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Thursday, February 26, 2026
8:30 am – 10:00 am ATRIUM	Registration
8:30 am – 9:00 am BALLROOM 106DEFG	Networking Breakfast Sponsored by uOttawa.
9:00 am – 9:45 am BALLROOM 106DEFG	Opening Remarks and Welcome Elder Barb Brant, Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation Tyendinaga Elena Gallitto, President, CES-NCC Julie Eldridge, Chair, 2026 Annual Learning Event Diamond Sponsor Karl Boudreault Award Presentation
9:45 am – 10:15 am BALLROOM 106DEFG	Opening Keynote Being Your Authentic Self So You Can Connect with Confidence Chris McMartin, Podcast and Keynote Speaker, and National Lead, Scotiabank Women Initiative for Business Banking
10:15 am – 10:45 am BALLROOM 106DEFG	Networking Activity
10:45 am – 11:00 am BALLROOM 106DEFG	Refreshment Break Sponsored by Ference & Company.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	Concurrent Breakouts
BALLROOM 106DEFG	Building Organizational-level Evaluation and Performance Measurement Capacity: Reflections on a Toolkit Approach From Silos to Learning: Reimagining Evaluation Use in the Federal Public Service Collaborative Sense-making: What Data Parties Bring to Federal Government Evaluations
CES-NCC ROOM 106H	Imaginate: The Brainstorm Think Tank
BDO ROOM 210	Walk in Their Shoes: An Empathy Map Sprint to Operationalize a Survivor-centered Approach
uOTTAWA ROOM 209	Quiet Room (no presentations)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm BALLROOM 106DEFG	Networking Lunch Sponsored by DMP Research* and GGI.*
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Concurrent Breakouts
BALLROOM 106DEFG	Making Results Matter: Connecting Evaluation, Research, and Policy in the Federal Landscape
CES-NCC ROOM 106H	Making Accountability Count: Measuring Trust and Protecting Communities A Case Study of Evaluation and Internal Audit Partnership on a High-Profile, High-Stakes Project M&E in Elections: Taking Evaluation to the National Level
uOTTAWA ROOM 209	Measuring What Matters: How TRISEG’s Gender-transformative Framework Strengthens Inclusive Evaluation in Fragile Economies
BDO ROOM 210	Seeing the Whole Journey: Journey Mapping as an Innovative Tool for Understanding Participant Experience
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Concurrent Breakouts
CES-NCC ROOM 106H	AI-Induced Anxiety: Hope Driven vis-à-vis Fear Driven
uOTTAWA ROOM 209	Managing Tensions and Trade-offs in Organizational Learning: WUSC’s Journey
BDO ROOM 210	Evaluating Enhanced Homework Clubs Programs: A Service Provider’s Perspective on Community-Led Versus Community-Based Approaches
BALLROOM 106DEFG	Towards Synergies: Leveraging AI for Developing Joint Audit and Evaluation Practices
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm	Refreshment Break Sponsored by BDO Canada.
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm BALLROOM 106DEFG	Closing Panel Let’s Talk Value for Money: Spilling the Tea Andres Velez Guerra, Executive Director, Treasury Board Secretariat Anna Engman, Manager, Results Division, Treasury Board Secretariat Cedric Menard, Director of Evaluation, Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Donna Smith, Director, Employment and Social Development Canada Jérôme Mercier, Head of Evaluation, Employment and Social Development Canada Erin O’Sullivan, Director, Evaluation Branch, Indigenous Services Canada David Kurfurst, Director of Evaluation and Head of Evaluation, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada MODERATOR: Elena Petrus, Director General, Internal Audit and Evaluation, Treasury Board Secretariat
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm BALLROOM 106DEFG	Closing Remarks Elder Barb Brant, Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation Tyendinaga Julie Eldridge, Chair, 2026 Annual Learning Event Diamond Sponsor
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm ATRIUM	Networking Reception