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We’ve just wrapped up the 2025 BIA Conference!

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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