Taking technology transformations to new heights. Steve currently works in the information and communication technology ecosystem providing strategic solutions to his clients. Steve sees patterns where others see noise, whether it is cyber/digital forensics, big data analytics challenges, risk management, digital transformation, or strategic innovation leadership. Combined with a number of professional and academic certifications; Steve epitomizes industry best practices within the field of information and communication technology, providing strategic insights for successful outcomes. Some of his past clients come from a variety of industries including financial services, law enforcement, oil and gas, retail, legal services, government, transportation, education and non-profit.

Pam Simpson currently works within the TD Fusion Intelligence Team as a Senior Information Security Analyst, shaping intelligence collection, production, and enablement. Her focus in this role is to build internal and external strategic planning for threat intelligence collection and model intelligence optimization within products produced by the Fusion Intelligence team. Prior to joining TD, Pam worked with BMO as Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst within the Global Information Operations Centre. Here, she focused on strategic reporting of state-sponsored cyber threats and ransomware. During her time with BMO, Pam also served as the private sector lead on the Scientific Executive Council for the Human-Centric Cybersecurity initiative and co-authored the (forthcoming) chapter “Private-Public Partnership Opportunities in the Canadian AML and Regulatory Landscape”. During her Master’s in International Relations at Queen’s University, she focused on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, co-publishing the article “Tracking Transnational Terrorist Resourcing Nodes and Networks” in the Florida State University Law Review. She was also provided the opportunity to study financial crime related to initial coin offerings and distributed ledger technology at the University of Sydney Law School.

Kelly currently leads TD Bank’s global Fusion platform, with responsibilities for the Bank’s intelligence and crisis management functions. Kelly has more than 20 years of experience in the public and private sector, with a significant portion of her career spent in the US intelligence community with a focus on counterterrorism and national security issues. She made the jump to the private sector in 2018 when she joined Capital One and then moved to TD Bank in 2020. And despite traveling the world on behalf of the US government for years, she had never been to Canada until pandemic restrictions were lifted in 2022 and she loves it.

Rachael Conover is Lead Analyst, Security Monitoring and Response for Mastercard. In this role, she serves as a CISSP-certified Intelligence Analyst for Mastercard’s Fusion Center.

Mastercard’s Fusion Center is a cross-functional and multi-department security preparation and response hub. The Fusion Center teams provide information on global threats, share intelligence, evaluate potential security risks, and proactively implement security solutions for Mastercard and their partners.

Rachael has over 15 years’ experience in fraud investigation with the last 8 years focused on the global payments industry. Her areas of expertise include cyber and intelligence, fraud and risk management, global technology business operations, enterprise resiliency, and leading diverse, global, multi-function technology and security teams.

Hardeep Mehrotara has 20+ years of experience in Information Technology and Cyber Security working in a senior leadership role working for public and private organizations. He currently is the Director of Information Security & Enterprise Architecture at Concert Properties responsible for IT and OT security. Hardeep has a significant background in building security programs from the ground up and leading high-performance teams. He has been featured on CTV and Global TV as a Cyber Expert and currently serves on the program advisory committees for various Canadian colleges and universities such as BCIT, SFU, and KPU. Hardeep serves in the Canadian Forces as an officer responsible for cyber force development, cyber missions, and training. Hardeep holds an mMBA from McGill Executive Institute, Management of Technology from MIT, and Honors Degree in Computer Crime & Forensics from the BC Institute of Technology. He has had a strong background in law enforcement and collaborated with some of the top cybersecurity experts around the world in co-authoring technical security benchmarks and controls at the Centre of Internet Security and World Economic Forum.

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).

Hardeep Mehrotara has 20+ years of experience in Information Technology and Cyber Security working in a senior leadership role working for public and private organizations. He currently is the Director of Information Security & Enterprise Architecture at Concert Properties responsible for IT and OT security. Hardeep has a significant background in building security programs from the ground up and leading high-performance teams. He has been featured on CTV and Global TV as a Cyber Expert and currently serves on the program advisory committees for various Canadian colleges and universities such as BCIT, SFU, and KPU. Hardeep serves in the Canadian Forces as an officer responsible for cyber force development, cyber missions, and training. Hardeep holds an mMBA from McGill Executive Institute, Management of Technology from MIT, and Honors Degree in Computer Crime & Forensics from the BC Institute of Technology. He has had a strong background in law enforcement and collaborated with some of the top cybersecurity experts around the world in co-authoring technical security benchmarks and controls at the Centre of Internet Security and World Economic Forum.

Winn has lived Cybersecurity since 1983, and now says, “I think, maybe, I’m starting to understand it.” His predictions about the internet & security have been scarily spot on. He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbor” while testifying before Congress in 1991. His seminal book, “Information Warfare” showed the world how and why massive identify theft, cyber-espionage, nation-state hacking and cyber-terrorism would be an integral part of the future (today’s present).

More than a dozen books later, is magnus opus “Analogue Network Security” offers time-based and probabilistic approaches to justifiable security. By hybridizing analogue and digital security techniques, he wants to “fix security and the internet”, including fake news, spam, phishing, DDoS and more. It will twist your mind. “The Best Cybersecurity Book of All Time,” Cyber Defense Magazine.

Currently he is exploring the future of security & privacy in the “Metaverse” – whatever that might be – through his unique security prism. Tens of billions of dollars are being spent by global technology giants to digitally terraform the first generation of multi-user interactive virtual worlds with varying degrees of immersion.

His views on yet to-be-developed technologies, highly granular enhanced surveillance capitalism, behavioral monitoring, undue influence and myriad the other issues make a lot of folks very uncomfortable.

Some 30+ years after his pioneering work on Cyberwar, what has Schwartau come up with this time?

Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts

Distinguished Fellow: Ponemon Institute

International Security Hall of Fame: ISSA

Top-20 industry pioneers: SC Magazine.

Top 25 Most Influential: Security Magazine

Top 5 Security Thinkers: SC Magazine.

Power Thinker and one of the 50 most powerful people: Network World.

Top Rated (4.85/5) RSA Speaker

Top Rated Webinar: 4.56 (ISC2)

.001% Top Influencer RSAC-2019

Aida P. Abraha is a Workplace Lawyer and Data Rights specialist in Toronto, Canada. She has over 10 years of work experience representing workers and supporting institutional clients solve complex workplace matters, including privacy issues. In 2020, Aida completed a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. Her LLM research work broadly examined the intersection of privacy law and data governance, emerging technologies and fundamental rights. Her major research papers included a critical review of the proposed federal privacy law reform (PIPEDA – Bill C11) and Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs, Smart City project. Currently, Aida is engaged in independent research on emerging issues related to the risks and harms of new technologies in the workplace. Her research tracks how data analytics, electronic monitoring, and algorithmic management systems are changing the traditional workplace, reshaping labour relations, and impacting workers’ rights. Aida holds Civil and Common law degrees from McGill University’s Faculty of law. She is a certified workplace investigator and holds a Human Rights Theory & Practice certificate from Osgoode Law.

Connor Bildfell is a litigator at McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Vancouver. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (Canada) and regularly advises and represents Canadian and multinational companies on privacy matters. He has also published articles on privacy and technology law topics, including the potential impact of algorithms on human rights. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and the B.C. Court of Appeal, and graduated as the gold medallist of his graduating class at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC.

Professor Valerio De Stefano, PhD, joined Osgoode as a tenured professor in January 2022 and was then appointed as the inaugural Canada Research in Innovation, Law and Society. From October 2017 to December 2021, he was the BOF-ZAP Research Professor of Labour Law at the Institute for Labour Law and the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium.

Valerio De Stefano read law at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he obtained a master’s degree in 2006 and later received his doctoral degree (2011). At Bocconi University, he served as a postdoctoral researcher between 2011 and 2014 while also being a part-time associate in an international law firm. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as an officer of the International Labour Organization in Geneva. During his career, he was a visiting academic at the University College London (UCL), a postdoctoral member of Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge (2013), a Distinguished Speaker for Spring 2018 at the “William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law” at Saint Louis University Law School (2018), and a Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters) at the University of Melbourne (2019).

