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.

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.

Ron Deibert, (OOnt, PhD, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

As Director of the Citizen Lab, Deibert has overseen and been a contributing author to more than 120 reports covering path breaking research on cyber espionage, commercial spyware, Internet censorship, and human rights. These reports include the landmark Tracking Ghostnet report (which uncovered an espionage operation that infiltrated the computer networks of hundreds of government offices, NGOs, and other organizations, including those of the Dalai Lama), China’s Great Cannon (an offensive tool used to hijack digital traffic through Distributed Denial of Service attacks), the Kingdom Came to Canada (an investigation of a Canadian permanent resident, Saudi dissident, and Khashoggi colleague who was targeted with commercial spyware), and the Reckless Series (an investigation into the abuse of commercial spyware to target journalists, anti-corruption advocates, and public health officials in Mexico). These reports have been cited widely in global media, garnering 25 front page exclusives in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other leading outlets, and have been cited by policymakers, academics, and civil society as foundational to the understanding of digital technologies, human rights, and global security.

Deibert was a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative (2003-2014) and Information Warfare Monitor (2003-2012) projects. Deibert was one of the founders and (former) VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon, one of the world’s leading digital censorship circumvention services.

He is a co-editor of three major volumes with MIT Press: Access Denied: The practice and policy of Internet Filtering (2008), Access Controlled: The shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace (2010), and Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace (2011). He is the author of Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy and the Dark Side of Cyberspace (Signal/McClelland & Stewart/Random House, 2013), and Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society (House of Anansi Press, 2020 / September Publishing, UK), which will be delivered as part of the 2020 Massey Lecture series.

Deibert presently serves on the editorial boards of the journals International Political Sociology, Explorations in Media Ecology, Review of Policy Research, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Astropolitics. He has served on the advisory boards of Access Now, Privacy International, the technical advisory groups of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and is currently on the advisory boards of PEN Canada and the Design4Democracy Coalition, and the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy.

Deibert was awarded the University of Toronto’s Outstanding Teaching Award (2002), the Northrop Frye Distinguished Teaching and Research Award (2002), the Carolyn Tuohy Award for Public Policy (2010), and the President’s Impact Award (2017). He was a Ford Foundation research scholar of information and communication technologies (2002-2004). He was named among Esquire Magazine’s “Best and Brightest List” of 2007, listed among SC Magazine’s 2010 top “IT Security Luminaries”, and in 2017 named one of the top “Humans of the Year” by VICE.   Foreign Policy magazine named Deibert to its 2017 “Global (Re)Thinkers” list.

In recognition of his own work or that of the Citizen Lab, he has been awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (2015), the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (2014), the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada Award from the Canadian Library Association (2014), and the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Vox Libera Award (2010). In 2019, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Guelph. In 2020, he was awarded two ISA (International Studies Association) awards: the ISA Canada Distinguished Scholar award and the STAIR Distinguished Scholar ‘Transversal Acts’ award.

In 2013, he was appointed to the Order of Ontario and awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal, for being “among the first to recognize and take measures to mitigate growing threats to communications rights, openness and security worldwide.”

Security was not the original plan. Marc started in Astrophysics, getting degrees from the University of Calgary and Western Ontario before finally quitting with his MSc to scrounge for money in the private sector. Luckily, the Internet was waiting. Starting as a UNIX system administrator and working his way through Internet services, dot coms and the core networking teams, Marc ended up as the Security prime for TELUS’ core networks. With a nod to his 20 years of experience in IT/networking security Marc was appointed a TELUS Fellow and is now the Chief Security Architect for TELUS.

As Chief Security Architect, Marc has responsibilities for security oversight and strategy across all of TELUS’ technologies and portfolios. He represents TELUS on Canadian national infrastructure forums and industry boards with membership in international security forums and vendor advisory boards. Outside of work, he lives in Calgary with his wife and 2 children, skis, bikes and plays in a band.

David Gold recently joined SentinelOne as Sr. Director of Sales Engineering for the West. David has more than 15 years experience in enterprise information security and brings a strong track record of innovation and customer focus to SentinelOne. Previous to SentinelOne he was the VP of Product and VP of Solutions Architecture at ProtectWise and helped launch and build the company from stealth to a successful exit to Verizon. David helped define the network detection and response market and has helped many organizations develop detection and response strategies and to embrace cloud delivered technologies. He has also led Firewall Product Management at McAfee and has held various roles in sales engineering, product management and support at Websense, Intel, McAfee and Secure Computing.

Corey Anderson is a Vancouver-based Regional Sales Manager at Zscaler, specializing in secure application access and digital transformation. With over 15-years of experience working in technology sales in BC, he has worked across a variety of roles as both a sales executive and sales leader supporting Government and Public Sector. Anderson brings a broad BC perspective on digital transformation in Public Sector.

As the Chief Security and Compliance Officer for Microsoft Canada, Kevin Magee leads the technical teams who are Microsoft’s architects, practitioners and stewards of trust. He is one of Canada’s leading authorities on cybersecurity and cyber risk governance and often writes, lectures and contributes to curriculum development for Canadian colleges and universities on topics related to cybersecurity, governance, entrepreneurship and criminology. Kevin also holds an ICD.D certification with the Institute of Corporate Directors and has extensive experience advising, educating and serving on boards including the Brant Community Healthcare System.

