As an avid computer security researcher for 15+ years, Emrah is passionate about what he does, and it shows through his presentations. He is regarded as a Subject Matter Expert in SIEM and IPS technologies. Employing quite an engaging stage presence, Emrah is known for his ability to connect with audiences of all technical levels. He enjoys persistent malware analysis utilizing advanced obfuscation techniques, as much as beat matching for electronic music aficionados when the opportunity presents itself.

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

Luk Arbuckle, Director of Analytics at Privacy Analytics Inc, leads a team that conducts risk analyses on the re-identification of patients in data, and conducts research on de-identification practices and re-identification risk measurement. He is co-author with of the O’Reilly book Anonymizing Health Data: Case Studies and Methods to Get You Started. The book covers several de-identification projects he’s worked on, such as the $3 million Heritage Health Prize, and the Cajun Code Fest hackathon. He has worked closely with Khaled El Emam, Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information and Founder and CEO of Privacy Analytics Inc. Luk spent three years studying systems engineering before transferring into a major in mathematics, which then led to a master’s in mathematics to study the underpinnings of signal/image wavelet processing. His skills were then put to use in the field of remote sensing digital image analysis as a member of the research department at MDA Corporation. To further develop his data analysis skills, he completed a master’s degree in statistics working on predictive models for the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He’s been awarded an NSERC Post Graduate Scholarship, a Canada Graduate Scholarship, as well as other scholarships, bursaries, and awards.

Michael Argast is the Director of TELUS Security Solutions’ National Product Management and Solution Teams, joining in May 2011. As Canada’s largest managed security services provider, TELUS’ fast growing security practice provides wide ranging solutions from GRC consulting, Testing and Vulnerability Assessments, security technology acquisition and implementation, through to full security operations outsourcing. With over a decade of focus on information security, TELUS Security Solutions has hundreds of the largest Canadian government and private sector organizations as customers.

As an internationally experienced expert leading global teams, Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, healthcare and telecom sectors, government and higher education organizations – have relied on Michael’s counsel, and then grounded their implementation plans on his recommendations. A lengthy list of media outlets have sourced him as a security expert including: The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, USA Today, New York Times, Business Week, Forbes, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle and CBC News.

Ian has 28 years of experience in Information Technology and Information Management. After graduating from the University of Victoria with a degree in Computer Science, Ian spent 10 years developing software in the Oil & Gas industry, designing submarine detection systems and ultrasonic inspection technology for the Department of National Defence, and health care solutions for the Province of British Columbia. In 1991, Ian joined the BC government and has helped Shared Services BC and the Office of the CIO in developing shared services and corporate solutions. Ian is a thought leader in the development of the Pan-Canadian Identity Management Strategy and the BC Services Card solution for the Province.

Greg has over 20 years experience in IT with the last 12 focused specifically on security. In his current role at Symantec, Greg works with both customers and partners to architect security solutions including endpoint (malware protection, encryption), data loss, compliance, network and gateway solutions (messaging, web), PKI, MSS and management solutions.

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.”

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.

Theresa established Safer Schools Together (SST) in 2008, to provide opportunities for extensive professional development in the areas of safe and caring schools and violence prevention. In addition to hosting training symposiums, SST has authored the Safe & Caring School Tool to measure the climate and culture of a school, to ensure best practices are followed and the Ministry of Education mandates regarding school/student safety are met. SST was awarded the contract for the British Columbia Provincially mandated ERASE Bullying Prevention Training Strategy for which, Theresa is the lead trainer. Previously, Manager of Safe Schools for the Surrey School District for the past 12 years, she has been responsible for the conceptualization, development and implementation of many highly successful, evidence-based prevention and intervention programs, resource materials aimed at enhancing student and staff safety. Many of these unique and innovative projects have also been recognized and implemented worldwide. Prior to Surrey, Theresa spent 10 years with the Vancouver School District where she worked extensively with entrenched, at-risk and gang-associated youth. Theresa is a certified trainer and consultant with the Canadian Centre for Threat Assessment & Trauma Response and is the Executive Director for the International Centre for Threat Assessment.

Dan Caprio, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and cybersecurity. He has served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, a transatlantic subject matter expert for the European Commission’s Internet of Things formal expert group, a Chief of Staff for a Federal Trade Commission Commissioner and a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2002, Dan was a representative for the United States delegation revising the OECD Security Guidelines that formed the basis for the first White House Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.

Daniel Caron is Legal Counsel for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Daniel provides the Office with strategic and legal advice on a number of important privacy questions arising out of the interpretation and application of Canada’s two federal privacy statutes, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Privacy Act. Daniel represents the Commissioner before Courts at various levels, and regularly interacts with stakeholders, public and private-sector organizations, and international counterparts. Daniel has a particular interest in international privacy issues and information technology, and has experience with privacy and security issues touching the Internet, social networking, and biometrics, among others. In 2009, Daniel participated in a three month fellowship program working alongside attorneys from the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the United States Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., in order to get a unique sense of how consumer privacy is protected in the United States. Prior to joining the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Daniel articled at a national law firm in Ottawa. He studied the common law in French at the Université de Moncton, and holds a degree in Political Sciences from the University of Calgary.

