CatIQ Connect 2025
February 4 - 5, 2025 | Metro Toronto Convention Centre
February 4, 2025 - All times Eastern Standard
8:00 am
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7:00 pm
Registration Opens
Say hello and pick up your badge at the registration desk.
8:00 am
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8:35 am
Breakfast
Fuel up for a day of catastrophe content!
Session Sponsor
8:35 am
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9:15 am
Welcome Address, Opening Remarks and 2024 CATs in Review
9:15 am
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10:15 am
Climate Attribution and Canadian Catastrophes
10:15 am
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10:45 am
Networking Break
Session Sponsor
Morning Concurrent Session A
10:45 am
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11:45 am
Severe Convective Storm Trends in Canada
Speaker
Julian Brimelow
Executive Director, Northern Hail Project
Western University
Morning Concurrent Session B
10:45 am
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11:45 am
Equity-Driven Community Resilience
11:45 am
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1:15 pm
Buffet Lunch
12:15 pm
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1:15 pm
Keynote Address
Fireside Chat: Redefining the Wildfire Challenge & Aligning Insurance with Mitigations that Matter
Early Afternoon Concurrent Session A
1:30 pm
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2:15 pm
Canadian Climate & Data 101
Test your Canadian climate knowledge, and learn about the latest data resources, at the 3rd Annual CatIQ Connect After Lunch Quiz Show!
Speaker
Pouriya Jafarpur
Climate scientist, Canadian Centre for Climate Services
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Early Afternoon Concurrent Session B
1:30 pm
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2:15 pm
Wildfire Prevention
Late Afternoon Concurrent Session A
2:20 pm
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3:20 pm
Is Climate-Proofing Canada a Roll of the Dice? An Interactive Game
Operational and financial resilience against natural disasters and extreme weather events is best achieved through the holistic approach combining latest innovations in modeling impacts, providing resilience financing through public private partnerships, parametric insurance and anticipatory action solutions.
This interactive session will simplify a more nuanced reality on the ground to bring home the combined value of a few fundamental innovative steps needed in order to achieve (or, at least move towards) that elusive resilience.
Speaker
Janot Mendler de Suarez
Visiting Research Fellow
Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Late Afternoon Concurrent Session B
2:20 pm
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3:20 pm
Inundated with CATs: A Claims Perspective
3:20 pm
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3:50 pm
Networking Break
Session Sponsor
3:50 pm
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4:50 pm
Navigating the Jasper Wildfires: Perspectives on Planning, Communications and the Role of NGOs
4:50 pm
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5:15 pm
Student Delegate Presentations
Session Sponsor
5:15 pm
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6:15 pm
Cocktail Reception
Mingle with your peers, view posters and chat with our student delegates, and try out this year’s signature cocktail as we wind down from a full day of catastrophe content.
Session Sponsor
February 5, 2025 - All times Eastern Standard
8:00 am
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4:45 pm
Registration Opens
8:00 am
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9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
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10:00 am
Stress Testing Climate Risk
Moderator
Kathryn Bakos
Managing Director, Finance and Resilience
Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation
Speaker
Stéphane Tardif
Managing Director, Climate Risk Division
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
10:00 am
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10:30 am
Networking Break
Session Sponsor
Morning Concurrent Session A
10:30 am
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11:30 am
What’s New in Flood Models
Morning Concurrent Session B
10:30 am
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11:30 am
Building Resilience with Building Codes?
Speaker
Marianne Armstrong
Director, Climate Resilient Built Environment Initiative
National Research Council Canada
11:35 am
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12:35 pm
Communicating Flood Risk
12:30 pm
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1:50 pm
Buffet Lunch
1:10 pm
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1:50 pm
Keynote Address
Keynote Presentation
Afternoon Concurrent Session A
2:10 pm
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3:00 pm
2024 Flood Events
Speaker
Emma Haug-Kindellan
Engineer, Watershed and Climate Change Risk Science
Credit Valley Conservation
Afternoon Concurrent Session B
2:10 pm
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3:00 pm
Nature-Based Solutions: When and How Can They Be Insured?
Speaker
Joanna Eyquem
Managing Director, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation
3:05 pm
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4:05 pm
Earthquake: Managing Capacity for “The Big One”
4:05 pm
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4:30 pm
2025 CATs: The Forecast Says?
4:30 pm
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4:45 pm
Closing Remarks
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