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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) is one of Canada’s leading business law firms, serving a national and international client base. Our integrated network of offices provides clients with access to the full spectrum of our capabilities in virtually every area of business law.

We believe diversity is a strength to celebrate. We work with leading diversity and inclusion organizations like Women+Power to make effective, sustainable change. Diversity and inclusion are not ideas on the perimeter of our business. They are at the core of our ability to help our clients succeed and our people thrive.

As a testament to our commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace, Blakes was named one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers for 2024 by Mediacorp Canada Inc., an honour we have received 14 times since 2008. The plurality of voices that inform our policies and actions reflect the diversity of our clients and communities, and ultimately allow us to effectively and creatively meet our clients’ needs in an evolving global marketplace.

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Siemens Energy Canada Limited has been working with its customers on solutions for the evolving demands of industry and society for almost 110 years. Siemens Energy Canada offers broad expertise across the entire energy value chain, along with a comprehensive portfolio for utilities, independent power producers, transmission system operators, the oil and gas industry, and other energy-intensive industries. With its products, solutions, systems, and services, Siemens Energy Canada addresses the extraction, processing, and transport of oil and gas as well as power and heat generation in central and distributed thermal power plants, and power transmission and technologies for the energy transformation, including storage and sector-coupling solutions. With its commitment to leading the way in decarbonization of the energy system, Siemens Energy Canada is the partner of choice for companies, government, and customers who are on their path to a more sustainable future. With about 1,500 employees working together coast-to-coast, Siemens Energy Canada will shape the energy system of today and tomorrow.

To learn more about Siemens Energy, click here.

Dentons is designed to be different. As the world’s largest global law firm with over 160 locations in more than 80 countries, Dentons helps its clients grow, protect, operate and finance their businesses. Dentons has a purpose-driven approach, a strong commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and ESG, and challenges the status quo to stay focused on what matters most to its clients and community.

To learn more about Dentons Canada LLP, click here.

Iconic Power Systems Inc. (ICONIC) is headquartered in Calgary, AB with additional offices in Edmonton, AB, Guelph, ON and Buffalo, NY. Since 2008, ICONIC has been constructing the critical infrastructure that connects people to power.

ICONIC partners with utility companies, independent power producers (IPPS), EPCMs, and General Contractors across traditional and renewable power industries to deliver safe, predictable, and professional power construction projects.

ICONIC provides integrated services including engineering, earthworks, distribution, high voltage utility construction, panel fabrication and storm restoration services.

ICONIC is committed to fostering an environment of diversity and inclusion. Initiatives such as Women + Power align with this commitment.

“Inclusivity unites us, and we garner strength through diversity. Our sponsorship of Women+Power is a commitment towards transformational change in the power industry. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive, barrier-free environment that values and recognizes the diverse talents of all people thereby creating an industry that encourages creativity and inspires innovation.”

Jay Bruchet, President

To learn more about Iconic Power Systems, click here.

Osler is a leading law firm with a singular focus – your business. From Toronto, Montréal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, we advise our Canadian, U.S. and international clients on an array of domestic and cross-border legal issues. Our collaborative “one firm” approach draws on the expertise of over 450 lawyers to provide responsive, proactive and practical legal solutions driven by your business needs. For over 150 years, we’ve built a reputation for solving problems, removing obstacles, and providing the answers you need, when you need them.

To learn more about Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, click here.

Maskwa Environmental Consulting Ltd. (Maskwa) is based in Calgary, Alberta and provides professional consulting services to power-sector clients in western Canada. The solutions offered by Maskwa include regulatory strategy development and implementation, planning and permitting, environmental services, stakeholder engagement, and GIS services.

While Maskwa has seen significant success and growth over the past few years, their leadership team is committed to ongoing improvement and exploring ways to create a corporate culture that fosters continued, profitable growth. They acknowledge that this is likely to require multiple initiatives working in concert versus any single initiative alone. However, one of the more salient, recent actions they have undertaken has been to encourage diversity and inclusion in their workplace. One of the ways this is being done is by supporting Women+Power and their aim of empowering women in the power industry to achieve their full professional and personal potential.

