Past Events

KEI Network and ABCtech have been convening events since 2003. Every one of them is listed below, with the reports and presentations where we have them.

2026

  • ROTARY Club of St. Albert JANUARY St. Albert Inn — View
  • PROBUS Club of South Edmonton – Welcome AI? Protecting the Self – JANUARY 20th. Contact Pkinkaide@gmail.com
  • CANADA Club of Edmonton – Is Canada’s Sovereignty At Risk? Negotiable? – JANUARY 21st. Contact Pkinkaide@gmail.com

2025

  • Book: Navigating the Currents: Building Resilience and Adapting in a Changing World – JANUARY — View
  • Book: Feminization – The Cause. The Cost. – January — View
  • Book: Feminization – A Plot or Not – JANUARY — View
  • KEI Network – Is Canada’s Sovereignty At Risk? Negotiable? JANUARY – Edmonton FEBRUARY – Calgary
  • Petrolia Seniors – FEBRUARY Petroleum Club, Edmonton
  • Presentation: AI Benefits for Seniors HANDOUT — View
  • Parent Choice in Education – Conference & Resource Fair – MARCH Edmonton CANCELLED — CANCELLED
  • PROBUS Club of St. Albert – NOVEMBER Red Willow Seniors Centre, St. Albert — View
  • SOVEREIGNTY – Getting to Yes with the US – DECEMBER, Union Club, Victoria, B.C. CANCELLED — CANCELLED

2024

  • Alberta Hemp Alliance – FEBRUARY Radisson Conference Centre, Edmonton International Airport
  • 4th Annual Industry Conference. KEI serving as event manager for AHA and Master of Ceremonies — View · View
  • REPORT: Governing Communities – Issues & Frustrations — View
  • PROBUS Club South Edmonton – MAY Sheraton Hotel, Edmonton — View

2023

  • Sunrise Rotary – APRIL Sheraton Hotel, Edmonton
  • Presentation: The Forces & Sources of Change – How ChatGPT is changing everything
  • Rotary Club of Edmonton West- MAY Chateau Louis, Edmonton
  • Perry Kinkaide’s receipt of the Rotary Integrity Award — View
  • Rotary Club of St. Albert – JULY Food Bank of St. Albert
  • Presentation – The Impact of Generative AI – What to expect!
  • Probus Club of Central Edmonton – SEPTEMBER Victoria Golf Course, Edmonton — View
  • Rotary Clubs of Sherwood Park and Sunrise
  • Joint Presentation: Megatrends 2020 — View

2022

  • Alberta Hemp Alliance – APRIL Renaissance Hotel’s Conference Centre, Edmonton International Airport
  • 3rd Annual Industry Conference – KEI as Master of Ceremonies — EVALUATION
  • ROTARY Clubs of Sherwood Park and Sunrise: Edmonton OCTOBER
  • Presentation: Megatrends 2020 — View

2021

  • REPORT: Economic Resilience of Alberta – SPRING 2021
  • Vantage Club – MAY
  • Presentation: Alberta’s Economic Resilience — View
  • Rotary Edmonton South and Edmonton Sunrise – AUGUST
  • Presentation: It’s the economy stupid! Who cares? — View
  • REPORT: Economic Resilience of Alberta – FALL 2021 — View
  • Alberta’s economic resilience is weak attributable to both Covid and weakness in the excessive roles of Energy industry and Public services throughout the economy as reflected in the impacts on corporate investment, employment/jobs and migration in all Regions and Sectors.
  • The innovation ecosystem, viewed as fundamental to supporting innovation in SMEs is strengthening in Calgary Region with several recent announcements of success in attracting and growing Infotech. Recent events in Edmonton have severely eroded views of the effectiveness of it’s Innovation Ecosystem.
  • The recent increase in the price of oil and gas and wind-down of Covid may be expected to buoy the sentiment of Alberta’s economic resilience impact by spring 2022.
  • The Fall 2021 Survey and Report concluded monitoring of the KEI Network’s sentiment of Alberta’s economic resilience and the effectiveness of it’s innovation ecosystem. The following presentation is courtesy of Cambrian College in Vancouver that undertook a review of the survey results through the Fall of 2020 with recommendations on how to improve the survey and conveying results.
  • ANALYTICS CAPSTONE PROJECT – 2020 — ANALYTICS CAPSTONE PROJECT – 2020

