2018 Annual Conference Highlights

A special thanks to our members, partners, speakers, corporate and annual conference sponsors and exhibitors for making this year's annual conference at Sheraton on the Falls, Niagara Falls a great success.

Event Highlights:

• Gord Hume’s Keynote Address highlighted how you can utilize artificial intelligence and data analytics to develop more resilient cities
• Meg Soper’s Closing Keynote Address provided a hilarious and inspirational presentation on how shifting our perspective and living with balance will help us build resilience
• Second City, our evening entertainment, featured a comedic improvisational theater troupe
• Leading edge concurrent sessions that included case studies, tools and templates, and best practices
• Largest Tradeshow with specialists and vendors from across the province
• Networking events throughout the conference
• LIVE STREAMING – more than 20 individuals attended the conference virtually
• TUESDAY WORKSHOPS – over 50 delegates extended their conference and benefited from the additional professional development opportunity
• MOBILE WEB – over 93% of delegates customized their conference program, accessed session information and materials, connected with the exhibitor experts and networked with their colleagues through the mobile web (while collecting points in the “In It To Win It Contest” to WIN great prizes!)

Presentations are now available for download here

If you wish to request a certificate for your Annual Conference CPD credits, please email abigail@mfoa.on.ca

Help Us Help You: Please fill out the Annual Conference Survey. Your feedback is invaluable to the ongoing improvement of the conference program and special events. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey by end of day on Friday, October 12, 2018.

MFOA Member Award Winners 2018 - Congratulations!
MFOA Board of Directors and staff would like to recognize outstanding member contributions throughout the year. At this year’s annual conference, we presented these awards to  special members that have displayed their unwavering commitment to the finance sector and with MFOA.

Congratulations to our Recipients!

• MFOA's 2018 Excellence in Municipal Finance Award:
  • Dan Cowin from MFOA

• MFOA’s 2018 Leadership Award:
  
  • Stephen VanOfwegen from Region of Peel
  • Communities of Practice from City of Stratford, County of Perth, Municipality of North Perth, Township of Perth East, Township of Perth South, Town of St. Marys, and Municipality of West Perth 

• MFOA’s 2018 Engagement Award:
  • Cindy Laprade from Township of Rideau Lakes

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SAVE THE DATE!
2019 MFOA Annual Conference is Sept 18 - 20 at Deerhurst Resort.

Looking forward to seeing you at our next Annual Conference!

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Presentations:
Tuesday September 18, 2018

• New Prudent Investor Workshop

Wednesday September 19, 2018

• Asset Management Plans - Municipal Service Delivery under the New Regulation
• Updates Session

Thursday September 20, 2018

• NPN - Innisfil Transit: Powered by Uber
• Keynote Speaker: Gord Hume
• Session A - PSAB - A Deep Dive in to Financial Instruments
• Session B - Waterloo's Long Term Financial Plan Model 
• Session C - LTFP: Municipal Sustainability - a small municipal perspective
• Session D - Stormwater Charge
• Session E - Multi-Year Budgeting - Large municipality case study
• Session F - Thinking Two Steps Ahead: Multi-Year Budgeting in Small Municipalities - A Case Study
• Session G - Electronic Payment Security & PCI Compliance
• Session H - Sharing And Collaboration – Its How the Ontario Public Buyers Association Serves You
• MFOA: What Have We Done For You Lately?

Friday September 21, 2018

• Economic Outlook: Ontario Economic Update: Living with Uncertainty
• Session I - Getting Prepared for the Future of Finance (Coming Soon!)
• Session J - Tax Sale Changes / The Tax Sale Forum
• Session K - MPAC - Enhancing our Municipal Partnerships
• Session L - AMCTO: Presenting Financial Information to Non-Financial People
• Session M - GST/HST Compliance Issues and the CRA Audit Landscape
• Session N - Understanding and Managing Municipal Risk
• Session O - Small Community Challenges with Building Asset Management Data and Plan
• Session P - Mitigating Assessment Losses

Graphic Recorder Images:

• Keynote Presentation – Gord Hume
• NPN Presents: Innisfil Transit - Powered by Uber
• MFOA's What have We Done for You Lately?
• Discussion Forum: 1-10,000
• Discussion Forum: 10,001 - 100,000
• Discussion Forum: 100,000+
• Session B: Waterloo's Long Term Financial Plan Model
• Session E: Multi-Year Budgeting - Large municipality case study
• What's Next - AMO