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Building Canada’s Cleantech Workforce: Opportunities and Challenges

This session explored Canada’s cleantech market, driven by growing global demand and billions in public and private investment for local researchers, developers, producers, and adopters.

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Regular Price:
Free
Course Length:
60 mins
Career Stage:
Entry Level, Medium Level
EP PD Credits:
3
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Regular Price:
Free
Course Length:
60 mins
Career Stage:
Entry Level, Medium Level

EP PD Credits.

3

Not yet an EP Member?

Click here to learn more!

Watch Now
Speaker: Claudine Vidallo
Vice President of Projects - ECO Canada

Claudine Vidallo is a strategic planner and program manager--initiating, leading, executing and evaluating multi-stakeholder, and multi-phased projects. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with a Business Management background. In the last 20 years, Claudine has applied her competencies in various industries in the Philippines and Canada including food and beverage manufacturing, energy, post-secondary and training institutions, and not-for-profit organizations and is currently the Vice President of Projects at ECO Canada. Claudine’s other full-time job is being a mother of five boys, including twin stepsons. She was also very active in sports and fitness in her past life and has a 1st degree blackbelt in Taekwondo.
Speaker: Geni Peters
Director of Research - ECO Canada

Geni Peters is an economist with a Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. As Director of Research at ECO Canada, she is responsible for the management, execution and delivery of environmental labour market information and national occupational standards projects, working with an army of professionals comprised of staff, consultants, strategic advisors and subject matter experts. Before joining ECO Canada, Geni applied her knowledge and skills in a wide range of roles and industries. She worked as a lecturer for 14 years, teaching a wide range of economics courses and supervising student research projects at UC San Diego and Penn State University. More recently, she managed labour market research initiatives including economic modelling and reporting at PetroLMI Division of Energy Safety Canada (formerly the Petroleum Human Resources Council) and conducted economic research and analysis at Brown Economic Consulting.

Topics covered include:

  • Global and Canadian trends in cleantech activity
  • ECO Canada’s definitional framework for cleantech, the sector, and its workforce
  • Business and HR insights from a survey of 81 businesses active in cleantech
  • Key considerations to address labour market opportunities and challenges for the sector

Reconnaissance des terres

Dans un esprit de respect, de réciprocité et de vérité, nous honorons et reconnaissons Moh’kinsstis, le territoire traditionnel du Traité 7 et les pratiques orales de la confédération des Pieds-Noirs : Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, ainsi que les nations Îyâxe Nakoda et Tsuut’ina. Nous reconnaissons que ce territoire abrite la Nation métisse de l’Alberta, la région 3 au sein de la patrie historique des Métis du Nord-Ouest. Enfin, nous reconnaissons toutes les nations qui vivent, travaillent et se divertissent sur ce territoire, et qui l’honorent et le célèbrent.

Land Acknowledgment

In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we recognize all Nations who live, work and play on this land and honour and celebrate this territory.