
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
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