OECA Symposium 2.0

Registration & Pricing

Registration is open. Each verified OECA member organization may claim up to two complimentary registrations with no payment required. Members may purchase additional registrations, and all other attendees may register, for $85 + HST per person. No website account is required. Organizations can review the Platinum, Gold, and Silver Collaborator options.

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Event Details

OECA Ontario Energy Symposium 2.0 will bring Ontario’s energy leaders together for a full-day working forum focused on collaboration, infrastructure readiness, capital alignment, implementation constraints, and coordinated action.

Building on the first OECA Ontario Energy Symposium held in January 2026, this event will create space for practical dialogue among utilities, municipalities, government, regulators, finance, industry, Indigenous participants, energy users, innovators, advisors, and technical experts.

The timing is deliberate. Taking place immediately after Ontario’s municipal elections, Symposium 2.0 will help new and returning leaders reconnect local growth, infrastructure, electricity planning, investment, and implementation priorities.

These objectives are connected, but the organizations responsible for them often work through different mandates, timelines, funding tools, approvals, and risk frameworks.

Symposium 2.0 is designed to improve coordination before delays, cost pressures, missed opportunities, and public frustration become harder to manage.

Program Focus

The Symposium will focus on four connected areas:

• Capital and confidence: aligning public funding, private capital, utility investment, and customer decisions so Ontario can build ahead of constraint, not behind it.
• Growth and readiness: connecting transportation electrification, industrial growth, large loads, data centres, food production, and charging infrastructure to local grid readiness.
• Infrastructure and investment: helping municipalities and LDCs find practical pathways to finance the infrastructure required for growth, reliability, and electrification.
• Innovation at the grid edge: integrating DERs, non-wires solutions, storage, and flexible demand into policy updates, planning, regulation, and cost recovery.

Program Highlights

The day will include:

• Welcoming and collaborative leadership remarks.
• Working groups in collaborative roundtables.
• A session on supply, distribution, and demand.
• IESO, OEB, and LDC perspectives and roundtable outcomes.
• A town hall: Fingers on the PULSE.
• A session supporting the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP).
• Leadership and Permission to Act with Associate Minister Matthew Rae.
• Closing observations, followed by a networking reception.

Who Should Attend

This event is designed for leaders and practitioners connected to Ontario’s energy future, including:

• Municipal leaders and staff.
• Provincial and federal representatives.
• Regulatory and system planning leaders.
• LDC executives and management.
• Utilities, energy service providers, and infrastructure firms.
• Finance, pension, and infrastructure investment organizations.
• Industrial, commercial, institutional, and energy-intensive users.
• Transportation, mobility, and electrification stakeholders.
• Indigenous energy and infrastructure participants.
• Energy innovators, advisors, and technical professionals.

Program Agenda

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Program and speaker participation subject to change.