Date:
October
19-23, 2009 Venue: Toronto,
Canada Host: Canadian
Society for Training and Development Web Site: www.cstd.ca/iftdo2009 Email:
ljohnston@cstd.ca
The
Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) is
pleased to have been selected by IFTDO to host the IFTDO
World Conference in 2009. We promise to offer a world-class
event in a world-class city. The conference will take
place in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, on the
shores of beautiful Lake Ontario. Toronto is a city built
with and for the limitless imaginations of the people
who come here to live and those who come to visit. Toronto
engages your imagination with an experience unlike any
the world over.
October
19-23, 2009
Come
learn and experience leading-edge programming
that tackles the latest trends and issues in the
industry, both from the practitioner’s perspective
in the workplace and from leading academics in
Canadian institutions. You will have ample opportunity
to mingle in a social setting with international
delegates from around the world and learn from
the best in the business.
People
Canadian
workplace learning professionals look forward to advancing
the global conversation around training and development.
Come and meet your peers from around the world and widen
your perspective on opportunities and possibilities
for learning in the workplace.
Knowledge
Sharing
expertise, experience and best practices in person is
a great way to learn. Listen to case studies from a
wide variety of companies, sectors and countries about
how training impacts vital business indicators.
Performance
Improving
workplace performance is the primary goal of learning
and development initiatives. Hear how companies and
government agencies around the world achieve results
connected to their business goals.
Keynote
Speaker:
LGen Roméo Dallaire (Ret),Commander of
UN Forces in Rwanda
LGen
The Hon. Roméo Dallaire (Ret) is a true
hero and an outspoken leader for the 21st century.
A decorated Lieutenant General, Dallaire served
35 years with the Canadian Armed Forces. His best-selling
book, Shake Hands With the Devil, is a stirring
account of his experience as the Force Commander
of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda,
which exposes the failures of the international
community to stop the worst genocide in the 20th
century.
Call
for Speaker Abstracts:
Deadline January 16, 2009