Martin Abrams has been a privacy innovator for nearly a quarter of century. Abrams is currently Executive Director and Chief Strategist at the Information Accountability Foundation, a non-profit formed to encourage information governance and innovation through research and education. Abrams was President of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, and Vice President Information Policy at Experian. For the past five years he has led the Global Accountability Project which has refined the accountability principle that is part of various data protection laws and guidance documents. His work has ranged from taking a values approach to privacy, to readable privacy notices, accountability based governance, and big data privacy governance. He has been deeply involved in the development of APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules and has organized privacy conferences and workshops in Asia, Latin America, Australia, North America and Europe.

As Oracle’s Vice President of Global Public policy, Mr. Alhadeff is responsible for coordinating and managing Oracle’s international and Internet-related policy issues.As Chief Privacy Strategist, Mr. Alhadeff oversees Oracle’s strategic planning and advocacy related to privacy, personal information protection and management across all Oracle operations and product areas as well as global fora.In addition to his role at Oracle, Mr. Alhadeff serves a prominent role in several influential international organizations dedicated to Internet policy, security and privacy. Mr Alhadeff serves as the BIAC Chair to the OECD ICCP Committee, head of industry delegation to the OECD Security Steering Group, and a Vice Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Digital Economy Committee. In the EU, Mr. Alhadeff serves as Chair of the Data Protection, Governance and Identity Management working group of the EU Expert Group on Cloud Computing. In the US, Mr. Alhadeff chairs the Digital Economy Committee for the US India Business Council, co-chairs EABC’s Information Governance working group and is Vice Chair of USCIB’s Information Policy Committee. Mr. Alhadeff is also the Chair of the US ASEAN’s Malaysia Committee, Vice-Chair of the US-ASEAN Business Council’s Technology Committee and serves on the NCAPEC Board. Mr Alhadeff also serves on the advisory boards of the Digital Security Council of India, and Wiredkids.org.Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Alhadeff was General Counsel and Vice President for Electronic Commerce for the US Council for International Business (USCIB) in New York. Mr. Alhadeff holds an M.B.A. in management and information systems from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and a B.A. from Oberlin College.

Steve Anderson is the founder and Executive Director of OpenMedia.ca. Steve is an open Internet advocate and commentator. His writing has appeared in numerous local and national print and online publications such as The Tyee, the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and the National Post. Steve is a contributing author of the CCPA book The Internet Tree. You can find Steve’s blog at http://openmedia.ca/SteveAnderson

Carman is a Senior Strategic Policy Analyst with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada where he provides policy advice on domestic and international privacy issues. Carman chairs a working group within the Office that studies and provides advice with respect to emerging privacy issues related to genetic information. Carman has made presentations on Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing, the forensic use of DNA and familial searching for law enforcement purposes. Prior to joining the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in 2000, Carman spent almost ten years with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant. One of his assignments while with PricewaterhouseCoopers involved working with a multi-stakeholder committee to draft the Canadian Standards Association’s Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information. The Model Code now forms the basis for the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Colin Bennett received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where he is now Professor. From 1999-2000, he was a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In 2007 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, he was Visiting Professor at the School of Law, University of New South Wales. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published six books, including The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance (The MIT Press, 2008), and policy reports on privacy protection for Canadian and international agencies. He is currently the co-investigator of a large Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant entitled “The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting.”

Ryan Berger is a partner at Bull Housser and heads its information and privacy practice. Ryan practices in the dispute resolution and litigation department with emphases on privacy matters, local government, and employment. Ryan helps public and private sector organizations develop effective and integrated privacy compliance. He advises on various aspects of privacy law, including information sharing, exchange, and protection, systems and security, training and access issues. Ryan assists various organizations respond to inquiries by the Federal and British Columbia Privacy Commissioners and represents clients in privacy matters in the British Columbia and Federal Courts. Ryan is the firm’s Privacy Officer.

Chantal Bernier is a member of both Dentons’ Canadian Privacy and Cybersecurity practice group and of the Firm’s Government Affairs and Public Policy group. As Assistant and Interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Chantal led national and international privacy investigations in the public and private sectors, as well privacy audits, privacy impact assessment reviews, technological analysis, and privacy policy development and research.

Chantal leverages her years in high-ranking positions at the Government of Canada to provide clients with strategic counsel. She is also a member of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Council on the Modernization of Microdata Data Access and of the Standards Council of Canada’s Steering Committee on Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative.

David J. Bilinsky is the Practice Management Advisor and lawyer for the Law Society of British Columbia. He has recently been named a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) at the University of Massachusetts. He is also a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and past Editor-in-Chief of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine. David is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University teaching a totally online, graduate level course in the Masters of Arts in Applied Legal Studies program. This MA program received the 2011 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. In 2012 he designed and is now teaching an on-line course on legal technology for the University of Toronto Law School. Dave’s mission in life is to empower lawyers to anticipate the changes, realize the opportunities, face the challenges and embrace the expanding possibilities of the application of practice management concepts to the practice of law in innovative ways that provide service excellence. Dave is the founder and Chair of the Pacific Legal Technology Conference and a past Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW. Dave writes regularly for many publications in the USA and Canada including being a core contributor to the award-winning blog www.slaw.ca as well as his own blog: www.thoughtfullaw.com. His articles have been translated into several languages and republished across the globe. You can contact him at daveb@thoughtfullaw.com or daveb@lsbc.org.

After creating a drama program for at-risk youth, she won the Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award in 2008. At the time of her election in 2011, she was a student studying political science and Latin American studies at McGill University and was also working as the Labour Relations Officer for the Association of McGill University Support Employees. She was also co-president of the student New Democratic Party club at McGill University. In Parliament, Borg was named to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, where she intervened against the Conservative government’s omnibus crime bill, C-10, and the closure imposed on its debate, as well as Bill C-30, the Conservative bill on warrantless online surveillance. In the Fall of 2012, Borg embarked on a tour across Eastern Canada and the Maritimes to increase pressure on the Conservative government to abandon the bill. After months of public backlash, the Conservative government finally scrapped Bill C-30 in February 2013. Borg called the death of this bill a “great victory and a way forward for politics.” In April 2012, newly elected NDP leader Thomas Mulcair appointed Borg to the Shadow Cabinet of the Official Opposition. She was given the position of Digital Issues Critic, and became the youngest full critic in the history of Canada. Simultaneously, she was transferred from the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to the Standing Committee on Ethics, Privacy and Access to Information. In one of her first acts as Digital Issues Critic, Borg launched at study at the Ethics, Privacy and Access to Information Committee to investigate the privacy practices of social media companies. During the study’s hearings, MPs heard from numerous experts and industry representatives including Facebook, Twitter and Google. Borg presented Bill C-475 to the House of Commons in February 2013. The bill seeks to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) to introduce mandatory data breach reporting and enforcement powers to the Privacy Commissioner. Bill C-475 has received the endorsements of several privacy and internet experts, along with consumer protection and civil liberties groups. A campaign called “myprivacy” was launched to support the progression of Bill C-475 through the House of Commons. The bill saw its first hour of debate at First Reading on May 23, 2013, the same day that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released a position paper calling for similar reforms to PIPEDA.

