David Bryan has over 15 years of professional information security experience from being a defender of security at a top ten bank to securing the DEF CON network. He first entered the information security community as a DEF CON volunteer (Goon) and is now is on the board that runs Thotcon, a Chicago Information Security conference. For the last ten years, David has been the attacker in many scenarios as a penetration tester covering network, embedded, wireless, web applications and physical. He has presented at BlackHat, DEF CON, ToorCon, LayerOne, ToorCamp, BSides events and AppSecUSA. David lives in cold, but beautiful, Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and two cats.

Daniel is a penetration tester, ethical hacker, breaker of things, or however else you’d like to put it. Daniel can unlock a door with his computer but still can’t launch ICBMs by whistling into a phone. Daniel is the primary author of both the Magical Code Injection Rainbow, a configurable vulnerability testbed, and FeatherDuster, an automated cryptanalysis tool. Daniel enjoys climbing large rocks and is TIME magazine’s 2006 person of the year. Daniel has been working in the information security industry since 2004 and is a frequent speaker at conferences including BlackHat, DEF CON, Shmoocon, and SOURCE. Daniel does his own charcuterie and brews his own beer. Daniel’s work has been included in books and college courses. Daniel also holds the noble title of Baron in the micronation of Sealand.

EvilMog is a Senior Managing Consultant for X Force Red, IBM’s elite security testing team. EvilMog has over 12+ years of professional Information Security experience. His experience includes Finance, Aerospace/Defense & Telecommunications. He specializes in Password Assessments & Password Security Research. He was on the research team that developed the DROWN vulnerability and is a member of Team Hashcat. He has spoken multiple times at Derbycon. EvilMog is an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Offensive Security Wireless Professional (OSWP), and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Matt Reed is the Executive Director, Privacy, Compliance and Training for the Province of BC Government’s Ministry of Citizens’ Services. After writing his Master’s thesis on social media advertising, privacy and choice, he began working for the branch, where he has been for the past ten years. During this tenure Matt has managed the privacy implications of many cross-government initiatives, including: cloud, social media, the mobile worker and open data strategies.

Holly Romanow is a Senior Advisor for the Privacy, Compliance and Training branch within the BC Government. She has 6 years’ experience in Information Management. Having previously worked as a Court Clerk and a Policy Analyst, Holly found her ideal career fit in the privacy realm. She currently delivers privacy training across the province and provides privacy consultation for ministries on topics including cloud technology and genetic testing.

Tom Levasseur has over 20 years’ experience in IT and Cyber Security, from system and network admin, to Global R&D IT-Security Chief at Canada’s largest high-tech company. This combination of deep technical skills and senior-level management experience gives him a unique perspective on today’s cyber-threat landscape.

Tom is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Web Application Pen Tester (GWAPT), and holds Top Secret (Level III) security clearance from the Canadian Industrial Security Directorate (CISD).

By day, Tom is a Vulnerability Analyst for a crown corporation of the Government of Canada. By night, he’s fighting the forces of IT evil at HackingAway.org, running cyber security competitions, simulations, and training events such as http://CyberSecurityChallenge.ca

James Argue is a Team Lead and Network Security Architect of the Government of British Columbia. His IT career started as an IT trainer in 1997. He taught for 9 years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. To prove he could “do and teach”; he joined the public service in server, network, and security administration and operations. He has constantly evolved his skills in analysis and solution design. He excels at becoming responsible for systems that are “guilty until proven innocent of disrupting operations”.

Stephen Curran of Cloud Compass Computing, Inc. is a Software Development and DevOps veteran who dove full on into the identity on blockchain world in 2017. Working with the British Columbia Government, Stephen has helped define, build and launch the Verifiable Organizations Network (VON) – a production instance of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Indy project that makes public information about Organizations (Incorporations, etc.) in BC available in the form of Verifiable Credentials. Stephen is a regular contributor in the Hyperledger Indy community, facilitating discussions and driving interoperability. Stephen has presented on Blockchain and the Hyperledger Indy project at a number of events and is a member of the Sovrin Foundation’s Technical Governance Board.

John Jordan is an experienced product executive and technology strategist who has over 25 years of experience in both the private and public sectors. His mantra is “Always be Shipping”. John has shipped product in the domains of telecommunications, content management, identity management, and open data. Currently he is co-leading work with the Province of British Columbia’s Corporate Registrar in the area of decentralized identity for businesses. In 2013, he received the Canadian Public Sector Award for Excellence in the Innovation category. John holds a Master’s degree in Applied Science, Management of Technology from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Queen’s University at Kingston.

Holly Longstaff is a PhD-prepared ethicist with a broad background in privacy and the ethics of health research.  Holly is the ethicist for the BC Cancer Agency Research Ethics Board (REB) and is a member of Schulman Institutional Review Board’s Canadian panel. She is also the Research Privacy Advisor for the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).  Through her role as an ethicist and privacy advisor, Holly has extensive experience in reviewing proposed research studies for privacy and confidentiality requirements, and in helping researchers navigate the ethics and privacy requirements of their work.

Holly has also developed policy and related guidance documents for Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, created ethics, privacy and confidentiality educational materials for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Ethics Office, and provided consulting services for a variety of organizations including the Canadian Clinical Trials Coordinating Centre and the BC Ethics Harmonization Initiative (BCEHI). She is currently collaborating on a CIHR grant held by principal investigator Dr. McGrail at UBC which focuses on consulting with the public about good governance models for data sharing and access to research resources.

Holly is passionate about supporting the research community in advancing ethically and privacy sound research, and committed to recommending practical ways to reduce and manage privacy risks in research.  

As Executive Director, Robin Syme is responsible for leading CanAssist from both a strategic and operational perspective. She is accountable for achieving CanAssist’s goals, strengthening existing partnerships and securing new collaborations to further support individuals with disabilities in improving their independence and quality of life through innovative technologies and programs. In support of these accountabilities and goals, Robin engages with faculty, students, external clients, volunteers, donors and other funding partners, as well as with stakeholders at the university, in the disability community and beyond.

In her previous role as CanAssist’s Director – Partnerships, Robin identified potential partners and opportunities for collaboration at the community, provincial and federal levels, while also being responsible for a portion of the day-to-day operations at CanAssist. She has been highly successful in securing partnerships with organizations such as WorkSafeBC, Community Living BC, and most recently with the B.C. regional health authorities in partnership with the Ministry of Health. Prior to joining CanAssist, Robin held a number of senior social policy positions with the provincial government for more than 20 years. Robin has considerable experience in establishing innovative partnerships such as Success by Six with United Way of the Lower Mainland and Credit Union Central, in addition to providing policy and program development leadership with respect to early childhood development, child care, public health, mental health, services and supports to children and youth with special needs and adult community living.

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.

Rhianna Begley is the Acting Director of Strategic Privacy in the BC government’s privacy branch. Rhianna has a number of years’ experience as a privacy professional, with a focus on strategic initiatives including information sharing, de-identification and cloud. She brings a collaborative approach to the public bodies she works with, believing that the balance between program provision and respect for privacy is a worthwhile and achievable endeavor.

Sorana Ionescu is Acting Vice President, Information and Technology Services. In this role, she is responsible for IESO’s information technology solutions support and cybersecurity. She also has oversight of the Smart Metering Entity.

Ms. Ionescu has been with the organization since 2008, where she has held various roles, most recently as the Director, Smart Metering, and before that in conservation. Prior to the IESO, she worked for a major Canadian bank where she focused on developing customer-centric solutions through complex uses of customer data and information, and advanced analytics.

Sorana holds an Executive MBA from Richard Ivey Business School, a nuclear power engineering degree from the University of Bucharest, and various certifications in business management and energy sector leadership.

Sarah Lyons is the Chief Operating Officer of Privacy Analytics, a Canadian-based global company specializing in data de-identification enabling health analytics while protecting patient privacy.

Sarah has over 15 years of experience in professional services, software development and operations management. She has extensive experience leading large business transformations and advising clients across industries on enterprise risk management, privacy and governance.

Before joining Privacy Analytics, Sarah was a Partner and National Privacy Leader at MNP LLP. Sarah joined MNP through its merger with A Hundred Answers Inc., a Canadian professional services firm where she was COO and delivered advisory, digital and technology solutions and services. Sarah has led the development and implementation of innovative risk assessment methodologies for the federal government, large financial institutions, and Fortune 500 companies.  She previously led the establishment of new consulting markets and methodologies for Ernst & Young’s growing Government and Public Sector practice, where she also managed large-scale projects with over 35 direct reports.  She has provided privacy advisory services in Canada and globally across jurisdictions, including in the health sector and for privacy regulators.

Sarah has a Master of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering, holds professional certifications in audit, risk management and control and is a Privacy by Design Ambassador.

Adrian Sakundiak is a proven business leader with more than 25 years of progressive senior leadership experience, mainly in the Canadian health industry. After spending over a decade in the health care industry in positions such as Hospital CEO, Health Region CFO, and Executive Vice President, Adrian moved into Tier 1 management consulting in a senior capacity to lead and deliver strategic solutions in extremely complex environments. Adrian assisted both national and international clients to solve their most challenging business issues.

Adrian is a charismatic leader and effective team-builder, known for delivering creative solutions for Analytics, Strategy, Business Intelligence and Risk-based Data De-identification. Adrian holds a BA (Economics), BComm (Health Care Administration) and his MBA. Adrian also earned his CMC designation with honors demonstrating management consulting excellence.

Based in Calgary, Adrian is currently leading the implementation of the Privacy Analytics Data De-identification solution for the Alberta Ministry of Health and Alberta Health Services.

Paul works with the BC Provincial Government as a Senior Security Analyst. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Network Systems Engineering, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. Paul has several years’ experience working as a Consultant, he has also gained tangible experience working for two of the big four Professional Services firms.  Paul combines his technical background and business acumen to proffer innovative solutions in the cyber security space. He currently serves on the board of ISACA Victoria chapter as the Certifications Director.

Dan is the Senior Project Manager for the OCIO’s Information Security Branch, and is responsible for providing project management leadership across the branch to support the delivery of cybersecurity services to the province of BC.

Dan has 17 years of IT management experience, holds numerous professional IT certifications, diplomas in IT and Network Management with specializations in network security and design, and is a certified Project Management Professional.

