Ritchie Po is the Privacy Practice Lead at Kobalt.io, a Vancouver-based IT security services company that specializes in providing cybersecurity services to SMB clients. The holder of Canadian (CIPP/C) and European / GDPR (CIPP/E) privacy professional designations, he is also a cybersecurity lawyer who has acted as legal counsel to a major Telecom, a multinational corporate trust agency, two Fortune 500 companies, and the worker’s compensation board.

In addition to serving as a member of the Conference Board for VIPSS 2021, his professional volunteering experiences include leadership roles with the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) BC’s FOI & Privacy Law subsection and the IAPP’s Canadian Advisory Board.

A published legal editor, Ritchie is also a Contributing Editor to the commercial retail trade publication Retail Insider, having assisted its founder at its inception. He enjoys getting couture and swag.

Rachel began her career in the military, serving in the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Navy where she was an electrical engineer and worked on Inertial Navigation Equipment on Trident C-5 Ballistic Missile Submarines. She attended Morrisville State College where she received a degree in Journalism, attended Syracuse University and New York University for Information Management and has a Master of Theological Studies (MTS) degree From Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Rachel is employed by TD Bank Group as a Data Scientist for the TD Cyber Threat Management Practice where she is responsible for Cybersecurity and Fraud Threat Data Analysis.

Rachel is versed in diversity, intersectionality, and inclusion and is a sought-after public speaker on these topics, as well as an influencer on LGBTQ2+ issues in the Canadian Federal and Ontario Provincial Governments. She has appeared on several media outlets including CBC Radio One Metro Morning and The Current, in the Vice documentary “On Hold”, has been profiled on CBC Television, CP24, Global, CityTV’s Breakfast Television, and CTV, and was featured in Toronto Life Magazine.

Colin Druhan is a business strategist with more than fifteen years of experience working with queer, trans and Two-Spirit communities. He is the Executive Director of Pride at Work Canada, an organization that empowers workplaces to celebrate all employees regardless of their gender expression, gender identity and sexual orientation. In 2019 Colin was the youngest person ever named a finalist for the Canadian LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce’s Business Leader of the Year Award. In 2020 he was named a CivicAction DiverseCity Fellow, joining a prestigious group of leaders who are passionate about shaping their communities within the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. In addition to his role with Pride at Work Canada, he is Vice Chair of Volunteer Toronto, Canada’s largest volunteer centre, and he serves on the Advisory Board of the Diversity Institute at the Ted Rogers School of Management. He participates as a mentor in both Jumpstart Refugee Talent’s Welcome Talent Canada program and The Enchanté Network’s mentorship program, which offers support to those building and operating Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ community organizations. He frequently shares his expertise through public speaking and in writing for publications like HR Professional and IN Magazine. Originally from Cole Harbour, NS, he has lived in Ontario for over fifteen years, during which time he has worked and volunteered with organizations such as the Toronto International Film Festival, The 519, the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film & Video Festival and the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation. Colin received a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, NS and a Graduate Certificate in Arts Management from Humber College in Toronto, ON.

Angela Marafino is currently focused on 2 aspects of cybersecurity: email security and community building (inside and outside of her capacity as a Program Manager at Microsoft). She is the COO of the non-profit organization Women of Security & is Co-Organizer of the WoSEC Seattle Chapter, as well as Co-host of the Focal Point podcast on the ITSP Magazine podcast channel, and is the moderator of the Hacker Book Club on Goodreads. Angela is a very proud mentor, humble mentee, dog & cat mom, adventurer, avid reader, and foodie!

Roger Gale is an accomplished Instructor of Computer and Communications Technology and their application in Business, with 30 years of experience in teaching and in this area. Roger enjoys the challenge of learning new technologies, implementing these technologies in a corporate environment and communicating the concepts involved in the implementation of new technologies to employees and students. Recently Roger has changed his focus to Industrial Cybersecurity and has been involved in the application of security and cybersecurity principles to industrial networks. In 2019 Roger was recognized for his excellence in teaching with an Instructor Excellence at the Expert Level from the Cisco Network Academy. Further the Cisco Network Academy recognized his work in Cybersecurity with a Curriculum Specialist in Cybersecurity award for Canada and the United States in 2019.

Peter Newton is a Senior Director of Products and Solutions at Fortinet, where he oversees the Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Access, Operational Technology (OT) and IoT solutions. He brings 20 years of experience with computer networking and security, working at both chip-level and system level solutions for companies including AMD, Netgear, Silver Spring Networks, and Fortinet. Prior work experience includes being an officer in the US Navy. Peter holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

Thomas (Tom) Nuth is the Director of Product Marketing for Cloud Edge solutions at Fortinet. Tom has over a decade of product and solution marketing experience within IT and OT automation and cybersecurity. Tom is part of the Fortinet Security-Driven Networking Group (SDN) charged with Go-To-Marketing efforts of new technologies and cloud framework offerings, such as SASE.

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

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

Vanessa specializes in data protection and information security law. She advises organizations on the operationalization of related concepts such as privacy and security by design.

She is a Certified Data Protection Officer (CDPO) and a Lead Implementer for ISO 27701 with proven experience in assisting organizations with data protection legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation, and other standards affecting entities operating on a data-driven market. Vanessa helps organizations, in particular in the sector of emerging technologies, to manage legal risks relating to data in a preventive manner, allowing organizations to build trust with their customers and acquire a competitive edge.

Vanessa has aided organizations negotiating commercial agreements involving security and privacy requirements in the technology sector. She also advises boards of directors on risk management relating to data protection and information security, ensuring that both they and their organizations are compliant and avoid liability. Vanessa also has experience in helping critical infrastructures to meet cybersecurity and privacy requirements with national security impacts, such as by implementing compliance programs and assessing related risks, including from an OT/IoT perspective.

Vanessa holds a Master of Law (LLM) from McGill University on the topic of cyberespionage and teaches Corporate Cybersecurity Practices at St Thomas University (Florida, USA), where she is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the LLM program in Cybersecurity and Privacy. Her studies on the Dark Net were funded by the Quebec Bar Association and published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.