Andre is responsible for positioning SecureKey’s growth strategy, cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets, and promoting demand for the company’s solutions globally. He serves as SecureKey’s digital identity evangelist. He was recognized as a global leader in digital identity by One World Identity (2017) and Innovate Identity (2016). Andre serves on the boards of the identity standards organizations of DIACC and the Kantara initiative.

Prior to joining SecureKey, Andre co-founded and served as chief technology officer of 724 Solutions Inc. Previously, he served as chief technology officer for Footprint Software and as chief executive officer for the company’s Asia Pacific business. In 1999, he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in recognition of his vision and accomplishments. From 1990 to 1994, he served as chief executive officer of Open Systems Limited. Andre has also served on the boards of 724 Solutions Inc., Dexit Inc., Footprint Software Pty. Ltd., and 305 Management Services.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. He currently lectures at Wilfred Laurier’s Schlegel Entrepreneurship Centre.

Barbara Bucknell is a Strategic Policy Analyst in the Legal, Policy and Parliamentary Affairs Branch of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). Barbara has been with the OPC for the better part of the past nine years, during which time she has had the privilege of working on a number of high-profile issues. She has also worked as a Policy Analyst in the Information and Privacy Policy Division at Treasury Board Secretariat. In 2010, Barbara was on assignment with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), working on a special report to mark the current privacy environment 30 years after the adoption of the OECD Privacy Guidelines. Barbara started off her professional life as a teacher, later joining the federal public service as a writer/editor.

As Vice President of Insights West’s Public Affairs division, Mario Canseco is responsible for designing and managing research projects for clients in the public sector, non-profit organizations and associations, and for education clients. He is also our spokesperson on public affairs issues. Mario’s expertise covers the full range of communications and branding research, and he has a unique ability to combine know-how in these areas to not only design incisive research but to also constantly keep in view how clients can apply the results, thus taking the insights a step further.

Veronica Chodak joined the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner as a Portfolio Officer in January 2008. In that role, Veronica attempts to settle matters between parties on privacy and access issues; conducts investigations; reviews privacy impact assessments; and responds to inquiries from public bodies regarding the administration and jurisdiction of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the “FOIP Act”). Prior to joining the OIPC, Veronica was the Access Unit Manager in one of the busiest FOIP offices in Alberta, at that time providing FOIP services primarily to: Alberta Employment, Immigration and Industry; Advanced Education and Technology; Corporate Human Resources; and Alberta Children’s Services. She began her extensive career in the Alberta Public Service with Alberta Environment in the field of records management, transitioning to FOIP in 1995.

Peter received his Bachelor’s degree in History and Sociology from the University of British Columbia and Master’s degree in Sociology from Simon Fraser University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles under the supervision of sociologist and communication scholar Manuel Castells. His current work focuses on the development of information and communication technologies and their impact on organizations and everyday life in the areas of social media and genome technologies. His work on genomics, personalized medicine, and privacy is funded by the BC Cancer Agency, Genome British Columbia, and the Terry Fox Research Institute. He makes frequent appearances in the media on a range of topics such as technology, telecommunications, the Internet, privacy, data mining, health, science, and social media. Dr. Chow-White has been an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, since 2006. He is Director of the Genomics and Network Analysis (GeNA) Lab, and Associate Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology at Simon Fraser University. He is also Head of Bioethics, Policy, and Social Aspects at the Centre for Clinical Diagnostic Genomics at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. He is co-author with Lisa Nakamura of the edited book Race After the Internet from Routledge and his is work has appeared in Communication Theory, the International Journal of Communication, Media, Culture & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values, and PLoS Medicine.

Jill Clayton was sworn in as Alberta’s third Information and Privacy Commissioner on February 1, 2012.

Ms. Clayton began her career with Alberta’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) in 2004 as a portfolio officer with the team responsible for ensuring oversight and compliance with Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). She served as acting director, PIPA, from 2007 to 2008 and director, PIPA, from 2008 to 2011. In June of 2010 Ms. Clayton was appointed Assistant Commissioner, responsible for the development, implementation and oversight of amendments to PIPA, particularly mandatory breach notification requirements.

Prior to her service with the OIPC Ms. Clayton worked as a privacy consultant, providing services to public- and private-sector clients, primarily in the health care, oil and gas, telecommunications and non-profit sectors. She also worked for the Bethany Care Society as manager, planning and performance measurement, from 2001 to 2002 and records management co-ordinator from 1998 to 2000.

Born in Calgary, Ms. Clayton holds degrees in History (BA) and Environmental Design (MEDes Planning) from the University of Calgary.

A nonpartisan officer of the Legislature, the Information and Privacy Commissioner has the requisite authority to perform the broad range of responsibilities, duties and functions prescribed in the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the Health Information Act, and the Personal Information Protection Act.

The Commissioner is an Officer of the Legislature and is independent of government. The Commissioner has a broad range of regulatory responsibilities and powers.

Estella Cohen is the Executive Director at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), the independent body that oversees the privacy and access laws in Ontario. Most of her professional experience has been in the Ontario Public Service (OPS), where she was responsible for a number of high profile portfolios, both at Management Board Secretariat and the Ministry of Government Services. In 2006, Estella was charged with developing and implementing a comprehensive privacy awareness program for Ontario Shared Services. The program was awarded a Public Sector Quality Award in 2008. Estella’s passion for privacy and specifically, for Privacy by Design was sparked by working closely with Commissioner Ann Cavoukian, the creator of this leading edge privacy protection methodology. Her concept of Privacy by Design seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technology and accountable business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In October, 2010, regulators from around the world gathered at the annual assembly of International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Jerusalem, Israel, and unanimously passed a landmark Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an essential component of fundamental privacy protection. With extensive adult education experience, Estella has developed and conducted many staff training workshops and seminars.

