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.

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.

Alon has over 20 years experience in the IT and security field. He has enjoyed helping and consulting customers in the areas of security management, systems management, mobile management and business process design. Alon’s experience has taken him to large and small software companies helping them grow their business.
When not helping customers Alon enjoys playing competitive(ish) basketball.

Terry has a background in Financial Management (Bachelor of Technology Degree: Accounting) prior to formal IT education and training (Post-Graduate Studies: Information Technology Professional certification) and 20 years of IT working experience helping organizations and customers in a multitude of various disciplines culminating experience in IT GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance), Enterprise Security Architecture, Security Operations, and Sales Engineering.

Outside of work, Terry dabbles in travel and photography, cooking (his creative outlet), adding to his tech gadget collection, and chasing after his energetic little boy.

Warren Dyck is a Modern Workplace Specialist with Microsoft working with Western Canada Public Sector organizations. He brings over thirty years of IT experience and insight into the Canadian Public Sector IT environment.

Rudi Groenewald is a Cloud Solutions Architect with Microsoft focused on helping customers design secure architectures on Azure. In his role, Rudi has helped customers bring development and infrastructure together from a security perspective, to ensure an end to end secure application lifecycle. Rudi has recently attended the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security run GeekWeek VI event to help explore new ways of identifying threats through Microsoft Security solutions on Azure. Before Microsoft and Canada, Rudi was a lead software developer for a financial services provider in Cape Town, South Africa, developing back end systems and integrations into the leading banks in South Africa.

Jacques is a Technical Solutions Expert driving technical decisions at customers to develop and adopt solutions based on Microsoft technologies. He’s in the Security Specialist Team Unit for Hacking & hardening infrastructure with additional experience in OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacking). He has 17 years of security experience starting from Networks, Windows, Servers, SAN Storage, NAS Storage and Wi-Fi pentesting. Jacques has spoken at PHDays Russia 2018 Hacker conference, Code Red Norway , LinuxConf [ZA] 2018: Speaker for Tools Hacker use, code:RED, Cyber Security Symposium for Government, Arsenal Content build and Speaker at Blackhat 2019 Las Vegas.

Innovative and optimistic, with a strong belief that we can change things for the better, Stephanie brings almost 20 years of service transformation to Platform Services and Next Gen Application Security. From the 2010 Olympic Secretariat to Climate Action to Cloud, her career focus has been on leveraging both data and technology to solve challenging problems.

A competitive sailor since childhood, Stephanie’s extensive racing experience translates to an avid dedication to agile teams. She is passionate about finding new ways of using technology to enhance public sector services and improve the human experience.

Olena is a champion of technology innovation, bringing her passion and expertise to lead technology roles coast-to-coast—from Halifax to Victoria, including high-profile engagements in Ontario and Alberta in-between. When she’s not full throttle guiding government into the digital era, you’ll find her researching global industry trends: digital identity, AI & machine learning, geolocation and container technology are currently on her favourites list.

As Product Owner of the Next Gen App Security Project at BCDevExchange, BC Government, Olena is currently focused on delivering game-changing security capabilities as part of the evolution of DevOps Platform Services. She especially enjoys leading her spirited team through progressively exciting Sprints as they work to build the most secure platform in the public sector.

Brittany Jackson is a Senior Auditor within the BC Government’s Privacy, Compliance and Training Branch (PCT). Starting in June 2018, she has worked within the branch’s Information Management Practice Review Program and Privacy Investigations Unit. A common element within both teams is determining ministry privacy and security risks and developing and monitoring controls to effectively manage these risks. Previous to joining PCT, Brittany worked for ten years within the Government Records Service (GRS) Branch. Throughout her time in GRS, Brittany collaborated with ministries to coordinate the development of information schedules, provided solutions regarding digital records management requirements, such as classification, retention, search, digitization and archiving, led clients in implementing new electronic records management applications, and provided expertise in the application of records management legislation, policy and procedures. Brittany is currently completing her Bachelor of Commerce and certification to become an Internal Auditor.

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.

Holly is responsible for guiding the development, recommendation and implementation of innovative approaches to privacy policy and practice to build accountable information stewardship and privacy conscious practices that enable the execution of PHSA’s expanded mandate and the conduct of health research. She advises on the privacy requirements relating to new and expanded provincial initiatives working closely with PHSA’s Information, Access and Privacy, and Legal Services teams. She also provides leadership in developing and implementing governance mechanisms to enable nimble, multidisciplinary review of privacy and security requirements for new and expanded initiatives and research, including province-wide platforms and systems, digital and information technologies, and data access/sharing. Holly is a PhD level trained ethicist and research consultant. She serves as the ethicist on the BC Cancer Research Ethics Board and a US-based IRB. She has worked as a consultant for Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the CIHR Ethics Office and her work has been published in a variety of journals including CMAJ, Trends in Neurosciences and Cell Stem Cell.​

Murtaza leads the go to market strategy for RSA SecurID® Access, RSA’s industry-leading Identity and Access Assurance solution. In his 9 years at RSA, he has served in both marketing and sales roles helping customers to effectively address their toughest information security challenges. Murtaza takes a special interest in BYOD and BYOI practices and how they impact information security overall. He loves to travel and has been to more than 26 countries and speaks 5 languages. Murtaza holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and is pursuing his MBA.

Joan Ross is the field CISO for Fortinet, working closely with internal and external security executive teams. A technologist for more than 25 years, her security leadership comes from direct, hands-on security experience and exhaustive research, most recently working with the Verizon Cyber Intelligence Center, taking their findings directly to security teams to improve the security resiliency of global, complex, computing environments. Ross is the former chief security officer for two technology companies in the Pacific Northwest, DocuSign and Avanade, and understands first-hand the challenges, priorities and risk considerations daily facing every security executive.

Prior to becoming a CISO, Ross was a security strategist and architect for Microsoft’s Online Security and Compliance division during the advent of cloud computing and introduction of Azure, and VP of information security at Washington Mutual, now JP Morgan Chase, creating their first information security, incident response and forensics divisions, Ross holds an MS degree in human-computer design and engineering from the University of Washington and works closely with their Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity mentoring and developing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

Sherry Rumbolt is the Senior Information Security Officer at the Service Management Center in Esquimalt at the Department of National Defence (DND). In her current role Sherry leads the Information Systems Security Department for the Service Management Center, providing Information Management and Information Technology (IM/IT) Security Advisory Services, Security Incident Management, Technical Security Oversight, EMSEC & TCI, Audit and Assurance, Education/Awareness and ISSO support to more than 118 Units.

Sherry previously served in the Canadian Armed Forces in IM/IT as well as security for 22 years. Sherry has held several security positions within the Government of British Columbia including Assistant Director of Vulnerability and Risk Management before moving back to DND in 2017.

Sherry is very passionate about educating future generations of Cybersecurity experts and spreading the word about the importance of Cybersecurity. She sits on several Boards of Directors for security including ISACA and Canadian Women in Cybersecurity.

Sherry holds several certifications in Cybersecurity including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Educated in Linguistics, trained in programming, and self-taught in Linux administration, Michael has over 20 years of IT experience, mostly in Information Security in the BC Government. After many years in forensics and network security, he brought his broad experience to Advisory Services, currently as a Service Manager. Michael is passionate about the human side of security, from the citizens whose information we protect, to the colleagues and end users who need to consider information security and privacy in their day-to-day work.

Dan is an accomplished, driven, and results-oriented leader with over 18 years of IT management experience, including 12 years within the public sector. He 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. A passionate agent of change, Dan leverages his broad range of skills, experience, and business acumen to ensure maximum value from IT investments. Since 2017, Dan has worked within the OCIO’s Information Security Branch, currently as the Strategy and Project Portfolio Manager, providing project leadership to support the delivery of cybersecurity services to the province of BC.

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.

Chris is a Privacy Advisor with the Privacy, Compliance and Training branch within the Ministry of Citizens’ Services (aka BC Government’s corporate privacy office) – a team which he is proud to be a part of due to the positive privacy practices championed throughout the branch, his amazing coworkers and the breadth and variety of work. This work ranges from managing the in-person training portfolio (including facilitating privacy sessions to ministries, the broader public sector and private sector organizations) to providing advisory consultations to ministries on the privacy considerations for current and ever-evolving (thus challenging and exciting!) topics such as cloud and de-identification. Chris is a graduate from the University of Victoria (Bachelor of Commerce, Masters Certificate in Project Management) and has completed his Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada credential through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Alena Kottova, BSc, MA, PhD is an award winning researcher and educator with a broad background in history and philosophy of science and technology as well as social and ethical implications of technological development for society. She specializes in exploring and addressing the ethical paradigm shift required to address the cybersecurity issues brought up by digital society and fast changing technological innovations.

Alena teaches university courses at the University of Victoria, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy as well as Vancouver Island University, Department of Computing Science. Through her role as an educator and ethicist, Alena has extensive experience in reviewing and influencing privacy and security opinions and views of hundreds of students who are becoming the next generation of professionals in their respective fields.

Alena has also developed a textbook focused on topics such as ethics, privacy and confidentiality, AI, Big Data, surveillance etc. that is geared toward both technical and non-technical audience and provides an in depth look at the social implication of current technological developments in changing the structure of society. She is currently working on a book dedicated to cybersecurity for children and parents.

Alena is passionate about supporting science, technology and cybersecurity education on all levels, advancing ethically and privacy sound digital habits of her students, and committed to advocating for practical ways to reduce and manage privacy risks and improve cybersecurity education.

Sue is the CEO of Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster – driving the development of digital technology platforms and products that will transform businesses and industries while making Canada a world leader in digital technology. The Digital Technology Supercluster brings together organizations of all sizes, from industry, academia, the private and the public sector, to work together on solving some of the most significant economic and social issues through the development and implementation of world leading digital technologies. The Supercluster is leveraging Canada’s expertise in data analytics, genomics, quantum computing, mixed and augmented reality, the Internet of Things and AR and VR to deliver technologies in data commons, digital twins and all aspects of precision health while creating jobs and growing Canada’s international competitiveness. Over 300 organizations are working with the Supercluster from diverse sectors including manufacturing, mining, healthcare, agriculture, research, forestry, aviation, software development, telecom and more.

Prior to joining the Supercluster Sue was the Managing Partner of one of Canada’s leading law firms, the CEO of Canada’s largest chain of independent retail pharmacies and most recently the CEO of Canada’s largest diagnostic lab. In each of these roles Sue mobilized diverse teams to drive business growth, implement large-scale organizational change and develop and implement transformational technologies.

Sue and her husband Brad are the proud parents of three daughters and when not transforming organizations, Sue and her family can be found in remote areas of BC’s wilderness, exploring all that BC has to offer. Sue has been recognized for community and business leadership with awards including: Honorary Doctorate of Technology (BCIT), UBC Faculty of Law Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Victoria Distinguished Entrepreneur, YWCA Woman of Distinction, Queen’s Counsel, Hall of Fame for Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, and the Influential Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award.