2020

  • REPORT #1. Introducing the KEI Network — View
  • REPORT #5: Megatrends 2020 – Technology is Driving Waves of Change — View
  • REPORT #7: Gaining Momentum – Recent Advances in Nucloear Energy — View
  • REPORT #15: Test of Alberta’s Economic Resilience – FALL 2020 — View
  • A series of 5 video episodes of the sentiment survey results summarized since 2015
  • 2019 ABCtech was dissolved this year. The KEI Network emerged in its place.
  • Activities of the Alberta Council of Technologies 2005 through until it’s dissolution in 2019 were guided by annual themes for increasing public awareness and developing networks of common interests:
  • Access to Capital Advisory (2005)
  • Rural Broadband Society (2006)
  • Alberta/Canada Fusion Energy Program (2007)
  • Alberta CleanTech Industry Alliance (2008)
  • Electrifying Transportation (2009)
  • ABCampus – Student Enterprise (2010)
  • Off-loading Intelligence – When machines decide (2012)
  • Innovation & Enterprise – The People (The Passion. (2013)
  • The Missing ‘M’ in SME – When SMEs fail to grow (2014)
  • Convergence & Creativity – Engineering Innovation (2015)
  • Artificial Intelligence – The Future of … (2018)
  • REPORT: Economic Resilience of Alberta – SPRING 2019 — View
  • Vision & Leadership including ABCtech AGM and election of new President – JANUARY Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Questions: #1. What is your vision of Alberta’s future? #2. What are the qualities needed for leading Alberta into the future? — ABCtech 2019 AGM Agenda
  • Alberta’s Economic Resilience: Short Term Measures – Long View Results — View
  • Probus Club of South Edmonton – JANUARY Sheraton Hotel, Edmonton — View
  • 2nd Annual – Western Canada Hemp Industry Conference – MARCH Olds College, Olds, Alberta — View · View
  • Economic Developers of Alberta Conference – APRIL Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta — View

2018

  • Economic Resilience of Alberta – SPRING 2018
  • REPORT – Engaging Youth Project II: A White Paper on the Future of Work in Alberta — View
  • Developing the Western Canada Hemp Industry Conference – APRIL Edmonton International Airport — View
  • REPORT: Is Alberta’s Public Procurement Broken? — View
  • The Festival of BIG Ideas – POSTPONED – SERVUS Centre, Edmonton Research Park
  • Sunrise Rotary – AUGUST Fort Edmonton — View
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer Networking BBQ – AUGUST Whitemud Equine Centre, Edmonton — View · View
  • Supply Chain Management Conference – SEPTEMBER Sheraton Red Deer Hotel
  • Participating with presentation of survey results re Alberta’s economic resilience and the effectiveness of it’s innovation ecosystem and the practice of public procurement. Followed by a facilitated panel discussion and audience Q&A.
  • REPORT: Economic Resilience of Alberta – FALL 2018 — View
  • RISING STARS: Personalized Healthcare Innovations Symposium – OCTOBER Chateau Louis, Edmonton — View · View
  • Health services are rapidly maturing, as technology, innovation and enterprise focus on personalizing service.
  • ABCtech is offering you a glimpse of how innovators are responding to increased demand for personalized healthcare.
  • Expectations are sure to be exceeded: learn, network and decide – is this the future you have been waiting for?

2017

2016

2015

  • Fusion Energy – Status and Prospects JANUARY Presentation to APEGA — View
  • Creativity & Convergence Conference Series – Edmonton & Calgary
  • Creating the New Alberta! – NOVEMBER Downtown Campus, University of Calgary
  • Engineering Innovation, blending arts and technology – MARCH Chateau Louis, Edmonton
  • Four themes: Diversifying Alberta’s Economy, Enterprise Management, Addressing Climate Change, Municipalities in Transition and 13 workshops with a series of resolutions for further diversifying Alberta’s economy. — View
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer networking BBQ JUNE Whitemud Equine Learning Centre Showgrounds, Edmonton
  • PRESENTATION: Mobilizing Alberta’s Wealth for Economic Diversification by Ted Morton — View
  • REPORT: Economic Resilience of Alberta – FALL 2015 — View

