Understanding & Applying the Five Principles of Lean
8:00a.m. – 4:00p.m. Workshop

Are you ready to maximize productivity and minimize waste, all while reducing your energy costs?

Sit in on this workshop and learn how adopting the Lean management approach can make your business much more efficient and responsive to market needs and fluctuations. You’ll leave the session with an understanding of the five principles of Lean and measures to implement Lean tactics and techniques in your industrial facility.

Target Audience: Energy managers, production managers, engineers, executive team members, plant managers

SEMP: Revisiting the Fundamentals
8:00a.m. – 11:30a.m. Workshop
Workshop FULL - WAITLIST ONLY

This half-day workshop is a must-attend for those new to industrial energy management or recent graduates of BC Hydro’s Sustainable Energy Management Planning (SEMP) workshop.

Hear first-hand from industrial energy managers who have successfully developed and implemented an energy management plan upon completing SEMP. Panellists will share valuable insights into the real-world challenges they experienced on the job and how SEMP’s structured approach to developing an energy management plan proved to be an invaluable resource.

Target Audience: Industrial energy managers with fewer than 12 months of experience or those with 12-18 months of experience who would like to revisit energy management fundamentals

SEMP: How to Sustain a Successful Program
12:30p.m. – 4:00p.m. Workshop
Workshop FULL - WAITLIST ONLY

Now that your Sustainable Energy Management Planning (SEMP) program is up and running, how do you sustain success, while adapting to an ever-changing energy landscape?

Attend this half-day workshop and discover how adopting tools like Monitoring, Targeting & Reporting coupled with an awareness of future energy markets will help to ensure your energy management program thrives in the long-term.

Target Audience: Industrial energy managers with more than 12 months experience or industrial energy managers with fewer than 12 months experience who attended the morning session - SEMP: Revisiting the Fundamentals

The Turbulent Global Economy & its Impact on BC Industry
10:30a.m. – 12:00p.m. Breakout Session

Sponsored by:

British Columbia is experiencing significant growth in its oil and gas and mining industries, yet traditional industries like manufacturing are only now starting to recover from the global recession – why is that the case?

In this session market experts will discuss the global trends that are exerting a strong influence on BC’s industries and their growth prospects, and help you to understand what’s on the horizon.

Target Audience: Energy managers, production and technical managers, engineers, executive team members

Optimize Energy Recovery with Customer-Based Generation
10:30a.m. – 12:00p.m. Breakout Session

Take in this session and discover why electricity self generation is becoming an increasingly attractive option for industrial facilities just like yours.

Find out how you can make use of existing infrastructure to lower electricity costs or to offset future rate hikes, and how to mitigate climate change risk by optimizing your industrial processes. You’ll learn about self generation opportunities and hear of potential challenges and barriers, along with BC Hydro’s plans for additional customer-based generation projects.

Target Audience: Energy managers, production and technical managers, engineers, executive team members

SOCIAL MARKETING: THE UNTAPPED ENERGY MANAGEMENT TOOL
10:30a.m. – 12:00p.m. Breakout Session

There’s a lot of hype around social marketing – and more specifically, the impact it can have on your organization. Yet sometimes social marketing activities are perceived as productivity-draining initiatives that lack meaningful metrics. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

Attend this session and discover how three key social marketing concepts – academic, application and evaluation – will help you to deploy a successful campaign centered around energy conservation and behaviour change. Real-world case studies will demonstrate how social marketing can deliver impressive and previously untapped, bottom line results.

Target Audience: Energy managers, Green Team leads, maintenance staff, operations staff, property managers, retail marketing staff, senior management, sustainability staff

A Carbon Market in North America: Are you Ready?
1:30p.m. – 4:00p.m. Breakout Session

Is the adoption of an emissions trading scheme in Canada and the United States inevitable? And in particular, is your organization positioned to succeed in the face of such a dramatic shift in the way in which industrial manufacturers operate?

From emissions trading to the impact of the upcoming ISO Energy Management Standard, we’ll discuss North America’s emerging carbon market and why it’s critical to consider its future application today.

Target Audience: Executive team members, environmental managers, plant managers, comptrollers, engineering managers

Motivating Individuals to Care About Energy Conservation
1:30p.m. – 4:00p.m. Breakout Session

Getting the attention of individuals and mobilizing groups toward a common goal of energy conservation can be done.

Hear how different communities have applied principles of social psychology and adult learning to achieve commitment, action and results in their efforts to reduce energy consumption. You’ll take away proven strategies and ideas that you can start implementing right away.