Not only a published author, Vanessa has appeared as an expert in various media events. She is sought after as a public speaker and has participated in key industry conferences around the world, including in Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Paris. Prior to joining Fasken, Vanessa was Director of Compliance and Data Privacy as well as a Data Protection Officer within the cybersecurity division of a multinational specialized in information technology, the internet of things, and emerging technologies.

Vanessa is involved in organizations working for the cause of women in the technology sector.

Derek May is an Account Executive with the Commercial Insurance Department of HUB International Insurance Brokers, located in Vancouver, BC.

Prior to joining HUB International, Derek began his insurance career working with a boutique brokerage in Vancouver. In 2012, Derek accepted a position with HUB International as a Commercial Account Executive.

As an Account Executive, Derek is responsible for providing insurance and risk management solutions to public and private companies. He specializes in Technology and Cyber products that protect companies from these evolving risks, and is one of Canada’s leading brokers in this space. Derek is also the first person in Western Canada to receive the Cyber COPE® Insurance Certification (CCIC) designation offered through Chubb Insurance and Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.

In addition to his insurance experience, Derek holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Entrepreneurship and a minor in Economics from Northern Michigan University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. The College of Business rewarded Derek’s efforts with the Entrepreneurship Scholar Award, which is given annually to the top graduating student in the field. Derek is a Canadian Accredited Insurance Broker (CAIB), as well as a Certified Risk Manager (CRM), and was named a 2016 Elite Broker by Insurance Business Canada.

With his dedication to providing exceptional service and solutions to clients, as well as his expertise in Technology and Cyber products, Derek is a trusted and valuable member of HUB International.

Ruth has extensive experience with data protection, privacy and cybersecurity matters including regulatory compliance, cyber preparedness, breach response and related litigation. Ruth works with clients to assess their risks and vulnerabilities, and their legal obligations regarding collection, use and storage of personal or confidential information. Ruth assists clients in developing comprehensive policies, guidelines and procedures to minimize exposure from potential attacks, and to ensure compliance with regulatory and contractual obligations. Ruth also works with clients to develop and implement effective incident response plans enabling clients to respond quickly to a data incident without creating further liability from incident mismanagement.

Scott Langendorf is a Director on the Tanium ESS team. He joined Tanium in the fall of 2015 after having been Senior Manager at a global engineering corporation under attack by nation-state groups. With eight year experience in cyber security, Scott joined Tanium to help advance security products, recognizing the importance of rapid endpoint visibility, alerting and data agility for defense and hunt teams. He has also worked at NASA on the Space Station electrical power system and as an IT manager in the energy sector when APT1 was underway.

Derran Guinan is an IT Security Specialist who works with clients across Western Canada educating and advising on various security solutions. With twenty-five years in the IT industry managing networks, architecting solutions, and advising clients, Derran believes in a collaborative, customer-oriented approach to educating and helping clients solve security related situations / challenges. Derran has worked at some of the most trusted security companies in the world such as Palo Alto Networks and Crowdstrike, where he advises clients daily on both security incidents and proactive security solutions. Derran started his career at NAIT in the Telecommunications Engineering program, and has continued his education through SANS, ISC2, and ISACA training and certifications.

Farshad Abasi is an innovative technologist with over twenty five years of experience in software design and development, network and system architecture, cybersecurity, management, and technical instruction. With a keen interest in security from the start, he has become an expert in that aspect of computing and communication over the last nineteen years. He started Forward Security in 2018, with a mission to provide world class information security services with focus on Application and Cloud security. He was previously a senior member of HSBC Group’s IT Security team with the most recent positions being the Principal Global Security Architect and Head of IT Security of the Canadian division. Farshad is continuing an nineteen year stint as an instructor at BCIT where he shares his passion for information and network security, helping others build a career in this exciting field. He is also the security correspondent for CFAX radio, BSides Vancouver/MARS board member, Vancouver OWASP chapter lead, a CISSP designate, and a UBC CS alumnus.

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Jeevan Singh is a Security Engineer Manager for Segment, where he is embedding security into all aspects of the software development process. Jeevan enjoys building security culture within organizations and educating staff on security best practices. Jeevan is responsible for a wide variety of tasks including: architecting security solutions, working with development teams to resolve security vulnerabilities and building out security features. Before life in the security space, Jeevan had a wide variety of development and leadership roles over the past 15 years.

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.

Following a highly successful 25-year career building an international reforestation company and 4 years in the provincial cabinet of the B.C. Liberal government, the Honourable Joyce Murray was appointed Minister of Digital Government on November 20, 2019.

The Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra since 2008, Joyce served as Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board following the 2015 general election. During this time she championed and helped lead the development of the Centre for Greening Government. Making federal government operations more environmentally friendly and efficient was a natural project for Joyce, whose entrepreneurial spirit led her to build a company that has planted almost 1.5 billion trees—more than 500,000 of which she planted herself.

She received the Simon Fraser University Dean’s Medal as the top MBA graduate in 1992, was the chair of the board at Brinkman and Associates Reforestation, and served as British Columbia’s Environment Minister and Minister of Management Services in Gordon Campbell’s cabinet from 2001 to 2005.

Joyce Murray has always been a thought-leader, driving progressive new policies in government. Whether advocating for strong, smart environmental measures or being an early advocate of the legalization and regulation of cannabis, Joyce’s ability to envision and deliver on bold new ideas comes from her depth of experience in politics and business. She is passionate about investing in a fairer, greener economy that empowers future generations, and confident that digital innovation will offer important opportunities for improving services to Canadians.

Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he contributes to global policy development, cloud services in the public sector and continued standardization and spread of the Internet. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.

Cerf has previously served in executive positions at MCI and the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. He also served on the faculty of Stanford University and as Principal Scientist of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency where he ran the Internet project and associated Packet Radio, Packet Satellite and Packet Security programs.

Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. The Turing award is sometimes called the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science.” In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest
civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn received the prestigious Japan Prize and in 2013 Cerf, Kahn and three others received the Queen Elizabeth Prize in Engineering. Cerf was made an officer of the French Legion d’Honneur in December 2014 and Foreign Member of the British Royal Society in July 2016. In 2018 together with Robert Kahn, he received the Franklin Medal. He received the Catalunya International Prize in March 2019 and the PeaceTech International Award in January 2020.

