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About the Event
Day One was full of presentations by leading identity and digital economy experts from Canada and around the world. That evening we hosted the Leaders Dinner, honouring the visionaries who have led and continue to shape the Canadian and global identity space.
Day Two was slightly shorter, as an “unconference”. Drawing upon the incredible expertise of gathered attendees, participants worked together to tackle the hottest topics and thorniest issues facing the industry.
IdentityNorth was founded on a vision of building a community for the purpose of supporting 3 objectives:
Educate:
Inspire Canadians with a sense of the new opportunities presented by broad adoption of Digital ID as a foundational piece in our lives. We see a huge opportunity to grow our economy by building literacy around Digital ID, privacy, and the emergence of our digital economy.
Connect:
Guide Canadians into a bigger, broader set of discussions, and activities surrounding Digital ID and its applications. The solutions to the challenges and opportunities ahead likely already lie in exploring each other’s ideas, technology, and working together. We can’t work together if we don’t know each other. How better to really know someone than to learn from leaders, engage in lively discussion, explore new ideas and share meals together?
Promote:
Support world-class Canadian companies as they seek to gain profile and access to projects and opportunities across Canada and around the world. We Canadians punch above our weight, contributing seminal work like The 7 Laws of Identity, Privacy by Design, the widely adopted Levels of Assurance, and the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada. Unfortunately, we often export by exporting our people. IdentityNORTH will help Canadians to share our technology and architectures around the world and, in doing so, to also export our principles to help lead the world. We will help create a globally recognized hub of excellence here in Canada.
Agenda
Day 1 – Tuesday June 19, 2018
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration and Networking Breakfast | |
| 9:00 | Welcome Address | Aran Hamilton – Chair, IdentityNORTH |
| 9:10 | 2018 – The Year the World Paid Attention
It’s time for a change. The internet was created upside down and the effects are here. Facebook and election results, Blockchain super valuations, Ransomware, Fraud, etc. How do we invest now for tomorrow? |
Pamela Dingle – Director of Identity Standards, Microsoft |
| 9:35 | DIACC Leadership Panel: How Canada’s Private and Public Sectors are Collaborating and Learning from Each Other | Joni Brennan – President, DIACC (Moderator)
Janice Wagner – Managing Director, National Digital Lead, Public Sector, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Franklin Garrigues – VP, Digital Channels, TD Asif Savvas – SVP & Partner, Canada & Middle East, Simeio Solutions |
| 10:00 | GDPR – What Canadian Organizations Need to Know | Beth Dewitt – Senior Manager Cyber Risk Services, Deloitte
Irene Reverte Sanchez – Senior GDPR Consultant, Deloitte |
| 10:25 | Networking Break – Sponsored by TELUS | |
| 10:50 | The Burning Platform: How to think “citizen-first”? In a world where data is the most valuable currency, how do we create a data framework that works for citizens, business, and government? | Aran Hamilton – Chair, IdentityNORTH (Moderator)
Sophia Howse – Executive Director at BC IDIM Jeff Borsato – Program Manager at Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Ontario Colleen Boldon – Director at Digital Lab & Digital Identity Service New Brunswick Balraj Dhillon – Director at EHealth Ontario |
| 11:20 | Exploring the Convergence of Digital Identity and Payments. With the Internet of Things (IoT) increasingly becoming an integral part of Canadians’ lives, enabling secure payments and trustworthy identity verification on IoT devices is a step forward in providing a seamless customer experience. This demo will show an integrated customer experience for charity donation. | Suzan Denoncourt – Managing Director, Ingenico Group Canada
