasp of the..
E-Discovery for Government
Highlights:
• Key e-discovery decisions
• Litigation case management
• Current Canadian guidelines
• Managing costs of e-discovery procedures
•..
Conducting Regulatory Investigations
Highlights:
Hear regulatory investigation experts from inside government and regulated
industries in Canada as they discuss best practices for:
•..
Tax Planning for the Wealthy Family
Highlights:
• Hear from Canada’s foremost personal tax and estate planning experts as they discuss:
• Strategies for using trusts to protect..
Business Franchise & Investment Expo
The Business, Franchise & Investment Expo & Conference launched its first show in 2008. Since then it has grown to operating 2 shows in a year in..
M&A Agreements
Highlights:
• Review current trends in M&A deal terms, examining the factors driving the trends
as well as important legal and market..
Taxation of Financial Products & Derivatives
Highlights:
• Hear from our faculty of leading Canadian tax specialists to get senior-level,
up-to-date tax information on fi nancial products and..
Internal Controls
Highlights:
• Discover latest developments in risk-based testing for internal controls
• Learn how to effectively incorporate internal controls..
Enterprise Risk Management for Corporate Counsel
Highlights:
• Counsel’s role in risk monitoring and measurement
• Evaluating the existing ERM infrastructure
• The measurement of risk..
Mastering Entertainment Law
Highlights:
• Drafting legal contracts and agreements for the entertainment industry
• Negotiating fi nancing agreements for entertainment projects
•..
Negotiating & Drafting Major Business Agreements
Highlights:
• Mastering key drafting and negotiating skills
• Determining what to disclose
• Complying with electronic contract formalities
•..
M&A Valuation for CFOs
Hihglights:
• Examine key M&A valuation issues CFOs face today
• Harness the latest techniques for positioning your company for maximum sale..
Essential Skills for Pension Committee Members
Highlights:
• Hear from some of Canada’s largest DB and DC pension sponsors, including: Dare Foods, CAW-Canada, College and
• University Retiree..
Monetize Your Brand! Money, Marketing & the Right Plan! Mini Trade Show Conference
Monetize Your Brand! Money, Marketing & the Right Plan! Mini Trade Show ConferenceNetworking & Marketing, Your Ladder to Success!Vendor Tables are..
Tax Planning for R&D
Highlights:
• Get insight into areas where effective tax planning opportunities in R&D exist
• Examine the process for calculating the R&D..
Tax Planning for the International Client
Highlights:
• Hear how you can cross international borders without paying more tax than you have to
• Examine criteria used by the tax authorities to..
Commercial Real Estate Leases
Highlights:
• Discovering the current trends in negotiations
• Determining landlords’ and tenants’ legal status
• Dealing with operating cost..
General Counsel’s Role in Maximizing Board Effectiveness
Highlights:
• Hear from some of Canada’s sharpest legal minds on what it takes to enhance your organization’s governance practices
• Explore leading..
