Past Webinars
ForgeRock’s View on AI
Sep 29, 2021 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- Deepen your knowledge of Identity Analytics and the key areas where your business can save time and money
- Connect with like-minded leaders and decision-makers facing similar challenges across: identity, access, governance and directory challenges.
- Learn how ForgeRock has helped customers realize the full potential of their Identity Governance program through leveraging AI/ML
- Understand the differences with ForgeRock’s approach and how the unique offering can optimize roles, mitigate risk, and provide cost saving automation
Speakers
Chip is the Global Lead for ForgeRock’s Autonomous Identity solution. In this role, Chip is responsible for driving customer growth and success as well as acting as the liaison between Product, Engineering, Sales and Marketing. Prior to this role, Chip led the America’s South Sales team as a RVP and spent 8 years as part of the security software Sales team at Oracle.
A successful entrepreneur, Aran is a global leader in digital and mobile economy strategies with a focus on predictive analytics and digital payment systems. He has spent the past two decades working with retailers, banks, payment networks, and wireless carriers to shape ecommerce and drive adoption of secure digital identity.
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How to Future Proof An Uncertain Future
Dec 16, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
If you’re in an organization that is used to dealing with customers that walk-in and transact face-to-face, this free event is for you.
- Are you working in a local government that has already been attacked or you’re worried because several other Canadian municipalities were compromised this year?
- Are you working in healthcare and trying to plan and invest for the future when you can’t even begin to imagine the amount of change that is coming to how you deliver services and share data?
- Are you working at a fintech company that needs to future-proof services for the next 10-20 years?
Allan Foster, Chief Evangelist, and Renee Beckloff, Vice President of Cloud Success at ForgeRock will discuss (and debate!) how to best future-proof business services.
Speakers
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Making the Move from Legacy IAM to Modern Digital Identity – On Your Terms
(12/05/2019)
Why are legacy Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems keeping many organizations from realizing the benefits of digital transformation? How can you make the transition to a modern digital identity platform, on your terms?
In this webinar, you will learn:
- The business and security benefits of a modern digital identity platform, from modern authentication, authorization and promotion, to audit, governance and compliance
- How to start planning for a migration, effective strategies and tools, and the options for co-existing, consolidating or retiring legacy identity systems
- Practical advice, next steps and resources (including a Buyer’s Guide and Migration Guides) on how to begin the modernization journey
- A path forward to modernizing IAM systems with multiple approaches to coexist, migrate or retire legacy systems, as well as the flexible deployment options available
Highlighting success stories from both public and private organizations, including a case study from the City of Richmond, B.C., the presenters will show why it is time to modernize, and provide steps to move forward.
Speakers
A successful entrepreneur, Aran Hamilton is the Chair of IdentityNORTH and the CEO and Co-Founder of Vantage, the market-leading artificial intelligence marketing platform for brands and retailers. Every day Vantage helps thousands of retailers and brands in 127 countries around the world to turn data into insight and action.
As a leading digital economy strategist, Aran has focused on leveraging predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce. Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape the global retail environment and has been recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity.
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Blockchain: The Key to a Better Digital Economy
(10/30/2019)
We’re approaching the end of the decade of data breaches and are still wondering how much more it’s going to take before we fix digital identity. People continue to entrust more and more of their personal information to online service providers, but the development of infrastructure to keep that information safe has not kept up proportionately – not by a long shot.
In this session, SecureKey’s Chief Identity Office, Andre Boysen, along with special guest Franklin Garrigues, Vice President, Digital at TD, will discuss in detail how leading organizations are getting on board to tackle it together in the form of an ecosystem approach that takes control away from the crooks and gives it back to citizens.
Learn all about Verified.Me, a new service from by SecureKey Technologies, a new and secure way to help you verify your identity.
Speakers
Andre is responsible for positioning SecureKey’s growth strategy, cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets, and promoting demand for the company’s solutions globally. He serves as SecureKey’s digital identity evangelist. He was recognized as a global leader in digital identity by One World Identity (2017) and Innovate Identity (2016). Andre serves on the boards of the identity standards organizations of DIACC and the Kantara initiative.