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. Noted for her seminal work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in 1995, 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. This was followed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s inclusion of Privacy by Design as one of its three recommended practices for protecting online privacy – a major validation of its significance. An avowed believer in the role that technology can play in the protection of privacy, Dr. Cavoukian’s leadership has seen her office develop a number of tools and procedures to ensure that privacy is strongly protected, not only in Canada, but around the world. She has been involved in numerous international committees focused on privacy, security, technology and business, and endeavours to focus on strengthening consumer confidence and trust in emerging technology applications. Dr. Cavoukian serves as the Chair of the Identity, Privacy and Security Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is also a member of several Boards including, the European Biometrics Forum, Future of Privacy Forum, RIM Council, and has been conferred a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. Dr. Cavoukian was honoured with the prestigious Kristian Beckman Award in 2011 for her pioneering work on Privacy by Design and privacy protection in modern international environments. In the same year, Dr. Cavoukian was also named by Intelligent Utility Magazine as one of the Top 11 Movers and Shakers for the Global Smart Grid industry, received the SC Canada Privacy Professional of the Year Award and was honoured by the University of Alberta Information Access and Protection of Privacy Program for her positive contribution to the field of privacy. Most recently in November 2011, Dr. Cavoukian was ranked by Women of Influence Inc. as one of the top 25 Women of Influence recognizing her contribution to the Canadian and global economy. This award follows her recognition in 2007 by the Women’s Executive Network as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.

Stewart is a Senior Security Architect and Strategist with IBM Global Technology Services. He is responsible for defining end-to-end IT security solutions for IBM?s enterprise customers. He has over 18 years? experience in information technology ranging from product management and consulting to threat management and penetration testing. Stewart is a recognised subject matter expert in security and risk management of IT systems he was recently showcased in the IBM Smarter Planet TV commercials and online videos.Stewart is a frequent speaker at many events on topics such as information security, systems management and process improvement. You can follow Stewart on Twitter @stewartcawthray

Jeff Debrosse is director of security research for Websense, Inc. Debrosse manages a team of talented security researchers to accurately identify and thwart advanced cyberthreats. He is also responsible for leading collaboration among the global research teams of the Websense Security Labs. Debrosse brings more than 20 years’ security experience to Websense. Prior to joining Websense, he acted as technical product manager for Ntrepid Corporation where he contributed to the design and development of Internet operations solutions for the intelligence community. Previously Debrosse held the leadership roles of senior security evangelist and senior director of research at ESET. During his tenure, he led a team of researchers tasked with cyberthreat analysis and building effective security solutions.

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).

Asif is a principal and chief medical informatics officer with Deloitte Consulting. As chief medical informatics officer, he worked to help health institutions warehouse and mine their data, as well as help clients use real world data and evidence to transform their organizations. The Deloitte solutions that he has helped to develop enable clients to develop innovative strategies to improve clinical outcomes and therapeutic discovery.

Asif is also responsible for ConvergeHEALTH’s product strategy and roadmap. He has a keen acumen for understanding healthcare trends and assists clients across the healthcare value chain to develop growth and innovation strategies. His insights on health reform, information management and new care models are sought after by healthcare organizations across the globe.

He holds a Medical Degree from the University of Illinois, a Master’s in Business Administration degree from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago.

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.

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.

Mr. Fitzgerald serves as Cylance Chief Marketing Officer. His leadership drives the company strategic positioning, brand, field engagement, and product go-to-market. He comes from Fortinet, where he served as the Senior Vice President, Worldwide Corporate Marketing and helped drive their position in four Gartner Magic Quadrant leadership positions and continued position as UTM market pioneer. Prior to joining Fortinet, Mr. Fitzgerald was SVP Marketing for Sourcefire, Intrusion Prevention System leader; CEO of DisplayPoints, a privately held web 2.0 media company, from inception to its profitable sale in September 2009; Global Vice President of Marketing, Product Management, Channels and Inside Sales at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com and leading provider of Intrusion Prevention Security Systems. Prior to this, Mr. Fitzgerald was an executive for growth-stage ventures, and high growth public organizations. He has also been an instructor of marketing and sales at ACTON MBA, Austin Texas. Mr. Fitzgerald holds a BBA in Marketing and Finance from Emory University, an MBA in Product Marketing from the University of Colorado, and a MIM in International Marketing Strategy from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management.

J. William Galbraith is the former Executive Director of the Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner, appointed in February 2010. He joined the Commissioner’s office as Director of Operations in spring 2003. Bill began his career in the private sector with The Conference Board of Canada, 1982 – 1988. He subsequently joined the federal public service, with Investment Canada. From 1990 to 2001, he served in different capacities with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and in spring 2001 moved to the Department of the Solicitor General. Bill holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University and a two-year multidisciplinary graduate degree, grande distinction, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. He is also the author of the biography John Buchan: Model Governor General, and received the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals for his volunteer activities.

Carlos is the Director of Security Architecture and Security Compliance at TELUS Communications Inc. He has 15 years of extensive experience in information security in the IT industry, starting out as a Unix systems administrator in 2000 and working in a number of different IT and IT management roles at TELUS over the last decade. Carlos is a strong believer in the integration of security architecture principles and standards into every aspect of the corporate business processes and lifecycle. Security governance and partnership is a key contributor to the ongoing protection of both corporate information and data services. Outside of work, Carlos lives in Vancouver with his wife and son, loves fishing, hiking, and traveling.

