Dr. Gregory Carpenter serves as the Chief Security Officer at KnowledgeBridge International and holds the title of Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in London and was named the National Security Agency’s Operations Officer of the Year. He is on the Board of Directors for ATNA Systems, a Senior Advisor for ARIC, Inc., and a member of the Special Operations Medical Association and the Military Cyber Professionals Association.

Prior to his current role, Dr. Carpenter held various senior military and civilian positions, including Vice President for Cyber Operations, Chief of Security Testing, Chief Operations Officer, Counterintelligence Division Chief, Chief of Special Space Operations, and Functional Team Lead for Electronic Warfare. Additionally, he has experience as an epidemiological primary investigator and research team leader.

With a 27-year career in the U.S. Army, Dr. Carpenter is a retired army officer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree, a Master of Science degree, and a Doctorate in Public Health. His professional certifications include Certified Information Security Manager, Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt, and ISO-9000 lead auditor.

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.

Professor Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of the social implications of artificial intelligence. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR in New York, an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, and the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.  Her latest book, Atlas of AI (Yale, 2021) won the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, the ASSI&T Best Information Science Book Award, and was named one of the best books in 2021 by New Scientist and the Financial Times. Over her twenty-year research career, she has also produced groundbreaking creative collaborations and visual investigations. Her project Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the V&A in London, and was awarded with the Design of the Year Award in 2019 and included in the Design of the Decades by the Design Museum of London. Her collaboration with the artist Trevor Paglen, Excavating AI, won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science. She has advised policy makers in the United Nations, the White House, and the European Parliament, and she currently leads the Knowing Machines Project, an international research collaboration that investigates the foundations of machine learning. She was named on the TIME100 list as one of the most influential people in AI. Her latest exhibition, Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power 1500-2025, opened in Milan this month.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Dr. Gregory Carpenter serves as the Chief Security Officer at KnowledgeBridge International and holds the title of Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in London and was named the National Security Agency’s Operations Officer of the Year. He is on the Board of Directors for ATNA Systems, a Senior Advisor for ARIC, Inc., and a member of the Special Operations Medical Association and the Military Cyber Professionals Association.

Prior to his current role, Dr. Carpenter held various senior military and civilian positions, including Vice President for Cyber Operations, Chief of Security Testing, Chief Operations Officer, Counterintelligence Division Chief, Chief of Special Space Operations, and Functional Team Lead for Electronic Warfare. Additionally, he has experience as an epidemiological primary investigator and research team leader.

With a 27-year career in the U.S. Army, Dr. Carpenter is a retired army officer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree, a Master of Science degree, and a Doctorate in Public Health. His professional certifications include Certified Information Security Manager, Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt, and ISO-9000 lead auditor.

Markus is a dedicated quantum physicist, senior financial executive and deep tech entrepreneur. Since he was 14 years old, Markus has been a quantum physics enthusiast. He built on that passion, studying mathematics and physics at RWTH Aachen, and researched in the area of quantum field theory at CERN. His curiosity drew him to business and finance, and he subsequently joined Boston Consulting Group.

Later on, he assumed management responsibilities as a senior executive in various corporates including Deutsche Bank and UniCredit, as well as positions as Chief Financial Officer in owner-managed digital and high-tech companies.

Ultimately, he decided to leverage his expertise in quantum physics, business and finance to become an entrepreneur in the quantum technologies space. In 2018, he founded Terra Quantum AG, a deep tech pioneer commercializing quantum tech application. Markus is senior advisor to private equity funds and member of the “Baden-Badener Unternehmergespräche (BBUG)”.

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Tim McCreight is the Vice President of Business Development for Apollo Information Systems Canada and is the ASIS President for 2023. He is an accomplished security professional with experience in both the physical and cyber realms. Over his 40+ year career, he has held executive leadership roles throughout North America, developing risk based, business focused enterprise security programs.

Tim has obtained his CISA, CISSP and CPP security designations. He’s also earned his Master of Science in Security Risk Management (with Merit) from Leicester University.

He has presented at conferences around the world, speaking on topics ranging from telecommunications fraud, to developing security programs based on the principles of Enterprise Security Risk Management (or ESRM).

Tim is a regular contributor to Canadian Security Magazine, and co-hosts the podcast “Caffeinated Risk”, a monthly podcast for security professionals, by security professionals.

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.

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.

Pamela Snively is the Chief Data & Trust Officer at TELUS. She leads the team responsible for privacy governance and data ethics, along with data management and a number of compliance functions, including the Anti-bribery & Corruption and Competition Law programs. Pam approaches overall data governance through the lens of customer trust, leveraging TELUS’ Customer First principle to drive the organization’s commitment to privacy and data ethics.

Pamela was the recipient of the 2017 Ontario Bar Association’s Karen Spector Memorial Award for Excellence in Privacy Law. She participates in a number of national and international think-tanks and governance bodies related to privacy and data governance, including serving as a Board member for the Information Accountability Foundation and on the Privacy and Data Advisory Committee for the Canadian Marketing Association. She is also a founding member and Chair of Canada’s Business Privacy Group, a working group made up of some of Canada’s leading privacy professionals and industry associations focused on building trust in Canada’s digital ecosystem and legislative regime.