Cerf was appointed by President Obama to serve a six year term on the National Science Board beginning in May 2012. He served as president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from 2012-2014. He served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007. Cerf also served as founding president of the Internet
Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and has served on several national, state and
industry committees focused on cyber-security. Cerf sat on the Board of Directors for the Americas Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and served as Chairman until 2016. He is Chairman of the Marconi Society and is a member of the Science Advisory Board for CosmosID. Cerf also sat on the Board of Associates of Gallaudet University until 2017. He served on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Advisory Committee and has been a distinguished visiting scientist there since 1998. He was appointed to the Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council in 2018. He served as Chair of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology during 2006-2013 and was reappointed in 2018. He also serves as Treasurer of the National Medals of Science & Technology Foundation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the Annenberg Center for Communications at USC, the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering, the American
Philosophical Society, the Hasso Platner Institute and is a member of the US National Academies of Engineering and Science. In 2011, he was made Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. Cerf is an honorary liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers. He served as Chairman of the Board of the People Centered Internet and Chairs the Innovation for Jobs organizations.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous additional awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the National Medal of Science from Tunisia, the St. Cyril and St. Methodius Order (Grand Cross) of Bulgaria, the Terra Mariana Medal of Estonia, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby
Award , the Rotary Club International Paul P. Harris Medal, the Joseph Priestley Award from Dickinson College, the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal. Cerf was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2006. He was made an Eminent Member of the
IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) honor society in 2009. In 2010 he received a Lifetime Webby Award. In February 2011 he was named a Stanford Engineering School “Hero” for his work on the Internet and received a lifetime achievement award from the Oxford Internet Institute. In 2015, he received the Colombian Murillo Toro medal for communications. In November 2018, he gave the Romanes Lecture at Oxford University. He and Robert Kahn received the Donald A.B. Lindberg Health Communication Award from the Friends of the National Library of Medicine in September, 2019.

In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year’s “25 Most Intriguing People.”

In addition to his work on behalf of Google and the Internet, Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for “Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: The Final Conflict” and made a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs such as NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and often co-hosted World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. In July 2014, he appeared on the Colbert Report television show. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design and implementation of an interplanetary Internet.

Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Brooklyn Polytechnic; Marymount University; the University of Pisa; the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; the University of Zaragoza, Spain; the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain; the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain; Bethany College,
Kansas; the Moscow State University of International Relations; the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology; Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Yale University; Gallaudet University, Washington DC; St. Andrews University, Scotland; Pitt University, Pittsburgh; McGill University, Canada; the Ramon Llull University (La Salle) in Barcelona, Spain; and University of Reading, UK.

His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an International Standard. Since then, PbD has been translated into 40 languages! In 2018, PbD was included in a sweeping new law in the EU: the General Data Protection Regulation.
Dr. Cavoukian is now the Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University, and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Dr. Cavoukian is the author of two books, “The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust” with Tyler Hamilton, and “Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World” with Don Tapscott. She has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership in privacy, including being named as one of the Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada, named as one of the Top 10 Women in Data Security and Privacy, and named as one of the ‘Power 50’ by Canadian Business. She was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada for her outstanding work on creating Privacy by Design and taking it global (May, 2017), named as one of the 50 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders (November, 2017), named among the Top Women in Tech (December, 2017), was awarded the Toastmasters Communication and Leadership Award (April, 2018), recognized among the Top 100 Identity Influencers (February, 2019), and most recently, she was named among the Top 18 Global AI Influencers within the AI & Tech Space (February, 2019), was awarded the 2020 Canadian Women in Cybersecurity Lifetime Achievement Award In Recognition of Your Outstanding Contributions to Cybersecurity and Privacy in Ontario (March 2020).

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.

A successful entrepreneur, Aran Hamilton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vantage, the market-leading artificial intelligence marketing platform for brands and retailers. Every day Vantage helps thousands of retailers and brands in 127 countries around the world to turn data into insight and action.

Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to help shape the global retail environment. Recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity, Aran has focused on privacy-respectful uses of predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce.

Aran has spoken at Mobile World Congress, The Path2Purchase Expo, The Advertising Research Foundation Leadership Conference, DX3 and at the inaugural SingularityU Canada Summit. He is the Co-Chair of the IdentityNORTH series of events on the digital economy, digital identity, and privacy.

Sunny Jassal is on a mission to enable and secure digital transformation. A passionate technologist and trusted leader striving to deliver innovative technology solutions with strong credibility across business and technology groups. A change agent, bringing two decades of progressive on-the-ground experience leading highly technical teams IT teams across various sectors.

Sunny has special interests in Cyber Security and leads by the principle of ‘security by design’. In his current role as Director, Cyber Security at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Sunny provides leadership and oversight over all aspects of Cyber Security and IT Risk Management; ensuring critical systems and assets are protected and kept secure. Sunny holds a B.Tech in Technology Management from BCIT along with top industry certifications like, Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) and Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP).

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.

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.

Kevin Lonergan is a Senior Strategy Manager with TELUS Security. In this role, Kevin works with various stakeholders to understand market trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies to ensure TELUS is offerings a strong portfolio of services to customer now and in the future. Previous to TELUS, Kevin managed IDC Canada’s cyber security research practice for 8 years where he published dozens of studies and presented across the country.

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.

As CrowdStrike’s Senior Vice President of Intelligence, Adam Meyers leads the Threat Intelligence line of business for the company. Meyers directs a geographically dispersed team of cyber threat experts tracking criminal, state-sponsored, and nationalist cyber adversary groups across the globe and producing actionable intelligence to protect customers. He oversees the development and deployment of AI, machine learning, reverse engineering, natural language processing, and other technologies to detect suspicious and malicious cyber behavior and stop increasingly sophisticated adversaries. Meyers’ work in combining human intelligence and intelligence derived from technology continues to transform cybersecurity.

Meyers works closely with other departments within CrowdStrike to ensure the smooth and speedy integration of intelligence into CrowdStrike’s entire lineup of products and services. His team brings unprecedented insights into the activities of cyber threat actors, providing strategic and technical guidance to Fortune 100 businesses, major financial institutions, key government agencies, and other CrowdStrike customers. SC Magazine recently honored CrowdStrike’s record of achievement under Meyers with the 2019 Trust Award for Best Threat Intelligence Technology. Almost every week you will see Myers commenting on recent cyber threats and cyber attacks in leading broadcast, print, and online media.

