2008 Discrimination Prevention Forum
Making an Impact

Program:

The 2008 Discrimination Prevention Forum is an opportunity for employers, managers, decision-makers, policy makers and employees alike. It’s all about people making an impact in their workplace by paving the way to inclusiveness, preventing discrimination, and changing corporate culture.

• You will hear provocative and forward-thinking keynote speakers like Ted Childs, David Shannon, Moya Greene, Deborah A. Katz and Melissa Magder.
• You will gain valuable insight and perspective on practices that have proven results for preventing discrimination in the workplace through various panels and presentations. See the moderators and panelists biographies.
• You will be able to identify what builds a working environment to recruit and retain the best workforce with a respectful, inclusive approach to people management.

The workshops will include:

• Accommodating Family/Marital Status: A Legal Update
  This workshop will examine the increasing phenomenon of family /marital responsibilities and the means to best address them in the workplace. The legal update will provide a review of existing case law and explore practical and proven approaches to accommodating employees with family and marital obligations.

• Innovations that work: Accommodating physical disabilities
  The workshop will provide a legal update on recent settlement, decisions and trends  related to accommodating physical disabilities in the workplace. It will also examine the employer’s perspective as participants prepare to embark on the “Accommodation Superhighway.”

• Proven practices in Return-to-Work
  Challenges in disability management will be the focus of this session. Participants will be invited to share their best practices and learn from each other in order to apply new and proven strategies for an effective return to work. Globe and Mail series of articles.

• Religious Accommodation: Responses to an Emerging Need
  Across the country, religious accommodation has been a growing interest for employers and employees alike. This workshop will examine recent trends in case law, as well as the impacts of the Bouchard-Taylor Report. Participants will also focus on going from accommodation to creating an environment for equality.

Be part of our leading-edge Knowledge Café. Network with employers, employees and their partners, to share ideas and experiences.

Agendas will be updated and can be modified.

• Ottawa
• Halifax
• Edmonton

Hampton Inn Ottawa - Guest Accommodations

When you reserve a room, mention that you are attending the 2008 Discrimination Prevention Forum. We have reserved a block of rooms for our participants at the special rate of: $125 single or $130 double (plus applicable taxes). When you book, mention Group Code 252 or online booking code CAP. This special rate will only be available for rooms booked before October 1, 2008.
         
100 Coventry Road, Ottawa, ON K1K 4S3
Toll Free for reservations only: 1.877.701.1281

Directions

From Montréal — Take Highway 40 West to Highway 417 West. Get off at the Vanier Parkway (Exit 117). Turn right on the Vanier Parkway. The hotel is located at the corner of Vanier Parkway and Coventry Road.

From Toronto — Take Highway 401 East. Get off at Highway 416 North. At the end of highway 416, take Highway 417 East. Get off at the Vanier Parkway (Exit 117). Turn left on the Vanier Parkway. The hotel is located at the corner of Vanier Parkway and Coventry Road.

From Ottawa International Airport (Macdonald-Cartier) — Take the Airport Parkway Northwest and exit at the Riverside East-Heron West ramp. Turn slight left to take the Riverside East Ramp. Turn right onto Riverside Drive, follow Riverside Drive (Riverside Drive becomes the Vanier Parkway) The Hampton Inn Ottawa is located at the corner of the Vanier Parkway and Coventry Road.

Edmonton Chapter
We have not reserved a block of rooms as there are many hotels close to the Shaw Conference Center.

• Union Bank Inn
• The Westin
• Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe
• Courtyard by Marriott
• Alberta Place Suites Hotel 
• Days Inn (10041 - 106street)
• Delta Edmonton Centre 
• Hotel Fairmont MacDonald 
• Sutton Place Hotel
• Holiday Inn Express (104 street and 100 avenue)  

Halifax Chapter 
Lord Nelson Hotel

When you reserve a room, mention that you are attending the 2008 Discrimination Prevention Forum. We have reserved a block of rooms for our participants at the special rate of: $149 (plus applicable taxes). This special rate will only be available for rooms booked before September 15, 2008.

1515 South Park Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Toll Free for reservations only:  1.800.565.2020
Local calls: (902) 423.5130

Theme and function come together at the 2008 Discrimination Prevention Forum - “Making an Impact.” Be part of the impact by highlighting your contribution, your products, publications or services at this 2 and 1/2-day event that will gather over 250 decision-makers, managers and employees from government and federally regulated industries.

If you have a product or service to promote, a proven prevention best practice to showcase, then the 2008 Discrimination Prevention Forum is an opportunity you do not want to miss.

Exhibitor Opportunities

• Exhibitors will have access to a 10' x 10' draped booth
• Recognition in the Exhibitor section of the delegate kit
• Signage in the Exhibit Area
• A table with two chairs
• Optional access to the Internet (Additional fee will apply)

The exhibitor portion of the conference is available only in Ottawa.

Registration fee: $1,500