In 2018, he was awarded an Odysseus Grant from the Research Foundations – Flanders (FWO) amounting to 880,000 Euro for an interdisciplinary research project on the working conditions and labour protection of platform workers. Since 2020 he was also the principal investigator at the KU Leuven of an Horizon2020 Grant about in-work poverty.

Valerio De Stefano regularly publishes articles in major specialized academic journals. In 2016, he was the guest editor of a special issue of the Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal on “Crowdsourcing, the Gig-Economy, and the Law”. In 2019, he was the guest editor of a special issue of the same journal on “Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Labour Protection”. He also was the co-editor of a special issue on “Testing the ‘Personal Work’ Relation: New Trade Union Strategies for New Forms of Employment” published by the European Labour Law Journal. In 2022, with professor Antonio Aloisi, he published “Your Boss Is an Algorithm. Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour” (Hart Publishing), a monograph about algorithmic management and artificial intelligence at work.

He is the co-editor of the Dispatches Session of the Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal and an Editorial Adviser of the International Labour Review.

Prof. De Stefano acted as a consultant for the International Labour Office, the European Parliament, Eurofound, the Joint Research Center of the EU Commission and national governments. His research is also frequently referred to by governments and international organisations, including the International Labour Organisation, the OECD, the European Commission, and the European Parliament, and has been cited by courts, parliamentary bills, policy reports, employers’ and workers’ organizations, and media worldwide.

Besides numerous academic conferences, lectures and seminars, he was invited to speak as an expert on the labour protection of new forms of work at the European Parliament, the European Social and Economic Committee, the OECD, and the Canada-EU dialogue on employment, social affairs and decent work. He is a member of the OECD’s Network of Experts on AI (One AI).

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.

Andrew Geider has a Masters of Archival Studies (MAS) degree from University of British Columbia, a Certificate in Records Management (CRM) from the Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM) and is a candidate for IAPP/C. He has extensive Privacy and Records Management experience in both public and private sectors. He shares his knowledge with peers at Conferences and has also taught three levels of Records Management and Privacy at Vancouver Community College and University of the Fraser Valley. Andrew has presented at national and international conferences and is a mentor for records and privacy novices. He has developed change management strategies and written Privacy Impacts Assessments (PIAs). As the Freedom of Information Officer, Andrew interpreted the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and has demonstrated how Records Management and Freedom of Information can complement each other. Andrew has now transitioned into the role of Records and Information Specialist where he is working on the ECM (Enterprise Content Management) implementation.

Jay is the Privacy Officer at FortisBC, a British Columbia Canada based company that delivers renewable energy, natural gas, and electricity to 1.2 million customers in 135 BC communities, and 57 Indigenous communities. Prior to joining FortisBC, Jay was the principal at Rouleur Privacy Consulting, a Canadian based firm that provided privacy and information security advice to organizations in both public and private sectors. As well, Jay also has extensive experience in leading privacy programs in higher education and insurance industries.

Jay is a certified privacy professional (CIPP/C, CIPM, FIP designations) who has spoken at numerous privacy conferences and written on the topic. He is a member of the IAPP Education Advisory Board and past member of their Canadian Advisory Board, as well as a member of their training faculty. Additionally, Jay has co-chaired the Canadian Privacy Symposium (Toronto) several times and provided subject matter guidance to the development of the IAPP ‘s Canadian privacy training program. Locally he is a past chair of the British Columbia Privacy Professionals Network, a privacy and data security networking group.

Aaron has been in the privacy industry longer than most, joining the IAPP on the ground floor and helping to build the organization into an international force for privacy understanding. From there he moved on to helping match privacy professionals to the tools they desperately need at some of the industry’s most innovative start-ups, including VP roles at Sentinel and Osano. Through volunteer work, too, on the Advisory Board of the Rise of Privacy Tech and as Chair of the Boston IAPP Knowledgenet, he’s gathered acute knowledge of the pain points felt by privacy professionals the world over. Now with Anonos, in the role of Data Privacy Evangelist, he’s tasked with helping organizations see the risk their personal data holdings represent and the solutions they need to move forward with confidence.

Tahir is a global data protection and privacy professional who has directed, advised, and led complex programs of change across multiple industry sectors to implement and embed best practice data protection to meet the needs of the business. Expert advisor to Governmental and Regulatory Authorities. Accredited to the Fellowship of Information Privacy (FIP), and project lead of the NIST Privacy Working Group responsible for conceptualizing and drafting the revised Global Privacy Framework.

Taking technology transformations to new heights. Steve currently works in the information and communication technology ecosystem providing strategic solutions to his clients. Steve sees patterns where others see noise, whether it is cyber/digital forensics, big data analytics challenges, risk management, digital transformation, or strategic innovation leadership. Combined with a number of professional and academic certifications; Steve epitomizes industry best practices within the field of information and communication technology, providing strategic insights for successful outcomes. Some of his past clients come from a variety of industries including financial services, law enforcement, oil and gas, retail, legal services, government, transportation, education and non-profit.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Nikolas is a world-renowned futurist that mentors leaders to create more connected, curious and creative teams that embrace futures design to imagine desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.

He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 300 leading organizations at the frontline of foresight, strategy and disruption – including NASA, United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, WM, United Way, Bayer, Bank of Canada, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, IDEO, UK Home Office and many more.

In his new book ‘Facing Our Futures’ – released internationally on Bloomsbury Business in 2023 – showcases foresight methods and thinking that shift organizational mindsets from what is to what if… and aims to increase organizational vigilance, profitability and market capitalization.

Nikolas’ essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others. He appears on SIRIUSXM and CTV regularly, was a key advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downey Jr, and narrates the Franklin Institute’s series ‘2050’.

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

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.

Rob Davidson brings more than 25 years of experience to his current role as Director of Information Security Services and Chief Information Security Officer at Pacific Blue Cross. His career started with Dell and has progressed though several senior strategic and leadership positions at industry-defining organizations such as Microsoft and Social media pioneer Hootsuite. Prior to returning to Vancouver, Rob spent two decades with Microsoft and worked in the Networking, Security, Windows Server, and Azure teams in Canada and Seattle.

Rob holds an Executive MBA and maintains his long standing CISSP certification, he enjoys the opportunity to share with and learn from others who are likeminded in his passion for the Security of People, Information and Technology.

Derek is the Sales Engineering Manager for Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. During his nearly 10 years at Varonis he has worked with the regions leading organizations to create and enhance their security, governance, and compliance programs.

In his spare time he spends time with his family, races for the United Velo cycling club, and takes part in Ironman triathlon events.

Penny Longman is the Director, Information Security and Data Stewardship at Fraser Health. She has experience in a variety of industries across Canada, in IT and Security and is especially passionate about real transformational change in security awareness and management within organisations.

With 20 years experience at Alberta Health and 25 years experience in the health sector, Quinn currently is the Executive Director of Information Management at Alberta Health. His areas responsibilities include stewardship of the Alberta Health Information Act, privacy and security, and eHealth strategy and governance. During the pandemic, Quinn was involved in a number of pandemic related IT initiatives such as ABTraceTogether, the Alberta Covid Records QR code, and the Alberta Vaccine Booking System. Quinn has a BSc. Computing Science and a Master of Public Health both from the University of Alberta.

Jennifer is the Executive Director of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX), Canada’s preeminent private sector organization for cross-sector collaboration, enabling cyber resilience and preparedness in its members. She is responsible for advancing the mission and purpose of the CCTX and delivering value to the membership. With extensive experience in the tech sector and with membership-based organizations, Jennifer excels at creating an environment that fosters customer focus and service delivery.

Most recently, Jennifer was the Chief Operating Officer at the CCTX where she oversaw the development and maturity of collaboration opportunities for member companies, defining and enhancing the value for members. Prior to that, Jennifer served as the Director of People, Resources and Operations for Gryphon Secure, a global company that provides enterprise level security in a mobile environment.

Jennifer has worked extensively in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan, and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Studies from Queen’s University in Kingston, ON.