Stan Crosley is the Director of the Indiana University Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR), a health information strategy center created through IU’s schools of Law, Medicine and Informatics. Stan is also Counsel to Drinker Biddle & Reath and helps lead the firm’s Data Privacy and Health Information Governance team and is a principal in Crosley Law Offices, LLC. Stan is the former Chief Privacy Officer for Eli Lilly and Company, where he initiated Lilly’s global privacy program in 1998 and served as the CPO until 2010. The program received the 2007 Innovation Award from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Stan also co-founded and served as Chair of the International Pharmaceutical Privacy Consortium. Stan is a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Medical Research and Privacy Committee, which published the report “Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving. Health Through Research.” He currently serves on the boards of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Indiana Health Informatics Technology, Inc., and The Privacy Projects. Stan is a member of the OECD Advisory Panel of Experts on Health Information and on the Advisory Board for the International Data Privacy Law Journal. He was also a member of the Brookings Institute’s Active Surveillance Implementation Council, which provided guidance to the US FDA on issues surrounding medical product surveillance and the FDA’s Sentinel project. Stan is a frequent speaker/lecturer on health information technology and the future of health information use and research, privacy and data protection, HIPAA/HITECH, EU Data Protection, International privacy and data protection, information governance, and all aspects of operating privacy programs. Stan has appeared in publications such as BNA and the Wall Street Journal, and has been featured in Fast Company and on CNN. Stan is a graduate of Hillsdale College with a BS in Biology/Chemistry and of Indiana University Maurer School of Law – Bloomington, where he received a JD with honors. Stan is married to Melisa and is the proud father of three children (twin teenage girls and a teenage son). He is also a member of the board of Shepherd Community Center, dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty on Indianapolis’ east side, and is active in his church and community.

Since her appointment as British Columbia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner in May 2010, Elizabeth Denham has raised the profile of information rights, promoted transparency in government and adopted a proactive approach to the enforcement of access and privacy laws in B.C. Promoting privacy rights is her top priority. Commissioner Denham has led investigations into several high-profile privacy breaches and has completed systemic reviews that examine the impact of new and emerging technologies on privacy. Ms. Denham has also spearheaded collaborative projects with her federal and provincial colleagues and has co-authored numerous documents, statements and guidance with other Canadian privacy commissioners. Prior to her appointment in British Columbia, she served as Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada (2007-2010) and Director, Private Sector, for the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (2003-2007).

TAMARA DULL is the Director of Emerging Technologies for SAS Best Practices, a thought leadership organization at SAS Institute. Through engaging publications, rich media and industry engagements, she delivers a pragmatic perspective on topics including big data, Hadoop, open source and the Internet of Things. Tamara has been in the high tech industry for over 25 years, and has held positions in enterprise training and consulting, software development, marketing, and IT, product and executive management. Tamara uses her unique blend of data-rich experience, market understanding and technical prowess to educate and entertain data professionals on the how-to’s, best practices and trends in today’s emerging marketplace. As a pioneer in social media and online strategy, Tamara has established dynamic social marketing and collaboration initiatives. Prior to SAS, she provided strategic marketing and branding leadership and online media expertise for a management consulting firm, helmed a major release of a high-tech startup’s enterprise collaboration software suite, and established an online community in her role as co-founder of a nonprofit. Tamara regularly writes and blogs for SAS, Smart Data Collective and The Cyberista Says at tamaradull.com. Two popular publications include The Big Data E-book: A Tale of Customer Loyalty and Going SoLoMo and A Non-Geek’s Big Data Playbook: Hadoop and the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Tamara is a self-described “cyberista,” whose favorite TV shows are from the Stargate franchise and Battlestar Galactica. (Yes, she has all the DVD box sets.) She finds science fiction to be more believable than some of the experiences she’s had in corporate America.

Kevin Dunion is Honorary Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Freedom of Information at the School of Law, University of Dundee, which has been established as a research and resource centre for Information Commissioners and Ombudsmen. Prior to this Kevin Dunion was the first Scottish Information Commissioner, serving two terms (2003-2012) and issuing over 1500 formal decision on appeals arising under the Freedom of Information (Scotland ) Act. He is author of the authoritative textbook “Freedom of Information in Scotland in Practice” as well as a number of books and articles on environmental justice and access to information. As an international consultant on implementing and enforcing access to information rights, Kevin Dunion has worked on behalf of international agencies and NGOs in Africa, Caribbean, China, India and Brazil. Last year he was appointed by the Board of Directors of The World Bank to be a member of the Bank’s Access to Information Appeals Board.

A leader in the “open” movement, David Eaves invigorates audiences with talks on the new transparency. How are corporations and government agencies becoming more efficient—and more accountable? What does it mean for consumers, constituents and employees who demand nothing less? Eaves shows how you can—and should—adopt open sensibilities, crunch data in new ways, and embrace social media like never before. Highlights “If it isn’t available in open and machine readable format, it can’t engage. If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be repurposed, it doesn’t empower.” David Eaves knows how to open things up. He’s an expert in public policy, strategy, open government, open source, negotiation and collaboration, and recognized public thinker all wrapped up in one. As one of North America’s most exciting public policy entrepreneurs he is retained by governments to advise on these burgeoning fields. Eaves’ expertise in the realm of technology and transparency makes him an ideal speaker for governments interested in open data and social media, but also any company or group confronting disruptive innovation, engaging in social marketing, social media, mobile marketing, and crowdsourcing. As a negotiation expert, David Eaves advises on critical negotiations, such as the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, and helps create opportunities where there are currently log jams. As a public thinker he is a prolific writer, contributing to The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and has published chapters in books like O’Reilly Media’s Open Government and EMP’s textbook The New Journalist, all while posting regularly to his own influential blog. It doesn’t end there. For example, Eaves recently gave a talk to the Canadian Real Estate Association on disruption, strategies for openness and the future of the real estate industry. A sought after speaker, he is frequently invited by everyone from executives to students to speak on issues relating to policy making, strategy and negotiation. In addition to his writing and advocacy, Eaves sits on the executive of Vision Vancouver (a municipal political party) and the advisory board of CivicCommons. He recently served as a sponsor and adviser of the Apps 4 Climate Action competition and sat on the Steering Committee of the Environics Institute’s Urban Aboriginal People’s Survey. A graduate of Queen’s and Oxford University, David lives in Vancouver, BC.

