HOW TO ATTEND

Given this year’s Conference theme,“Integrated Policy: Let’s Dance!”, we recognize a greater need for multiple perspectives. As such, we welcome a diverse range of participants from the federal public service and beyond.

There are no registration fees for this Conference. Any applicable travel/accommodations costs are the responsibility of the participant or their organization.

There are several ways to obtain a ticket to the in-person Conference, or you can participate in the Conference virtually from anywhere across Canada.

The Policy Community activities, including the Conference, are made possible thanks to funding from over 30 federal departments and agencies. The funding departments received an allotment of tickets for the Conference to distribute to their employees as they see fit.

If you work in a funding department but have not obtained one of the designated tickets for your department, or if you do NOT work in a federal department that funds the Policy Community, please see below for ways to participate in the Conference.

To ensure diversity of perspectives and connections with the broader policy ecosystem, the Policy Community Partnership Office, at its discretion, will distribute a certain number of tickets to organizations and individuals outside the federal public service. For example, provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous organizations, policy think tanks, NGO practitioners, and academia (faculty, staff and students) are invited to attend.

If you are not a federal public servant and are interested in attending the Conference in-person, please email qi.wang@canada.ca, share why you are keen to attend and whether you are available on March 4th or 5th or both dates.

Our waitlist for general admission is open! Anyone, inside and outside of the Government of Canada, can join the waitlist to attend the Conference in-person.

You can join the waitlist even if you are waiting to hear back from your departmental coordinator about a ticket designated for funding departments.

Joining the waitlist does not guarantee you a spot in the Conference. Spots will be given to people on the waitlist at the Policy Community Partnership Office’s discretion to create a more diverse range of participants from the federal public service and beyond.

Only those on the waitlist who receive a spot will be directly contacted via email after February 20th, in which you will have 24 hours to register.

Depending on your availability, please add yourself to one or both dates of the Conference.