Hansang Bae is the public sector chief technologist at Zscaler where he supports public sector organizations in their mission to transform and modernize securely. Previously, Bae held technology leadership roles at Netskope and Riverbed Technology and was a Citi (Citigroup) Architecture and Technology Engineering team member. As one of the six global engineering leads, he was responsible for performance engineering, network management (NMS) tools, and capacity planning groups for all of Citi. Bae is a world-renown expert in packet analysis with contributions to Wireshark open-source development.

Ben was the Vice-President, Security and Chief Security Officer at Hydro One. His accountability was to protect the assets, people and infrastructure used to supply electricity to 40% of Canada. Before Hydro One, Ben was the Head of Information Security at Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO). In this role, Ben was responsible for managing the integrity of Ontario’s $25B electricity market, and the Bulk electricity system used to power Ontario’s economy.

During Ben’s over 20 years in cybersecurity, he provided security leadership to regulators, governments, intelligence agencies and some of the largest utilities in Canada. Ben received the first and only Cybersecurity Leadership Award from the Canadian Electricity Association.

Hardeep Mehrotara has 20+ years of experience in Information Technology and Cyber Security working in a senior leadership role working for public and private organizations. He currently is the Director of Information Security & Enterprise Architecture at Concert Properties responsible for IT and OT security. Hardeep has a significant background in building security programs from the ground up and leading high-performance teams. He has been featured on CTV and Global TV as a Cyber Expert and currently serves on the program advisory committees for various Canadian colleges and universities such as BCIT, SFU, and KPU. Hardeep serves in the Canadian Forces as an officer responsible for cyber force development, cyber missions, and training. Hardeep holds an mMBA from McGill Executive Institute, Management of Technology from MIT, and Honors Degree in Computer Crime & Forensics from the BC Institute of Technology. He has had a strong background in law enforcement and collaborated with some of the top cybersecurity experts around the world in co-authoring technical security benchmarks and controls at the Centre of Internet Security and World Economic Forum.

Martin Abrams, Chief Policy Innovation Officer at The Information Accountability Foundation, has over 40 years of experience as an information and consumer policy innovator. He believes data should serve people. Abrams is currently exploring multi-dimensional proportionality as means to drive trusted innovation, the nature of risk in risk based regulatory structures, and how to incorporate to full range of human interests into data protection, including data protection law fit for the next decade.

Abrams led the Global Accountability Project, which has refined the accountability principle that is part of various data protection laws and guidance documents. The IAF is the incorporation of that dialogue. His work on accountability has impacted privacy laws in most regions.

Multi-stakeholder collaboration has been a key for Abrams in developing practical solutions to dilemmas in information policy. He has been a key player in developing such data protection key concepts as accountability, a two-phase approach to advanced analytics, and ethical assessments. Abrams’ activities are global with projects, dialogs, and seminars in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific regions.

Abrams has also provided leadership in other policy areas. He worked on multilayered privacy notices, which changed the way policymakers and organizations thought about privacy transparency. He has been involved in the development of the APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules and has also been involved with the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy. He is an advisor to numerous benchmark corporate privacy programs.

Before founding the IAF, Abrams was the co-founder and President of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Andrews LLP, which he led for 13 years. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Information Policy at Experian and Director of Information Policy at TRW Information Systems where he designed one of the early privacy impact assessment tools. Abrams began his consumer policy work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland where he was Assistant Vice President and Community Affairs Officer.

Elizabeth Denham CBE, joined Baker McKenzie as International Consultant, Data and Tech in 2022. She has over 15 years’ experience as a data protection regulator in Canada and UK. She was most recently the Information Commissioner for the UK (2016-2021) . During her tenure in the UK she also chaired the Global Privacy Assembly, which brings together more than 130 data protection authorities around the world – the premier global forum for data protection. She is recognized as a leader in enabling responsible data use by government and the commercial sector, and for implementing the GDPR into UK law. She tackled some of the most complex issues facing the digital economy, including the use of data in political campaigns, the use of live facial recognition technologies in the commercial and police sectors, and the transparent and fair use of analytics and AI. She is passionate about the protection of children online, ethical and accountable use of health data, and supporting companies to embed data protection and security into their services and offerings. Elizabeth was honoured in the Queen’s 2019 Honours list a CBE for services to protecting personal privacy of UK citizens.

Michelle Finneran Dennedy currently working as CEO and co-founder of PrivacyCode. She is considered one of the world’s leading visionaries in the field of privacy and the IT industry. Michelle is also co-author of the definitive book on Privacy Engineering- The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto. Michelle has a JD from Fordham University School of Law and a BS degree with University honors from The Ohio State University. Michelle has held Chief Privacy Officer roles at Cisco, McAfee/Intel, and Sun Microsystems before serving as the CEO of Drumwave. She has also been honored with the IAPP Vanguard award for lifetime achievement and the Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) – CSO Magazine Woman of Influence award for work in the privacy and security fields. Michelle was also cited as an AlwaysOn Power Player in On-Demand Computing.

As Canada Post’s General Manager, Compliance and Chief Privacy Officer, Amanda is responsible for organizational compliance in the areas of Privacy, Records Management, Official Languages, Anti-Money Laundering and Access to Information. In her role, Amanda oversees compliance to the Corporation’s Code of Business Conduct and establishes the direction and priorities for the compliance programs ensuring consistency with the corporation’s business goals and strategic direction. As Chief Privacy Officer, Amanda manages Canada Post’s activities related to employee and customer privacy, which includes the implementation of a coordinated approach to personal information protection and privacy compliance that will identify and mitigate risk, improve business performance and enhance trust in the Canada Post brand. Prior to joining Canada Post, Amanda spent twenty years in the field of public affairs and communications in the public and private sectors. She held several senior executive posts including Senior Vice-President, Ipsos-Reid Public Affairs and Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications at the Canadian Marketing Association, where she successfully lead the Association’s efforts in negotiating the federal private sector privacy law, PIPEDA. She also held the position of Director, Communications Strategy and Policy at the federal Department of Finance and Deputy Director, Corporate Communications at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa. Amanda is frequent commentator on privacy and information management issues and a lecturer with the Canadian Marketing Association. She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for the Conference Board of Canada’s Council of Chief Privacy Officers and sits on the Digital Privacy Advisory Committee of the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa.

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

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

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

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

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

For close to a decade, Anand has helped businesses across India, Japan and SouthEast Asia build performance focussed, scalable application security postures. As a subject matter expert on the Cloudflare Bot mitigation solution, he was responsible for leading the product strategy and delivering custom solutions for the region.
At his current role in Canada, Anand is working with businesses to move their applications away from VPNs and help architect zero-trust infrastructures.

When he’s not building cloud security related solutions, you can find him playing tennis or engaged in culinary experiments.

Mani Keerthi Nagothu is a cybersecurity professional with global work experience. Her expertise is in Cybersecurity Strategy, Incident Response, Risk Management, Security awareness, and training. She has been a speaker at various conferences including Infosec World, (ISC)2 Security Congress, Infosec World, Cloud Security Alliance, and many more. She is passionate about sharing knowledge with others and spends her time in cybersecurity research and the latest trends in the industry.

ANDREW KIRSCH served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for a decade. He held roles as a policy analyst and a field investigator, ultimately leading teams on clandestine warranted special operations. His memoir, I Was Never Here: My True Canadian Spy Story of Coffee’s, Code Names and Covert Operations in the Age of Terrorism was an instant national bestseller charting on the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail Nonfiction lists. Since leaving CSIS Andrew founded Kirsch Group (KG) a boutique Risk Consultancy serving government, corporate and private clients. He is also a trainer and public speaker on issues of national and cyber security.

Drawing on entertaining stories from his career; Andrew gives a rarely seen look behind the curtain at what Canada’s security service does, what it’s really like to be a spy, the threats he faced and the challenges to come.

Werner Vorster is an industry veteran with 20+ years experience dealing with large enterprise challenges. He began his career with Rubrik in 2020, where he started and managed the Rubrik business in Southern Africa, before moving himself and his family to BC, Canada. Vorster has helped Africa’s largest financial institutes and Stock Exchanges on their Digital Transformation Journeys and brings a global view on how to mitigate risks associated with PII and Sensitive Data.