Christopher Gillespie has worked as a Privacy and Policy Advisor in the Privacy and Legislation Branch since May 2012. In that time he has developed over 150 privacy impact assessments, as well as been responsible for delivering privacy training and leading investigations into actual or suspected privacy breaches. Chris holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Victoria and is currently working on his Masters in Public Administration through the Royal Military College.

Jeff Greene serves as a Senior Policy Counsel at Symantec, where he focuses on issues including cybersecurity, identity management, and privacy. In this role, he monitors executive and legislative branch activity, and works extensively with industry and government organizations. Prior to joining Symantec, he was Senior Counsel with the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where he focused on cybersecurity, Homeland Defense, and counter terrorism issues. Jeff has also worked in the House of Representatives, where he was Staff Director of the Management, Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee on the House Committee on Homeland Security. His first job on the Hill was as counsel to the Senate’s 2005-06 Special Investigation into Hurricane Katrina. Before that he was an attorney with a Washington, D.C. law firm, where his practice focused on government contracts and contract fraud, as well as general civil and criminal investigations. Jeff currently serves as co-chair of the Homeland Security Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Science & Technology Law and co-chair of the Supply Chain Working Group on the Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council. He speaks often on cybersecurity, data breach, and privacy issues. He has a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University and a J.D. with Honor from the University of Maryland, where he has taught classes in Homeland Security law and policy.

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.

Jane Hamilton has been working with the Canadian federal government since 1998. In her current capacity as Senior Policy Advisor with the Digital Policy Branch of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (formerly Industry Canada), Jane’s focus is on policy development related to building trust and confidence in the digital economy. This work involves both security and privacy aspects.

Prior to working with the federal government, Jane worked for over 12 years in the financial services industry. As a member of the senior management team of the Canadian Payments Association, Jane was responsible for the development of polices and standards for electronic payments.

Jane assumed the role of Chair of the OECD’s Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy in 2011 and held that role until December of last year. She continues to be Canada’s delegate to the Working Party and provides advice and guidance to the new Chair in her role as a Vice-Chair of the group.

Woodrow Hartzog is an Associate Professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. He is also an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and a contributor at Forbes. His research on privacy, contracts, media, and robotics has appeared or is scheduled to appear in numerous law reviews and peer-reviewed publications such as the Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Michigan Law Reviewand popular publications such as The Guardian, Wired, The Atlantic, and CNN. His book Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Mike Huckaby, CISSP is the Senior Director of Americas Technical Consulting at RSA, the Security Division of EMC. Mike is a 11 year veteran of RSA and has 16 years of experience helping organizations worldwide understand their security posture, their risk to current threats and providing enterprise security solutions to enhance their security environments.

Deborah Hurley is the Principal of the consulting firm she founded in 1996, which advises governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and foundations on advanced science and technology policy. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. At the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in Paris, France, she identified emerging legal, economic, social and technological issues related to information and communications technologies, biotechnology, environmental and energy technologies, nanotechnology, technology policy, and other advanced technology fields. She was responsible for drafting, negotiation and adoption of the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems. She directed the Harvard University Information Infrastructure Project. Hurley is Chair, Board of Directors, Electronic Privacy Information Center, and has served on many other governmental and non-governmental boards and committees, including for the U.S. State Department, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Sciences Research Council. She carried out a Fulbright study of intellectual property protection and technology transfer in Korea. She is the author of Pole Star: Human Rights in the Information Society, “Information Policy and Governance” in Governance in a Globalizing World, and other publications. Hurley received the Namur Award of the International Federation of Information Processing in recognition of outstanding contributions, with international impact, to awareness of social implications of information technology.

Tamir is a staff lawyer with the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), where his research and advocacy focuses on advancing the public interest in various Internet governance law and policy matters. Tamir has participated in several key judicial, regulatory and parliamentary proceedings on various Internet policy matters, including interventions in the Supreme Court of Canada, multiple proceedings before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and expert testimony to various parliamentary committees. In addition, he has been a contributor in a number of international policy-making fora, including the OECD’s Committee on Information, Communications and Computer Policy (ICCP), the W3C’s Tracking Protection Working Group and ICANN’s Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG). Tamir is also a member of the Advisory Board of Privacy International and lectures on Internet regulation matters at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Graduate & Post-doctoral Studies.

Darren is a highly respected and serving Staff Sergeant with over 28 years of policing experience, who has dedicated his life to public safety, and is both a provincial and nationally decorated Canadian law enforcement professional. Darren is a Certified Advanced Open Source Intelligence/ Social Media Investigator, and has a strong interest/background in on-line and social media investigations. As a Social Media safety advocate, Darren has presented his multi-award winning Social Media safety presentation to over 237,000 students in both Canada and the United States.  Darren is also an internationally court recognized workplace violence prevention and self protection expert, published award winning author and highly sought after public/keynote speaker. Given his unique educational and professional background, Darren brings a heart felt passion, and 28 years of “real world”  police investigative experience and perspective when sharing his message of personal safety, both on-line and off-line, that is hard to match. 

Ann Makosinski is a grade eleven student living in Victoria, British Columbia. She has always had an interest in science, and her first toy was actually a box of transistors. Ann started participating in her local science fair in grade 6, but this year she was honored to represent Canada at the Google Science Fair 2013, where she won top prize in her age group. Her invention is a flashlight that runs solely off the heat of the human hand. Her other interests include playing the piano, violin, dabbling with film and photography, and reading.

