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Vancouver Human Rights and Accommodation Conference

April 16, 2025 – April 17, 2025

| $1275

Vancouver Human Rights and Accommodation Conference

Conference Co-Chairs

Cathy Knapp

Arbitrator and Mediator
Tribunal mediator
BCHRT

Andrew Schafer

Employer Counsel
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

Lindsay Waddell

Union Counsel
Moore Edgar Lyster

Conference Advisory Committee

Megan Ashbury

Arbitrator, Mediator and Workplace Investigator

Menachem Freedman

Union Counsel
HHGB

Donovan Plomp

Employer Counsel
McCarthy Tetrault

Laura Track

Human rights lawyer
Director of the Community Legal Assistance Society’s Human Rights Clinic.
Director of Human Rights Clinic
Director of Public Legal Education
Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS)

Kristen Woo

Legal counsel
BC Public School Employers’ Association

Hyatt Regency Vancouver - Discounted Room

Group rates are now available with limited space availability:

Check-in Check-out Group rate
Tuesday, April 15 Saturday, April 19 $295/night

Cut-Off Date

Reservations made by attendees must be received on or before Tuesday, March 25, 2025, after which any reservations made will be based on a space-and rate-available basis.

Online reservations

Click here to book online.

Phone line reservations: 1-800-233-1234

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Workshop

*Workshop sold separately from stand-alone conference.

Jessica Thomson

Employer Counsel
Pulver Crawford Munroe

Jason Walker, Psy.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Program Director for Industrial-Organizational and Applied Psychology
Adler university

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Breakfast: 8:00 am – 9:00 am PT

Opening remarks: 9:00 am – 9:05 am PT

Break: 10:20 am – 10:35 am PT

Preston Parsons

Partner
Overholt LLP

Rachel Roy

Union Counsel
Allevato Quail Roy LLP

Wendy H. Wong

Professor and Principal’s Research Chair
University of British Columbia

Break: 11:35 am – 11:45 am PT

Kai Scott

President
TransFocus Consulting

Lunch: 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm PT

Break: 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm PT

Shirin Kiamanesh

Union Counsel
Koskie Glavin Gordon

Tamisha Parris

CEO Parrish Consulting
Equity, Diversity, Accessibility & Inclusion Consultant

Salim Visram

Employer Counsel
Dentons

Closing Remarks: 4:00 pm PT

CPD

Lancaster House provides professional education programs that qualify for CPD credit for human resources professionals, lawyers, and paralegals across Canada.

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