Dan brings a broad range of skills and experience, and is currently managing the implementation of Defensible Security across the Public Sector.

Tom Levasseur has over 20 years’ experience in IT and Cyber Security, from system and network admin, to Global R&D IT-Security Chief at Canada’s largest high-tech company. This combination of deep technical skills and senior-level management experience gives him a unique perspective on today’s cyber-threat landscape.

Tom is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Web Application Pen Tester (GWAPT), and holds Top Secret (Level III) security clearance from the Canadian Industrial Security Directorate (CISD).

By day, Tom is a Vulnerability Analyst for a crown corporation of the Government of Canada. By night, he’s fighting the forces of IT evil at HackingAway.org, running cyber security competitions, simulations, and training events such as http://CyberSecurityChallenge.ca

Alan Arslan is a Privacy Advisor in the Privacy, Compliance and Training branch within the Ministry of Citizen’s Services. Alan delivers privacy training within core provincial government, the broader public sector and the private sector. He has been working in privacy for the last 3 1/2 years and has a passion for discussing the nuances of privacy legislation. Alan studied Social Sciences at the University of Victoria and recently earned his Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada credential. In his free time he enjoys traveling, participating in running competitions, playing squash and binge watching the latest Netflix series.

Quinn Fletcher is currently the Privacy Officer for the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions. Prior to joining the health sector, he worked in the corporate privacy office for the Province of BC in the Ministry of Citizens’ Services overseeing the review of over a thousand privacy impact assessments a year, while working with all ministries on new legislation, projects, systems and any other challenging privacy problems. He brings a background in client service and information studies.

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.

Teresa Woods is a Senior Auditor with the Privacy, Compliance and Training Branch at the Ministry of Citizens’ Services. Teresa has several years’ experience conducting audits in the Finance and Education fields and is a Certified Internal Auditor through the Institute of Internal Auditors. Teresa has an Honours degree in Commerce from Royal Roads, an MBA in Management from University Canada West and is a hard working soccer referee.

Her extensive knowledge and experience (on and off the field) have led to the belief that that people will do the right thing in the right way, as long as they know how.

Sonny Hashmi is the Managing Director of Global Government Strategy at Box. In his role, Sonny is responsible for developing and executing a go-to Market strategy for Box within global public sectors, and represents Box as a cloud computing thought-leader in government. Sonny also serves as part of the Editorial Advisory board for GovernmentCIO magazine, and works for Federal, State and Local and international government customers on cloud and mobility strategy.

Prior to joining Box, Sonny served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Since joining GSA in 2011, Sonny managed the agency’s $600 million Information Technology (IT) budget and ensuring alignment with agency and the administration’s strategic objectives, information security and enterprise architecture. Sonny led several technology initiatives at GSA, that leveraged emerging technologies to modernize and improve GSA operations. He also provided oversight of GSA’s IT projects, implemented the digital government strategy and was a major force towards adoption of cloud for GSA’s email, collaboration and applications as well as creating agile practices for cloud development.

Sonny has also served as the CTO for the District of Columbia, Office of the Chief Financial Officer. He championed and successfully delivered many initiatives including large system modernization projects, implementation of a District-wide business intelligence platform for agency financial management and oversaw business process automation. Sonny also worked for private sector organizations leading large scale initiatives for federal, state and local government agencies.

Sonny is active in the federal IT community. He received the 2013 Federal 100 award for Digital Government Innovation -as a “cloud expander.”  Other awards include his team’s win of the 2011 GCN award for (Cloud) Enterprise E-mail and Collaboration, and as a finalist for the prestigious Samuel J. Hayman Service to America medal. Named as among the five most social federal CIOs on Twitter, he is actively engaged on social media and online federal IT communities of interest. You can follow Sonny on Twitter at @Sonny_h.

Sonny has a master’s in engineering from Purdue University and a master’s certificate in innovation management from the University of Maryland.

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.

Born in Jullundur District, India, Jinny immigrated to England at nine years old. She obtained a degree in education at the University of Manchester and moved to Canada in 1975 with her husband, Stephen Sims. Jinny Spent two years as an English teacher in Quebec, before moving to Nanaimo to teach high school and become president of the Nanaimo District Teachers Union. In 2004, Jinny was elected as president of the BC Teachers’ Federation where she was a passionate advocate for quality, public education.

In 2011, Jinny was elected as the NDP Member of Parliament for Newton-North Delta and served as Official Opposition Critic for Employment and Social Development Canada and Critic for Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship. Six years later, Jinny was successfully elected to the B.C. Legislature as the MLA for Surrey-Panorama. Jinny was appointed as the Minister for Citizens’ Services with the BC NDP government in July of 2017. Jinny is the proud mother of two and continues to work for a socially just and inclusive society.

CJ Ritchie began her BC Public Service career in 1995 with the Ministry of Children and Family Development. Since 2008, CJ has held Assistant Deputy Minister postings with five agencies in various portfolios including the Premier’s Office, the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism, Skills Training and Labour and the Ministry of Jobs, Trade and Technology. In January 2018, CJ was appointed the Associate Deputy Minister and Government Chief Information Officer role. In this capacity she leads the strategy, policy and standards for telecommunications, information technology, IT security and the management of the IM/IT investment portfolio for the Province.

Her recent accomplishments include: fostering a strong and competitive investment climate driving job creation, business opportunities and growth in BC; leading the development of a Mental Health Strategy on behalf of seven ministries; leading the development of the #BC Tech strategy, which launched in 2016; and, creating the Strategic Partnerships office which provided corporate leadership to a $5.8 billion portfolio of the Province’s high value technology contracts. Driven by high standards, CJ has a track record of producing results. She believes that systemic issues and complex problems can be solved if you attract the right resources, shift existing processes, and change culture in order to promote necessary change.

CJ holds a Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Management from Royal Roads University, two Bachelor degrees from the University of Victoria in Social Work and Psychology, and has taken Advanced Negotiation courses with the Harvard School of Business.

Elizabeth Denham was appointed UK Information Commissioner in July 2016, having previously held the position of Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, Canada and Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

She has set out a commitment to increase consumer trust people have in what happens to their personal data. This forms the basis of her strategic plan, and has been demonstrated in her commitment to ensuring companies are transparent with the public about how personal information is used, notably with high-profile investigations into Yahoo, Camelot, WhatsApp and Facebook.

The Commissioner has also demonstrated a focus on the essential role data protection can play in innovation, and the importance of organisations understanding the growing impetus on companies to be accountable for what they do with personal data. This forms a central part of the new General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force in May 2018.

Ms Denham oversaw the issuing of the ICO’s largest fine, a penalty of £400,000 to TalkTalk after the telecoms company failed to properly protect customer data from a cyber attack. She’s also overseen the conclusion of the ICO’s investigation into charities’ fundraising activities and a series of fines for companies behind nuisance marketing.

Ms Denham is a strong voice for public access rights. A proponent of open government and open data, Ms Denham has called for the proactive disclosure of records and published best practices for government ministries and public bodies. While at the ICO, she has called for the Freedom of Information Act to be extended to private bodies doing work on behalf of the public, and proposed a review of legislation around the duty to document information.

In 2011, Ms Denham was honoured as a UBC distinguished alumni for her pioneering work in archives and leadership in the field of access and privacy.

In 2013, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her service as an Officer of the Legislature of British Columbia, Canada.

In 2017, she was recognised as being one of the three most influential people in data-driven business in the annual DataIQ 100 list. She was honoured to accept the appointment of Visiting Professor in University College London’s department of Information Studies. The professorship will extend until 2022.

Mark Fernandes is the Global Leader for Cyber Innovation and Strategy at Deloitte and has over 29 years of experience in cyber security, security governance and secure development. In addition to his global leader role at Deloitte, Mr. Fernandes has spent over 20 years in advanced threat intelligence, threat management, actor attribution etc. He has worked with some of the most security sensitive organizations in defence, research and manufacturing, to build their cyber defence capabilities.

Mr. Fernandes’ team leads Deloitte’s Strategy Center for Advanced Cyber Solutions developing solutions for threat management, kill chain attribution, outcome-based analytics, threat actor attribution, resilient threat defenses, and hunting. The team work with leading clients to develop cyber solutions designed to reduce exposure time, increase depth of capability, better situational awareness and consistent Advanced Threat Analysis (known as Deloitte Capsule Hunting).

Chris Inglis currently serves in the U.S. Naval Academy’s Robert and Mary M. Looker Distinguished Chair for Cyber Studies. He retired from NSA in January 2014 following over 41 years of federal service, including seven and a half years as Deputy Director.  He serves as a Director on the Boards of FedEx, Huntington Bancshares, KEYW. He is a Strategic Advisor to Securonix.

Mr. Inglis serves on the Strategic Advisory Groups of the Director of National Intelligence (where he leads commonwealth engagement on cyber security), the National Security Agency (where he serves on the information assurance panel), and United States Strategic Command (where he leads the intelligence panel).

Mr. Inglis holds technical degrees from Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the George Washington University. His military career includes over 30 years of active and reserve service in the US Air Force from which he retired as a Brigadier General in 2006 and holds the rating of Command Pilot.

Mr. Inglis’ earned three Presidential Rank Awards (2000, 2004, and 2009), the USAF Distinguished Service Medal (2006), the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Eagle Scout Award (2009), the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal (2014), and The President’s National Security Medal (2014).

Jonathan Fox, Director of Privacy Engineering and Strategy and Planning, is a member of Cisco’s Chief Privacy Office and co-author of THE PRIVACY ENGINEER’S MANIFESTO, Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value (ApressOpen 2014).

With over 17 years of privacy experience, Jonathan’s principal areas of focus have been product development, government relations, mergers and acquisitions, and training. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), and was a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Prior to Cisco, Jonathan was a Senior Privacy Engineer at Intel.  His previous roles have included Director of Data Privacy, McAfee; Director of Privacy, eBay; Deputy Chief Privacy Officer for Sun Microsystems, and Editor-in-Chief of sun.com.

Jonathan frequently speaks at industry events and is a member of the IEEE P7002 Personal Data Privacy Working Group and the  OASIS Privacy by Design Documentation for Software Engineers Technical Committee.

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.

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.

