Welcome to the 2025 SAA Conference and AGM!
May 1 - 3, 2025
Join us on Thursday, May 1st to Saturday, May 3rd 2025 at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon for the annual SAA Conference and AGM.
The theme for this year's conference is the '
V
alue of Architecture
". We will kick this year's event off by celebrating the Prairie Design Awards on Thursday evening. Friday is a full day of speakers, a panel, and many opportunities for conversation amongst architects and industry peers. Cap the evening off by attending the annual President's Dinner. Saturday is a morning of member forums and the SAA's Annual General Meeting. Conference weekend wraps up for another year after lunch.
Come be a part of this exciting event and gain valuable insights into the world of architecture. See you there!
2025 SAA Conference Agenda
:
Thursday May 1st , 2025 - Remai Modern
7:00 - 9:00 pm
: Prairie Design Awards (includes light snacks and cash bar)
9:
00 - 11:00 pm
: Social (cash bar)
Friday May 2nd, 2025 - Remai Modern
7 :30 - 8:30 am
: Breakfast and Conference Registration
8 :30- 9:00 am
: Welcome and Opening Remarks by SAA President, Louis Aussant. Land Acknowledgement by Lyndon Linklater.
9 :00 - 10:00 am
: Speaker 1: Robert Pertzborn
1 0:00 - 10:30 am
: Refreshment/Coffee Break
1 0:30 - 11:30 am
: Speaker 2: Eladia Smoke
1 1:30 - 12:30 pm
: Lunch
1 2:30 - 1:30 pm
: Speaker 3: Philip Evans
1 :30 - 2:00 pm
: Break
2 :00 - 3:00 pm
: Speaker 4: Susan Fitzgerald
3 :00 - 3:30 pm
: : Refreshment/Coffee Break
3 :30 - 4:30 pm
: Panel Discussion, Moderated by Candace Wasacase
4:30 pm
: Closing Remarks
6:00 - 7:00 pm
: Cocktail Hour
7:00 - 8:30 pm:
 
President's Dinner
8:30 pm - 12:00 am
: After Party (Alt Hotel)
Saturday May 3rd , 2025 - Remai Modern
7:30 - 8:15 am
: Breakfast
8:15 - 9:15 am
: Member Forum Session 1
9:15 - 10:15 am
: Member Forum Session 2
10 :30 - 11:00 am
: Refreshment/Coffee Break
1 1:00 - 12:00 pm
: SAA Annual General Meeting (AGM)
1 2:00 pm:
 
Lunch
1 :30 pm:
 
End of Conference
Speakers Information
Robert Pertzborn:
Rob is a registered Montana Architect, a practicing Planner and a senior Principal at Intrinsik Architecture. Intrinsik, celebrating 25 years, is a full-service design firm, with a roster of 18 team members, based in Bozeman, Montana.
Rob bridges the gap between buildings and neighborhoods. Rob has worked in design and planning for over 30 years and has a wide range of experience ranging from historic, civic and commercial renovations to land and municipal facilities planning to designing infill urban mixed-use projects and multihousehold residences.
Rob is from Madison, Wisconsin and lived in the Twin Cities before settling in Bozeman in 1989. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Montana State University.
KaaSheGaaBaaWeak | Eladia Smoke, OAA | MAA | FRAIC | LEED®AP:
KaaSheGaaBaaWeak | Eladia Smoke is Anishinaabekwe from Obishikokaang | Lac Seul First Nation, with family roots in Alderville First Nation, Winnipeg, and Toronto.
Eladia has worked in architecture since 2002. She founded Smoke Architecture as principal architect in 2014; is a founding partner of Oshkaabewis Engineering & Consulting, established 2024; and is an inaugural board member of Amplify Indigenous Voices in Architecture (AIVIA), in process 2024. She is the first Anishinaabekwe architect in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, the third Indigenous woman licensed as an architect in Canada.
Eladia is a founding member of RAIC’s Indigenous Task Force established 2016, and was a full-time faculty member at Laurentian’s McEwen School of Architecture from 2016 to 2022. Eladia serves on The International Union of Architects Indigenous Peoples Work Programme (UIA IPWP), the Toronto Urban Design Review Panel, and the Hamilton Climate Change Advisory Committee. Professional work includes internationally award-winning community-based and institutional projects working alongside Indigenous peoples and listening closely to our Elders.
Susan Fitzgerald:
D
r. Susan Fitzgerald 
is the design director of FBM and an associate professor at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Architecture and Planning in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Originally from the UK, she is both an architect and an interior designer involved in teaching, research, and practice. Susan’s design work has been the recipient of many accolades including the Canada Council for the Arts' Professional Prix de Rome, Governor General’s Medal in Architecture, the Wood Design Award, the EnRoute Air Canada Award, Maritime Design Awards, and multiple Lieutenant Governor’s Awards including the Medal of Excellence.
At Dalhousie University, she is the holder of multiple Social Science Humanities Research Council grants. Her work has been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), the Lisbon Triennale, RAIC Academic Summit, World Congress of Architects and her writing published by UCL Press (2023), Routledge Press (2022), Refuge Press (2020), among others. Dalhousie Architectural Press is releasing a book on the work of the practice later this year. Susan was made a fellow of the RAIC in 2015. In 2022 she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for service to architecture.
Philip Evans:
Philip Evans OAA, AAA, AIBC, NSAA, MRAIC, CAHP, is a principal at ERA Architects and the founder of Culture of Outports. Over the course of 17 years, he has led a range of conservation, adaptive reuse, design, and feasibility planning projects.
Philip is known for transforming challenges into opportunities. He gives sound advice and guidance to better manage cultural, heritage, and property assets to leverage economic success while maintaining the highest level of integrity. He brings a collaborative spirit to a diverse range of working relationships, and his clients have included private and public developers, communities, municipalities, provinces, and private citizens. He works both in the office and in the field, and has practiced on either side of (as well as within) the Atlantic. He appreciates working in a range of built environments, including urban, suburban, and rural settings.
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