OECA Ontario Energy Symposium 2.0

LOCATION: Cambridge Conference Center, 700 Hespler Rd, Cambridge, ON

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:

• An opening keynote on collaboration and innovation.
• Facilitated cross-sector roundtables.
• Focused discussions on capital, demand, financing, and flexibility.
• Time for collaborator engagement and informal discussion.
• OECA updates on knowledge-sharing tools and codex resources.
• A recap of roundtable findings and practical next steps.
• A closing keynote focused on coordinated action.
• A networking reception with drinks, appetizers, and collaborator space.

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 and Focus