Adam earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the George Washington University where he studied Political Science, and Computer Science.

Stephanie is a Senior Director and the Threat Response SME Lead at Tanium. In this role, she works closely with devs, product management, engineers and customers to use Tanium for their security needs. Prior to Tanium, she was a part of EY’s Cyber Threat Management, both on the Incident Response and Red Team/Vulnerability Identification teams. Before leaving EY to work for Tanium, Stephanie led red team (ethical hacking) engagements for clients in a wide range of industries. She has obtained GIAC certifications for both forensic examination and penetration testing.

Stephanie is a proud Latina and has made it a personal mission to help minorities be unapologetically themselves in tech. She has awarded an annual scholarship to Latinas pursuing an education in STEM for the last 5 years in an effort to pay forward the support she’s received over the years. She believes that anyone with a desire to work in cyber security should have access to the resources they need to make that possible. She meets with aspiring cyber professionals regularly to continue investing in future generations.

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.

Simon Wong is an Associate Partner in the Consulting Services practice at EY. He has over 20 years of experience in IT, and spent nearly a decade as a cybersecurity consultant.

He currently leads EY’s cybersecurity practice in B.C., enabling the digital agenda for clients across Western Canada. Simon helps companies transform their cloud, data protection and digital identity practices, as well as their detection and response capabilities. From cybersecurity program maturity assessments, to threat exposure management, penetration testing and roadmap implementation, he empowers clients to understand the way risk is changing and align their programs accordingly.

Simon is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Chapter in Vancouver. He is passionate about making security thought leadership practical, actionable and effective, and is a frequent speaker on emerging cybersecurity trends within Western Canadian IT and security communities.

Victor Tavares is the Director of Systems Engineering for Palo Alto Networks in Canada, where he is responsible for the customer and partner facing SE team. Victor has more than 20 years of experience in the networking and information security industry, where he has worked with most of Canada’s largest enterprise, service provider, and public sector organizations. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2014, Victor led the Enterprise Systems Engineering team at Juniper Networks in Canada, which he joined through Juniper’s acquisition of network security pioneer NetScreen Technologies in 2004. Victor’s technical background extends to software engineering and development, cloud, and datacenter experience.

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.

Augusto Barros is VP of Solutions at Securonix. Augusto is a former Gartner analyst with 20 years of experience in cybersecurity-related roles and consulting for enterprises in finance, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. Augusto has worked on a variety of information security projects and initiatives, from security awareness campaigns, to penetration testing, to security infrastructure design. The challenges of threat detection and response are his main interests and the focus of his research. He has also ventured into the application of behavior economics concepts to the security space. Augusto has taught courses and presented at numerous security conferences, including Black Hat Europe, RSA Conference, and Gartner security summits.

Jeremy Clark is an associate professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. At Concordia, he holds the NSERC/Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton/Catallaxy Industrial Research Chair in Blockchain Technologies. He obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo, where his gold medal dissertation was on designing and deploying secure voting systems including Scantegrity—the first cryptographically verifiable system used in a public sector election. He wrote one of the earliest academic papers on Bitcoin, completed several research projects in the area, and contributed to the first textbook. Beyond research, he has worked with several municipalities on voting technology and testified to both the Canadian Senate and House finance committees on Bitcoin.

As a Director of Software Engineering at NuData Security, A Mastercard Company, Justin leverages their knowledge of cloud architecture and security to reduce consumer friction online and design for a more inclusive connected world.

Justin is responsible for software development in the digital device space (including the internet of things), as well as leading the team that develops the NuData cloud platform. They are known for their ability to identify and focus on challenges within a solution and work closely with stakeholders to overcome them, strengthening the solution and increasing customer satisfaction. Their focus on the consumer experience, product optimization, and fraud detection strategies enables the development of innovative product solutions. Justin has also been recognized for their support of community and academic organizations. In addition to their role at Mastercard, Justin is also an AWS Academy Accredited Instructor working as an online instructor with BCIT Part-time Studies and UBC Extended Learning. In their “downtime” Justin is typically found writing, as they aspire to publish a novel series.

Mark Schaan is the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategy and Innovation Policy at the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). In this role he is responsible for advancing the government’s microeconomic policy agenda; supporting the development of the department’s horizontal policy and strategic priorities, including by ensuring robust marketplace frameworks telecommunications policy, and the deepening of external relations; and, providing support to regional economic development, as the lead ADM for the Regional Development Agency of Northern Ontario.

Prior to becoming an ADM, Mark was the Director General, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch at ISED. In this role, Mark advised on the policy, legislative, and stakeholder issues relating to laws of general economic application, including privacy and data protection, patents, trademarks, copyright, competitions and insolvency, all in support of an innovative and high-functioning Canadian economy.

Mark has served as the Director of Operations, Business Transformation and Renewal Secretariat, Privy Council Office, where he was responsible for the Innovation Hub and assisted in providing strategic advice to the Clerk of the Privy Council and the Prime Minister on the transformation of the Public Service.

Mark’s public service career has also included work in the life sciences sector, support to restructure the automotive industry, and analysis to advance the retirement income security of Canadians. These roles have earned him a number of accolades, including Departmental and public service awards of excellence, as well a Deputy Minister’s Public Service Award for Management Excellence.

Throughout his time in the public service, Mark has also been actively involved in the Recruitment of Policy Leaders program, an initiative aimed at bringing exceptional Canadian graduates into the public service and enriching the Government’s policy capacity. Mark served as Coordinator of this initiative from 2007 to 2009.

Mark earned his BA (Honours) from the University of Waterloo in Political Science with an Honours Option in Peace and Conflict Studies in 2002, where he studied as a Loran Scholar. Mark earned his MPhil in Comparative Social Policy, conferred in 2004, and his DPhil in Social Policy, conferred in 2010 from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Mark has been awarded the Nathalie des Rosiers Audacity of Imagination Award, the Barnett Prize in Social Policy, and the University of Waterloo Young Alumni Award. Mark is also actively involved in his community: sitting on the board of the Ottawa Art Gallery; founding a new initiative at the National Gallery of Canada; active involvement in the Ten Oaks Project, including helping to launch Project Acorn, a community building space for youth of LGBTQ+ identities, families, and communities; and continued involvement with the Loran Scholars Foundation.