“We recognize that the desire to have increased inclusivity and diversity in the workplace is not unique to Maskwa. We also believe that our commitment to this overall initiative, and the support of Women+Power, will at least contribute to the larger movement driving for transformational change to create a more diverse and inclusive power industry in Alberta. Success here will have positive outcomes for our staff, for our overall company performance, and for our industry”

Vice President, Maskwa

To learn more about Maskwa Environmental Consulting Ltd., click here.

Heartland Generation Ltd. is a privately-owned power generation company with 10 generation facilities in Alberta and British Columbia. Heartland Generation provides more than 2,660 MW (gross) of safe and reliable electricity to industrial, commercial and residential customers and is the second largest merchant generator in Alberta. Heartland Generation is actively advancing its clean energy transition with a focus on exploring alternative, carbon neutral fuel sources to power future generations sustainably.

To learn more, visit the Heartland website.

FortisAlberta delivers safe and reliable electricity service to more than 60 per cent of Alberta’s total electricity distribution network — that’s electricity to more than half a million residential, farm and business customers from across central and southern Alberta. FortisAlberta operates in 240 communities with more than 124,000 kilometres of power lines. As an electricity provider, FortisAlberta builds, maintains and repairs the lines that keep the power on. Their team of more than 1,100 Albertans, including 350 lineworkers, are at your service today and every day, across more than 50 municipal districts and counties.

To learn more about FortisAlberta, click here.

For well over a century, TransAlta has supplied the electrical power needed to make progress and innovation possible in Alberta and beyond. Today, we own, operate, and develop a diverse fleet of electrical power generation assets in Canada, the United States, and Australia. TransAlta is one of Canada’s largest producers of wind power and Alberta’s largest producer of hydroelectric power. We believe a strong focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) will drive performance in innovation, improve service to our customers, and positively impact the communities where we all live. Supporting organizations like Women+Power directly aligns with our ED&I values and supports our targets to:

• achieve 50 per cent female representation on the Board of Directors by 2030
• achieve 40 per cent female gender balance across all employees by 2030
• maintain equal pay for women in equivalent roles as men

For the past two years, TransAlta was named in Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index and Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Women Lead Here list.

To learn more, visit www.TransAlta.com.

Burns & McDonnell is a family of companies bringing together an unmatched team of 10,000 engineers, construction and craft professionals, architects, and more to design and build our critical infrastructure. With an integrated construction and design mindset, we offer full-service capabilities. Founded in 1898 and working from more than 60 offices globally, Burns & McDonnell is 100% employee owned. Learn how we are designed to build.

We provide comprehensive services that cover the full life cycle of a project, from initial assessments to Design Engineering, Design Build, EPC Project execution in multiple sectors, finding cost-saving solutions to meet your specific needs. Our services cover multiple markets across the full project lifecycle to bring you and your projects seamless breadth and depth of knowledge and skills. At Burns & McDonnell, we embrace the way our differences enrich the way we see the world, our business and each other. We’re proud of our culture of inclusion and deeply desire to harness the strength of our diversity. We promote, share and encourage diversity, equity and inclusion within the workplace through various efforts, events and communication platforms. Every employee-owner’s unique story and perspective is valued regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or family background. We identify, first and foremost, as fellow owners. Among our MacCulture Principles is “One Burns & McDonnell: We respect all, are accountable to all and trust in all.”

Burns & McDonnell is proud to be a sponsor of Women + Power. “As an active member in this community, we believe we can continue to jointly develop opportunities to promote increased diversity and inclusion in the Alberta power sector and beyond.” Darcy Wagner, Managing Director

To learn more about Burns & McDonnell, click here.

IPPSA was founded in 1993 as a forum for dialogue among Alberta’s power producers and a proponent of competition in Alberta’s electricity market. IPPSA has more than 100 members, who operate nearly 100% of Alberta’s power supply.

IPPSA is an advocate of competitive market principles and is actively engaged with the provincial government and its agencies in developing policies that promote competitive market outcomes, being driven by the belief that competition rewards innovation, provides new choices and creates a downward pressure on market prices for consumers. IPPSA is involved in the review of legislation, regulations and market rules and has testified before the Alberta Utilities Commission. IPPSA has committed to demonstrating its support of Women+Power in meaningful ways.

To learn more about IPPSA, click here.