Known for his ability to communicate technically and conceptually in an authoritative yet entertaining style, Dale “Dr. Z” Zabriskie has consulted with IT professionals across the globe, advising on implementing effective cyber security strategies. He is a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), and certified in Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK).

In his 20-year cybersecurity career, Dr. Z has advised major healthcare, public sector, finance, retail, entertainment, and manufacturing organizations in over fifty countries. He has also been a popular moderator and participant in numerous industry panels. His expertise is supported by career experience in information technology, regulatory compliance, research and development, marketing, and sales.

Before joining Cohesity, Dr. Z was an Evangelist with Symantec for over 16 years. Prior companies include Proofpoint, Veritas, SunGard, and IBM.

Derek Manky brings more than twenty years of experience to a strategic and visionary cyber security role,working with FortiGuard Labs at Fortinet. Manky leads FortiGuard Labs’ global threat intelligence team which consults with leading CSOs/CISOs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide across multiple industries.Manky provides thought leadership to industry and has presented research and strategy worldwide at many premier security conferences. As a cyber security expert, his work has included meetings with leading political figures and key policy stakeholders globally, including law enforcement, which helps define the future of cyber security. In 2019, he was selected as one of six nationwide delegates to represent Canadaas a Canadian leader from the field of cyber[1],through his leadership and expertise in Cyber Security. He is a contributing author to the World Economic Forum Partnership against Cybercrime Report[2]. Manky has been recipient of his technical University’s honorable 2019 BCIT Distinguished Alumni Award[3].

Manky orchestrates global threat intelligence initiatives with Fortinet, including the World Economic Forum Partnership against Cybercrime, Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), NATO NICP, INTERPOL Expert Working Group, and the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). Manky has been with the Cyber Threat Alliance since it was founded in May 2014and sits on the steering committee, working with leading security executives and CEO direction in industry. His vision is applied to help shape the future of proactive cyber security, with the ultimate goal to make a positive impact towards the global war on cybercrime.

He works globally with the security industry and Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT) to connect the dots, streamlining mitigation advice and threat forecasts based on personal knowledge and a team of world class experts at Fortinet and FortiGuard Labs. This strategy is integrated into advanced technology frameworks to fight cyber-attacks, while keeping clients secure. Manky designed a zero-day vulnerability disclosure framework, which has been reliably used for years to responsibly fix security issues before black hat attackers get a chance to exploit victims.

Manky sits on a computing science advisory committee and meets with universities to provide security industry input that he hopes will help shape the bright young minds of tomorrow.In an effort to educate,he is regularly featured in top tier media and guest articles including, but not limited to,CNN, Bloomberg, NBC, MSNBC, Wired, CSO, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Dark Reading, and the Financial Times. Manky has also been the recipient of CRN’s ‘Security Superstar’ award. He continues to dedicate his career to security, research and education.

[1] https://www.gg.ca/en/media/news/2019/canadian-delegation-accompany-governor-general-visit-lithuania-and-estonia
[2]https://www.weforum.org/reports/partnership-against-cybercrime
[3] https://commons.bcit.ca/news/2019/09/2019-bcit-distinguished-awards-celebrating-these-six-outstanding-leaders-and-change-makers/

Mike McCleary is a cybersecurity product marketing professional with a background in digital forensics marketing and technology partnerships. Most recently, he has worked in the DFIR solutions for law enforcement sector and establishing research partnerships between private sector organizations and the University of Waterloo’s researchers in the areas of cryptography, cybersecurity, data privacy, and artificial intelligence, among others.

Jason has been advising clients on matters of cyber security for over two decades, across multiple countries. While his roots are in industrial sectors, Jason is comfortable working in banking, education, not-for-profit and just about any industry sector. He is seen as a trusted advisor by many clients in Canada and North America and this led him to start Iron Spear in 2012 with the goal of providing deep expertise without the pressure of sales. Iron Spear has no sales teams or targets, yet has reported over 60% growth year-on-year for the last 5 years because of that trust.

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.

Kelly currently leads TD Bank’s global Fusion platform, with responsibilities for the Bank’s intelligence and crisis management functions. Kelly has more than 20 years of experience in the public and private sector, with a significant portion of her career spent in the US intelligence community with a focus on counterterrorism and national security issues. She made the jump to the private sector in 2018 when she joined Capital One and then moved to TD Bank in 2020. And despite traveling the world on behalf of the US government for years, she had never been to Canada until pandemic restrictions were lifted in 2022 and she loves it.

Daniel Couillard is the Director General of Partnerships and Risk Mitigation at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre). The objective of the Partnerships and Risk Mitigation directorate is to increase the cyber resilience of Canada, in collaboration with partners. As such the directorate is responsible for advancing the Cyber Centre’s strategic partnerships with governments, critical infrastructure owners and stakeholders, private sector and academia. To that aim, his directorate provides cyber security advice and guidance as well as architectural assessments in key technology areas. It also implements the Cyber Resilience Program and leads the cyber supply chain integrity program in support to the Government of Canada IT procurements.

Daniel was previously Director General of Program Evolution at the Cyber Centre. He was responsible for leading strategic business change and enabling agile decision-making in the context of the complex and dynamic cyber security ecosystem. This ensures CSE meets future cyber security demands from governments, operators of systems of importance and Canadians at large.

Prior to his current role, Daniel was the Director of Cyber Futures, where he was responsible for setting the strategic direction of where the Cyber Centre needs to be in order to remain the centre of Canada’s cyber security expertise.

Daniel previously worked as a military officer with the Canadian Armed Forces, where he held appointments in the operational and technological domains, including overseas deployments. After spending 20 years with the military, he joined CSE’s Cyber Defence team in 2006 to oversee the management of its Technical Threat and Analysis capability.

In 2011, he joined the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat where he led the newly formed Government of Canada Chief Information Officer Branch Cyber Security team, where he worked until he returned to CSE in 2017.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Master’s in Science from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Gaétan is a CISO Advisor in Cisco’s Security Organization. As part of his 35 years of experience in all aspects of security, he has held several senior positions in the Canadian Federal Government, including Chief Engineer in Communications Security with the Department of National Defence, Director Corporate Security with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Consul at the Canadian Embassy in Peru, following the 1996-97 terrorist crisis in Lima.

In the private sector, he has worked as Chief Security Officer for several multinational corporations such as Bombardier Aerospace, Airbus Group (Paris, France) and Bell Canada, where he personally wrote the security plan to protect the telecom infrastructure for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Since 2016, after having worked for four years as the National Cybersecurity Practice Leader for EY Canada, Gaétan has worked as an independent consultant on various complex projects, including engagements in operation technology security for the protection of critical infrastructures.

Gaétan has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada and an MBA from the Jones International University. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and serves as a Technology Advisory Board member of four companies.

Derek Manky brings more than twenty years of experience to a strategic and visionary cyber security role,working with FortiGuard Labs at Fortinet. Manky leads FortiGuard Labs’ global threat intelligence team which consults with leading CSOs/CISOs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide across multiple industries.Manky provides thought leadership to industry and has presented research and strategy worldwide at many premier security conferences. As a cyber security expert, his work has included meetings with leading political figures and key policy stakeholders globally, including law enforcement, which helps define the future of cyber security. In 2019, he was selected as one of six nationwide delegates to represent Canadaas a Canadian leader from the field of cyber[1],through his leadership and expertise in Cyber Security. He is a contributing author to the World Economic Forum Partnership against Cybercrime Report[2]. Manky has been recipient of his technical University’s honorable 2019 BCIT Distinguished Alumni Award[3].

Manky orchestrates global threat intelligence initiatives with Fortinet, including the World Economic Forum Partnership against Cybercrime, Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), NATO NICP, INTERPOL Expert Working Group, and the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). Manky has been with the Cyber Threat Alliance since it was founded in May 2014and sits on the steering committee, working with leading security executives and CEO direction in industry. His vision is applied to help shape the future of proactive cyber security, with the ultimate goal to make a positive impact towards the global war on cybercrime.