Pamela is a frequent speaker on privacy and data ethics and she actively encourages other organizations to join her in her mission to earn and elevate consumer trust in our digital ecosystem.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.”

Melanie Anderson is the Director General, Secure Solutions and Services Directorate at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, responsible for applied cryptographic research, architecture, engineering and development of secure cryptographic solutions.

In her previous role as Director, Cryptographic Security and Systems Development, Melanie and her teams were responsible for Canadian Communications Security (COMSEC ) policy and compliance, evaluating the security of cryptographic products, providing cryptographic advice and guidance including preparations for the quantum threat to Cryptography , and modernizing the Government of Canada’s classified infrastructure. Melanie is an Executive Champion of the Women in Cyber and Intelligence (WICI) group at CSE, and CSE’s Co-Executive Champion for Women in Defence and Security (WiDS) in Canada. She is passionate about promoting the well-being of women in the workplace, and mentoring and encouraging girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM.

Melanie began her career at CSE in 2003 and has held numerous technical and leadership roles in cyber security and IT, including Manager of Cryptographic Systems Development, Manager of Cyber Threat Relationships and Incident Management, and Supervisor of Cyber Health and Trend Reporting. She was a technical liaison for CSE in the United States, and has held roles as a software developer, a technical trainer, and a project manager for IT systems used by Government of Canada clients.

She holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick and completed the Senior Executive Fellows Program through the Harvard Kennedy School in 2020. In 2023, Melanie was recognized by Deloitte as one of 30 Women in Cyber at the forefront of the cyber revolution and she was named one of Canada’s Top 20 Women in Cyber Security by IT World Canada.

Sherry Rumbolt holds a position within Shared Services Canada, Infrastructure Security Operations, Enterprise IT Security Operations as a Senior Strategic Cybersecurity Advisor. Sherry is a 21 year Veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces/ Department of National Defence and served in the Army in IM/IT. With more than 25 years experience in IT and Cybersecurity, she previously held several senior level Cybersecurity positions within the Department of National Defence/Canadian Armed Forces and the Government of British Columbia.

Sherry is very passionate about educating future generations of Cybersecurity experts and spreading the word about the importance of Cybersecurity. Sherry regularly speaks at a variety of events and conferences regarding cyber security often focusing on employment equity and continuous education, training and awareness. In 2021, she was named as one of Canada’s Top 25 Women in Defence, and named as one of Canada’s Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity in 2020. She recently was awarded a lifetime achievement award for her work in advocating for women in Cybersecurity and furthering the profession in Canada. Sherry sits on a variety of Advisory Boards within Canada including Canadian Women in Cybersecurity Annual Conference and Cyber Catalyst Program for Veterans, she is a Mentor to many, and is very passionate about empowering employment equity groups to have equal opportunities for roles within Cybersecurity.

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

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.

Rossilyne Tan is an avid cybersecurity practitioner who focuses on bridging the gap between technology and its users. Her expertise lies in security awareness and endpoint protection. She often conducts speaking engagements to educate corporations on the current threat landscape and how to prevent users from falling trap on the latest phishing tactics.

Her experience working in both the public and private sectors has shaped her approach in ensuring that her clients receive accurate and actionable security strategies.

In her spare time, she volunteers for ISACA Vancouver Chapter as the President. Prior to that, she was the director of SheLeadsTech and the associate director of the Programs Committee. Her goal is to give back to the community that has inspired and empowered her to advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the technology sector.

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.

Sami Khoury is the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the Cyber Centre). The Cyber Centre is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services and support on cyber security for government, critical infrastructure owners and operations, the private sector and the Canadian public. Sami began his career at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in 1992 as a research engineer exploring the impact of emerging multimedia communications technologies. He held various management positions and leadership roles at CSE, including Director General Capabilities Development and more recently as Deputy Chief (ADM) for Enterprise Technologies and Solutions. In this role, he was CSE’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and responsible for IT and Information Security, as well as leading CSE’s overall Research program and 24/7 Operations Centre.

Sami holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering (1988) and a Masters of Applied Science (1991) from Concordia University in Montreal. He completed a certificate program in Public Sector Leadership at the University of Ottawa in 2016. Sami received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and the APEX Award of Excellence for Innovation in 2020.

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.

RGS Management Consultants specializes in advising and leading privacy programs within both private and public sector companies. RGS Management services focus on providing practical, cost-effective operational solutions that meet consumer, corporate, and regulatory expectations while demonstrating accountability and compliance with privacy laws.  Having served as Chief Privacy Officer at TD Bank, HSBC, and the University Health Network, she has the unique experience of having led privacy programs in both the private and public sectors and was a privacy regulator through an Executive interchange program with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s office.