Pierre Roberge – CTO & SVP Solutions and Innovation, Prodigy Ventures |
| 11:40 | What does the Quantum threat mean for Digital Identity and what do we need to do about it?: As digital identity capabilities look to drive our emerging digital economy, what should stakeholders be aware of now to better prepare them for coming policy, process, operations and technology choices? | John Scott – CEO, 2Keys (Moderator)
Bridget Walshe – Director Cryptographic Security and Systems Development, Communications Security Establishment Government of Canada Bruno Couillard – Co-founder President & CTO, Crypto4A Jennifer Fernick – Director, Customer Protection & Cryptographic Services, Scotiabank |
| 12:05 | Lunch – Sponsored by ForgeRock | |
| 13:05 | Cause and Effect: The economic story shaping Canada’s Digital ID Industry | Neil Butters – Director, Payment Technology, Interac Corp. |
| 13:30 | Staying Ahead of the Curve with Blockchain | Jim Skipper – Assistant Vice President and Chief Architect, Sun Life Financial |
| 13:50 | The Future is Now – Next-generation International identity projects. Real-market applications of next-generation identity solutions here and abroad, including mobile identity verification, Fast Identity Online (FIDO), and Mobile Connect. |
Sajith Nair – Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (Moderator)
Robert Blumenthal – Chief Identity Officer, EnStream Kristen Palmer – Fraud Prevention & Strategy, Canadian Tire Bank Rolf Lindemann – CTO, Nok Nok Labs Ravi Bijlani – Chief Partnership Officer, Payfone |
| 14:20 | Leadership & Ingenuity. TCS and Toronto District School Board work togeter in a public-private partnerships to prepare Canadian youth with latest technology skills. | Antoinette Ellis – Corporate Social Responsibility Program Specialist at Tata Consultancy Services |
| 14:40 | New Brunswick Success Story: The opportunities presented by digital ID and authentication for provinces. | Colleen Boldon – Director at Digital Lab & Digital Identity at Service New Brunswick |
| 15:20 | Networking Break – Sponsored by TELUS | |
| 15:40 | Women in Technology and Digital Identity | Krista Pawley – Principal, Imperative Impact
Ria Lupton – Head of Marketing at GrowthGenius Bianca Wylie – Head of Open Data Institute Joni Brennan – President, DIACC |
| 16:05 | Having It All: The evolution of our expectations of identity-supported experiences | Andrew Johnston – Principal Technology Architect, TELUS
Shri Kalyanasundaram – Head of Digital Identity Services, TELUS |
| 16:25 | Higher Education Meets Higher Standards for Security and Efficiency
Exploring how digital identity and collaboration will benefit schools and students, and how it can help them realize the great potential of a truly interconnected research and education system. |
Peter Wilenius – Vice President of Business Development, CANARIE |
| 16:45 | Startup Panel: What’s on deck for 2018 | Douglas Soltys – Editor-in-Chief, BetaKit
Rohan Pinto – Founder, 1Kosmos BlockID Patrick Drolet – VP of Operations and Product Strategy, Notarius Steve Borza – President, BluInk Don Waugh – Co-CEO and Chairman of the Board, Applied Recognition Inc. |
| 17:10 | Canada’s New Data Strategy: SignIn Canada and the vision for the ecosystem surrounding it. | Ken McMillan – Acting Director, Digital Identity at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Government of Canada |
| 17:30 | End of day wrap-up | Aran Hamilton – Chair at IdentityNORTH |
| 17:35 | Travel to Dinner | |
| 18:00 | Networking Cocktails – Sponsored by TELUS The Carlu, 444 Yonge St |
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| 18:50 | Annual Leadership Dinner – Sponsored by SecureKey Technologies Presentation of Founders of Canada’s Digital Economy Honourees |
Day 2 – Wednesday June 20, 2018
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Networking Breakfast – Sponsored by Echoworx | |
| 8:35 | How Bad is Bad? NAFTA’s Threat Landscape | David Broad – Information Security and Audit Lead, Echoworx |
