1. Reinventing How Financing Strategies Work - Removing Barriers to Commercial Decarbonization
This roundtable explores how strategic financing approaches can help organizations overcome implementation barriers and make commercial decarbonization a financially viable path forward.
Stuart Galloway, SOFIAC

2. Designing Deep Energy Retrofit Programs 
Roundtable participants will help shape a utility deep energy retrofit program. The session will open with a concise overview of key learnings from market potential analysis and the deep energy retrofit program design process for both commercial and residential customers. Participants will then have the opportunity to provide input on program design and rollout considerations, leveraging collective expertise to advance practical, scalable solutions for deep energy retrofits. 
Ariana Arguello, FortisBC

3. Engaging SMBs Through Midstream Programs
This roundtable explores an unexpected benefit of two food service midstream programs in Canada – a highly effective way to reach small and medium businesses. About 90% of participants are SMBs, demonstrating how midstream programs (where incentives are embedded at the distributor level) are extremely effective (and cost effective!) at engaging hard-to-serve businesses.
Jamie Hutchinson, CLEAResult Canada  

4. Climate Communications for Municipal Leaders
This roundtable introduces a new climate communications toolkit developed by FCM’s Green Municipal Fund, offering practical strategies to help municipalities and community partners counter misinformation, build public trust, and strengthen support for local retrofit and climate initiatives.
Robin Goldstien, FCM

5. From Restoration to Innovation: Leveraging Rehabilitation ‘Lessons Learned’ to Drive Adoption of High-Performance Building Envelope Products 
Rehabilitation projects surface real-world performance lessons that can accelerate the adoption of high-performance building envelope products, and this session draws on restoration case studies to show how those insights translate into better specification, detailing, and scalable retrofit practice
Colin Ackroyd , Cascadia

6. Managed Transition vs Unmanaged Transition on Natural Gas
This discussion examines the risks and opportunities tied to natural gas transitions, exploring how proactive, managed approaches can support communities, minimize disruption, and guide a more orderly shift toward low‑carbon energy systems.
Matt Poirier, The Transition Accelerator

7. Communicating Climate Action That Reaches People: Centering Equity, Trust, and Lived Experience in Retrofit Storytelling
In 2026, engaging the public on climate change looks different - learn how sustainability leaders can engage the public through effective storytelling and outreach on retrofit and energy initiatives. 
Wanjiru Munene, Urban Climate Leadership

8. Indigenous Community Capacity Building in Retrofit Projects
- Collaboratively developing retrofit projects with Indigenous communities in both urban and rural contexts.
- How to leverage industry partnerships to expand community capacity and technical support.
- Enhancing the feasibility and accessibility of retrofit initiatives for not-for-profit organizations.
- Integrating community cultural aspects and applying a Two-Eyed Seeing approach to the planning and implementation     of retrofit projects.
Melanie Ross, SAIT Green Building Technology Access Centre

9. Challenges in Social Housing Procurement
This session explores how fragmented scopes, loss of design intent, and limited collaboration in procurement lead to cost escalation and ineffective outcomes, and highlights approaches better suited to complex retrofits in occupied buildings.
Taushifa Shaikh, Pembina

10. Tech Advancements in the Sector: High-speed decarbonization tools, AI, and archetyping for cost-effective portfolio prioritization for retrofits
This roundtable compares high-speed decarbonization assessment tools, AI, and archetyping against traditional on-site energy audits to identify where each delivers the most value for cost compression in deep retrofits, with case study learnings from Alberta building owners applying these tools to portfolio-wide decarbonization planning.
Jim Sandercock, Alberta Ecotrust

11. Calibrated Digital Twins - Finding the Balance Between Accuracy and Speed for Retrofit Decision-Making
Calibrated digital twins are transforming retrofit decision-making, but balancing model accuracy with speed remains a critical challenge; this roundtable will examine how to align data inputs, validation processes, and practical use cases to enable timely, cost-effective decisions without compromising reliability.
Andres Toro, IES

12. Scaling Retrofits: Are Financing and Incentives Leading to Action?
Financing, investment tax credits, incentives and innovative funding opportunities are there to scale and boost retrofit activity - but are they working as intended? This roundtable will bring together retrofit practitioners, building owners, and finance professionals to facilitate discussion on how this has been working in practice. Together we'll dive deeper into real life experiences lessons learned, and brainstorm ways to improve them for the future.

13. Leadership & Team Dynamics for Scalable Retrofit Success
Retrofitting existing buildings requires strong leadership and highly effective teams operating across generations, disciplines, and organizations. this facilitated roundtable brings industry stakeholders together to examine how leadership behaviors and team dynamics influence retrofit delivery and outcomes. Participants will openly explore where misalignment, decision friction, and communication gaps slow progress despite proven technical solutions. 
Linda Munden, Consultant