He works globally with the security industry and Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT) to connect the dots, streamlining mitigation advice and threat forecasts based on personal knowledge and a team of world class experts at Fortinet and FortiGuard Labs. This strategy is integrated into advanced technology frameworks to fight cyber-attacks, while keeping clients secure. Manky designed a zero-day vulnerability disclosure framework, which has been reliably used for years to responsibly fix security issues before black hat attackers get a chance to exploit victims.

Manky sits on a computing science advisory committee and meets with universities to provide security industry input that he hopes will help shape the bright young minds of tomorrow.In an effort to educate,he is regularly featured in top tier media and guest articles including, but not limited to,CNN, Bloomberg, NBC, MSNBC, Wired, CSO, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Dark Reading, and the Financial Times. Manky has also been the recipient of CRN’s ‘Security Superstar’ award. He continues to dedicate his career to security, research and education.

[1] https://www.gg.ca/en/media/news/2019/canadian-delegation-accompany-governor-general-visit-lithuania-and-estonia
[2]https://www.weforum.org/reports/partnership-against-cybercrime
[3] https://commons.bcit.ca/news/2019/09/2019-bcit-distinguished-awards-celebrating-these-six-outstanding-leaders-and-change-makers/

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

Colin Bennett received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy governance at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published seven books on these subjects. Through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on Big Data Surveillance, he is currently researching the capture and use of personal data on voters by political parties in Western democracies.

Claire is an experienced privacy and cybersecurity lawyer practicing in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada (CIPP/C) and has held various executive positions on the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations’ Privacy and Access to Information Law sections. Claire works with clients from all sectors to achieve business objectives through the innovative use of personal information, including in respect of strategic privacy and data governance matters, privacy risk assessments, and incident response planning. Working closely with Deloitte’s cybersecurity experts, Claire also helps organizations respond to a full range of data breach incidents and has acted on some of Canada’s most high-profile regulatory investigations.

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.

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.

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.

Brent J. Arnold is a partner practising in Gowling WLG’s Advocacy department, specializing in cyber security and commercial litigation. Brent heads the firm’s Commercial Litigation Technology sub-group. In 2019, he co-authored the Canada chapter of Chambers Global Practice Guide: Data Protection & Cybersecurity, 2nd ed.

Brent’s experience includes cyber breach coaching, cyber risk analysis, class actions defence, consumer protection, implementation and other disputes for e-commerce vendors and software developers, administrative and insolvency law, shareholders’ rights, class actions, employment contracts, and general contractual disputes.

Brent is a Director of the Internet Society (Canada Chapter), Steering Committee Vice Chair for the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy section of the US-based Defence Research Institute (DRI), and Vice Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Privacy and Access to Information Law section, having also served two terms on the Executive for the Civil Litigation Section of the Ontario Bar Association. Brent is also a member of the Canadian Technology Law Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Sergey is currently Chief Customer Officer at SkyHive, a role in which his expertise in software and passion for client value shine through. In this role, Sergey and the Customer team work to scope out, solution, implement, and ensure customer satisfaction across Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations across 7 languages and global timezones. With one foot in the world of technology and the other in business, Sergey is excited about the transformative power of technology in helping to unlock human potential, fulfillment, and career development through artificial intelligence.

Having come from previous leadership positions in the not-for-profit and education sectors, Sergey’s values are closely aligned with SkyHive’s mission of building a future of inclusive work and social equality. Sergey is driven by the potential he sees in creating a lasting, meaningful, positive impact through SkyHive

Rob is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience founding and operating companies across telecom, marketing, SaaS, financial services. Rob is the founder and CEO of Wisr AI, a cyber security prediction company. He is also the founding director of the Chief Executive Council on Artificial Intelligence for the BC Technology Association, and an advisor for their HyperScale AI program. Rob is also an investor and advisor to technology growth companies, and currently sits on the Board of several early stage AI and technology companies. Rob is also an alumni of Simon Fraser University, holding both a bachelor and a masters degree in business administration in marketing and information systems.

Sybila Valdivieso is Executive Director and Senior Legal Counsel with the Provincial Health Services Authority where she oversees the Information Access Privacy department and the Technology Development Office. In her role, she has the opportunity to work across the health sector with colleagues who bring substantial expertise in the areas of healthcare, privacy, data protection, data analytics, information security, governance, technology, intellectual property and commercialization in support of the overarching goal of better patient care for British Columbians. It is her work throughout the pandemic that has spearheaded her interest in AI and Robotics in healthcare, with a view to contributing to the larger discourse of AI on key practicalities so that future regulations of AI in British Columbia consider the full potential of AI in healthcare, while also protecting patients’ rights.

Aaron Steele is the Director of Cybersecurity Products and Services at TELUS. He currently leads the product team in bringing Cybersecurity solutions that deliver tangible, positive outcomes to secure TELUS customers. Throughout his 15+ years at TELUS, Aaron has held several leadership roles including in M&As, Service Development, Delivery and Security Operations. Prior to TELUS, he developed his technical chops and grew his passion for positive customer experiences through roles at a dot com startup, a global IT outsourcing company and volunteering in Mongolia.

Aaron holds a bachelor’s degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University as well as the CISSP and CISM designations. Outside work, he lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children, and likes to stay active outdoors during all four seasons.

Anthony Green is currently the Manager of Security Operations and Compliance Manager (MSOC) at Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia. the MSOC`s key responsibility is leading the team in charge of creating the security program. This includes a mixture of managing security staff and security vendors.

Anthony is also currently working with UBC as their Lead for Cybersecurity Academic Programs and is working on creating a professional certificate in cyber security program management. In the evenings Anthony teaches the Cyber Security Micro-Credential at UBC.

Anthony is very enthusiastic about giving back to the local Information Security community through mentoring young graduates and teaching local small businesses the fundamentals of cybersecurity that they would otherwise not have been exposed to.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philippe Dufresne was appointed Privacy Commissioner of Canada on June 27, 2022. A leading legal expert on human rights, administrative and constitutional law, he previously served as the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons. In this capacity, he was the chief legal officer of the House of Commons and led the office responsible for the provision of legal and legislative drafting services to the House of Commons, its Speaker, Members and committees, the Board of Internal Economy and the House Administration.

Prior to his appointment as Law Clerk of the House of Commons in 2015, he was the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Senior General Counsel, responsible for legal services, litigation, investigations, mediations, employment equity and Access to Information and Privacy. During that time, he successfully represented the Commission before all levels of Canadian Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in a number of key human rights and constitutional cases over the last two decades. He has appeared before the Supreme Court on 15 occasions, on issues ranging from accessibility and equal pay for work of equal value, to the balancing of human rights and national security. As lead counsel for the Commission in the landmark parliamentary privilege case of House of Commons v. Vaid, he helped reinforce and clarify some of the country’s fundamental constitutional principles as they apply to the House of Commons and Parliament.

A member of the Bars of Quebec, Ontario, and Massachusetts, he has served his profession and community in several different capacities, including as president of the constitutional and human rights law section of the Canadian Bar Association (Quebec Branch) and as a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine. In 2014, he served as president of the International Commission of Jurists, an organization devoted to the protection of the rule of law and judicial independence in Canada and internationally.

Commissioner Dufresne holds degrees in common and civil law from McGill University’s Faculty of Law, and has been a part-time professor with the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Common Law and Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law where he taught international criminal law, human rights and appellate advocacy. He regularly speaks on issues of human rights, administrative, constitutional and parliamentary law in Canada.

Evan Anderson is the Principal Technologist and co-founder of Randori (An IBM Company) where he leads the company’s Hacker Operations Center. In this role, Evan leads a team developing new and novel offensive capabilities for Randori’s automated attack platform. He has over 15 years of experience in red teaming, vulnerability research and exploit development and is a long time member of the NCCDC Red Team. Prior to Randori, he worked at Kyrus Technologies supporting commercial and federal projects.

Hansang Bae is the public sector chief technologist at Zscaler where he supports public sector organizations in their mission to transform and modernize securely. Previously, Bae held technology leadership roles at Netskope and Riverbed Technology and was a Citi (Citigroup) Architecture and Technology Engineering team member. As one of the six global engineering leads, he was responsible for performance engineering, network management (NMS) tools, and capacity planning groups for all of Citi. Bae is a world-renown expert in packet analysis with contributions to Wireshark open-source development.