| 9:00 | Unconference Opening – Session Discovery | Krista Pawley – Principal, Imperative Impact |
| 10:00 | Preparing for Cross-Border Interoperability | Dave Nikolejsin – Deputy Minister, Ministry of Natural Gas Development, Province of British Columbia & DIACC Board Chair (Moderator)
Andre Boysen – CIO, SecureKey John Sharpe – Vice President, CGI Allan Foster – VP of Global Partner Success, ForgeRock |
| 10:20 | Networking Break – Sponsored by TELUS | |
| 10:40 | Fast 15: Two Leading Case Studies and Demos | Safwan Nathersa – VP, Solutions Advisory, Simeio Solutions
Shawn Heeley – VP, Customer Solutions, 2Keys |
| 11:10 | Unconference Kick-off | Aran Hamilton – Chair, IdentityNORTH
Krista Pawley – Principal, Imperative Impact |
| 11:20 | Block 1 – 4 Concurrent breakout sessions | To be announced day of event |
| 12:00 | Block 2 – 4 Concurrent breakout sessions | To be announced day of event |
| 12:40 | Lunch – Sponsored by Echoworx | |
| 13:25 | Block 3 – 4 Concurrent breakout sessions | To be announced day of event |
| 14:05 | Block 4 – 4 Concurrent breakout sessions | To be announced day of event |
| 14:45 | Block 5 – 4 Concurrent breakout sessions | To be announced day of event |
| 15:25 | Networking Break – Sponsored by TELUS | |
| 15:45 | 60 Second Summaries of the Unconference Sessions | Aran Hamilton – Chair, IdentityNORTH |
| 16:00 | Conference Wrap-Up: Summaries of the conference sessions, final thoughts, and community awards | Aran Hamilton – Chair, IdentityNORTH |
| 16:15 | The Wind Down – Post-event Drinks – Sponsored by Simeio Solutions Mick E Fynn’s, 45 Carlton St Toronto |
Speakers
IdentityNORTH Annual Summit 2018 Speakers
Robert Blumenthal
Chief Identity Officer, Entream
Ravi Bijlani
Chief Partnership Officer, Payfone
Kristen Palmer
Fraud Prevention & Strategy, Canadian Tire Bank
Rolf Lindemann
Senior Director Products and Technology, Nok Nok Labs
Jim Skipper
AVP & Chief Architect, Sun Life Financial
Suzan Denoncourt
Managing Director, Ingenico Group Canada
Pierre Roberge
CTO & SVP Solutions and Innovation, Prodigy Ventures
Balraj Dhillon
Director, Product Management, eHealth Ontario
Peter Wilenius
Vice President, Business Development, CANARIE
Antoinette Ellis
Corporate Social Responsibility Program Specialist, Tata Consultancy Services
Rohan Pinto
Founder, 1Kosmos BlockID
Neil Butters
Director, Product and Platforms, Interac Corp
Beth Dewitt
Deloitte Canada’s Data Protection and Privacy Leader
John Scott
CEO, 2Keys
Jennifer Fernick
Director of Information Security, Scotiabank
Pamela Dingle
Director of Identity Standards, Microsoft
Jeff Borsato
Program Manager, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change
Joni Brennan
President, DIACC
Allan Foster
Vice President of Global Partner Success, ForgeRock
Franklin Garrigues
Vice President of Digital Channels, TD Bank
Ria Lupton
Head of Marketing, GrowthGenius
Colleen Boldon
Director, Digital Lab and Digital ID Programs, Service New Brunswick
Douglas Soltys
Editor in Chief, Betakit
Bianca Wylie
Head, Open Data Institute
Greg Wolfond
CEO, SecureKey
Irene Reverte Sanchez
Senior GDPR Consultant, Deloitte
Bruno Couillard
CEO, Crypto4A
Bridget Walshe
Director Cryptographic Security and Systems Development at Communications Security Establishment, Government of Canada
Sophia Howse
Executive Director, Provincial Identity Management Program (IDIM), BC Provincial Government
Janice Wagner
Senior Advisor, PwC
Dave Nikolejsin
Deputy Minister, Natural Gas Development, BC Public Service
Krista Pawley
Principal, Imperative Impact
Safwan Nathersa
VP, Solutions Advisory, Simeio
Andre Boysen
Chief Identity Officer, SecureKey
Patrick Drolet
Vice President, Operations and Product Strategy, Notarius
Aran Hamilton
Chair, IdentityNORTH
Ken McMillan
Acting Director, Digital Identity at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Andrew Johnston
Principal Technology Architect, TELUS
Shri Kalyanasundaram
Head of Digital Identity Services, TELUS
Steve Borza
President, BluInk
Asif Savvas
SVP & Partner, Canada & Middle East, Simeio Solutions
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