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About the Event
Day One will be full of presentations by leading identity and digital economy experts from Canada and around the world.
Day Two is slightly shorter, as an “unconference”. Drawing upon the incredible expertise of gathered attendees, participants will work together to tackle the hottest topics and thorniest issues facing the industry. Come prepared to challenge the room with the toughest “opportunities” on your plate.
Why Attend?
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 October 2, 2018
| Time | Session | Session Type | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | BREAKFAST | ||
| 8:30 | Driving Innovation | Speech | The Honourable Mike Savage – Halifax Mayor |
| 8:45 | Digital Innovation – The Foundation of the Atlantic Economy Moving Forward | Speech | Colleen Boldon – Digital Lab and Digital ID Programs, Public Services and Smart Government NB |
| 9:30 | Work Local/Compete Global | Speech | Chris Crowell – Vice President Corporate Innovation, Volta Labs |
| 9:50 | Building Success | Lightning Talk | Charlotte Murray – PACTA, Invest Nova Scotia, Propel |
| 10:00 | Be Anywhere – Access Services from Anywhere | Panel | Eric Swedersky – SVP, Delivery and Public Sector, SecureKey
Fatema Pirone – Senior Director, Enterprise Innovation at CIBC Kevin Faragher – Associate Vice President, Digital ID, TD Bank Group |
| 10:30 | NETWORKING BREAK | ||
| 10:50 | Breakthrough Collaboration – The Nova Scotia Success Story | Panel | Krista Dewey – Director, Deputy Registrar General at Vital Statistics Nova Scotia
Scott Duff – Director, Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Nova Scotia Arlene Williams – Director of Digital Strategy, Governance, and Performance, Service Nova Scotia |
| 11:20 | Vital Stats – A Multi Province Conversation | Panel | Krista Dewey – Director, Deputy Registrar General at Vital Statistics Nova Scotia
Adam Peters – Manager of Vital Statistics, Consumer & Corporate Services, PEI Mark Healy – Director, Client and Vendor Services at Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Charles Boulay – Acting Vital Stats Registrar, Province of New Brunswick |
| 11:50 | Credentials – A Multi Province Conversation | Panel | Scott Duff – Director – Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Nova Scotia
Colleen Boldon – Director, Digital Lab and Digital ID Programs, Public Services and Smart Government New Brunswick Susan Wilkins – Digital Government Lead at Government of Newfoundland and Labrador |
| 12:20 | Digital Services and Service Delivery – A Multi Province Conversation | Panel | Arlene Williams – Director of Digital Strategy, Governance, and Performance, Service Nova Scotia
Susan Wilkins – Digital Government Lead at Government of Newfoundland and Labrador |
| 12:50 | LUNCH | ||
| 1:50 | Exponential Collaboration | Speech | Joni Brennan – President, DIACC – Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada |
| 2:10 | Vision Presentation – Canada Health Infoway: Atlantic Health Information Service | Speech | Abigail Carter-Langford – Executive Director of Health Information Governance & Chief Privacy Officer at Canada Health Infoway |
| 2:30 | Digital Health Collaboration Across the Atlantic Provinces | Panel | Jerome Foster – Director eHealth NB, NB Department of Health
Christine Grimm – Senior Executive Director, Investment and Decision Support at NS Department of Health and Wellness Andrew Roberts – Manager, Security and Architecture at NL Centre for Health Information Corinne Rowswell – Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives, Department of Health and Wellness, PEI |
| 3:00 | Leading from Nova Scotia | Fireside chat | Jason Powell – Engineering Site Director, Ping Identity |
| 3:20 | Innovation in Atlantic Canada / Private Sector and Academia Collaboration | Demo | Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood – Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Dr. Jeff Schwartzentruber – Sr. Research Associate, 2Keys |
| 3:40 | NETWORKING BREAK | ||
| 4:00 |
Defending Against Cyber Attacks
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Demo | Alina Matyukhina – Researcher at Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, New Brunswick |
| 4:20 | Responsibly Enabling a New Mobile Sales Channel for Regulated Markets like Marijuana | Focus 420 | Robert Blumenthal– Chief Identity Officer EnStream LP |
| 4:30 | Wrap Up | Wrap-Up | Aran Hamilton– Chair, IdentityNORTH |
| 5:30 | Networking Reception | ||
| 6:00 | The Auction House – Innovator’s Dinner | ||
Day 2 – Wednesday October 3, 2018
| Time | Session | Session Type | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | BREAKFAST | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome to Day 2 | Speech | Aran Hamilton (Chair) to kick off and intro
Michael Branchflower – Vice President, Sales and Strategic Marketing at Nova Scotia Business Inc. |
