BC WIN Summer '25 Social

BC WIN is pleased to invite you to our 2025 Summer Social Event at Norton Rose Fulbright’s Sky Garden! Register now to attend a fun evening of fabulous food, wine and networking.

This event is kindly sponsored by Norton Rose Fulbright with in-kind photography by Anja Weber.

Please note that photos will be taken at this event and may be used for marketing purposes. By registering and attending this event, you are consenting to the use of your photo.

Date and Time: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 5:30PM – 8:00PM PDT

Location: Norton Rose Fulbright's Sky Garden Telus Garden Building

510 W Georgia St Suite 1800 Registration on the 18th floor

Vancouver, BC V6B 0M3

Kindly only register once as space is limited and duplicate registrations may prevent other BC WIN members from attending. If you are no longer able to make the event, please cancel directly on Luma or by emailing us at bcwin@womensinfrastructure.ca. Each member wanting to attend the event must register individually. Tickets are non-transferable.

2025 WIN Award Nominees Announced

Celebrating Women in Canadian Infrastructure:

The 11th Annual WIN Awards!

We are continually humbled and honoured by the ongoing support of our members, volunteers and sponsors. As we gear up for the 11th Annual Awards Ceremony, stay tuned for exciting updates on our upcoming events.

This year we nominated 35 Outstanding Leaders and 31 Emerging Leaders. With 66 nominees total, this is one of our highest years yet!

Thank you for making 11 years of The WIN Awards possible. We look forward to hosting you at the ceremony and making this our best Awards Season yet!

Celebrate the Emerging Leaders with limitless potential.

Celebrate the Outstanding Leaders who pave the way.

The WIN Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2025

2025 WeWIN Mentorship Program Applications Open

We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2025 WeWIN mentorship program!

Program Details 🤩

The program requires a minimum 7-month commitment and will begin April 2025 and conclude in October 2025. Mentors and Mentees will be matched on a 1:1 basis and are encouraged to meet bi-weekly. However, it is at the discretion of the matched Mentor and Mentee to determine the frequency of meetings—all pairs are encouraged to find a rhythm that works for them!

Separate applications are available for interested Mentors and Mentees. You may apply to participate in both roles. Participation in the program is not guaranteed.

Applications Due Date 🗓

Please complete your application(s) by Friday, March 21, 2025.

Reach Out 📧

If you have any questions, please submit the contact form on the WIN website.

Thank you for your support!

Save the Date for our 2025 WIN Awards!

Celebrating Women in Canadian Infrastructure:

The 11th Annual WIN Awards!

The 2025 WIN Awards Ceremony will take place in six cities across Canada on Thursday, April 24th! Registration will be made available in the coming weeks. Make sure you are signed up to our mailing list to be the first to RSVP. Tickets tend to sell out quickly! Join our members list here.

In th mean time, nominate a leading woman in your network today! Nominations will close on February 11th at 12:00AM PST. Details below.

Celebrate the Emerging Leaders with limitless potential.

Celebrate the Outstanding Leaders who pave the way.

BC WIN 2025 Winter Social Event

We're pleased to invite you to the first BC WIN event of 2025! Register now to attend a fun evening of fabulous food, wine and networking.

Date & Time:

Thursday, January 23rd 2025

5:30PM to 8:00PM PST

Location:

Bennett Jones Offices

25th floor, 666 Burrard Street

Vancouver BC

This event is kindly sponsored by Bennett Jones LLP with in-kind photography by Anja Weber.

Please only register once as space is limited and duplicate registrations may prevent other BC WIN members from attending. If you are no longer able to make the event, please cancel directly on Eventbrite or by emailing us at bcwin@womensinfrastructure.ca. Tickets are not transferrable.

Please note that photos will be taken at this event and may be used for marketing purposes. By registering and attending this event, you are consenting to the use of your photo.

2025 WIN Award Nominations Open!

Celebrating Women in Canadian Infrastructure:

The 11th Annual WIN Awards!

We are continually humbled and honoured by the ongoing support of our members, volunteers and sponsors. As we gear up for the 11th Annual Awards Ceremony, stay tuned for exciting updates on our upcoming events.

Over the past 11 years, we have been honoured to receive over 480 nominations celebrating 14 Emerging Leader winners and 10 Outstanding Leader winners. Together, let’s nominate even more inspiring women to make the 2025 WIN Awards the most memorable yet!

We encourage you to nominate an amazing woman who teaches, leads, and courageously overcomes the challenges that we all face in the infrastructure industry.

Celebrate the Emerging Leaders with limitless potential.

Celebrate the Outstanding Leaders who pave the way.

Closing Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025

BC WIN Autumn Event & Fireside Chat

We are pleased to invite you to the BC WIN Autumn in-person event. Register now to attend a fun evening of fabulous food, wine and networking with fellow professionals working in the infrastructure industry.