Peter Guest, Public Sector Technical Leader at IBM Canada, is also an executive member of the Alberta Smart City Alliance. His experience from working closely with a number of provincial and municipal governments and law enforcement agencies will bring a local and relevant perspective to this panel. In addition, Peter will draw upon the global IBM experience around Smart City solutions and the Internet of Things.

Sorana Ionescu is Acting Vice President, Information and Technology Services. In this role, she is responsible for IESO’s information technology solutions support and cybersecurity. She also has oversight of the Smart Metering Entity.

Ms. Ionescu has been with the organization since 2008, where she has held various roles, most recently as the Director, Smart Metering, and before that in conservation. Prior to the IESO, she worked for a major Canadian bank where she focused on developing customer-centric solutions through complex uses of customer data and information, and advanced analytics.

Sorana holds an Executive MBA from Richard Ivey Business School, a nuclear power engineering degree from the University of Bucharest, and various certifications in business management and energy sector leadership.

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.”

Dana Adams is Director of Security Services at TELUS, a leading national telecommunications company in Canada. Dana oversees and has overseen multiple Canadian and overseas locations responsible for enterprise-wide physical and logical integrated access control systems, audit compliance, corporate investigations, event planning, business continuity, on-board screening programs, and law enforcement liaison work including Lawful Intercept, warrant and subpoena programs.

During his tenure with TELUS, Dana has successfully developed and delivered the TELUS security plan for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, established effective partnerships with Law Enforcement and Public Safety, redesigned and implemented a new executive protection program, and developed and delivered asset protection programs for network infrastructure (copper cabling), retail operations, supply chain security and data protection. The Security Services directorate has successfully transitioned from command and control to a strategic consulting partner with internal stakeholders, clients and both provincial and national law enforcement organizations.

Dana has demonstrated a proven ability to create strategic partnerships, and lead the business forward though education, influence and risk management planning activities during his 20+ year career in security. His career includes more than 25 years in the Telecommunications Industry complimented by extensive experience serving on the ASIS (formerly American Society for Industrial Security) Professional Certification Board, Councils Chair (Telecommunications and Private Security Services), committees and numerous seminars and educational workshops.

Inspector Ryan Jepson leads the Technical Operations Section of the Calgary Police Service which is comprised of teams that specialize in digital forensics, cybercrime, economic crime, and electronic surveillance. He has been a member of the Calgary Police Service for more than 20 years and he has recently participated on the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police E-Crimes Committee for the past two years. Ryan’s teams are in the process of implementing a cybercrime strategy that is tailored for the City of Calgary and aligned with best practices from across Canada and the world.  Ryan holds a Master’s Degree in Justice and Public Safety Leadership from Royal Roads University, a Certificate in Information Assurance and Risk Management and a Certificate in Information Assurance from the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington.

Sarah Jamie Lewis is an anonymity & privacy researcher, known for running the Dark Web mapping OnionScan project, promoting stories that help us understand how privacy impacts marginalized & at risk communities through Queer Privacy and also building new tools that leverage anonymity networks to make technology more consensual.

John Wunderlich is an information privacy & security expert with extensive experience in information privacy and data security. He has designed, built, operated and assessed systems for operations and compliance in the private and public sectors for over 25 years. This includes working or consulting for Fortune 500 corporations, government ministries, small companies, volunteer organizations, regulators, and health systems organizations of all sizes in Canada and abroad. He adds value to organizations that need to meet multiple stakeholder expectations for the responsible information management of personal information. John works with organizations to enable them to focus on measurable performance and process improvement so that they can focus on risk management rather than crisis management.

In addition to his hands-on experience, John is a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/C), a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), and a trained Six Sigma Black Belt. He has an MBA from the John Molson School of Business in Montreal. He has been a lecturer on privacy and information management at Guelph University and is a frequently sought out speaker. He is the author of the third edition of “Your Payroll Questions Answered”. He is also a co-author of “Managing Personal Information: insights on Corporate Risk and Opportunity for Privacy – Savvy Leaders” from Carswell Press and also a contributor to “Managing the Risk of Re-Identification for Public Use Files”, a report for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. John has a regular column on privacy issues for payroll and HR professionals in Dialogue, the bi-monthly magazine of the Canadian Payroll Association.

John’s interest in data protection, operational excellence, and continuous improvement are best represented by his commitment to the principles of Privacy By Design (PbD) – a made in Ontario pro-active approach to privacy protection that creates a win-win situation for the individual and the organizations the collect, use, and disclose their personal information. He is an advisor to Ryerson University’s Privacy By Design certification for organizations.

In a volunteer capacity, John serves as member of the Sick Kids Research Ethics Board and is on the Canadian Advisory Committee of the Standards Council of Canada for SC27, which includes ISO standards for security and privacy. John is a member of the Consent & Information Sharing Work Group of the Kantara Initiative, focusing on open notice projects to help fix the broken consent and notice system on the Internet. John is the board member for Theatre Smith-Gilmour, a theatre company in Toronto.

Ian Bailey was appointed as the Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Information Officer for the Justice Sector on Dec 11, 2017.

He has 32 years of experience in Information Management and Information Technology. He joined the BC Government in 1993 and was the acting Government Chief Information Officer prior to this appointment.

Ian has worked on a number of key initiatives in the BC Government, including development of the Pan-Canadian Identity Management Strategy and the BC Services Card solution for the Province.

After graduating from the University of Victoria with a degree in Computer Science, Ian spent 10 years developing software in the oil and gas industry, designing submarine detection systems and ultrasonic inspection technology for the Department of National Defense, and healthcare solutions for the Province of British Columbia.

Emmanuel’s work focuses on defining and architecting the next generation of distributed ledger platforms that will help Oracle’s customers build and participate in the next generation of business ecosystems and networks.

Emmanuel’s involvement in the Blockchain space goes as far back as the beginnings of Bitcoin and since then, Emmanuel has has founded, co-founded, and participated in various high profile blockchain, smart-contract products including CloudHashing, PeerNova, and Servicefy. Emmanuel is currently a Senior Product Architect with Oracle focused on building and releasing Oracle’s Blockchain Cloud Service.

When not at work or advising startups, you can find Emmanuel building lego with his 2 children in San Francisco, California.

John Jordan is an experienced product executive and technology strategist who has over 25 years of experience in both the private and public sectors. His mantra is “Always be Shipping”. John has shipped product in the domains of telecommunications, content management, identity management, and open data. Currently he is co-leading work with the Province of British Columbia’s Corporate Registrar in the area of decentralized identity for businesses. In 2013, he received the Canadian Public Sector Award for Excellence in the Innovation category. John holds a Master’s degree in Applied Science, Management of Technology from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Queen’s University at Kingston.

Rene McIver, Chief Security Officer, brings over 18 years of information security experience to SecureKey and is responsible for ensuring that the security posture of SecureKey’s cloud-based authentication and ID services meet industry best practices and stringent regulatory requirements.   As such, Rene oversees SecureKey’s compliance program and has key involvement throughout the product development and operational deployment life cycle.

Prior to SecureKey, Rene held security leadership positions as Chief Security Officer at Authenticor Identity Protection Services, whose aim was to build a federated biometric identity protection utility, and also Chief Information Security Officer with Route1 Inc., a trusted provider of security and identity management network solutions. Rene established a firm foundation of information security in the fields of cryptography, as Crypto-mathematician with the Canadian Government’s Communications Security Establishment; and in biometrics, as Director of Technologies with Bioscrypt Inc., a provider of advanced fingerprint recognition technology.

Rene holds a Master’s of Mathematics degree in Combinatorics and Optimization and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional.

Geoff Fawkes is CEO of Vancosys Data Security, which specializes in multi-factor user authentication software and hardware to reduce fraud for enterprises, using convenient proximity based smartphone login.  His experience spans industries and technologies including security and online banking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and telecommunications.  Prior to Vancosys, he was at HSBC Bank as Director, Engineering for global internet banking systems, and security and authentication technologies.  He holds an MBA degree from Simon Fraser University and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.

Danielle Kingsbury is Founder and President at CyberSecPsych, a research firm looking at the behavioral and cognitive mechanisms that are involved in the field of cybersecurity.  Her work involves the application of psychological theories to the space to provide actionable insights and recommendations to the industry challenges in the wake of global digital transformation.  In addition, Danielle also currently serves as Chief of Staff at Baron Hunter, a business management consulting firm, where her work in focused on strategic planning and operations for the firm’s three subsidiary organizations.

Danielle received a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from San Diego State University and holds a Masters of Science Degree in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.  She has an Intermediate mastery of Spanish and Beginner mastery in French, having spent time living abroad, and is a continuous learner at heart.

As Chief Security Strategist for Citrix Systems, Kurt Roemer leads the security, compliance, risk and privacy strategies for Citrix products. As a member of the Citrix CTO Office, Roemer drives ideation, innovation and technical direction for products and solutions that advance business productivity while ensuring information governance. An information services veteran with more than 20 years experience, his credentials include the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation, he served as Commissioner for the US public-sector CLOUD2 initiative and he led efforts to develop the PCI Security Standards Council Virtualization Guidance Information Supplement for the payment card industry while serving on the Board of Advisors.

As Founder & Chief Strategist at CyberSC, Dominic Vogel holds a proven track record within cyber security across multitude of industries (financial services, logistics, transportation, healthcare, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure). Dominic actively participates in the Vancouver security community and is a well-respected cyber security expert for appearing on media news outlets across North America and Internationally on BBC World News. Dominic is highly regarded as a cyber security thought leader and serves on the British Columbia Provincial Cyber Security Advisory Committee.

Dominic focuses much of his energy on providing strategic security leadership to technology start-ups and small/midsize businesses to proactively solve their cyber risk challenges. He strives to provide practical cyber security advice to his clients and actively turning the security consulting world upside down.

Mario Harel, who has served the public for more than 32 years, was sworn into the highest position in the Gatineau Police on February 4, 2009.

Committed to his career, Mario Harel acquired solid experience through important positions in a range of jurisdictions, in particular the bureau of criminal investigations, and in units dedicated to road safety, special events and crime prevention.

His operational and administrative expertise, his involvement at the regional, provincial and national levels, as well as his proven management skills in an important police organization, are among the key assets that lend him a better overall perspective on the challenges faced by a leader in the field of public safety.

