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 | |  | Have Questions? Get Answers at APEGA’s Virtual Registrant Forum on March 4!
Sign up today for APEGA’s Virtual Registrant Forum on March 4 from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. MST to learn what’s coming up for professional engineers, professional geoscientists, and permit holders in Alberta and pose your questions about regulation to our panel.
Registration closes March 2 at 12:00 p.m. MST. Register by February 25 to submit questions to the panel in advance of the forum. | | BRANCH EVENTS
| | Webinar | Beyond the Brackets: Strategic Tax Planning from Smart Investing to Estate Success 2/26/2026 12:00 p.m. This presentation will provide a foundational overview of how taxes affect your financial life, offering strategies for minimizing taxes at key life stages through smart investing, tax sheltering, charitable giving, optimized assets, and effective planning. Webinar | Heat to Electricity via the Organic Rankine Cycle 4/15/2026 11:00 a.m. This webinar will explore how waste heat sources can be converted into useful electrical power. Webinar | Contracts and Negotiations: Tips and Tricks 5/6/2026 11:00 a.m. This webinar equips entrepreneurs and business teams with practical insights into crafting and negotiating commercial contracts. | | APEGA EVENTS
| Webinar | Why Am I So Tired? 2/17/2026 12:00 p.m. This session explains the importance of sleep, explores its types, and teaches practical strategies to improve sleep quality, overcome fatigue, manage stress, and boost overall well-being. Webinar | The Seismic Elements of Early-Stage Carbon Storage Development 3/10/2026 12:00 p.m. Seismic data is critical for understanding subsurface conditions in carbon storage projects, helping ensure safety, manage risks, and optimize costs through site-specific planning from early development to ongoing monitoring. Webinar | Negotiating for Optimal Results 4/30/2026 10:00 a.m. This two-hour session explores how to balance achieving substantive negotiation outcomes with maintaining strong working relationships by examining mindsets and assumptions, contrasting positional bargaining with interest-based negotiation, and identifying strategies to create win-win value for both parties. | |  | Your Vote Matters: Self-Regulation Works When Members Show Up | APEGA Council decisions directly affect professional standards, governance, and public confidence in our professions.
Voting in the council election is one of the simplest ways that members can participate in self‑regulation. Voting closes March 5. Take a few minutes to review the candidates and vote in myAPEGA. |
|  | Volunteer for the Ballot Counting Committee | Support the integrity of the APEGA Council election by volunteering for the Ballot Counting Committee. It only takes two hours of your time to give back to your profession by verifying election results to ensure a fair, transparent election process. |
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| William Muir Edwards Citizenship Award Nominations Open – Up to five awards of $10,000 each are available to University of Alberta undergraduate students who are advocates for positive change, problem solvers, imaginative thinkers, and doers dedicated to serving their communities. | Beyond Boundaries Conference 2026 – Join the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades, and Technology (CCWESTT) in Calgary on May 23-26 for the Beyond Boundaries Conference. APEGA registrants can receive a 10% discount by using the code APEGACCWESTT2026. | | Why am I receiving this email? You have opted to receive non-regulatory email from APEGA. If you’d rather not receive these emails, you can unsubscribe. You will still receive regulatory email from APEGA. Please add [email protected] to your address book or safe-sender list to ensure our emails make it to your inbox. |
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