Matthew McCormack is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of RSA Global Public Sector at RSA, the Security Division of EMC. In his role as CTO, McCormack is spearheading technical strategy and partner relationships with the United States federal government, state and local governments, critical infrastructure organizations, and international public sector organizations. McCormack joined RSA after a career of more than 17 years in the Federal Government and the United States Navy. During his service, he held significant leadership positions within the Internal Revenue Service and Intelligence Community, focused on cybersecurity. McCormack’s last position in the government was the Chief Information Security Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency responsible for the overall protection of all classified data within the agency as well as the building, testing and deployment of unique cyber initiatives to mitigate special threats experienced by the Intelligence Community. Prior to this role, McCormack also served as the Director, Cybersecurity Operations at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), where he was responsible for all 24×7 and field security operations at the agency. He also served as the Director, Security Engineering and the Chief Security Architect for the IRS. McCormack was also a Cryptologic Officer in the Unites States Navy and is a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. McCormack is a native of Caribou, Maine and now resides in Annapolis MD with his wife and three children. He has an MBA from the University of West Florida and an M.S. and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He currently maintains a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP), ITIL V3.0 and CMMI certifications.

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.

With a successful career in Law Enforcement and forensics spanning 24 years, Lance spent his first 14 in LE; including a 5-year stint investigating high-tech crimes as a DA investigator assigned to California’s Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response team (CATCH). With CATCH, Lance was lead investigator on a number of high-profile criminal cases, including a global hacking case where the suspects were jailed for helping create a virus that affected thousands of computers globally: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4319942.stm. The case was also highlighted in Malicious Bots – An inside look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet – a book Lance contributed to. In 2003, Lance left Law Enforcement for a position with Guidance Software as a Master Instructor and trainer for law enforcement, military, government and corporate examiners. While there, he developed several of the training courses that are still in use by the company. Lance then transitioned to Guidance’s professional services division where he conducted incident response and forensic examinations for many of their Fortune 500 clients. Lance then took a position with the US Department of State Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) program in 2005, travelling to multiple countries to teach digital forensics best practices, setting up computer forensics laboratories and conducting forensic capability assessments. Lance has worked with several large organizations such as Qualcomm, IBM and was most recently been contracted by Magnet Forensics (Waterloo, Ontario based) as their Director of Forensics and now serves as a Special Advisor to the management team. Lance also maintains a hugely popular forensics blog: www.ForensicKB.com

David Padgett is a Senior Auditor with the Privacy, Compliance and Training Branch (Ministry of Citizens’ Services). David manages the government’s privacy and information awareness training and delivers in-person training sessions to government, the broader public sector and the private sector. David has also been involved in the development of corporate privacy policy and messaging, and helped develop the privacy portions of the BC Services Card.

In addition, David has an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London and a BA in History and Politics from the University of Sussex, both from his native UK.

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.

Steven Penney is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. He researches and teaches in the areas of criminal procedure, evidence, substantive criminal law, privacy, and law and technology. He is co-author of Criminal Procedure in Canada (Markham, Ont.: Lexis Nexis, 2011) and co-editor of Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 3d ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2012). He has written several book chapters and his articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the American Journal of Criminal Law, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, International Journal of Law & Psychiatry, McGill Law Journal, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Queen’s Law Journal, Supreme Court Law Review, Alberta Law Review, Canadian Criminal Law Review, and Criminal Law Quarterly. Before his appointment at the University of Alberta, he taught at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario and clerked for Mr. Justice Gérard V. La Forest of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Information shapes the global economy. It is not just ubiquitous but essential. It drives progress, it powers interpersonal trust and it is the very fabric upon which abstract notions are anchored. Things like trust, identity, value. For over 20 years, Claudiu Popa has been professionally and personally involved in the rapidly evolving field of information management, witnessing trends in IT and enterprise risk. Claudiu Popa is a dynamic presenter who brings attitude, passion and character to engaging events. In his professional life he helps the world’s best companies protect their most valuable assets. His unique background and influence in the industry make him a trusted risk advisor to leaders and a respected expert to the media. He is also a published author, with high profile titles ranging from enterprise risk governance to small business security and privacy. His work is a continuous process of helping to safeguard the world’s most important currency: information. A rich personal and professional background empowers him to advise at the highest levels, on matters of technology security and physical protection, privacy rights and risk governance, accountability and reputational impact. Throughout the process, he builds strong relationships, helps solve real-world problems and earns the respect of his audience. The sensitivity of the work offers invaluable insight into how risk-based decisions are made, how governance impacts accountability, reputation, culture, and how that culture impacts the performance of each and every enterprise. That readily applicable trove of relevant knowledge is now available to discerning audiences. As part of his lectures, Claudiu Popa brings a rich repertoire of relevant situations – along with his passion for knowledge – to discerning groups, having consulted for global corporations, all levels of government and spoken at major industry events. He is the author of two keystone books on data protection, providing thought leadership through standards-based frameworks and offering engaging examples of proper risk governance: The Canadian Privacy and Data Security Toolkit for Small and Mid-Size Enterprises (CICA, 2009) and Managing Personal Information: Insights on Corporate Risk and Opportunity for Privacy-Savvy Leaders (Reuters, 2012). Claudiu Popa is a respected voice in the security and privacy industry having co-authored research publications with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, collaborated with the Canadian Standards Association on global standards, and continuing to work with progressive academic bodies to study the value and effects of information. He is the founder of Informatica Research, a non-profit practice area that contributes to the industry by publishing materials of importance across interdisciplinary boundaries. He is also the founder of KnowledgeFlow, a non-profit initiative dedicated to providing Canadian non-profits access high quality educational content to protect children and youth against cyberbullying, privacy breaches and online scams. Claudiu is a respected media contributor with regular appearances on notable television and radio programs, print publications and across a broad spectrum of social media properties. His current professional credentials are the top certifications from some of the industry’s most important organizations: ISC2, ISACA, IAPP and PMI. Consistently approachable, Claudiu welcomes audience participation and comments at every venue. His broad social media profile is matched by an openness that affords him close contact with readers, listeners and viewers alike. All are testaments to his dedication to a personal and professional passion for sharing knowledge and offering lessons learned from helping leaders to protect the most valuable intangible asset in the global economy.