Committed to giving back to the community, Mario Harel has been involved in several social causes over the years. He chaired the municipal affairs division of the 2015 United Way campaign, and was the campaign director for Ville de Gatineau in 2010 and 2011. Mario Harel is a member of the Board of Directors of the Missing Children Society of Canada. In addition, he was delighted to support projects proposed by teens and to address their original challenges, particularly in regard to violence prevention in schools.

Mario Harel was appointed officer of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces on January 11, 2013. He is the President of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP), and was a board member of the Association des Directeurs de Police du Québec (ADPQ) for nine years. Mario Harel is a graduate of the executive management program at the HEC Montréal.

Kevin Albano has more than 17 years of experience working in information technology, law enforcement, and security consulting. At IBM, Kevin is responsible for threat intelligence collections, managing advanced threat research and directing information analysis ‐ all focused on helping customers understand their cyber threat risk and make decisions to protect their organization. Prior to IBM, Kevin held prominent roles at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Mandiant. As a Special Agent at the Los Angeles FBI Field Office, Kevin developed the investigative process for examining computer network attack operations. Kevin joined Mandiant from the FBI to help defend commercial and government entities against cyber espionage. Kevin has also made significant contributions to the Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO) Standards Organization ISAO 300-1.

David Masson is Darktrace’s Country Manager for Canada and has over two decades of experience working in fast moving security and intelligence environments in the UK, Canada and   world-wide. With skills developed in the civilian, military and diplomatic worlds, he has been influential in the efficient and effective resolution of various unique national security issues. Dave is an operational solutions expert and has a solid reputation across the UK and Canada for delivery tailored to customer needs. In recent years he has advised many government institutions on Insider Threat, helping them to reduce their vulnerability and level of risk. He holds a Master’s degree from Edinburgh University.

Nathan McKay is an IT / IS engineer who’s currently found home with the Security Marketing team at F5 Networks. Always passionate about technology, Nathan has worked in a variety of roles over the years since first joining the fray during the unforgettable heyday that was the early 2000 dotcom boom (and subsequent bust; anyone remember Exodus Communications?). Formerly a Fortune 500 security engineer and F5 customer, Nathan has worked closely with design and engineering teams building F5 software and services and is an evangelist for proactive and proportionate security programs.

Justin Malczewski is the Regional Manager, Public Sector Security Solutions for Western Canada at Cisco Systems. He also serves as Immediate Past-President of ISACA Vancouver where he has been instrumental in the establishment of BC AWARE, an annual professional development campaign for Information Security professionals and students who are considering a career in Cybersecurity. Prior to Cisco, Justin made his first forays into security with Fortinet and Forcepoint (formerly Websense), where he was also responsible for the Western Canadian marketplace. A recognition of the need for customers to reduce complexity in what too often has become an unmanageable patchwork of security solutions is what led Justin to Cisco.

As Founder & Chief Strategist at CyberSC, Dominic Vogel holds a proven track record within cyber security across multitude of industries (financial services, logistics, transportation, healthcare, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure). Dominic actively participates in the Vancouver security community and is a well-respected cyber security expert for appearing on media news outlets across North America and Internationally on BBC World News. Dominic is highly regarded as a cyber security thought leader and serves on the British Columbia Provincial Cyber Security Advisory Committee.

Dominic focuses much of his energy on providing strategic security leadership to technology start-ups and small/midsize businesses to proactively solve their cyber risk challenges. He strives to provide practical cyber security advice to his clients and actively turning the security consulting world upside down.

Chris Cochrane is the National SE Director, Canada with CyberArk and based in Victoria, BC.

From operations to sales, Chris has held a variety of roles in Information Technology and Enterprise Security. Prior to joining CyberArk, Chris started his IT career with the Canadian Armed Forces and was most recently at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He has extensive experience in deploying enterprise-wide security, automation, monitoring and service management technologies. His certifications include CISSP, CISA, CEH, and TOGAF9.

Tom Levasseur has over 20 years’ experience in IT and Cyber Security, from system and network admin, to Global R&D IT-Security Chief at Canada’s largest high-tech company. This combination of deep technical skills and senior-level management experience gives him a unique perspective on today’s cyber-threat landscape.

Tom is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Web Application Pen Tester (GWAPT), and holds Top Secret (Level III) security clearance from the Canadian Industrial Security Directorate (CISD).

By day, Tom is a Vulnerability Analyst for a crown corporation of the Government of Canada. By night, he’s fighting the forces of IT evil at HackingAway.org, running cyber security competitions, simulations, and training events such as http://CyberSecurityChallenge.ca

Dr. Celeste Fralick, Senior Principal Engineer and Chief Data Scientist for McAfee in the Office of the CTO, has applied statistics, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning to over 10 different markets spanning a 38-year career. She is passionate about ransomware prevention, adversarial attacks on models, and process improvement. Prior to McAfee, Dr. Fralick was with Intel for 22 years, and Medtronic, Fairchild, and Texas Instruments prior. Dr. Fralick’s Ph.D. is in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University, concentrating in Deep Learning, Design of Experiments, and neuroscience.

John Wunderlich is an information privacy & security expert with extensive experience in information privacy and data security. He has designed, built, operated and assessed systems for operations and compliance in the private and public sectors for over 25 years. This includes working or consulting for Fortune 500 corporations, government ministries, small companies, volunteer organizations, regulators, and health systems organizations of all sizes in Canada and abroad. He adds value to organizations that need to meet multiple stakeholder expectations for the responsible information management of personal information. John works with organizations to enable them to focus on measurable performance and process improvement so that they can focus on risk management rather than crisis management.

In addition to his hands-on experience, John is a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/C), a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), and a trained Six Sigma Black Belt. He has an MBA from the John Molson School of Business in Montreal. He has been a lecturer on privacy and information management at Guelph University and is a frequently sought out speaker. He is the author of the third edition of “Your Payroll Questions Answered”. He is also a co-author of “Managing Personal Information: insights on Corporate Risk and Opportunity for Privacy – Savvy Leaders” from Carswell Press and also a contributor to “Managing the Risk of Re-Identification for Public Use Files”, a report for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. John has a regular column on privacy issues for payroll and HR professionals in Dialogue, the bi-monthly magazine of the Canadian Payroll Association.

John’s interest in data protection, operational excellence, and continuous improvement are best represented by his commitment to the principles of Privacy By Design (PbD) – a made in Ontario pro-active approach to privacy protection that creates a win-win situation for the individual and the organizations the collect, use, and disclose their personal information. He is an advisor to Ryerson University’s Privacy By Design certification for organizations.

In a volunteer capacity, John serves as member of the Sick Kids Research Ethics Board and is on the Canadian Advisory Committee of the Standards Council of Canada for SC27, which includes ISO standards for security and privacy. John is a member of the Consent & Information Sharing Work Group of the Kantara Initiative, focusing on open notice projects to help fix the broken consent and notice system on the Internet. John is the board member for Theatre Smith-Gilmour, a theatre company in Toronto.

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.

Nikolas is a Futurist with over 20 years of research, writing and speaking experience. He talks about urban design, technology and human connection, intimacy through technology, biohacking, privacy and surveillance, wearable computing, the deep web, disruption in traditional advertising and societal trends that are affecting our world.

He also produces amazing events, including Cyborg Camp, PRODUCT, From Now, DARK FUTURES, BRIGHT FUTURES, and Vancouver Futurists.

As the Director of Product for Research Metrics at Elsevier, Polly Allen oversees the development of technologies that store, mine and attempt to understand the world’s corpus of academic research. This includes determining the impact that research might have had – from online social media buzz to impact on public policy – and what those signals mean for the future or research. As a technologist, she has worked as a software engineer and manager with data at large scale for several companies in fields such as predictive analytics (Amazon) and natural language processing and search (ProQuest). Polly holds an MBA from UBC’s Sauder School of Business and an MSc in Computer Science from University of Victoria. She was a visiting researcher at MIT’s Department or Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Natalie Cartwright, co-founder of Finn.ai, is an innovator in the world of financial technology.  Working alongside global tier banks and credit unions, her company empowers financial institutions to build better consumer relationships by providing AI-powered personal banking assistants. Regularly found featured in the likes of USA Today, American Banker and Bloomberg, Natalie is a leader in voicing the ethical impacts of artificial intelligence, as well as the potential of technology to improve financial well-being. Prior to founding Finn.ai, Natalie worked at the Global Fund in Geneva managing a USD $250 million health investment portfolio.

Clarence Chio is an engineer and entrepreneur who has given talks, workshops, and trainings on machine learning and security at DEF CON and other security/software engineering conferences/meetups across more than a dozen countries. He was previously a member of the security research team at Shape Security, a community speaker with Intel, and a security consultant for Oracle. Clarence advises a handful of startups on security data science, and is the founder and organizer of the “Data Mining for Cyber Security” meetup group, the largest gathering of security data scientists in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in data mining and artificial intelligence.

Alex Loffler is a certified ethical hacker & licensed penetration tester. He has over 20 years of experience in architecting software and security solutions in the Telco & Security space, with 10 years focused on long-term research at British Telecom’s Adastral Park research facility. Alex has a PHD in Cognitive Science from the University of Sheffield, and a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from University College in London, England.  He holds several patents in the U.S. and Europe, and has been working on the application of machine learning techniques to large-scale datasets.

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.

Dan Carayiannis currently serves as RSA’s Public Sector Director for the Archer governance portfolio. With a career spanning over 30 years, Mr. Carayiannis has held several executive leadership positions within information technology, IT security, geospatial and services companies servicing government and commercial enterprise customers. Mr. Carayiannis has been with RSA for 10 years and is currently responsible for leading RSA Archer’s Go-To-Market initiatives in the federal, state, local and international public sector. Mr. Carayiannis’ responsibilities also includes defining future solution requirements to serve the public sector as well as support Archer’s commercial market initiatives involving federal regulations and directives.

Prior to RSA, Mr. Carayiannis served as the President and COO of Susquehanna Technologies a leading software services and development company supporting Federal and commercial clients with software solutions and managed services. Mr. Carayiannis holds a BBA from James Madison, an MBA from Marymount University and was awarded a Duke University Executive Development Program certificate. Mr. Carayiannis is an active member of several government associations.

David was BC’s Information and Privacy Commissioner from 1999-2010 and Deputy Attorney General from 2010-2012. He was also BC’s Registrar of Lobbyists from 2003-2010.