Prior to joining SecureKey, Andre co-founded and served as chief technology officer of 724 Solutions Inc. Previously, he served as chief technology officer for Footprint Software and as chief executive officer for the company’s Asia Pacific business. In 1999, he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in recognition of his vision and accomplishments. From 1990 to 1994, he served as chief executive officer of Open Systems Limited. Andre has also served on the boards of 724 Solutions Inc., Dexit Inc., Footprint Software Pty. Ltd., and 305 Management Services.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. He currently lectures at Wilfred Laurier’s Schlegel Entrepreneurship Centre.

As part of his mandate, Franklin leads the Digital Identity agenda for the enterprise, building and delivering a platform that will transform how Canadians assert their identity in the digital world; in addition to serving on the DIACC board. He also leads TD’s involvement and efforts around Open Banking, covering both regulatory and market developments, he represents TD on the Financial Data Exchange (FDX) board.
Prior to this role, Franklin held various Risk Management roles in Direct Channels and Business Banking, and also led Branch Services Centres in Canada. Prior to joining TD in 2008, Franklin was a consultant with McKinsey & Company where he served as a leader in the North American Financial Institutions Operations practice. He has also worked with L’Oreal in various General Management roles in operations in France.
Franklin is a graduate of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University with a Masters of Business Administration. He also holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Superieure D’Electricite.
In his personal time, Franklin volunteers at local charities across the Greater Toronto Area most recently through United Way and Ample Labs.

As a leading digital economy strategist, Aran has focused on leveraging predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce. Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape the global retail environment and has been recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity.
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EMVCo SRC: The Future of Digital Identity and Payments Authentication
(09/10/2019)
E-commerce sales are exploding, and by 2023, will increase by 91 per cent. This webinar will explore the emerging digital payments standards you need to capture a larger share in the growing market.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- How emerging specifications will affect the digital payments ecosystem
- How digital payment providers can address the market needs for enabling consumer identities in payments
- The opportunities, challenges, options and best ways forward when measuring up to identity standards in the payments industry.
Key questions that will be covered include: What is SRC and why is it important? Looking at the ecosystem consisting of merchants, users and integrators – who is responsible for cardholder authentication, and who ultimately owns the identity?
Speakers
A self-described ‘security ninja’, Steve Bledsoe has been a software security champion for over 13 years. With a strong focus on sales and solutioning, he leads the technical sales arm of Entersekt North America with a breadth of expertise in payments and authentication. Prior to Entersekt, Steve was a solution architect and sales engineer at VMware, working extensively on security and data loss prevention products. He is an active member of the U.S. Payments Forum and KinderGuardin, a non-profit Internet safety organization providing online security education for children and young adults.
A successful entrepreneur, Aran Hamilton is the Chair of IdentityNORTH and the CEO and Co-Founder of Vantage, the market-leading artificial intelligence marketing platform for brands and retailers. Every day Vantage helps thousands of retailers and brands in 127 countries around the world to turn data into insight and action.
As a leading digital economy strategist, Aran has focused on leveraging predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce. Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape the global retail environment and has been recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity.
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Digital Health & Data Privacy – Growth in Health Data & Building a Framework of Trust for Digital Health
(06/26/2019)
With the infinite growth of healthcare data and digital health applications, certain safeguards and frameworks must be in place from a privacy and permissions perspective to protect data and citizens.
How can we build a framework of trust for digital health?
In this session, speakers will talk about implementing privacy controls, and building a data-protected model that protects.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- Implementing privacy controls through the development of a data governance structure and strategy
- Building a data-protected model that protects citizens through the use of consent management frameworks
- How to manage permissions (applications, family and care providers) that want access to your data.
- Capturing consistent information through the use of a digital identity to minimize duplication and optimize consistency
Speakers
Balraj Dhillon is a leader within Simeio’s Engagement and Delivery team, focusing on Identity Access Management solutions across government and private sector customers in Canada. He has led a number of initiatives related to citizen identity, attestation programs and technology modernization initiatives. He also has extensive experience with product and technology development, deployment and positioning for solutions across healthcare, payments and telecommunications industries.
Eric Sutherland brings numerous years of experience in data management, governance and strategy, in both the public and private sectors, to CIHI’s focus on internal and pan-Canadian health data governance. He is actively involved in developing our internal data governance approach and implementation plan.
Most recently, Mr. Sutherland was with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, where he provided strategic leadership in developing a health system information management strategy. This included enabling trusted information through data standards, quality and stewardship; improving privacy-enabled access through education, processes and legislation; and creating insights that drive action to enable positive health outcomes by leveraging leading analytical methodologies. Mr. Sutherland is also a lecturer at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies in the area of managing big data and predictive analytics. Other experience includes business, technology and information leadership positions at TD Bank across finance, risk and treasury over 20 years.