2014

  • Moonlight in the Meadows – JUNE Whitemud Equine Learning Centre Showgrounds, Edmonton
  • Presentation: Sizzle or Substance – The role of small business in diversifying the economy by Richard Truscott — View
  • EVENT PROPOSAL: Capital Region’s Festival & Foreign Investor’s COnvention – AUGUST
  • Alberta Fusion Energy Workshops
  • REPORT: Establishing A Regional Innovation Zone — View
  • Technology & Innovation – OCTOBER Alberta Congress Board Conference
  • “A New Generation of Leadership”, Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, Alberta — View
  • REPORT: The Missing “M” in SME – Why Alberta’s small technology businesses fail to grow OCTOBER — View
  • CIPS Conference – JUNE Edmonton
  • The Missing “M” in SME – Why small technology businesses fail to grow — View

2013

  • PROPOSAL: Establishing ABCtech Media Productions HERE and — View · View
  • Establishing ABCampus respecting student engagement
  • CIPS ICE Conference MARCH Edmonton MESSAGE — View
  • Analytics, Big Data, and the Cloud II – MAY Delta Edmonton simulcast to Delta Bow Valley, Calgary — View
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer networking BBQ – AUGUST – Whitemud Equine Learning Centre
  • PRESENTATION: Investing in a More Productive Alberta by Leo deBever — View

2012

  • Analytics, Big Data, and the Cloud – APRIL Fantasyland Hotel, Edmonton — View
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer networiking BBQ – JUNE Whiemud Equine Learning Centre, Edmonton
  • Presentation: Economic Diversification: Alberta’s Holy Grail by Todd Hirsch — View

2011

  • Electrifying Transportation JUNE POSTPONED Calgary Heritage Park — View
  • Twilight in the Meadows – Summer networking BBQ JUNE Whitemud Equine Learning Centre, Edmonton
  • Presentation: Alberta’s Diversification 1970 – 2020 by Peter Hall — View
  • PRESENTATION: Alberta’s Diversification 1970 – 2020 Peter Hall — View

2010

  • The Status of Clean-Technologies Symposium MARCH
  • Mayfield Inn, Edmonton — View
  • REPORT: Access to Capital: An Update & Report Card AUGUST (See also 2007 Original Report)
  • Stephen Murgatroyd, PhDChief Scout, Murgatroyd Communications & Consulting Inc. — View
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer networking BBQ – JUNE Whitemud Equine Learning Centre Showgrounds, Edmonton
  • PRESENTATION: Economic Diversification – Alberta Style by Jason Brisbois JUNE — View
  • The Alberta Clean – Tech Industry Convention – SEPTEMBER
  • Workshops – Lacombe Memorial Centre
  • PRESENTATION: How Alberta Can Lead the Green Future – Satya Brata Das — View · View
  • Off-loading Intelligence — When Machines Decide – NOVEMBER Co-hosts – ICT Council ABCtech, DSA
  • Edmonton – Shaw Conference Centre — View

2009

  • Ingenuity 2009: Re-flation 101 – FEBRUARY Edmonton
  • Mergers & Money-mania – APRIL Edmonton
  • Sustainable Building Construction Symposium – MAY Edmonton
  • PRESENTATION: The World As We Knew It HERE including A Letter to Lucy — View · View
  • Regenerative Medicine – Stem Cell Therapeutics – “The Future of Healthcare” JUNE
  • Edmonton – Alberta Research Centre
  • Presentation: Dr. Martin Ferguson-Pell
  • Calgary – Alberta Research Centre
  • Co-Host: Alberta Council of Technologies and Alberta Health Industry Association
  • Edmonton Council for Advanced Technology
  • Calgary Council for Advanced Technology
  • Edmonton & Calgary Forums – Corporate Sponsors
  • Biomedical Engineering Research Results Initiative
  • Mazinkowski Alberta Heart Institute
  • Edmonton & Calgary Forums – Corporate Sponsors
  • U of Alberta – Rehabilitation Medicine
  • U of Alberta – Health Law Institute
  • Edmonton Forum – Marketing Sponsor: TEC Edmonton
  • Calgary Forum – Marketing Sponsor: AVAC/IVAC
  • Libin Cardiovascular Institute
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer networking BBQ – AUGUST Whitemud Equine Learning Centre Showgrounds, Edmonton
  • Stem Cell Therapeutics – “From the Lab to the Bedside” – NOVEMBER
  • Central Lions Centre, Edmonton
  • PUBLIC FORUM: Keynote and Presenter – Dr. Robert Burrell
  • Panel Moderators: Edmonton – Martin Ferguson-Pell Calgary – Allen Davidoff