David advises clients across Canada on privacy, security, access to information, lobbying, and government ethics matters. His expertise in these areas back more than 25 years, soon after he started practising law in Vancouver in 1988.

As Information and Privacy Commissioner, David was responsible for enforcement of BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and Personal Information Protection Act. In 2003 he established British Columbia’s Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists and in that role enforced the Lobbyists Registration Act.

During his decade as Commissioner, David wrote hundreds privacy investigation reports appeal decisions. He also issued many guidance documents and policy papers for public bodies and private sector organizations. Among his many other activities, David was active in work by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization to create and promote consistent privacy standards across the Asia Pacific region.

David has taught privacy and freedom of information law for many years, in the law faculties of the University of Alberta, University of Victoria and Thompson Rivers University. He has also taught at the University of British Columbia’s law faculty.

John Wunderlich is an information privacy & security expert with extensive experience in information privacy and data security. He has designed, built, operated and assessed systems for operations and compliance in the private and public sectors for over 25 years. This includes working or consulting for Fortune 500 corporations, government ministries, small companies, volunteer organizations, regulators, and health systems organizations of all sizes in Canada and abroad. He adds value to organizations that need to meet multiple stakeholder expectations for the responsible information management of personal information. John works with organizations to enable them to focus on measurable performance and process improvement so that they can focus on risk management rather than crisis management.

In addition to his hands-on experience, John is a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/C), a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), and a trained Six Sigma Black Belt. He has an MBA from the John Molson School of Business in Montreal. He has been a lecturer on privacy and information management at Guelph University and is a frequently sought out speaker. He is the author of the third edition of “Your Payroll Questions Answered”. He is also a co-author of “Managing Personal Information: insights on Corporate Risk and Opportunity for Privacy – Savvy Leaders” from Carswell Press and also a contributor to “Managing the Risk of Re-Identification for Public Use Files”, a report for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. John has a regular column on privacy issues for payroll and HR professionals in Dialogue, the bi-monthly magazine of the Canadian Payroll Association.

John’s interest in data protection, operational excellence, and continuous improvement are best represented by his commitment to the principles of Privacy By Design (PbD) – a made in Ontario pro-active approach to privacy protection that creates a win-win situation for the individual and the organizations the collect, use, and disclose their personal information. He is an advisor to Ryerson University’s Privacy By Design certification for organizations.

In a volunteer capacity, John serves as member of the Sick Kids Research Ethics Board and is on the Canadian Advisory Committee of the Standards Council of Canada for SC27, which includes ISO standards for security and privacy. John is a member of the Consent & Information Sharing Work Group of the Kantara Initiative, focusing on open notice projects to help fix the broken consent and notice system on the Internet. John is the board member for Theatre Smith-Gilmour, a theatre company in Toronto.

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.

Will Martin is an established twenty-year veteran of the IT security industry. He presently holds the position of ‘Director of Global Solutions Engineering’ with Symantec. He, along with his elite team of global security experts are at the forefront of protecting organizations from web-borne threats, primarily by way of redirecting riskier websites to be rendered within isolated disposable containers. This risk determination is provided by Symantec’s ‘Global Intelligence Network’, which incorporates several elements of machine learning: deep learning, probabilistic programming, reinforcement learning and Bayesian non-parametrics.

John is the CEO of 2Keys Corporation who deliver managed and professional digital identity and cyber security services to the all levels of Canadian Public Sector as well as Canadian Financial Institutions. 2Keys focuses on confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy in designing and operating systems and services for its clients. John has an extensive global executive background in IT and law in public and private board and management settings and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. John serves as the Current Chair, Trust Framework Expert Committee of DIACC and as a Member of the Federal Credential Executive Oversight Committee.

Dave Bullas has spent 19 years in the software industry, focusing on Active Directory and File Governance. A developer in a past life, he now works within the Software Engineering division of Sailpoint as a Senior Technical Specialist, focused on SecurityIQ. His interests include unstructured data security, a love of science fiction, and an active lifestyle of hiking, wall climbing, skiing, and kayaking alongside his wife and two kids. Dave lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Alberta.

Don has been with the Provincial government for 10 years and with Information Services Division since April 2015. He has held a variety of technical and information management positions within MCFD and has been responsible for several significant IT projects.

Don’s current role oversees the security, privacy and compliance for both MCFD and SDSI, liaising and building relationships with the OCIO teams.

Don has made Victoria his home for the past 25 years. His spare time is spent enjoying doing renovations, wood working and playing bass guitar.  He and his wife are avid marathoners; each finishing the Boston marathon twice.  Don has also competed in three Ironman triathlons and enjoys utilizing his skills as a Red Sealed chef.

Dean Evans is an IBM Security Data Protection Specialist focused on helping executives identify and protect their sensitive data and prevent breaches .  Dean works with top CISO to develop and implement best practices for keeping organizations key assets safe.  Dean addresses user groups, conventions and leadership councils as a voice of freedom to those oppressed by evil doers.  As a consultant to Fortune 500 companies Dean develops strategies to protect the crown jewels of corporations; Intellectual Property, client PII or M&A information.  What matters to your organization matters to Dean.

In post breach environments Dean has successfully helped corporations develop remediation plans and implement controls to restore market share and public confidence.

Most importantly Dean has spent the past 20 years providing corporations the tools and education to assure their assets are secure.  Through best practices, layered security and control books Dean gives you the confidence to get that good night sleep.

Jackson Thomas is a security architect with 18 years of experience, helping various customers, both commercial and public sector in the security space. He is a senior sales consulting manger, responsible for managing a team of highly skilled and talented sales consultants supporting solutions for Data Security, Identity and Access Management and System and Security Management solutions. He works for Oracle North America Public Sector organization.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Denham was appointed UK Information Commissioner in July 2016, having previously held the position of Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, Canada and Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

She has set out a commitment to increase consumer trust people have in what happens to their personal data. This forms the basis of her strategic plan, and has been demonstrated in her commitment to ensuring companies are transparent with the public about how personal information is used, notably with high-profile investigations into Yahoo, Camelot, WhatsApp and Facebook.

The Commissioner has also demonstrated a focus on the essential role data protection can play in innovation, and the importance of organisations understanding the growing impetus on companies to be accountable for what they do with personal data. This forms a central part of the new General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force in May 2018.

Ms Denham oversaw the issuing of the ICO’s largest fine, a penalty of £400,000 to TalkTalk after the telecoms company failed to properly protect customer data from a cyber attack. She’s also overseen the conclusion of the ICO’s investigation into charities’ fundraising activities and a series of fines for companies behind nuisance marketing.

Ms Denham is a strong voice for public access rights. A proponent of open government and open data, Ms Denham has called for the proactive disclosure of records and published best practices for government ministries and public bodies. While at the ICO, she has called for the Freedom of Information Act to be extended to private bodies doing work on behalf of the public, and proposed a review of legislation around the duty to document information.

In 2011, Ms Denham was honoured as a UBC distinguished alumni for her pioneering work in archives and leadership in the field of access and privacy.

In 2013, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her service as an Officer of the Legislature of British Columbia, Canada.

In 2017, she was recognised as being one of the three most influential people in data-driven business in the annual DataIQ 100 list. She was honoured to accept the appointment of Visiting Professor in University College London’s department of Information Studies. The professorship will extend until 2022.

Michelle Finneran Dennedy is Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer at Cisco, where she champions privacy, quality, respect, trust, and asset-level possibilities for data. She is a unique visionary in the field of privacy and the IT industry, bringing together multifaceted approaches that provide sincere privacy protections and drive business value.

Dennedy has led security and privacy initiatives, ranging from regulatory compliance, privacy engineering, advocacy and education efforts, and litigation at Cisco, and previously McAfee/Intel Security, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. She founded The iDennedy Project, which seeks to change how people think about information and data, and co-authored The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value.

She has a Doctorate of Law degree from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology and Economics from The Ohio State University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Drew McArthur was appointed Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. on July 6, 2016.

Best known for his role as the former Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at TELUS, he was responsible for the development and implementation of its industry-leading privacy policy.

A founding member of the Canadian Council of Chief Privacy Officers, Mr. McArthur was also a long-standing member of their executive committee. He founded a cross-industry networking association in British Columbia in 2004 to help privacy practitioners understand the implications of private sector privacy legislation. In 2006, Mr. McArthur worked with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), an international organization dedicated to privacy education, to develop the Canadian professional certification program. He was one of the first individuals to achieve the designation of Certified International Privacy Professional of Canada (CIPP/C).

Following his retirement from TELUS in 2007, he has continued to work in the field of privacy and compliance in his consulting practice. Mr. McArthur also served on the External Advisory Board of the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner from 2010 until his appointment as Acting Commissioner.

John Weigelt leads Microsoft Canada’s strategic policy and technology efforts. He helps individuals and organizations across Canada innovate with technology while avoiding the unintended consequences that might arise. John leads Canadian outreach for a variety of technology policies including: Economic Development, Privacy, Security, Accessibility, AI ethics and Interoperability. He also leads Microsoft Canada’s Responsible AI program and was one of the authors of Canada’s National Standard on Ethics in the Design and Use of Automated Decision Systems.

As the Provincial Security Advisor for Ontario, Ray provides advice and
intelligence on areas of public safety and national security that fall within
provincial responsibility. He supports efforts to protect provincial assets from
events that could affect services, networks and facilities that are critical to
Ontario’s economy, public safety and security, and engages with key partners on
security related matters.

Previously, as President of I-Sec Integrated Strategies (ISECIS), Ray worked with
a variety of client organizations to help them gain a deeper understanding of
intelligence and security matters in a global context, and the impact on their
operating environments. He delivered business intelligence solutions affecting
core challenges such as cyber and insider threats, while guiding resilience
building around the principles of pro-active defence. He also consulted on
Mergers and Acquisitions with potential National Security complexities.

After five years in federal policing, Ray joined the Canadian Security Intelligence
Service (CSIS) in 1984 and retired in 2012 as the Assistant Director, Intelligence.
During his tenure, Ray was involved in broad facets of security intelligence
operations, from leadership of the Counter Terrorism domain, to driving national
security priorities pertaining to Operational Risk management, Data Exploitation
programs, Human Source management, Foreign Collection framework and all
Special Operations efforts.