Mr. Sutherland holds a Bachelor of Mathematics (Statistics, Combinatorics and Optimization) and a Master of Mathematics (Biostatistics), both from the University of Waterloo. He also completed a postgraduate certificate in public administration from the University of Liverpool.
A successful entrepreneur, Aran Hamilton is the Chair of IdentityNORTH and the CEO and Co-Founder of Vantage, the market-leading artificial intelligence marketing platform for brands and retailers. Every day Vantage helps thousands of retailers and brands in 127 countries around the world to turn data into insight and action.
As a leading digital economy strategist, Aran has focused on leveraging predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce. Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape the global retail environment and has been recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity.
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Imitation Attacks: How do you stop the abuse of inherent functionality?
(05/21/2019)
Imitation attacks are the threats that exploit your front door and walk in alongside your legitimate users. Defeating imitation attacks is a matter of continually finding the balance between friction and user experience, increasing the cost to your attackers and keeping your real users as happy as possible. Credential stuffing, man-in-the-browser, phishing, and other attack campaigns are more sophisticated than ever as attackers have evolved to sail over all the hurdles we’ve thrown in the way.
How do you protect your customers from imitation attacks against your web and mobile applications, without introducing unnecessary friction, and negatively impacting their user experience?
In this webinar, Jarrod Overson, Director of Engineering at Shape Security, will talk about the path these attacks take, the state of attack sophistication, and how to get a handle on the problem.
Speakers
Jarrod Overson is a Director of Engineering at Shape Security, where he led the development of Shape’s enterprise defense products. Jarrod has been outspoken in the field of modern web threats and has been instrumental in the progression of defenses against automated threats like credential stuffing. He’s the creator of Plato, a JavaScript static analysis tool, author of O’Reilly’s Developing Web Components, and a frequent speaker, writer, and trainer.
Prior to Shape Security, Jarrod was a consultant working with companies including Best Buy, Walmart, and Riot Games where he helped teams migrate legacy applications into high-performance HTML5 web applications.
A successful entrepreneur, Aran Hamilton is the Chair of IdentityNORTH and the CEO and Co-Founder of Vantage, the market-leading artificial intelligence marketing platform for brands and retailers. Every day Vantage helps thousands of retailers and brands in 127 countries around the world to turn data into insight and action.
As a leading digital economy strategist, Aran has focused on leveraging predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce. Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape the global retail environment and has been recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity.
Consumer-Centric Design for Digital Identity
(11/27/2018)
It is easy to design new solutions, but it is extremely difficult to get consumers to actually use them. In this webinar, we will examine consumer behaviour with identity services and how to design and introduce digital identity services to ensure uptake and scale. Neil Butters, Director Payment Technology at Interac, is your host. Join him as he shares ways of applying customer-centric design to digital identity as an enabler to underpin the digital economy for Canada. We hope to see you there!
In this webinar, you will learn:
- What is consumer-centric design and why is it important to Digital ID?
- Key criteria for consumer-centric design
- How to apply design thinking
- How to build trust
Speakers
Neil Butters has been an executive, innovator and a journeyman in the identity and payments market for more than 25 years. For the past 9 years he has held various leadership roles at Interac Association and Acxsys Corporation in both new product development and technology strategy and innovation. Through his leadership, industry knowledge, and expertise, Neil has helped Interac to advance its leadership role in the Canadian payments landscape through development and wide spread adoption of Interac Flash, Interac’s Token Service Provider, Interac Debit on ApplePay,and Mobile Pay.
Neil continues to lend his expertise to international industry standard organizations including EMVCo as a Technical Associate. Prior to this, Neil was a solution architect and subject matter expert in the North American public and private sector identity issuance and authentication market and was instrumental in architecting, developing and implementing more than 15 government identity solutions in Canada and the USA at both the Federal and Provincial/State levels.
In addition, he has contributed to several leading edge identity proof of concepts including International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Machine-Readable Travel Document Electronic Passport and the Israeli Border crossing solution for migrant workers (Basel).
A successful entrepreneur, Aran Hamilton is the Chair of IdentityNORTH and the CEO and Co-Founder of Vantage, the market-leading artificial intelligence marketing platform for brands and retailers. Every day Vantage helps thousands of retailers and brands in 127 countries around the world to turn data into insight and action.