Ewan Affleck has worked and lived in northern Canada since 1992. He is currently serving as the Senior Medical Advisor – Health Informatics, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta, Strategic Advisor – Clinical and Informatics at the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and Chair of the Alberta Virtual Care Working Group. He is the past Chief Medical Information Officer of the Northwest Territories, was co-chair of the national Virtual Care Task Force, served on the Expert Working Group of the pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy, and is the Executive Producer and co-writer of The Unforgotten (2021), an award-winning film about inequities in health service for Indigenous people living in Canada. In 2013, he was appointed to the Order of Canada for his contribution to northern health care.

Rob Davidson brings many years of experience to his role as Chief Information Security Officer at Pacific Blue Cross and Pacific Blue Cross Solutions. His career started with Dell Canada and has progressed though several senior strategic and leadership positions at industry-defining organizations such as Microsoft and Hootsuite. Prior to his recent return to Vancouver, Rob worked through an extended tenure at Microsoft from the original basics of networking through the launch of the Global Azure Cloud services

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

In addition to his core work, you will also find him engaged in Board of Directors (and Board advisory) positions, volunteer opportunities and working to mentor and assist the next generation of Security professionals.

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

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

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

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

Umit Aksu stands at the forefront of mobile security innovation. As the Founder and Director of www.mobilehackinglab.com, Umit has revolutionized the learning landscape by introducing a on-demand learning platform that provides advanced exploitation and fuzzing courses for mobile devices. This state-of-the-art platform grants learners’ access to fully rooted and jailbroken devices via the web, ensuring an unparalleled and interactive learning journey. In his present role as a security engineer at Microsoft, Umit is leading the pentest program for Microsoft Identity and consistently delivers rigorous cloud security assessments. Prior to his tenure at Microsoft, Umit showcased his leadership prowess at ING Bank. Here, he not only led vulnerability research and security engineering teams but also managed high-performing teams that set industry benchmarks. With a vast reservoir of experience, Umit is an acclaimed expert in penetration testing and vulnerability research. He is deeply entrenched in the offensive security domain, specializing in reverse engineering, fuzzing, and exploit development. Notably, Umit has imparted his knowledge and expertise at renowned platforms, having conducted trainings at Black Hat. Join him in his upcoming workshop on Android Fuzzing and Exploitation to delve deep into the intricacies of mobile security.

Mr. Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer is NATO’s first Chief Information Officer (CIO).  In this capacity, his main responsibility is to realize Allies’ vision for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as mandated by the North Atlantic Council. He facilitates the integration, alignment and cohesion of ICT systems across the NATO Enterprise and its 25,000 civilian and military users, and oversees the development and operation of ICT capabilities.

Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer is the director of the Office of the Chief Information Officer, which is composed of ICT and cybersecurity experts, and reports directly to the NATO Secretary General. His deputy is Brigadier General Krzysztof Kociuba.

He also fulfils the function of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and acts as the single point of authority for all cybersecurity issues. This includes leading incident management, orienting specific investments, improving NATO’s cybersecurity posture, as well as increasing cybersecurity awareness NATO-wide.

Prior to joining NATO, Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer has directed all global computing and information technology systems for Sierra Wireless in Vancouver, Canada, from 2010 until 2021. This position followed eight years at Hewlett-Packard in Strategy & Planning and Business Intelligence leadership roles. In the 1990s, Mr. Boudreaux-Dehmer oversaw Supply Chain systems at Compaq’s Latin America Division in Houston, Texas, and São Paulo, Brazil. He started his career as a programmer at Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke AG (BHS) in Peissenberg, Germany, in the 1980s.

Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer holds an MBA from Duke University in North Carolina, USA and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Business Management Research from the University of Reading, UK. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at the University of Reading. The thesis for this degree examines human-technology interactions within the context of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer is NATO’s first Chief Information Officer (CIO).  In this capacity, his main responsibility is to realize Allies’ vision for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as mandated by the North Atlantic Council. He facilitates the integration, alignment and cohesion of ICT systems across the NATO Enterprise and its 25,000 civilian and military users, and oversees the development and operation of ICT capabilities.

Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer is the director of the Office of the Chief Information Officer, which is composed of ICT and cybersecurity experts, and reports directly to the NATO Secretary General. His deputy is Brigadier General Krzysztof Kociuba.

He also fulfils the function of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and acts as the single point of authority for all cybersecurity issues. This includes leading incident management, orienting specific investments, improving NATO’s cybersecurity posture, as well as increasing cybersecurity awareness NATO-wide.

Prior to joining NATO, Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer has directed all global computing and information technology systems for Sierra Wireless in Vancouver, Canada, from 2010 until 2021. This position followed eight years at Hewlett-Packard in Strategy & Planning and Business Intelligence leadership roles. In the 1990s, Mr. Boudreaux-Dehmer oversaw Supply Chain systems at Compaq’s Latin America Division in Houston, Texas, and São Paulo, Brazil. He started his career as a programmer at Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke AG (BHS) in Peissenberg, Germany, in the 1980s.

Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer holds an MBA from Duke University in North Carolina, USA and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Business Management Research from the University of Reading, UK. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at the University of Reading. The thesis for this degree examines human-technology interactions within the context of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.

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.

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.