Brian Lenahan is founder and chair of the Quantum Strategy Institute, and author of six Amazon published books on quantum technologies and artificial intelligence. Brian was named a ‘Quantum Top Voice for 2022’ for his LinkedIn publishing activities. He is a former financial services industry executive with a focus on the strategic and practical applications of technology.

Gregory Carpenter is the Chief Security Officer of KnowledgeBridge International. He manages corporate security, including information technology, information security, and data and analytics solutions.

Gregory is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and was selected the National Security Agency’s Operations Officer of the Year in 2007. He serves on the Board of Directors for ATNA Systems, is a Senior Advisor for ARIC, Inc., and formerly sat on the Board of Advisors for EC-Council University and the International Board of Advisors for the Mackenzie Institute.

He served 27 years in the military. Before joining KBI, Gregory served as Vice President for Cyber Operations of NSLT Consulting, Chief of Security Testing for Titania Solutions Group and Chief Operations Officer of PragmatikIO. Gregory’s other key positions include Counterintelligence Division Chief for the Army Research Labs and Chief of Special Space Operations, Functional Team Lead for Electronic Warfare, and Chief of the Global Team at the National Security Agency.

Gregory holds a Bachelor of Science degree, a Master of Science degree, and a Doctorate in Public Health. He is a Certified Information Security Manager and ISO-9000 lead auditor.

Dr. Walid Rjaibi is a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Data Security at IBM. He drives the research for data security as well as the technical architecture and vision for IBM products and services. Prior to this, Walid held several technical and management roles within IBM including Research Staff Member at the IBM Zurich Research Lab, Security Architect for DB2 at the IBM Toronto Lab, and Chief Security Architect for Data & AI at the IBM Toronto Lab.

His Data Security work resulted in 27 granted patents, publications in leading scientific and academic journals/conferences, and industry-proven commercial capabilities that are relied upon by thousands of organizations from around the world to protect critical data and meet security and compliance mandates.

Walid also serves on the professional advisory board for the department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at York University, the department of Computer & Information Systems at the University of Michigan and the Cybersecurity Center at the University of Missouri.

Jeannette Van Den Bulk joined the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia as Deputy Commissioner in 2018. She heads the OIPC’s Policy, Audit and Adjudication departments, providing strategic, legal and policy leadership on emerging privacy and access to information matters in British Columbia, Canada and abroad.

She is responsible for leading systemic investigations of significant public interest issues, including the privacy practices of large private sector companies and BC’s political parties as well as the timeliness of access to information by BC government ministries. In addition, she oversees the development of guidance and educational materials for public bodies and organizations and manages the OIPC’s collaboration with national and international partners.

Prior to her current role, she spent three years as the Assistant Privacy Commissioner for the State of Victoria, Australia and 10 years with the BC government responsible for embedding privacy and access solutions into large-scale public sector initiatives, including the province’s corporate data analytics centre and the BC Services Card.

She is a practicing lawyer in both Canada and Australia with a specialization in legal principles relating to privacy, access, and information management.

The OpenID Foundation is a non-profit global standards body that seeks to help people assert their identity wherever they choose by leading the global community in creating identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy preserving. The Foundation’s standards are used by billions of people across millions of applications to enable user logins, enterprise login, open banking, open data, send risk signals, and enable interoperability between implementations.

Gail is also acting as Special Advisor on Identity Technologies to the California Department of Motor Vehicle Administrators. Gail previously worked at Apple for 5 years, where she led Business Development for a range of new Identity and Payment services. Prior to joining Apple, Gail was SVP and Global Head of Digital Payments for HSBC Holdings and led HSBC Premier and Advance global card portfolios. At American Express she ran the UK Centurion and Platinum card businesses and was part of the Strategic Planning group.

Gail holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. in Public Policy from Princeton University.

Cosanna Preston-Idedia is a technology savvy transformation strategist, leading organizations in the creation of new program areas and service offerings. Her work is citizen/user-centric and emphasizes equity, diversity and inclusion. Her perspective is global, having worked across three continents in Canada, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. She excels at making the unknown known, and building engaged, cross-functional teams, and she has deep experience in digital identity, digital strategy, communications and stakeholder engagement that cuts across the public and private sector. Cosanna is the VP of Advisory Services with the Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada.

John Wunderlich is a data protection professional and expert witness who has worked and consulted about privacy, data protection, and security for over 20 years in multiple jurisdictions. He has provided advice and consulting services to multiple public and private sector organizations in Canada, the United States and abroad. John is a participant and leader in international privacy standards including the ISO, IEEE, and the Kantara Initiative. Before his consulting career, he designed and implemented six sigma process improvement, corporate security & privacy programs and was a senior policy advisor to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.

The Privacy Pro is a boutique privacy consulting firm specializing in data ethics, GDPR, and cross border data transfers. President Lauren Reid has over 13 years of experience in privacy and data protection in Europe and North America. Her broad range of experience includes consulting/advisory, in-house privacy officer, and software and program implementation support. Lauren has in-depth knowledge of privacy laws and the global compliance environment, supported by hands on experience implementing programs at the technical and operational level in various industries. The Privacy Pro is based in Toronto, Canada, offering consulting services globally.

Meaghan Walton-Perreault is a Research Fellow and Coordinator for the University Research Chair in Technology and Society and the AI + Society Initiative at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa. She is interested in the impact of technology on employment and human rights, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and privacy. She recently completed her J.D. at the University of Ottawa. Prior to law school, she worked for the Ontario Ministry of Labour and completed a Master’s in Conflict Studies.

Craig Hicks is a Civilian Criminal Investigator and Senior Forensic Accountant with the RCMP. He has over 20 years of experience split between both private and public sector roles. He started out on the front lines of business and progressed through various corporate roles, eventually choosing to put his skills to the test as a forensic accountant. Over the past 6 years, Craig has worked on a number of criminal cases in Canada, many of which involve cryptocurrencies. Craig holds an M.B.A from the University of Quebec, as well as Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) designations.

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.

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.

Masarah Paquet-Clouston is an assistant professor at Université of Montréal and a collaborator at the Stratosphere Laboratory. She holds a Ph.D. in criminology from Simon Fraser University and is specialized in the study of profit-driven crime enabled by technologies. In the past, she worked five years as a researcher at the private cybersecurity firm GoSecure. She presented the results of her research at various international conferences including Black Hat USA, DEF CON, CERT-EU, RSA, NorthSec, HackFest, and Virus Bulletin.

Dan has worked in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years, and in that time has brought 5 technologies into Canada. He is currently working as Senior Vice President – Canada at BeyondTrust, continuously nurturing relationships with both clients and business partners.

Justin Foster leads the expansion of cloud-based security capabilities at Forescout, focused on bringing an understanding of assets together with proactive risk and reactive threat. Justin has been in Cyber Security for 22 years covering engineering, go to market and was the co-founder of a security analytics firm.

Ben de Bont is the Chief Information Security Officer at ServiceNow.

Prior to ServiceNow, Ben served as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at IBM and MySpace, Chief Security Officer at HP Cloud Services, Principal Security Consultant at Argent Security, and led the online incident response team at Microsoft.

Ben co-leads the Technology & Innovation Council for Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and is a founding and board member of the Cybercrime Support Network. In 2018, he was selected to participate in the Presidential Leadership Scholar Program, an initiative to merge leaders from across non-profit, military, public and private sector fields to facilitate solutions for the nation’s most pressing issues.

Ben holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Computer Science from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. He proudly served in the Australian Army from 1997-2000.

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).

Richard Frank is Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada and Director of the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC). Richard completed a PhD in Computing Science (2010) and another PhD in Criminology (2013) at SFU. His main research interest is Cybercrime. Specifically, he’s interested in researching hackers and security issues, the dark web, online terrorism and warfare, eLaundering and cryptocurrencies, and online child exploitation. He is the creator of The Dark Crawler, a tool for collecting and analyzing data from the open Internet, dark web, and online discussion forums. Through this tool the ICCRC has collected ~150 million posts from various right-wing, left-wing, gender-based and religiously-motivated extremist communities, leading to a number of projects and publications.

