Program

Conference Program

Explore the detailed schedule for our upcoming National Conference to plan your experience and make the most out of every session. 

Note: The schedule is now final. There have been several minor changes over the past few weeks to make it even better.

We have curated a diverse range of sessions and workshops to cater to the interests and needs of our participants. Find the schedule outline below with the detailed description in the spreadsheet linked above. Feel free to customize your agenda based on your preferences and professional goals. 

Also, check out the list of social activities we have planned. 

Finally, to help you get around, you can also review the Floor Plans of the Convention Centre.

We are committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all attendees. If you require accommodations to fully participate in the conference or have specific accessibility concerns, please contact operations@evaluationcanada.ca.  

     

Sunday, May 5

  • 6pm-8:30pm: Opening Reception, featuring the CESEF Silent Auction

Monday, May 6

  • 7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast
  • 8:30am-9am: Opening Ceremony
  • 9am-10:30am: Keynote - "Beyond Narratology: Reclaiming Mixed Methods Within Indigenous Science" with Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, Associate Professor, St. Thomas University
  • 10:30am-11am: Break
  • 11am-12:30pm: Concurrent workshops & presentations (in the language of presentation)
    • Measuring Equity-deserving Groups in the Workplace: How Do We Close the Gaps?
    • From Cultural Responsiveness to a Dignity-Based Beloved Community Framework
    • Utilizing an Intersectional Lens in Data Analysis Among Underrepresented Groups
    • Transform Practice: Designing Afro-centric Participatory Evaluation
    • A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words: Intro to Photo Elicitation for Evaluation Planning, Data Collection & Reflective Practice
    • Importance de l'éthique et des pratiques endogènes dans les processus d'évaluation des politiques publiques
    • L’évaluateur·trice entre éthique procédurale et éthique relationnelle : réflexion sur les normes éthiques en évaluation
    • Equity and Engagement: Assessing Stakeholder Participation and Equity in Canadian Federal Departments' Program Evaluations
    • Connaissances et développement des déterminants culturels de l’évaluation chez les Ma’ngwa’ du Cameroun
    • Breaking News: How We Used Real-time, Short Reporting in Big Ways
    • Funders, Charities, and Evaulation = Data Party
    • Tips to Avoid Common Presentation Pitfalls
    • Unraveling the Complexities of Federal Program Evaluation: Exploring Interdisciplinary Convergence and Enhanced Assessment through Program Logic Models and Risk Considerations
    • Using Two-Eyed Seeing to Create Assessment of Quality Indicators in Early Learning Outdoor Spaces
    • Unveiling Indigenous Leadership: Integrating Two-Eyed Seeing Philosophy
    • Indigenous Authors: Reclaiming the Intellectual and Cultural Property of their Voices and Efforts
    • What Can We Learn About Doing Evaluations Differently? Experiences From the 9th Gathering of Healing our Spirit Worldwide
    • Negative, Uncomfortable, Harmful, or Invisible? Examining Evaluation and Reporting on Less-than-Desirable Intervention Outcomes
    • Building Bridges to Success: Trust, Accountability, and Evaluation Outcomes
    • Designing and Implementing Evaluations that Support Change
    • “Measuring the Invisible”: Unpacking Fuzzy Concepts
    • Evaluation as an Organizational Learning System
    • Becoming Dangerous: Evaluation As Witchcraft
    • Using Art to Evaluate Physician Wellness
    • Surveying End-users: The Difficulty of Securing the Sample
    • Balancing Act: Navigating a Complex, Fast-Tracked Horizontal Evaluation
    • Cross-Collaborate without the Horizontal Evaluation: A Lighthouse to Navigate Through Choppy Waters
  • 12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch
  • 1:30pm-3pm: Concurrent workshops & presentations (in the language of presentation)
    • Evaluating Social Innovation Labs: Looking at the Impact of the Economic Immigration Lab
    • Unsettling and Reorienting Organizational Practices: Engaging Equity-deserving Community Voices in Strategic Program Reviews
    • Putting the Plus into Practice: Reflections on Integrating Intersectionality into Federal Evaluations
    • Exploratory Gender-Based Analysis of Labour Market Programs Using Causal Machine Learning
    • Community Engagement for Arctic Community-Based Research: Evaluating the Role of Community Freezers for Food Security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, NWT
    • Navigating the Virtual Landscape: A Two-Year Evaluation of a Self- Management Education Program for Stroke Survivors
    • Building an Inclusive Evaluation - Evaluating Quality of Life for BC Self Advocates
    • Navigating Collaboration in Times of Change: The Role of Partnership Evaluation
    • Building a Systems Approach in Evaluation from the Ground-Up
    • Utilisation de données probantes dans la prise de décision : améliorations de la pratique d’évaluation du développement en Afrique grâce au courtage
    • Réflexions sur la fonction d'évaluation à Patrimoine canadien : tirer les leçons du passé et s'adapter aux nouveaux besoins et aux nouvelles pressions
    • À la recherche de réponses sur l'efficience
    • L’importance de prendre une pause pour une bonne triangulation
    • Building a Partnership for Transformational Change: Advancing the Co-development Paradigm
    • Evaluating in Indigenous Contexts: Understanding Program Success
    • Blending Opposing Epistemologies in Theories of Change
    • Developing Evaluation Capacity Building Competencies: Participant Reflections from the Inaugural Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge
    • Becoming Catalysts: Young and Emerging Evaluators as Agents of Change in Evaluation Practices in Africa
    • Enhancing Survey Participation Through Text Mining: A Case Study of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project
    • The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration and Respect: An Evaluation Success Story
    • Group Inquiry Tools to Facilitate Learning and Change
    • The Truth about Stories: Using Storytelling to Support Learning, Renewal and Transformation (Part 1)
  • 2pm-4pm: Student Evaluation Case Competition
  • 3pm-3:30pm: Break
  • 3:30pm-5pm: Concurrent workshops & presentations (in the language of presentation)
    • The Truth about Stories: Using Storytelling to Support Learning, Renewal and Transformation (Part 2)
    • The Confluencing Value in Evaluation Practice
    • Beyond Aspirations: NCC Board Chronicles of REDIAS Learning and Choices
    • Why Data Literacy Initiatives Fail and How to Fix It (or How to Stop Worrying and Love Data Visualization)
    • Mixed Methods: A Bayesian Approach
    • Keeping the Boat Afloat: Insights from Navigating Stakeholder Needs in the Evaluation of the Skills for Life (S4L) Social Emotional Learning Resource
    • Unlocking Perspectives: Using Group Concept Mapping for Participatory Analysis and Sensemaking in Evaluation
    • Can Data Collection Ever Excite Community Members? The Results of a QR Code Pilot in a Calgary Community Hub
    • Evaluation of a Rapid Response Digital Health Platform: Applying Innovative Developmental Evaluation Techniques to the Digital App Development Process
    • A Method for Estimating “Money-Free” Social Benefit Cost Ratios