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.

Anne Kang was elected as the MLA for Burnaby-Deer Lake in 2017. She was appointed as the Minister of Citizens’ Services on January 22, 2020.

She previously served as Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors and Multiculturalism.

She immigrated to British Columbia as a child, and has lived in Burnaby for over 30 years. She has been an active community volunteer since the age of 8.

Anne was a three-term Burnaby City Councillor before becoming an MLA, and has been a leader in many organizations that build community and support those who are vulnerable. Anne’s commitment to community was recognized when she was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 for her contribution to Canada.

Anne has a passion for life-long learning. She completed her post-secondary education at UBC, receiving a Bachelor of Music, a Bachelor of Education – Elementary, a Diploma in Special Education – Learning Disability, and a Master degree in Special Education – Gifted and Creative Learner, and completed two levels of Montessori Certification. Before being elected MLA of Burnaby-Deer Lake, Anne was a music teacher in the Burnaby school system.

Anne lives and works in Burnaby and has two young children who attend school in Burnaby.

Elizabeth Denham became the UK’s Information Commissioner in 2016. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s regulator for data protection and information rights. It enforces the law, both civil and criminal, against organisations that have violated data protection rules. The ICO provides guidance on and regulates key laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Data Protection Act 2018, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Elizabeth brings an international dimension to her UK role from her previous work as Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and Canada and Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

In the 2019 New Year’s Honours list Elizabeth was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to protecting information. She is recognized as one of the most influential people in her field, most recently in Politico’s list of 28 people shaping, shaking and stirring Europe. She is frequently asked to provide her views on emerging issues to the UK parliament, as well as internationally.

Elizabeth has made headlines for her wide-ranging investigation into data misuse in online political campaigning. Over the past twelve months, her focus has included developing a code to better protect how children’s data is used by digital services and recommendations for reconciling data protection with facial recognition technology.

Elizabeth chairs the Global Privacy Assembly, which brings together data protection and privacy commissioners from around the world to share knowledge and build stronger cooperation. She also chairs the International Conference of Information Commissioners, which works globally to improve access to information rights.

Shira Rubinoff is a recognized cybersecurity executive, cybersecurity & blockchain advisor, global keynote speaker and influencer, who has built two cybersecurity product companies, and led multiple women-in-technology efforts. She currently serves as President of the NYC-based technology incubator, Prime Tech Partners & the social-media-security firm, SecureMySocial. She also serves on the Boards of the Executive Women’s Forum for Information Security, Leading Women in Technology, the blockchain company, Mainframe, and the artificial intelligence (AI) companies, TrueConnect & Pypestream.

An expert in the human factors of information technology and security, Ms. Rubinoff was named one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business, was named by CSO Magazine as a Woman of Influence, was honored by CSO and the EWF with their “One to Watch” award, and was honored as the 2017 “Outstanding Woman in Infosec” by the CyberHub Summit. She has also been calculated by analysts to be the top female cybersecurity influencer globally on social media. Ms. Rubinoff also created numerous video series including a series of interviews with the top executives of the most prominent cybersecurity and technology companies.

Ms. Rubinoff provides guidance to numerous Fortune 100 companies in areas related to cybersecurity and company thought leadership, and consults to various organizations in areas of business development and organizational dynamics. She has published many articles, and lectures, on topics related to the human factors of cybersecurity, blockchain, and related topics, and holds several patents/patents-pending in areas related to the application of psychology to improve information technology and Cybersecurity.

* Author of the Cybersecurity book
“Cyber Minds” – published by Packt Publishing. Due out 2019.

Sander Vinberg is a Threat Research Evangelist for F5 Labs. He has worked in information security, geopolitical risk, and linguistic consulting. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Washington in Information Management, as well as bachelor’s degrees in History and African and African-American Studies from the University of Chicago.

Kevvie Fowler is the Deloitte Global Incident Response Leader and Canadian Resilience leader where he leads the strategy and delivery of cyber response and crisis management services. He has over 24 years of experience assisting organizations prepare for and recover from some of the industry’s most high-profile data breaches and business disruptions. Following an incident, Kevvie has served as an advisor helping organizations demonstrate defensibility and transform their security and crisis programs to improve resilience.

He is the author of Data Breach Preparation and Response and SQL Server Forensic Analysis and is a contributing author to several cyber security and forensics books. As a recognized security expert and global authority in database forensics, and has engaged executive and technical audiences at leading industry events and is frequently interviewed on cyber security and data breach matters with recent features in the Globe and Mail, Business News Network, The Toronto Star and the National Post.

With his deep background in national security, as well as his varied experiences in consulting within the realm of corporate risk, Ray has been recently appointed Associate Partner, Industrial Sector, for IBM Canada.

At the outset of his career, and after five years in federal policing with the RCMP, Ray joined the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in 1984 and retired in 2012 as the Assistant Director. During his tenure, Ray was involved in all aspects of security intelligence operations, such as leadership of the Intelligence assessment directorate, counter terrorism, as well as driving national security priorities pertaining to operational risk, data exploitation and covert operations.

Previously, and in the private consulting realm, Ray worked with a variety of clients to help them acquire a deeper understanding of geo-strategic threats to business integrity and viability. He delivered business intelligence solutions affecting core challenges such as cyber and insider threats, while guiding resilience building. He also consulted on global business strategies such as M+A opportunities.

More recently, Ray was appointed as the first Security Advisor for Province of Ontario. In this role, Ray provided advice and intelligence on areas of public safety and national security that fall within provincial responsibility. While reporting to the Secretary of Cabinet, Ray supported 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.

Jaimie Boyd serves as the Chief Digital Officer of the Government of British Columbia, Canada. She leads efforts to embrace digital change, helping government to better serve citizens using modern technologies. She previously served as the Director of Open Government in the Government of Canada, supporting government transparency, accountability and citizen engagement. Ms. Boyd has held past roles across the Government of Canada and in the private sector. She is an alumnus of the Government of Canada’s Accelerated Economist Training Program, Action Canada, the Institute for Technology and Society’s Global Policy Fellowship and the Organization of American States’ Fellowship on Open Government in the Americas. In 2019, Apolitical listed her amongst the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government. Find her on Twitter at @jaimieboyd.

Joyce is a Partner and British Columbia Leader for Omnia AI, Deloitte Canada’s Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Practice. Joyce leads a talented team of professionals who provide high quality advice and support to clients on their AI and analytics journey.

Joyce’s career spans 25 years with a unique background in corporate strategy, innovation and exponential technologies to support business leaders make informed and effective decisions leveraging information as an enterprise asset. Joyce has successfully designed and delivered national and international initiatives for private and public sector and has experience in all industry sectors including natural resources, financial services, insurance and telecommunications, with significant experience in healthcare, life sciences and public sector.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Joyce led and delivered one of the largest transformation projects in the world for the National Health Service in the UK, held senior international roles in private sector life sciences and has been a guest lecturer on transformation and health policy at the University of Westminster in London.

Steve Lowry is a serial entrepreneur and media disrupter. With a background as a lawyer and an investment banker, Steve set out to change how media was consumed, co-founding Play Taxi Media and bringing digital screens to taxicabs across Canada. He founded the world’s first all-media ad exchange, including traditional and digital media. Currently he heads BC’s industry body for artificial intelligence, AInBC, and is working with companies, academia and government to secure BC as a global hub for AI by 2022.

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is Chair of the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council, member of the Digital Strategy Advisory Panel for Waterfront Toronto, and member of the Canadian Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence. She is a member of the GEOTHINK research partnership, and has written widely in the areas of intellectual property law, law and technology, and privacy. Teresa Scassa is also a senior fellow with CIGI’s International Law Research Program.

Scott Scheferman draws from 20 years’ experience in the cyber-security industry in the Federal, DoD, SLED, Commercial and Technology sectors. He has assessed security risk for thousands of systems ranging from Satellite Control Systems to Enterprises containing over a million devices. He is an expert on risk (cyber, business, mission), threat landscape, security community, leadership and team-building, strategic messaging, public speaking and thought leadership.

Scott Scheferman is known particularly for his research, thought leadership and strategic guidance in the critical area of time advantage over the cyber adversary. Drawing from DoD cyber experience, as well as red/blue/purple teaming, and incident response leadership, his message is clear: The organization that is able to best outpace an adversary is the organization that finally gets to lean forward and focus on its mission. He argues that to do this, we must first get out of our own way, and approach the entire problem space from a new perspective, and more importantly, a new attitude.

Prior to joining SentinelOne as Principal Security Technologist, Scott Scheferman worked at FireEye, Mandiant and Cylance and was a cyber liaison to the NSA for a multi-billion dollar defense program. He is also known to have won the first DEF CON Badge Hacking Content. On a personal note, Scott is a music artist, Italian car aficionado and proud father.

Dr. Robert Fraser is the President and CSO 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. Khaled El Emam is a co-founder and director of Replica Analytics, a company that develops data synthesis technology. He is also a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting academic research on privacy enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including de-identification methods and synthetic data generation, and he is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine (Pediatrics) at the University of Ottawa.

Khaled is the founder of Privacy Analytics, which was acquired by IMS Health in 2016 and until the end of 2019, he held the position of General Manager and President.

As an entrepreneur, Khaled founded or co-founded five companies involved with data management and data analytics. 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.

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.

He held the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa from 2005-2015. He has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.

Yann Joly, Ph.D. (DCL), FCAHS, is the Research Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP). He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics cross-appointed at the Bioethics Unit, at McGill University. He was named advocatus emeritus by the Quebec Bar in 2012 and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2017.

Prof. Joly is a member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCU) Sectoral Commission for Natural, Social and Human Sciences. He is the current Chair of the Bioethics Workgroup of the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) and, of the Ethics and Governance Committee of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC). He is also a member of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) Committee on Ethics, Law and Society (CELS).

Prof. Joly’s research interests lie at the interface of the fields of scientific knowledge, health law (biotechnology and other emerging health technologies) and bioethics. He has published his findings in over 140 peer-reviewed articles featured in top legal, ethical and scientific journals. He served as a legal advisor on multiple research ethics committees in the public and private sectors.

