Workforce Edge

Workforce Edge is a specialized advisory, consulting, and training organization focused exclusively on the intersection of healthcare, workforce planning, staff scheduling, and deployment strategy. The team collaborates with healthcare organizations and government to address the growing challenges of a constrained and evolving workforce. With a global reach, Workforce Edge brings a comparative perspective and since 2001, they’ve delivered hands-on expertise and deep change management support to help organizations modernize staff scheduling and build their internal workforce optimization capacity.

At the core of their approach is Workforce Edge’s Model of Health Workforce Optimization^©, which empowers partner organizations to tap into their unique cultures to achieve measurable outcomes—budget savings, cost avoidance, improved staff well-being, and safer staffing levels. These healthcare organizations are becoming employers of choice who are unlocking capacity to care, supporting frontline leaders, and enhancing employee wellness.

Canadian Medical Assocation

The Canadian Medical Association leads a national movement with physicians who believe in a better future of health. Our ambition is a sustainable, accessible health system where patients are partners, a culture of medicine that elevates equity, diversity and wellbeing, and supportive communities where everyone has the chance to be healthy. We drive change through advocacy, giving and knowledge sharing – guided by values of collaboration and inclusion.

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

The world’s best health systems are powered by data.

CIHI is a vital source of Canada-wide health data that Canadians rely on to inform health policy, care, management and research. It’s our job to ensure that health data is trusted, connected, accessible, timely, contextualized, relevant and comprehensive. We are building a future where every Canadian gets the care they need — when and where they need it.

Better data. Better decisions. Healthier Canadians.

BC Nurses' Union

The BC Nurses' Union protects and advances the health, safety, social and economic well-being of our members, our profession and our communities.

We are the largest nursing union in BC, and the only union to offer services to nurses related to all four domains of nursing: research, clinical practice, leadership, and education. We are committed to defending nurses' individual rights as well as the nursing profession. Learn more at bcnu.org.

Amazon Web Services

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 117 Availability Zones within 37 geographic regions, with announced plans for 13 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Chile, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

Bluedrop ISM

Bluedrop ISM is a global leader in innovative workforce training solutions, partnering with governments, industry groups, and organizations to deliver impactful learning that drives success. Its new AccelerateIEN™ program is the first in a suite of specialized healthcare work-ready accelerators. Designed to strengthen clinical readiness, AccelerateIEN™ equips Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) with the practical skills and confidence to seamlessly transition into patient-centered care roles in Canada.

WorkSafe BC

YWCA Metro Vancouver

YWCA Metro Vancouver is a registered charity, gender equity advocate and community service provider. We deliver affordable housing, early learning and child care, training and employment services, and a range of holistic programs that help support individual, collective and economic wellbeing.