This is a one-day workshop on workforce planning within the Saskatchewan nuclear sector. This event is designed to provide valuable insights and strategies to address workforce challenges in the industry. As a benefit of your CNA membership, this workshop is offered at no additional cost. 

Canadian jurisdictions are moving toward a sustainable future leveraging existing power-generating assets and new technologies. The nuclear sector is well-positioned to provide a significant portion of this need through the buildout of large and small reactors across the country. These growth projections must be supported by an increase in the skilled workforce necessary to meet demand. New nuclear advancements will require a new generation of engineers, technicians, operators, scientists, entrepreneurs, regulators and policy makers who have the requisite knowledge, skills and experience to enable, steer, build, regulate and operate new fleets.

Some of the key challenges related to the nuclear workforce include: maintaining the current workforce in light of an aging population and voluntary attrition; an increasingly competitive labor market across all positions; lack of sufficient training programs to enable growth of a younger workforce; and, making the nuclear sector attractive to students.

The CNA is working with its members to explore the solutions to these and other challenges. The events will bring the nuclear sector together to explore and discuss possible solutions to many of the challenges in the workforce space. The presentations and discussions will directly inform the sector’s workforce strategy that will be a focus for CNA and its members in the next couple years.

CNA Workforce Planning Saskatchewan Symposium – Agenda January 21, 2025

MORNING AGENDA

8:00am - 9:00am – Check In & Breakfast

9:00am - 9:10am – Opening Remarks

9:10am - 9:20am – Land acknowledgement and introduction
Jill Baker – Canadian Nuclear Association

9:20am - 9:35am – 2024 Canadian Nuclear Jobs Study and Questions
Megan Janecka – Canadian Nuclear Association

9:35am - 10:05am – Nuclear Buildout Scenarios
Jill Baker – Canadian Nuclear Association

10:05am 10:20am – 15 Minute Break

10:20am - 12:00pm – Nuclear Workforce Projection Study and Discussion
Larkin Mosscrop & Sean Donnelly – Kinectrics

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12:00pm - 1:00pm – LUNCH( 60 minutes:40 minutes lunch, 20 minutes speaker)

• 12:00pm - 12:40pm - Meal

• 12:40pm - 1:00pm - Keynote on SaskPower’s SMR Project
  Len Clewett, Executive Vice-President of Nuclear Development, SaskPower

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AFTERNOON AGENDA

1:00pm - 1:30pm– Indigenous Workforce
Sheldon Wuttunee – Saskatchewan First Nations Natural Resource Centre of Excellence

1:30pm - 2:10pm – Saskatchewan Mining Labour Market Report 2024
Pam Schwann – Saskatchewan Mining Association

2:10-2:30pm – Saskatchewan's Interest in Nuclear Workforce Development
David Brock – Crown Investments Corporation of Saskatchewan & Andrew Fraser – Prairies Economic Development Canada

2:30pm - 3:00pm – 30 Minute Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm – Panel: Collaboration in Nuclear Workforce Development – Perspectives, Opportunities & Challenges
Moderator:
Jill Baker - CNA

Panelists:
__________ - Cameco (TBD)
Sean Willy – Des Nedhe
Kathryn Pollack – SaskPower
Toby Arnold – SRC
Has Malik – Saskatchewan Polytechnic

4:00pm – Closing Remarks

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