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.

Richard Purcell has been a leading voice in addressing consumer privacy and data protection challenges since the late ‘90’s. He leads Corporate Privacy Group (CPG), an independent consulting firm focusing on establishing sustainable and effective information security and privacy programs. CPG supports multi-national corporations, Internet start-ups and government agencies in planning, developing, and implementing enterprise-wide programs designed to respect and protect personal information. Utilizing its proprietary management model, 3PT™, CPG works from a basis of assuring that the right people develop and communicate the right policies supported by the right processes and technologies. CPG also offers award-winning Web-based education and training courseware for security and privacy awareness, knowledge and skills development. As Microsoft’s original privacy officer, Richard designed, developed, implemented and oversaw one of the world’s largest and most advanced privacy programs spanning Internet properties, software products, end-user support and information systems. In 2002, Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative included the global privacy program as a key enterprise pillar. Throughout this period, Richard worked closely with regulators and legislators in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia to create global accountability and compliance standards and maintains those relationships today. Recently, Richard also served as Chairman of the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee to the Department of Homeland Security and as the Executive Director of the non-profit research agency, the Privacy Projects. Previously, he served on the Federal Trade Commission’s Online Access & Security Advisory Committee and as Chairman of TRUSTe, the pioneering online privacy certification agency. He sits on several corporate advisory boards and regularly addresses issues of information privacy and data protection domestically and globally.

JR Reagan is Global Public Sector Cybersecurity Leader and leads Deloitte’s Center for Cyber Innovation. He has over 25 years of Financial, Commercial and Public Services sector experience managing Cybersecurity, Technology and Innovation initiatives in more than 20+ countries worldwide, with clients such as DHS, NSA, DIA, FBI, NASA,, DARPA, Citibank, Bank of America,, eBay, Microsoft, and the Governments of Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom and France. Mr. Reagan is Senior Professional Faculty at Johns Hopkins University and was a 2011 ISC2 Americas Information Security Leadership Award recipient. Mr. Reagan serves as Senior Professional Faculty teaching Innovation & Creativity at Johns Hopkins University (Carey Business School), Graduate Studies Mentor at Columbia University and is a Doctoral candidate in Organizational Leadership at Shenandoah University. He has also been a guest lecturer on Innovation and Analytics at Harvard, Wharton, Northwestern, Notre Dame and American Universities. Mr. Reagan serves on the Board of Directors for WashintonEXEC STEM Council and Johns Hopkins Innovation Factory.

Ed Rebane leads the Security Practice for Bell in the West. In addition to holding a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Engineering Physics from McMaster University, he holds certifications as a CISSP, CISM, and CSSA. Ed is also a member of the local Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) chapters in addition to the British Columbia Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) user group and the Pacific Fraud Association. His security experience covers product management, architecture, corporate security and customer facing security services for both Business IT and ICS (Industrial Control Systems/Scada) domains.

Jennifer Rees-Jones is a Senior Privacy Investigator for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. In this role, she investigates complaints made pursuant to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Canada’s federal privacy statue that applies to private sector organizations. Jennifer previously worked at the Competition Bureau where, as a Competition Law Officer, she conducted investigations for the Fair Business Practices Branch, which administers and enforces the provisions of the Competition Act that deal with false or misleading representations and deceptive marketing practices. During her time at the Competition Bureau, Jennifer was also appointed as Special Advisor to the Deputy Commissioner of Competition. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa.

Courtney has over 10 years’ experience designing and developing enterprise solutions to both private and public sector organizations, specializing in content management solutions and web application development. As a senior technical lead and architect, he is able to use that knowledge to work effectively with IT directors, marketers and business stakeholders to help map their digital strategy and IT road-map into the right technical solution for their business.

Rick is a Senior Management Consultant who has been in the energy sector for over 30 years. His broad base of experience includes the management, architecture and implementation of business solutions as part of both business and information technology organizations. He has delivered end-to-end Business Continuity Management Programs for over 10 years for numerous clients with a focus on achieving resilience through risk assessments, identifying risks as well as developing and implementing appropriate risk mitigation strategies. He currently leads CGI’s Business Continuity Solutions practice for Western Canada.