Deeply committed to the development and creation of cybersecurity leadership and technical educational opportunities for aspiring security professionals, he currently serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence for the Rogers Cybersecurity Catalyst at Ryerson University, as a Member of the University of Guelph’s Master of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence Advisory Board, as a Member of George Brown College’s Cyber Security Program Advisory Council and as a Member of the Royal Canadian Military Institute. He has also previously served as an Entrepreneur in Residence for Laurier University and advisor for Communitech and MaRS.

John Edwards was first appointed to the position of Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand in February 2014 and was re-appointed for a further 5 year term in February 2019. Prior to this he practiced law for over 20 years.

John has degrees in law (LLB) and public policy (MPP) from Victoria University of Wellington, NZ and has advised and represented a wide range of clients from the public and private sector. He provides independent comment on significant personal information policies and issues.

John chaired the New Zealand Law Society Privacy and Human Rights Committee and was Contributing Editor of Brookers Human Rights Law and Practice and has published widely on human rights and privacy matters.

In addition to a practice specialty in the field of information and privacy law, he held warrants as a district inspector for mental health, and as district inspector for intellectual disability services and has provided legal services to the Kingdom of Tonga.

In October 2014 John was elected Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners and completed his 3 year term in October 2017.

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. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy governance at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published seven books on these subjects. Through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on Big Data Surveillance, he is currently researching the capture and use of personal data on voters by political parties in Western democracies.

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.

Adam is an acknowledged Canadian legal industry leader in privacy and data management. He is chair of Osler’s national Privacy and Data Management practice, and leads Osler’s AccessPrivacy thought leadership platform. Adam has been lead counsel on many of the most significant privacy matters in Canada, including the largest cyber security incidents and regulatory investigations in Canada to date. He advises Fortune 500 clients in their business critical data-protection issues, compliance initiatives and data governance. Adam has extensive experience in the privacy law area and regularly advises Chief Privacy Officers, in-house counsel and compliance professionals in the private, health public and not-for-profit sectors on managing security incidents, privacy regulatory investigations and broader data governance matters.

Michael McEvoy was appointed to a six-year term as Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC by unanimous motion of the Legislative Assembly in 2018. Immediately prior to his appointment he helped lead the Information Commissioner’s Office of the United Kingdom’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Commissioner McEvoy joined the OIPC in 2007, adjudicating more than 50 inquiries under provincial access and privacy law before his appointment as Deputy Commissioner in 2013.

He was a public school trustee for 12 years, a role that included two terms as President of the British Columbia School Trustees’ Association and one as President of the Canadian School Boards’ Association. He has chaired Greater Victoria’s United Way campaign and presently serves on the board of the Victoria Conservatory of Music. He obtained a Juris Doctorate from the University of Manitoba in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1980 from the University of Winnipeg. Commissioner McEvoy has been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia since 1986.

As Vice-President, Enterprise Conduct, Data Ethics and Chief Privacy Officer, Suzanne is responsible for overall privacy leadership at Sun Life and its subsidiaries worldwide. Her mandate includes the company’s Code of Conduct program and evolving standards for ethical use of data. Suzanne’s prior roles include leading the legal team in Quebec and compliance for IT.

Before joining Sun Life in 2015, Suzanne spent more than 20 years working in the communications industry, for businesses such as Bell Canada and BlackBerry.

A passionate believer in giving back to the community, Suzanne is actively involved with many organizations including the Canadian Bar Association’s National Privacy and Access Law Section and MediaSmarts, a leader in media and digital literacy. Suzanne served as an appointed member of the Board of the Standards Council of Canada for over a decade.

Suzanne has appeared before parliamentary and legislative committees, speaks frequently at Canadian and international conferences, and is an Advisory Board Member and occasional contributor to the Internet and E-commerce Law in Canada and the Canadian Privacy Law Review.

Suzanne is always physically active, walking and working in the yard, loves jigsaw puzzles and coffee. She has a son and husband and divides her time between Ottawa and Montreal.

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Canadian Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence. She is the author of Canadian Trademark Law, and co-author of Digital Commerce in Canada, and Canadian Intellectual Property Law. She is a co-editor of the books AI and the Law in Canada and Law and the Sharing Economy. Her research interests include: privacy law, data governance, intellectual property law, law and technology, law and artificial intelligence, and smart cities.

Jon is responsible for promoting a high performing organization through cohesive strategy delivery and internal business support services. Manages divisional business intelligence by collecting and analyzing information from all service channels and investigates and implements new technologies and service models to inform service delivery transformation across the organization. Jon has a background of over 30 years in the construction and real estate sector and is a member of the cross-jurisdictional Joint Council’s Data Driven Intelligence Working Group.

The Provincial Identity and Information Management program offers a trusted suite of identity services for British Columbians and businesses to support access to government services and information. IDIM is responsible for three key services including BCeID, Biometrics, and the BC Services Card. Our common platforms of BCeID and the mobile BC Services Card are contributing to the transformation of digital services in the province and has robust security features that protect the data and personal information of British Columbians.

Adriana is responsible for delivering a Best-in-Class service experience to citizens accessing government services on behalf of more than 40 partner ministries and agencies. With over 350 highly trained team members and Service BC centres located throughout the province, Service Delivery services range from vital statistics applications, drivers’ licensing services, BC medical insurance and support to vulnerable citizens accessing income and disability assistance programs. She is also responsible for the ongoing strategic relationship with client ministries and agencies, in order to drive service improvement. Service BC front line employees are entrusted to serve thousands of citizens every day and professionally handle all their personal and sensitive information, on behalf of citizens and client ministries.