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

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

Kathy Macdonald began her career as a police officer in 1988 working the streets as a beat cop in Calgary, Alberta. With the advent of the Internet, Kathy recognized early on that crime and policing would be changed forever, and she set out to learn everything she could about cyber security. She worked as the cyber awareness coordinator and media spokesperson for over 12 years and has conducted hundreds of interviews, offered safety advice and commentary on technology and cybercrime.

As a professional speaker, author, consultant and university instructor, Kathy Macdonald brings a depth of investigative experience and a great passion for cyber security awareness to audiences. Kathy recently published Cybercrime: Awareness, Prevention, and Response, a comprehensive Canadian resource talking about how cybercrime affects individuals, businesses, governments, institutions, and organizations. As a keynote speaker, Kathy shares her deep industry knowledge and experience to dramatically increase cyber awareness and cyber security with corporations and associations.

In 2009, Kathy was honoured when the Governor General of Canada Invested her with the Order of Merit of the Police Forces (M.O.M.), an award recognizing service and commitment to the community. She holds a Masters of Security Risk Management with Merit (MSc.) from the University of Leicester, is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) from ASIS International. Kathy is one of the leading investigators for Toddington International, a global leader in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) training. Kathy is in the Senate at the University of Calgary, and was recently awarded one of the Top 20 Women in Cyber Security 2020 – Canada.

Eve is a globally recognized strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, security, privacy, and consent, with a passion for fostering successful ecosystems and individual empowerment. She has 20 years of experience leading standards such as SAML and User-Managed Access and publishing research in the field, and has also served as a Forrester Research security and risk analyst. As CTO, she is responsible for the Labs team investigating and prototyping innovative approaches to solving customers’ identity challenges, along with driving ForgeRock’s industry standards leadership. She hopes her duties still leave time to contribute to the rock ‘n’ roll outfit ZZ Auth and the Love Tokens.

Principal Consultant of Carmel Info-Risk, Edward is a veteran of over 17 years in information risk, security, governance, compliance and privacy, and an additional 15+ years in auditing, retail systems and financial systems, and e-commerce development.

As Security Director at two public companies, Edward founded a cybersecurity function at each, and also led one to its first Level II PCI compliance certification.

As a trusted advisor, Edward has applied his information risk expertise in numerous industry sectors including retail, tourism, technology, transportation, education, health, government, mining, financial services, and e-commerce. Edward is conversant with various regulations, including PCI, and SOC 2.

Edward is a Past President and Board volunteer of ISACA Vancouver for the past 10 years, was co-founder of the award-winning BC AWARE CAMPAIGN, and founding member of the Government of British Columbia’s Provincial Security Advisory Council (BC-PSAC). Edward is also an advisor to the Vancouver International Privacy & Security Summit, and a member of the Cyber Security Collaborative Forum. Edward was also recently awarded the 2022 Distinguished Service Award by the CPA Association of British Columbia.

Ellen Sundra leads the Global System Engineering team for Forescout Technologies. Together, Sundra and her team are responsible for designing customized security solutions for commercial and public sector customers. Prior to joining Forescout, Sundra was a network architect and security advisor with iPass, UUNet and WorldCom. Sundra earned a bachelor of arts in computer science from Rollins College and is a CISSP.

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.

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.

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).

With over 20 years of real-life, in-the-trenches business experience in the IT security space, Ajay is a seasoned veteran when it comes to introducing disruptive security technology to the Canadian market. He currently serves as the Canadian Country Manager at Rapid7, where he is empowering clients to defend themselves from the pervasive threats to traditional and cloud infrastructures with best in class solutions and services. A seasoned leader, speaker and author, Ajay has enabled his clients to stay ahead of the curve in architecting and operating their cyber security defences.  You can find him on LinkedIn and Twitter at @akssecure.

Ajay K. Sood has been published and quoted by numerous news sources (CTV, Global News, Financial Post, Reuters, The Hill Times, POLITICO, IT World Canada,  etc.) Ajay has spoken and panelled at SecTOR and has sat on panels for Thompson Reuters and others, and is the Editor of Canadian Cybersecurity 2018 and 2020.

Dr. Tanguay is a Psychiatrist who completed two fellowships, one in Addiction Medicine and one in Pain Medicine. He is a clinical assistant professor with the departments of Psychiatry and Surgery at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Most recently Dr. Tanguay helped found and is the Chief Medical Officer of The Newly Insitute, a program dedicated to providing medical and psychological intervention for people living with complex and treatment resistant mental health disorders such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, addiction, and chronic pain with use of
psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. He is the Medical Lead for the Alberta Addiction Education Sessions for Alberta Health Services (AHS). He is the Regional Director for Alberta and North West Territories for the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) where he sits as a board member, the President of the Pain Society of
Alberta, and the co-chair of the internationally recognized Alberta Pain Strategy. He is the founder of the Opioid Deprescribing Program with AHS, the Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM) Community Clinic with AHS, and the Transitional Outpatient Pain Program for Spine (TOPPS) clinic working with spinal surgeons to optimize spinal surgery outcomes. He also consults with the Carewest Operational Stress Injury Clinic treating veterans and RCMP for trauma related injuries.

Dr. Tanguay is also the lead lecturer for Addiction for the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Academically, he is involved in research in trauma, addiction, chronic pain, opioids, and cannabis and is a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education at the University of Calgary.

Roy Hart is the Chief Information Officer for BCIT. Roy has over 30 years in enterprise IT, strategy, and leadership across multiple sectors, including education, health, social services, justice, transportation, and infrastructure. Roy is an active member of the Canadian Chief Information Officer community and, among other committees, serves on the BCNET board.

Roy’s career highlights include leading an extensive business transformation and technology modernization program as Chief Information Officer of Seneca College, designing a comprehensive security and support program for the Ontario Judiciary, numerous technology infrastructure projects, and leading an account team responsible for over $100 million in IT infrastructure projects for the Ontario Government central IT organization.

At BCIT, Roy is an Executive Team member and is responsible for IT at the Institute. He is presently leading several strategic investments in business technology, a shift to agile solutioning, significant improvements to cyber security, and on-going mission to reduce technology debt.

