The Canadian Academy of Engineering hosted the bi-annual CAETS Convocation at the Westin Hotel in Calgary, Alberta from July 13 - 17, 2009. This international event brought together the wisdom and experience of engineers and technological scientists from around the world to discuss how engineering and technology can contribute to addressing the grand challenges associated with the management and sustainability of our natural resources.

New approaches are needed to managing both our national resources and the supply chains that they feed. We need to rethink how to address the use of our natural resources and how we can ensure that the needs of humanity are fulfilled over the very long term.

Engineers are well placed to lead and to provide a new vision for the future for resource management.  CAETS 2009 provided a global forum for the discussion of new and needed approaches to sustaining our natural resource heritage for present and future generations. It examined the new reality in natural resource management and helped define the transitions to sustainable management and environmental stewardship in the resource sector and the role for engineering and technology in these transitions.  It examined the interdependencies in the sector and provided a forum for the discussion and elaboration of integrated views for resource management.

PROGRAM (Updated July 3, 2009)

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