Ariana Arguello, Program Manager, Technology and Market Development, FortisBC
Jamie Hutchins P.Eng, Sr. Director, Canada C&I, CLEAResult Canada
Robin Goldstein, Advisor, Capacity Development, Green Municipal Fund, Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Alexandra Kodyra, Research Associate, Architectural Technologist, Green Building Technology Access Centre Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Taushifa Shaikh, Senior Analyst, Buildings, Pembina Institute
1. Financing Strategies That Remove 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.
Speaker: Stuart Galloway, SOFIAC
2. FortisBC
This roundtable will explore FortisBC’s evolving role in supporting scalable retrofit solutions, highlighting key challenges, market insights, and collaborative opportunities that can accelerate progress across the sector
Speaker: Ariana Arguello, FortisBC
3. Engaging SMBs Through Food Service Midstream Programs
CLEAResult Canada’s Food Service Midstream programs drive adoption of high-efficiency commercial kitchen equipment by embedding incentives at the distributor level. This market-driven model reaches hard-to-serve SMBs; about 90% of participating kitchens since 2019; while reducing administrative burden and boosting cost-effectiveness.
Speaker: Jamie Hutchinson, CLEAResult Canada
4. Climate Communications for Municipal Leaders
This roundtable introduces a new climate communications toolkit, offering practical strategies to help municipalities counter misinformation, build public trust, and strengthen support for local retrofit and climate initiatives.
Speaker: Robin Goldstien, FCM
5. Commercial PACE (Property Accessed Clean Energy) Roundtable
This roundtable explores developing a strategic plan to attract new private capital into commercial retrofits and
accelerating investment across the sector.
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.
Speaker: Matt Piorrier, The Transition Accelerator
7. Communicating Climate Action
How sustainability leaders can engage the public through effective storytelling and outreach on retrofit and energy initiatives.
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.
Speaker: Alexandra Kodyra, SAIT Green Building Technology Access Centre
9. Resilience Beyond Energy Savings
Explore the Reframed Initiative’s retrofits of six multi-unit residential buildings—delivering affordable climate/seismic resilience, social equity, health improvements, and low-carbon innovations for vulnerable communities.
Speaker: Taushifa Shaikh, Pembina
10. Cost effective portfolio prioritization for retrofits: High-speed decarbonization tools, AI, and archetyping
- Discussion and comparison of high-speed decarbonization assessment tools and strategies including artificial
intelligence's role and the benefits, drawbacks and use cases for each.
- How do these strategies compare to on-site energy audits and what is the sweet spot for how we leverage these high-
speed analysis tools for cost compression in deep energy retrofits?
- Exploring specific learning from case studies of building owners utilizing these tools for portfolio prioritization and
decarbonization planning in Alberta.
Speaker: Garrett Clark, Ecotrust Canada