
2025 Hybrid Conference:
Governing Risk,
Navigating Uncertainty
Oct. 24, 25 & 26, 2025 - Mississauga, Ontario

2025 Conference
Join us at the 41st Annual Conference for a unique professional development, learning, and networking opportunity designed to help system directors prepare for future challenges and opportunities by developing forward-looking risk management plans and practices. This year's sessions include:
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Canada at a Crossroads (Keynote Address)
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Effective Boards and Risk Oversight
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Future-Proofing your Membership
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Risk Management Synergies
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Future-Ready Governance (a half-day Level CE CUDA course)
Guest Speakers
Our guest speakers are carefully selected to ensure they have the expertise and experience required to provide delegates with relevant and useful information to their role as Director.

2025 Sponsors
The Directors' Forum is truly grateful for all the support that our sponsoring organizations provide. With their help, we are able to plan, produce, and execute both the in-person and virtual programming that has been highly valued by our directors year after year.
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If your organization would like to support this year's programming, we would love to add your logo and recognize you before, during, and after each event! Please click the buttons below to view the Sector Proposal (for credit unions and caisses populaires) and the Stakeholder Proposal for other organizations that provide products and services to the financial sector. ​
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Thank you to those organizations that have confirmed their support of the 2025 fall conference and virtual programming throughout the year!
Professional Development Sponsor
The Canadian Credit Union Association (CCUA) is the national trade association for Canada's credit unions, caisses populaires (outside Quebec), and regional Centrals. Representing 173 credit unions and caisses populaires with $315 billion in assets, CCUA provides advocacy, research, education, compliance and other support to its members. CCUA is dedicated to the success of credit unions and promoting their values of putting members first and supporting local communities. To learn more, click on their logo.
Platinum Sponsors
Desjardins is a co-operative financial institution with the largest regional presence in Quebec and is also well established in Ontario. It was the first caisse founded in 1900 by Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins, and today serves 7.7 million members, has 56, 165 employees, and has had 2.379 elected directors! Desjardins has been ranked by Mediacorp Canada Inc. among Canada's Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People, and Greenest Employers, and has received the Women in Governance's Platinum Parity Certification, which recognizes the steps we're taking toward achieving equal representation of women at every level of the organization. To learn more, click their logo.
At Libro Credit Union, our purpose is to strengthen financial well-being for a better tomorrow. Libro is a full-service financial institution serving more than 119,000 member-Owners through a network of digital services and 30+ physical locations. As a trusted financial partner for over 80 years, our passionate staff and commitment to our communities sets Libro apart. Libro invests profits back into the people, businesses and communities we serve. One of the ways we do this is by supporting organizations making a positive local impact helping to address some of the most challenging issues in Ontario. Libro is also proudly committed to making positive social and environmental impact as a certified B Corporation®, as an associate member of the Responsible Investment Association, and as Living Wage employer. To learn more about what it means to bank with purpose, click on their logo.
With 17 branches and a network of surcharge-free ATMs, Ontarians can access financial services close to home across southwestern and northern Ontario. At $2.5 billion+ in assets under administration and 53,000 members strong (and growing!), YNCU is one of the largest credit unions in Ontario. As a community-based organization, not only do YNCU’s partnerships and investments make a difference, its employees live and work in the communities they serve. YNCU’s foundation is built on connectedness to the communities where it operates. Together with its members, employees and community partners, YNCU is helping to make life better in the places Ontarians live, work, learn and play! Click on their logo to learn more.
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