2024 Lifelong Learning Conference: Innovative Minds and Inspiring Ideas

The Rotman School’s Lifelong Learning Conference returns with a day-long program that will explore how widening our strategic lens, building our communication skills, and nurturing an innovation culture can accelerate our personal performance.

Learn from and be inspired by distinguished thought leaders from business and beyond, including renowned executives, entrepreneurs, journalists, artists, authors and academics.

The Lifelong Learning Conference offers a unique one-day learning experience that has been curated to provide a diverse blend of perspectives on the issues facing professionals today.

The program of content is designed to give business, government, and non-profit leaders an edge in today’s changing workplace. It is ideal for:

• senior leaders from across industries and across all company sizes
• managers and individual contributors seeking new ideas and inspiration
• professionals who understand the value of knowledge and continuous learning
• anyone seeking new strategies to help advance their career goals

• Marty Baron, Journalist and former Executive Editor at The Washington Post and The Boston Globe
• Piya Chattopadhyay, Guest moderator; Host, CBC Radio's The Sunday Magazine
• Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist and author
• Prof. Walid Hejazi, Professor, Rotman School of Management
• Dr. Jeff Karp, Biotech innovator and Harvard Medical School professor
• Charlene Li - Digital transformation and disruptive leadership expert
• Prof. Julie McCarthy, Human resource and resiliency expert and Rotman School professor
• Elliot Penner, former President, The French's Food Company
• Sabaa Quao, Entrepreneur and business leader; Chief Creative Officer at Cossette
• Jennifer Riel, Strategist and educator; Partner and Chief Operating Officer at IDEO
• Reeta Roy, CEO, Mastercard Foundation

+ More to be announced

1. In-person access to a diverse program of leading speakers on topics including culture, creativity, innovation, strategy and personal performance
2. Networking breakfast and lunch
3. Two coffee breaks
4. Spring 2024 issue of Rotman Management magazine
5. Copies of the new books:

• LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action by Dr. Jeff Karp
• Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post by Marty Baron
• Threats, Bets & No Regrets: How to Create a Winning Generative AI Strategy by Charlene Yi
• Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

GENERAL ADMISSION = $595

FIRST 50 TICKETS = $295 (First 50 tickets save $300)

ADVANCED EARLY BIRD = $345 (Second 50 tickets save $250)

EARLYBIRD = $395 (Save $200 – Deadline: April 24)

ROTMAN ALUMNI OR CURRENT STUDENTS / EXEC ED ALUM / NON-PROFIT RATE: $365

GROUP TICKET DISCOUNTS: Discounted tickets are available groups of five or more. Please email [email protected] for more information

This event is available to attend in-person only.

Rotman Events is committed to accessibility for all people. If you have any access needs or if there are any ways we can support your full participation in this session, please email [email protected] no later than 2 weeks in advance of the event and we will be glad to work with you to make the appropriate arrangements.

• The event will be hosted at Desautels Hall at the Rotman School of Management (105 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3E6).

• Refunds will only be issued for cancellations received in writing NO LATER than 7 days prior to the event. Please email [email protected] for processing.

Questions: [email protected]

Host or Publisher Rotman Events