The 2018 Annual Meeting was held in Montral, QC on April 19-21, 2018 at the Omni Mont-Royal in Montreal, Canada. Below you will find presentations from the 2017 Annual Meeting along with the final agenda.

Final Agenda (link)

Plenary Session I – Breaking Silos: Knowledge Mobilization and Public Engagement in a
World of Alternative Facts, Climate Change Skeptics, and Media Information Bubbles
Vivek Venkatesh, Concordia University
Jermaine Wright, City University of New York

Plenary Session II – Free Speech
Suzanne Ortega, CGS President, with panel of graduate deans
Paul Axelrod, York University

Plenary Session III – Women and Science
Matthew McKean, Conference Board of Canada
Valérie Harbour, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Paula Wood-Adams, Concordia University

Plenary Session IV – International Admissions and Accommodations
Julie Posselt, University of Southern California
Howard Lipshitz, University of Toronto

Plenary Session V – Connection is a choice: Facilitating public conversations about university research
Laura Lindenfeld, Stony Brook University

Plenary Session VI – Indigenous Students
Carrie Billy, American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Ioana Radu, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Vincent Rousson, Université du Québec en Abitibi Témiscamingu

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Earnestine Susan Brennan, Division of Graduate Education, NSF

Mitacs – Global Industry Partnerships
Noha Gerges, McGill University
Nadia Dubé, Université de Montréal