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Western Canada Apartment Investment Conference
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Edmonton Convention Centre

Byron Chard
President & CEO at Chard Properties
Speaker

Profile

Byron Chard is President & Chief Executive Officer of Chard Development Ltd, an urban real estate development firm established in 1994. As President & Chief Executive Officer, Byron has continued to extend the company’s focus beyond market condominium development to also include purpose-built rental, affordable home ownership, strata commercial and hotel development in Victoria, Vancouver and North Vancouver. To date, Chard has delivered over 1,700 homes with over 3,100 more homes, of which a majority are rental, and two hotel projects in the development and construction phase. Chard continues to expand its vertical integration and strategic partnerships to deliver a diversity of homes and community spaces including property management and asset management to service large scale purpose built rental communities.

Agenda Sessions

  • How to make it work in 2026? Who’s developing and how; strategies for driving development

    10:05am