Victoria is an experienced and multidimensional technology leader, innovator and academic. She currently holds a position as Professor of Archival Science at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. She is also founder and co-lead of Blockchain@UBC, the University of British Columbia’s multidisciplinary blockchain research cluster, ranked #1 by Coindesk for blockchain education in Canada. She has previously held senior positions as a professional archivist and records manager within the public sector, as a VP responsible for information governance and IT Security for a global investment bank, in higher education as a senior administrator and educator, at the World Bank as a Senior Public Sector Specialist and consultant, and as the Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for a health intelligence company. She has consulted for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Inter-American Development Bank and has collaborated on research projects with the US Treasury, Office of Financial Research. Her academic research focuses on risk to the availability of trustworthy records and how these risks impact upon transparency, financial stability, public accountability, and human rights. Victoria currently sits on the International Standards Organization’s Technical Committee 307 (blockchain and distribution ledgers). She holds a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002) and, since 2005, has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). She is the winner of the 2015 Emmett Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to the field of records management, a 2015 World Bank Big Data Innovation Award and 2020 Blockchain Ecosystem Leadership Award. In 2020 she also was named one of Canada’s Top 20 women in IT Security. She is the author and editor of award-winning articles and books, including Financial Analysis and Risk Management: Data Governance, Analytics and Life Cycle Management (Springer, 2012); Building Trust in Information – Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance (Springer, 2016), Building Decentralized Trust – Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (Springer, 2020), and Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Holly is responsible for guiding the development, recommendation and implementation of innovative approaches to privacy policy and practice to build accountable information stewardship and privacy conscious practices that enable the execution of PHSA’s expanded mandate and the conduct of health research. She advises on the privacy requirements relating to new and expanded provincial initiatives working closely with PHSA’s Information, Access and Privacy, and Legal Services teams. She also provides leadership in developing and implementing governance mechanisms to enable nimble, multidisciplinary review of privacy and security requirements for new and expanded initiatives and research, including province-wide platforms and systems, digital and information technologies, and data access/sharing. Holly is a PhD level trained ethicist and research consultant. She serves as the ethicist on the BC Cancer Research Ethics Board and a US-based IRB. She has worked as a consultant for Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the CIHR Ethics Office and her work has been published in a variety of journals including CMAJ, Trends in Neurosciences and Cell Stem Cell.​

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.

Elizabeth Denham became the UK’s Information Commissioner in 2016. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s regulator for data protection and information rights. It enforces the law, both civil and criminal, against organisations that have violated data protection rules. The ICO provides guidance on and regulates key laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Data Protection Act 2018, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Elizabeth brings an international dimension to her UK role from her previous work as Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and Canada and Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

In the 2019 New Year’s Honours list Elizabeth was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to protecting information. She is recognized as one of the most influential people in her field, most recently in Politico’s list of 28 people shaping, shaking and stirring Europe. She is frequently asked to provide her views on emerging issues to the UK parliament, as well as internationally.

Elizabeth has made headlines for her wide-ranging investigation into data misuse in online political campaigning. Over the past twelve months, her focus has included developing a code to better protect how children’s data is used by digital services and recommendations for reconciling data protection with facial recognition technology.

Elizabeth chairs the Global Privacy Assembly, which brings together data protection and privacy commissioners from around the world to share knowledge and build stronger cooperation. She also chairs the International Conference of Information Commissioners, which works globally to improve access to information rights.

Pam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum. An author and researcher, she has written respected and influential studies in the area of privacy, identity, biometrics, AI, data brokers, health privacy, and other topics. Dixon conducted substantive biometrics research in India, which formed the basis of a scholarly article analyzing India’s Aadhaar, biometrics, and EU-US data protection policy, A Failure to Do No Harm, (Springer-Nature). This work was cited in the landmark 2018 Supreme Court of India Aadhaar decision. Dixon was the lead author and researcher on a groundbreaking report on predictive analytics and financial, medical, and other scoring mechanisms, The Scoring of America. She researched and wrote the first report on medical identity theft, identifying and bringing that topic to the public for the first time. Dixon has written 8 books and numerous other privacy studies. She is an expert advisor to OECD on AI, and has been an OECD advisor on health data uses. Her next book on privacy is set to be published in 2019.

Dixon was formerly a research fellow with the Privacy Foundation at Denver University’s Sturm School of Law where she researched and wrote about technology-related privacy issues. Dixon has testified before the US Congress, including the US Senate, and Federal agencies, and is frequently quoted in the media regarding privacy issues. She serves on the editorial board of the Harvard-based Journal of Technology Science. She is the author of 8 books, including Online Privacy with Robert Gellman. She was the editor of Surveillance in America, An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and the Law (2016).

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is an Assistant Professor of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section and the Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society. As a legal scholar, his research focuses on Technology and Intellectual Property Law; with a special interest in Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Secrets and Whistleblowers. He is the recipient of the 2018-2019 Common Law Emergent Researcher Award.

Sander Vinberg is a Threat Research Evangelist for F5 Labs. He has worked in information security, geopolitical risk, and linguistic consulting. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Washington in Information Management, as well as bachelor’s degrees in History and African and African-American Studies from the University of Chicago.

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

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

Lynn Barr-Telford is the Assistant Chief Statistician of the Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field at Statistics Canada. Lynn holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Carleton University and has several years of experience as a senior Executive with responsibility for large, complex statistical programs. The Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field provides accurate, timely and relevant information across a range of social subject matters to decision makers at all levels of government, to non-governmental organizations, to researchers and to the Canadian public. The portfolio includes a number of large survey and administrative data programs such as the Centre for Population Health Data; the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics; the Centre for Gender, Diversity and Inclusion; and the Centre for Labour Market Information, among others. The Field is also the home for Canadian Census content expertise.

Inspector Stacy Clarke is the second in command at 14 Division, which includes priority and community response officers, district special constables, civilian and auxiliary members. She was a co-chair of the Police and Community Engagement Review (PACER) for the Toronto Police Service.

Stacy’s diverse policing career has included working in primary and community response units, intelligence, homicide, criminal investigative bureau, professional standards and the Toronto Police College. She is known for implementing the Province’s Street check Legislation. This was one of her many accomplishments as Master Trainer and Controller of legislation 58/16 – The Collection of Identifying Information in Certain Circumstances. She continually communicates her honest belief in the advancement of policing and efforts to reinforce community trust and, simultaneously, effective policing.

Stacy is a believer in continued education. She has received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminology and has completed many leadership programs such as the FBI Leeda Trilogy. She is a 2018 Civic Action Fellow and is one of the 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women for 2018.

Stacy gives much of her success to her strong Jamaican upbringing and remains most proud of her two children, Jahnya and Kafany. Inspector Clarke often speaks to the importance of being determined with direction. In 2017, she created her why statement that reads in part, “My goal is not to live forever but to create something that will”.

Daniel J Jones has worked in the justice system for 25 years. He spent 3 years as a correctional officer and 22 years as a police officer obtaining the rank of Inspector with the Edmonton Police Service. Daniel earned his Master’s Degree at the University of Cambridge in Applied Criminology receiving the Wakefield Scholarship. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Huddersfield where he received the Secure Societies Institute Scholarship. Daniel is working in collaboration with the University of Alberta on the University of Alberta Prison Project. He is also a sessional instructor at the University of Alberta in the Sociology Department. His focus of study is the Victim-Offender overlap and looking at how research and evidence based practice can create positive systems change.

Micheal Vonn is the CEO of PHS Community Services Society (aka “Portland Hotel Society”). PHS, well-known for its historic win at the Supreme Court of Canada to legalize safe injection sites, provides housing, harm reduction and health promotion in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and Victoria. Prior to her work with PHS, Micheal was a lawyer and the long-serving Policy Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association where she was a frequent speaker and media commentator on privacy, policing and national security.

Murray Rankin, QC practises law in Victoria and Vancouver. He focuses on public law matters — administrative, constitutional, information and privacy, environmental and aboriginal law. Murray has appeared at all levels of Court, and before numerous administrative and regulatory tribunals. He has provided legal and policy advice to agencies at all levels of government, as well as to the individuals and entities they regulate.

Until September 2019, Murray served as Victoria’s Member of Parliament for seven years. And was elected Vice Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee for Justice and the Attorney General and the Standing Committee for Health. In July 2019 M the Prime Minister appointed Mr. Rankin as Chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), responsible for reviewing national security and intelligence activities carried out by the Government of Canada.

Mr. Rankin started his career as a Professor of Law at the University of Victoria before co-founding Arvay Finlay, LLP in 1990. His graduate work at Harvard Law School focused on freedom of information and he was retained by the Canadian Bar Association to promote Canada’s first Access to Information Act. When Mike Harcourt was elected Premier of British Columbia, Mr. Rankin worked with Atty. Gen. Colin Gabelmann to shape British Columbia’s landmark Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. He remains a regional editor of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice.

Kevin Margatan serves as a Privacy Engineer at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform. In his role, Kevin advises companies large and small on EU GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the world’s privacy laws, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling privacy programs. Kevin is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM) and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Purdue University and currently pursuing his Master’s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

Bill Griffin serves as a Privacy Consultant at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform. In his role, Griffin advises companies large and small on EU GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the world’s privacy laws, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling privacy programs. Griffin is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, holding a CIPP/E.

Josh Burgess has more than a decade of cyber threat analysis and mitigation experience serving in multiple positions including in the intelligence community, the Department of Defense, as well as the financial sector. In a majority of his roles he has served as the technical lead Threat Intelligence Officer for a large SOC to advise them of the latest threats and ensure a sound security posture. His main role in his current position at CrowdStrike is to support customers by applying his experience in actioning both short-term tactical as well as long-term strategic intelligence data and reporting.

Hussain is a forensic practitioner, responder to incidents, investigator of matters, network security engineer, and solver of problems.

He is a stout zealot of Cybersecurity.

He is experienced in the fields of telecommunications, law, incident response and digital forensics. He invokes leadership, communication, and project management skills during the course of his duties. He has led multiple network deployments including wired, wireless, and cellular/IoT (Internet of Things).

Having graduated with Distinction from BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology) with a Bachelors of Forensics, specializing in digital forensics. As an instructor, Hussain has spoken at BCIT in matters of Cybersecurity for the Faculty of Forensic Science.

Hussain lays claim to multiple credentials and accolades within the fields of psychology, forensics and law enforcement. A five-year engagement with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has provided him with a unique view in both the legislative and procedural aspects of both criminal and civil law.

Imraan Bashir is the Executive Director of Cyber Security within the Office of the Chief Information Officer at Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS), where he is responsible for internal government-wide cyber security strategy and oversight functions. This includes the establishment of standards and provision of direction to 100+ organizations in order to establish a consistent enterprise-wide security posture and enable the secure delivery of services to Canadians. In this role, Imraan also leads the government’s Digital Identity program, implementing a pan-Canadian approach to allow trusted access to online services.

Imraan is a vocal member of the Government of Canada’s security community, advocating for practitioners to take a more balanced risk-based approach to security, with focus on enabling business outcomes. Imraan is a staunch believer of #pragmaticsecurity, and can be found often ranting about this on Twitter.

Imraan has spent his entire career in the IT/cyber security domain, spending time in both private and public sectors. In 2019, Apolitical named Imraan one of the world’s top 100 most influential people in digital government.