In downtime, Roy enjoys the outdoors, travel, music, and attempting to make various international dishes.

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.

Brenda Bailey was elected MLA for Vancouver-False Creek in 2020. She is Parliamentary Secretary for Technology and Innovation and a member of the Treasury Board.

Brenda co-founded Canada’s first women-owned and operated video game studio in 2011, in response to the lack of high-quality games being developed for women and girls. She most recently served as the Executive Director of DigiBC, the Interactive and Digital Media Industry Association of British Columbia, where she worked to strengthen the province’s growing creative tech industry and continued her commitment to bringing more diversity and inclusion to the tech sector.

Brenda previously served as the Executive Director of Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland, helping young people to realize their full potential through mentorship.

She has degrees in Political Science and Social work, with advanced studies in Business and Law.

Brenda lives in Vancouver-False Creek with her family and her giant Bernerdoodle, Murphy.

Scott is the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. The Cyber Centre is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services and support on cyber security for government, critical infrastructure owners and operations, the private sector and the Canadian public.

Scott began his career at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in 1999 and has held various positions including Assistant Deputy Minister of IT Security, acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer, Director General of Cyber Defence and a variety of positions of increasing responsibility across CSE, primarily in the Signals Intelligence and IT Security domains. He previously worked at the Privy Council Office as a National Security Policy Advisor in the Security & Intelligence Secretariat.

Scott holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electronic Systems Engineering, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and a Masters of Business Administration.

Derek Manky brings more than fifteen years of experience to a strategic and visionary cyber security role, working within the Office of the CISO at Fortinet. Manky leads a seasoned, special strategic engagement team which bridges data science with security strategy, facilitating tactics. This team provides expert advice specialized in advanced threat concepts, security research, penetration testing, data insight and threat intelligence/playbook mapping. He consults with leading CSOs/CISOs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide across multiple industries. As a cyber security expert, his work has included meetings with leading political figures and key policy stakeholders globally to define the future of cyber security. Manky orchestrates global threat intelligence initiatives within Fortinet, including the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), NATO NICP, INTERPOL Expert Working Group, and the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).

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.

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

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.

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.​

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is the University Research Chair in Technology and Society and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. He is the Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society and of the AI + Society Initiative. A technologist and creative turned legal scholar, his research focuses on technology law, ethics and policy, with a special interest in blockchain, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, whistleblowers and intellectual property.

He recently published with Dr. Teresa Scassa, Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (LexisNexis, 2021), a peer-reviewed collection capturing the diversity of law and policy challenges facing Canada when it comes to AI.

Kirk LaPointe is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of BIV, the Vancouver-based business publication and website, and Vice-President, Editorial, of parent company Glacier Media, western Canada’s largest media company. He is an Adjunct Professor teaching Ethics and Leadership at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Writing and Media. He has led such organizations as CTV News, Southam News and The Hamilton Spectator. He is the founding Executive Editor of National Post, a founding Host on CBC Newsworld, a former CBC Ombudsman, Managing Editor of the Vancouver Sun, and Ottawa Bureau Chief and General News Editor of The Canadian Press. He has been a radio host, a podcast host, and a television host.

Michael is an experienced cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of industry experience. He is the co-founder and CEO of Kobalt Security Inc., a rapidly growing cloud-focused security services provider.

Kobalt works with over 70 cloud-focused technology companies to help ensure the security of their organization and cloud infrastructure. Kobalt’s experience across AWS, Azure, GCP and a wide range of SaaS services is unique in the security services industry.

Ryan Berger is a leading privacy and employment lawyer, with a primary focus on providing strategic advice to businesses and employers.

Ryan leads the firm’s Privacy Group and routinely advises public and private sector organizations on data protection, business confidentiality and privacy compliance, risk management strategies, breach response, access to information, and litigation. Ryan manages breach response teams for clients, including forensic investigation, crisis communications and notification. On the transactional side, Ryan works closely with the firm’s business group on technology development, innovation and deals involving data, as well as cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) agreements.

Ryan also has substantial employment law practice, having practiced commercial and employment litigation for over 20 years. He advises employers in a wide range of employment and dismissal cases, as well as harassment and human rights complaints. Ryan is experienced in the development and enforcement of restrictive covenants.

Ryan has unique experience in the health care space. He has advised and represented health authorities in privileging, discipline and related employment matters. He also combines his understanding of the health care space with keen interest in privacy law to advise electronic medical records providers, clinics and technology companies in the evolving digital health care world.

Ryan has extensive experience in commercial litigation, having appeared before all levels of court in British Columbia and the courts of other provinces, as well as various tribunals and boards.

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.

Keith Metcalfe is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years experience building people, teams and companies at world-class software organizations like SAP and Business Objects. As the CEO of Traction Guest, Keith is a recognized leader in the physical security space and works closely with Fortune 500 brands helping them reimagine their approach to workforce security and safety. A regular speaker on topics of security, compliance, and duty of care, Keith brings a fresh and innovative perspective to a mission critical, but often technology-lagging, industry.

Until his retirement in 2018, Stephen Simpson served as a Commissioner with the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunications Commission.

Before becoming a regulator, his early career spanned a wide range of communications disciplines from private broadcasting, international advertising agencies, public policy research, and corporate communications.

In 1998 Mr Simpson founded Identity Management Inc., a management consulting and public affairs company with clients in the communications, transportation and energy sectors, that still operates today. Additionally he served as Chair of Totally Hip Software, publicly traded company producing interactive authoring applications to create digital video content and Vice President and shareholder in IPSOS Reid, then Canada’s largest research company.

Today Steve serves as a strategic advisor to a range of companies and is a guest lecturer in Entertainment Law at UBC and Simon Fraser University . He is a published author and is presently working on his third book continuing to focus on the subject of maritime history.

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.

Bob Krzysik, Field CTO, is a 30+-year veteran, 14 of those years spent at Varonis, of information technology and data security. Bob has served in applications development, network and support management, system architecture and project management, as well as sales roles in telecom services and data security software organizations. Bob works passionately to help organizations of all sizes get the most value from their data, with the least amount of risk.

