TUESDAY OCT 5

Emcee for the Day: Brennen Schmidt, Cybersecurity Author 

Opening Remarks

Byron Holland, President & CEO, CIRA

Panel

Threatscape 2023 and Beyond: AI, Deep Fakes and Other Unexpected Challenges

Moderator

• Darrin Horner, Regional Sales Manager with OKTA 

Panelists

• Jennifer Fernick, SVP & Global Head of Research, NCC Group
•  Dr. Hadis Karimpour, Associate Professor and  Chair in Secure and Reliable Networked Engineering Systems, University of Calgary
• Cara Wolf, CEO, Ammolite Analytx.

Presentation

DNS Encryption: The Next Step to Information Security

A fireside discussion between Mark Gaudet, General Manager Cyber and DNS, CIRA, and Eric Rescorla, CTO, Firefox, Mozilla.

Daily Quiz

Sponsored by Citrix

Presentation

Improving Your Cloud Security Posture

Tips on how to discover security gaps in your cloud architectures/environments
Presenter
Keith Mokris, Product Marketing Lead, Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks

Presentation

Proofpoint Cybersecurity Evangelist, Brian Reed

Closing Remarks

WEDNESDAY OCT 6

Emcee for the Day: Cat Coode, Data Privacy Expert, Binary Tattoo

Opening Remarks

Mark Gaudet, Business Development Manager, CIRA

Presentation

How to Reduce Threats and Make Your Life Easier

Three Cybersecurity Behaviours to Instill in Employees
Erin Hutchison, Product Marketing Manager, Cybersecurity

Panel

Zero Trust:  The new approach to security

Moderator
Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, Vice President, Global Field CISO, Fortinet

Panel
Andrea Knoblaunch, Solutions Architect, Softchoice
Eman Hammadi, Cybersecurity Researcher
Mark Gaudet, Business Development Manager, CIRA

Workshop (Choose One)

Zero Trust: Your Questions Answered

Peter Newton, Senior Director Product Marketing, Fortinet

OR 

What’s Changing in Cybersecurity Insurance?

Mikel Pearce, Lawyer, Strigberger Brown Armstrong LLP

Daily Quiz

Sponsored by ESET 

Presentation

Self-Learning AI: Redefining Enterprise Security  

In this session learn about today’s autonomous, self-learning defenses. The presentation is followed by a live Q&A. Have your questions ready.

Presenter
Nabil Zoldjalali, Director of Cloud Security, Darktrace

Closing Remarks

THURSDAY OCT 7

Emcee for the Day: Jim Love, CIO, ITWC

Opening Remarks

Tanya O'Callaghan, Vice President, Community Investment, Policy and Advocacy, CIRA   

Presentation

Embedding Privacy Into All Tech-related activities

Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director, Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre shares her thoughts on the way organizations should be dealing with personal data.

Presentation

GDPR : Three Years Later: Who cares?

The EU General Data Protection Regulation went into effect on May 25, 2018. Fasken Lawyer and privacy specialist Vanessa Henri shares her thoughts on how it has changed the way Canadian organizations do business.

Presentation

How to Measure Risk

Voluntary NIST frameworks have been the basis of cybersecurity policy for more than a decade, but many organizations don’t understand them - or many of the other available measurement models. In this session learn how NIST can give visibility into your vulnerabilities.

Jeff Gardiner, Executive Cybersecurity Consultant, Gardiner Consulting

Workshops (Choose One)

Applying the NIST Framework: A Hypothetical Case Study

Jeff Gardiner, Executive Cybersecurity Consultant, Gardiner Consulting

Or

eCrime Industrialization

Greg Foss, a senior cybersecurity strategist with Carbon Black/VMware looks at the evolution of cybercrime .

Daily Quiz

Sponsored by Watserv

Presentation

Cybersecurity Assessments: Do you want to look good or be good?

Terry Cutler, Founder, CEO, Cyology Labs

Live Workshops (Choose One)

Presentation

What You Need to Know Today to Prepare for Tomorrow

Conference Closing Remarks