Special Event and Conference Planning

Initiating and organizing major conferences and public events can be a daunting task. So why start from ground zero and leave much of the event planning to chance?

We can take the worry out of planning, organizing, and running events in a polished, professional, and cost-effective fashion. We make it much easier to establish a theme, identify speakers, and develop a winning, engaging conference, symposium, or public education program.

We bring much experience to the formidable challenge of initiating, planning and coordinating national, regional, or local public events. Our Director is widely known for his role in initiating and organizing major professional development conferences, lively public issues forums, dynamic youth conferences, and news-breaking media conferences.

Our Lead Consultant is a seasoned planner of education forums, conferences and webinars. Over the past five years, he has planned and managed national conferences in his capacity as National Coordinator of researchED Canada.  Paul established and chaired a national committee responsible for organizing the first Canadian researchED Conference on November 10-11, 2017 at Trinity College, University of Toronto. 

Since 2017, Dr. Bennett has taken an active role in the planning of the regular national conferences of researchED. As National Coordinator of researchED in Canada, Paul has initiated and guided the planning of six national conferences, including researchED Halifax (November 12, 2022), Cross-Canada researchED, Halifax and Vancouver, November 4, 2024), and researchED Toronto (University of Toronto Schools, May 30-4, 2024). 

Public policy forums are Paul’s forte and he has initiated many, and presented at most of them, over the years.  One of the more recent was the lively Public Forum on “Re-engineering Education,” cosponsored with AIMS, at Halifax Central Library in March of 2018. Working with the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy at Dalhousie University, Dr. Bennett planned and organized the October 14, 2020 Policy Panel Discussion focused on the “U.S. Presidential Election: What’s at Stake for Canada?”  Under the auspices of the Canadian International Council (Halifax Branch), he co-chaired and planned the joint-virtual panel program with ACIC Atlantic Canada on “The Pandemic and the World’s Children’ held February 9, 2021.

One of our current projects is “The Great Debate and Public Talk” on “The United Nations and its Future,” September 11, 2024, featuring the Hon. Bob Rae, Canada’s UN Ambassador, and a team of Nova Scotia’s top university and high school debaters. It is co-sponsored by the Canadian International Council, Halifax Branch, in collaboration with Halifax Public Libraries. 

You can count upon Schoolhouse Consulting to make your special public event happen – in real time or on the web!