46th Annual Public Service Commissioners' Conference

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.	Welcoming Reception & Baseball Game Winnipeg Goldeyes vs. Joliet JackHammers Canwest Park at the intersection of Portage and Main
Thursday, August 6, 2009
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast Fort Garry Hotel 7th Floor Foyer
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Opening and Welcoming Remarks Hon. Greg Selinger, Minister responsible for the Manitoba Civil Service Debra Woodgate, Civil Service Commissioner, MB Michel Daigle, Conference Coordinator, Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat (CICS)
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Keynote Speaker and interactive discussion: Decline of Anonymity and the Impact on Professional Public Service Ken Rasmussen, Director/Graduate School of Public Policy and Associate Dean/Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research University of Regina, Saskatchewan
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Group Picture and Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Labour Market Landscape - The Impact of Economic and Demographic Shifts on the Public Service Wilf Falk, Chief Statistician, Manitoba Bureau of Statistics
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Fort Garry Hotel 7th Floor Foyer
1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	Presentation and interactive discussion: A Union Response to a Changing Economy & Workforce Bob Dewar, Representative from the Manitoba Government and General Employees Union (MGEU) and Rick Stevenson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Labour Relations Division, Treasury Board Secretariat, Manitoba Finance
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Break
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Report from the Interjurisdictional Conference on Staffing and Development - June 2009, Yukon Presenters: Alisa Ramrattan and Anna Schmidt, Manitoba
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	2009 PSC Conference Jurisdictional Reports Roundtable Discussion
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	Break
5:30 p.m. - 10:45 p.m.	Dinner and Evening Entertainment Folklorama Tour
Friday, August 7, 2009
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast Fort Garry Hotel 7th Floor Foyer
8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	Interjurisdictional Initiatives - status updates and discussion Employee Engagement Interjurisdictional Team (EEIT) Lead: Alberta - Presenter: Dale Silver Career Growth - Interjurisdictional Initiative Team Lead: Alberta - Presenter: Dale Silver Interjurisdictional Metrics / Measures Working Group (IMMWG) Lead: British Columbia - Presenter: Shew Wai Teo-Cheong
9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	2009 PSC Conference Jurisdictional Reports (continued) Roundtable Discussion
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Final discussions and closing comments Participation in Public Management in Canada: A Comparative Research Program 2010 Conference
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Fort Garry Hotel 7th Floor Foyer
Thank you and have a safe journey home!