John is the CEO of 2Keys Corporation who deliver managed and professional digital identity and cyber security services to the all levels of Canadian Public Sector as well as Canadian Financial Institutions. 2Keys focuses on confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy in designing and operating systems and services for its clients. John has an extensive global executive background in IT and law in public and private board and management settings and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. John serves as the Current Chair, Trust Framework Expert Committee of DIACC and as a Member of the Federal Credential Executive Oversight Committee.

Alex Loffler is a certified ethical hacker & licensed penetration tester. He has over 20 years of experience in architecting software and security solutions in the Telco & Security space, with 10 years focused on long-term research at British Telecom’s Adastral Park research facility. Alex has a PHD in Cognitive Science from the University of Sheffield, and a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from University College in London, England.  He holds several patents in the U.S. and Europe, and has been working on the application of machine learning techniques to large-scale datasets.

Mark Ryland is the global technology leader for the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) team. Mr. Ryland leads a team of Solutions Architects and Professional Services Engineers who provide technical evangelism, architectural guidance, knowledge transfer, and cloud implementation services to government, education, non-profit, and non-governmental organization customers around the world. In addition to building and managing a large technical team, Ryland is an expert in distributed systems, networking, cybersecurity, and identity and access management. He also serves as a key interface between public sector customers and the engineering, security, and compliance teams at AWS, ensuring that public sector requirements are given priority in plans and roadmapsfor the fast-developing AWS cloud platform.

Ryland has more than 26 years of experience in the technology industry, beginning in 1991 as a Senior Architectural Engineer with Microsoft Federal Systems in the USA. He continued at Microsoft for ten years, serving in a variety of software engineering and technical marketing roles in the Systems Group. In the late 1990s he started and ran the first standards organization at Microsoft, serving as Director of Standards Strategy until 2000. Subsequently, Ryland served as CTO of two start-up companies, as well as Vice-President and Director of the Washington DC office of a Seattle-based public policy group. He rejoined Microsoft in 2008 as National Standards Officer for the USA, later switching back to an engineering role as a principal program manager in Microsoft’s identity and access team, before joining AWS in September 2011 to lead the WWPS technical team. Ryland brings a rich set of software engineering, distributed systems, cybersecurity, technical evangelism, public policy, and management skills to the WWPS team and its customers.

Additional information on Mr. Ryland is available at http://linkedin.com/in/markryland.

Dr Kingsford is Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Medical Director at Interior Health. He is a primary care physician with an Electronic Engineering PhD in artificial intelligence and extensive experience with software engineering, primarily in clinical informatics. His primary interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, interoperability, integrated care and workflow coordination.

Provincially, Dr Kingsford sits on the IMIT Standing Committee, Health Informatics Standards Standing Committee, Health Authority Integration Steering Committee, Clinical Oversight Committee, EMR Working Group and the Joint Collaborative Committee IM/IT Clinical Advisory Working Group, and is co-chair of the Information Privacy and Security Standing Committee. He is also a member of Canada Health Infoway’s Digital Health Alliance Steering Committee.

Dawn Lake currently serves as the Corporate Director of Information Access and Privacy for BC Clinical and Support Services (BCCSS).  Dawn is an experienced leader in access, privacy and security issues involving personal and health information in complex health care environments that utilize integrated electronic records and information sharing practices. She has an evolved in her career from clinician as a nurse to being a practice leader for privacy policy and standards for audits, investigations and appropriate use of information for secondary purposes. With a career in healthcare spanning almost 25 years, Dawn’s previous roles include, Acting Chief Privacy Officer for Alberta Health Services (AHS) and Director of AHS’ Breach Investigations and Education Team. Dawn holds a Bachelor of Professional Arts, Policy Law and Governance from Athabasca University and a certified Privacy Professional.

Caitlin Lemiski is a Senior Policy Analyst with the BC Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. She has worked at the Commissioner’s office since 2007. Caitlin has spoken extensively about BC’s access and privacy laws. She has authored numerous orders and guidance documents. Previously, Caitlin worked as a Privacy Officer for the BC Ministry of Justice. Caitlin has a law degree and holds three certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Mark Sangster is a cybersecurity evangelist who focuses on regulatory and peripheral factors facing the legal industry. Prior to eSentire, Mark built his 20-year career with Intel Corporation, BlackBerry and Cisco Systems. With a passion for cybersecurity, Mark combines a strong technical aptitude with an intuitive understanding of regulatory agencies. Mark holds a Bachelor in Psychology degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a Business Diploma from Humber College.

Phil White is the Chief Technology Officer with BC Clinical and Support Services (BCCSS), which provides Information Technology services to the BC health authorities. He has twenty-one years of experience in healthcare IT in the province of BC.

Phil has held a number of IT positions, starting his IT career at one of the large Canadian banks in Toronto twenty-six years ago. He switched to healthcare at Kelowna General Hospital in 1997, where he began as a programmer/analyst. He has also worked in the networking, data centre and security space before moving into management roles. In 2010, Phil joined the Health Authority Shared Services Organization, which evolved into the current BCCSS.

As a service provider to the health authorities, cybersecurity is a large part of what BCCSS Technology Services does. Increasing threats, a move to “as-a-Service” models and an increasing need for interconnectivity drive complexity in the cybersecurity space.

Outside of work, Phil enjoys skiing, music, and spending time with his family.

Gary Perkins is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Government of British Columbia.  As the Executive Director of the Information Security Branch, Perkins is responsible for providing cybersecurity services in support of the province.  He has more than 18 years of experience in information technology, risk management and cybersecurity. Prior to joining the BC Government, Perkins worked in the private sector as chief of staff for security at TELUS and, earlier in his career, led teams responsible for incident response, operations, delivery and architecture for both corporate and managed security services customers.  A CISSP since 2004, Perkins also holds an MBA from Simon Fraser University’s Management of Technology program.

As the Provincial Security Advisor for Ontario, Ray provides advice and
intelligence on areas of public safety and national security that fall within
provincial responsibility. He supports efforts to protect provincial assets from
events that could affect services, networks and facilities that are critical to
Ontario’s economy, public safety and security, and engages with key partners on
security related matters.

Previously, as President of I-Sec Integrated Strategies (ISECIS), Ray worked with
a variety of client organizations to help them gain a deeper understanding of
intelligence and security matters in a global context, and the impact on their
operating environments. He delivered business intelligence solutions affecting
core challenges such as cyber and insider threats, while guiding resilience
building around the principles of pro-active defence. He also consulted on
Mergers and Acquisitions with potential National Security complexities.

After five years in federal policing, Ray joined the Canadian Security Intelligence
Service (CSIS) in 1984 and retired in 2012 as the Assistant Director, Intelligence.
During his tenure, Ray was involved in broad facets of security intelligence
operations, from leadership of the Counter Terrorism domain, to driving national
security priorities pertaining to Operational Risk management, Data Exploitation
programs, Human Source management, Foreign Collection framework and all
Special Operations efforts.

Fuad Iddrisu is the Executive Director and Chief Information Security Officer for the Government of Saskatchewan. He studied Electronic Systems Engineering during his undergraduate program from the University of Regina and later obtained his masters in Information Systems Security Management from Concordia University College of Alberta. Fuad is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Manager, and Certified Information Security Auditor. Fuad is an expert in Cyber Security and has extensive background in security strategy and program development, risk management, and audit/compliance.

Kent Schramm is a Director within Deloitte’s Cyber Risk practice. Kent has 30 years’ experience in the public sector. Prior to joining Deloitte, Kent was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Government of Ontario, responsible for the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Government’s information systems and information contain therein, supporting over 65,000 Government employees and 13 million citizens. His scope of responsibilities included the 24/7 cyber security operations centre, education and awareness, identity and access management, vulnerability management, intelligence and situational awareness, policy, forensics, cyber risk assessments across the Government, security engineering and compliance.

Before becoming the provincial government’s CISO, Kent was at Public Safety Canada’s National Cyber Security Directorate. He led the creation of cyber situational awareness for the Government of Canada and the formulation of the National Cyber Incident Management Framework. He also led the creation of cyber exercises (crisis management) for federal security and intelligence departments and agencies.

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.

Nikolas is a Futurist with over 20 years of research, writing and speaking experience. He talks about urban design, technology and human connection, intimacy through technology, biohacking, privacy and surveillance, wearable computing, the deep web, disruption in traditional advertising and societal trends that are affecting our world.

He also produces amazing events, including Cyborg Camp, PRODUCT, From Now, DARK FUTURES, BRIGHT FUTURES, and Vancouver Futurists.

Derek Manky has dedicated his career to security, research and education. He formulates security strategy based on years of threat and industry knowledge, with a goal to make a positive impact towards the global war on cyber crime. Manky has presented his research and strategy world-wide at many security conferences, while educating on cyber-security awareness. He has been recognized as a thought leader in the industry, and is regularly featured in top tier publications and podcasts.A lead author of Fortinet’s Threat Report, Manky blogs, writes, and records video reports on breaking security developments and strategy. He designed the company’s responsible disclosure policies, which have been reliably used for years to report and disclose critical, zero-day vulnerabilities.

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.”

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.

Kimberlyn McGrail is a Professor at UBC in the School of Population and Public Health and the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Scientific Director of Population Data BC, Data Director for the BC Academic Health Sciences Network, and the PI for the SPOR Canadian Data Platform. Her research interests are quantitative policy evaluation, aging and the use and cost of health care services, learning health systems and all aspects of population data science. She conducts research in partnership with clinicians, policy-makers and the public. Kim is a founding member of the International Population Data Linkage Network and founding Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Population Data Science. She was the 2009-10 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Associate in Health Care Policy and Practice, a 2016 recipient of the Cortlandt JG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and 2017 recipient of a UBC award for Excellence in Clinical or Applied Research.

Adrian Sakundiak is a proven business leader with more than 25 years of progressive senior leadership experience, mainly in the Canadian health industry. After spending over a decade in the health care industry in positions such as Hospital CEO, Health Region CFO, and Executive Vice President, Adrian moved into Tier 1 management consulting in a senior capacity to lead and deliver strategic solutions in extremely complex environments. Adrian assisted both national and international clients to solve their most challenging business issues.

