| Session | Speaker |
| Opening | Master of Ceremonies: John Smol |
| Session 1 | Justina Ray Wildlife Conservation Society Canada Losing Biodiversity: Is it important if we don’t see it? |
| Session 2 | Jeremy Kerr University of Ottawa Emerging threats and converging responses: challenges and opportunities for conservation in an era of global change |
| Session 3 | Andrew Gonzalez McGill University Biodiversity science for global environmental change |
| Session 4 | Stephen Monet City of Sudbury Living Landscape – Greater Sudbury’s Biodiversity Action Plan Steve Hounsell Ontario Biodiversity Council Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy – Protecting What Sustains Us |
| Session 5 | Thomas Lovejoy George Mason University A wild solution for climate change |
| Session | Speaker |
| Session 6 | Karen Kraft Sloan EcoNexus, Founder The Science – Policy Nexus: making public policy as if biodiversity mattered |
| Discussion | Moderator: Paul Kennedy CBC Radio |
| Closing | Gord Miller Environmental Commissioner of Ontario |