Dr. Khaled El Emam is the founder and president of Privacy Analytics Inc. In 2016 Privacy Analytics was acquired by IMS Health Inc. (now IQVIA). As an entrepreneur, Khaled helped (co-)founded five companies involved with data management and data analytics. He has worked in technical and management positions in academic and business settings in Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, and Japan.

Khaled is also a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, directs the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory at the research institute, and is a full professor in the faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement, and ranked second in 2002 and 2005. He is one of only a handful of individual experts in North America qualified to anonymize Protected Health Information under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

Previously, Khaled was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Darrell Evans’ career has been devoted primarily to the use of communications skills to solve problems, remove obstacles and improve human and business conditions, with the understanding that positive change can only be accomplished by reaching the hearts and minds of people. After spending 15 years working as a graphic designer, copywriter, creative director and communications consultant, Darrell opted to work exclusively on environmental, civil liberties and ’information rights’ issues. Darrell is a fervent acolyte of the democratic ideal, and so has dedicated the last 20 years of his professional life to creating and sustaining an organization that empowers citizens by increasing their access to vital information and their control over their own personal information. In 1990, Darrell initiated a movement to get a freedom of information and protection of privacy act passed in British Columbia and began selling the idea and organizing the movement across BC. This campaign, fuelled by the work of many other outstanding volunteers, led to the creation and incorporation of the non-profit BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) in January 1991. Evans was FIPA’s first President and then assumed the position of Executive Director, a position he occupied until December 2010. FIPA’s primary objective – the enactment of BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (“FOIPP act”) – was accomplished in 1992, a remarkably short time for such an achievement. While working as FIPA’s Executive Director in 1993, Darrell was asked to advise and work with a similar group of FOI enthusiasts in Alberta on a volunteer basis. The resulting movement led to the passage in 1994 of an Alberta FOIPP act closely modelled on the BC act. FIPA went on to play a major role in the development and reform of other legislation, notably the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and BC’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). The group is also well known for its work of public legal education and assistance, legal advocacy, and legal and policy research. All these programs contribute to its objective of ongoing law reform.

Jay Fedorak was appointed Assistant Commissioner to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. in 2012. He has 17 years of experience in the field of information and privacy, including 3 years as an investigator and 2 years as an adjudicator with the Commissioner’s office. Jay holds a BA (Hons) in History from Simon Fraser University as well as an MA and PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an expert in the field of Great Britain and Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries and the author of Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801-1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics (Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2002). Jay has taught history at the University of Victoria, Royal Roads Military College, Simon Fraser University and the London School of Economics. Since joining the BC Public Service in 1993, Jay has worked in the Ministries of Health, Education, Advanced Education and Labour. He has also worked in the fields of student financial assistance and funding for research infrastructure for post secondary institutions.

Dr. Flaherty is a specialist in the management of privacy and information policy issues. As the first B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner, he wrote 320 orders under the B.C. Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and pioneered the development of privacy impact assessments and site visits as forms of privacy compliance auditing. Dr. Flaherty is an Honours graduate of McGill University (1962) with an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His teaching career from 1965 to 1993 included Princeton University, the University of Virginia and the University of Western Ontario where he was professor of history and law from 1972 to 1999 and is now professor emeritus. He was the first director (1984-89) of its Centre for American Studies and has held fellowships and scholarships at Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and Georgetown Universities. In 1992-93, Dr. Flaherty was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Law. He was an adjunct professor in political science at the University of Victoria from 1999 to 2006. He is a member of the External Advisory Committee to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and has been the Chief Privacy Advisor to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Dr. Flaherty has written several books, including ‘Privacy in Colonial New England’ and’ Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies: The Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and the United States’. He co-authored ‘Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act: An Annotated Guide’ and ‘Guidelines for Managing Privacy, Data Protection and Security for Ontario Hospitals’.

Colin Gabelmann served as MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour in 1972-75, and also for North Vancouver Island from 1979 to 1996. He is perhaps best known for his work as B.C.’s Attorney General under Premier Mike Harcourt. Colin was instrumental in the drafting and passage of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, and was the Minister responsible for its introduction into the Legislature. Colin currently lives in Campbell River with his wife, Robin Geary.

Vincent Gogolek is the Executive Director of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1987 and has degrees in Law (University of Ottawa) and Journalism (Carleton), and a diploma in International and Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics. His work history includes stints in journalism, law and intergovernmental affairs. He has worked for legal aid in B.C. and Ontario and has been Policy Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

Mary Golab has been with the OIPC since April of 1998. During her employment with the OIPC she has held various positions including Intake Officer, Senior Records Officer and Registrar of Inquiries and has gained expertise in the area of access to information and privacy-related issues. Mary Golab is currently a Health Information Act Portfolio Officer, a position she has held since July of 2011. Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alberta and is also a graduate of the Information Access and Protection of Privacy Act Certificate Program from the Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta.

Benjamin Goold joined the UBC Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in January 2010. From 2003 to 2009, he was a lecturer at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law and a Fellow in Law at Somerville College, where he taught criminal law, criminology, and torts. Prior to taking up his post at Oxford, he taught law at the University of Niigata in Japan and criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He has been a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany and at the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur les Droits et Institutions Pénales in Paris. Dr Goold holds degrees in law and economics from the University of Tasmania as well as a BCL and doctorate from the University of Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His major research interests include privacy rights, the use of surveillance technologies by the police and intelligence communities, and the rhetoric and language of human rights. He is the author of numerous works on privacy, surveillance, and security, including CCTV and Policing (Oxford University Press; shortlisted for the British Criminology Book Prize in 2005) and Security and Human Rights (Hart Publishing; edited with Liora Lazarus). Among his more recent publications are works on the social and political dimensions of privacy, the role of privacy enhancing technologies (PETS) in the regulation of public and private sector surveillance, and the relationship between human rights and constitutional responsibilities. He is currently in the process of completing a book on surveillance for Routledge and is also working with Ian Loader and Angelica Thumala to produce a book about the private security industry.

As the Manager of Public Education and Outreach at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), Daphne develops and oversees the Office’s education and outreach activities aimed at encouraging people to think and talk about digital privacy. Some of the initiatives she has spearheaded at the OPC include a national student video competition; a series of armchair discussions on privacy; the creation of a youth advisory panel on digital privacy; and a comic book. Daphne also leads the advancement of social media tools that support OPC’s privacy awareness objectives. Daphne’s work in digital issues started at the non-profit Media Awareness Network (now MediaSmarts), where she created and promoted resources designed to foster kids’ media literacy. She joined the federal public service in 2001, and, prior to joining the OPC, worked in communications in two federal departments and on Parliament Hill.