Scott Scheferman draws from 20 years’ experience in the cyber-security industry in the Federal, DoD, SLED, Commercial and Technology sectors. He has assessed security risk for thousands of systems ranging from Satellite Control Systems to Enterprises containing over a million devices. He is an expert on risk (cyber, business, mission), threat landscape, security community, leadership and team-building, strategic messaging, public speaking and thought leadership.

Scott Scheferman is known particularly for his research, thought leadership and strategic guidance in the critical area of time advantage over the cyber adversary. Drawing from DoD cyber experience, as well as red/blue/purple teaming, and incident response leadership, his message is clear: The organization that is able to best outpace an adversary is the organization that finally gets to lean forward and focus on its mission. He argues that to do this, we must first get out of our own way, and approach the entire problem space from a new perspective, and more importantly, a new attitude.

Prior to joining SentinelOne as Principal Security Technologist, Scott Scheferman worked at FireEye, Mandiant and Cylance and was a cyber liaison to the NSA for a multi-billion dollar defense program. He is also known to have won the first DEF CON Badge Hacking Content. On a personal note, Scott is a music artist, Italian car aficionado and proud father.

Dave Klein is the Senior Director of Technical Evangelism for Guardicore. With more than 21 years of real-world cybersecurity experience he works with Guardicore teams, customers and industry thought leaders to address the challenges of securing modern hybrid cloud environments.

Dave encourages CISOs faced with securing their organizations to adopt security solutions and best practices that work easily and seamlessly across heterogeneous hybrid cloud environments. Dave has spoken on a wide variety of cybersecurity topics including incident response plans, micro-segmentation, data center hygiene, crytpojacking, hybrid cloud adoption, PCI compliance, stages of the cyber security kill chain, interactions between the physical and cyber worlds as it relates to the radicalization and arming of domestic terrorists, and using cyber forensics in real world criminal cases.

Prior to Guardicore, Dave was the Engineering Manager for Forcepoint’s Federal Sector where he helped to defend US agencies against Insider and Advanced Persistent Threats. Dave also worked with other vendors, government and private sector entities on the NIST response to Presidential Policy Directive 21 on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. Before joining Forcepoint, Dave was a security leader at Cisco Systems and McAfee.

Ciaran Aiken is the Lead for Access, Privacy and Governance at the BC Centre for Disease Control, where he navigates the world of public health surveillance and research, information management, oversight and compliance. He is the current Chair of the Panorama Data Governance Committee, the provincial public health information system spanning BC and the Yukon. Prior to joining the BCCDC, Ciaran was a Senior Policy and Legislative Advisor with the Ministry of Citizens’ Services, supporting BC’s privacy and access to information legislation portfolio. He holds a Masters Degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Khaled El Emam is a co-founder and director of Replica Analytics, a company that develops data synthesis technology. He is also a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting academic research on privacy enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including de-identification methods and synthetic data generation, and he is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine (Pediatrics) at the University of Ottawa.

Khaled is the founder of Privacy Analytics, which was acquired by IMS Health in 2016 and until the end of 2019, he held the position of General Manager and President.

As an entrepreneur, Khaled founded or co-founded five companies involved with data management and data analytics. 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.

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.

He held the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa from 2005-2015. He has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.

As the Security Awareness Training Evangelist for Proofpoint, Dale Zabriskie consults with companies across the globe, advising on the implementation of effective security awareness strategies. Known for his ability to relate both technically and conceptually in an authoritative yet entertaining style, Mr. Zabriskie is a popular speaker and panelist, having made presentations on security awareness in over 50 countries. As a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) who is also certified in Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), he has acted as a consultant to organizations such as Walmart, Disney, Allstate, FedEx, the States of Michigan and Florida, Adventist Health, Baylor University, BP, the U.S. Navy, and Saudi Aramco. His expertise is supported by over 25 years in cyber security, information technology, research and development, and regulatory compliance with companies like IBM, Symantec, SunGard, Fisher Scientific, and Veritas.

David Flaherty is a specialist in the management of privacy and information policy issues. He served a six-year, non-renewable term as the first Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Province of British Columbia (1993-99). He wrote 320 Orders under the B.C. Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and also pioneered the development of Privacy Impact Assessments and site visits as forms of privacy compliance auditing.

As a consultant since 1999, Flaherty’s services for clients have included strategic advice on the management of privacy issues and of relationships with privacy authorities, privacy advocates, and the general public; conducting overall assessments of privacy compliance (privacy reviews, audits, site visits, knowledge transfer); preparing Privacy Impact Assessments; helping to manage and prevent privacy breaches; and developing on-line privacy training and other privacy risk management tools.

Flaherty is a co-author of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act: An Annotated Guide (2001). In 2012 he prepared an independent report in the aftermath of a data breach at the University of Victoria, which is available at: http://www.uvic.ca/infobreach/assets/docs/Privacy%20report%20-%20full%20draft%20r6.pdf

David has been a member of both the External Advisory Committee to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (from the Committee’s inception in 2004 till his resignation in early June, 2014) and the expert external advisory board for the BC Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner since its inception in January 2011. He wrote for the federal office ‘Reflections on Reform of the Privacy Act’ (2008). Since 2000, he has been the Chief Privacy Advisor to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). He has also been a Director of MAXIMUS BC Health Inc. since its inception in 2005 as a service provider to the BC Ministry of Health Services through Health Information B.C.

Flaherty began his involvement with privacy issues as an assistant to Alan F. Westin at Columbia University in 1964. Flaherty’s first book was ‘Privacy in Colonial New England’ (1972). In 1974 he started comparative public policy work in Europe and North America that led to a series of books, including Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies: The Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and the United States (1989). Flaherty has written or edited fourteen books.

He is an honours history graduate of McGill University (1962) and has an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His teaching career, from 1965 to 1993, included Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Western Ontario, where he was professor of history and law from 1972 to 1999 and is now professor emeritus. He was the first director (1984-89) of its Centre for American Studies. He has held fellowships and scholarships at Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and Georgetown Universities. In 1992-93 Flaherty was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and a Canada-US. Fulbright Scholar in Law.   Flaherty was an adjunct professor in political science at the University of Victoria from 1999 to 2006.

Flaherty was president of Pacific Opera Victoria for four years from 2010-2014. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

In June, 2013 the Awards Dinner of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) in Washington, DC honored Flaherty with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on privacy protection. In October, 2014 the Privacy and Access Council of Canada named him a Fellow, Access and Privacy Professional. On National Philanthropy Day in 2012, the Association of Fundraising Professionals of Vancouver Island honored him with a “Generosity of Spirit Award” in recognition of his outstanding commitment to philanthropy.

Robert W. (Bob) Gordon is the executive director of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX). Over his career, Bob has worked for four federal national security agencies—the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Communications Security Establishment, and Public Safety Canada—as well as in the private sector at CGI. While serving in these roles, Bob has been a senior assistant deputy minister, led the national counterterrorism program, overseen broad technology and internal security initiatives (including personnel, IT, and physical security), and designed Canada’s first Cyber Security Strategy. At the CCTX, Bob oversees information sharing and collaboration programs designed to create an open threat data exchange between the public and private sectors.

Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D, Queen’s) is Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College, Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University the inaugural Fulbright Chair in Canada-US Relations at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC and Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. He is Adjunct Research Professor, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University as well as the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University. A recipient of RMC’s Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research and an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, he is also Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. An expert in security and defence, political demography, and comparative federalism and multilevel governance, he has held visiting positions in North America, Europe, and Australia, and is regularly called as an expert witness to testify before committees of Parliament. He holds appointments to the board of the German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, the Police Services Board of the City of Kingston, and the Polar Research & Policy Initiative.

His publications have appeared in English, German, French, and Spanish and include 12 books and scores of articles that have appeared, inter alia, in the Florida State University Law Review (2019), Electoral Studies (2016), Government Information Quarterly (2016), Armed Forces and Society (2015), Global Crime (2015, 2013), the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (2014, Maureen Molot Prize for Best Article), Canadian Public Administration (2014), the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2012, 2003), Regional and Federal Studies (2012), and Terrorism and Political Violence (2019, 2018, 2017, 2011). His editorials appear regularly across Canada’s national newspapers and he is a frequent commentator in domestic and international media.

Leuprecht has been Matthew Flinders Fellow at the Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), held a senior and visiting fellowships at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (2016), the Helmut-Schmidt-University of the Bundeswehr (2016), Université Pierre-Mendès France (2015), the University of Augsburg in Germany (2011), the Swedish National Defence College (recurring) and the European Academy (recurring), and as the Bicentennial Visiting Associate Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010). He is a research affiliate at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (since 2005), the Network for Terrorism, Security, and Society (since 2012), l’Université de Montréal’s International Centre for Comparative Criminology (since 2014), the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec (since 2015), l’Observatoire sur la radicalization et l’extrémisme violent (since 2015), the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (since 2010), the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College (2003), the World Population Program at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria (2002), and held doctoral (2001-2003) and postdoctoral (2003-2005) fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from Queen’s University (2003), and graduate degrees in Political Science (1998) and French (1999) from the University of Toronto as well as the Institut d’Études Politiques at the Université Pierre-Mendès France in Grenoble (1997).

From 2015-2018 he held a Governor-in-Council appointment to the governing Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada where he also served on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Committee on Discovery Research. He is also immediate past-president (2014-2018) of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. Since joining RMCC in 2005, he has served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science and Economics. He has twice received the RMCC Commandant’s Commendation for Excellence in Service. A long-time proponent of experiential learning, Leuprecht has also been a finalist for RMCC’s Teaching Excellence Award and has received honourable mention for the Queen’s University Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award (2017). He is a member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces & Society, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Current Sociology’s Manuscript Series, and the Springer book series in Advances in Science and Technologies for Security Applications. Previously, he was associate editor of the Queen’s Policy Studies series published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Murray Rankin, QC practises law in Victoria and Vancouver. He focuses on public law matters — administrative, constitutional, information and privacy, environmental and aboriginal law. Murray has appeared at all levels of Court, and before numerous administrative and regulatory tribunals. He has provided legal and policy advice to agencies at all levels of government, as well as to the individuals and entities they regulate.

Until September 2019, Murray served as Victoria’s Member of Parliament for seven years. And was elected Vice Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee for Justice and the Attorney General and the Standing Committee for Health. In July 2019 M the Prime Minister appointed Mr. Rankin as Chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), responsible for reviewing national security and intelligence activities carried out by the Government of Canada.

Mr. Rankin started his career as a Professor of Law at the University of Victoria before co-founding Arvay Finlay, LLP in 1990. His graduate work at Harvard Law School focused on freedom of information and he was retained by the Canadian Bar Association to promote Canada’s first Access to Information Act. When Mike Harcourt was elected Premier of British Columbia, Mr. Rankin worked with Atty. Gen. Colin Gabelmann to shape British Columbia’s landmark Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. He remains a regional editor of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice.