We are pleased to feature a fireside chat discussing the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project and the women who are leading this complex work. The Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project is a highly complex BC infrastructure project where several key leadership roles are held by women. It has had challenges large infrastructure projects typically face along with several that no one would have expected like a global pandemic. This event will delve into the intricacies of managing diverse stakeholders and balancing work and personal life while leading such high-profile initiatives. Our discussion will also explore strategies for attracting and retaining more women in the infrastructure industry.

Moderator: Miranda Gathercole Proposal Manager, AECON

Panelists:

Behin Phua - Bid Manager, AECON

Behin graduated from UBC 14 years ago with a Bachelor in Applied Science and has been in the Heavy Civil Infrastructure Construction Industry since. She is currently the Bid Manager for Aecon and up to a few months ago was managing multiple scopes on the Pattullo Bridge Replacement project. Previously, she worked as a Project Manager on various infrastructure rehabilitation projects across Western Canada, and was a field engineer on 2 major infrastructure projects in Edmonton - the NW Anthony Henday and NE Anthony Henday projects.

Wendy Itagawa - Executive Project Director Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project, TI Corp

Wendy is the Executive Project Director for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. She is an accomplished Engineer with experience on complex infrastructure projects in both the private and public sectors. She has been involved in some of B.C.’s largest public infrastructure projects during their definition, procurement, and implementation phases. Wendy’s major project experience includes the Sea to Sky Highway, the South Fraser Perimeter Road, the Evergreen SkyTrain Extension, and the Calgary West LRT Project. The Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project is being delivered by the Transportation Investment Corporation (TI Corp), which is a subsidiary of the BC Transportation Finance Authority (BCTFA). Wendy leads the delivery of the Bridge Replacement Project while managing the owner’s team of professionals and overseeing the design-build contractor’s team.

Kelly McBride - Quality Director, AECON

Kelly has been in heavy civil infrastructure projects for 36 years. In those 36 years she has been a field coordinator, superintendent, general superintendent, project engineer, project manager and quality manager/quality director and has had the pleasure to be on a various types of projects that have included Bid/Build, Design-Build and P3 that have ranged from hydro-electric, transmission lines, heavy infrastructure, and aerospace in both the US and Canada. With her wide range of project experience, she has a unique perspective on what makes for a successful project and quality program.

Date & Time:

Thursday October 17th, 2024

5:30pm – 8pm PDT

Location:

FUNK. Coffee Bar

1025 Dunsmuir St,

Vancouver BC V7X 1M5

This event is kindly sponsored by AECON. Photography is sponsored in-kind by Anja Weber Photography.

Please note that photos will be taken at this event and may be used for marketing purposes. By registering and attending this event, you are consenting to the use of your photo.

Kindly only register once, as space is limited and duplicate registrations may prevent other members from attending.

Episode 5 of WIN Canada Podcast now Live!

Episode 5 of ‘A WINning Perspective’ titled "The Leaky Pipeline" is now availalbe. Featuring guests Sherena Hussain, Kitty Chan and Julia Stefanishin.

Listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

BC WIN Summer Event & Fireside Chat

We are pleased to feature a fireside chat discussing how, with British Columbians heading to the polls in October 2024 and a federal election on the horizon, changes in the public affairs and political landscape will have an impact on infrastructure planning and development in BC communities.

Host: Karen Hamberg, Partner & National Clean Technology Leader, Deloitte Canada

Speaker: Government relations expert Anna Lilly

Anna Lilly is a Principal at Earnscliffe Strategies in Vancouver specializing in local government affairs. With 25 years of experience in media, government and communications, Anna has worked with municipal and regional governments to support the development of critical infrastructure, public transit and housing.

Date & Time:

Wednesday July 10th, 2024

5:30pm – 8pm PDT

Location:

Rooftop – Deloitte Summit tower

410 W. Georgia Street, Vancouver

Registration on 23rd floor

This event is kindly sponsored by Deloitte Canada

Please note that photos will be taken at this event and may be used for marketing purposes. By registering and attending this event, you are consenting to the use of your photo.

Please only register once, as space is limited and duplicate registrations may prevent other members from attending.

Episode 3 and 4 of WIN Canada Podcast now live!

Episode 3: Designing a World Not Designed for Us featuring Divya Shah, Tamara Vrooman and Kimberly Doran discussing the hesitancy of failing, the importance of taking risks as a woman in megaprojects and pose the question, how do we empower women to get into decision-making roles; rewriting roles designed for men?

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Episode 4: Why Aren’t More Women in Senior Leadership? featuring Vice President of EY in the Infrastructure Advisory Practice, Ottawa - Shormila Chatterjee along with trailblazers Dani Delaloye, Chloe Ho and Joanna Kervin sit down for a chat about the importance of staying curious by continuously asking questions in your career, embracing risks and challenges as a woman in the infrastructure sector. and much more!

