Recorded at SHURE GTA (Toronto) on 16 October 2024.

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This is a free and open discussion with Canadian higher education stakeholders about their current challenges and opportunities. The discussion is friendly and comfortable, with multiple participants sharing first-hand stories, insights, and other observations based on their experiences. We are all in this together, and the goal of the open forum and roundtable is for these higher education planners to assess and prioritize the common factors impacting their day-to-day operations. Recorded at SHURE Initiative GTA on 15 October 2024. 

Recorded live at SHURE Initiative GTA & Eastern Canada on 16 October 2024 in Toronto.

Proposed Discussion Points:

Discussion Points:

A visionary entrepreneur and digital pioneer, Saurabh Arora has reshaped the landscape of student accommodation. Born and raised in Merit, he moved to New Delhi at 17 to pursue his education. An exchange program in Nottingham, UK, became the defining moment of his entrepreneurial journey, revealing a significant demand-supply gap in global student housing.

Canada, with its rapidly growth population, is attracting the interest of investors and private capital from various global regions.  Canada’s overall population recently exceeded California and would be the largest U.S. state by population. 

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While humans have been using geothermal heating and cooling since the Paleolithic era, it has only recently gained popularity and acceptance as a cleaner energy source that can reduce traditional costs by 20% or more. Over the next 30 minutes, you will hear Jimmy Leask, Director of Marketing & Business Development at British Columbia-based Geotility, a 50-year-old business that has become a geothermal leader, developing and delivering comprehensive sustainable energy systems.

The SHURE Initiative interviewed Fred Pierce, President and CEO of Pierce Education Properties, commonly known as PEP, a leading U.S. student housing investment and operating company. In addition to his real estate investment company, Mr. Pierce is very active with post-secondary institutions. In this interview, Mr. Pierce will discuss post-pandemic university priorities, real estate decision-making by university boards, enrollment trends, U.S. federal measures such as student loan forgiveness.