Bryce Schroeder has been with ServiceNow for 3.5 years as the Senior Director of Security and Risk Solution Consulting. He has over 14 years focused on Security and over 34 years in the industry itself. Bryce joined from Tripwire where he was global VP of Systems & Security Engineering. Bryce has also served in senior leadership roles at Symantec and Sun Microsystems; where he pioneered development and successful deployment of secure remote automated software integrations.

Gregory Smolynec is  Deputy Commissioner, Policy and Promotion in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. The Promotion Program is future-looking and aims to inform Canadians of their rights and how to exercise them, and to bring organizations toward compliance with the law. As Deputy Commissioner Policy and Promotion, Gregory leads the OPC Policy and Promotion team in developing and promoting general, yet practical, information and guidance, and in developing advice on specific initiatives. Prior to his appointment, Gregory served as Director General Strategic Initiatives in the Strategic Joint Staff at National Defence Headquarter.  As DGSI, he led the Strategic Outlook function for the Canadian Armed Forces. Strategic Outlook is an analytical, decision support process designed to identify and analyze the central military and technological challenges facing Canada and to inform strategic decision-making and advice to government. Gregory began his career with the Department of National Defence as a Strategic Analyst in Defence R&D Canada. He has worked in several organizations within the Department of National Defence as an analyst and has held a series of progressively responsible executive positions the Public Service.  He has a Bachelor of Arts in History from McGill University, a Master of Arts in Russian and East European Studies from Carleton University and a Doctorate in History from Duke University.

Jill Clayton was appointed Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner in 2012, and re-appointed to a second five-year term in 2017.

Jill worked as a privacy consultant in the health care, oil and gas, telecommunications and non-profit sectors before joining the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner in 2004. As Director and then Assistant Commissioner, Jill was primariJly responsible for oversight of the Personal Information Protection Act, Alberta’s private sector privacy law. In particular, she developed the office’s procedures and decision making processes for mandatory breach reporting and notification in the private sector, which came into force in 2010.

As Commissioner, Jill has a dual mandate involving access to information and privacy rights and responsibilities.

On the access to information side, Jill has focused on reducing delays in access to information responses, advocating for a culture that supports transparency as a cornerstone to a strong democracy, and ensuring that effective records management programs are in place to support the proper functioning of Alberta’s access to information laws.

On the privacy side, Jill has focused on prioritizing and promoting accountability in data governance, transparency through privacy breach notification, promoting knowledge about privacy rights in Alberta’s education system, and, more recently, ethical assessments in tech innovations that involve the collection, use or disclosure of personal or health information.

Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

Dr Andrew A. Adams has a PhD in Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Law. He taught in a School of Systems Engineering in the UK for a decade and since 2010 has been teaching in a Graduate School of Business in Japan. His research moved from computer mathematics into the social, legal and ethical implications of computer and communications technology.

He is a mapgie for methods and theories as well as subjects of study. He has published papers and book chapters on issues of privacy, security, surveillance, distance education, copyright, augmented reality, and medical computing, based on methods and theories from psychology, history, film studies, computer science, law, philosophy and sociology.

He is interested in too many things.

Joni serves as President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). Building upon 15 years of hands on experience in Identity Access Management innovations and industry standards development, Joni helps the DIACC to fulfill its vision of organizing Canadian market forces to unlock digital identity and authentication (DIA) economic opportunities for all Canadians.

Joni builds diplomatic collaboration relationships and formalizes strategic partnerships between organizations. She has participated in international organizational committees including: OECD ITAC, ISOC, IEEE, OASIS SSTC, ISO SC27 WG5, and ITU-T SG17 Q6. She has testified regarding trusted Identity and Access Management systems for the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Security and Privacy (ONC HITSP).

Before joining DIACC Joni was Kantara Initiative’s Executive Director focusing on technology evangelism, trust frameworks, and policy and technology interoperability to connect entities and individuals in a more trustworthy environment. Joni lead Kantara Initiative, a premiere trust framework provider facing multiple industry sectors. As a US FICAM Trust Framework Provider Kantara Initiative provides Accreditation and Approval verifications for digital identity ecosystem components and services. Joni helped to ensure that Kantara Initiative program is aligned with multiple eGovernment strategies including: Government of Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Joni Brennan previously served as the IEEE-SA Technology Evangelist for Internet Identity and Trust focusing on issues of governance, policy, and technology development that touch digital Identity, personally identifiable information, and trust services.

Dr. Brenda McPhail is the Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s Privacy, Surveillance, and Technology Program. She guides CCLA’s litigation and advocacy at the junction of privacy and emerging technology; recent examples include the Supreme Court of Canada cases R. v. Marakah and R v. Jones, which confirmed privacy rights in electronic communications, and R. v. Jarvis, which addressed video recording of individuals in public spaces. Brenda has often served as an expert witness before parliamentary, senate, and legislative committees on legal reforms related to privacy. Her research and public education activities currently concentrate on the social implications of technology, including, most recently, health information sharing, digital surveillance including facial recognition, AI and human rights, smart cities, and data trusts.

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.

Jaimie Boyd serves as the Chief Digital Officer of the Government of British Columbia, Canada. She leads efforts to embrace digital change, helping government to better serve citizens using modern technologies. She previously served as the Director of Open Government in the Government of Canada, supporting government transparency, accountability and citizen engagement. Ms. Boyd has held past roles across the Government of Canada and in the private sector. She is an alumnus of the Government of Canada’s Accelerated Economist Training Program, Action Canada, the Institute for Technology and Society’s Global Policy Fellowship and the Organization of American States’ Fellowship on Open Government in the Americas. In 2019, Apolitical listed her amongst the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government. Find her on Twitter at @jaimieboyd.

Pam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum. An author and researcher, she has written respected and influential studies in the area of privacy, identity, biometrics, AI, data brokers, health privacy, and other topics. Dixon conducted substantive biometrics research in India, which formed the basis of a scholarly article analyzing India’s Aadhaar, biometrics, and EU-US data protection policy, A Failure to Do No Harm, (Springer-Nature). This work was cited in the landmark 2018 Supreme Court of India Aadhaar decision. Dixon was the lead author and researcher on a groundbreaking report on predictive analytics and financial, medical, and other scoring mechanisms, The Scoring of America. She researched and wrote the first report on medical identity theft, identifying and bringing that topic to the public for the first time. Dixon has written 8 books and numerous other privacy studies. She is an expert advisor to OECD on AI, and has been an OECD advisor on health data uses. Her next book on privacy is set to be published in 2019.

Dixon was formerly a research fellow with the Privacy Foundation at Denver University’s Sturm School of Law where she researched and wrote about technology-related privacy issues. Dixon has testified before the US Congress, including the US Senate, and Federal agencies, and is frequently quoted in the media regarding privacy issues. She serves on the editorial board of the Harvard-based Journal of Technology Science. She is the author of 8 books, including Online Privacy with Robert Gellman. She was the editor of Surveillance in America, An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and the Law (2016).

Dr. Khaled El Emam is a co-founder and director of Replica Analytics, a company that develops data synthesis technology. He is also a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting academic research on privacy enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including de-identification methods and synthetic data generation, and he is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine (Pediatrics) at the University of Ottawa.

Khaled is the founder of Privacy Analytics, which was acquired by IMS Health in 2016 and until the end of 2019, he held the position of General Manager and President.

As an entrepreneur, Khaled founded or co-founded five companies involved with data management and data analytics. 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.

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.

He held the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa from 2005-2015. He has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.

Dr. Tracey Lauriault is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media and Big Data in the School of Journalism and Communication and is cross appointed with Digital Humanities at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is a Research Associate with the Maynooth University Social Science Institute in Ireland, the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University, the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Montreal and the Centre for Law Technology and Policy at Ottawa University. She sits in an advisory capacity on civil society and government boards and committees on topics related to open smart cities, open data and open government.

She is an engaged critical data studies scholar working in public policy research as it pertains to data, processes (AI/ML), institutions and infrastructure in large and small social and technical systems. Ongoing research projects are about Open Smart Cities, Digital Twins, Shared Transportation and Equity Data.

As the COO for Vyne Mobile, Elan Shedlaz is responsible for global operations and distribution.

Vyne Mobile is a secure communication solution company that helps people and organization connect with each other, share files and backup their information in a closed secure environment. At Vyne Mobile we believe that users should control their own data and be the only ones that has access to it. We do not collect any data about our users activity, behaviour or location. Ever.

After earning his degree in Industrial Engineering BSc from the Hebrew University in Israel, Elan was involved in the local tech scene of Tel Aviv in various positions before immigrating to Canada. He was exposed to different methods for securing sensitive data and best practices for using it. After seeing many cases of “miss use” of data, he became passionate about changing the landscape of data collection and using it for corporate advantage.

Elan started his career working in the ad-tech space, learning about digital media marketing and how to leverage users’ data for precise targeting of online ads. Over the years he witnessed the transformation of advertising agencies into “big data” collection shops that are in the business of trying to aggregate as much data as possible about users, and using it to promote messages paid by their clients. After spending years with data analytics and developing digital products he joined Vyne Mobile in a journey to offer an alternative to traditional communication tools currently available in the market.

Jeannette Van Den Bulk is Deputy Commissioner for the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, Canada. As former Executive Director for Privacy, Policy and Legislation for the Integrated Data Office for the Province of British Columbia, she led the privacy and legal components for the development of a corporate data analytics centre for BC. Prior to this role, Jeannette spent three years as the Assistant Privacy Commissioner for the State of Victoria, Australia and nine years with the central privacy branch for BC. She is a lawyer in both Canada and Australia with a specialization in legal principles relating to privacy, access, and information management.

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

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

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

Matthew Hyson joined Aruba in March of 2004 as Technical Director, responsible for systems engineering activities and technical business development within Canada. Since joining Aruba, Matthew has been responsible for architecting some of the largest secure mobility networks ever deployed.

Matthew currently serves in Office of the CTO focusing on next generation mobility architecture, security, and the Internet of Things. Drawing on over a decade of real world architecting and implementation experience, Matthew brings a unique ‘field-focused’ view to long term strategic planning initiatives.

Prior to joining Aruba Networks, Matthew was the Director of Technology Development at systems integrator Wireless Friendly, a Canada-based start-up focused on wireless security solutions. Matthew’s expertise in the field of wireless network security has been featured in several national publications.

Ash Luft is an Embedded Software Engineer at StarFish Medical with a background in Computer Science, Biochemistry, and Electrical Engineering. With industry experience in Software and Biomedical Device Development, Ash specializes in designing for and implementing safety, security, and privacy in Clinical IoT and Medical Devices. Ash is passionate about protecting patient outcomes while delivering cost-effective, high quality solutions.