Kevin D. Haggerty is editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology and book review editor of the international journal Surveillance & Society. He is Professor of sociology and criminology and a member of the executive team for the New Transparency Major Collaborative Research Initiative. His recent work has been in the are of surveillance, governance, policing and risk. In addition to authoring numerous peer reviewed articles he has authored, co-authored or co-edited Policing the Risk Society (1997 Oxford University Press) Making Crime Count (2001 University of Toronto Press) and The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility (2004 University of Toronto Press) Surveillance & Democracy (2008 Routledge) Security Games: Surveillance and Security at Mega-Events (2010 Routledge) and the Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (2012 with Kirstie Ball and David Lyon). He and his co-author (Aaron Doyle) are currently writing the book 67 Ways to Screw Up in Graduate School which conveys a series of professional lessons for the next generation of graduate students.

Brian Hamilton has served as Director, Health Information Act at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) of Alberta since 2011. Prior to this appointment, Brian was an investigator at the OIPC for five years, where he conducted precedent-setting investigations involving health data encryption, biometric identification, and malware and was the lead investigator on Alberta’s first successful privacy offence conviction. Brian’s team investigates privacy and access complaints and breach reports, provides advice to Alberta’s health sector, and reviews and comments on Privacy Impact Assessments. From 2001 to 2006 Brian was Manager, Privacy and Security at Alberta Health and Wellness. Brian led efforts to ensure that Alberta’s heath sector met minimum information security standards and developed a privacy and security audit framework for the health sector. As a member of the COACH Privacy and Security Steering Committee, Brian contributes to national guidelines for Canada’s health sector and is a past Instructor with the University of Alberta’s Information Access and Privacy Program.

As former premier of British Columbia, Mayor of Vancouver and City Councillor, Mike Harcourt helped British Columbia earn its reputation as one of the most liveable, accessible and inclusive places in the world. His focus on conservation and sustainable development – and his resolve to contribute to the transformation of cities and communities has played a significant role in promoting quality of life for those in Canada and abroad. After stepping down from politics, he was appointed by the Prime Minister to serve as a member of the National Round Table on the Environment and Economy, where he served on the Executive Committee and Chaired the Urban Sustainability Program. He was a Federally appointed B.C. Treaty Commissioner and was Chair of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee for Cities and Communities. Mike Harcourt is Chair of University of British Columbia’s Regional Sustainability Council for sustainability initiatives, as well as Associate Director of the Centre for Sustainability Continuing Studies at U.B.C. In addition to acting as Chairman of Quality Urban Energy Systems for Tomorrow (QUEST), he chairs the Canadian Electricity Association’s Sustainable Electricity Program Advisory Panel. He is also the lead faculty in United Way’s Public Policy Institute.

David Hughes is a privacy lawyer who has worked both as a civil litigator in private practice and in-house as Senior Legal Counsel, Director of Privacy and Corporate Secretary for the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. While at BCLC, David oversaw the creation and growth of the privacy program and led a team of staff with responsibility for privacy, records management and freedom of information. In February 2013, he left BCLC to start the firm of Forward Law LLP. David holds a JD from the University of Toronto, where he was the recipient of a number of academic awards, as well as a BA, MA and a Certificate in Executive Business Leadership from the University of British Columbia. He has presented at numerous privacy conferences across Canada on such topics as privacy breaches, privacy training, PIAs and privacy accountability. He currently co-teaches a course on Information and Privacy Law at Thompson Rivers University, with David Loukidelis QC.

Nicky Jackson Colaco joined Facebook in 2009 as a Public Policy & Communications Manager. She currently works cross-functionally with members of the product, engineering, and operations teams to address safety, privacy, and security issues on Facebook and across the Internet. From 2003 to 2007, Nicky managed international consumer product policy for Google in Mountain View, California and in Hyderabad, India. Prior to joining Google, Nicky spent a year in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Japan teaching English. She is a mom of two and holds a B.S. in Media and Communications from Northwestern University and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Barry’s career was primarily as a high school chemistry teacher, but he was also very active in his profession, his community, and in politics. His activism began early in his teaching career producing the film “Half School”. The film showed the effects of the provincial government’s cutbacks on education, which resulted the children attending school on half-day shifts and was shown on CBC television. Barry went on to become President of the Coquitlam Teacher’s Association, signing one of B.C.’s first Working and Learning Conditions Agreements with the School Board. Barry also served on the other side of the Board table, being elected five times to the Burnaby School Board and serving four terms as Board Chairperson. He was first elected in 1975, running on a 14 point platform which dealt mainly with open governance at the school board level, (open meetings welcoming the public, strict rules governing in-camera meetings, public question period, etc.) Barry was first elected as an MLA in Burnaby North in the 1986 general election and re-elected in October 1991. Barry served five years in the Official Opposition and was Opposition Spokesperson for Education and Freedom of Information. Every year in Opposition, Barry introduced his private member’s Bill on FOI, and worked to raise the profile of the issue throughout the province. After the 1991 general election, Barry served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney General, and was instrumental in the new government bringing in the widely-acclaimed Freedom of Information and Privacy Legislation. He served on the drafting committee for the Bill, and as well, led the consultation process, resulting in the Jones Report which saw the legislation extended to all public bodies in B.C. He also chaired the all-party committee which selected the first Commissioner of Information and Privacy from 222 applicants from all over the world. Barry is enjoying retired life by engaging in landscaping, renovating, travel, community service, fitness, playing basketball, tennis, and golf, and dancing Argentine Tango.

Adam Kardash is chair of Heenan Blaikie’s National Privacy and Information Management group, and Managing Director and Head of Access Privacy, a Heenan Blaikie consulting and information services company focusing on privacy and information management solutions. Adam has extensive experience in the privacy law area, and regularly advises on a broad range of data protection issues and privacy compliance initiatives. He assists in-house counsel and Chief Privacy Officers of organizations in the private, health and not-for-profit sectors on conducting privacy impact assessments and privacy and security reviews/audits; drafting privacy policies, practises and procedures; undertaking privacy compliance initiatives; managing security breaches; representing organizations on privacy regulatory investigations, and the drafting and negotiation of service provider arrangements involving personal information, including transborder data flows. Adam speaks and publishes regularly on privacy and information management matters, and together with the AccessPrivacy team recently launched the Private Sector Source (at www.accessprivacy.com), a web-based information resource on private sector privacy for privacy compliance professionals.