Adrian is a charismatic leader and effective team-builder, known for delivering creative solutions for Analytics, Strategy, Business Intelligence and Risk-based Data De-identification. Adrian holds a BA (Economics), BComm (Health Care Administration) and his MBA. Adrian also earned his CMC designation with honors demonstrating management consulting excellence.

Based in Calgary, Adrian is currently leading the implementation of the Privacy Analytics Data De-identification solution for the Alberta Ministry of Health and Alberta Health Services.

Jeff Butler is a speaker, author and passionate millennial who helps organizations improve their relationships of millennial employees. A native Californian and raised in Silicon Valley, he graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science. Unlike other experts on millennials, Jeff has been in the trenches of what it means to be a millennial and what it takes to retain and keep them engaged. With Jeff ‘s versatile background, he has helped fortune 500 companies and thousands of professionals across the United States – in addition to appearing on TEDx in both 2016 and 2017.

David Bryan has over 15 years of professional information security experience from being a defender of security at a top ten bank to securing the DEF CON network. He first entered the information security community as a DEF CON volunteer (Goon) and is now is on the board that runs Thotcon, a Chicago Information Security conference. For the last ten years, David has been the attacker in many scenarios as a penetration tester covering network, embedded, wireless, web applications and physical. He has presented at BlackHat, DEF CON, ToorCon, LayerOne, ToorCamp, BSides events and AppSecUSA. David lives in cold, but beautiful, Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and two cats.

John Hewie is National Security Officer with Microsoft Canada leading the company’s strategy in country to develop trust in Microsoft technology and services. In this role John’s responsibilities include managing security programs with governments, threat intelligence sharing agreements, cloud engineering and compliance to meet Canadian regulatory and legislative requirements, internal CSO functions, security related business development, coordination with local law enforcement, and engaging broadly with Canadian stakeholders on cybersecurity ecosystem development efforts to help build a safer digital environment for all.

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.

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.

Willian Guilherme is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Proofpoint and has 16 years’ experience in security operations, security design and architecture. Proofpoint is a leading security-as-a-service provider that focuses on cloud based solutions for threat protection, compliance, archiving & governance, and & security communications.

Willian has worked in medium and large organizations designing IT security environments with strong focus perimeter security to help customers correctly address the risks related to their security infrastructure. At Proofpoint, he is responsible for educating and evangelizing customers about the threat landscape, business email compromise threats, email authentication, and advanced threats.

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.”

Kevin Kim is the Privacy Manager of the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) in British Columbia (BC), Canada, since its inception in 2013. Kevin’s role is to ensure that FNHA fully complies with privacy laws in BC and Canada. Before joining FNHA, Kevin was with Alberta Education as Information Privacy Officer for four years. He has also assumed the roles of Privacy Officer, FIPPA Coordinator, and IM Policy Adviser for a number of ministries of the Ontario Provincial Government. Kevin is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/C, CIPM, CIPT, EIM).

Dr. Robert Fraser is the President and CEO of Molecular You, a digital health company delivering molecular-level personalized health insights and action plans. Dr. Fraser has been at the forefront of developing the framework and technologies to bring personalized medicine into healthcare practice. He is the co-founder of The Personalized Medicine Initiative (PMI), GenXys Health Care Systems, Personalized Biomarkers Incorporated, Mesentech Corporation and Novobind. Dr. Fraser has led drug discovery and development projects at Sanofi, Xenon, Neuromed and CDRD and has been involved in raising of more than $37M in funding. He completed his Ph.D. in the molecular mechanisms of endocrinology at the University of Alberta and Harvard Medical School and Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and IGBMC, Strasbourg France.

Dr. Victoria Lemieux is an Associate Professor of Archival Science at the University of British Columbia. She has held positions as a professional archivist, records manager and risk manager within the public and private sectors (investment banking), in higher education as an administrator and educator, and at the World Bank as a Senior Public Sector Specialist. She has also consulted previously for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Inter-American Development Bank. Her current research is focused on risk to the availability of trustworthy records, in particular in financial contexts, and how these risks impact upon transparency, financial stability, public accountability and human rights. She holds a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002), which focused on the information-related causes of the Jamaican Banking Crisis and, since 2005, has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). She is also the winner of the 2015 Emmett Leahy Award and a 2015 World Bank Big Data Innovation Award.

Howard Waldner is the past President and Chief Executive Officer of Vancouver Island Health Authority, serving in this role from 2004 until 2013. He is curently CEO of Caledonia Solutions, a strategic consulting company he founded in 2013.

He is a visionary and innovative leader with over 30 years of experience of managing health sysytems in both Canada and the U.K. He has a keen interest in system innovation, transformation and performance improvement. He is also passionate in the area of health facility planning, design and procurement and has led the development of number of large and successful hospital projects using both traditional and alternate funding approaches. He received the Canadian College of Health Leaders National Award for Innovation in Health in 2013.

He is a certified member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, and currently serves as an Independent Board Director of Strata-Health Solutions, a successful Calgary based Health IT company, and is a partner with Prioritize Software, a Vancouver based strategic solutions company. He also serves as a volunteer member of the Telus (Victoria) Community Board and has served on a number of “non-profit” Boards, including the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the BC Academic Health Council, (which he chaired for 5 years), the United Way Campaign Cabinet, Carewest, VRRI, and the Greater Victoria Coalition to end Homelessness.

Prior to joining VIHA in 2004, he was the Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the former Calgary Health Region from 1999 until 2004. Before moving to Calgary in 1999, he held a number of senior leadership roles within the Scottish National Health Service, most recently as the Chief Executive of Dundee University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

He received his Executive MBA from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and is a Certified member of the Canadian College of Health Leaders and a Fellow of the United Kingdom Institute of Health Care Managers.

He is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia, and teaches on a number of executive leadership and masters programs in the School of Public and Population Health.

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.

Dr. Robert Fraser is the President and CEO of Molecular You, a digital health company delivering molecular-level personalized health insights and action plans. Dr. Fraser has been at the forefront of developing the framework and technologies to bring personalized medicine into healthcare practice. He is the co-founder of The Personalized Medicine Initiative (PMI), GenXys Health Care Systems, Personalized Biomarkers Incorporated, Mesentech Corporation and Novobind. Dr. Fraser has led drug discovery and development projects at Sanofi, Xenon, Neuromed and CDRD and has been involved in raising of more than $37M in funding. He completed his Ph.D. in the molecular mechanisms of endocrinology at the University of Alberta and Harvard Medical School and Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and IGBMC, Strasbourg France.

In January 2016, Dr. Catalina Lopez-Correa joined Genome BC as Vice President, Sector Development and CSO. With over 18 years of international experience in both the academic and private sectors, Dr. Lopez-Correa brings her deep understanding of genomics to the Genome BC leadership team.

Dr. Lopez-Correa holds an MD from UPB University in Colombia, a Masters in Genetics from Paris VII/Pasteur Institute and a PhD in Medical Biosciences-Genetics from KULeuven in Belgium. Most recently she was the Vice-President and CSO, Scientific Affairs, at Genome Quebec where she was instrumental in developing competitive teams for national and provincial research projects, and raising the profile of Genome Quebec on the global stage.

Previous experience also includes a role as Senior Scientist with Eli Lilly and Company. During Dr. Lopez-Correa’s time at Eli Lilly, she was part of the Pharmacogenomics and Translational Medicine Group in charge of discovering and validating genetic/genomic biomarkers in different therapeutic areas (oncology, cardio-metabolic and neurosciences). She also helped develop the company’s tailored therapeutics and personalized medicine strategy.  Dr. Lopez-Correa also held the position of Head of Cytogenomics laboratory at deCODE genetics where she developed screening strategies to detect genomic rearrangements. She has also worked for two different American biotech companies in the UK (Genomica and Informax).

Since 2002, Dr. Lopez-Correa has served as evaluator for large multinational projects funded by the European Commission, the IMI (Innovative Medicines Initiatives) and the NIH and has been recognized by several awards nationally and internationally. As part of her commitment to international development, Dr. Lopez-Correa funded the not for profit organization ODNS (Organisation pour le Développement avec des Nouvelles Solidarités) in 2012 and has been involved in several initiatives aimed at demonstrating the impact of genomics in developing countries.

Jamie is a Partner in Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice, based in Victoria, BC where he leads an exceptional team that supports the BC Public Sector. With over 20 years of experience, his focus has always been on improving the use of information and innovation to address complex business, policy and scientific issues. Jamie has worked extensively in the domain of health information management, with a focus on privacy and security. He understands the challenges associated with achieving a balance between health data access and integration while also enabling appropriate protection of personal information. Prior to his current role, Jamie obtained a PhD in Environmental Science. His research involved creating a partnership of academic institutions, healthcare organizations and technology companies to create real-time sensors and data analysis techniques to deliver predictive indicators of risks related to drinking water quality and human health.

Sarah Jamie Lewis is an anonymity & privacy researcher, known for running the Dark Web mapping OnionScan project, promoting stories that help us understand how privacy impacts marginalized & at risk communities through Queer Privacy and also building new tools that leverage anonymity networks to make technology more consensual.

Richard Thieme is an author and professional speaker focused on the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change, including “identify shift.” His column, “Islands in the Clickstream,” was distributed to subscribers in sixty countries before collection as a book in 2004. When a friend at the National Security Agency said after they worked together on ethics and intelligence issues, “The only way you can tell the truth is through fiction,” he returned to writing short stories, 19 of which are collected in “Mind Games.” A novel FOAM was published by Exurban Press in September 2015. He is also co-author of the critically extolled “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry,” a 5-year research project using material exclusively from government documents and other primary sources, now in 65 university libraries

His work has been taught at universities in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States, and he has guest lectured at numerous universities, including Purdue University (CERIAS), the Technology, Literacy and Culture Distinguished Speakers Series of the University of Texas, the “Design Matters” lecture series at the University of Calgary, and as a Distinguished Lecturer in Telecommunications Systems at Murray State University. He addressed the reinvention of “Europe” as a “cognitive artifact” for curators and artists at Museum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, keynoted CONFidence in Krakow 2015, and keynoted “The Real Truth: A World’s Fair” at Raven Row Gallery, London, He recently keynoted Code Blue in Tokyo. He has spoken for the National Security Agency, the FBI, the Secret Service, the US Department of the Treasury, and Los Alamos National Labs and has keynoted “hacker,”security, and technology conferences around the world. He spoke in 2015 at Def Con for the 20^th year.