Sean Brown is the leader for IBM’s Access and Authentication Management Business, and responsible for all aspects involving leading our market leading Identity solutions in the IBM Security portfolio. He is responsible for setting the overall direction for development, finance, marketing, sales and fulfillment of all my offerings, as well as research and development into new offerings not yet released. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with my family, sailing, disc golfing, and traveling. He’s worked in Security since 2002, and Offering Management since 2005, starting with IBM’s acquisition of Internet Security Systems. Previous to working with IBM ISS, he was the IT Manager for an IBM acquisition.

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

Jason Bero is a subject matter expert dealing with many regulatory and organizational security, privacy, and compliance teams across several verticals in North America. He has spoken at many events related to data privacy and risk and has been involved in many cloud transformational projects over his 20+ year tenure.

Norm Chan is a fixture in the western Canadian cyber security scene having held pre-sales roles in both networking and security since 1999. Today, at SentinelOne, he is exclusively focused on security, working with customers of all shapes and sizes helping to assess security needs and devise solutions. A combined twenty years of IT experience has taken him from the help desk, network architecture and now advanced attack protection, enabling him to provide a unique and practical approach to security. This self professed “geek” graduated from The University of British Columbia with a combined major in Physics and Computer Science and has a passion for imparting knowledge to others.

Gary Buonacorsi has nearly two decades of experience in the IT industry as a transformational leader for Government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. As Tanium’s SLED Chief Technology Officer and Chief IT Architect, Gary is responsible for thought leadership in the public sector, SLED business strategy, and guiding customer security and operations transformations. Additionally, he defines long-term goals for the State and Local Government vertical, leads industry discussions, and conducts conference keynotes and seminars.

Gary comes to Tanium with a wide range of experience. Most recently he served as the State and Local Government CTO for Dell Technologies. Additionally, Gary’s career includes positions as CTO and CIO at the States of Nevada and Texas, along with Senior Director and Managerial roles at Dell EMC, Oracle and Merck-Medco.

Dave Lewis has 30 years of industry experience. He has extensive experience in IT security operations and management including a decade dealing with critical infrastructure security. Lewis is a Global Advisory CISO for Cisco. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest and cohost of the Liquidmatrix podcast as well as the host of the Plaintext podcast. Lewis serves on the advisory boards for several firms. He is currently enrolled in a graduate program at Harvard University. Lewis has written columns for Daily Swig, Forbes and several other publications.

Dr. Alan Low is the Executive Director of Medicines Access Coalition – BC, Primary Care Pharmacist and Pharmacy Lead at BioPro Biologics Pharmacy, a collaborative practice approach, focusing on patient centred care. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC and an Instructor and Course Developer with the School of Health Sciences at the Justice Institute of BC (JIBC).

Convinced that pharmacists have much more to offer to the public and the healthcare system, Alan has led the development and implementation of provincial medication management projects in BC and Alberta as well as creating a novel model of community pharmacy practice where interprofessional collaboration is leveraged to improve patient health outcomes.

Within the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC, Dr. Low is one of the founders of the Faculty based Pharmacists Clinic and helped develop and lead the business case for the Pharmacists Clinic. He is the Course Coordinator for the Pharmacy Practice Management and Leadership Course and Lecturer. In addition, he is also a Board Advisor with the GI Society and sits on the Medical Board of HealthChoicesFirst.com, a patient video education resource. Dr. Low has experience in a wide variety of health and administrative settings including direct patient care in the hospital and clinics, clinical and practice-based research, consultant in healthcare projects and clinical pharmaceutical consulting. He has held positions such as Clinical Pharmacist, Clinical Specialist, Pharmacotherapeutic Specialist within teaching hospitals, as well as Manager of Government Affairs and Medical Affairs, Medical Science Liaison, and Senior Health Sciences Advisor in research-based pharmaceutical companies and was the Chief Operating Officer at Network Healthcare. Alan is a Certified Clinical Densitometrist (CCD), coauthored “The Osteoporosis Book, 4th Edition: Bone Health”, has numerous publications in scientific and health journals, newsletters, and is a founding co-editor of the Pharmacy Management in Canada textbook.

Alan has been an active member and past participant on various committees (with the College of Pharmacists of BC, BC Pharmacy Association, Canadian Pharmacists Association, Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists, GI Society, etc). He has interests in the areas of, rheumatology, osteoporosis, gastroenterology, diabetes, and cardiology. Alan enjoys being involved in projects that improve health knowledge translation, healthcare delivery, medical health education and health outcomes research. Alan’s training includes a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, a Hospital Pharmacy Residency at St. Paul’s Hospital, and Doctorate of Pharmacy degree at UBC. He is frequently invited to speak at regional, national and international conferences. He strives to develop solutions to close gaps in health care working together with a variety of people.

Stephen has worked in the IT Industry since 2000 and in the security industry for the previous six. Based out of the Twin Cities, Stephen has spent time at some of the largest organizations including Target, US Bank, Honeywell, and UHG. In his current role at Varonis, Stephen works with organizations around the US helping them protect their organizations from insider threats and cyberattacks.

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

Patricia Kosseim brings to the IPC significant experience and a wealth of knowledge in the areas of privacy and access law, having worked in public, private and health sectors, and across various jurisdictions.

Prior to joining the IPC, Patricia was counsel in Osler’s Privacy and Data Management Group where she provided strategic advice to clients on matters of privacy, data governance and access law. She also led a number of thought leadership initiatives as national co-leader of Osler’s AccessPrivacy knowledge platform.

