Arctic360 2022 Conference
Infrastructure Investment Meets Diplomacy
March 9th – March 11th, 2022
University Club
380 University Avenue, Toronto, Canada
Arctic360’s 3rd Annual Arctic Infrastructure Investment Conference: ‘Infrastructure Investment Meets Diplomacy’
Around the Arctic, global geopolitics is transforming the economic, political, and physical landscape at the top of the world. The North American Arctic (Canadian North, Alaska, and Greenland) face many similar challenges and potential opportunities including a wealth of promise to strengthen regional collaboration and cooperation. There is an opportunity to develop new partnerships to help build green, connected, smart, and climate resilient transportation infrastructure that will foster local economic growth and well-being at home and connect the region to domestic and international markets.
We know that creating innovative critical infrastructure able to address the Arctic’s unique challenges is not only possible but- as Canada’s circumpolar neighbours demonstrate – the Arctic has a critical role to play in creating and advancing new technologies and producing the resources that are of global interest and relevance. This includes everything from airship to zero emission transportation, datacentres, SMART cables, automated vehicles and ships, as well as the roads and port infrastructure required to serve them. Add to that, the region’s abundance of natural resources including the critical minerals necessary for the transition to the global renewable energy economy.
Transforming this potential into reality requires vision, planning, and political cooperation to attract national and global capital and forge the kinds of Public-Private-Indigenous partnerships that are integral to strategic, long-term infrastructure projects. The path towards 21st century Arctic transportation infrastructure is where ‘Infrastructure Investment Meets Diplomacy’.
2022 Conference Agenda
9 MARCH
FACULTY CLUB, TORONTO: PRE-CONFERENCE DINNER AND FIRESIDE CHAT (INVITATION ONLY)
DINNER FIRESIDE CHAT: Fireside Chat: ‘Talking Arctic: A Conversation Among Canadian Journalists’
Moderator: Dr. Jessica M. Shadian, President and CEO, Arctic360
- Gabe Friedman, Financial Post
- Danielle Bochove, Toronto Bureau Chief, Bloomberg
- Corey Larocque, Managing Editor, Nunatsiaq News
10 MARCH
DAY 1 FULL CONFERENCE- (FACULTY CLUB, TORONTO)
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:40 Introductions
Welcome: Dr. Jessica M. Shadian, President and CEO, Arctic360 & Madeleine Redfern, Executive Director, Northern Branch, Arctic360
- Dr. John Meehan, Director, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History
9:45-11:00 SESSION I: NORTHERN PERSPECTIVES
Moderators: Dr. Jessica M. Shadian, President and CEO, Arctic360 & Madeleine Redfern, Executive Director, Northern Branch, Arctic360
- Urban Ahlin, Ambassador of Sweden to Canada (Confirmed)
- James DeHart, US Coordinator for the Arctic Region (Confirmed)
- Kenneth Høegh Head of Representation to Canada and US, Greenland Representation (Confirmed)
- Roy Kennet Eriksson, Ambassador of Finland to Canada (Confirmed)
- Hanne Fugl Eskjaer, Kingdom of Denmark Ambassador to Canada (Confirmed)
- Jon Elvedal Fredriksen, Norway Ambassador to Canada (Confirmed)
- Hlynur Guðjónsson, Iceland Ambassador to Canada (Confirmed)
- Heidi Kutz, Canada Arctic Official, Arctic Council (Confirmed)
11:15-12:15 THE WAR IN UKRAINE: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ARCTIC COOPERATION AND FOR CANADA’S NORTH. A CONVERSATION WITH:
- The Honourable Peter MacKay, PC QC
- The Honourable Dennis Glen Patterson, Senator, Nunavut
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:30/14:40-16:10 SESSION II & III: PAYING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE: PUBLIC–PRIVATE–INDIGENOUS PARTNERSHIPS AND ATTRACTING GLOBAL CAPITAL
Moderator: Danielle Bochove, Toronto Bureau Chief, Bloomberg (Confirmed)
- Darrell Beaulieu, CEO, Denendeh Investments (Confirmed)
- Clint Davis, President and CEO, Nunasi Corporation (Confirmed)