Jason has been architecting, designing, and deploying security technologies that secure the most complex computing environments for almost 2 decades. His understanding of technologies, people, and process enable him to deliver effective, comprehensive security solutions that align to an organizations security goals and strategic imperatives. Jason is adept at addressing a range of risk profiles across industry verticals; skills he has cultivated as an end-user security practitioner, partner/integrator, and now manufacturer as Technical Solutions Architect, Cybersecurity for Cisco Systems. Jason has developed common and best practice guides, blogs for both Cisco and industry forums,  and has delivered training sessions globally. Jason also holds multiple designations across a variety of products and technologies including the CCIE designation.

As a Senior Solutions Architect on the Amazon Web Services team, Ryan is focused on provincial, municipal, and crown corporations customers in Western Canada. One of his primary roles is conveying best practices and providing prescriptive guidance around application and systems design and security on the AWS cloud.

Sue is the CEO of Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster – driving the development of digital technology platforms and products that will transform businesses and industries while making Canada a world leader in digital technology. The Digital Technology Supercluster brings together organizations of all sizes, from industry, academia, the private and the public sector, to work together on solving some of the most significant economic and social issues through the development and implementation of world leading digital technologies. The Supercluster is leveraging Canada’s expertise in data analytics, genomics, quantum computing, mixed and augmented reality, the Internet of Things and AR and VR to deliver technologies in data commons, digital twins and all aspects of precision health while creating jobs and growing Canada’s international competitiveness. Over 300 organizations are working with the Supercluster from diverse sectors including manufacturing, mining, healthcare, agriculture, research, forestry, aviation, software development, telecom and more.

Prior to joining the Supercluster Sue was the Managing Partner of one of Canada’s leading law firms, the CEO of Canada’s largest chain of independent retail pharmacies and most recently the CEO of Canada’s largest diagnostic lab. In each of these roles Sue mobilized diverse teams to drive business growth, implement large-scale organizational change and develop and implement transformational technologies.

Sue and her husband Brad are the proud parents of three daughters and when not transforming organizations, Sue and her family can be found in remote areas of BC’s wilderness, exploring all that BC has to offer. Sue has been recognized for community and business leadership with awards including: Honorary Doctorate of Technology (BCIT), UBC Faculty of Law Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Victoria Distinguished Entrepreneur, YWCA Woman of Distinction, Queen’s Counsel, Hall of Fame for Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, and the Influential Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award.

Sue is the CEO of Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster – driving the development of digital technology platforms and products that will transform businesses and industries while making Canada a world leader in digital technology. The Digital Technology Supercluster brings together organizations of all sizes, from industry, academia, the private and the public sector, to work together on solving some of the most significant economic and social issues through the development and implementation of world leading digital technologies. The Supercluster is leveraging Canada’s expertise in data analytics, genomics, quantum computing, mixed and augmented reality, the Internet of Things and AR and VR to deliver technologies in data commons, digital twins and all aspects of precision health while creating jobs and growing Canada’s international competitiveness. Over 300 organizations are working with the Supercluster from diverse sectors including manufacturing, mining, healthcare, agriculture, research, forestry, aviation, software development, telecom and more.

Prior to joining the Supercluster Sue was the Managing Partner of one of Canada’s leading law firms, the CEO of Canada’s largest chain of independent retail pharmacies and most recently the CEO of Canada’s largest diagnostic lab. In each of these roles Sue mobilized diverse teams to drive business growth, implement large-scale organizational change and develop and implement transformational technologies.

Sue and her husband Brad are the proud parents of three daughters and when not transforming organizations, Sue and her family can be found in remote areas of BC’s wilderness, exploring all that BC has to offer. Sue has been recognized for community and business leadership with awards including: Honorary Doctorate of Technology (BCIT), UBC Faculty of Law Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Victoria Distinguished Entrepreneur, YWCA Woman of Distinction, Queen’s Counsel, Hall of Fame for Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, and the Influential Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award.

Michael McEvoy was appointed Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC in April 2018 by unanimous motion of the Legislative Assembly. He will hold the position as an independent Officer of the Legislature for a term of six years.

Prior to his appointment, Michael served as Deputy Commissioner for the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC). He played a key senior leadership role in the enforcement of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). Michael was responsible for leading and managing systemic investigations of significant public interest issues and developing policy papers and guidance for organizations and public bodies. He also led British Columbia’s efforts to coordinate actions with regulatory authorities throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Michael began his career at the OIPC in 2007 as an adjudicator, rendering more than 50 adjudicative rulings relating to access and privacy matters under provincial law. He was Senior Adjudicator from 2011-12 before accepting the position of Deputy Commissioner.

Michael was a public school trustee for 12 years, including two terms as President of the British Columbia School Trustees’ Association and one term as President of the Canadian School Boards’ Association. He also served on numerous campaign committees of the Greater Victoria United Way and chaired its 2009 campaign.

Michael obtained a Juris Doctorate from the University of Manitoba in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1980 from the University of Winnipeg. He has been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia since 1986.

Michael is married with two daughters and is a charter member of the Victoria Grey Leafs’ old-timer hockey team.

Debbie brings 35 years of experience to the Interac team. She drives our innovation strategy and mines for new venture and partnership opportunities. Her firsthand experience with such innovations as mobile commerce, digital ID and cryptocurrency solutions make her one of the country’s most seasoned authorities on the digital economy. Debbie has worked internationally in Europe and the United States. She has spoken on the global stage at the Innovation Project, Money 2020 and SIBOS and she sits on the advisory boards of FINCA Canada, Luge Capital and Women in Payments.

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.

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.

Pamela Snively joined TELUS as Chief Data and Trust Officer in October, 2015. She leads the team responsible for data and privacy governance at TELUS. Pamela also serves TELUS’ commitment to integrity through her leadership of a variety of initiatives, including the Anti-bribery & Corruption and Competition Law programs.

Prior to joining TELUS, Pamela managed the consulting arm of Osler’s privacy and data management practices, AccessPrivacy by Osler. As a lawyer and consultant, she provided a broad range of privacy, risk-management and compliance advice in the private, public and health sectors. She assisted organizations in implementing enterprise risk-management programs; advising on privacy and outsourcing governance and accountability programs; designing and implementing records-management programs; drafting policies, procedures and training materials; managing data breaches and other regulatory investigations; and conducting privacy impact or risk assessments.

Pamela formerly held Chief Privacy and Risk Officer roles in large business process outsourcing companies in Canada.

Ken McPherson has been at the helm of Iceberg Networks Corporation as the Chief Executive Officer and President since April 2014. Bringing more than 25 years of demonstrated experience in the information technology sector Ken focuses on expanding Iceberg’s business across North America and effectively establishing them as an industry leader in delivering Integrated Risk Management (IRM) programs, including Cyber Risk, Operational Risk and Vendor Risk solutions. Ken has helped many Fortune 500 organizations develop a better understanding of their risk posture, enabling them to make more informed business decisions to mitigate and protect their organizations. Ken is often invited to meet fellow Chief Executives of both US and Canadian companies that are looking solve key board issues – to gain a more accurate and aggregated understanding of the organization’s non-financial risks. Ken’s recently published e-book on Managing Digital Risk can be found here: Digital Risk eBook.

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.”

Sorcha is the Senior Director of Organizing and Strategic Partnerships at NationBuilder. She manages customer relationships and strategic partnerships for a host of the most influential political, brand, and non-profit organizations around the globe. She also manages all of the go-to-market activities for new and existing product offerings. She is a political strategy leader, committed to building community in an effort to develop more effective leaders from all walks of life.

Sorcha currently lives and works in Boston, MA. She completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science and History at the University of Portsmouth in England before relocating to Boston, Massachusetts. At 22 she became the youngest member of her graduating class to receive a Master’s in Political Science from Suffolk University.

Prior to joining NationBuilder, Sorcha worked as a Senior Associate of Dewey Square Group where she developed and managed grassroots organizations for a variety of candidates, ballot initiatives, businesses, and non-profits. Sorcha has also served as a political advisor on a number of federal, state and municipal campaigns across New England.

Jeff is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of AggregateIQ, an online advertising, software development, and web development company based in Victoria, British Columbia. AggregateIQ has been at the forefront of digital advocacy in Canada and around the world with a demonstrated history of success working in support of companies, candidates, political parties, and issue advocacy organisations.

Focusing on data driven decision making, thoughtful solutions, and continuous learning, their applied approach to communications, and public engagement has helped their clients identify powerful insights, new audiences, strategies, and better ways of communicating that help them achieve their goals. AggregateIQ was also recently featured in “Brexit”, an HBO film on the UK’s EU Referendum.

Mitch Wexler is one of Canada’s leading experts in political data analysis, election demographics, and mapping. He has over 25 years’ experience working on, managing, and advising election campaigns in Canada including 12 years as a data service provider.

Mitch has provided the database solutions and strategic data analysis for successful campaigns at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, including the Toronto mayoral victories of both John Tory and Rob Ford, as well as party leadership campaigns.

Mitch’s extensive knowledge of the data collected by political parties and candidates and how it is used in campaigns provides an important perspective on the question of how to balance the public expectation of privacy with the need to preserve our democratic institutions.

Jill Clayton was appointed Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner in 2012, and re-appointed to a second five-year term in 2017.

Jill worked as a privacy consultant in the health care, oil and gas, telecommunications and non-profit sectors before joining the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner in 2004. As Director and then Assistant Commissioner, Jill was primariJly responsible for oversight of the Personal Information Protection Act, Alberta’s private sector privacy law. In particular, she developed the office’s procedures and decision making processes for mandatory breach reporting and notification in the private sector, which came into force in 2010.

As Commissioner, Jill has a dual mandate involving access to information and privacy rights and responsibilities.

On the access to information side, Jill has focused on reducing delays in access to information responses, advocating for a culture that supports transparency as a cornerstone to a strong democracy, and ensuring that effective records management programs are in place to support the proper functioning of Alberta’s access to information laws.

On the privacy side, Jill has focused on prioritizing and promoting accountability in data governance, transparency through privacy breach notification, promoting knowledge about privacy rights in Alberta’s education system, and, more recently, ethical assessments in tech innovations that involve the collection, use or disclosure of personal or health information.

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.

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is Chair of the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council, member of the Digital Strategy Advisory Panel for Waterfront Toronto, and member of the Canadian Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence. She is a member of the GEOTHINK research partnership, and has written widely in the areas of intellectual property law, law and technology, and privacy. Teresa Scassa is also a senior fellow with CIGI’s International Law Research Program.

Shawn Slack is the Director of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for the City of Mississauga, the 6th largest City in Canada.

Shawn has played a significant role in providing strategic direction at the City of Mississauga with over 20 years in leadership roles as the Director of Customer Service where he implemented the first Customer Service Strategy for the City, was the Director of Business Services for the Corporate Services Department overseeing Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology and Customer Service and then shifted gears to become the City’s first Chief Information Officer where he implemented the City’s first IT Master Plan and most recently the Smart City Master Plan, endorsed by Council in the spring of 2019.

