DCS-06 revision, draft two
Passive shipper qualification for regional freight. The main change is a four-day winter profile and a revised acceptance rule for phase-change payloads.
Events · Autumn 2026
Where the work gets argued about in person.
Standards ballots, course cohorts, comment sessions and one annual assembly. Members attend webinars and regional briefings at no cost; everything else is priced below to cover the room and the coffee.
21–22 October 2026 · Winnipeg
Cold Chain Assembly 2026
Two days, one room, no exhibition hall. The Assembly is where standards ballots are held, where members present the year’s hardest anonymised cases in front of people who will push back, and where the corridor dataset is released.
Sector tables on the afternoon of day one run in parallel: pharmaceutical distribution, hospital pharmacy, fresh produce, seafood, and carriers. Each table produces one written recommendation that goes to the standards committees.
- Delegate fee
- $690 CAD members · $940 CAD non-members · $340 for candidates in current cohorts
- Venue
- RBC Convention Centre, 375 York Avenue, Winnipeg
- Capacity
- 400 delegates; 2025 sold out five weeks ahead
- Sponsorship
- Six tables available. Sponsors get a table and a listing, no speaking slot and no committee seat.
Provisional schedule. The ballot session is open to
Operating and Network members with voting rights; everything else is open to all delegates.
Calendar
What is scheduled
Course cohorts are added roughly a quarter ahead. If a date or city you need is not listed, ask — we will run a cohort anywhere with eight or more confirmed candidates.
26Aug 2026
DCS-06 open comment session — draft two
Online, 13:00–14:30 CT. The committee walks through the passive shipper qualification draft and takes questions live. Free, open to everyone, recorded and posted within a week.
Free · Online · No registration cap09Sep 2026
CCH-1 handler cohort — Winnipeg
Two days at the Waverley Street lab. Six seats remaining at time of writing.
$745 CAD member rate · 18 seats17Sep 2026
Winter Corridor Workshop — Saskatoon
One day, hands-on, ahead of the season. Pre-conditioning, nose-of-trailer freeze risk, dwell limits and held-load procedure under DCS-03.
$495 CAD · 30 seats · Runs Sept–Nov01Oct 2026
Members’ technical webinar — calibration findings
What DCS-09 findings looked like across 71 audits in 2025, and the four record-keeping failures behind most of them.
Free to members · 60 minutes21Oct 2026
Cold Chain Assembly 2026 — Winnipeg
Our annual two-day meeting: standards ballots, anonymised case reviews, the corridor dataset release and the annual general meeting. 340 delegates in 2025.
$690 member / $940 non-member · Two days05Nov 2026
Regional briefing — Montréal (bilingual)
Half a day on DCS-02 and DCS-03 changes, delivered in French and English. Free to members, $120 otherwise.
Bilingual · Half day · 80 seats19Nov 2026
EXI-3 excursion investigator cohort — Toronto
Two days working real anonymised case files, from securing the data to writing a conclusion a receiver will accept.
$1,690 CAD member rate · 16 seatsAll times are local to the host city. Winnipeg events are Central Time. Cancellation terms match the certification policy: full refund to 21 days, 50% to 7 days, substitutions free at any point.
Open for comment
Two documents are in their comment window
Anyone may comment. You do not need to be a member, and comments from operators who have never read a standards document before are the ones committees find most useful.
Closes 30 Sep 2026
Closes 14 Nov 2026
TB-31 draft: northern fly-in handover
Handover practice at airstrips and marine terminals serving fly-in and seasonal-road communities, where the receiver may not be present at delivery.