Early bird registration deadline: August 31, 2025

IABC member registration: $949 + tax

Non-IABC member registration: $1,249 + tax

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Join Canada’s top communications professionals at IABC Canada Conference 2025 for an opportunity to connect, learn, and grow. From thought-provoking keynotes to dynamic discussions on leadership, strategy, emerging trends, and digital transformation, this is the must-attend event for communicators looking to elevate their impact.

At the IABC Canada Conference 2025, we bring together communication professionals from across the country for a truly Canadian experience that’s grounded in our systems, stories, and shared realities. We understand your context, your challenges and your craft because they’re ours too.

 

Here’s why you should attend IABC Canada Conference 2025 to support your career and professional development:

  1. Purpose-Built for Canadian Comms Pros

This isn’t about best practices from abroad. It’s about what works here — in our provinces, our industries, our media and policy environments. From Indigenous engagement to Crown corporations, from DEI to ethics, these sessions speak to our unique business communication landscape.

  1. Real-World Lessons With a Canadian Lens

Every speaker brings hands-on experience from working for and with Canadian organizations, big and small. Expect fewer buzzwords and more “here’s what we did and why it worked.”

  1. National Networking, Local Impact

The IABC World Conference builds global exposure, but this event builds the connections that sustain your career in Canada. Whether you’re agency-side, in-house, independent or in the public sector, this is where collaborators become colleagues and mentors become friends.

  1. Smaller by Design. Bigger in Impact.

The IABC Canada Conference is intentionally intimate. That means real conversations, meaningful Q&A, and easy access to speakers and peers. You’ll leave with insights and action plans, and a community of fellow communication professionals that get you.

  1. Budget-Smart, Professionally Rich

No currency exchange. No long-haul flights. No inflated hotel prices. Just exceptional content in Canadian dollars with value you can justify to your boss and your bottom line. We’ve even prepared this template letter that you can personalize to convince your employee to fund your conference participation.

  1. Proudly Canadian. Open to All.

You don’t need a maple leaf on your business card to benefit. But, if you work in or with Canadian organizations, this is the place to learn what really moves communication forward here.

Our nation’s capital is the perfect backdrop to connect, reflect, and reimagine what’s next in communication, together. Whether you come for the content, the community, or the career momentum, you’ll leave energized, equipped, and proud to be part of Canada’s communication industry.

 

What happens if you arrive to the conference early?

You get to take part in two powerful pre-conference workshops:

Beyond Burnout

A Reset for Communication Leaders

Grounded in neuroscience, mindfulness, and psychology, this workshop helps leaders sustain high performance without sacrificing well-being. Led by Catherine Ducharme and Rosemary Lodge, former communication leaders turned coaches.

Instant Public Speaking Confidence

Discover the five key mindsets that will transform how you approach public speaking—and practice them on the spot. Led by Heather Morrison, broadcaster and public speaking coach.

The 2025 IABC Canada Conference is also proud to host a GCCC in-person certification exam on Tuesday, October 28 at 1:30 pm at the Westin Ottawa.

Click here for more details and schedule for October 28.

October 29 – October 30:

Featuring top-notch speakers and profession-building seminars, this made-in-Canada event will connect you with leading communications professionals as you tap into new strategies and discover unique approaches in our ever-changing industry.

There are sessions in:

  • Leadership and Business Strategy stream: These sessions provide the roadmap for you to lead your organization’s strategic communications in uncertain times.
  • New Communication Skills stream: Turn your insight into action. Build your skills. Stay ahead of the curve.
  • Emerging Technologies stream: Understanding trends and leveraging technologies make you stand out as someone who leads change, rather than responds to it.
  • Crisis and Reputation stream: Get up to speed with the latest crisis and reputation management strategies.

 

Reserve your spot today at the IABC Canada Conference 2025.

Write to us at iabc.manitoba@gmail.com if you require a pre-written customizable letter of justification to your employer for your attendance at the conference.