Patricia served for more than a decade as senior general counsel and director general at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in Ottawa. During that period, she was responsible for advancing a number of major cases before the federal courts and the Supreme Court of Canada; advising on critical privacy investigations; appearing before parliamentary committees on significant legislative bills; developing national and international policies; leading a national research funding program; and, overseeing a technology analysis team and laboratory.

Patricia has also held executive positions at Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, where she developed and led national strategies for addressing legal, ethical, and social aspects of health research and genomics technologies. She began her career in Montreal practicing in the areas of health law, civil litigation, human rights, privacy, and labor and employment with a leading national law firm.

Patricia has published and spoken extensively on matters of privacy law, health law, and ethics. She has taught part-time at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and has held many professional appointments and board memberships, including as member of the Board of Governors of the Ottawa Hospital; chair of the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; vice-chair of the Research Integrity Committee of les Fonds de recherche du Quebec; member of the National DNA Databank Advisory Committee; and member of various expert working groups of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Patricia obtained her business and law degrees from McGill University in Montreal, and a Master’s Degree in Medical Law and Ethics from King’s College, University of London.

Patricia is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, as well as the Barreau du Quebec. She is fluently bilingual in both official languages.

When she is not in the office — either physically or virtually — Patricia enjoys all-season, outdoor activities with her family, and their dog Rocky.

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.

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

Doug Boykin serves as a Privacy Engineer at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and trust technology platform. In his role, Boykin advises many of the world’s leading organizations on CCPA, GDPR and ePrivacy (Cookie Law) solution implementations, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling global privacy programs. With over eight years of professional technology experience, Boykin’s background combines extensive cross-functional solution implementations, as well as program management and business process design. Boykin is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM) and earned a B.S. in Info Systems from Kennesaw State University. He’s a Nation Science Foundation Scholar and member of the Technology Association of Georgia.

Cat Coode is the founder of Binary Tattoo, with a mission to help protect your data. Backed by two decades of experience in mobile development and software architecture, as well as a certification in data privacy law, Cat helps individuals and corporations better understand cybersecurity and data privacy. She specializes in Privacy Regulation Compliance and delivering privacy education seminars.

Cat is an engineer, speaker, consultant, author, and, above all else, a parent. Her motivation to help others was born out of her concern for her kids and our ever-changing digital landscape.

Website: www.CatCoode.com

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.

Magali Feys is an European IP, IT and Protection Lawyer. In addition to founding her own boutique law firm (AContrario.Law), she is the Chief Strategist Ethical Data Use for Anonos. For the past four years, she acted as a member of the legal working party e-Health, working with the Belgian Minister for public healthcare. Currently, she is also writing a PhD on the secondary use of health-related data (Ghent University, Belgium). During the COVID-19 crisis, she assisted the Belgian 9 Ministers of Public Health in drafting the legal framework for the manual and digital contact tracing.

Tamir is staff lawyer with the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. His digital rights advocacy periodically includes parliamentary testimony, appearances in regulatory proceedings, interventions at various levels of court and participation in a range of Internet governance mechanisms. His research interests are driven by social justice considerations, and cover diverse subject matter arising at the intersection of law and technology, with a focus on privacy, intermediary liability, consumer rights and national security. Tamir holds a B.A. from the University of British Columbia and a J.D. from the University of Toronto, and has lectured on Internet regulation matters at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Graduate & Post-doctoral Studies.

Julie Brill leads Microsoft’s global privacy efforts to elevate privacy as a fundamental human right and is at the forefront of many of the regulatory issues that underpin the world’s digital transformation.

As chief privacy officer at Microsoft, Julie serves as a global authority concerning policy and legal issues involving privacy; internet governance; telecommunications; accessibility; and corporate standards. In 2018, she spearheaded Microsoft’s global adoption of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and now leads Microsoft’s advocacy for privacy protections around the globe.

Nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate, Julie Brill served for six years as a Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As Commissioner, Julie focused on issues of critical importance to consumers, including privacy, fair advertising practices, fighting financial fraud, and maintaining competition in all industries, including health care and technology.

While at the FTC, Julie was named “the Commission’s most important voice on Internet privacy and data security issues,” and one of the top four U.S. government players “leading the data privacy debate,” among other honors.

Julie has received numerous national awards for her work, including the New York University School of Law Alumna of the Year Award and most recently a Top Data Privacy Influencer of 2020.

Julie graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and from New York University School of Law, where she had a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.

Patricia Kosseim brings to the IPC significant experience and a wealth of knowledge in the areas of privacy and access law, having worked in public, private and health sectors, and across various jurisdictions.

Prior to joining the IPC, Patricia was counsel in Osler’s Privacy and Data Management Group where she provided strategic advice to clients on matters of privacy, data governance and access law. She also led a number of thought leadership initiatives as national co-leader of Osler’s AccessPrivacy knowledge platform.

Patricia served for more than a decade as senior general counsel and director general at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in Ottawa. During that period, she was responsible for advancing a number of major cases before the federal courts and the Supreme Court of Canada; advising on critical privacy investigations; appearing before parliamentary committees on significant legislative bills; developing national and international policies; leading a national research funding program; and, overseeing a technology analysis team and laboratory.

Patricia has also held executive positions at Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, where she developed and led national strategies for addressing legal, ethical, and social aspects of health research and genomics technologies. She began her career in Montreal practicing in the areas of health law, civil litigation, human rights, privacy, and labor and employment with a leading national law firm.

