Greening Health Care Summer Conference 2026
Schedule
Mon Jun 15 2026 at 08:30 am to 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Borgata Event Centre | Vaughan, ON
About this Event
An interactive working session focused on capital planning alignment, recommissioning implementation challenges, and vendor performance accountability. This is an in-person event that will allow healthcare professionals to share experiences, discuss barriers, and review practical frameworks for embedding operational savings into procurement and capital planning processes.
Agenda
đź•‘: 08:00 AM
Registration and Breakfast
đź•‘: 09:00 AM
Keynote and Opening Session
Info: Quantifying the energy potential hiding inside every hospital. The hospitals are already harvesting it. Sector-wide size of the prize. Breaking down barriers – money and time. Getting help: meet the GHC Energy Support Team, working directly with member hospitals to help achieve energy and emissions reduction goals.
đź•‘: 09:30 AM
Peer Working Groups
Info: Parallel streams working on financing and business cases; technical implementation strategies; regional, clinical and departmental collaboration. Networking, shared experiences, expert facilitators, aggregated insights, best practices, practical pathways, next steps.
đź•‘: 10:30 AM
Networking Break
đź•‘: 11:00 AM
New Construction and Redevlopment
Info: The latest design, modeling, commissioning and facility operations best practices. Design targets vs. actual results, lessons learned. What goes wrong and what high performing new hospitals did differently. Panel exploration of the broader redevelopment context.
đź•‘: 11:45 AM
Recognition and Reinforcement
Info: Our annual awards ceremony celebrating the member hospitals that made the big savings in 2025.
đź•‘: 12:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
đź•‘: 01:00 PM
Harvesting the Low Hanging Fruit
Info: The scope and scale of comprehensive recommissioning. Real-world results — what hospitals did, what they saved, how they got it done. Utility company energy optimization programs and incentives.
đź•‘: 02:00 PM
Networking Break
đź•‘: 02:30 PM
Navigating Energy Changes in Operational Hospitals
Info: Navigating energy changes in operational hospitals. The biggest barrier isn’t technical — it’s getting senior management and clinical teams on board. This session shares how one health system managed HVAC scheduling, decarbonization planning and the coordination needed throughout the organization to make it happen. Presentation followed by an open panel exploring lessons learned and how they apply to different hospital types and locations.
đź•‘: 03:30 PM
Closing - Practical Pathways
Info: Closing the loop on action plans, immediate next steps and follow up with the GHC Energy Support Team. Your next step morning notes returned.
đź•‘: 04:00 PM
End of Formal Program | Informal Networking
Where is it happening?
Borgata Event Centre, 8400 Jane Street, Vaughan, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 0.00 to CAD 350.00
















