OTTAWA – The Canadian Chapter of the International Institute of Communications last week announced its keynote speakers for IIC Canada 2020, to be held April 20-21, at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa.
The big names are:
- Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Heritage
- Monika Ille, president and CEO, APTN
- Grace Koh, U.S. representative and head of delegation to the International Telecommunication Union World Radiocommunication Conference 2019
- Pierre Karl Péladeau, president and CEO, Quebecor
- Ian Scott, CRTC chair
- Catherine Tait, CBC president and CEO
Details of IIC Canada plenary sessions are also now available on the IIC Canada website. The session subjects are:
- Location Data: Potential and Pitfalls
- Artist Compensation in a Streaming World
- Communications Law and the Courts in Canada
- Communications Law and Copyright
- Balancing Network Security and Personal Freedom
- Legal Technology and AI: impact on the legal profession
- Access to Infrastructure for Broadband Deployment
- Digital Platform Regulation I: Competition and Privacy
- Digital Platform Regulation II: Canadian Content and Creators
- Reimagining Public Interest Participation in regulatory proceedings
- Mental Health and the Workplace
Participants at the conference will receive editions of the Guide to the Copyright Board of Canada (2020) and Communications Law and the Courts in Canada (2020) prepared by McCarthy Tétrault LLP.
The program has been designed to enable Ontario lawyers to claim accreditation for nine hours of continuing professional development as well as three hours of professionalism and equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).
