Special Events / Features
Special events and features coming to our 2012 event:
Construction Keynote Panel
Media Sponsor
A panel of leading industry members addressed the challenges of today’s market and provided attendees with the necessary insight to plan business growth.
Construct Café
The Construct Café is a place to sit down with colleagues and clients to enjoy breakfast, lunch or other refreshments during the show. The area features a bar and a self-serve bistro with seating for 75+. Throughout Buildex the Construct Café serves as the primary area for attendees from the construction industry to meet, greet and conduct business.
On-Site Job Board
The HAYS On-Site Job Board returned to BUILDEX Vancouver 2012. The HAYS On-Site Job Board caters to JOB POSTERS and JOB SEEKERS within the Construction, Property Management and Design industries.
The HAYS On-Site Job Board was physically located in the lobby area of the Vancouver Convention Centre West.
The 15th Annual CEOs Breakfast
Co-sponsors
Media Sponsor
This exclusive breakfast is attended by over 250 CEOs, Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents of the leading construction companies in British Columbia. This is an invite-only networking event held in conjunction with BUILDEX Vancouver.
Meet & Greet Networking Reception
The annual Meet & Greet Networking Reception will be held at the end of Day 1 of the show, Wednesday, February 8th. Come and network with over 600 industry professionals and enjoy hors d'oeuvres and a glass of wine or beer. New for 2012! Corporate Traveller will be giving away a trip for 2 to Las Vegas. Come by and enter your business card into the draw.
Second Annual IDC/IIDA Vancouver Leaders Breakfast
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Breakfast and Keynote: 7:30am – 10:00am
Join us and be inspired by our keynote speaker, Pixar Art Director Jay Shuster. Honouree Larry Beasley, Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning at the University of British Columbia, will receive the 2012 Leadership Award of Excellence, which recognizes his outstanding contributions to the profession of interior design.
Individual Tickets: $125
Tables of 10: $1250
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For information contact Debora Abreu, marketing coordinator, Interior Designers of Canada, at dabreu@idcanada.org or call 416.649.4428 or 877.443.4425
Jay Shuster
Larry Beasley
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Celebrating the recent unveiling of their new facility in Vancouver, Pixar Art Director Jay Shuster is delighted to have found a family so close to the studio’s California home. Unlike other companies apt to parcel-out work overseas in order to rush a project to market, the choice of Vancouver underlines Pixar’s commitment to nurturing strong ties with headquarters and maintaining the highest quality standards, drawing on the Vancouver region’s pool of talented film-production professionals.
Fresh from Lucasfilm Ltd. and his work on the Star Wars prequel film trilogy, Jay joined Pixar in 2002 as a Sketch Artist. His background in industrial design and passion for all things mechanical has helped him create fun and fresh characters for films including Cars and Oscar-winners WALL-E and Toy Story 3.
As Art Director on Pixar’s critically acclaimed Cars 2, his creative leadership philosophy focused on staying fresh through a unique approach and process. Jay will reveal the Pixar process through his personal experiences on the four films he has contributed to over the past nine years.
Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning at the University of British Columbia, founding principal of Beasley and Associates and former Director of Planning for the City of Vancouver, Larry Beasley’s 30 years of service has made him a global leader in the field of city planning and key figure in the development of Vancouver’s urban landscape.
As a champion of the New Urbanism, Mr. Beasley’s work has dramatically reshaped Vancouver's inner city and contributed to the revitalization of several disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Today, he advises the private sector and governments around the world through his work as Chair of the National Advisory Committee on Planning, Design and Realty in Canada, Chief Advisor on Urban Design for the City of Dallas in the United States, member of the International Economic Development Advisory Board of Rotterdam in The Netherlands, and Special Advisor on City Planning to the government of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
Mr. Beasley has studied architecture and has degrees in geography and political science (B.A.) and planning (M.A.) from Simon Fraser University. In 2004, Mr. Beasley became a Member of the Order of Canada.
BOMA BC Luncheon
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Reception: 11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch and Keynote: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Discussion on Energy & Sustainability with Hon. Minister Rich Coleman
Minister of Energy and Mines & Minister Responsible for Housing, Province of British Columbia
Minister Rich Coleman will be discussing a number of topics including the province's efforts to build sustainability through improved energy-efficiency and alternative energy solutions for both new and existing buildings. He will also provide updates on the partnerships that the Province of BC, BOMA BC and BC Hydro have with each other, including new programs that will be introduced in the near future that will assist commercial buildings with energy benchmarking.
For more information contact Deirdre Taylor at the BOMA office, 604.684.3916 ext.223