Listen to the episode below or on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Episode 2 of The WIN Canada Podcast

Episode 2 of ‘A WINning Perspective’ offers an insightful discussion with panelists Shormila Chatterjee, Dr. Diana Nada and Johanne Mullen regarding why women are leaving the infrastructure industry.

Listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Click the button below listen on the website or on either image below for your preferred platform.

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Women's Infrastructure Network Podcast now Live!

Episode 1 of ‘A WINning Perspective’ is here. I feel so privileged to be able to have great conversation with amazing infrastructure leaders!

Listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Meet the Nominees Virtual Event

The WIN Awards Central Planning Committee and the WIN Chapters invite you to meet and network with the 2024 WIN Awards Nominees.

Join us for some lively break out discussions covering topics like career management and progression, boundaries and work-life balance to networking and self-promotion in the infrastructure industry.

We hope you can join us as we countdown to the big awards day!

WeWIN Mentorship Virtual Panel Event

We are pleased to invite you to our virtual WeWIN mentoring event - “Mentoring – Learning from our Experiences to Do it Even Better”.

The event will feature a panel of two mentor/mentee pairs from past WeWIN matchings and a pre-eminent coach on mentoring. This panel will discuss tackling the challenges and opportunities of mentoring and inspire the next WeWIN pairs.

Panelists:

Mentor: Andrea McLean, Senior Vice President, Asset Management – Infrastructure, Fengate
Mentee: Allison Burton, Program Manager, O&M Business Strategies & Improvement, Metro Vancouver

Mentor: Alexandra Oldford, Lead Consultant – Advisory Services, WSP
Mentee: Aabha Anjikar, Project Controls Specialist, BTY

Coach: Jan Carley, BA, CEC, MCC (Master Certified Coach), Creative Coaching Group
Moderator: Tricia Curmi, Chair of the WeWIN Committee

Countdown to the 10th Anniversary of the National WIN Awards Program:

This event will also be featured as part of the count down to the 10th anniversary of the National WIN Awards Program A Decade of Winning — Women's Infrastructure Network (womensinfrastructure.ca)

Photos/screen shots may be taken at this event and may be used for WIN marketing purposes. By registering and attending this event, you are consenting to the use of your photo.

BC WIN 2024 ASCE Panel Event

We are pleased to invite you our BC WIN event with the University of British Columbia (UBC) chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers.

The event will feature a panel of amazing women successfully making in-roads in construction in their roles as contractors, design engineers, and public sector owners on major infrastructure projects. This panel, “Engineering Careers in Construction” will discuss tackling the challenges and opportunities of the industry and the passion each of these women have for construction that will inspire the next generation of women engineers.

Panelists include:

• Katie Allan, Project Director, Kiewit
• Jessica Opeka, Senior Project Manager, Mott MacDonald
• Isabelle Weber-Concannon, Project Engineer, Metro Vancouver

This panel will be moderated by Briana Haiduc and Kimia Miraki, Co-Presidents of the UBC ASCE Student Chapter.

Countdown to the 10th Anniversary of the National WIN Awards Program

This event will also be featured as part of the count down to the 10th anniversary of the National WIN Awards Program A Decade of Winning — Women's Infrastructure Network.

Date and Time:
Monday, March 11, 2024
5:00PM to 9:00PM PST

Location:
Jack Poole Hall in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre,
6163 University Blvd.
Vancouver, BC
V6C 1Z1

Parking available adjacent to Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre.

This event is made possible by our sponsors Kiewit and Mott MacDonald and in-kind sponsor Anja Weber Photography.

Please note that photos will be taken at this event and may be used for marketing purposes. By registering and attending this event, you are consenting to the use of your photo.

Please only register once, as space is limited and duplicate registrations may prevent other members from attending.

An amazing evening—BC WIN 2022 Summer Social

BC WIN, with the generous support of SNC-Lavalin, hosted the 2022 Summer Social on September 1, 2022.

We had a wonderful time catching up—in person—and honouring the recent shortlisted WIN Awards nominees!

Do not miss out on awesome WIN events by becoming a member. Just complete the sign up form and you will be a part of this inredible organization!

Digital Capital Projects: Using Analytics to make more informed decisions

Deloitte is pleased to sponsor a webinar on Digital Capital Projects. The panel will discuss current Digital Capital Project trends and explore 2 case studies.

[Oct. 29, 2020] Workplaces and COVID-19 Safety Plans

2019 Women Deliver Gallery

On Friday, June 7, WIN BC hosted a 2019 Women Deliver Sattelite Session. The evening’s theme was perspectives on equity in infrastructure delivery.

Attendees met a number of the featured artists and the curator, who is the City’s Engineering Artist in Residence.

The evening began with a panel discussion, which highlighted perspectives on equity in infrastructure delivery. Following the fascinating discussion, food and wine was enjoyed atop the library's rooftop garden.