This year's conference is being held at the Coast Kamloops Hotel & Conference Centre, 1250 Rogers Way, Kamloops, BC. The conference program runs from June 5 to 7, 2024. All in-person conference delegates including sponsors and exhibitors are invited to help us kick off the conference at the Welcome Reception on June 4, 2024 and join with friends at the Gala Dinner on June 6, 2024.
TUESDAY, 4 JUNE
WEDNESDAY, 5 JUNE
- GFOABC President's Opening Remarks
- Keynote Speaker
- Carol Anne Hilton, International Indignenous Business Leader
- Networking Break
- GFOABC Annual General Meeting
- Networking Lunch
- Plenary Panel
- Ensuring Local Government Financial Resiliency 2.0
- Concurrent Sessions
- Indigenous Assessment and Taxation
- Introducing Amenity Cost Charges
- Putting Environment, Social and Governance Into Practice
- Networking Break
- Concurrent Forums
- Collectors' Forum
- Innovative Budgeting Techniqes
- Investing & Banking Forum
THURSDAY, 6 JUNE
- GFOABC President's Welcome
- GFOABC Excellence in Local Government Finance Awards
Opening Panel
- Building Relationships Between Indigenous Governments and Local Governments
- Networking Break
- Concurrent Sessions
- Emergency Management
- Innovative Financing Options for Growth & Housing
- Exploring the Planning-Finance Conundrum
- Concurrent Sessions
- Generative AI
- Climate Action Secretariat - Environment, Social and Governance Panel
- Development Cost Charges
- Networking Lunch
- Economic Update
- Concurrent Sessions
- Local Government Climate Action Plan
- Strategic, Sustainable Long-Term Financial Planning
- Strategic Financial Leadership
- Concurrent Sessions
- Next Level Finance
- NextGen 911
- Tangible Capital Assets
- Power Chef: Cooking with Data Visualization
- Cocktail Reception
- Gala Dinner
FRIDAY, 7 JUNE
- GFOABC Vice President's Welcome
- Opening Session
- Building Stronger Communities Together
- Nature Break
- Closing Keynote
- Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc
- Nature Break
- Closing Panel
- Local Government Accountants Can Save the World
- Wrap-up