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CIRI's 2026 Senior Leadership Day

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A selective, executive-level elite master summit designed specifically for seasoned Canadian IROs to tackle high-level macroeconomics, influence in the boardroom, and organizational leadership.

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Wednesday, Oct 7 • 9:00 AM - 4:10 PM
Lumi Experience Venue 200 Bay Street, North Tower, Suite 1600, Toronto, ON M5J 2T6
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Modern Consensus Management: Shifting from Grunt Work to High-Stakes Judgment

11:40 – 12:25 PM

Speaker: Darrell Heaps

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Consensus estimate management is one of IR’s most technically demanding disciplines, and one with direct consequences for how the market values your company. Yet, most IR teams manage it by stitching together spreadsheets, broker portals, and ad hoc calls. Drawing on decades of experience and new research with senior IR practitioners, Darrell Heaps, Q4’s Chief Strategy Officer, explores how agentic workflows are modernizing the entire process.

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About the Speaker
Darrell Heaps
Darrell Heaps is a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career building transformative software companies. As the Founder and CSO of Q4, Darrell is the visionary behind the Q4 Platform™ and a pioneer in AI-driven IR. He spearheaded the creation of Q, the industry’s first AI-powered IRO Agent™, revolutionizing IR workflows by embedding intelligence into the heart of the capital markets. Under his leadership, Q4 acquired Virtua Research, integrating deep consensus analytics to set a new global standard for managing market expectations. Darrell studied Business and Computer Science at York University.
Key Takeaways:
Eliminating Valuation Risk:
Why manual consensus tracking creates hidden market risks, and why old-school spreadsheets can't keep up. 
Strategic Agility
How AI frees IROs from operational noise so they can focus on high-stakes judgment calls, like framing guidance narrative and managing executive expectations. 
Next-Gen IR Workflows
 Practical steps to implement agentic AI for the speed, accuracy, and control your IR program needs.