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December 2025

Greetings Real Property Community,

At the close of 2025, on behalf of RPIC’s Board of Directors, I want to offer our sincere thanks to the many people who helped make this year’s learning programming a success. The adage is true: it takes a village.

This year marked a milestone for RPIC. We consolidated multiple workshops and streams into our inaugural three-day National Summit. What made the Summit so meaningful wasn’t only the program – it was the community behind it. Our “village” included hundreds of contributors—speakers and presenters, volunteers and mentors, board members, partners and exhibitors, and the Summit Co-Chairs and Organizing Committee—who showed up with expertise, energy, and care.

We are grateful to the speakers, presenters, mentors, partners, and exhibitors who took part in RPIC’s programming for 2025 and shared their expertise, practical lessons and lived experience.  To the many volunteers RPIC relies upon, please know that your efforts made all the difference throughout the year.  I also want to recognize our RPIC Summit Co-Chairs, Claudia Beauchemin, Sophia Wong, and Tom Ford, along with the Summit Organizing Committee, for the dedication and engagement that brought the program to life. Your collective efforts brought the program to life and created the conditions for learning, connection, and real collaboration.

Collage of photos from the RPIC 2025 Summit

Over the years, one lesson has become increasingly clear: real property is not defined by a single discipline or specialty. Federal real property is truly multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted, and outcomes depend on how well we connect the dots across functions and communities. Strategy and service delivery, planning and project execution, asset management and workplace, sustainability and climate resilience, procurement and contracting, finance, IM/IT and data, Indigenous relations, security, accessibility, HR, and occupational health and safety are not parallel tracks. They intersect every day in the work we do.

That reality is not a problem to solve. It is where stronger decisions are made. By bringing streams together and creating shared learning spaces this year, RPIC set out to help practitioners build a common language, learn from one another, and strengthen the relationships that support collaboration when it matters most.

A consistent message throughout the Summit programming was clear: in periods of constraint and change, professional development remains essential. It strengthens judgment, sharpens decision-making, and gives teams practical tools to navigate complexity with confidence.

That is why RPIC exists. RPIC serves the federal real property community by convening a national network of practitioners to share practical experience, strengthen professional standards, and build capacity across the sector. Our impact has grown alongside the community itself, powered by your participation, your generosity, and your commitment to a stronger profession.

I also want to highlight the 2025 RPIC Awards of Excellence, presented on November 26, 2025, during the Summit. Congratulations to all nominees and recipients. Your work is shaping the future of the profession and raising the bar for what is possible through innovation, leadership, and partnership.

I encourage you to watch and share the award winners’ video:

2025 Real Property Awards of Excellence Winners

2025 Real Property Awards of Excellence Winners

A special thank you as well to CORCAN for their partnership in producing the new award plaques, and for the RPIC coasters that quickly became an overwhelming participant favourite. This partnership is a strong example of what we can be achieved when purpose-driven organizations work together in service of community.

Finally, I am pleased to announce that the RPIC National Summit will be held October 27-29, 2026, at the Rogers Centre Ottawa. I look forward to announcing programming details in 2026. As registration sold out in 2025, I encourage you to consider including this in your learning plans for the new fiscal year.

RPIC 2026 Summit Hero Image

In the interim, stay connected by following RPIC on LinkedIn, where we will continue sharing updates, including details on our 2026 programming as it is released.

On behalf of RPIC’s Board of Directors, I wish you a wonderful holiday season and the very best in the new year.

Kind Regards,

Jérémie Emond

RPIC President
Real Property Institute of Canada


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