Leaders at BHER's 2026 Executive Summit were clear: without coordinated workforce planning, capital alone will not deliver the energy outcomes we urgently need.
As sponsors of the 2026 Global Energy Show, BHER looks forward to discussions on coordinating talent supply across Canada’s energy economy and the most effective strategies for improving labour mobility, workforce deployment, and skills transferability.
BHER CEO Val Walker will lead the Executive Leadership Roundtable on ‘Coordinating Canada’s Energy Workforce: Building Mobility and Talent Supply Chains.’ As Canada accelerates investment across oil and gas, LNG, CCUS, hydrogen, nuclear, critical minerals, and other emerging technologies, major projects are increasingly competing for the same skilled talent. Workforce constraints are becoming a growing risk to project delivery, making it imperative to strengthen Canada’s energy talent supply chain to meet both immediate labour market demands and long-term workforce needs.
BHER is well positioned to lead this discussion, and ready to share insights on how work-integrated learning (WIL) as well as business + higher ed collaboration can help stakeholders — including employers, post-secondaries, unions, governments, and intermediary organizations — build the talent pipelines we need to meet the needs of a growing economy.