Mark your calendar for the Board Voice Conference and AGM 2024 coming up June 6-7 in Richmond! “Working Together” will be at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond, and features two days of illuminating and relevant keynotes, presentations, panels and working tables focused on the issues that most matter to board directors and CEOs of non-profit community social services in BC. This year, we are weaving into the conference the lens of Reconciliation tasks and challenges for the social services sector, and attention to smaller, rural and remote communities.
Conference Highlights:
The program is in development and subject to change. Details will be posted as presenters and topics are confirmed.
Invited Speakers Include
- Hon. Sheila Malcolmson, Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction
- MLA’s Karin Kirkpatrick (West Vancouver-Capilano) and Elenore Sturko (Surrey South)
- Daniel Levitt, Seniors’ Advocate
HIGHLIGHT SESSION: Sector Leaders’ Panel & World Cafe
Our panel of sector leaders will help us craft a social services agenda for the next 4-5 years in a high-engagement session.
Panelists:
- Leslie Varley, Executive Director, BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres
- Kishone Roy, Executive director, Federation of Community Social Services of BC
- Annie Smith, Executive Director, McCreary Centre Society
- Margaret Pfoh, CEO, Aboriginal Housing Management Association of BC
- Anne Kimmitt, president, PARCA (Community Justice Network)
- Karla Verschoor, Execuitve Director, Inclusion BC
- … And more panelists to be announced soon!
Workshop Topics Include:
- Social services advocacy: seniors’ services – aging in community; intimate partner violence; youth health; disability and accessibility; mental health, addiction and unhoused people; community justice
- Sector: the care economy; contracting and procurement reform
- Governance: rules of the road; a governance lens on risk management; leadership and succession for ED’s and boards; diversity, equity and inclusion strategies for boards
A social gathering will conclude the first day.
The annual conference is an excellent time to connect and engage with non-profit CEOs and board directors from all over BC, and join in the working tables that are popular aspects of our conferences.
Except for the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Board Voice has held a conference every year since 2010, a unique gathering for non-profit board directors and senior leaders at community social service agencies all over the province to learn, share their expertise, and network.
Thank you to everyone whose work, attendance and presentations cumulated in a terrific 2023 conference for Board Voice June 22-23 at the Richmond campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Thank you to Kwantlen Polytechnic University as a valued partner in the Board Voice conference.