Dr. Frank has publications in top-level data mining outlets, such as in Knowledge Discovery in Databases, and security conferences such as Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). His research can also be found in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, to name a few.

Dr. Bessma Momani is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science and Assistant Vice-President of Research and International at the University of Waterloo. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States’ Institute in Washington, DC, and a Fulbright Scholar. She is a Governor on the board of the International Development Research Centre and an Executive member of the board of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

She was interim Associate Vice-President, Interdisciplinary and Sponsored Research 2021-2022, Assistant Vice-President, International Relations at the University of Waterloo in 2020, Assistant Vice-President, Research and International in the Office of Research in 2021, a 2015 fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, and was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Mortara Center. Bessma is a Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary and sits on the Advisory Council to the Middle East Institute’s program on Economics and Energy. She also sits on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal.

She has worked as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, both in the communications office and the Independent Evaluation Office. She has also consulted for Global Affairs Canada (GAC) as a 2021 Visiting Scholar in its International Assistance Research and Knowledge Division by looking at economic security and digital transformations in the Middle East with a particular focus on women and youth, helping GAC devise its new Middle East strategy. From 2018- 2022 she served as member of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group at Public Safety Canada.

Kim Schreader is Director of the Cybersecurity Professional Services team at TELUS. She has more than 15 years of experience in Information Security and Professional Services, working with a variety of clients in both the Public and Private Sector. She has completed certifications in Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) and is a Payment Card Industry Professional (PCI), in addition to completing a Baccalaureate in Social Sciences, Honours Criminology. She has a proven track record supporting client security posture and challenges in Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and Security Testing, at all levels of the organization.

Ayman Siraj is a Lead Investigator on the Microsoft Detection & Response Team (DART) where he manages cyber incident engagements that involve e-crime operators (ransomware), nation state attacks & business email compromises.

Before Microsoft, he was an Incident & Threat Management Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP participating in engagements that encompassed incident response, threat hunting, NIST CSF assessments, table-top exercises and cybersecurity policy & standards build out at various Fortune 100 companies.

Ayman holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Digital Forensics from the University of Southern California. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) holder and has eight Global Information Assurance Certifications (GIAC). He can be contacted via LinkedIn through this URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aymansiraj/.

Aarti Gadhia is a changemaker and has dedicated her entire career to breaking down barriers and boundaries to achieve equality for underrepresented groups in STEM and in leadership. She was honored for her contribution to the cybersecurity community by being named as one of the Top 20 Women in Cyber Security in Canada. Aarti founded Standout To Lead to empower women in cybersecurity to join boards and SHE (Sharing Her Empowerment), a resource group with a mission to be a collective voice and accelerate change within the organization.

She currently works at Microsoft and brings 25 years of sales and leadership experience. She has worked at cybersecurity organizations such as Sophos, Trend, VMWare Carbon Black, Bugcrowd and Tines. Aarti actively participates in the cyber security community as a speaker, a mentor and a judge for provincial scholarships. She volunteers her time on the OWASP Vancouver Board, WiCyS Western Canada Affiliate Board, Vigitrust Global advisory board and serves on the ObserveID board.

Aarti is one of the authors of the book “The Rise of the Cyber Women: Volume Two” and was quoted in Canadian Security Magazine as she shared her views on the importance of soft skills to break down barriers in traditional hiring. She is excited to share her involvement as the Sponsorship Chair for the first global herstory in the making “The Women In Security Documentary”.

Due to her international background, she loves to travel and learn different cultures. Her tagline: “Be Authentic, Be Yourself.”

Jeannine is the Founder and CEO of the global ReTrain Group of companies and of s01ve Cyber Solutions. Before that she has held leadership roles with industry leaders including CIBC, TELUS, Bell, and ATB. These roles included National Marketing Manager, Associate Director Project Management, Associate Director Payment Services, Senior Manager Banking Settlements, Product Manager, various training roles, fraud detection and prevention roles.

Applying her entrepreneurism at the intersection of science, technology, and people, in 2017, she began ReTrain Canada, providing career rehabilitation for large government and insurance organizations. Now international in scope, ReTrain is recognized as a growing leader of training in new technologies and their associated Micro-credentials.

s01ve.io, initially the professional services division of ReTrain’s cyber training and research program, is now its own entity. Staffed with former law enforcement, s01ve is also leading its industry through a preventative and wholistic approach to cyber security that supports small and medium businesses along with the cyber insurance industry.

The partnership between s01ve and ReTrain ensures that both companies are on the leading edge of knowledge, technology and their market applications, a process referred to as “Relevant Adaptability”. ReTrain and s01ve continue to expand these relationships across Canada in various industries.

Jaime Lewis-Gross is the VP of Solution Engineering at Saviynt. She is a veteran Identity & Access Management leader with 15+ years of professional services and product experience helping Fortune 1000 companies to architect identity governance and cloud security solutions. Jaime previously served as the Vice President of IAM Strategy at Identropy and has held a variety of global enterprise leadership and consulting roles, guiding clients through workshops, program formulation, and development of IAM roadmaps.

With over 25 years of experience as an IT security professional, Jo-Ann has held senior security positions with notable brands such as Best Buy and Vancity. During that time, she has distinguished herself as one of the industry’s leading experts in assessing the ever-changing threat landscape to identify and develop effective responses to protect an organization’s information assets.

Technically strong and strategically experienced, as Long View’s CISO, Jo-Ann brings a level of expertise to one of the most demanding positions within a modern, digital enterprise.

She continues to develop and execute on proactive cybersecurity and privacy programs. She focuses on achieving a balance between effectively addressing potential threats while simultaneously enabling strategic and tactical business objectives.

Currently living in BC’s Okanagan, Jo-Ann and her husband David have four children and has recently undertaken a major project to renovate their old house with plans to dabble in grape growing and winemaking in the far-off future as they restore the property.

Po Tea-Duncan is the Executive Director for Cyber Security within Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) branch. Po has over 20 years of experience in the federal government. She currently leads the teams enabling the delivery of secure and reliable government services through the GC’s digital identity program, enterprise security architecture, security strategy and policy development, and GC Cyber Security Event Management. In 2020, she was named as one of the Top Women in Cyber Security in Canada. In 2022, she was featured in The Female Quotient and Deloitte’s 25 Women in Cyber campaign. Prior to joining TBS, Po served in a variety of roles at Global Affairs Canada in the areas of systems security engineering, architecture, and incident management.

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

A proud Albertan technology entrepreneur, advocate, and leader, Koleya Karringten has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities of product commercialization, ecosystem building and fostering inclusion in the technology industry. As the co-founder and CEO of Absolute Combustion, she has spent over a decade successfully designing and developing ground-breaking cleantech solutions for multiple industry sectors, including aerospace and Oil & Gas. She is a driving force in Canada’s blockchain technology industry as the Executive Director of the Canadian Blockchain Consortium (CBC) and co-founder/board member of the Canadian Blockchain Association for Women (CBAW). In her leadership role at the CBC, she has merged her passions for technology and social good to bring together blockchain companies, corporate leaders and the government to build the country’s largest blockchain ecosystem organization. An influential public speaker, writer, and community volunteer, Koleya strongly believes that uniting diverse voices behind a common goal is the path to creating a fairer, more sustainable and prosperous nation. Koleya also shares her passion for supporting women in STEM through her volunteer role the Vice Chair of Elevate Aviation a Not for Profit organization dedicated to supporting the education and training of women to have technical careers in Aviation.

Jeannette Van Den Bulk joined the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia as Deputy Commissioner in 2018. She heads the OIPC’s Policy, Audit and Adjudication departments, providing strategic, legal and policy leadership on emerging privacy and access to information matters in British Columbia, Canada and abroad.

She is responsible for leading systemic investigations of significant public interest issues, including the privacy practices of large private sector companies and BC’s political parties as well as the timeliness of access to information by BC government ministries. In addition, she oversees the development of guidance and educational materials for public bodies and organizations and manages the OIPC’s collaboration with national and international partners.