Aly Karsan is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, and Medical Director of the Cancer Genetics Laboratory, and Centre for Clinical Genomics in the Genome Sciences Centre, at the British Columbia Cancer Agency. He received his MD from Queen’s University at Kingston, completed his residency in Hematological Pathology at the University of British Columbia, followed by a research fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Karsan’s clinical focus is to bring new genomic technologies into the diagnostic arena. His research interests focus on functional genomics in myeloid malignancies with a particular interest in the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Recent research has revolved around the role of microRNAs and innate immune signaling pathways in MDS.

Ian Kerr holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, with cross appointments in Medicine, Philosophy and Information Studies. Dr. Kerr’s research lies at the intersection of ethics, law and technology and is currently focused on two broad themes: (i) Privacy and Surveillance; and (ii) Human-Machine Mergers. Building on his recent Oxford University Press book, Lessons from the Identity Trail, his ongoing privacy work focuses on the interplay between emerging public and private sector surveillance technologies, civil liberties and human rights. His recent research on robotics and implantable devices examines legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies in the health sector and beyond.

Patricia is Senior General Counsel at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) where she provides strategic legal and policy advice on a broad range of privacy issues, oversees research on the privacy impacts of emerging information technologies, and represents the Privacy Commissioner before courts and Parliamentary Committees.

Previously, Patricia also worked at Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research where she developed and led national strategies to address ethical, legal and social implications of science and technology.

Called to the Barreau du Quebec in 1993, Patricia practiced in Montreal for over six years with a large national law firm.   She has published and presented extensively on matters of health law, privacy and ethics.  She is also a member the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the National DNA Databank Advisory Committee, as well as the Research Integrity Committee of the Fonds de recherche du Québec.

Mike Larsen is Co-managing Editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (www.jpp.org), a prisoner-authored peer-reviewed journal dedicated to experiential narratives and analysis related to spaces and practices of incarceration. His current research draws on a case study analysis of the Canadian security certificate regime to explore issues at the intersection of national security politics and contestations around access to information and secrecy. Mike has recently compiled an edited volume (with Kevin Walby) on ‘Brokering Access: Politics, Power and Freedom of Information in Canada’ (forthcoming, UBC Press). Other forthcoming works discuss systematic access to information (ATI) requests as a research technique for critical social science and questions of accountability and transparency related to collaborative security practices.

Drew was formerly Vice President Corporate Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer for TELUS Communications, Canada’s second largest telecommunications provider. As Chief Compliance Officer, Drew was responsible for legal and regulatory compliance for all of TELUS’ operations, reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. A major part of the Chief Compliance Officer role for TELUS was that of Privacy Officer. Drew was accountable for the development and implementation of TELUS’ privacy policy, which has been independently recognized as an industry-leading policy. As part of his Privacy Officer role, Drew was involved in fostering a greater understanding of the practical applications of Canada’s private sector privacy legislation. He was a founding member of the Canadian Council of Chief Privacy Officers operating in conjunction with the Conference Board of Canada, and was a long-standing member of their executive committee. In 2004 Drew founded a cross-industry networking association in British Columbia, to assist privacy practitioners in B.C. with understanding the implications of private sector privacy legislation. In 2006 Drew worked with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), an international organization dedicated to privacy education, to develop the Canadian professional certification program, and was the first individual to achieve the designation of Certified International Privacy Professional of Canada (CIPP/C). In 2007 Drew founded The McArthur Consulting Group and is working with a variety of clients assisting them with strategic initiatives, policy development and practical solutions for managing their business. He is currently assisting the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia by serving on her external advisory committee.

Dulcie McCallum was the first woman, to be appointed as Nova Scotia’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Review Officer [Commissioner] on February 5, 2007 and the Privacy Review Officer in 2009. In February 2012, Ms. McCallum’s term was extended for a full seven year term. Ms. McCallum moved to Nova Scotia in 2005 from Victoria, British Columbia. Since being appointed the statutory oversight body for access and privacy, Ms. McCallum has issued 56 Review Reports as of August 20, 2013 most notably the What’s Driving Privacy in Nova Scotia report, the Privacy Matters report of the Workers’ Compensation Board, the Gambling in NS report and the foster children report involving their right to their records while in the care of the State. Ms. McCallum has focused on improving the timelines for Reviews emphasizing informal resolutions to facilitate access and a better understanding of the legislation within government and by the public. To this end the Citizens’ Guide, Applicant’s Responsibilities, new brochures and a new and improved website have been developed. The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Review Officer is appointed under four statutes including the new Personal Health Information Act – to conduct independent non-partisan investigations into access and privacy decisions made by all provincial public bodies, municipalities and health custodians. Prior to being appointed as the Access and Privacy Review Officer, Ms. McCallum worked over a period of four years at the United Nations as an expert member of Canada’s delegation to draft and finalize the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. Ms. McCallum was a special advisor to the delegation having been a constitutional expert for over 25 years. Prior to moving to Nova Scotia, Dulcie McCallum was the first female Ombudsman for the Province of British Columbia for seven years, following her work as a barrister and solicitor for ten years specializing in complex litigation, constitutional, human rights and personal injury law. Initially trained as a Registered Nurse [1970], Ms McCallum earned her Bachelor of Law from the University of Victoria in 1981. In 1997, the University of Victoria gave her the Distinguished Alumni Award. She has been awarded the YWCA Women of Distinction Award and recently received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her community volunteer work. She presently lives in Halifax with her Golden Retriever Troy.

Emily McCarthy was appointed Assistant Information Commissioner in October 2012, having been Acting Assistant Information Commissioner since August 2011. She is also General Counsel and Director of Legal Services at the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. Emily brings to her role at the Information Commissioner’s Office eight years of experience with the Federal Court, where she held the positions of Executive Officer in the Office of the Chief Justice, Senior Counsel, and Acting Deputy Chief Administrator, Judicial Services. From 1999 to 2003 Emily was Counsel at the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. She clerked for the Honourable Allan Lutfy of the Federal Court of Canada from 1998 to 1999. Emily received her Bachelor of Civil and Common Laws from McGill University in 1998 and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Michael McEvoy is Deputy Commissioner for the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia (OIPC).

Prior to this appointment, he served as Assistant Commissioner and as Senior Adjudicator.

Before joining the Office he acted as legal counsel to the Labour Relations Board, practiced law in the private sector and was also an advisor to the Attorney General of British Columbia.