Daniel B. Prieto is a Strategic Executive for Google Cloud, Public Sector where he leads strategy, business development, policy initiatives, and thought leadership to grow Google Cloud’s government business. He is an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Dan brings 25+ years of leadership and innovation in government, the private sector, and academia, working at the crossroads of technology, national security, and privacy. From 2013 to 2017, Dan served in the Obama Administration, first as the Chief Technology Officer in the office of the Department of Defense CIO, and then as Director for Cybersecurity Policy in the White House on the staff of the National Security Council. After 9/11, he helped stand up the Committee on Homeland Security in the U.S. House of Representatives. He has been a senior advisor to McKinsey & Co, an executive at IBM and America Online, and an investment banker at JP Morgan. In these roles he acted as a strategist or advisor on over $150B in transactions in tech, defense, and media, including the acquisition of Netscape, as well as the mergers of McDonnell Douglas and Boeing, and America Online and Time Warner. He has held fellowship appointments at Harvard and Stanford and at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the MITRE Homeland Security Experts Group (formerly the Aspen Homeland Security Group) and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has testified before the U.S. Senate, and his writing and commentary have appeared widely. Mr. Prieto received his M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and his B.A. from Wesleyan University.

Chris Keaton serves as a Privacy Consultant at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and trust technology platform. In his role, Keaton 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. Keaton is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E).

A celebrity hacker, mentor, and technology innovator, Hank Fordham is one of Canada’s foremost red team cybersecurity professionals. Having appeared on Dr. Phil, as well as in stories on VICE, NPR, and Inside Edition, Hank is an advocate for public cybersecurity education, as well as technologically progressive policies and businesses. In addition to being a lead penetration tester, Hank is also a cyber foundations mentor and guest speaker for Centurion Cyber Defence’s parent organization, ReTrain Canada. In addition to cybersecurity, Hank is also interested in Artificial Intelligence, Neurorobotics, Biohacking, Open-Source Fabrication, and more.

Winn has lived Security since 1983, and now says, “I think, maybe, I’m just starting to understand it.” His predictions about the internet & global security problems have been scarily spot on. He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbor” while testifying before Congress in 1991 and showed the world how and why massive identify theft, cyber-espionage, nation-state hacking and cyber-terrorism would be an integral part of our future. He was named the “Civilian Architect of Information Warfare,” by Admiral Patrick Tyrrell of the British MoD. He is currently the Chief Visionary Officer, running R&D for SAC Labs, a division of KnowBe4.

His new book, “Analogue Network Security” is a mathematical, time-based and probabilistic approach to justifiable security. His goal is to provide a first set of tools and methods to “fix security and the internet”, including fake news, spam, phishing, DDoS and more. It will twist your mind.

With thousands of credits to his name, Schwartau writes on security, information warfare, privacy, culture and how they all fit together. He consults with private and government organizations around the world, constantly pushing the envelope of understanding and thought. Major White Papers include Verisign: Defining PKI and eFortress: Visualization.

His often controversial yet highly influential writing, interviews and profiles have appeared in Orbis, Wired, NY Times, Information Week, Network World, ComputerWorld, Network Security, St. Petersburg Times, Internet World, Virus Bulletin, Security Management, Infoworld, PC Week, plus dozens of magazines around the world. Although not a hacker, he has been the popular host of DefCon’s Hacker Jeopardy for 17 years and now hosts security games for kids and adults around the world.

Mr. Schwartau’s prior company developed the COMPSEC security technology, which was the foundation of Novell’s C2 secure Netware. This work has received a coveted slot on NSA’s Evaluated Product List.  He also led the development of the ENIGMA and ENIX.SYS security systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winn_Schwartau

Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at the University of Adelaide in Australia. His applied research primarily focuses on how functional, informed, and desired design can effectively contribute to enhanced physical security –– seeking to increase security across the human, technological, and physical landscapes. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Victoria, Master of Arts in Public Safety Leadership and Training from Royal Roads University, and Doctor of Philosophy in Political and Social Inquiry from Monash University.

Kimberley St. Pierre has over 20 years technology experience and has specialized in cybersecurity for the last 6 years.  She has worked for global cybersecurity giants Check Point Software Technologies and Palo Alto Networks and is currently a Director of Strategic Accounts for Tanium in Western Canada.  Kimberley was honoured by IT World Canada as one of the “Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity” in 2021.  She is a member of the Government of BC Provincial Security Advisory Council and sits on the global SheLeadsTech Council with ISACA International’s One In Tech Foundation.  She has a passion for coaching and mentoring newcomers into the cybersecurity field with a focus on increasing gender diversity to help close the massive global talent shortage gap. Outside of her professional life, Kimberley is an avid equestrian and an amateur competitive show jumper.

Having held leadership roles in some of Canada’s largest organizations where technology is the foundation of business, Jeannine understands the impact of rapidly changing technology and its effect on the careers and lives of people. In 2015, Jeannine started a software company which produced The Knowledge Bank, a career software suite that helps people understand how their transferable skills match new and emerging roles. Building on her experience with The Knowledge Bank, Jeannine founded ReTrain Canada in 2017. Her vision is that all Canadians have affordable access to the skills necessary for our collective digital transformation. For these reasons she is committed to the reskilling and upskilling of all Canadians.

Centurion Cyber Defence is the professional services division of the ReTrain cybersecurity program. Centurion provides (SOC) Security Operations Center services along with traditional cyber services to small- and medium-sized companies. Using a holistic approach to cybersecurity, Centurion goes beyond strictly IT cyber solutions and engages businesses at the operational and human levels to ensure that all areas of a business and its people are educated and protected.

Jeannine is a native Albertan who grew up on a farm in Southern Alberta. She graduated from the University of Calgary with a B.Sc. in Neuropsychology and has built her career at the intersection of humanity meets technology.

Catherine is a senior executive with a proven track record of supporting business objectives through secure data-driven strategic and technical direction. She has more than two decades of establishing security management systems, high performance teams, and progressive leadership with extensive experience in IT, information security, and privacy. Catherine sits as a Board member of the CIO Association of Canada (Calgary Chapter), and the National CISO Board. Her passion for pragmatic security has advanced risk management, incident response and cybersecurity programs transcending many industries including the Calgary Police Service, the Alberta Energy Regulator, Cenovus Energy, AltaLink (Berkshire Hathaway Energy), TransCanada Pipelines, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, and now Finning.