Patricia has published and spoken extensively on matters of privacy law, health law, and ethics. She has taught part-time at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and has held many professional appointments and board memberships, including as member of the Board of Governors of the Ottawa Hospital; chair of the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; vice-chair of the Research Integrity Committee of les Fonds de recherche du Quebec; member of the National DNA Databank Advisory Committee; and member of various expert working groups of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Patricia obtained her business and law degrees from McGill University in Montreal, and a Master’s Degree in Medical Law and Ethics from King’s College, University of London.

Patricia is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, as well as the Barreau du Quebec. She is fluently bilingual in both official languages.

When she is not in the office — either physically or virtually — Patricia enjoys all-season, outdoor activities with her family, and their dog Rocky.

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.

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.

Michael McEvoy was appointed to a six-year term as Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC by unanimous motion of the Legislative Assembly in 2018. Immediately prior to his appointment he helped lead the Information Commissioner’s Office of the United Kingdom’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Commissioner McEvoy joined the OIPC in 2007, adjudicating more than 50 inquiries under provincial access and privacy law before his appointment as Deputy Commissioner in 2013.

He was a public school trustee for 12 years, a role that included two terms as President of the British Columbia School Trustees’ Association and one as President of the Canadian School Boards’ Association. He has chaired Greater Victoria’s United Way campaign and presently serves on the board of the Victoria Conservatory of Music. He obtained a Juris Doctorate from the University of Manitoba in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1980 from the University of Winnipeg. Commissioner McEvoy has been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia since 1986.

Dr. Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam is a technology and business executive focused on designing and delivering innovative security solutions, that help enterprises in their digital transformation journey, and to adopt Cloud with confidence. As CTO for Cloud Security at IBM, he drives strategy, technology and offerings around security for IBM Cloud. Recognized as an IBM Distinguished Engineer, he has lead innovative security products and capabilities across cloud, mobile, and middleware systems that are helping businesses around the world effectively manage their security. As a security leader, he has 20+ years of industry experience in building security products, architecting solutions, product management and leading engineering organizations. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, blogs, papers, books and security specifications, including the book on “Enterprise Java Security” published by Addison Wesley. Nataraj received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University.

Shawn Surber has spent more than 20 years in Healthcare Information Technology as a Trainer, System Administrator, Security Architect, and Leader. With the explosion in quantity and value of electronic patient data and the corresponding increase in cyberthreats, he’s taken an exclusive focus on information security for the last dozen years. He has architected, deployed, and managed security solutions for some of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States over the course of his career. Now, he has taken his passion for optimizing and securing healthcare IT organizations to Tanium, an organization dedicated to securing the largest and most important networks in the world.

Aaron Callaway, Director Global Risk Transformation, is a 20+ year industry expert focused on business continuity and IT disaster recovery. Prior to ServiceNow Aaron was the founder of FairchildRS. FairchildRS was acquired by ServiceNow in 2019 and the Fairchild product was the blue print for the ServiceNow BCM product.

Barbara G. Kay, GRCP, CISSP, leads product marketing for security and risk at ServiceNow. Previously, she led product marketing for ExtraHop, a startup in security traffic analysis, and for McAfee, where she led the marketing strategy and go to market for security operations. Barbara wrote Essential Operational Resilience and co-authored Digital Transformation and Risk for Dummies.

Jim Richberg’s role as a Fortinet CISO leverages his 30+ years’ experience leading and driving innovation in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and cyber strategy & policy for the US Government and international partners.

Prior to joining Fortinet, he served as the National Intelligence Manager for Cyber, the senior Federal Executive focused on cyber intelligence within the $80B+/100,000 employee US Intelligence Community (IC). He led creation and implementation of cyber strategy for the 17 departments and agencies of the IC, set integrated priorities on cyber threat, and served as Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on cyber issues. He brings a broad enterprise-level approach to cybersecurity honed as a member of the Executive team which created and oversaw implementation of the multi-billion dollar whole-of-government Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) that generated new Government cyber capability and enhanced cybersecurity in the private sector and critical infrastructure.

Rohit Joshi is actively engaged in the top trends in secure healthcare communications. As the CEO of Brightsquid Secure Communications Corp he is at the helm of Canada’s leading compliant communications services provider for the healthcare industry. His background in Medical Science and Law have enabled him to help healthcare overcome significant regulatory challenges to enable patient centered communication and care.

Rohit has been working in software and digital security in North America for over 25 years. He has deep insights into the healthcare communications industry, experience creating operational efficiencies, and developing compliant communications strategies – all of which have driven the fast paced growth of Brightsquid.

Rohit speaks regularly to audiences across North America about the importance of privacy compliance, the advancement of digital health, and how to improve healthcare with public private partnerships for innovation.

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.

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.

Stan Crosley is the principal of Crosley Law Offices, LLC and is the former Chief Privacy Officer at Eli Lilly and Company, served as the Co-Chair of the Privacy and Security Workgroup for HHS/ONC, the Co-Chair of the Research Committee for C-Change, and is a former board member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Stan has helped direct the Indiana University Center for Law, Ethics, and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR) and oversees multi-stakeholder initiatives designed to create applied, real world approaches to significant data collection, data protection and data use and ethics issues. Stan is also a Senior Strategist at the Information Accountability Foundation, a Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Maurer School of Law, Indiana University.