Mr. McEvoy’s community service has included Chair of the Greater Victoria Board, serving as President of the BC Trustees Association and the Canadian School Boards Association. He is a past Campaign Chair of the United Way of Greater Victoria.

He is married with two daughters, is a road bike enthusiast and continues to have dreams of glory as a hockey player with the Victoria Grey Leafs old-timers.

Terry McQuay is President of Nymity Inc. and the Architect of Nymity’s Compliance Solutions. Terry is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US,CIPP/E, CIPP/C, CIPP/G and CIPM) and the Managing Editor of the current edition of the IAPP Certification Foundations textbook entitled, “Foundations of Information Privacy and Data Protection.” Terry is a Fellow for the Ponemon Institute, on the Advisory Council for The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), resides on the IAPP Certification Advisory Board, and is an IAPP Professional Privacy Trainer and IAPP Foundations Trainer. Terry is a member of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), Privacy by Design (PbD) Ambassador, and is also involved with the USCIB, BIAC, ICC and attends OECD and APEC privacy meetings. Before founding Nymity, Terry was the Partner at a security solutions firm and spent a number of years at Hewlett-Packard. Terry holds an Honours BSc in Computer Science from the University of Guelph.

Toby Mendel is the Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Democracy, a Canadian-based international human rights NGO that provides legal and capacity building expertise regarding foundational rights for democracy, including the right to information, freedom of expression, the right to participate and the rights to assembly and association. Prior to that he was for 12 years Senior Director for Law at ARTICLE 19, a human rights NGO focusing on freedom of expression and the right to information. He has provided peak level expertise on these rights to a wide range of actors including the World Bank, various UN and other intergovernmental bodies, and numerous governments and NGOs in countries all over the world. This includes law reform work in 2012 in Bhutan, Egypt, Morocco, Myanmar and Tunisia. Before joining ARTICLE 19, he worked as a senior human rights consultant with Oxfam Canada and as a human rights policy analyst at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He has published extensively on a range of freedom of expression, right to information, communication rights and refugee issues, including comparative legal and analytical studies on public service broadcasting, the right to information and broadcast policy.

Formerly the Associate Deputy Minister of the Environmental Assessment Office, Dave was appointed Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Energy and Mines in June of 2013. The Environmental Assessment Office is a neutral agency that oversees the review of major projects in BC. It was established under the Environmental Assessment Act which sets out the broad powers to conduct environmental assessments. The office provides for the thorough, timely and integrated assessment of the potential environmental, economic, social, heritage, and health effects of reviewable projects and provides for meaningful participation by First Nations, proponents, the public, local governments, and federal and provincial agencies. Since July 2005, Dave served as Chief Information Officer for the Province of British Columbia and was appointed Associate Deputy Minister on October 29, 2010. In early 2012 Dave also assumed responsibility for all IM/IT Shared Services for the Government of BC. Prior to his appointment as Chief Information Officer, Dave spent two years as the Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for the Network BC initiative. Through his leadership in this project, Dave played a pivotal role in bridging the digital divide by connecting many rural and remote communities in British Columbia to high-speed broadband. Dave has a strong technical background, and spent nearly 20 years working in management positions of progressively more responsibility, both in the B.C. government and with SaskTel in Regina, Saskatchewan. He is also Chair of the Digital Identity and Authentication Council of Canada.

Erinne Paisley is currently a grade 11 student at Reynolds Secondary in Victoria B.C., where she is involved in Leadership, Vital Youth, Principal’s Advisory, Open for Change, Reynolds Eco-action, Outdoors Club, and the school’s Peer Mentor program. Erinne is also the founder of actionNow, a student-led group whose mandate is to focus on creating positive change in the local and global community. Erinne has been selected as one of ten Global Citizen Scholarship recipients from across Canada where she will attend a We Day event in London and a science and innovation summit in Berlin in March 2014. Erinne’s plans for the future include a Gap year to travel and volunteer, before a post-secondary pursuit in international and foreign affairs.

Dr. Christopher Parsons holds a Ph.D from the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where he investigated the political drivers of Internet service providers’ network surveillance practices in Canada, the United States, and United Kingdom. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow and the Managing Director of the Telecom Transparency Project at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Dr. Parsons is currently investigating the rationales, processes, practices, and politics of third-party access to telecommunications data. He is also a Privacy by Design Ambassador and an advisor to several small- and medium-sized organizations.

John Proctor, VP, Global Cyber Security, leads the Canadian Security Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Ottawa, which comprises over 200 security and privacy professionals, a 24/7/365 Security Operations Centre and one of three accredited security evaluation test centres in Canada. The CoE delivers security and privacy services to Canadian and global organizations, including a large number of Canada’s major corporations, financial institutions, Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments. John is accountable globally for Commercial Managed Security Services for CGI and is also responsible for CGI’s global security portfolio and overall cyber strategy, which involves CGI’s 1200+ security professionals around the world. With over 22 years of experience in the British and Canadian forces prior to joining the private sector, John is a qualified Intelligence Officer, HUMINT operator, Hostage/Crisis Negotiator, has served as aircrew flying helicopters in the Royal Navy, and spent six years working with Canadian Special Forces. John draws upon his unique technical background mixed with his individual and organizational behaviour expertise to support the people and organizational pillars in cyber security and privacy. Known for his ability to communicate effectively with both a technical and a business audience, John has quickly become one of CGI’s global cyber security subject matter experts and is a sought after speaker at numerous industry conferences and CGI client events. John is a member of the Department of Foreign Affairs ICT Advisory Board and is CGI’s advisor to the Canadian Council for Chief Executives Cyber Security Advisory Council.

First elected in 2002 as a School Board member with the Green Party, Andrea was inspired by Gregor Robertson’s leadership to join Vision Vancouver and was elected to City Council in 2008. Andrea was appointed in 2008 as the Chair of the City’s Planning and Environment Committee and Council lead on the award-winning Greenest City Action Plan, overseeing Vancouver’s efforts to become a global leader in environmental action. A strong advocate for open government reforms, Andrea brought in a world-leading Open Data program cited by BC Business magazine as the reason for naming the City of Vancouver the province’s most innovative organization in 2011. Prior to being elected to City Council, Andrea was the Executive Director of the Wilderness Committee, a position she held from 2002.

Linda Sasaki is a Portfolio Officer for the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta. She has been with the Office since 2005, investigating and mediating privacy complaints and access to information requests both in the private and public sectors. Before joining OIPC, Linda was a Human Rights Investigator with the Alberta Human Rights Commission dealing primarily in the areas of investigation and mediation of human rights issues. She has also worked in the fields of community development and special event planning.