Stephen Gordon is the cloud strategy lead for the B.C. Government and is responsible for a number of key initiatives related to the enablement and adoption of enterprise scale cloud services in the public sector. As co-chair of the pan-Canadian Public Sector CIO Council Cloud Working Group, and as chair of the CloudBC Technical Working Group, he is uniquely positioned to speak to the broadest range of challenges and opportunities with respect to cloud adoption across the country.​

A graduate of Queen’s University of Belfast Computer Science Honours program, Stephen has occupied executive positions across the public and private sector IT industry. Originally from Northern Ireland, Stephen is proud to call beautiful Victoria, British Columbia his home.​

John Hewie is National Security Officer with Microsoft Canada leading the company’s strategy in country to develop trust in Microsoft technology and services. In this role John’s responsibilities include managing security programs with governments, threat intelligence sharing agreements, cloud engineering and compliance to meet Canadian regulatory and legislative requirements, internal CSO functions, security related business development, coordination with local law enforcement, and engaging broadly with Canadian stakeholders on cybersecurity ecosystem development efforts to help build a safer digital environment for all.

As CMO for Skybox® Security, Michelle Cobb leads the company’s global marketing efforts and product marketing direction. Cobb has been instrumental in transforming Skybox Security’s “cloud everywhere” initiatives, which include evolving the company’s product capabilities to meet the security management needs of enterprises and organizations that are migrating workloads to virtual, cloud and hybrid environments. These capabilities focus on comprehensive network visibility, vulnerability management, security policy management and access analysis of application and network connectivity in cloud and hybrid environments.

A corporate and product marketing strategist for more than 15 years, Cobb has held executive marketing roles in computer security, networking and enterprise software at companies such as McAfee, LogLogic and Tumbleweed Communications.

She holds a Master of Business Administration with high distinction from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, also from the University of Michigan.

Danielle Kingsbury is Founder and President at CyberSecPsych, a research firm looking at the behavioral and cognitive mechanisms that are involved in the field of cybersecurity.  Her work involves the application of psychological theories to the space to provide actionable insights and recommendations to the industry challenges in the wake of global digital transformation.  In addition, Danielle also currently serves as Chief of Staff at Baron Hunter, a business management consulting firm, where her work in focused on strategic planning and operations for the firm’s three subsidiary organizations.

Danielle received a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from San Diego State University and holds a Masters of Science Degree in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.  She has an Intermediate mastery of Spanish and Beginner mastery in French, having spent time living abroad, and is a continuous learner at heart.

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.

Mark Ryland is the global technology leader for the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) team. Mr. Ryland leads a team of Solutions Architects and Professional Services Engineers who provide technical evangelism, architectural guidance, knowledge transfer, and cloud implementation services to government, education, non-profit, and non-governmental organization customers around the world. In addition to building and managing a large technical team, Ryland is an expert in distributed systems, networking, cybersecurity, and identity and access management. He also serves as a key interface between public sector customers and the engineering, security, and compliance teams at AWS, ensuring that public sector requirements are given priority in plans and roadmapsfor the fast-developing AWS cloud platform.

Ryland has more than 26 years of experience in the technology industry, beginning in 1991 as a Senior Architectural Engineer with Microsoft Federal Systems in the USA. He continued at Microsoft for ten years, serving in a variety of software engineering and technical marketing roles in the Systems Group. In the late 1990s he started and ran the first standards organization at Microsoft, serving as Director of Standards Strategy until 2000. Subsequently, Ryland served as CTO of two start-up companies, as well as Vice-President and Director of the Washington DC office of a Seattle-based public policy group. He rejoined Microsoft in 2008 as National Standards Officer for the USA, later switching back to an engineering role as a principal program manager in Microsoft’s identity and access team, before joining AWS in September 2011 to lead the WWPS technical team. Ryland brings a rich set of software engineering, distributed systems, cybersecurity, technical evangelism, public policy, and management skills to the WWPS team and its customers.

Additional information on Mr. Ryland is available at http://linkedin.com/in/markryland.

John Wunderlich is an information privacy & security expert with extensive experience in information privacy and data security. He has designed, built, operated and assessed systems for operations and compliance in the private and public sectors for over 25 years. This includes working or consulting for Fortune 500 corporations, government ministries, small companies, volunteer organizations, regulators, and health systems organizations of all sizes in Canada and abroad. He adds value to organizations that need to meet multiple stakeholder expectations for the responsible information management of personal information. John works with organizations to enable them to focus on measurable performance and process improvement so that they can focus on risk management rather than crisis management.

In addition to his hands-on experience, John is a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/C), a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), and a trained Six Sigma Black Belt. He has an MBA from the John Molson School of Business in Montreal. He has been a lecturer on privacy and information management at Guelph University and is a frequently sought out speaker. He is the author of the third edition of “Your Payroll Questions Answered”. He is also a co-author of “Managing Personal Information: insights on Corporate Risk and Opportunity for Privacy – Savvy Leaders” from Carswell Press and also a contributor to “Managing the Risk of Re-Identification for Public Use Files”, a report for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. John has a regular column on privacy issues for payroll and HR professionals in Dialogue, the bi-monthly magazine of the Canadian Payroll Association.

John’s interest in data protection, operational excellence, and continuous improvement are best represented by his commitment to the principles of Privacy By Design (PbD) – a made in Ontario pro-active approach to privacy protection that creates a win-win situation for the individual and the organizations the collect, use, and disclose their personal information. He is an advisor to Ryerson University’s Privacy By Design certification for organizations.

In a volunteer capacity, John serves as member of the Sick Kids Research Ethics Board and is on the Canadian Advisory Committee of the Standards Council of Canada for SC27, which includes ISO standards for security and privacy. John is a member of the Consent & Information Sharing Work Group of the Kantara Initiative, focusing on open notice projects to help fix the broken consent and notice system on the Internet. John is the board member for Theatre Smith-Gilmour, a theatre company in Toronto.

Andrew Clement is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he coordinates the Information Policy Research Program and co-founded the Identity Privacy and Security Institute (IPSI). With a PhD in Computer Science, he has had longstanding research and teaching interests in the social implications of information/communication technologies and participatory design. Among his recent privacy/surveillance research projects, are: Snowden Archives, an on-line searchable collection of all documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden subsequently published by news media (in collaboration with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE); Seeing Through the Cloud, which examined extra-national outsourcing of eCommunications services, especially by universities; IXmaps.ca, an internet mapping tool that helps make more visible NSA warrantless wiretapping activities and the routing of Canadian personal data through the U.S. even when the origin and destination are both in Canada; and SurveillanceRights.ca, which documents (non)compliance of video surveillance installations with privacy regulations and helps citizens understand their related privacy rights.

Sarah Speevak obtained a B.A. (Hons) in Criminology and Criminal Justice, with a concentration in Law and a minor in Mass Communications, from Carleton University in 2004. She obtained her LL.B. in English Common Law from the University of Ottawa in 2007. Sarah was called to the Law Society of Ontario in 2008.

She has worked as legal counsel for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada since 2011. In this capacity she has been able to work on a range of interesting privacy-related issues, such as national security, public safety and lawful access, reputation management, consent, enforcement and Privacy Act reform; as well as important privacy cases, such as the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R v. Spencer, 2014 SCC 43 and the Federal Court’s decision in Globe24h.com, 2017 FC 114.

Bradley Weldon is the Director of Policy at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. He has worked at the OIPC for six years and focuses on emerging technologies, surveillance, and employee/employer privacy issues.

Bradley directs the OIPC policy team and was the lead investigator on many OIPC public reports, including an investigation into spyware installed on employee computers in the District of Saanich and two reports that reinterpreted section 25 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: the Mt. Polley tailings pond breach and the contamination of the Hullcar Aquifer.

Prior to joining the OIPC in 2011, Bradley practised employment and labour law in the private sector. He graduated from the University of British Columbia (Geography) and the University of Victoria (Law) and is a practising member of the British Columbia Law Society.

Richard Thieme is an author and professional speaker focused on the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change, including “identify shift.” His column, “Islands in the Clickstream,” was distributed to subscribers in sixty countries before collection as a book in 2004. When a friend at the National Security Agency said after they worked together on ethics and intelligence issues, “The only way you can tell the truth is through fiction,” he returned to writing short stories, 19 of which are collected in “Mind Games.” A novel FOAM was published by Exurban Press in September 2015. He is also co-author of the critically extolled “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry,” a 5-year research project using material exclusively from government documents and other primary sources, now in 65 university libraries

His work has been taught at universities in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States, and he has guest lectured at numerous universities, including Purdue University (CERIAS), the Technology, Literacy and Culture Distinguished Speakers Series of the University of Texas, the “Design Matters” lecture series at the University of Calgary, and as a Distinguished Lecturer in Telecommunications Systems at Murray State University. He addressed the reinvention of “Europe” as a “cognitive artifact” for curators and artists at Museum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, keynoted CONFidence in Krakow 2015, and keynoted “The Real Truth: A World’s Fair” at Raven Row Gallery, London, He recently keynoted Code Blue in Tokyo. He has spoken for the National Security Agency, the FBI, the Secret Service, the US Department of the Treasury, and Los Alamos National Labs and has keynoted “hacker,”security, and technology conferences around the world. He spoke in 2015 at Def Con for the 20^th year.

Jill Kot was appointed Deputy Minister, Citizens’ Services on July 18, 2017. Jill comes from the Ministry of Education where she was the Assistant Deputy Minister for a broad area of responsibility, including information technology (e.g., student information systems, ministry systems and network connectivity to schools); services such as Student Certification and OpenSchool BC; and the Learning Modernization Project, which is the broad transformation across the education sector (60 school districts, independent schools, etc.) including Kindergarten to grade 12 curriculum, assessment and graduation.

Jill has held a number of roles in different ministries at an Assistant Deputy Minister level, and has led many large scale change initiatives across government. Prior to going to the Ministry of Education Jill led the Integrated Case Management initiative for the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction and the Ministry of Children and Family Development. Before that Jill held various positions in the Ministry of Citizens’ Services, including responsibility for the government network, workstations, data centre, and many corporate systems such as the financial and payroll system for government.

Jill has over 30 years of experience in both the private and public sector and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Calgary.

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.