Michael Roncon is the Director of Security Services for CGI in Western Canada. As a senior IT services and security professional with over 25 years’ experience in the private sector, Michael is a consummate technology services and management consultant with broad-based business experience in information technology service environments. Michael has developed strategies and the execution of collaborative secure solutions, including MSS, SECaaS, Identity Management, Mobile Security, Information Assurance, Cryptography, End Point Encryption, FIPS 140-Level1,2,3 and Biometric business security solutions. Michael has with a sound understanding of interacting with Government, and multi-national corporations across a variety of cultures, as well as demonstrated familiarity working at a senior level within large, complex organizations, focused on providing clients with solutions based on a trusted advisor role.

Jamie is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Enterprise Risk Services (ERS) practice in Vancouver, BC. He leads ERS’ work with the BC public sector through a team that brings tools, methodologies and expertise to support operational, technical and financial risk management for public sector clients. His work is primarily focused on the topics of information management, information governance, security and privacy as they relate to public sector organizations. His work within the public sector has also included financial risk and control reviews, large-scale IT program evaluations and system development and implementation projects. In addition to his advisory experience, Jamie also leads review, assessment and assurance engagements across a range of subject matter areas, including security and privacy, risk and non-financial reporting. Jamie has also led numerous control transformation initiatives with clients seeking to enhance technical and business process controls related to sensitive information. Jamie holds a Ph.D. in environmental health and was an inaugural fellow of Action Canada, a national public policy leadership development initiative.

Stephen Saunders is the Master Health Architect within CGI’s Global Health Industry Practice, spanning 400 offices in 40 countries around the globe. He is an expert in corporate management, business development and enterprise delivery. He has provided lead architecture support and has successfully delivered more than 25 integrated enterprise solutions with budgets between 10 and 150 million dollars. Prior to joining CGI in 2006, Mr. Saunders was the Chief Architect for EDS Canada’s Health IT Practice which spanned every jurisdiction in Canada.

Mr. Saunders is currently responsible for providing CGI’s Health IT Leadership, Portfolio Development and/or Delivery Oversight in many of the world’s most significant Health IT delivery projects including several projects that place the Citizen at the Center of Care.

In the last 25 years, Mr. Saunders has fulfilled the chief architecture role for teams working on enterprise iEHR, HIE, DIS, LAB, DIR/PACS, ERP, EHR, EMR, DW, DSM, Clinical BI, Chronic Care, Collaborative Care, and Deep Clinical/Clinical Viewer/Portal projects and implementations in a number of Canadian and International health care jurisdictions.

Mr. Saunders provides leadership, coordination and training to teams of Technology Architects involved in the delivery of health care solutions ensuring that effort and investment can be leveraged from project to project.

Mr. Saunders works with senior executives and management teams at client sites and in regulatory agencies to ensure that delivered solutions conform to requirements and the locally evolving National, Provincial/State, Regional and/or Municipal Architectural Blueprints. Where issues exist, Mr. Saunders works with blueprint administrators to ensure that they are updated/adjusted as required to suit the specific needs of a client’s solution’s requirements and/or the evolution of Health IT Standards. In this way, Mr. Saunders ensures that solutions address Privacy and Security legislation and conform to industry standards and their inferred business requirements.

Mr. Saunders develops portfolio, researches and reviews new Healthcare Information Technology; he performs due diligence, conducts negotiations and finalizes teaming agreements with potential partner Solution Applications and Services.

Winn Schwartau thinks asymmetrically and has been “Security” for over 34 years. As he puts it, “Finally, I think, maybe, I’m just starting to understand it.”

If you want originality, energy and interactivity in thought, writing, presentations or any aspect of Security, call Winn. In addition to being called “The Civilian Architect of Information Warfare,” he authored “Information Warfare,” “Pearl Harbor Dot Com” among others and is one of the country’s most sought after experts on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic privacy. He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbor” while testifying before Congress in 1991. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winn_Schwartau and www.WinnSchwartau.Com

• “Analogue Network Security” (Available from Amazon, Oct. 2017)

• “Hiring the Unhireable”

• “Defense in Depth”

• “Time Based Security”

• “I have zero tolerance for intolerance.”

Jennifer Seligy has been working as legal counsel for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) since 2008. In this capacity, Jennifer advises on legal issues relevant to the OPC’s role and mandate, including with respect to the interpretation and application of Canada’s two federal privacy statutes, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Privacy Act. Jennifer also represents the OPC in various legal proceedings before the Federal Court of Canada and other courts. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa’s National Program, where she completed degrees in common law and civil law. She has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 2006.

