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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Registration
8:30 am – 9:00 am	Networking Refreshments in the Trade Show Area Sponsored by:
9:00 am – 9:15 am	Opening Remarks and Welcome
9:15 am – 10:15 am	World Café
10:15 am – 10:30 am	Refreshment Break in the Trade Show Area Sponsored by:
10:30 am – 12:00 pm	Concurrent Breakouts
	THEME 1A: French (Evaluation Implementation: Nurturing Growth through Innovation) Leveraging Hybrid Evaluation Teams: Balancing Internal Knowledge with External Insight for Sustainable Evaluation Practices Visioning for CES-NCC
	THEME 2A: Evaluation Reporting and Close-out: Harvesting Insights for Future Growth Inclusive and Equitable Evaluation using a Theory of Change
	THEME 3A: Evaluation Management and Planning: Planting the Seeds of Change Systems Thinking as Fertile Ground for Evaluation Applying Indigenous Approaches in Federal Evaluation: Challenges and Lessons Learned Leveraging Outcome Harvesting and AI to Build More Effective Evaluation Plans Harnessing AI in Program Evaluation: Navigating Innovation and Ethical Considerations
	THEME 4A: Evaluation Implementation: Nurturing Growth through Innovation Circle Teachings as Ceremony and Research
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Lunch Sponsored by:
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Keynote Presentation Operationalizing an Urgent Mandate: The Indigenous Evaluation Network Andrea L.K. Johnston, CEO, Johnston Research Inc.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Concurrent Breakouts
	THEME 1B: French (Evaluation Reporting and Close-out: Harvesting Insights for Future Growth) Developing Gender-focused Results Frameworks: Measuring the Impact of Projects in Burkina Faso and Rwanda Evaluation Division Review of AAFC Past Evaluations: A Focus on Recommendations Related to Performance Information Profiles Into the Great Unknown: How to Navigate Program Evaluation on an Unfamiliar Topic
	THEME 2B: Evaluation Reporting and Close-out: Harvesting Insights for Future Growth Inclusive Insights: Infusing Equity in Data Visualisations
	THEME 3B: Evaluation Management and Planning: Planting the Seeds of Change Planning and Managing Horizontal Evaluations: Lessons Learned from the Horizontal Evaluation of the Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy
	THEME 4B: Evaluation Implementation: Nurturing Growth through Innovation A Discussion on Capacity-Building in Evaluation From Theory to Practice: Examining the Development, Implementation, and Impact of Evaluation Policy Obstacles to the institutionalization of program evaluation in Africa: A case study from the Democratic Republic of Congo
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm	Refreshment Break in the Trade Show Area Sponsored by: Ference & Company Consulting
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	Concurrent Breakouts
	THEME 1C: Bilingual (Evaluation Management and Planning: Planting the Seeds of Change) Quality of Life Framework: From Theory to Practice in Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
	THEME 2C: Evaluation Reporting and Close-out: Harvesting Insights for Future Growth Dynamic Reporting: More Show, Less Tell
	THEME 3C: Evaluation Management and Planning: Planting the Seeds of Change Integrating Environmental Sustainability in Evaluation
	THEME 4C: Evaluation Implementation: Nurturing Growth through Innovation Nurturing Growth for Sustainable Evaluation: What about AI?
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm	Closing Remarks
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Networking Reception Sponsored by: DPM Research Inc. and Vanastas