| 9:15 | Unconference Set Up | Workshop | Krista Pawley – Imperative Impact |
| 10:00 | Elections – E-Innovation in Democracy | Fireside Chat | Linda Fares – Director Information Systems and Technology at Elections Nova Scotia
Peter Gzowski – Assistant Chief Electoral Officer at Elections Nova Scotia Tim Garrity – Chief Electoral Officer, PEI |
| 10:20 | Leading in Nova Scotia | Spotlight | Dawn Jutla – CEO of Peer Ledger |
| 10:40 | NETWORKING BREAK | ||
| 11:00 | The Nova Scotia Login System – Simplifying Services for Citizens and Government | Pre-Set Unconference Session | Scott Duff – Director, Digital Platform Services, Province of Nova Scotia
Hiep Ong – Vice President, Development and Operations, 2Keys Jonathan Drover – Senior Manager, Customer Solutions, 2Keys |
| 11:25 | Pan Canadian Trust Framework – Update | Pre-Set Unconference Session | Joni Brennan – DIACC, Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada |
| 11:45 | Unconference Session 3 | Unconference Session | Unconference sessions are participant-driven events where we let those in attendance plan sessions based on the hottest topics of the day. For each time slot, we support three or four inspiring and insightful concurrent sessions on contemporary topics. |
| 12:10 | LUNCH | ||
| 1:10 | Unconference Session 4 | Unconference Session | Unconference sessions are participant-driven events where we let those in attendance plan sessions based on the hottest topics of the day. For each time slot, we support three or four inspiring and insightful concurrent sessions on contemporary topics. |
| 1:55 | Unconference Session 5 | Unconference Session | Unconference sessions are participant-driven events where we let those in attendance plan sessions based on the hottest topics of the day. For each time slot, we support three or four inspiring and insightful concurrent sessions on contemporary topics. |
| 2:40 | Conference Wrap by 3:10pm | ||
Speakers
IdentityNORTH Eastern Workshop 2018 Speakers
Abigail Carter-Langford
Director of Health Information Governance & Chief Privacy Officer, Canada Health Infoway
Adam Peters
Manager of Vital Statistics, Consumer & Corporate Services, PEI
Alina Matyukhina
Cybersecurity Researcher & PhD Candidate, Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity
Andrew Roberts
Manager, eHealth Architecture & Security, Newfoundland & Labrador Centre for Health Information
Arlene Williams
Director of Digital Strategy, Governance, and Performance, Service Nova Scotia
Charles Boulay
Executive Director of Registries, Service New Brunswick
Charlotte Murray
Entrepreneur in Residence, Propel
Chris Crowell
Vice President Corporate Innovation, Volta Labs
Christine Grimm
Senior Executive Director, Investment and Decision Support, NS Department of Health and Wellness
Colleen Boldon
Director, Digital Lab and Digital ID Programs, Service New Brunswick
Corinne Rowswell
Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives, PEI Department of Health and Wellness
Dawn Jutla
CEO, Peer Ledger Inc.
Dr. Jeff Schwartzentruber
Sr. Research Associate, 2Keys
Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood
Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Eric Swedersky
SVP – Delivery & Public Service, SecureKey
Fatema Pirone
Senior Director, Enterprise Innovation, CIBC
Hiep Ong
VP Development & Operations, 2Keys
Jerome Foster
Director, eHealthNB
Jonathan Drover
Senior Manager, Customer Solutions, 2Keys
Joni Brennan
President, DIACC
Kevin Faragher
Associate Vice President, Digital ID, TD
Krista Dewey
Director, Deputy Registrar General at Vital Statistics, Province of Nova Scotia
Linda Fares
Director Information Systems and Technology, Elections Nova Scotia
Mark Healy
Director, Client and Vendor Services, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Michael Branchflower
Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Sales, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI)
Mike Savage
Halifax Mayor
Peter Gzowski
Assistant Chief Electoral Officer, Elections Nova Scotia
Robert Blumenthal
Chief Identity Officer, EnStream
Scott Duff
Director, Digital Platform Services, Government of Nova Scotia
Susan Wilkins
Digital Government Lead, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Sponsors & Partners
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Location and Accommodations
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie Student Union, Mcinnis Room
6136 University Avenue, Halifax
October 2nd and 3rd 2018
We will be hosting our Eastern Forum at Dalhousie University. See Location and Accessibility information.
Hotel Room Block
October 1st – 4th 2018
Book your stay at Residence Inn Halifax under IdentityNORTH’s group rate of $209 per night available till September 7th. We recommend booking early as rooms are filling up fast!
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