Andrew B. Serwin is a partner in the Global Privacy and Data Security Practice Group at Morrison & Foerster LLP’s San Diego and Washington, D.C. offices. Mr. Serwin has handled a number of high-profile privacy and consumer protection matters, including multiple privacy enforcement matters before the Federal Trade Commission, and is internationally recognized as one of the leading consumer protection and privacy lawyers. Mr. Serwin advises a number of Fortune 500 and emerging companies regarding global privacy compliance and technology transactions, with particular emphasis on: international compliance; health care; mobile; behavioral advertising; ECPA and wiretap issues; electronic marketing concerns; security incidents; social media; and compliance with FTC requirements. He has provided advice to companies in a diverse set of industries, including: financial services; health; retail; data brokers; online businesses; hospitality; utilities; and insurance. Mr. Serwin also has unique experience in representing emerging companies because he founded an online political magazine, and serves on the advisory boards of emerging companies. Mr. Serwin also has extensive litigation and enforcement experience, having served as lead counsel in a number of FTC matters, matters before the Office of Civil Rights, and consumer protection and privacy litigation matters based upon the alleged misuse of personal information, including class actions and enforcement matters brought by state attorneys general. He is recognized by Chambers USA as one of the top privacy and data security attorneys nationwide (2009–2013). Chambers USA 2013 notes that Mr. Serwin “attracts praise for his consultative and strategic approach to complex matters.” He was described by clients as “a tireless worker, holding onto the ever-shifting puzzle pieces of the law in this area in a way that other privacy lawyers cannot,” and noted as “an excellent privacy lawyer, a real expert in the field,” by Chambers Global 2012. The Legal 500 recognized Mr. Serwin as a Leading Lawyer in data protection and privacy (2010–2012); clients stated that he “understands business concerns and provides practical, to-the-point advice.” Mr. Serwin serves as executive director of the Lares Institute, a think tank focused on information management issues. He is also a member of the advisory team of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Asymmetric Warfare; general counsel of the RIM Council of the Ponemon Institute, LLC; a member of the International Advisory Council of APCO Worldwide (a group of more than 60 recognized global leaders and policy experts). Mr. Serwin has written a number of books, including the leading treatise on privacy, “Information Security and Privacy: A Guide to Federal and State Law and Compliance,” and “Information Security and Privacy: A Guide to International Law and Compliance,” (West 2005-2013) Mr. Serwin received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1995, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.

For the past three years, Bill Shihara has been the Manager of Security Threat Analysis and Security Engineering for BlackBerry. He drives the anti-malware and security automation strategy for the BlackBerry ecosystem to help protect customers from threats before they happen. Prior to joining BlackBerry, Bill spent 11 years at Microsoft. He worked on both the Windows operating system and the Trustworthy Computing teams.

Cheryl Soderstrom is the Americas Cybersecurity Chief Technologist for HP Enterprise Services. In this capacity she is focused on bringing the larger HP cybersecurity value proposition to industry leaders and key clients, leveraging HP’s deep insights gained from securing global operations in 170 countries, our Managed Security Services leadership, and our market-best security research teams studying and correlating threat landscape and vulnerabilities in cyberspace. Recently, Cheryl Soderstrom was the director of cybersecurity practice operations for HPES US Public Sector (USPS). Soderstrom created the practice development approach and led the establishment of the USPS cybersecurity practice—unifying strategy, capabilities, growth plans, workforce management and investments across five market segments within the public sector. To provide a common understanding of cybersecurity that incorporates both business and technical views, Soderstrom championed the development of HP’s cybersecurity taxonomy. Providing a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity challenge in common language, Soderstrom used this taxonomy to baseline the company’s portfolio, public sector book of business and go-forward strategy, and has shared it with international colleagues and key public sector clients. She represents public sector cybersecurity in ongoing pan-HP corporate initiatives, portfolio development, investment planning and market messaging. During her eclectic career, Soderstrom has worked in multiple capacities across the business, including software development, account management, regional staff leadership, alliances, and industry consulting. She brings over twenty-five years of experience in applying business strategy and consulting services to industry and government clients with expertise in strategy and business model development, enterprise performance management, digital government, business webs, and organizational development consulting. Soderstrom has worked with numerous government, commercial and international clients, with a special focus on the public sector and financial services industries. Previously, Soderstrom led large information technology planning and development programs, enterprise business operations, and global implementations. Soderstrom earned a B.A. from the prestigious Davidson College, and has completed numerous professional and leadership development programs, including at the Darden School of Business. She has represented the firm in primary think tank research programs related to strategy and governance in the digital economy, customer fulfillment networks and the Hypernet revolution. Ms. Soderstrom has received five letters of commendation from the United States government.

Jay Stanley is Senior Policy Analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, where he researches, writes and speaks about technology-related privacy and civil liberties issues and their future. Stanley writes for and is editor of the ACLU’s Free Future blog. He has authored and co-authored numerous influential ACLU reports, white papers and blog posts. Recent policy pieces have covered surveillance drones, police body cameras, and the rights of photographers. Other major reports include “The Surveillance Industrial Complex” (2004), which traced the growing intersection between government surveillance and the private sector (called “incredibly prescient” by Salon’s Glenn Greenwald); Science Under Siege (2005), and “What’s Wrong With Fusion Centers” (2007). He also wrote “The Crisis in Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence” (2010), an Issue Brief published by the American Constitution Society. Stanley has also served as communications strategist and media spokesperson for the ACLU on technology issues. He was co-chair of the 2009 Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference in Washington DC, and serves on the CFP steering committee. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of London-based Privacy International. Before joining the ACLU in 2001, Stanley was an analyst at the technology research firm Forrester, where he focused on Internet related policies, including online privacy, taxation, and antitrust issues, as well as researching political communication via the web. Stanley also served as the American politics editor of Facts on File’s World News Digest, where he covered Congress and presidential politics. Stanley is a graduate of Williams College and holds an M.A. (ABD) in American History from the University of Virginia.

