PRESENTERS: DAY 1
Day 1: Industry Trends
Day 1 focuses on ‘Industry Trends’ including VIP keynote and Canadian thought leader speakers, panels, and technical demonstrations.
Welcoming Address
President Cheryl Jensen
Cheryl Jensen is the eighth president of Algonquin College. She joins Algonquin from Mohawk College, where she held the title of Vice President, Academic for five years. Cheryl joined Mohawk as a Chemical Engineering Technology professor in 1983 and served as Dean, Executive Dean, and Vice President of Engineering Technology, Apprenticeship and Corporate Training. Cheryl was instrumental in the development and launch of Canada’s first Bachelor of Technology collaborative degree program with McMaster University and the Hydro One – College Consortium.
Opening Keynote Presentation
Colleen Merchant
Director General, National Cyber Security Directorate, National and Cyber Security Branch, Public Safety Canada
Ms. Merchant, with a rich background in science, technology and security, is the recently appointed Director General of National Cyber Security at Public Safety Canada.
Industry Keynote Presentation
Greg Young
Vice President, Gartner
Greg Young is a Research Vice President in Gartner covering network security. Mr. Young has more than 20 years of experience in IT security in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security and was head of IT security for the Federal Department of Communications.
Dave Black
Manager, Cyber Intel Team, National Intelligence Coordination Centre, RCMP
Dave Black has been a civilian member of RCMP for over 33 years. He joined the RCMP in a pre-internet / pre-cybercrime era and has transitioned into management of the Cyber Team, in HQ Ottawa’s Federal Policing, National Intelligence Coordination Centre (NICC). Dave is an active participant in many RCMP and Government workgroups linked to cyber security or cybercrime.
Nadeem Douba
Managing Partner & Hacker at Red Canari
Nadeem Douba is a Managing Partner & Hacker at Red Canari; an Ottawa-based information security startup that offers highly specialized technical security services to clients in the public and private sector. With over 15 years’ experience, Nadeem specializes in performing and penetration tests and red teaming for Fortune 100s, critical infrastructure, health care, and law enforcement clients.
Kris Klein
Partner at nNovation
Kris has more than a decade of public and private sector experience in the federal regulatory arena in Canada, and is one of Canada’s leading legal experts on privacy, access to information and information security issues.
Kevin McNamee
Director of Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs
Kevin McNamee is director of Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs and is responsible for the security research team that supports the ALU’s cloud based malware detection system. Previously he was director of security research at ALU’s Bell Labs specializing in the analysis of malware propagation and detection.
Brian O’Higgins
Executive Fellow, Mistral Venture Partners
Brian O’Higgins is an Angel Investor and Board Member. He has more than 30 years of experience as a leader in security technology development—possibly known best for his role pioneering PKI (public key infrastructure)— and as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Entrust, a leading Internet Security Company.
Michael Power
Consultant, Legal and Consulting Services
Michael Power, based in Toronto, provides legal and consulting services to national and international clients on governance, technology, privacy and security-related issues. He has extensive experience providing legal and strategic advice in both the public and private sectors.
Teresa Scassa
Research Chair in Information Law, University of Ottawa
Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa, where she is also a professor at the Faculty of Law.
Scott Smith
Director, Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Director, Canadian Intellectual Property Council
Scott Smith is the Director of Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Director of the Canadian Intellectual Property Council.
Trevor Stevado
Managing Partner & Hacker at Red Canari
Trevor Stevado is a Managing Partner & Hacker at Red Canari; an Ottawa-based information security startup that offers highly specialized technical security services to clients in the public and private sector. Trevor specializes in cutting-edge application and network infrastructure security research and has played a pivotal role in securing some of North America’s most critical information systems.
Eric Miller
Vice President of Policy, North America and Cybersecurity
Eric Miller is Vice President of Policy, North America and Cybersecurity at the Business Council of Canada, which represents the CEOs of 150 of Canada’s leading companies.
Foundation Sponsor Presenters
Sean Earhard
Head, Cisco’s Advanced Threat Solutions team
Sean Earhard heads Cisco’s Advanced Threat Solutions team for Canada, working with organizations to design and build strategies to secure their networks and users from today’s Advanced Threats.
Ashley Lukeeram, CISSP, CEH
Federal & Regional Director – Cybersecurity
RSA, the Security Division of EMC
Ashley is responsible for managing the business relationships with the Canadian Federal departments and regional enterprises by helping them address Cybersecurity issues through RSA’s portfolio of solutions.
Tyson Macaulay
Chief Security Strategist and VP Security Services, Fortinet
Tyson Macaulay is the Chief Security Strategist and Vice President of Security Services at Fortinet. This role involves international business strategy and thought leadership for Fortinet, and developing Consulting Services capacity.
Paul Reid
Senior Director of Partner Engagement and Enablement, Interset
As Senior Director of Partner Engagement and Enablement at Interset, Paul Reid serves as an expert source for Interset customers, prospects, partners, industry analysts and journalists.