Tuesday, May 7

  • 8am-9am: Thematic Breakfast
  • 9am-10:30am: Keynote - Patricia Rogers, Founder, BetterEvaluation
  • 10:30am-11am: Break
  • 11am-12:30pm: Concurrent workshops & presentations (in the language of presentation)
    • Analyse des répercussions distributives de la nouvelle politique nationale de l'emploi : insights à partir du cas sénégalais
    • Centering Evaluations on People Rather than Complex Quantitative Methods
    • Évaluation du Programme canadien d’aide financière aux étudiant·es : dynamique du remboursement et du non-remboursement des prêts étudiant·es
    • Vers une évaluation plus équitable des langues secondes à l’université : à la confluence des référentiels de langue, de la pédagogie universelle et des intelligences artificielles (IA)
    • The Intersection Between Evaluation and Change Management: Reflections from Internal Evaluators
    • Dynamic Evaluation in Research Commercialization: A Decade of Insights from NSERC's Grant Program
    • Is It Strategically Wise to Invest in Evaluation in the Middle of System Change?
    • Applying Purposeful (and Practical) Program Theory to Support Formative Evaluation & Adaptive Management : A Case Example
    • The Structural Challenges in Accessing End Users' Data for Gs&Cs program Evaluation and the Ways Forward: An ESDC Experience
    • Learning from Experience: Ensuring a Successful Union of Evaluation and Audit Cultures
    • Three Things Evaluators can Learn from Organizational Change Literature (and a Thing or Two They can Learn from Us)
    • Evaluation of Rail Safety Oversight: Practical and Collaborative Approach to Meeting Complex Evaluation Challenges
    • Evaluating Education Projects: An Application using Machine Learning
    • Iron Man’s Suit: Tailoring AI Strategies for Smarter Evaluation
    • Leveraging AI for Document Review: Considerations for Ethical Use in Evaluation
    • On the Bridge to Artificial Intelligence: Where Do We Go from Here?
    • A Multidisciplinary Framework to Evaluate the Ecology of Change: A Rapid Review
    • Navigating Multi-Year Evaluations: Challenges, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned
    • Waves of Wisdom: Lessons Learned from Conducting Evaluations in Ontario’s Long-Term Care (LTC) Setting
    • Lessons Learned from COVID-19: Evaluation Practice Improving Federal immunization Programs
    • Demonstrated Merit of Evaluating Organizational Structures
    • How to Survive, Thrive and Make a Difference: Insights from Emerging Evaluator Navigating Complexities of the Corporate Healthcare Landscape
    • Reflections on the Evaluation Function at Canadian Heritage: Learning from the Past and Adapting to New Needs and Pressures
    • What Happens when the Sun May Set? Evaluating Federal Sunset Initiatives with Uncertain Futures
    • Positioning Self as Evaluator-as-Learner: Conceptualizing Evaluative Processes as an Axis of Development
    • Why is Environmental Sustainability Missing in Action in Evaluation in Canada?
  • 12:30pm-2pm: Awards Luncheon
  • 2pm-3:30pm: Concurrent workshops & presentations (in the language of presentation)
    • Fellows Panel: Perspectives on Confluence and Renewal
    • Who Speaks for the Water?
    • Co-creating Program Theory: Lessons from a Community-based Evaluation for Urban Indigenous Land-based Initiatives
    • Truth and Reconciliation: Developing Evaluation Tools and Practices that Challenge the Status Quo
    • Amplifying Indigenous Voices: Advancing Equity and Inclusion in Evaluation Practices
    • Sustainability-inclusive Evaluation: Why We Need It and How to Do It
