Day 1
September 18, 2026
Day 2
September 19, 2026
Opening Ceremonies
Opening Keynote Speaker
Joe Roberts
Skid Row CEO
From Skid Row to CEO: To Serve & Protect
Coffee Break and Vendor interaction
Predictably Unpredictable
Matthew Smith
Critical Care Flight Paramedic
Pediatric Assessment & Treatment
Simulation Rewind
René Lapierre
Program Coordinator for the ACP and PCP programs
Jennyfer LeBlanc
Advanced Care Paramedic
Disrupting Traditional Paramedic Training
Moving Beyond Awareness
Jen Bolster
Executive Director of Clinical Services with Ambulance Tasmania, Australia
Tyne Markides
Clinical Operations Manager
Transforming Paramedicine through Gender Equity Accountability (Tyne Markides & Jen Bolster)
Lunch Break and vendor interaction
Deliberate Practice
Danny Kustra
Critical Care Flight Paramedic
Human factors & how they affect patient care
Paramedic Development
Canadian Armed Forces Health Service Combat Medic & Paramedic Development. (CPO2 Collins & MWO Robitaille)
Teaching Paramedics to Communicate
Jeremiah Bell CD PhD
Canadian Forces Health Services Lieutenant-Colonel
Canadian Forces Health Services
Nutrition Break and vendor interaction
Keynote Speaker - Geoff Murphy
Panel Discussion
Recent BC mass events and complex responses (Lapu Lapu, Tumbler Ridge, Bella Colla, FIFA)
Coffee Break and vendor interaction
Optimizing Paramedic Care of Critically Ill Patients
Anthony John Lacolucci
Paramedic / Respiratory Therapist
Technology & The Future of Paramedicine
Ian Blanchard PhD, MSc, BSc, ACP
Senior Scientist -Emergency Health Services (Alberta)
Desmond Hedderson
Commander of Technical Operations - Yukon Emergency Health Services
Current challenges and ways forward in crisis-related training and education for paramedics
Dr Polly Ford-Jones
Professor in Allied Health
PSPNET – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Canadian Public Safety Personnel
Dr Jill Price
Professor in Allied Health
Lunch Break and vendor interaction
Hypothermia: Clinical Practice Guidelines Across Canada (Leonard James & Dr. Daniel Marines)
Len James BPE Bd ACP
Advanced Care Paramedic
Career Pathways in Paramedicine – Panel Discussion (Cameron, Markides, Muthui, Woodward, Conley)
Cheryl Cameron
Advanced Care Paramedic
Tyne Markides
Clinical Operations Manager
Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines
Mike Sugimoto
Director of Clinical Practice
BCEHS Clinical Hub: New Tools for Complex Paramedic System Response
Heather Olavsen MBA GDM CGM
Director: BCEHS Clinical Hub
Rob Evans
Critical Care Paramedic
Coffee Break Break and vendor interaction
Closing Keynote Speaker
Dr Alexandra Jabr
Founder of Emergency Resilience