Jay Schlosar is currently the Assistant Deputy Minister in the Strategic Initiatives Division of the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services. In this role, Jay is leading the Division responsible for providing corporate web and data services to government. This Division also oversees the policy development associated with the province’s Open Government agenda, which includes: a new, citizen-focused web presence (www.gov.bc.ca), the DataBC Open Data project, the Open Information project, and citizen engagement. This Division also oversees priority policy development and corporate planning processes with respect to business and technology transformation across government, with recent work culminating in the creation of a transformation and technology strategy for the BC Public Service entitled Citizens @ the Centre: B.C. Government 2.0. Prior to joining this team, Jay served for seven years in the Office of the Premier, most recently as Deputy Chief of Staff for Issues Management and Policy Coordination in that office where he provided communications and policy support to the Premier and Cabinet. Before that, Jay served as a senior political assistant under both the Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women’s Services (2001 to 2002) and the Ministry of Competition, Science and Enterprise (2002 to 2003). Jay’s educational background includes a Masters of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science.

Gillian Shaw is a writer with the Vancouver Sun and Postmedia Network and a commentator on the evolutionary effects of technology and social media on the lives of ordinary people, politicians, industry and government. She has written extensively about the intersection of privacy and technology and how our increasingly digital life is changing and challenging traditional of privacy. She joined the Sun in 1980 as a general assignment reporter, winning a coveted National Newspaper Award as part of the Vancouver Sun’s team covering the Clifford Robert Olson killings. She would later serve in the Sun’s Victoria bureau reporting on provincial politics before being appointed as the Sun’s business editor. Missing the contact of the front-line journalist with the world outside, Gillian returned to writing in 1994 just as social media was beginning to make its presence felt. Besides writing and blogging for the Vancouver Sun, Gillian’s opinions are often sought by other media outlets such as Corus Radio’s CKNW and Calgary Today and she has been an invited speaker to numerous conventions and panels.

Chad Skelton is an award-winning investigative reporter at The Vancouver Sun, specializing in data journalism and FOI requests. Chad has received the Jack Webster Award, B.C.’s top journalism prize, five times. His most recent Webster was in 2011 for a series on daycare safety that included a searchable database of daycare inspection ratings. Chad also teaches journalism at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where he developed the popular Citizen Journalism course

Cara left her civil litigation practice to begin her career in privacy and access joining the Calgary Police Service in 1997 as FOIP Coordinator. At the Calgary Police Service, she was responsible for the implementation and administration of the FOIP section. Since leaving the CPS in 2003, she has acted as a consultant to both private and public sector parties on a variety of issues dealing with policy development, legal counsel or as a privacy officer. She was one of the founding members of the Canadian Bar Association, Privacy and Access Law Subsection for Southern Alberta, worked with Service Alberta in the creation of an information bulletin and forms with respect to law enforcement and FOIP, and was involved with teaching and curriculum development for the University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Information Access and Protection of Privacy Certificate Program (IAPP). Currently, she is a Portfolio Officer with the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner with respect to the Personal Information Protection Act.

Since taking on the role of Privacy Commissioner of Canada in December of 2003, Jennifer Stoddart and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada have become leaders both nationally and internationally in the privacy sphere. In December 2010, Commissioner Stoddart was reappointed for a three-year term. The Commissioner has overseen a number of important investigations and audits of personal information handling practices in the public and private sectors. Throughout her mandate, she has advocated the need to ensure that both PIPEDA and the Privacy Act continue to provide the strongest possible protections for Canadians in an era of constantly evolving risks to privacy. She has recently joined the law firm Fasken.

Troy is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and has worked there for six years. Troy has been lead on various OIPC systemic investigations, including the investigation into the use of employment-related police information checks in British Columbia.  Troy is a graduate of the UVIC Faculty of Law and worked in private practice for four years in Vancouver and Victoria before moving to the public sector.

Fiaaz Walji is the Country Manager for Websense Inc., in Canada. In this role, he is responsible for implementing sales and marketing strategies within the Canadian market, as well as expanding the company’s channel partner program. Walji brings more than 20 years of technology experience, working on everything from market and channel development to vendor management. Prior to joining Websense, Walji was Director of North American Channel Sales at Corel Corporation. Walji holds a BSc and a BEd from the University of Ottawa. In 2006 Fiaaz was voted one of the Top 100 Channel Executives by VAR Business Magazine, and was recognized as one of the “Top 25 Newsmakers” in 2007 and 2008 by Computer Dealer News. Walji, was recently was honoured for his channel leadership and partner advocacy by being named to the 2011, 2102 and 2013 CRN Channel Chief List. Fiaaz is a regular speaker and panelist at Privacy and Security conferences across Canada, as well as contributed articles to itworldcanada , Security Matters Magazine and the Websense Community Blog among others. His insights have been regularly tapped by various media outlets including a Cybercrime segment on Ottawa’s CFRA, CBC Radio and CBC TV’s Lang & O’Leary. You can follow him on twitter at @fiaazw or connect with him on Linkedin at http://ca.linkedin.com/in/fiaazw

Andrew Wilkinson was elected MLA for the riding of Vancouver-Quilchena on May 14, 2013, and was appointed Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services on June 10, 2013. He is currently serving on the Legislative Review Committee and the Cabinet Committee on Secure Tomorrow. Andrew is a former deputy minister of the British Columbia Ministry of Economic Development, where he was responsible for economic issues, trade and tourism. He has also served as deputy minister for Intergovernmental Relations in the Premier’s Office, president of the BC Civil Liberties Association, president of the BC Mountaineering Club and president of the BC Liberal Party. Andrew worked as a lawyer in the Vancouver offices of a major, national law firm, where he had a special interest in green renewable energy development. Prior to being called to the bar, he was educated and licensed as a physician. He is married and has three children.

Nora Young is the host and the creator of Spark, CBC’s national radio show and podcast about technology and culture. She was the founding host of the CBC Radio show Definitely not the Opera, where she often focused on new media and technology. Her work has also appeared online, on television, and in print. As a journalist, author, and speaker, Nora explores how new technology shapes the way we understand ourselves and the world around us. Her book, The Virtual Self, on the explosion of data about our behaviours, opinions and actions, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2012. Nora blogs at norayoung.ca, and does the indie podcast The Sniffer with her friend and colleague, Cathi Bond. Find her on Twitter, @nora3000.