Alyssa Miller, Business Information Security Officer (BISO) for S&P Global Ratings, directs the Ratings security strategy, connecting corporate security objectives to business initiatives. She blends a unique mix of technical expertise and executive presence to bridge the gap that can often form between security practitioners and business leaders. Her goal is to change how we look at the security of our interconnected way of life and focus attention on defending privacy and cultivating trust.

A life-long hacker, Alyssa has a passion for technology and security. She bought her first computer herself at age 12 and quickly learned techniques for hacking modem communications and software. Her serendipitous career journey began as a software developer which enabled her to pivot into security roles. Beginning as a penetration tester, her last 15 years have seen her grow as a security leader with experience across a variety of organizations. She regularly advocates for improved security practices and shares her research with business leaders and industry audiences through her international public speaking engagements, online content, and as co-host of The Uncommon Journey podcast on ITSP Magazine.

Jo has over 25 years’ experience in the IT field some of which were spent as CIO in the Utilities and as Group CIO in the Tourism space, and with significant experience in the Information Security arena including as CISO in the healthcare sector. She underpins her information technology and security background with her qualifications in education and management.

She specialises in consulting in risk and technology issues with a particular emphasis on governance and security in both the commercial and operational areas of businesses. Jo provides strategic advice to organisations across a number of industry sectors including banking and finance, utilities, manufacturing, tertiary education, retail, healthcare and government.

Jo has extensive board and committee experience. She has chaired a number of ISACA’s international committees including the Board Audit & Risk Committee, Leadership Development and Professional Influence & Advocacy. She served as an Elected Director on ISACA’s international Board of Directors for seven years and was the founder of its global women’s leadership initiative, SheLeadsTech.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Because of her involvement with ISACA and the SheLeadsTech program and her rural background Jo was selected from a large number of candidates to be one of only two non-government delegates and was invited to join the official Australian Government delegation to the 62nd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) held in New York in March 2018. She returned to the UN in 2019 and will speak at two events in 2021.

She has spoken on Capitol Hill during a Day of Advocacy designed to bring tech leaders together in one place to discuss issues related to women in tech leadership and then to meet with Congress representatives and Senator’s offices.

Jo has had an annual award established in her honour to recognise her outstanding leadership and commitment to increasing the representation of women in technology leadership and the tech workforce more broadly. The inaugural ISACA Oceania Jo Stewart-Rattray Award was awarded in September 2018.

Presently, Antoine serves as Technical Director for Trend Micro Canada. Some of his responsibilities include the technical enablement of staff, partners and customers ; leading a team of presales engineers to ensure technical activities and professional growth are aligned with corporate strategies and goals and ensuring consistent sales growth of the Canadian business unit by implementing collaborative technical efforts to align with product, sales and marketing initiatives.

Antoine also plays a role as an industry program advisor on the Program Advisory Committee to Seneca College.

With an ethical hacking background, has over 15 years of diverse IT experience covering many complex implementations of security solutions for enterprise customers across Canada. Providing proactive advice to secure enterprises against cyber threats affecting cloud, network, datacenter and end user infrastructure.

Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty years, won countless awards, and has been everywhere from startups to public service to tech giants (Microsoft, Adobe, & Nokia). She has worn many hats; startup founder, pentester, CISO, AppSec Engineer, and software developer. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & streamer and has delivered hundreds of talks and trainings on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.

Advisor: Nord VPN, Cloud Defense, NeuraLegion, ICTC PAC, WoSEC

Founder: We Hack Purple, WoSEC International (Women of Security), OWASP DevSlop, #CyberMentoringMonday

Dan Pontefract is the founder and CEO of Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture. ”Full potential is possible.” He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business.

Dan is the best-selling author of four books: LEAD. CARE. WIN. How to Become a Leader Who Matters (2020), OPEN TO THINK: Slow Down, Think Creatively, and Make Better Decisions (2018), THE PURPOSE EFFECT: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization (2016) and FLAT ARMY: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization (2013).

His third book, OPEN TO THINK, won the 2019 getAbstract International Book of the Year and the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal. He is on the Thinkers50 Radar list, HR Weekly’s 100 Most Influential People in HR, PeopleHum’s Top 200 Thought Leaders and Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 leadership speakers.

Previously, as Chief Envisioner of TELUS he founded the Transformation Office in 2014 to help organizations enhance their corporate culture, leadership, learning, work styles & collaboration practices. While Chief Learning Officer at TELUS, Dan was responsible for the overarching leadership, collaboration & learning strategy for the company. Dan championed the introduction of the TELUS Leadership Philosophy (TLP), a collaborative-based leadership framework for 50,000+ team members. In parallel to these actions, he drove a philosophical and cultural shift in the way TELUS views and experiences learning called “Pervasive Learning” the shift to a social, informal and formal learning model. He further championed the use and deployment of collaborative technologies to complement both the leadership and learning frameworks. Between 2008 and 2018, employee engagement at TELUS soared from 53% to nearly 90%. Dan’s innovation also led to the introduction of the TELUS MBA—run in partnership with the University of Victoria—which allows TELUS team members the opportunity to garner an MBA over two years. The program has won three international awards and delivered new revenues and savings in excess of $300m.

His career is interwoven with corporate and academic experience, coupled with an MBA, B.Ed and multiple industry certifications. Dan is a renowned speaker, invited to deliver over 500 external keynotes and presentations, including four TED Talks. Dan also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review.

In 2010, Dan was acknowledged by CLO as a ‘Vanguard Award’ winner and was a 2-time winner by the Corporate University Best in Class Awards of the ‘Leader of the Year’ in both 2010 and 2011. In 2012, SkillSoft awarded Dan the ‘Learning Leader of the Year’ for his work at TELUS and CLO Magazine bestowed the ‘Learning in Practice Innovation Award’ as well. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Brandon-Hall ‘Gold Award in Strategy & Governance’. In 2015, TELUS became a 10-time winner of the prestigious ‘ATD BEST’ award under his leadership and was the first-ever recipient of the ATD Hall of Fame distinction. In 2013 and 2014, TELUS also placed in the top ten of the Learning! 100 Awards.

Previous to his ten years at TELUS, he held senior positions over twelve years with SAP, Business Objects, Crystal Decisions and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).

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

Visit www.danpontefract.com for more information or email dp@danpontefract.com

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.