As a leading digital economy strategist, Aran has focused on leveraging predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce. Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape the global retail environment and has been recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity.
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The Intelligent Authentication Journey
(11/01/2018)
Allan Foster, VP Global Partner Success at ForgeRock, explored intelligent authentication and how it benefits various sectors.
What is Intelligent Authentication? How does it enable you to:
- Easily configure, measure, and adjust login journeys using digital signals including device, contextual, behavioural, user choice, and risk-based factors
- Leverage user login analytics to increase user adoption rates and improve the customer experience
- Automatically redirect suspicious users for further monitoring
- Quickly consume out-of-the-box authenticators, utilize existing authenticators and integrate with cyber security solutions — all in one place
Speakers
Allan is currently VP Community at ForgeRock Inc. As one of the founders of ForgeRock, he has helped build ForgeRock into a multinational Identity Management software vendor with offices on four continents. Having served in multiple positions during its startup, Allan is now responsible for leading the worldwide ForgeRock community. This includes the contributing developer community, as well as the representation of ForgeRock on multiple standards committees. In the twenty years prior to ForgeRock, Allan founded and ran a successful small consulting business focusing on the Identity Management space, with clients all over the world. With a small and dedicated staff, Guru Associates built a reputation for delivering projects on time, and under budget. Allan currently serves on the Board of Directors of the IEEE-ISTO, Allan is a sought after speaker at international technical conferences where he has spoken on various technical topics.
A successful entrepreneur, Aran Hamilton is the Chair of IdentityNORTH and the CEO and Co-Founder of Vantage, the market-leading artificial intelligence marketing platform for brands and retailers. Every day Vantage helps thousands of retailers and brands in 127 countries around the world to turn data into insight and action.
As a leading digital economy strategist, Aran has focused on leveraging predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce. Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape the global retail environment and has been recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity.
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What’s wrong with SMS One-Time Passcodes?
(09/20/2018)
SMS one-time passcodes are widely used, but are problematic, and better alternatives exist. In this webinar, you will learn about a superior, frictionless way to securely authenticate without using SMS OTP and without requiring any device-based software or applications, or complicated back-end risk-scoring engines.
Speakers
Robert is the Chief Identity Officer at EnStream, a joint venture of Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, and TELUS, providing identity verification and authentication services based on real-time customer account and network information.
He has over 25 years experience leading innovation and business transformation in technology and telecom. Prior to EnStream, Robert held senior roles at leading Canadian companies including as EVP Marketing and Business Development at SecureKey Technologies, President of Virgin Mobile Canada, Senior Vice President at TELUS Communications, and Vice President at Clearnet Communications before its acquisition by TELUS.
Robert holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, and a Diploma in Marketing from the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey School of Business.
Robert is the Chief Identity Officer at EnStream, a joint venture of Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, and TELUS, providing identity verification and authentication services based on real-time customer account and network information.
He has over 25 years experience leading innovation and business transformation in technology and telecom. Prior to EnStream, Robert held senior roles at leading Canadian companies including as EVP Marketing and Business Development at SecureKey Technologies, President of Virgin Mobile Canada, Senior Vice President at TELUS Communications, and Vice President at Clearnet Communications before its acquisition by TELUS.
Robert holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, and a Diploma in Marketing from the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey School of Business.
Greg is the head of Product and Data Science at Payfone. He brings with him more than a decade of experience specializing in developing and bringing to market leading data products. After graduating from U.C. Berkeley, Greg worked as a data scientist at several data and analytics companies including being an original member of Experian’s R&D Data Lab.
He has worked on projects ranging from developing new credit and fraud risk models, to developing machine learning based segmentation schemes, to building out a large Hadoop to house the credit files of the entire US population.
Prior to Payfone, Greg served as the Chief Operating Officer at XOR, an Austin-based data startup where he developed an innovative data sharing platform.
A successful entrepreneur, Aran Hamilton is the Chair of IdentityNORTH and the CEO and Co-Founder of Vantage, the market-leading artificial intelligence marketing platform for brands and retailers. Every day Vantage helps thousands of retailers and brands in 127 countries around the world to turn data into insight and action.
As a leading digital economy strategist, Aran has focused on leveraging predictive analytics and programmatic and performance marketing for ecommerce and mobile commerce. Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape the global retail environment and has been recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the emerging field of digital identity.
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