2025 Symposium: TBD

Stay tuned—details for the 2025 Trottier Symposium are coming soon!

Annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design

Each year the Institut de l’énergie Trottier (IET) at Polytechnique Montréal and the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED) at McGill University take turns hosting this event. Made possible through the generous support of Dr. Lorne Trottier, this is a forum for students, professors, government, and industry professionals to connect with the general public on advancements for sustainability through engineering and design. This series has been made possible by the generous gift from the Trottier Family Foundation

2020: Lessons from a Pandemic: Solutions for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis

2019: Climate Change: Passively suffer or reinvent our societies?

2018: Planning for Resiliency in the Face of Climate Change

2017: What’s Fuelling the Transition?

2016: Renewables: What holds us back? What moves us ahead?

Highlighted past speakers

Victor Galaz

Associate Professor in Political Science (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University). Program Director, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. Author “Dark Machines”

Sofia Kabbej

Associate researcher at the
the Climate, Energy and Security Unit at the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS)

Philippe Bihouix

Engineer and Managing Director of AREP, a multi-disciplinary agency and subsidiary of SNCF (National Society of French Railway)

Henk Ovink

First Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands