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The 2025 Program

Schedule

Jun 19

Jun 19

Royal Canadian Geographical Society Headquarters

GLEX SUMMIT CANADA | MORNING SESSION

GLEX SUMMIT CANADA | AFTERNOON SESSION

GLEX SUMMIT CANADA | MORNING SESSION

Jun 19 | 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM

9:O0 AM | Opening Session

Welcome with Richard Wiese and John Geiger

Session 1 : Tracing Legacies: From ancestral stewardship to polar shipwrecks

9:10 AM

Valerie Courtois - National leader in the movement of Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship

9:25 AM | Shipwreck Panel

David Mearns - Marine Scientist

Mensun Bound - Maritime Archaeologist

Jonathan Moore - Underwater Archaeologist

John Geiger - CEO of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Canadian Geographic Enterprises

10:00 AM | Coffee-Break

Session 2: Defying Limits: Discoveries across planets, species, and summits

11:00 AM

Sara Seager - Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist

11:20 AM

Charles Emogor - Conservationist and Tropical Ecologist

11:40 AM

Hari Budha Magar - Double below-the-knee amputee completing the 7 summits

12:00 AM | Lunch Break

GLEX SUMMIT: CANADA | AFTERNOON SESSION

Jun 19 | 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM

Session 3: New Frontiers: Life, storytelling, and humanity revealed

2:00 PM

Oliver Steeds - Founder and Chief Executive of Nekton and Director of Ocean Census

2:20 PM

Gunjan Menon - Conservation filmmaker

2:40 PM

Giles Duley - Photographer and CEO of Legacy of War Foundation

3:00 PM | Tea Break

Session 4: Origins and Cosmos: understanding where we come from

4:00 PM

Louise Leakey - Palaeoanthropologist

4:30 PM

Brian Cox - Physicist and Host of BBC Science Programs.

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