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2022 MEA Conference & AGM - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!!

August 24, 2022

Registration for the MEA’s 2022 Conference & AGM is now open!!

This year’s conference will be hosted by the City of Toronto and will be held Nov. 15 – 18 at the Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto. 

Conference Theme:

Untapped | Re-engineering & Realizing Opportunities to Meet Future Demands

MEA members have access to discounted registration rates.  Early Bird registration rates are also in effect until October 21.

For online registration, please CLICK HERE.  Please note, after you click this link, members will need to log-in using MEA membership ID (email address) and password to access member rates.

If your municipality does not allow you to pay by credit card through our online registration, you can register by filling out a PDF FORM and email it to lesley@ogra.org. 

If you have any issues registering, please contact amin.mneina@municipalengineers.on.ca 

The Chelsea Hotel is holding a block of rooms at $189.00/night. You can book your hotel room by CLICKING HERE.

We expect this year’s event to be the largest in our history. Over 40 presentation outlines have been submitted for consideration and Toronto Organizing Committee staff are currently working on a preliminary draft technical program that will be posted on our website soon. Based on the number of presentation requests, there will be several concurrent technical sessions  throughout the conference, so you will be assured there will be a wide variety of municipal engineering topics covered.

The Toronto organizing committee has been busy this year planning for the event.  Highlights of this year’s conference itinerary:

  • Conference check-in begins at 5 pm on Tuesday November 15.
  • Technical Sessions Wed. – Fri. (Nov. 16 – 18)
  • Mayor’s Luncheon – Wednesday November 16
  • Annual General Meeting – Thursday November 17
  • Technical Tours (choice of 4)  – Thursday afternoon November 17
  • Annual Steve Hockey Memorial Hockey Classic – Thursday afternoon Nov. 17 (to be held at Maple Leaf Gardens!).
  • Social Night & Hospitality – Wednesday evening, Nov. 16 (food, refreshments, and live band)
  • Hospitality/Networking – Tuesday and Thursday evenings
  • MEA President’s Banquet & Awards Gala – Thurs. evening, Nov. 17 (ticket included with each full conference registration)
  • Bridge Building Challenge – Thursday evening after Gala
  • Hospitality/Networking – Tuesday and Thursday nights
  • Breakfasts and lunches included (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)

At this year’s President’s Banquet & Awards Gala, the MEA is pleased to announce that a keynote address will be provided by Tom Rand. Tom is co-founder and managing partner of ArcTern Ventures and sits on the board of a number of clean energy companies and organizations.  Tom brings his trademark focus and clarity to an enormously complex issue –  The Economics of Climate Change.  For mor information about the keynote speaker, please CLICK HERE.

MEA will be using a digital program APP this year, so attendees will be able to digitally access the conference program and keep up with what’s going on throughout  – more details will be provided to all registrants prior to the conference.

For additional conference information, CLICK HERE.

Don’t miss out on this year’s conference.