Rick is currently the Strategic Advisor to BI2PI.com and is also working with a number of start-up companies in the cloud computing industry.

Rick has over 35 years experience as a senior leader in the ICT sector with a focus on change management, and development of secure, scalable solutions. Prior to joining BI2PI.com, he worked with Bell for 14 years where he was the strategic advisor to public sector clients and a data centre and security practice leader. While with Bell, Rick was seconded to the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee as a senior implementation manager, where he was responsible for the design and execution of a rapid, scalable IT deployment methodology for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Prior to joining Bell, Rick spent 25 years in the Canadian Forces, where he served as a Communications Electronics Engineering Officer, responsible for the design and operations of a number of National Defence’s global infrastructure services. Rick received his education at the Military College in Kingston Ontario and also served as an instructor for 6 Years.

Rick is an active member of NIST’s working groups for standards development on cloud and cloud carrier services.

Elizabeth Vander Beesen, has been with the British Columbia Provincial Government over 22 years. When government centralized Freedom of Information and Records Management in 2009, Elizabeth participated on the Business Transformation team responsible for the structure and set up of IAO, and developed and implemented improvements in order to streamline government’s performance. In her current role as IAO Director, Staff Administration, Elizabeth provides education and training relating to our obligations under FOIPPA for both internal IAO staff and for ministry clients within the provincial government. Prior to joining IAO, a large portion of Elizabeth’s career was with the Ministry of Forests where she was the Director, Information Operations where she was responsible for FOI Access, Privacy, Records Management, Litigation Services, Information Security and Information Technology Security.

John Waddell is a partner with the Victoria law firm of Waddell Raponi and practices in the area of civil litigation. He is an experienced arbitrator and mediator of all manner of civil disputes and a Member of the Civil Roster of Mediate BC. In 1995/96 he was President of the B.C. Branch of the Canadian Bar Association. From 1990 through 1995 and from 2003 to the present, he has served as a director of the Canadian Bar Insurance Association and is currently Past President of that organization. He is a member of the Board of the CBA (B.C.) Benevolent Society. In 2001, he served on the Judicial Council of British Columbia and in 2002 and 2004 was a member of the Judicial Justice of the Peace Compensation Committees. He is a Past President of both the Greater Victoria YM/YWCA and the Government House Foundation of B.C., and a former Governor of the Law Foundation of BC .John has received both the Queens Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of his service to his community and the legal profession in Canada, and the Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to the Government House Foundation of B.C. Presently, he is on the list of Special Prosecutors retained from time to time by the Minister of Justice of B.C. and sits as a member of the Law Society of B.C. Disciplinary Hearing and Credentials Panels.

Derrick Webber is an information security specialist with over 15 years of experience serving clients in business, government and defence. He has extensive hands-on experience in building and assessing information systems large and small. In his current role as penetration tester and forensic analyst, Mr. Webber assesses systems for vulnerabiltities using the same tools and techniques as the attackers, and conducts forensic investigations for clients when breaches do occur. In his spare time, Mr. Webber is also an instructor in penetration testing at Algonguin College in Ottawa Ontario. Mr. Webber is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Forensic Examiner and licensed Private Investigator.

Holly Whalen is the Global Vice President of GTM (Go-to-Market) at Cylance, Inc. Holly is responsible for defining worldwide selling strategies, operations and customer relationships. Her security leadership keeps organizations abreast of the most secure and resilient products and services to thwart advanced cyber attackers. Holly is a Certified Management Accountant, who transitioned her experience as an audit & compliance consultant to deploying enterprise software solutions. Over the past eighteen years, Holly has held leadership roles within the vendor community with ERP, CRM and Security. Holly’s operationally focused education and audit experience provides a concrete understanding of the importance in applying automation to critical and yet challenging manual processes and controls. Her experience indicates that only when solutions are able to automate, is one able to derive a quantifiable Return-on-Investment and a lower Total Cost of Ownership. This has become a challenging area for security leaders, deriving and delivering on quantifiable and measurable value. This challenge became one of the major reasons behind her decision to join the Cylance executive team, the ability to detect (make visible) and mitigate the execution of unknown malware across the infrastructure without relying on traditional methods (Signatures, Heuristics, Reputation) in getting there, providing the opportunity to displace traditional solutions while mitigating operational overhead. Holly has become a trusted advisor to the C-level due to her deep operational understanding and the value that she places in recognizing that acquiring technology is 10% of the process, companies require the value derived from the opportunity to mitigate legacy solutions while automating processes and controls is where the other 90% of the equation lies.

Naeem is Vice President at the Oracle Identity Management business. He is also a serial entrepreneur and he co-founded and served as the CEO of Bitzer Mobile, an enterprise security and mobility company that was acquired by Oracle in November 2013. Naeem started his own business at the age of 26 and subsequently went on to start, or work at, six startups. His first job out of Brown University with a degree in electrical engineering was to design chips and electronic systems. Twenty years, two kids, one IPO and three CEO stints later, he founded Bitzer Mobile. Naeem has authored five books on entrepreneurship on topics ranging from conducting market research to seeking the right funding to successful ways to start a business. Information can be found on www.NaeemZafar.com. His books including “7-Steps to a Successful Startup” are also available on Amazon.com, Kindle and on the iTunes App store.