Annual Conference 2026

8:30am | Registration Open

9:00am - 10:00am | Breakfast

10:00am | Opening Remarks

10:15am - 11:15am | Opening Keynote - Pamela Barnum
Most leaders focus on what they want to say. The most effective leaders focus on what others are picking up. Crack the Code reveals how trust, credibility, and influence are formed through subtle communication signals, and how leaders can intentionally shape those signals to improve outcomes.

11:15am - 12:00pm | Leading with Safety: How Top Carriers Build Cultures That Prevent Claims and Drive Results
What separates the safest carriers from the rest? In this session, we’ll explore what industry leaders are doing to prioritize Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), reduce workplace incidents, and maintain top safety ratings.

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Enforcement in Motion: Trends, Challenges, and Compliance in Alberta’s Commercial Transportation
This session provides a data-driven exploration of commercial transportation enforcement across the province, highlighting the latest trends, emerging challenges, and industry responses.

2:30 - 4:00pm | AGM

4:00pm - 8:00pm | Welcome Reception & Tradeshow Open

7:30am | Registration Open

7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast Session - Pieter Lambooy WCB
Highlights of overall trends and results from the workers’ compensation system and transportation sector with insights to drive excellent results.

8:30am - 9:30am | Panel: Navigating Trade Barriers: Federal and Provincial Impacts on Commercial Carriers
How federal and provincial regulations, policies, and enforcement practices create operational, financial, and legal challenges for freight and transportation companies — and how those carriers navigate or advocate around them.

9:30am - 10:45am | Morning Keynote - Tom Wilson - Moments of Impact (Trigger Warning: Plane Crash)
This presentation goes beyond the emotional narrative – it is a call to action. Tom equips audience members with actionable takeaways that empower them to respond to challenges with courage, to live with intention, and make decisions that create meaningful change in their own lives and the lives of others.

10:45am - 11:15am | Break

11:15am - 12:00pm | Predictive Fleet Safety: In-Cab Technologies and More - Kambiz Asrar Haghighi
This session will explore how modern forward- and driver-facing camera systems are lowering high-risk behaviours and crashes across the transportation sector.

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Closing Keynote - Jim Harris
Jim is a one of North America’s foremost thinkers on AI and disruptive innovation. Jim also leads strategic planning sessions with executive teams, and his firm also provides AI advisory and AI training and bootcamps to organizations.

5:00pm - 6:00pm | Awards Celebration Cocktail Hour

6:00pm | Awards Celebration Begins