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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.
Location and Accommodations
Telus Garden
5th floor, 510 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 0M3
January 22nd & 23rd 2019
We will be hosting our Western Forum at Telus Garden. See Location.
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
Subject to Change
Day 1 – Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Time | Session | Session Type | Speaker |
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8:15 | Registration and Networking Breakfast | ||
9:00 | Welcome Address | Keynote | Hon. Jinny Sims, Minister of Citizens’ Services, Province of British Columbia |
9:20 | What Ministry of Citizens’ Services is Doing | Presentation | Beverly Dicks, Assistant Deputy Minister, Service BC, Province of British Columbia |
9:35 | Province of BC Verifiable Organizations Network – introduction | Aran Hamilton, Chair IdentityNORTH | |
9:45 | Verifiable Organization Network | Carol Prest, Registrar and Executive Director at Registries and Online Services, Service BC, Province of British Columbia
John Jordan, Executive Director, Emerging Digital Initiatives, OCIO, Province of British Columbia |
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10:20 | Province of BC Identity Program with Ministry of Advanced Education, Province of BC: The first citizen launch- the journey and learnings. | Fireside Chat | Sophia Howse, Executive Director, Provincial Identity Management Program (IDIM), Service BC, Province of British Columbia
Trevor Hurst, Executive Director & Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Advanced Education Skills and Training, Province of British Columbia Moderator, Aran Hamilton |
10:45 | BC Services Card Mobile Card Demo – Demonstration of how a student uses a Mobile BC Services Card | Patricia Wiebe, Director of Identity Architecture and Product Development
Jason Owens, A/Director, Client Relationship Management, Provincial Identity Management Program (IDIM), Service BC, Province of British Columbia |
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11:00 | Coffee and Networking brought to you by Simeio Solutions | ||
11:20 | Trends in Enterprise Data protection | Panel | Jennifer Williams, Director of Information Security at Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOP);
Ajay Sood, VP, Country Manager, at Symantec Canada; Michael Ball, vCISO, Information Security Advisor at Freedom Mobile; Michael Castro, Member Board of Directors and Cyber Security and Risk Executive Advisor at RIC Centre; Moderator: Michael Roberts, VP Technology in Engagement at Echoworx |
11:50 | The phone as an agent to mitigating Attacks and Fraud: SIM Swap Fraud, e-commerce | Panel | Robert Blumenthal, Chief Identity Officer, EnStream
Andrew Johnston, Principal Technology Architect, TELUS Hugh McKee, Head, BMO Partners, BMO Financial Group |
12:20 | How does having digital identity help CRA with online service delivery? | Presentation | Adrian Senn, Government of Canada Entrepreneur, Canada Revenue Agency,
Sophia Howse, Executive Director, Provincial Identity Management Program (IDIM), Government of British Columbia, Eric Swedersky, SVP Delivery and Public Sector, SecureKey |
12:45 | Accelerating Identity and Digital Transformation for Government with a Repeatable, scalable framework | Presentation | Pirthipal Singh, Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada
Jamie Jamieson, CTO, Vivvo Lucas Tetreault, VP of Research and Design, Vivvo |
13:05 | Lunch brought to you by LoginRadius | ||
14:00 | Canada’s Digital Trust Framework | Backgrounder | Joni Brennan, President, DIACC |
14:15 | The case for digital ID in Healthcare: How might digital ID change the way we live and die, and what are the opportunities for the vendor community to step up? | Panel | Brad Keates, Group Director Innovation and Software Development, Canada Health Infoway
Abigail Carter-Langford, Vice President, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Chief Privacy Officer, CHInfoway |
14:45 | Advances in Health Services with the BC Services Card | Paul Shrimpton, Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Health, Province of British Columbia | |
15:10 | Envisioning Education with the BC Services Card | Sally Barton, Assistant Deputy Minister, Services and Technology, Ministry of Education, Province of British Columbia | |
15:35 | Enabling other BC government programs | Jason Owens, A/Director, Client Relationship Management, Provincial Identity Management Program (IDIM), Service BC, Province of British Columbia | |
15:55 | Demo of BC Services Card Video chat | Patricia Wiebe, Director of Identity Architecture and Product Development, Provincial Identity Management Program (IDIM), Service BC, Province of British Columbia | |
16:10 | Coffee and Networking brought to you by Simeio Solutions | ||
16:30 | The role of digital ID as we move to open banking | Presentation | Hugh McKee, Head, BMO Partners, BMO Financial Group
Franklin Garrigues, VP, Digital Channels, TD Bank Sandi Boga, Director, Customer Experience, ATB Financial |
16:55 | BC Dev Ops Labs Programs – Open development modelBC Developers’ ExchangeContinuous Service Improvement lab |
Presentation | Peter Watkins, Executive Director, Cross Government IM/IT Initiatives, OCIO, Province of British Columbia |
17:20 | Continuous Service Improvement lab | Presentation | |
17:45 | Round-up / Announcements | ||
17:50 | Head to cocktails | ||
18:15 | Cocktails and Innovation Dinner brought to you by SecureKey | ||
Speakers
IdentityNORTH Western Workshop 2019 Speakers
Adrian Senn
Government of Canada Entrepreneur, Canada Revenue Agency
Ajay Sood
VP, Country Manager, Symantec Canada
Andrew Johnston
Principal Technology Architect, TELUS
Beverly Dicks
Assistant Deputy Minister, Service BC, Province of British Columbia
Brad Keates
Group Director Innovation and Software Development, Canada Health Infoway</span
Carol Prest
Registrar and Executive Director, BC Registries and Online Services
Eric Swedersky
SVP – Delivery & Public Service, SecureKey
Jamie Jamieson
CTO, Vivvo
Hugh McKee
Head, BMO Partners, BMO Financial Group
Hon. Jinny Sims
Minister of Citizens’ Services, Province of British Columbia
Jason Owens
A/Director, Client Relationship Management, Provincial Identity Management Program (IDIM), Service BC, Province of British Columbia
Jennifer Williams
Director of Information Security, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
John Jordan
Executive Director, Emerging Digital Initiatives, OCIO, Province of British Columbia
Joni Brennan
President, DIACC
Lucas Tetreault
VP of Research and Design, Vivvo
Michael Ball
vCISO, Information Security Advisor, Freedom Mobile
Michael Castro
Member, Board of Directors, Cyber Security and Risk Executive Advisor, RIC Centre
Michael Roberts
VP, Technology in Engagement, Echoworx
Patricia Wiebe
Director of Identity Architecture and Product Development, BC Provincial Government
Paul Shrimpton
Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Health, Province of British Columbia
Pirthipal Singh
Senior Director of Digital Policy and Innovation, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Peter Watkins
Executive Director, Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Citizen’s Services
Robert Blumenthal
Chief Identity Officer, EnStream
Sally Barton
Assistant Deputy Minister, Services and Technology, Ministry of Education, Province of British Columbia
Sandi Boga
Director, Customer Experience, ATB Financial
Sophia Howse
Executive Director, Provincial Identity Management Program (IDIM), Service BC, Province of British Columbia
Trevor Hurst
Executive Director & Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Advanced Education Skills and Training, Province of British Columbia
Sponsors & Partners
IdentityNORTH is all about building community and sharing the very best in digital ID and authentication from across Canada and around the world. None of this would be possible without support from our partners.
The following Canadian Startup and Scaleup companies have been recognized for contribution to the Digital ID Ecosystem and/or the use of Digital ID as a core component of their product offering. A representative from each of the organizations will be onsite at the event.
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