- Derron Bain, Managing Director, Concert Infrastructure (Confirmed)
- Jay-Ann Gilfoy, CEO, Meridian Credit Union (Confirmed)
- Jeff Maurice, Director, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) (Confirmed)
- Bobby Ahluwalia, Partner, Coeuraj Capital (Confirmed)
- Sashen Guneratna, Managing Director, Investments, Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) (Confirmed)
- Shannin Metatawabin, ICD.D, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association (NACCA) (Confirmed)
- Michael Gordon, Director General, Executive Committee, Kativik Regional Government (TBC)
16:20-17:30 SESSION IV: CRITICAL MINERALS AND THE NORTH AMERICAN ARCTIC – SUPPLYING THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Moderator: Gabe Friedman, Financial Post (Confirmed)
- Andrew Ghattas, Director, Critical Minerals Task Force at Natural Resources Canada (Confirmed)
- Paul Gruner, CEO, Tahltan Nation Development Corporation (Confirmed)
- Dr. Ruben Shiffman, Executive Chairman, Greenland Resources (Confirmed)
- Pamela Strand, Deputy Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, GNWT (Confirmed)
- Darrell Beaulieu, CEO, Denendeh Investments (Confirmed)
- David Connelly, Vice President Strategy and Corporate Affairs, Cheetah Resources (Confirmed)
17:30-19:30 RECEPTION AND KEYNOTE
- Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada (Invited)
11 MARCH
DAY 2 FULL CONFERENCE- (FACULTY CLUB, TORONTO)
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:20 Introductions
9:30-10:40 SESSION I: NATIONAL, REGIONAL, & HUMAN SECURITY IN THE ARCTIC: A CIVIL-MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE DISCUSSION
Moderator: Dr. Jessica Shadian, President and CEO, Arctic360
- Jim Landon, President ATCO Frontec. (Confirmed)
- Patrick Duxbury, Executive Director, Inuit Development Corporation Association for Nasittuq (Confirmed)
- James Davies, President and CEO, Davie Shipbuilding (Confirmed)
- Peter Garapick, Government Relations, Quark Expeditions (Confirmed)
- Neil O’Rourke, Assistant Commissioner, Arctic region at Canadian Coast Guard Canadian Coast Guard (Confirmed)
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:10 SESSION II: STRENGHTENING ARCTIC TRADE: A CONVERSATION WITH ARCTIC TRADE CONSULATES TO CANADA
Moderator: Naomi, Powell, Managing Editor, Economics and Thought Leadership (Confirmed)
- Kenneth Høegh Head of Representation to Canada and US, Greenland Representation (Confirmed)
- Helene Scherling Olsen, Deputy Head of Trade, Sr. Advisor, Arctic, Danish Trade Council (Confirmed)
- Martin Claessens, Principal Commercial Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, U.S. Consulate General, Toronto (Confirmed)
- Patricia Boeg-Jensen, Business Sweden, Swedish Trade Commission, Toronto (Confirmed)
- Per Unheim, Political and Trade Officer, Embassy of Iceland in Canada (Confirmed)
12:10-13:05 LUNCH
13:10-13:30 KEYNOTE REMARKS: ROB OLIPHANT, PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
13:40-14:30 KEYNOTE: KENNETH HØEGH HEAD OF REPRESENTATION TO CANADA AND US, GREENLAND REPRESENTATION: ‘GREENLAND’S FUTURE IN THE ARCTIC’
14:35 –15:30 SESSION III: STRENGHTENING THE NORTH AMERICAN ARCTIC
Moderator: Madeleine Redfern, Director, Northern Branch, Arctic360 (Confirmed)
- Kenneth Høegh, Head of Greenlandic Representation to US and Canada (Confirmed)
- Paula Isaak, Paula Isaak, President, Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor), Associate Deputy Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, (Confirmed)
- Melanie Zimmerman, US Consul General, Quebec City (Confirmed)
15:40-16:40 SESSION IV: ARCTIC INNOVATION
Moderator: Dan Breznitz, Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab; Munk Chair of Innovation Studies; Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the federal Department of Finance (Confirmed)
- Madeleine Redfern, COO, CanArctic Inuit Networks/Director, Arctic360 Northern Branch (Confirmed)
- David Willis, Environmental & Community Coordinator, De Beers Canada Ltd. (Confirmed)
- Scott Cavan, Director, Sustainable Economies, Canada, Coeuraj (Confirmed)
16:40- 17:00 CLOSING REMARKS