Target Audience: Community energy managers, Conservation Community of Practice practitioners, sustainability or green team coordinators, marketing and communication directors

Grill the District Energy Experts!
1:30p.m. – 4:00p.m. Breakout Session

Sponsored by:

This is a must-attend session for communities that are considering implementing (or have newly implemented) a district energy system as part of a community energy plan.

Expert panelists will guide attendees through the concept of district energy and discuss existing district energy projects and technologies. An interactive, dialogue-driven session, your questions are welcomed and encouraged.

Please note: this session is technical in nature

Target Audience: Practitioners, consultants, community energy managers

Emerging Trends in Integrated Motor Systems
10:30a.m. – 11:30a.m. Breakout Session

Are you ready to streamline your facility’s energy performance with new motor technologies that have an all-in-one integrated motor system?

Today’s equipment manufacturers have joined forces with motor and drive manufacturers and applied the essentials of application engineering to design the industrial appliance. The result is smaller equipment packages, fewer components and more efficient control over a wide operating range.

Attend this session and you’ll benefit from an overview of the new industrial appliances that are appearing in BC (like the small 30 W ventilation fans for greenhouses and 300 MW all-electric liquid natural gas plants) and much more.

Target Audience: Energy managers, engineering managers, maintenance managers, project engineers, procurement managers

HOW TO CAPITALIZE ON THE NEW CONSERVATION RATE STRUCTURES
10:30a.m. – 11:30a.m. Breakout Session

Attend this session to find out how your organization can make the most of BC Hydro’s new Large and Medium General Service Conservation Rates. You’ll learn about the details of the new rate structures and how they can strengthen your business case for conservation. Also, you’ll hear about the new tools BC Hydro has made available to better support planning and budgeting for conservation in your organization.

Target Audience: BC Hydro Alliance members, energy managers, operations staff, comptrollers, senior managers, plant managers, production managers

Is your Organization Water-Smart?
11:30a.m. – 12:30p.m. Breakout Session

Although industrial facilities readily monitor power consumption, water usage often goes unaccounted for, making conservation efforts incomplete. Attend this session and discover why being water-smart is no longer a “bonus”, but a requirement to adapt to a changing climate and remain competitive in the new green economy. Challenges when instituting a water conservation program at industrial facilities will be discussed.

Please note: this session is technical in nature

Target Audience: Environmental managers, plant managers, energy managers, engineering managers and superintendents

Policies & Programs in Support of BC Industry
11:30a.m. – 12:30p.m. Breakout Session

Attend this session and you’ll benefit from an overview of current government policies and a review of the programs BC Hydro has in place to support the success of industry across the province. If you want to learn more about BC’s economic development initiatives, don’t miss this session.

Target Audience: Executive team members, local government staff, plant managers, members of environmental organizations and NGOs, utility personnel

SELLING CONSERVATION? HOW TO SECURE BUY-IN FROM SENIOR EXECUTIVES
11:30a.m. – 12:30p.m. Breakout Session

What information motivates senior managers to approve energy conservation projects?

Hear first-hand accounts from a panel of senior managers who know what it takes to secure long-term funding for energy conservation projects. Panellists will share stories and honest insights that will leave you primed and eager for your next meeting with management.

Target Audience: Maintenance staff, operations staff, energy managers, property managers, senior management, sustainability staff

Industrial Employee Energy Awareness Campaigns: The Key Ingredients
1:30p.m. – 5:00p.m. Workshop
Workshop FULL - WAITLIST ONLY

What will it take to foster organizational behavioural change in your industrial facility?

Participate in this workshop and learn creative ideas to build strategic employee energy awareness campaigns, proven operational tactics and why securing executive buy-in is a key ingredient to the long-term success of a behaviour change campaign.

Target Audience: Industrial energy managers, environmental managers, maintenance managers, sustainability initiative leads

Finding Hidden Financial Value in your Efficiency Project
1:30p.m. – 5:00p.m. Workshop
Workshop FULL - WAITLIST ONLY

Do you come up short when it’s time to demonstrate the financial value of your proposed energy efficiency project? Attend this workshop and discover how to turn your energy saving ideas into action with a well-constructed financial management plan.

You’ll learn how to turn energy savings into financial gains, quantify non-energy benefits and better assess the lifecycle costs of your proposed project. Real-world examples and an assessment of their strengths and weaknesses will also be included in this presentation.

Target Audience: Plant managers, energy managers, procurement managers, maintenance managers, project engineers