2008

  • Eco-energy seminars/dinner/presentations – FEBRUARY Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • ECAT Networking Event – FEBRUARY Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presenttions: Sustainable Energy Holdings and Trimline Training Centre
  • Your Next Career Creating Wealth – APRIL Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • REPORT: Alberta Rural Broadband – Status Report – JUNE — View · View
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer networking BBQ AUGUST Whitemud Equine Learning Centre Showgrounds, Edmonton
  • Keynote Address: No Community Left Behind
  • Going Global – Virtual of Reality – OCTOBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Neutraceuticals and Changing Lifestyles – DECEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • REPORT: Communities without Boundaries – OCTOBER
  • Using rural connectivity to support Alberta’s rural development strategy — View
  • Public Forums: Communities without Boundaries – DECEMBER

2007

  • PROPOSAL: NW Capital Region Economic Development – A “Think Piece” — View
  • ECAT Dinner & Seminars JANUARY Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Fitness in he Fast Lane
  • ECAT Dinner & Seminars : Peter Bishop Presentation MAY Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer networking BBQ – AUGUST Whitemud Equine Learning Centre Showgrounds, Edmonton
  • Presentation: We Have A Dream by Sol Rolinger and Linda Olsen-Lipinski
  • REPORT: Access to Capital AUGUST (See also 2010 for Update Report)
  • Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD – Chief Scout, Murgatroyd Communications & Consulting Inc. — View
  • ECAT Dinner & Seminars SEPTEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: BroadRamp Canada and InterVivo
  • ECAT Dinner & Seminars NOVEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: In the Line of Fire and EzSeer

2006

  • ECAT Networking Event FEBRUARY Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Energy Associates International and Synodon
  • ECAT Networking Event MAY Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Surfsound and Biofuels Alberta
  • Moonlight in the Meadows – Summer networking BBQ – AUGUST Whitemud Equine Leaning Centre Showgrounds, Edmonton
  • Presentation: Edmonton – Managing Growth for Success by Steven Mandel, Edmonton City Mayor
  • ECAT Networking Event SEPTEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Proexam and Vertical Broker
  • CIPS ICE Conference NOVEMBER Edmonton
  • ECAT Networking Event NOVEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Vyant and The Web Video

2005

  • KEI Networking Dinner & Seminars MARCH Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Netcentrics and Core Networks
  • KEI Networking Dinner & Seminars JUNE Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Inteli-Gen Energy Corp. and Epiar
  • Moonlight in the Meadows JUNE Whitemud Equine Learning Centre, Edmonton
  • Sponsors: KEI, ECAT, Tech for Success, and THECIS
  • ECAT Networking Event SEPTEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Optrics Engineering and QB Technolgies
  • CIPS ICE Conference – Message NOVEMBER Edmonton — Message
  • ECAT Networking Event NOVEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: PayLinx and Strategic IP Communications
  • REPORT: PROGRESS – Establishing the Alberta Chamber of Technologies DECEMBER — View

2004

  • KEI Networking Dinner & Seminars APRIL Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Supply Markets Inc. and Beckett & Beckett Inc.
  • KEI Networking Dinner & Seminars SEPTEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Allantra Learning Technologies and PowerSki Manufacturing
  • KEI Networking Dinner & Seminars NOVEMBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: GottaCopy, and The WebVideo

2003

  • KEI Networking Dinner & Seminars JUNE Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: Tech Support System: Linisus Consulting and ThinkTel Communications Inc.
  • KEI Networking Dinner & Seminars OCTOBER Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton
  • Presentations: DcodeEncode and Red Engine (The Knowledge Channel Corp.)
  • OTHER – the KEI Network – ABCtech – ECAT – predecessor

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