2025 Convention Schedule


*Schedule subject to change

7:00 am – 8:00 am

Exhibitor set-up

7:30 am

Registration and Networking

8:30 am – 8:55 am

9:45 am – 10:00 am

Health Break and Networking

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Presenters: Chris Avery, Arctic Gateway Group President and CEO & Michael Spence, Mayor of Churchill

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Presenter: Stacy Stockham, Human Resources Hudbay Minerals

11:00 am – 11:15 am

Trade Show Networking

11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Presenters: Sandy Doverspike, Director of Human Resources and External Relations & Richard Trudeau, Hudbay Minerals and Glenn Laycock, Executive Director Northern Sector Council

11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Presenters; David Quiroga, Dias Geophysical and Tristian Leclerc, EarthEx Geophysical

11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Lunch – Wellington Room

1:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Special Event – Centennial Room: Zoloto Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Presenters: Kyle Stanfield, Director and CEO ONGold Resources and Ryan Humphries, Exploration Manager Dryden Gold Corp.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Presenters: Perry Blomquist , Impact Assessment Archaeologist and Suyoko Tsukamoto, Senior Impact Assessment Archaeologist MB Government Historic Resources Branch

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Health Break and Networking

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

Presenters: Chief Larson Anderson, Norway House Cree Nation and Jim Rondeau, NHCN Major Project Office Director

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

Presenters: Brent Bullen, Director and COO Sio Silica Corp. and Claude Deveau, Chief Metallurgist Tanco

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Host Bar

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Trade Show Networking

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Mining Mixer co-hosted by CCMEC and Women in Mining Manitoba

7:30 am – 8:45 am

Registration and Networking

8:50 am – 8:55 am

9:45 am – 10:00 am

Health Break and Networking

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Presenters: Chris Whorton, Project Director Alamos Gold and Cole Stocki, District Exploration Geologist First Mining Gold

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Presenters: Ben Lee, Brandon Chase, Seogi Kang and Jason Marks

11:00 am – 11:15 am

Trade Show Networking

11:15 am – 12:30 pm

Presenters: Jamie Grant, Lori Simon and Tanya Manch, University College of the North & Yev Buriakova and Kelly Mahoney, Asper School of Business

11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Sponsor & Exhibitor Lunch  – Wellington Room

1:00 PM – 1:15 pm

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Presenters: Christian Bohm, Principal Geoscientist Goldilocks Geocience Services and Andrea McLaren, Americas at Chrysos Corporation

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Presenters: Neil Richardson, Exploration Director Hudbay Minerals and Kelsey Privett, Kinross Gold Director of Greenfields Exploration, Canada

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Health Break and Networking

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

Presenters: Chuck Davidson, President & CEO Manitoba Chambers of Commerce and Edward Suzuki Program Manager Manitoba Mineral Development Fund (MMDF)

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm

Presenters: Janessa Kosar North, CEO, Kiciwapa Cree Nation, CEO, Mamawewin Productions Corp., Executive Lead, Our Land, Our Future and Floyd North, Headman, Kiciwapa Cree Nation (KCN), Project Director, Kiciwapa Cree Nation Economic Development GP Inc. 

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Host Bar 

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Trade Show Networking

4:20 PM – 4:30 pm

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Booth Tear Down