The Canadian Global Affairs Institute hosts 1-2 annual conferences in Ottawa around critical issues in Canadian defence and foreign policy. These conferences consistently attract high-calibre speakers, key policy makers, prominent academics, and a large number of the interested public. 

Listed below are links to the various conferences presented by the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and its partners. If you are interested in creating a conference event with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, please contact us at contact@cgai.ca. 

• Canada’s State of Trade: At Home and Beyond (February 2019)
• Measuring the Big Bang: Evaluating the Implementation of Strong, Secure, Engaged (October 2018)
• Ready for Launch: Preparing Canada for a Future in Space (October 2018)
• One Year of Strong, Secure, Engaged: A Status Report (June 2018)
• Positioning Canada in the Shifting International Order (May 2018)
• Canada's State of Trade: At Home and Beyond (February 2018)
• Creating a Big Bang: Implementing the Procurement Ambition in Strong Secure Engaged (October 2017)
• Unpacking Canada's New Defence Policy: The Path to Strong, Secure, Engaged (October 2017)
• A World in Disarray: What Role for Canada [invitation only] (May 2017)
• Deliverology for Defence Procurement (October 2016)
• The Canadian Defence Review Symposium [invitation only] (May 2016)
• What Role for Canada in Ukraine and Asia-Pacific Symposium (2015)
• Canada's Changing Role: The New Cold War and Canada's Place In The World (2014)
• Trilateral Border Issues Symposium (2013)
• SSWG e-Conference: Drone Week (2012)
• Canada's National Strategic Relations: NATO & NORAD (2009)
• Canada & The United States: What Does It Mean To Be Good Neighbours? (2008)
• Canada as the “Emerging Energy Superpower”: Testing the Case (2007)
• Foreign Policy Under a Conservative Government: An Interim Report Card (2006)
• The World in Canada: Demographics, Diversity & Domestic Politics in Canadian Foreign Policy (2005)
• Defining the National Interest (2004)
• Changing Canadian Foreign Policy (2003)
• Canada-US Strategic Partnership (2002)

Other Conferences in which the Canadian Global Affairs Institute has participated: 

2017

• Canadian Defence Industry Association’s Annual Conference (July 5th & 6th, 2017)
• CONVERGX Conference (Sept 20th, 2017)
• Canadian Aerospace Summit (Nov 7th & 8th, 2017)
• CSIS’s Global Security Forum 2017 (feat. Colin Roberson participating in a panel entitled "Risks and Consequences of a Trade War")
• Evaluating the first 100 days of the Donald Trump Presidency

2016

• Halifax International Security Forum (November)
• Seminar on Canadian – Norwegian Cooperation (November)
• U.S. - Canada Sage Summit (October)
• WCDIA Defence Review (July)
• Defence Policy Review Roundtables (May, June)
• The EU and Canada as Strategic Partners (May)
• NATO Warsaw Summit and the Alliance’s Eastern Flank (April)
• The Mackenzie Institute: Canada’s Defence Perspectives 2020-2050 (March) 
• AFCEA Monthly Luncheon (March)
• Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence (February)

 2015

• SPP/CGAI: Military Procurement for a Purpose: Creating a New Defence Strategy for Canada (December )
  

2014

• NAFTA at 20 Years: Toward Greater Trilateralism? (Mar)
• Canada First: Leveraging Defence Procurement Through Key Industrial Capabilities (Feb) 

2012

• Drone Week: Watch, Kill Aid (Dec 10-14th)
• The Future of Fighting: How the Canadian Military Must Adapt (May -June ) 

2011

• Media and the Military Symposium – Operations Security and the Public’s Right to Know (Mar) 

2010

• G8 Conference of Senior Officials on Capacity Building (May)
• The Strategic Studies and Security Consortium’s 12^th Annual Student Conference – Strategy, Security & Defence (Feb) 

2008

• Blueprint for Canada-US Engagement under a New Administration 

2007

• Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa – Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
• Prague Security Studies Institute – Democracy and Security
• Understanding the International Implications of Geopolitics and Economics in Iran 

2006

• Continental Defence Conference – Continental Defence: Policies, Threats and Architecture
• Montreal Conference – Finding Common Ground: The Challenge of Freedom in the West and in the Muslim World 

2005

• International Reserves Conference – 10 Years Later: The Special Commission on the Restructuring of the Reserves
• Prague Securities Studies Institute Conference – Business & Security 

2004

• International Reserves Conference – Homeland Defence and Land Force Reserves
• Security and Defence Forum (SDF) Conference- Defence and Security Studies in Canada Today 

2002

• International Reserves Conference – Bridging the Gap: Reserve Forces and their Role in Civil Society