PLENARY SESSION AT RIMS CANADA CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The opening ceremonies of the 2012 RIMS Canada Conference Saskatoon: ‘Horizons: 2012’, held Sept. 9-12, started with plenary speaker Dan Gardner, author and journalist, speaking on ‘Getting Risk Right’ with references from his book Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear. Other speakers at the opening ceremonies included emcee Nowell Seaman, the University of Saskatchewan; Saskatoon conference co-chairs Doug Brown, City of Regina, and Lisa Brost, BHP Billiton; Betty Clarke, Chair, RIMS Canada Council, City of St. John’s; Mary Roth, executive director of RIMS and Deborah Luthi, RIMS president.