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The 2026 Annual BIA Conference will take place

April 19-22, 2026

in St. Catharines, ON.

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Monday, April 25, 2022

Monday Breakfast:

  • Keynote Speaker: Gil Penalosa

MP-1:

  • Placemaking – A Power Tool for Social & Economic Recovery

MP-2:

  • Naloxone Training for YOUR BIA

MP-3:

  • Strength in Diversity

MP-4:

  • Powering the Visitor Economy

Keynote Speakers

  • Gil Penalosa
  • Joe Pillitteri

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

TA1:

  • Low Cost, High Impact Placemaking

TA2:

  • Downtown Programming: Empowering Tools for the Future

Tuesday Lunch

  • Interactive Session: The Power of Personalities – Unlock Your Most Successful Self
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TP1:

  • BIAs: Resilience During COVID

TP2:

  • Power on Through CIPs – James Goodram
  • Power on Through CIPs – Karen Bittner

TP5:

  • Homelessness A BIA Toolkit

TP6:

  • Powering Economic Growth Filming in Your BIA

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

WA1:

  • Ending Homelessness is Good Business

WA3:

  • Waterfront ReConnected

WA5:

  • Re-Energizing Rural Main Streets

WA6:

  • Powering Up Collingwood Main Street

WA7:

  • Building Permit Trends & A New Small Business Tax Class

Wednesday Lunch

  • Keynote Speaker: Joe Pillitteri
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OBIAA acknowledges that our office in Lincoln, Niagara, is on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Chonnonton (Neutral) peoples, within the Dish With One Spoon Wampum agreement. We recognize that our work across Ontario takes place on the traditional lands of many Indigenous Nations, and we honour their enduring presence and contributions.

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