Ensuring everyone has the opportunity to age with dignity, compassion and the opportunity to age on their own terms is a fundamental requirement for moving into the future. EngAGE 21 will get you ready for the future!
Join us March 24 and 25 for EngAGE 21! An innovative and invigorating virtual conference focussed on transforming the aging journey in this ever-changing world. EngAGE 21 features some of Canada’s most sought-after speakers who will guide and inspire you with ideas on how to look to the future with hope, innovation and inspiration.
There will be keynote presentations, panel discussions, networking, and one-on-one meetings with industry partners will round out the incredible two mornings of learning and experience!
The diverse and comprehensive content is suited for leaders, innovators, families of older persons, researchers, human resource professionals, and finance professionals.
Meet Our Speakers
Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist speaker, consultant, media producer, and executive advisor that has spoken to, and worked with, over 300 of the world’s most impactful organizations and governments.
Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist speaker, consultant, media producer, and executive advisor that has spoken to, and worked with, over 300 of the world’s most impactful organizations and governments. He helps shape the visions that shape impactful organizations, trillion-dollar companies, progressive governments, and 200+ billion dollar investment funds.
Over 25+ years Nikolas Badminton, Futurist Speaker has worked with global clients in technology transformation, strategic planning and foresight advisory services.
He’s worked with leading consultancies, advertising agencies and platforms teams to drive action in boosting innovation and creativity, hacking culture, applying of exponential technologies, and foresight planning.
Nikolas’ passion and positive activism inspires clients scan and understand signals of change, build resiliency through anticipation, think exponential, and have a global impactful. He helped clients create incredible transformation, customer engagement, and he’s won awards in technology and advertising.
Amber is a regular business host and expert for Fast Company, CNN, Bloomberg, CBS, BNN, CTV, The Marilyn Denis Show, and SiriusXM (where she co-hosts #TheFeed). In 2018, she was named one of DMZ’s 30 inspirational women making a difference in tech.
Amber has keynoted more than 400 events around the world and has moderated sessions with: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; former FBI Director James Comey; business coach Tony Robbins; famed astronaut Chris Hadfield; and many other notable leaders.
Amber started her career in San Francisco and Boston during the dot-com boom. As a strategist for Razorfish and Director of Marketing for an e-procurement software company, she spent four years in the technology start-up trenches.
Amber left the start-up world to join Microsoft to build one of the first female-focused lifestyle portals. In 2006, she started her own digital agency. The company’s first client was world-renowned business coach, Tony Robbins, and now includes Microsoft, Google, GE, Paypal, Nintendo, Canada Goose, and Fast Company, and many more leading organizations.
Prior to her retirement; after graduate school she taught political science and social work courses, and worked as a Research Associate at the University of Regina and the Department of Health.
For the 10 years following, she did organizational development, research and strategic planning with non-profit groups in Saskatchewan.
Finally, she worked for 16 years as the Associate Deputy Minister to the Premier of Saskatchewan. She is married, has two children, three granddaughters and two great granddaughters.
Joe Roberts aka The Skidrow CEO is an expert on resiliency and change. Having experienced both catastrophic failure and extraordinary success Joe teaches how to overcome the roadblocks that get in the way of high performance. He helps companies and individuals redefine what’s truly possible by confronting limiting mindsets. Participants at Joes’ events leave inspired and moved to action.
What is most amazing about Joe is that in 1989 he was living on the streets of Vancouver as a homeless skid row addict. Through perseverance, determination and his resilient human spirit, Joe pulled himself out of darkness and despair, to become a highly respected business and community leader.
Joe’s business solutions have made millions of dollars for his clients, across a variety of business sectors. It is from this experience that Joe draws when addressing Fortune 500 companies, professional associations and organizations internationally.
Joe’s message is relatable, humorous, honest, raw and unforgettable. He tackles the stigma associated with mental health and addiction in a straight forward authentic way and shares the tools needed to build resiliency in any situation.
He currently works as a motorcycle service technician. Prior to this, he spent his summers working at Camp Christopher, a joint ministry of the United and Presbyterian Churches.
He has also lead youth groups, provided staff training for camps and co-directed camps throughout Saskatchewan.
He is married, with two children.
Brian Goldman, MD, is one of those rare individuals with great success in not one but several adrenaline-pumping careers. Goldman is a highly regarded emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He is also the host of the CBC’s award-winning radio show “White Coat, Black Art”, where he takes listeners behind the scenes of hospitals and doctor’s offices. Goldman unpacks and demystifies what goes on inside medicine’s sliding doors – with edgy topics that include the whistle blowing in health care, burnout among health professionals, racism in health care and how to getting to the head of the line in health care.
Goldman is on a lifelong campaign to confront medical errors and create a culture of safety for patients. He has proven unafraid of using his own medical mistakes for examples on how doctors can improve. His TEDtalk – “Doctors Make Mistakes. Can We Talk About That?” has been watched by close to a million viewers, and has been featured in The Huffington Post and NPRs TED Radio Hour.
Dr. Goldman has worked as a health reporter for The National, CBC Television’s flagship news program, for CBC-TV’s The Health Show, and served as senior production executive during the launch year of Discovery Health Channel, Canada’s only 24-hour channel devoted to health programming.
He is the author of the bestselling book The Night Shift: Real Life in the ER, which takes readers through giddying heights and crashing lows as Goldman works through a typical night shift in one of Canada’s busiest ERs. He is also the author of The Secret Language of Doctors – published by Harper Collins in 2014 – which takes a biting look at medical slang.
As a veteran emergency room physician, Dr. Brian Goldman has a successful career setting broken bones, curing pneumonia, and otherwise pulling people back from the brink of medical emergency. He always believed that caring came naturally to physicians. But time, stress, errors, and heavy expectations left him wondering if he might not be the same caring doctor he thought he was at the beginning of his career. He wondered what kindness truly looks like—in himself and in others. In his latest book, The Power of Kindness, Goldman leaves the comfortable, familiar surroundings of the hospital in search of his own lost compassion.
He currently works as a motorcycle service technician. Prior to this, he spent his summers working at Camp Christopher, a joint ministry of the United and Presbyterian Churches.
He has also lead youth groups, provided staff training for camps and co-directed camps throughout Saskatchewan.
He is married, with two children.
EngAGE 21 Conference Agenda
Wednesday March 24, 2021
9:00 am
– Welcome to EngAGE ’21 and Amber Mac
9:45 am – 10:45 am
– Future Building Design for Aging
10:45 am – 11:00 am
– Live Panel Discussion with Future Building Design for Aging Presenters
11:00 am – 11:45 am
– Aging and Diversabilities
11:45 am – 12:00 pm
– Live Panel Discussion with Aging and Diversabilities Presenters
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
– Dr. Brian Goldman
Thursday, March 25, 2021
9:00 am
– Nikolas Badminton – Future Compassion
9:45 am – 10:45 am
– Technology and the Future
10:45 am – 11:00 am
– Live Panel Discussion with Technology and the Future Presenters
11:00 am – 11:45 am
– Aging in Place Presented by Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation
11:45 am – 12:00 pm
– Live Panel Discussion with Aging in Place Presenters
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
– Joe Roberts – The Skidrow CEO