Theme: Inuit Tapiriit Nunarjuarmi

Chair Call to Order & Welcome
Sara Olsvig – Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council

Host Greetings

Gloria Uluqsi – President, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated
Solomon Ava – Mayor of Iqaluit

Patron’s Address

The Right Honourable Mark Carney – Prime Minister of Canada (via Recorded Address)

Opening Remarks

Government of Nunavut (TBC)
Múte Bourup Egede – Vice Premier, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Business, and Mineral Resources;former Premier, Government of Greenland
Josiah Patkotak – Mayor, North Slope Borough; former Alaska State Representative
Irina Meshcheryakova – President, ICC Chukotka

Greetings from other Indigenous Peoples

Gunn-Britt Retter – Head of Environmental Unit, Saami Council

Honoring the Life and Legacy of Jimmy Stotts

Marie Greene – ICC Vice Chair; ICC Alaska President

Introduction of Delegations, Elders (given by Heads of Delegations)

Approval of Agenda;

Approval of 2022 Proceedings;

Approval of Credentials;

Confirming Declaration Drafting Committee and the task ahead

Sara Olsvig – Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council

Approval of Report of Activities

Alaska: Marie Greene – ICC Alaska President

Canada: Herb Nakimayak – ICC Canada President

Greenland: Hjalmar Dahl – ICC Greenland President

Chukotka: Irina Meshcheryakova – ICC Chukotka President

Gwen Natsiq – Canada Youth Delegate

Emma Lennert – Kalaallit Nunaat Youth Delegate

Joshua Vo – Alaska Youth Delegate

Gulnara Rodionova – Chukotka Youth Delegate

(Delegates and ICC Leadership only)

ICC Delegates Meeting Report

Qulutannguaq Berthelsen – ICC Kalaallit Nunaat Board Member; former Head of Delegation, ICCKalaallit Nunaat

ICC Alaskan Inuit Arctic Strategy:

Marie Greene – ICC Vice Chair; ICC Alaska President

(15 minute keynotes with 45 minute plenary discussion)

Keynote: Dalee Sambo Dorough on Human Rights – Arctic Member of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP); former ICC Chair

Keynote: Albert Barume on Human Rights – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Keynote: Natan Obed – ICC Executive Council Member; President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Plenary Discussion (on Session #1)

(15 minute keynotes with 45 minute plenary discussion)

Joint Keynote: Gloria Uluqsi – President, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated; (TBC), Government of Nunavut on Nunavut Arctic Sovereignty and Security Strategy

Keynote: Kenneth Høegh on The Kingdom of Denmark’s Arctic Council Chairship – Arctic Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark; Chair, Arctic Council Senior Arctic Officials (SAO)

Keynote: Megan Onders on Peace and Cooperation in the Bering Strait – Chief, King Island Native Community; Chair, Bering Strait Development Council

Plenary Discussion (on Session #2)

ICC Alaska Report: Advancing Indigenous Knowledge from Theory to Practice:

Cyrus Harris – Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Maniilaq Association

ICC Kalaallit Nunaat Report: Oceans & Inuit Knowledge:

Victoria Qutuuq Buschman – Advisor, ICC Kalaallit Nunaat

ICC Report: Mapping and Eliminating Barriers to Further Inuit-to-Inuit Business Cooperation:

Aviaaja Isaksen, Projects and Human Rights Coordinator, ICC Kalaallit Nunaat

(15 minute keynotes with 45 minute plenary discussion)

Keynote: Kim Kielsen on (TBC) – Speaker of Parliament, Greenland

Keynote Herb Nakimayak on the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean (CAOFA) – ICC Vice Chair; ICC Canada President

Keynote: Sara Olsvig on Protecting our Waters from Pikialasorsuaq to the Central Arctic Ocean – Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council

Keynote: Liz Cravalho on Advancing Food Security, Protecting Our Way of Life – Vice President of Lands, NANA Regional Corporation

Plenary Discussion (on Session #3)

(10 minute presentations)

Country Case on Polar Bear Management: Egor Vereshagin and Maria Karnaukhova – ICC Chukotka Delegates

Country Case on Sarvarjuaq: Olayuk Akesuk – President, Qikiqtani Inuit Association

Country Case on Alaska’s Salmon Crash: Roy Ashenfelter – Vice Chair, Bering Straits Native Corporation

Aviaaja Isaksen, Projects and Human Rights Coordinator, ICC Kalaallit Nunaat

(15 minute keynotes with 45 minute plenary discussion)

Keynote: Rex Rock on Advancing Inuit Economic Freedom – President & CEO, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation

Keynote: Simigaq Heilmann on Tourism in Kalaallit Nunaat – Mayor of the Qeqertalik Municipality

Keynote: (TBC), Canada

Plenary Discussion (on Session #4)

ICC Inuit Women’s Summit Report

Emma Lennert – Board Member, ICC Kalaallit Nunaat; incoming President, ICC Kalaallit Nunaat

Circumpolar Inuit Health Steering Committee Report

Arnârak Patricia Bloch – Chair, Circumpolar Inuit Health Steering Committee

(15 minute Keynotes with 45 minute plenary discussion)

Keynote: Anna Wangenheim on (TBC) – Minister for Health and Persons with Disabilities, Government of Greenland

Keynote: Vivian Korthuis on Arctic Typhoons – CEO, Association of Village Council Presidents

Keynote: Ahlupa Kulula on Traditional Medicine

Plenary Discussion (on Session #5)

(10 minute keynotes with 50 minute plenary discussion)

Keynote: Leena Evic on Creating Inuit Content for the Next Generation of Inuktut Speakers – President, Pirurvik Centre

Keynote: Terri Walker on Northwest Arctic Inupiat Immersion – Superintendent, Northwest Arctic School District

Keynote: Gulnara Rodionova on Inuit Language and Knowledge Preservation in Chukotka - ICC Chukotka Delegate

Keynote: Elna Thomsen Heilmann on the Preservation, Maintenance, and Development of the Greenlandic Language – President, IMAK, Teachers Union of Greenland

Plenary Discussion (on Session #6)