Stan has served on non-profit boards, state and federal advisory boards, and private enterprise advisory boards related to digital health, technology, and data, including The Privacy Projects, the International Pharmaceutical Privacy Consortium, the Indiana Health Informatics Technology, Inc., the Institutes of Medicine, “HIPAA and Research” Workgroup, and the Brookings Institute workgroup providing guidance on the FDA’s Sentinel project. In his privacy and data strategy practice, Stan is fortunate enough to have clients that are among the largest and most successful technology, biotech, biopharma, and medical device companies in the world, including Apple, Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer, Allergan/AbbVie, Amgen, Highmark Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Roche Diagnostics, Regeneron, Edwards Life Sciences, Revance Therapeutics, Elanco Animal Health, CoreLogic, and Citrix. Stan is also a frequent speaker internationally on topics of privacy, data strategy, and data governance and has appeared in print and broadcast media including CNN and Fast Company.

Robert Falzon is currently the Head of Engineering within the office of the CTO for Check Point Software Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. His background includes over 20 years of experience in large-scale network security architecture, design, and deployment projects for government and business organizations spanning the globe. Currently leading a large team of the most talented cyber security engineers in the industry, Robert and his team are responsible for educating the market on the latest cyber security trends.

Other past responsibilities have included operational, management, and developmental duties for major accounts within EDS Canada’s network security team, and lead engineer for many major European Telco accounts with Alcatel in Paris France. While with Alcatel, Robert worked to assist those accounts in moving to emerging voice technologies while maintaining a focus on security.

After obtaining his CISSP certification, Robert went on to provide security process and audit/penetration testing training to major financial and energy customers within Europe and the Middle East, in addition to providing audit and penetration testing and consulting services to customers worldwide.

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.​

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.

Ray is the Associate Partner for the Canadian Public Sector within IBM Security. Given his deep background in national security, as well as consulting within the realm of threats to organizational assets and activities, Ray is focused on assisting IBM clients to better identify and mitigate security risks in an integrated, strategic manner.

Previously, Ray was appointed as the first Security Advisor for the Province of Ontario. While reporting to the Secretary of Cabinet, Ray supported efforts to protect provincial assets from events that could adversely affect services, networks and facilities that are critical to Ontario’s economy, public safety and security.

Just prior, and during a five-year tenure as President of I-Sec Integrated Strategies, Ray delivered business intelligence solutions affecting core challenges such as cyber and insider threats, while guiding resilience building and opportunity pursuits with an emphasis exploiting geo-strategic foresight. He also consulted on global business strategies such as M+A opportunities with potential National Security risks.

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 responsible for the Intelligence Directorate. During his tenure at CSIS, Ray was involved in broad facets of security intelligence operations such as leadership for Intelligence Assessments, the Counter Terrorism Branch, as well as driving national security priorities pertaining to Operational Risk, Data Exploitation and Covert Operations.

As President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC), Joni builds on nearly 20 years of experience in digital identity innovations and standards development. She helps DIACC to fulfill its vision of unlocking interoperability of public and private sector capabilities through the establishment of an identity trust framework that will grow Canada’s economy. Joni builds impactful relationships and formalizes strategic partnerships between organizations. She serves as co-Chair of Working Group 1 of the Standards Council of Canada’s Data Governance Standardization Collaboration. She has participated in committees and initiatives around the world including: OECD-ITAC, ISOC, IEEE, OASIS-SSTC, ISO SC27 WG5, and she has testified before the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Security and Privacy (ONC HITSP). Joni is recognized as a One World Identity top 100 global influencers of identity.

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.

Alex Laurie will be joining us from the UK. He is responsible for the Global Sales Engineering Team at ForgeRock and has over twenty years of experience in security and identity technologies. During this time, Alex has been involved in countless digital transformation projects on both the vendor and system integrator side, working alongside the banking sector, government departments, the military and multiple police forces. On a daily basis, Alex interacts with enterprise scale organizations supporting clients and partners with his wealth of knowledge in this complex and fast-paced industry. Outside of work, Alex races a Cork 1720 yacht from Brighton Marina and really enjoys developing with the crew and the challenge of racing, often in challenging conditions.

Mr. Kapil Raina, a cyber security marketing executive of 20+ years, has built and led product, marketing, sales, and strategy teams at startups and large brands such as VeriSign, VMware, and Zscaler. Mr. Raina, serves as CrowdStrike’s VP of Identity Protection portfolio marketing. He was previously the VP of Marketing at Preempt Security, which was acquired by CrowdStrike. He is a recognized speaker and author of books on AI, PKI, Mobile Commerce, Biometrics, and other security topics. Mr. Raina holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in Computer Engineering.

Karl is ServiceNow’s Director of Product Marketing, Security Operations, and has over 15 years of experience in product positioning and marketing of enterprise security platforms, including SIEM, SOAR, and endpoint technologies, most recently from product marketing roles at RSA and McAfee, where he was responsible for the positioning of their security operations and automation platforms.

Dr. Kevin Mahoney is a 20-year veteran of the IT industry. He currently the Senior Director of Strategy for Fortinet, focussed on Enhanced Technologies. Kevin holds a PhD in IT Management from Capella University and a JD in Technology Law from Purdue University.

Maurice Uenuma is Vice President, Federal & Enterprise with Tripwire, supporting state governments and large enterprises in the United States.

Prior to joining Tripwire, he was Vice President at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), and currently serves as Workforce Management co-chair of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Working Group at NIST.

Earlier, Maurice held leadership roles at Perot Systems and Dell, and served for nine years as an infantry and special operations officer in the United States Marine Corps.