    • Global Perspective of Indigenous Evaluation Practice: Lessons Learned from the “Indexing and Promoting Indigenous Approaches in the Service of Equity-centered Evaluation” Project in Africa, Asia, Central and South America
    • Tales by River Light
    • Techniques d'analyse qualitative et quantitative pour données qualitatives
  • 3:30pm-4pm: Break
  • 4pm-5:30pm: Concurrent workshops & presentations (in the language of presentation)
    • “It's 10 PM: Do You Know Where Your Program Dollars Are?” What You Think Program Funds are Doing inside Canadian Households, versus What They are Really Doing
    • Sharing an Internal Evaluator’s Experience in Embedding Evaluative Thinking Through Ongoing Use of Evidence in Real Time
    • Designing, Implementing and Advancing Internal Evaluation
    • Increasing the Inclusion of Indigenous Perspectives in Federal Evaluations: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
    • Engagement on TBS Policy on Results
    • Building Bridges: Tips and Tricks for Going from Evaluation Findings to Organizational Change
    • Poetic Process, Practice, and Potential in Evaluation
    • Developmental Evaluation: Walking Beside

Wednesday, May 8

  • 7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast
  • 8:30am-10am: Concurrent workshops & presentations (in the language of presentation)
    • Did Anyone Even Read This? Embedding Learnings from Knowledge Translation to Increase Evaluation Impact
    • Evaluation of the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR): The Importance of Evaluation for Renewal
    • Building the Plane while Flying: Evaluating Canada's National e-Mental Health Portal
    • Developing an Evaluation Toolkit for SC2.0, and its Practical Applications
    • Interpersonal Learning, Relationship, & Reflective Practice: A White Settler's Journey Working with Cree and Blackfoot Communities
    • Tips to Avoid Common Presentation Pitfalls
    • Improving the Uptake of Evaluation Recommendations by Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)
    • An Appreciative Inquiry on the Impacts of Land-Based Learning within an Urban Indigenous Community
    • Funny Business: Stand-Up Insights into the World of Evaluation
    • L’intelligence artificielle dans la pratique de l’évaluation : cas du COVID-19 au Cameroun
    • Becoming Hwehwemudua (The Measuring Stick): Black Women Storytellers in Evaluation
    • Navigating City Streams: A Primer on Evaluating in Urban Contexts
    • Black, Africentric, and Culturally Responsive Evaluation: Celebrating Achievements from Near and Far
    • Implementation of the Renewed CES Strategic Plan: What Will It Take?
    • An Evaluation & Communication Hybrid: Helping Organizations Adapt to Change
    • "Round Peg in a Square Hole”: Lessons from Community Health Promotion on Dynamics of Accountability, Reporting and Evaluation, and Governance
    • Building a Shared Approach to Safety: Evaluating a Multi-Agency Public Safety Initiative
    • Navigating Choppy Waters in Indigenous Evaluation in Kenya: Case of the Indigenous Ogiek and the Mijikenda of Kenya – Promoting a Culture of Respect, Collaboration and Learning Together
    • How We Aspired to Apply the Values of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in our Evaluation
  • 10am-10:30am: Break
  • 10:30am-12pm: Plenary - "Questioning and Navigating Ethics in Evaluation" with panelists Harry Cummings, Josephine Watera, and Holly Zapreff; and moderated by Beth Snow
  • 12pm-12:30pm: Wrap-up
  • 12:30pm-1pm: Closing Ceremony