Linda Mortsch of Environment Canada.

Panel 1: Understanding AR5 and the Impact of Climate Change on Canada

• Gregory Flato | Manager, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment Canada
• Linda Mortsch | Senior Research, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada
• Brian Branfireun | Associate Professor, Western University, Director, BIOTRON Institute for Experimental Climate Change Research
• Moderator: Altaf Arain | Professor, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University; Director, McMaster Centre for Climate Change

Panel 2: Cities and Climate Change – Challenges and Opportunities for Adaptation

• Brian Stone | Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Tech | Author of The City and the Coming Climate
• Slobodan Simonovic | Professor, Western University | Director Engineering Studies, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
• Kevin Behan | Deputy Director, Clean Air Partnership (CAP)
• Moderator: Sarah Brown | Associate Director, University of Waterloo’s Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3)

Panel 3: Connecting with the Climate – A Communications Challenge

• Tzeporah Berman | Founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada; Author of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environment Challenge
• Barry McLoughlin and Ms. Laura Peck | McLoughlin Media
• Kevin Grandia | Founder and President, Spake Media House Inc.
• Moderator: Mark Terry | Environmental Filmmaker and Journalist