Maurice holds a Master’s degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, and is a GIAC-certified Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)

James is a principal solutions architect and security specialist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and is based in Vancouver, Canada. His primary focus is on helping public sector customers learn and apply best practices to their cloud journeys.

Dave Liggat is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect on with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services, and is based in Vancouver, Canada. He is focused on helping public sector customers achieve their mission using cloud computing.

From 2013 to 2017, John served in the BC Public Service as Deputy Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services. With 1,300 employees and an annual budget of more than $1 billion, the ministry delivered a broad spectrum of government services and economic development programs.

The ministry was responsible for the government’s cyber security strategy and operations, as well as the privacy and freedom of information files. John continues to have a strong interest in the development of privacy and security practice and policy.

Prior to joining the public service, John held a series of senior executive roles in public and private technology companies. Two of his President and CEO roles were with publicly traded companies regulated by both Canadian and United States securities regulators.

Beyond his public service and corporate work, John has long been active in the not-for-profit sector. He was on the Board of the Digital Identity & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) from 2013 to 2017 and as a senior board volunteer with a national health charity from 1994 to 2008.

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.

Ms. Soyean Kim is currently the Director of Digital Products, supporting Providence Health Care (PHC)’s digital partnerships and projects, and facilitating the use of technology to advance PHC’s digital capacity. She supports machine learning and AI initiatives, including Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster by working with a collection of organizations who collaborate to develop world leading technologies that will power the digital transformation of business and society while delivering economic growth across Canada. Ms. Kim is an advocate for ethical implementation of digital transformation and a speaker on the topic of real world applications of AI. Her speaking engagement includes Canadian Science and Policy Centre (CSPC), Harvard Berkman, PAPIs in London, UK which is a series of international AI conferences, and the BC Tech Summit in Vancouver.

As a professional statistician (P.Stat.), Ms. Soyean Kim is Past Chair of the Accreditation Committee at the Statistical Society of Canada, and has worked with the United Nations as a task team member of their global working group on big data for official statistics. She has previously led a team of data scientists at Technical Safety BC, a safety regulator in Canada, where she contributed in advancement of ethics roadmap in predictive system as well as deployment of AI and machine learning to help safety inspection process. Ms. Kim has also experience working with FortisBC, Translink, BC Biomedical, the Society of Specialist Physicians and Surgeons, and the BC Ministry of Health.

Dr. Helia Mohammadi is the National Healthcare Chief Data Scientist for Microsoft Canada and a thought leader in the research and healthcare industry. With over 14 years’ experience in research and applied AI, her work has leveraged and extended Machine Learning and Cloud solutions to deeply influence key domains including predictive analytics, genomics research, and precision medicine.

Helia completed a Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. She received her MSc degree in Computer Science from Ryerson University after simultaneously completing a BSc degree in Computer Engineering and a BBA in Business Administration. Her work resulted in peer-reviewed publications and patents.

As the National AI Ambassador for the Microsoft Canada AI Country plan and an observing board member of the Digital Technology Supercluster, Helia has been pivotal in spearheading Canadian Healthcare digital transformation and AI adoption strategy.

She has received numerous distinguishing awards and scholarships, including the “Best Graduate Thesis Award in Recognition of Excellence in Research and Nomination for Governor General’s Gold Medal” and made the list of the “Top 30 Influential Women Advancing AI in Canada”.

She strives to empower the healthcare and research community to positively affect quality of life for patients and medical professionals.

Dr. Chris Pettengell is a surgeon, academic and entrepreneur who has spent over a decade treating patients and implementing systems to improve clinical efficiency. After completing his MD at Oxford University, Chris first travelled to Canada as a Canadian Rhodes’ Scholar to research HIV before returning to the UK to train as a General Surgeon at Imperial College London. After growing frustrated with the state of health data Chris discovered Pentavere and was so impressed with the work they were doing moved his family to Canada to be Pentavere’s Chief Medical Officer where his focus is developing clinical AI solutions to improve the lives of patients.

Bill Tam is recognized as one of the pre-eminent leaders of the B.C. tech sector. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill has been actively involved with technology and start-ups as a founder, executive, investor, advisor and board member for the past 20 years.

In 2017, Bill co-founded the development of the Digital Technology Supercluster and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer. The Digital Technology Supercluster is part of the Government of Canada’s $950-million, five-year Innovation Superclusters Initiative to drive large-scale collaboration among industry leaders, small and medium enterprises, and post-secondary institutions to develop and scale high-potential technologies in Canada.

A champion of entrepreneurship, Bill forges partnerships across private and public sectors to accelerate economic growth and foster inclusiveness. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Cascadia Innovation Corridor initiative – a cross-border partnership between B.C., Washington and Oregon to develop and promote a globally recognized hub of innovation and commerce.

Bill also serves on the Innovation Committee of the Rideau Hall Foundation and is as an industry advisor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

He earned his MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University and his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from McGill University. In 2018, UBC awarded Bill the Applied Science Dean’s Medal of Distinction for his contributions to the engineering and tech community.

Scott is responsible for Merck’s Global Privacy Program worldwide, including strategy, policy, governance, and operations – reporting to the company’s Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer as part of the Global Ethics & Compliance Organization.

In this role, he is a member of Merck’s Corporate Compliance Committee and chairs the Privacy & Data Protection Governance Board. Scott and his team work with business groups, regions and corporate functions to assure the implementation of the company’s values, ethical standards, policies, and programs — and to prioritize and integrate accountability, social responsibility and compliance into product and services development and delivery across the company.

