IAMC-TMX

Line Wide Gathering 2025
2025-10-14 - 2025-10-17 | Westin Calgary Downtown, 320 4 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2S6, Canada
Join us for the annual Line Wide Gathering, this year hosted at the Westin hotel in downtown Calgary! A welcome reception will be held on the evening of October 14th, The Line Wide Gathering on the 15th and 16th, and a half day on the 17th.
We’ll share more information at a later date by email, on the iamc.ca website, and our LinkedIn and Facebook pages.

IAIA25
2025-05-01 - 2025-05-04 | Bologna Congressi (Bologna Congress Center), Piazza della Costituzione, 4, Bologna, Bologna, 40128, Italy
Impact Assessment in the age of Artificial Intelligence
44th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment
Theme

Artificial intelligence (AI) will impact every aspect of our lives, our careers, and our environment. It is difficult to predict the effective impact of this new disruptive technology on impact assessment (IA). We are facing the opportunity of using the extraordinary potential of artificial intelligence to support our assessments and our choices.
Like any paradigm innovation capable of impacting every aspect of society, artificial intelligence requires that institutions, IA practitioners, and all stakeholders understand its importance and explore, detect, and contribute to mitigate its effective and pervasive impact on environment.
IAIA25 will create a global, comprehensive, and cooperative dialogue on the strategic role of impact assessment and impact assessment practitioners in the coming AI-based society, stimulating IAIA members and others to share their experiences and suggestions for supporting players with innovative and creative approaches and tools.

Objectives

Open a multi-disciplinary discussion on advantages and risks of AI for IA
Suggest the use of data-driven approaches into ordinary IA practices
Enhance the knowledge of AI tools for impact assessment
Share the potential of AI for effective ESG assessment/disclosure/reporting

Conference Topics
The conference will focus on these four thematic streams, plus general IA topics and the IAIA special-interest Sections:

Impact of AI on impact assessment
Data-driven innovation of processes/approaches/methodologies/tools
Evidence-based policymaking
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG)

IAIA25 will offer over 100 technical sessions (and 50+ are open sessions on general impact assessment topics: biodiversity, climate change, cultural heritage, health, Indigenous peoples, social impact assessment, and more!). No matter your sector—academia, government, industry, donor, consultant, or other—there is something for you.

EWG Meeting
2025-03-28, 2025-02-28

IMSC Long Meeting
2025-03-19

Community of Practice Gathering
2025-03-10 - 2025-03-11 | BC Museum of Anthropology, 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The IAMC-TMX Indigenous Monitoring Subcommittee (IMSC) is organizing a two-day Community of Practice event for Indigenous Monitors. This gathering will bring together professionals from various organizations and departments to share knowledge, develop best practices, and learn from each other’s experiences.

The event will be held at the BC Museum of Anthropology and coincide with a First Nations exhibit, providing a culturally enriching backdrop. Plenary sessions and meals will be held at the adjacent golf course.

Registration is open to Indigenous Monitors, Logistic Coordinators, and Elders.

Date: March 10-11, 2025

Location: University Golf Club, Vancouver BC

Reception: Museum of Anthropology

Register by February 28, 2025

REGISTER HERE

S-100/S-185 Wildfire Training
2025-03-01 - 2025-03-02 | Kamloops, Kamploops, British Columbia, Canada

IMSC Short Meeting
2025-02-27, 2025-02-12

Western Indigenous Consultation & Engagement Conference
2025-02-21 - 2025-02-22 | Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Technical Heritage Resource Workshop (Hosted by CER)
2025-02-14, 2025-02-13

Line 3 IAMC Line-Wide Gathering 2025
2025-02-05 - 2025-02-07 | TBD
February 5, 6 and 7*
Winnipeg, Manitoba
*More information to come on the Onshore Pipeline Regulation and Filing Manual Workshop (OPR-FM) that will take place on February 7, 2025.
Purpose: The Line 3 IAMC is inviting impacted Nations along the Enbridge Line 3/93 pipeline right-of-way to join us as we work to advance a national movement towards Indigenous Regulatory Participation, centered on the question:Who better to decide the future of land, air, species, and resources than the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit who have stewarded these lands for generations?
Information on the Onshore Pipeline Regulation and Filing Manual Workshop will be available soon. Please check back again.
Background: The Line 3 IAMC created the first ever Indigenous monitoring program which has since worked alongside the Canada Energy Regulator.
New Focus: Our focus is shifting to a longer-term goal: contribute to transforming regulatory systems to secure First Nations and Métis Nation regulatory authority.
Role of the Line 3 IAMC:

Support and amplify the voices of Rights-Holding Nations, not to hold rights ourselves.
Collaborate to champion community needs while safeguarding autonomy.

Key Topics:

Share the achievements, struggles and learnings on our journey so far.
Share insights on the proposed updates to the Terms of Reference for the Line 3 IAMC.
Gather feedback from Rights Holding Nations to shape the direction of our work.

Who: 2 x Individuals per Nation or Region – Leadership, Elders, Youth, Technicians, and Indigenous Monitors are encouraged to attend.
Where: The Fort Garry Hotel & Spa, Winnipeg, Manitoba
LWG 2025 microsite: https://web.cvent.com/event/bd138be0-3ae7-4217-9d3d-e1d5938f9a0e/summary
Invitations were sent directly to leadership. If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Naut’sa mawt Event Management at events@nautsamawt.com.

“We have described for you a mountain. We have shown you the way to the top.
We call on you to do the climbing.”
– Murray Sinclair

Assembly of First Nations (AFN) – National Forum on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDA)
2025-02-04 - 2025-02-05 | The Westin Bayshore, 1601 Bayshore Dr., Vancouver, British Columbia, V6G 2V4, Canada
About the Event
The AFN will host the National Forum on the UNDA on February 4-5, 2025, in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
The National Forum will feature plenary sessions and facilitated discussions focused on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and will discuss best practices and approaches to implementing First Nations’ rights. The forum will also offer discussion sessions for First Nations to provide integral feedback on the implementation of the UNDA 2023-28 National Action Plan.
Who Should Attend

First Nations Chiefs and Councilors, or their representatives
First Nations organizations and technicians
Government and non-governmental representatives

*All delegates who register before January 15, 2025, and attend the conference will be eligible to enter a draw to win an iPad Mini.
For more information about the event and registration, go to afn.ca/events/.
Register Now

Indigenous Caucus meeting with Minister Wilkinson
2025-01-17
