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Pro-Demnity’s 2024 OAA Conference Materials

Pro-Demnity is proud to support the architectural profession in its pursuit of Housing: Pushing the Envelope at the 2024 OAA Conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario. We are pleased to be a lead sponsor again this year.

The conference resources below provide you with the latest tools and knowledge to help you and your firm navigate risk in a wise, efficient and effective manner.

Join us at the Pro-Demnity booth for a fun try at building your own House of Cards and a chance to win a customized Risk Education presentation from Pro-Demnity for your firm (valued at $1250.00 CDN). See instructions and contest rules below.

Resources/Presentations

Risks of Expedited Housing Design and Construction. Leslie Parker, Senior Architect and Iliana Arapis, VP Client Experience.

LL1: Professional Liability Insurance for Architects
Presented by: Andrea Lalonde, VP, Underwriting
Qualifies for 1 Structured CE credit.
Wednesday, May 22 12:30 pm to 1:30 p.m.

CE32: A House of Cards: Risks in Residential Design
Moderated by: John Hackett, VP Practice Risk Management
Presenters: Phil Ghosh, Managing Counsel; Leslie Parker, Senior Architect; Salvador Knafo, Lead Architect.
Qualifies for 1.5 Structured CE credit.
Thursday, May 23 10:30 am – 12 noon

Best-in-class Professional Liability Insurance: Learn more about the refreshed Professional Liability Insurance Policy and supporting FAQs.

NEW: Take the Architectural Risk Management Assessment Review (ARM/r) for a quick way to potentially identify gaps in your risk management systems. Check your ARM/r now!

To download any of the following resources, click on the ellipses embedded with the resource shown and select “Download PDF File”.

Join us at the Pro-Demnity booth for a fun try at building your own House of Cards and a chance to win a customized Risk Education presentation from Pro-Demnity for your firm (valued at $1250.00 CDN).

Simply:

  1. Build your House of Cards to a minimum of three levels.
  2. Take a picture of it.
  3. Upload the photo to your professional (or your firm’s) LinkedIn profile and promote it!
  4. Be sure to Follow Us on LinkedIn.
  5. Tag Pro-Demnity.

HOUSE OF CARDS CONTEST RULES: House of Cards designs which reach or exceed three levels AND garner a minimum of 5 “Likes” on LinkedIn qualify to be entered in a random draw for a chance to win a customized 2-hour Risk Education presentation from Pro-Demnity to an OAA Certificate of Practice in good standing that is also a Pro-Demnity policyholder in good standing at the time of the draw. Prize valued at $1250.00 CDN. Your House of Cards must be built at our OAA Conference booth between May 22 to May 24, 2024, and you must be an attendee of the OAA Conference, an OAA or an architectural intern in Ontario to enter. Group entries are accepted as long as the group is employed by the same firm. Prize draw will be made on Monday, May 27th. Winner will be contacted directly and announced in the June edition of the Straight Line Newsletter. Prize to be delivered in Ontario at a mutually agreed upon time and place prior to June 30th, 2025. Odds of winning depend on the number of qualified entries received. This Pro-Demnity contest is run separately and independently from the OAAs daily prize contest during the 2024 OAA Conference.

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