Supporting Women in Trades Conference
June 17 & 18, 2019 | Vancouver, BC
Registration is open for the 2019 Supporting Women in Trades Conference!
You don't want to miss the opportunity to join more than 300 delegates planning to attend. Over two days, CAF-FCA will highlight current initiatives for women in the trades and facilitate sharing of promising practices among change-makers from across Canada's skilled trades communities.
Insights gathered at SWiT 2019 will inform CAF-FCA's National Strategy for Supporting Women in the Trades. Join us and help identify practical action items for making tangible change. This strategy will help outline how the apprenticeship community will achieve the aspirational goals identified by female apprentices and tradeswomen in the action plan, A Road Map to Supporting Women in Trades.
We hope to see you in Vancouver. Don't delay - last year's event sold out a month early!
Breaking Barriers & Building Careers for Women in Construction
June 25, 2019 | Vancouver, BC
Who: Eight presenters who’s organizations are Breaking Barriers and Building Careers for Women in Construction.
What: A PechaKucha Event (and dinner) – this fast-paced, lively format allows for excellent information in 6 minutes & 40 seconds! Twenty slides for 20 seconds each provide attendees with a fire hose of information in a short period of time, with the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters at the end of the PechaKucha.
Whatever your Construction Career aspirations may be, this is the must-attend event for you! Attendees will benefit from the information, resources and wisdom of eight different organizations in our industry presenting everything from how to get started on your career path to how to hit the highest heights of leadership. Please join us for this lively PechaKucha, certain to leave you inspired and informed – ready to Break Barriers and Build Your Career!
Where: Holiday Inn Downtown, 1110 Howe Street, Vancouver
When: 5:30pm – 8pm, Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Why: To receive and absorb a firehose of construction-specific information, resources, motivation, and networking to assist us in constructing our best careers!!
CCWESTT 2020: SAVE THE DATE
May 21 to 23, 2020 | Winnipeg, MB
Save the Date! CCWESTT 2020 will be held in Winnipeg, MB from May 21 to 23, 2020! It's never to early to start planning your trip to Winnipeg.
WinSETT Leadership Series - Fredericton Workshops
Starting March 13, 2019 | Delta Fredericton
APEGNB is one of the sponsors of the WinSETT Leadership Series happening in Fredericton in March, April & May of this year. There are a total of six full-day workshops occurring over three months in two-day pairings on the following topics:
- Becoming Leaders And Effective Communication (March 13 & 14, 2019)
- Emotional Intelligence And Negotiating for Success (April 2 & 3, 2019)
- Navigating the Politics of the Workplace And Networking, Mentors and Sponsors (May 29 & 30, 2019)
Note that there will be a foul weather date available in the event a session was to cancel due to weather. The make up workshops would take place March 27 & 28, 2019.
Find out more about the workshops and register here.
2019 Atlantic ConnecTions Conference
Sustaining Women in SETT | May 30-31, 2019 | School of Sustainable Design Engineering, UPEI
The Atlantic ConnecTions Conference provides an opportunity for individuals and organizations from Atlantic Canada to work together to tackle the advancement and retention of women and gender minorities in the Science, Engineering, Technology and Trades (SETT) workforce within industry and academia. The theme of this years conference is Sustaining Women in SETT.
Women, gender minorities, and their allies from a cross-section of industry, education, government, and not-for-profit organizations are invited to participate in the conference.
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The Atlantic ConnecTions Conference is an official CCWESTT regional conference.
