On Nov 9th, 2017, we held the annual Celebration of Planning Event. It was a tremendous success raising about $40,000 towards scholarships for the Planning program while at the same time bringing together more than 180 planners, developers, municipal and provincially elected officials, students, community group representatives and others for a night to celebrate our program.
The event included a Pecha Kutcha format where speakers raised their big idea(s) for planning -Kalen Anderson presented on the need for family and child friendly environments in Edmonton's Downtown, Ray Watkins presented on how Edmonton's built environment integrates the new and the old, Ryan Jespersen discussed the importance of having a defining feature in our city such as St Louis has with the arch. The presentations were outstanding and the evening was filled with great food and conversation!