Shawn has implemented several policies for the City including Open Data, Acceptable Use of Technology, Bring Your Own Device and the Accessible Customer Service policy. He is currently leading the Digital Transformation of city services to cloud delivery and agile application development as well as the transformation of the City’s enterprise resource planning technologies including SAP and many other technology initiatives that are transforming how City services are delivered. Shawn is also very active with public safety working on the Public Safety Broadband Network initiative with an objective to implement a public safety cellular network across Canada and he is also a trained Incident Commander for emergency management for the City.

Hayden Lansdell was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of the Digital Platforms and Data (DPD) Division in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, on September 12, 2019.

As ADM of DPD, Hayden leads the implementation of the Digital Framework, delivery of a platform architecture and Common Components Program to enable a Digital Government, and provides strategic direction on the Data Roadmap. It will also lead the continuous improvement for DataBC, Data Innovation Program and Data Science Partnership.

Previously, Hayden was the executive director for strategy at the Ministry of International Trade where he oversaw BC’s international marketing activities; he was the communications director at the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training; and he spent eight years in Ottawa leading several regulatory policy and pharmaceutical policy initiatives at both Health Canada and Environment Canada. Hayden joined Citizens’ Services in June 2018 as executive lead and chief data officer for DPD.

Hayden has a Master of Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Victoria.

When not at work, Hayden enjoys spending time with his wife and son.

Robin Gould-Soil is a recognized authority on privacy and data protection. She has been at the forefront of this burgeoning field for two decades, and has unique expertise resulting from her multi-sector experience across the corporate and public spheres, including executive roles at TD Bank Group, HSBC Canada, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and the University Health Network (UHN). Robin has spearheaded award-winning privacy initiatives, successfully engaged with a broad range of constituencies and peers, and built effective data protection and governance frameworks for large, global organizations.

Wendy is a career executive with more than 20 years of Global Finance, Operations and Compliance experience in the healthcare and technology sectors. She is a leader with strong business acumen and a history of enabling business growth through the development of global strategic partnerships, new business development initiatives, transformation projects, and the integration of new businesses and/or business models. Has a proven track record of developing, executing, and delivering solid business plans and growing shareholder value.

She has held leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson, the Heart & Stroke Foundation, LIFESCAN Canada and Lexmark International.

She is a certified Data and Privacy Professional and has managed Privacy and Healthcare Compliance programs both here in Canada and in the US for the better part of her career. Working both in the corporate environment and in private practice, she has taken the lead on compliance, regulatory and privacy issues for the last 20 years.

Wendy has a BA from the University of Western Ontario, an MBA from Queen’s University and a Certificate in Strategic Leadership from the Sauder School of Executive Education, UBC.

In addition, Wendy serves on the Board of Directors of The Centre for Drug Research and Development, Chair’s CDRD’s Finance & Audit Committee and also serves on the Vancouver Board of Trade Women in Leadership Advisory Committee. 

Certifications:

• Certificate in Intermediate French, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• Registered Holistic Nutritionist – Candidate, Canadian School of Natural Nutrition – Ongoing
• Certified Canadian Privacy Professional, IAPP, CIPP/C (since 2012)
• Certificate in Strategic Leadership, UBC Sauder School of Business – Executive Education
• Leadership Development Program, Niagara Institute
• Executive Leadership Program, Harvard University, Boston, MA
• Canadian Securities Course

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.

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.

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.

Diamond Isinger is the provincial commissioner of the Girl Guides of Canada, leading a team of 18,000 girls and women across British Columbia. Elected to this volunteer position for a three-year term, she strives to be a catalyst for girl empowerment – by amplifying the voices of BC girls and ensuring that Girl Guides is a safe and inclusive space where every girl can take the lead as part of GGC’s girl-driven program. Outside of her volunteer leadership role, Diamond also works as manager of public affairs at a Vancouver-based industry association, and studies in the master’s in public policy program at Simon Fraser University.

Humaira Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of Locelle – an enterprise social platform to connect and engage women in the workplace for support and mentorship with the goal of retention of top female talent.

As a Pakistani born Canadian entrepreneur, Humaira is passionate about diversity in traditionally male-dominated industries. Being a woman of colour, immigrant, and having a background in Software Engineering, Humaira is on a mission to inspire and influence women to pursue their ambitions and navigate barriers.

Humaira started her tech Startup journey with Locelle in early 2018 with an idea – it was to tackle social isolation amongst women working in male-dominated industries and women entrepreneurs to create a sense of belonging. Now, the company not only has thousands of members but is also working with a handful of Fortune 500 companies to help connect and engage women staff for higher productivity and retention.

Kyle Loree is the Director, Business Systems and Solutions at Consumer Protection BC where he guides his team in redesigning processes, project management and developing technology strategies. His career has taken him around the world and earned him both NATO and Canadian Peacekeeper medals. He is passionate about learning and encourages others to pursue training and certifications. He has earned the PMP designation and CCNP, MCP, GSEC, CCNA Voice certifications, and holds a Master of Science in Information Systems.

Kyle’s volunteer pursuits reflect his commitment to giving back. He sits on the board of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) BC society and the National board. The organization is responsible for international accreditation of computer science programs in Canada under the Seoul Accord and represents IT professionalism and ethics. Locally, he is a member of the Advisory Cabinet for Our Place Society which provides to those less-fortunate in Victoria. Previously, Kyle has volunteered with Serve Our City and been involved in organizing campaigns for the United Way.
He moved to Victoria with his lovely wife in 2011 and now have two fantastic children that keep them quite busy. They are always exploring the beautiful Vancouver Island. Kyle bikes to the office and is hiking or camping as often as possible. In his time away from the office he is with his young family, learning, or tinkering with a new project. His passions range from technology to business to cooking.

With 15+ years of industry experience, Aaron Koning has spent the last 5 years focused on data security. He specializes in helping organizations prevent data breaches, ensure regulatory compliance, implement access controls, conduct security assessments, and respond to incidents. Aaron’s insights in data security make him a valuable addition to our conference, where he’ll share strategies to enhance data protection practices.

Chris Vernon, CISSP, is a Technical Sales Executive at Splunk, based out of Vancouver. As a security professional, he has advised government and commercial organizations on information security practices across North America, Europe and Asia. He regularly works with Canadian businesses to help solve their security and IT operational challenges, by gaining valuable insight from their data.

Tanya Janca is the co-founder and CEO of Security Sidekick. Her obsession with securing software runs deep, from starting her company, to running her own OWASP chapter for 4 years and founding the OWASP DevSlop open-source and education project. With her countless blog articles, workshops and talks, her focus is clear. Tanya is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion, co-founding the international women’s organization WoSEC, starting the online #MentoringMonday initiative, and personally mentoring, advocating for and enabling countless other women in her field. As a professional computer geek of 20+ years, she is a person who is truly fascinated by the ‘science’ of computer science.

DAN RUCH, MBA, ICD.D is Partner at Ruch & Associates Inc., providing advisory and consulting services to financial institutions in the areas of governance, risk, and compliance. He is the former Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Privacy Officer at Equitable Bank and, prior to that at ResMor Trust. In these roles, Dan was responsible for all aspects of compliance, including privacy & data protection, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing, regulatory compliance management, consumer disclosures, complaint management, whistleblower program, as well as the ombudsman role. Dan previously served as Vice President, Privacy at CIBC where he designed, built and implemented the bank’s global Privacy Office.

With over 25 years of both consulting and senior corporate experience, Mr. Ruch brings a practical approach to both privacy & data protection, and regulatory compliance matters, balancing the changing needs of business requirements with the evolving regulatory obligations in an increasingly complex global marketplace.

Dan has extensive experience working with boards of directors, regulators and senior executives both as an executive in corporations and as a management consultant providing advisory services to companies. Mr. Ruch currently sits on the board of Epilepsy Toronto. He has spoken at various industry conferences on privacy & data protection, anti-money laundering, and regulatory compliance.

Mr. Ruch holds a Masters in Business Administration from McMaster University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from York University. In addition, Dan completed the Directors Education Program at Rotman School of Business and has received the corporate directors’ designation ICD.D.

Lorraine Krugel has a background in financial services and management consulting and has had many roles with an enterprise/risk focus. She was a co-founder of the Privacy Office of one of Canada’s top five banks, building core privacy processes and cultivating a cross-enterprise network of privacy leads. She has experience managing the fallout from highly public privacy incidents, and spent four years leading CIBC’s Privacy Advisory Team. More recently, she built core elements of a Privacy Program for a Canadian Credit Card Issuer, with a focus on third party service providers, operational risk, and cross-functional processes.

Over the course of his 20 year career in Information Technology Don has held a number of roles, including Information Technology Manager for the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific and a member of the Infrastructure Team at Royal Roads University. Throughout his career Don maintained an interest in security and managed to attained a number of security-related industry certifications. In 2017 Don was appointed to the first dedicated IT security position at Royal Roads University. In developing an Information Security strategy for Royal Roads Don identified a need for increased security awareness and over the next 2 years developed a cybersecurity awareness program that has resulted in Royal Roads seeing a marked decrease in cybersecurity events related to human factors. The latest initiative in Royal Roads’ awareness program, a Cybersecurity Ambassador program, has made noticeable changes to the overall cybersecurity culture of the organisation.

When not engaged in IT security issues Don can be found running on the myriad of trails in the local area, flying small airplanes or helping out the local community as an Auxiliary Constable with the RCMP.

John Zimmermann has worked in Information Security at the BC Government for 15 years, from Analyst to MISO to Security Architect. John started at the Justice Sector and for the past few years has moved to the Social Sector. With an Honours B.A. in psychology, John has always had a special interest in the impact of technology on the human condition.

John enjoys hiking and travel, and has done several treks in the Himalayas. On April 6, 1990, John was in Kathmandu during the revolution that overthrew the King’s rule of Nepal and introduced democracy by the people. He is also a songwriter and music performer, happily a common attribute of BC Government employees.

Eike-Henner W. Kluge, PhD, FRSC has published extensively on information ethics and electronic health records. His work includes The Ethics of Electronic Patient Records (2001) and A Handbook of Ethics for Health Informatics Professionals (2003), written for the British Computer Society and endorsed by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). He was the lead author of the IMIA Code of Ethics for Health Information Professionals (2016) (https://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/pubdocs/Ethics_Eng.pdf ) and author of the accompanying Ethics for Health Informatics Professionals: The IMIA Code, its Meaning and Implications. (https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Handbook-for-revised-Code-of-Ethics.pdf ). He is a member Working Group SiHIS (Security in Health Information Systems) of IMIA.

Effective October 13, 2015, Dr. Danièle Behn Smith has been appointed as the province’s aboriginal health physician advisor.

