Vancouver Heat Pump Symposium
Program at a Glance
7:30 am - 8:30 am
REGISTRATION OPENS
Pick up your badge and kick off the day with continental breakfast
8:30 am - 9:15 am
OPENING KEYNOTE | The Electrification Challenge and the Role of Heat Pumps
Exhibit Hall A
Bryan Flannigan, P.Eng. - Executive Director, Building Decarbonization Alliance
This session will set the context by painting a picture of what the future of building electrification might look like when it achieves the scale necessary to meet the country’s climate goals. The session will explore questions about the role the HVAC industry can play to get Canada and BC to that scale more rapidly.
9:15 am - 10:00 am
POLICY PANEL
Exhibit Hall A
Facilitator:
Mariko Michasiw - B2E Program Manager, Zero Emissions Innovation Centre
Panelists:
Natural Resources Canada
City of Vancouver
City of Victoria
Representatives from governments and program providers at the federal, provincial and local level discuss decarbonization plans and the role heat pump technologies will play in their plans.
10:00 am - 11:00 am
COFFEE, NETWORKING, AND TRADESHOW
Exhibit Hall A
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
BREAKOUT SESSIONS | Focus on Innovative Technologies / Applications
Air-to-water Heat Pumps | Meeting Room: 15
Geo-Exchange Systems | Meeting Room: 16
Wastewater Applications | Meeting Room: 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
LUNCH | Keynote
Exhibit Hall A
The Hon Josie Osborne
Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, and MLA for Mid Island-Pacific Rim
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
SPEAKER PANEL | Identifying and Addressing the Challenges to Heat Pump Transition
Exhibit Hall A
Speakers:
Karen Tam Wu - Climate Advocate, BC Hydro
Electricity Grid Constraints
Klayton Gonsalves - Senior Economist and Head of Business Intelligence, BuildForce Canada
Workforce Challenges
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
COFFEE, NETWORKING, AND TRADESHOW
Exhibit Hall A
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Coming soon …
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
INDUSTRY PANEL | Making a Business out of Heat Pumps
Exhibit Hall A
Facilitator:
Bryan Flannigan, P.Eng. - Executive Director, Building Decarbonization Alliance
Panelists:
Coming soon …
The rise in demand for heat pump solutions is not just a result of government policies and incentives. Increasingly, it’s because they are the right solution for customers, in new and existing buildings. This industry panel will demonstrate the real-world economics that support the transition to heat pumps, as systems that cost-effectively deliver numerous benefits: comfort, energy savings and health benefits for building occupants while dramatically lowering carbon outputs.
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE | Conquering the Cold: The Swedish Blueprint for Zero-Carbon Living.
Exhibit Hall A
Martin Forsen - President, European Heat Pump Association
Once dominated by a reliance on fossil fuels (heating oil), homes and buildings in Sweden have been utterly transformed by heat pumps. In less than two decades, the country almost entirely phased out oil- and electric boilers and introduced heat pumps as the clearly best choice. Today more than 60% of all single-family homes are heated by a heat pump. Greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by more than 90% in the heating sector, efficiency has been greatly improved and, remarkably, at the same time the use of electricity for heating has decreased. This presentation will describe how the transformation took place and the benefits it generated in the process. There are important lessons here for Canadians.
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
NETWORKING RECEPTION
Exhibit Hall A