Nov 25, 2026
12 p.m. – 3 p.m. MT
Virtual Event
Free Registration
Canada’s National Virtual Gathering for Environmental Professionals
Connect with environmental professionals from across Canada. Share real workplace challenges, exchange practical ideas, and discover new opportunities to grow your career and professional network.
Whether you’re already an EP® or considering certification, EP® Connect gives you direct access to the people, insights, and resources shaping Canada’s environmental profession.
One afternoon could shape your future career.
🟢 Career Growth
What skills will environmental professionals need next?
🌕 Peer Solutions
How are other professionals solving the challenges you face?
🟢 EP® Updates
What new benefits, resources and opportunities are available?
🌕 Moderated Networking Tables
What issues are environmental professionals facing across Canada?
Bring a Challenge. Leave With Solutions.
Environmental professionals face complex problems every day. You shouldn’t have to solve all of them alone.
EP® Connect brings professionals from across Canada together to discuss what’s working, what isn’t, and what they’ve learned along the way.
At EP® Connect, you’ll:
✅ Connect with professionals facing similar challenges
✅ Exchange practical ideas and proven approaches
✅ Discover emerging environmental workforce trends
✅ Learn about EP® benefits, resources and opportunities
✅ Build connections that continue beyond the event
Why Attend?
For Current EP®s
Get More From Your Designation
Stay connected to Canada’s Environmental Professional community while discovering new benefits, designation developments, professional development resources and opportunities.
For Prospective EP®s
See What EP® Can Do for Your Career
Meet certified professionals, hear real career experiences and learn how the EP® designation can support your professional growth and credibility.
For Environmental Professionals
Solve Problems With Your Peers
Join conversations around the real challenges affecting environmental professionals and learn what others across the country are doing about them.
EP® Connect is built to get you participating.
Instead of spending the entire event watching presentations, you’ll join facilitated discussions with professionals who understand the challenges you’re facing.
Share what you’re working through. Hear what others have tried. Exchange ideas. Build connections. Leave with something useful.
What makes this virtual event different?
✓ Discussions built around participant challenges
✓ Small, focused networking groups
✓ Practical peer-to-peer problem solving
✓ Facilitated conversations that keep things moving
✓ Opportunities to connect with professionals across Canada
Invest a Few Hours. Leave With Ideas You’ll Use All Year.
Share Your Voice. Help Shape the EP® Experience.
EP® Connect is designed to be a two-way conversation. Throughout the event, you'll be invited to share your perspective through an interactive virtual feedback board.
A new question will appear every 10 minutes, giving you the opportunity to respond anonymously and see what matters to fellow environmental professionals across Canada.
Your feedback will help ECO Canada better understand the priorities, needs, and ideas of the EP® community and identify opportunities to strengthen member benefits, resources, support, and future engagement.
What would make your EP® membership more valuable to you?
Example responses could include:
Conversations Built Around What Matters to You
When you register, we’ll ask: “What’s your biggest challenge right now as an environmental professional?”
Your responses will help shape the networking discussions taking place during EP® Connect.
Talent & Workforce
Hiring, retention, skills gaps and building stronger teams.
Projects & Stakeholders
Project management, stakeholder engagement and getting buy-in.
Career Growth
Professional development, career advancement and emerging opportunities.
Industry Change
Regulation, ESG, technology, climate resilience and evolving environmental priorities.
Your challenge might become the conversation someone else has already learned how to solve.
Who Should Attend?
Personalized, professional support for every stage of your journey.
Certified EP®s
Connect with other certified professionals
Early-Career Professionals
Build your network and gain exposure to career paths across the sector.
Graduates & Emerging Professionals
Discover professional pathways and connect with people already working across the sector.
Prospective EP®s
Explore certification and hear directly from professionals who have earned the designation.
Environmental Leaders & Managers
Exchange ideas around workforce, projects and emerging industry challenges.
Industry & Community Partners
Participate in conversations shaping Canada’s environmental workforce.
Your Next Connection Could Change How You Solve Your Next Challenge.
Join environmental professionals from coast to coast for three hours of meaningful conversations, practical insights and professional connections.
What's happening throughout the event
Three hours of industry insights, designation updates, meaningful conversations, and practical peer-to-peer networking with environmental professionals across Canada.
12:15 PM
Welcome & State of the Environmental Profession
Speaker: Elizabeth Getty
Kick off EP® Connect with a look at the forces shaping Canada's environmental workforce and what they mean for professionals across the country.
- Emerging trends across Canada's environmental workforce
- How the environmental profession is evolving
- Future opportunities for EP®s
12:45 PM
The Future of Environmental Careers in Canada
Speaker: Geni Peters
Explore the major trends influencing environmental careers today and the skills professionals may need as the sector continues to evolve.
- AI and environmental work
- Regulatory changes and ESG evolution
- Climate resilience and Indigenous partnerships
- Workforce shortages and future skill requirements
1:05 PM
EP® Member Update
Get the latest updates on the EP® designation, member benefits, professional development resources, and upcoming opportunities.
- New designation developments and specializations
- Upcoming events and initiatives
- Insurance and member benefits
- Professional development resources
- Member services
1:15 PM
Networking Break & ECO Canada Hub
Take a short break, connect with other attendees, or visit the ECO Canada Hub.
2:00 PM
Sector Connection Rooms
Find your sector. Meet your peers. Grow your network.
Join a focused conversation with environmental professionals working in your sector. Bring a challenge, exchange practical ideas, and work together to solve real issues facing environmental professionals today.
- Meet professionals working in related environmental sectors
- Discuss real workplace challenges and opportunities
- Share solutions, practical ideas, and lessons learned
- Build meaningful professional connections
Choose from 10 Sector Connection Rooms
Select the topic that best aligns with your work, professional interests, or the challenge you want to explore.
2:10 PM
Networking Break & ECO Canada Hub
Recharge before the second round of networking conversations.
2:45 PM
Sector Connection Rooms Continued
Keep the conversation going.
Continue exploring challenges and solutions with professionals in your sector, build on ideas from the first round, and leave with new perspectives and connections you can take back to your work.
3:00 PM
What's Working Across Canada?
Close the event with a rapid-fire community share-out highlighting ideas and solutions surfaced throughout the networking rooms.
- One challenge discussed
- One solution that worked
- One key takeaway to bring back to your work
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