Dr. Behn Smith works alongside, Dr. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer. Dr. Behn Smith provides independent advice and support to the Ministry of Health on First Nations and Aboriginal health issues. In support of the Ministry’s strategic agenda, Dr. Behn Smith focuses on closing the gap in health outcomes between First Nations and other British Columbians.

Dr. Behn Smith is Eh Cho Dene (Big Animal People) of the Fort Nelson First Nation in B.C. with French Canadian/Métis roots in the Red River Valley. Since getting her Doctor of Medicine from McMaster University and completing residencies at the universities of Ottawa and Manitoba, Dr. Behn Smith’s career has spanned the country and the globe.

She has practiced rural medicine in remote communities across Canada and is currently a family physician at Tse’wulhtun Health Center in the Cowichan Valley. She was a board director for the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada, the director of education for the University of Alberta’s Indigenous Health Initiatives Program and the site director of the University of British Columbia’s Aboriginal Family practice residency.

Dr. Behn-Smith was also the host of “Medicine Woman”, a 13-episode television series which explored traditional healing practices in ten countries on six continents.

Genevieve Weber is an archivist at the BC Archives, part of the Royal BC Museum. In her role as outreach archivist and Indigenous liaison for the archives she works closely with Indigenous communities from throughout the province, assisting with research as well as identifying ways in which we can collaborate to enhance our awareness, use, and description of key Indigenous records in our custody. In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report’s Calls to Action, she also sits on two national committees examining Indigenous data sovereignty.

Drew McArthur retired from TELUS in 2007 as Vice President Corporate Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer. As Chief Compliance Officer, Drew was responsible for legal and regulatory compliance for all of TELUS’ operations, reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. The responsibilities of this role included ensuring TELUS had the appropriate controls, policies and measurements in place to be compliant with many areas of law and regulation. Drew played a key role in the privacy community in Canada as a founding member of the Council of Canadian Chief Privacy Officers and a member of the advisory board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). From June 2016 to April 2018, Drew was the Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC, and is now consulting in the area of privacy. He can be contacted at drew.mcarthur@telus.net.

Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

Dr Andrew A. Adams has a PhD in Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Law. He taught in a School of Systems Engineering in the UK for a decade and since 2010 has been teaching in a Graduate School of Business in Japan. His research moved from computer mathematics into the social, legal and ethical implications of computer and communications technology.

He is a mapgie for methods and theories as well as subjects of study. He has published papers and book chapters on issues of privacy, security, surveillance, distance education, copyright, augmented reality, and medical computing, based on methods and theories from psychology, history, film studies, computer science, law, philosophy and sociology.

He is interested in too many things.

Dr. Teri Fisher is a Sport & Exercise Physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is an experienced keynote speaker, educator, consultant, and podcaster, who loves sharing his excitement and passion for artificial intelligence and voice-first technology. Dr. Fisher has a particular interest in e-health innovation and the intersection of voice technology and healthcare. He is the Founder and host of “Voice-First Health”, a website and podcast highlighting the rapidly expanding intersection of Healthcare and Voice-First technologies. Dr. Fisher is also the founder of Alexa in Canada, the leading Amazon Alexa resource for Canadians. He is the host of the weekly “Alexa in Canada” Podcast (a member of the VoiceFirst.FM network) and the daily “Voice in Canada” Flash Briefing, the #1 rated Amazon Alexa Briefing and News Skill in Canada, where he helps to facilitate voice-first technology literacy and helps others to discover how artificial intelligence and voice-first technology is revolutionizing our lives. He has been a featured guest on technology podcasts and he is a frequently sought-after speaker about the future of AI and Voice.

Dr. Fisher holds a Bachelor of Science degree (Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Biotechnology) from McGill University, and Bachelor of Education, Master of Science (Experimental Medicine), and Medical Doctor degrees from UBC. He can be found on twitter @DrTeriFisher and at https://VoiceFirstHealth.com and https://AlexaInCanada.ca

When he’s not conversing with his AI smart speakers, he can be found trying to keep up with his active wife and coaching his 2 children on the ice rink or baseball diamond.

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.

Imraan Bashir is the Executive Director of Cyber Security within the Office of the Chief Information Officer at Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS), where he is responsible for internal government-wide cyber security strategy and oversight functions. This includes the establishment of standards and provision of direction to 100+ organizations in order to establish a consistent enterprise-wide security posture and enable the secure delivery of services to Canadians. In this role, Imraan also leads the government’s Digital Identity program, implementing a pan-Canadian approach to allow trusted access to online services.

Imraan is a vocal member of the Government of Canada’s security community, advocating for practitioners to take a more balanced risk-based approach to security, with focus on enabling business outcomes. Imraan is a staunch believer of #pragmaticsecurity, and can be found often ranting about this on Twitter.

Imraan has spent his entire career in the IT/cyber security domain, spending time in both private and public sectors. In 2019, Apolitical named Imraan one of the world’s top 100 most influential people in digital government.

Tanya Janca is the co-founder and CEO of Security Sidekick. Her obsession with securing software runs deep, from starting her company, to running her own OWASP chapter for 4 years and founding the OWASP DevSlop open-source and education project. With her countless blog articles, workshops and talks, her focus is clear. Tanya is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion, co-founding the international women’s organization WoSEC, starting the online #MentoringMonday initiative, and personally mentoring, advocating for and enabling countless other women in her field. As a professional computer geek of 20+ years, she is a person who is truly fascinated by the ‘science’ of computer science.

David Marcos leads Privacy Strategy & Policy for Microsoft’s Cloud & Artificial Intelligence division, managing and driving privacy governance across Microsoft’s enterprise online services. David previously worked for the National Security Agency, holding a variety of positions, most notably technical director of the NSA Office of Civil Liberties and Privacy, deputy technical director of the NSA Office of the Director of Compliance, and privacy research lead in the NSA Research Directorate. David specializes in privacy engineering and governance, focusing on legal automation and ethical computation in cloud technologies. David is both a Certified Information Privacy Manager and Technologist (CIPM/CIPT).

Khushbu Pratap leads Gartner’s IT risk, audit and cybersecurity risk management research. She also mentors C-suite executives in designing fit-to-purpose three lines of defense models. Ms. Pratap’s focus and interest are in organizations’ cybersecurity challenges, risk-based security compliance initiatives, security audits in the cloud and third-party security assessments. She advises senior management and board members on cybersecurity risk management.

Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Pratap led the governance, risk and compliance division at a boutique consulting firm called Network Intelligence (India) (also called NII Consulting), managing and servicing key customers. Her experience at NII covered risk assessments, IT assurance, IT service management (ISO 20000), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), security and IT audits, business continuity management (BS 25999 and other guidelines), information security management systems (ISO 27000 series), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), COBIT, COSO, and IT governance. Key accounts she worked with included Bahrain Telecommunications, Amdocs Managed Services, World Customs Organization, Capgemini India, Atos Origin, m-Check Payment Solutions, ICICI Prudential and HSBC Mutual Funds.

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.

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.

Jill Clayton was appointed Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner in 2012, and re-appointed to a second five-year term in 2017.

Jill worked as a privacy consultant in the health care, oil and gas, telecommunications and non-profit sectors before joining the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner in 2004. As Director and then Assistant Commissioner, Jill was primariJly responsible for oversight of the Personal Information Protection Act, Alberta’s private sector privacy law. In particular, she developed the office’s procedures and decision making processes for mandatory breach reporting and notification in the private sector, which came into force in 2010.

As Commissioner, Jill has a dual mandate involving access to information and privacy rights and responsibilities.

On the access to information side, Jill has focused on reducing delays in access to information responses, advocating for a culture that supports transparency as a cornerstone to a strong democracy, and ensuring that effective records management programs are in place to support the proper functioning of Alberta’s access to information laws.

On the privacy side, Jill has focused on prioritizing and promoting accountability in data governance, transparency through privacy breach notification, promoting knowledge about privacy rights in Alberta’s education system, and, more recently, ethical assessments in tech innovations that involve the collection, use or disclosure of personal or health information.

Gregory Smolynec is  Deputy Commissioner, Policy and Promotion in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. The Promotion Program is future-looking and aims to inform Canadians of their rights and how to exercise them, and to bring organizations toward compliance with the law. As Deputy Commissioner Policy and Promotion, Gregory leads the OPC Policy and Promotion team in developing and promoting general, yet practical, information and guidance, and in developing advice on specific initiatives. Prior to his appointment, Gregory served as Director General Strategic Initiatives in the Strategic Joint Staff at National Defence Headquarter.  As DGSI, he led the Strategic Outlook function for the Canadian Armed Forces. Strategic Outlook is an analytical, decision support process designed to identify and analyze the central military and technological challenges facing Canada and to inform strategic decision-making and advice to government. Gregory began his career with the Department of National Defence as a Strategic Analyst in Defence R&D Canada. He has worked in several organizations within the Department of National Defence as an analyst and has held a series of progressively responsible executive positions the Public Service.  He has a Bachelor of Arts in History from McGill University, a Master of Arts in Russian and East European Studies from Carleton University and a Doctorate in History from Duke University.

Pamela Snively joined TELUS as Chief Data and Trust Officer in October, 2015. She leads the team responsible for data and privacy governance at TELUS. Pamela also serves TELUS’ commitment to integrity through her leadership of a variety of initiatives, including the Anti-bribery & Corruption and Competition Law programs.

Prior to joining TELUS, Pamela managed the consulting arm of Osler’s privacy and data management practices, AccessPrivacy by Osler. As a lawyer and consultant, she provided a broad range of privacy, risk-management and compliance advice in the private, public and health sectors. She assisted organizations in implementing enterprise risk-management programs; advising on privacy and outsourcing governance and accountability programs; designing and implementing records-management programs; drafting policies, procedures and training materials; managing data breaches and other regulatory investigations; and conducting privacy impact or risk assessments.

Pamela formerly held Chief Privacy and Risk Officer roles in large business process outsourcing companies in Canada.

Dan is the founder and CEO of The Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture.

He is the best-selling author of three books: OPEN TO THINK, THE PURPOSE EFFECT and FLAT ARMY. A renowned speaker, Dan has presented at four different TED events and also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review. Dan is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business and has garnered more than 20 industry awards over his career.

His third book, OPEN TO THINK is the 2019 getAbstract International Book of the Year winner and the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal winner in the Leadership category.

Previously as Chief Envisioner and Chief Learning Officer at TELUS—a Canadian telecommunications company with revenues of over $14 billion and 50,000 global employees—he launched the Transformation Office, the TELUS MBA, and the TELUS Leadership Philosophy, all award winning initiatives that dramatically helped to increase the company’s employee engagement to record levels of nearly 90%. Prior to TELUS he held senior roles at SAP, Business Objects and BCIT.

Dan and his wife, Denise, have three children (aka goats) and live in Victoria, Canada.

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.