Prior to her current role, she spent three years as the Assistant Privacy Commissioner for the State of Victoria, Australia and 10 years with the BC government responsible for embedding privacy and access solutions into large-scale public sector initiatives, including the province’s corporate data analytics centre and the BC Services Card.

She is a practicing lawyer in both Canada and Australia with a specialization in legal principles relating to privacy, access, and information management.

Dev Sharma is a Senior Leader in the Network and Security Business Group for VMware Canada, where he leads a team of Solution Engineers focussed on Modernizing and Transforming Network and Security for customers across Canada. He has been in the IT industry for 22 years and has mostly focussed his career helping customers across the globe build and secure Private, Hybrid and Public clouds. Dev is passionate about driving business outcomes using technology.

Micki Boland is a global cybersecurity warrior and evangelist with Check Point Software Technologies Office of the CTO. A practitioner with 20 years in IT, cybersecurity, emerging technology innovation, Micki holds ISC2 CISSP, Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin, MBA with Global Security Concentration from East Carolina University. Micki writes cybersecurity articles for Cybertalk.org, has written for Dark Reading, Silicon Angle and Decipher, and speaks frequently with the broadcast media and radio shows regarding cybersecurity for and in emerging technology, the global threat landscape, tips and resources for consumers and enterprise organizations, Dark Web, Cyber Warfare, AI (ML) in cybersecurity, cloud security and DevSecOps.

With an ethical hacking background, Antoine Saikaley has over 20 years of diverse IT experience covering many complex implementations of security solutions for enterprise customers across Canada. Presently, Antoine serves as Technical Director for Trend Micro Canada. Antoine oversees the enablement of Trend Micro Community members, and leads a team of sales engineers. He is a program advisory committee member at Seneca College. In collaboration with higher education institutions, Antoine also organizes educational curriculums, teaching cloud security to the future generation of cybersecurity leaders.

Colin Bennett received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy governance at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published seven books on these subjects. Through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on Big Data Surveillance, he is currently researching the capture and use of personal data on voters by political parties in Western democracies.

Elizabeth Denham CBE, joined Baker McKenzie as International Consultant, Data and Tech in 2022. She has over 15 years’ experience as a data protection regulator in Canada and UK. She was most recently the Information Commissioner for the UK (2016-2021) . During her tenure in the UK she also chaired the Global Privacy Assembly, which brings together more than 130 data protection authorities around the world – the premier global forum for data protection. She is recognized as a leader in enabling responsible data use by government and the commercial sector, and for implementing the GDPR into UK law. She tackled some of the most complex issues facing the digital economy, including the use of data in political campaigns, the use of live facial recognition technologies in the commercial and police sectors, and the transparent and fair use of analytics and AI. She is passionate about the protection of children online, ethical and accountable use of health data, and supporting companies to embed data protection and security into their services and offerings. Elizabeth was honoured in the Queen’s 2019 Honours list a CBE for services to protecting personal privacy of UK citizens.

David Loukidelis was British Columbia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner from 1999 to 2010 and Deputy Attorney General of British Columbia from 2010 to 2012. David provides advice to governments and private sector organizations across Canada on a wide range of legal and policy matters. David’s involvement in privacy and access to information goes back more than 20 years. As Information and Privacy Commissioner, he issued hundreds of appeal decisions, investigation reports and policy papers. From 2004 to 2009, David participated actively on behalf of Canada in the creation and implementation of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation organization’s APEC Privacy Framework, a tool to protect personal information flowing across borders while facilitating e-commerce. He has also been a member of numerous advisory committees and working groups, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Privacy Advisory Committee and Chair of the Website Working Group of the International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners. David has degrees from Oxford, Edinburgh and Osgoode Hall, attended the University of Toronto, and clerked for the late Bertha Wilson at the Supreme Court of Canada.

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

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

Dan Kiselbach provides general legal counsel, and his practice focus is on global trade and tax. Over the last three decades he has appeared at all Canadian court levels, including the superior courts of several provinces, the Tax Court of Canada, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has represented clients in audit, assessment, enforcement, collections, criminal, and other matters, including London Court of International Arbitration proceedings. He is the Managing Partner of the Vancouver office, and also leads the firm’s Global Trade and Customs Group as well as the Vancouver Tax Group.

Dan provides legal, strategic, and planning advice. He has assisted clients in most areas of the economy, including the auto, agricultural, apparel, e-commerce, energy, first nations, financial, food, government, health care, manufacturing, marine, mining, not-for-profit, and public sectors. He frequently deals with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing legislation, customs and commodity tax planning, e-commerce, economic sanctions, export controls, logistics, and supply chain management. He is a member of the bars of B.C., Ontario and New York, and has extensive knowledge of the regulations affecting Canada-US trade and investment.

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.

Norman specializes in conducting investigations and due diligence projects involving corruption, money laundering and fraud, and provides training in governance, risk and compliance technologies and programs. His professional career spans more than 30 years, including 23 when he was based in Brazil. He holds degrees from the Universidade Federal do Paraná and the University of British Columbia, and was formerly Compliance and Operational Risk Manager for two investment firms in Canada. Norman is also a Director of the Anti-Corruption Law Program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, and has been a frequent speaker on financial crime, anti-corruption, and business integrity at conferences and seminars.

Michelle is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. She is a former Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies), a past Executive Director of the Manitoba Legal Research Institute and was a member of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission for over 10 years. Michelle teaches courses on taxation law, philanthropy and law, property law and the international and domestic governance of tainted finance. She was a member of the Research Council affiliated with the 2022 Public Commission of Inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act. Her research and scholarly work attends to money laundering law, civil forfeiture regimes, terrorist financing, philanthropy and law and taxation law.

Pam Simpson currently works within the TD Fusion Intelligence Team as a Senior Information Security Analyst, shaping intelligence collection, production, and enablement. Her focus in this role is to build internal and external strategic planning for threat intelligence collection and model intelligence optimization within products produced by the Fusion Intelligence team. Prior to joining TD, Pam worked with BMO as Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst within the Global Information Operations Centre. Here, she focused on strategic reporting of state-sponsored cyber threats and ransomware. During her time with BMO, Pam also served as the private sector lead on the Scientific Executive Council for the Human-Centric Cybersecurity initiative and co-authored the (forthcoming) chapter “Private-Public Partnership Opportunities in the Canadian AML and Regulatory Landscape”. During her Master’s in International Relations at Queen’s University, she focused on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, co-publishing the article “Tracking Transnational Terrorist Resourcing Nodes and Networks” in the Florida State University Law Review. She was also provided the opportunity to study financial crime related to initial coin offerings and distributed ledger technology at the University of Sydney Law School.

Winn has lived Cybersecurity since 1983, and now says, “I think, maybe, I’m starting to understand it.” His predictions about the internet & security have been scarily spot on. He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbor” while testifying before Congress in 1991. His seminal book, “Information Warfare” showed the world how and why massive identify theft, cyber-espionage, nation-state hacking and cyber-terrorism would be an integral part of the future (today’s present).

More than a dozen books later, is magnus opus “Analogue Network Security” offers time-based and probabilistic approaches to justifiable security. By hybridizing analogue and digital security techniques, he wants to “fix security and the internet”, including fake news, spam, phishing, DDoS and more. It will twist your mind. “The Best Cybersecurity Book of All Time,” Cyber Defense Magazine.

Currently he is exploring the future of security & privacy in the “Metaverse” – whatever that might be – through his unique security prism. Tens of billions of dollars are being spent by global technology giants to digitally terraform the first generation of multi-user interactive virtual worlds with varying degrees of immersion.

His views on yet to-be-developed technologies, highly granular enhanced surveillance capitalism, behavioral monitoring, undue influence and myriad the other issues make a lot of folks very uncomfortable.

Some 30+ years after his pioneering work on Cyberwar, what has Schwartau come up with this time?

Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts

Distinguished Fellow: Ponemon Institute

International Security Hall of Fame: ISSA

Top-20 industry pioneers: SC Magazine.

Top 25 Most Influential: Security Magazine

Top 5 Security Thinkers: SC Magazine.

Power Thinker and one of the 50 most powerful people: Network World.

Top Rated (4.85/5) RSA Speaker

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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.

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

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

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

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

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