As Chief Privacy Officer, he serves as Merck’s global privacy representative with governments, external policy makers, NGOs and customers in the area of Privacy & Data Protection. Scott is actively involved in global initiatives to advance stronger protections for fundamental rights and serves as Chairman of the Board for The Information Accountability Foundation, a non-profit global think-tank for Privacy. Scott has also served in previous Board-level roles in the field of Privacy, including past Chairman of the Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and Board member for the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB).

Prior to joining Merck five years ago, Scott served as Vice President & CPO for Hewlett-Packard Company where he worked for 26 years.

Michael Doucet brings more than 30 years of cyber security and information management leadership experience to his current role. As an executive director, executive advisory in the Office of the CISO at Optiv, Doucet uses his past and present experiences to assist public and private enterprises plan, create and
execute security strategies. Doucet uses his vast information security expertise to lead organizations toward a proactive approach to threat intelligence, third party risk management, governance and compliance, and incident management.

As a subject matter expert in cyber security and information management, Doucet’s broad business, operational knowledge spans multiple disciplines including change management, IT service continuity management, capacity management, availability management, service-level management, service asset and configuration management, information security management, defense in depth, incident management, vulnerability management, and policy and standard development.

Prior to Optiv, Doucet built, managed and oversaw program, security, and technology initiatives in the Canadian Federal Government. As the executive director of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), Doucet independently reviews the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) on operations and complaints accountable to the Canadian Parliament in matters of Canadian national security. He previously was responsible as the chief technology officer (CTO) and then chief information officer (CIO) for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Prior to leading the RCMP in information management, Doucet was the CIO/director general of the Information Management Services Branch at Correctional Service Canada.
Doucet has also worked with the Communications Security Establishment of Canada (CSEC) where he represented Canada as CSEC’s senior cryptologic liaison officer to the National Security Agency (NSA).

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 addressing the ethical paradigm shift required to address the cybersecurity issues brought up by digital society and fast changing technological innovations.

Alena teaches privacy, ethics and cybersecurity 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 Computer Science. Through her role as a researcher and educator, Alena has extensive experience in exploring privacy and security opinions and views of hundreds of students who are becoming the next generation of professionals in their respective fields.

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

Jason has been architecting, designing, and deploying security technologies that secure the most complex computing environments for almost 2 decades. His understanding of operational and informational technologies, people, and processes enable him to deliver effective, comprehensive security solutions that align to an organization’s security goals and strategic imperatives. Jason is adept at addressing a range of risk profiles across multiple industry verticals; skills he has cultivated as an end-user security practitioner, partner/integrator, and now manufacturer as the FIELD CTO, focused on Cybersecurity for Cisco Systems. Jason is also active in the direct community speaking at BC Aware, Privacy and Security Conference, and has delivered multiple sessions at BSides. Jason also holds over 75+ designations across a variety of products and technologies including the CCIE designation.

Brian Robison is the Senior Director, Product Marketing and Chief Evangelist at BlackBerry, where he educates the world that preventing cybersecurity threats is actually possible and a much better approach than detecting and responding after the attack. Prior to joining BlackBerry/Cylance, Robison spent five years helping secure corporate data on mobile devices—three years at Citrix as Director of Technical Marketing and two years driving enterprise product strategy at Good Technology. Before moving into the mobile security space, Robison’s career focused on endpoint security and risk and compliance. At McAfee, he led the effort to bring ePolicy Orchestrator into the modern age as well as managing the vulnerability management and policy compliance solutions. Prior to McAfee, Robison held many roles over his seven-year career at Tripwire, Inc.

Ariel co-founded Guardicore after spending eleven years as a cybersecurity engineer and researcher at the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), where he worked closely with co-founder Pavel Gurvich. In his last position at the IDF, Ariel led a team of 30 engineers and researchers to successfully achieve some of the most challenging and cutting edge technological projects of the Israeli Intelligence Corps. Prior to that, Ariel worked as a software engineer at Intel Corporation. Ariel holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Richard Thieme (www.thiemeworks.com) is an author and professional speaker focused on the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. His speaking generally addresses “the human in the machine,” technology-related security and intelligence issues as they come home to our humanity.

Thieme has published hundreds of articles, dozens of short stories, six books, and has delivered hundreds of speeches. When a friend at the NSA told him, “The only way you can tell the truth [that we discuss} is through fiction,” he returned to writing short stories, one result of which is Mind Games, a collection of nineteen stories, and the novels FOAM and Mobius: A Memoir.

Thieme has keynoted security conferences in 14 countries. Clients range from GE, Microsoft and Medtronic to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon Security Forum, FBI, US Dept of the Treasury. Los Alamos National Lab, and the US Secret Service. His work has been taught at universities in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States, and he has guest lectured at numerous universities. He addressed the reinvention of “Europe” as a “cognitive artifact” for curators and artists at Museum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, keynoted “The Real Truth: A World’s Fair” at Raven Row Gallery, London, and keynoted Code Blue in Tokyo with “Fiction is the Only Way to Tell the Truth: Life in the National Security State.” He keynoted the Annual Privacy and Security Conference in Victoria BC in 2018 for the third time – his topic was “Real Birds in Digital Cages: The Chickens Come Home to Roost.” Two years earlier his keynote there was, “When Privacy Goes Poof! – Why It’s Gone and Never Coming Back.”

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.