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9:00

Conference platform & Exhibit hall opens

9:15 – 9:20

Welcome  

Master of Ceremonies
Shlomo Bielak, Chief Technology Officer, Benchmark

9:20 – 10:05

Opening Keynote  - Fireside Chat  

Lisa Carroll, Public Sector Lead, Microsoft

Christiana Cavazzoni, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Information Management, and Deputy Chief Information Officer, Department of National Defence

Join Lisa Carroll, Microsoft Canada Public Sector Lead and Christiana Cavazzoni, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Information Management, and Deputy Chief Information Officer, Department of National Defence for a conversation on the transformational benefits of digital transformation.

10:05 – 11:00

Networking Break  

11:00 – 12:00

Panel 1

Moderator:
Kathy Parker, Partner, People and Organizations, PwC

Panelists:

Christian Bertelsen, Regional Director, Arctic Programs, Arctic Region, Canadian Coast Guard

Lori Turnbull, Deputy Editor, Canadian Govt Executive
Brian Chidester, Head of Worldwide Industry Strategy, Public Sector, OpenText

Evidence, Leadership and Trust
Effective communication to citizens and workforce is essential. How do we effectively use social media, data and other sources in developing trust? What can be done to build leadership skills, fortify trust, and enable institutions and organization to change for the better? What are the conditions that have to be met for meaningful change to occur? Are there best practices that we can learn from?

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch & Networking

13:00 – 13:30

Presentation 1

Tamer Baker, Chief Technology Officer, Regional, Forescout

The Zero Trust Journey – A NIST Standard
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) develops standards that allow technology and businesses to operate smoothly. In August of 2020, NIST published a Zero Trust Architecture standard (the 800-207) for a multi-vendor approach and implementation across the entire extended enterprise.

13:30 – 14:00

Networking Break  

14:00 – 14:30

Presentation 2

David Bickle, Senior Systems Engineer, Dell Technologies Canada

Dell Technologies Streaming Data Platform – Capture Insights at the Speed of Business
Dell Technologies Streaming Data Platform is an innovative enterprise-grade software platform that empowers organizations by harnessing their real-time and historical data in a single, auto-scale infrastructure and programming model. 

14:30 – 15:00

Networking Break

15:00 – 16:00

Panel 2

Moderator:

Michele Mullen, Director General of Partnerships and Risk Mitigation at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

Panelists:

Jim Richberg, Public Sector Field CISO and VP of Information Security, Fortinet
Adam Hatfield, Communications Security Establishment

Frank Currie, Heads the Google Public Sector, Healthcare, and Higher Education Customer Engineering teams

Performance Enablement Through the Assurance of Information, Data Security and PrivacyAs we move toward increased digitization, concerns around the security of data continues to grow. What does “resilience” mean today? When delivering services to employees and the public, what are the privacy and security concerns and what could be some unin-tended consequences?

16:00 – 16:10

Closing Remarks

Recap of the day’s discussions

16:00 – 17:00

Networking

9:00

Conference Platform & Exhibit Hall Opens  

9:15 – 9:20

Welcome

Master of Ceremonies

Shlomo Bielak, Chief Technology Officer, Benchmark

9:20 – 10:05

Opening Keynote  

David Anderson, Director Digital Transformation, Canadian Armed Forces
Tom Moore, Co-Founder, YouWithMe

Jamie O’Hare, Associate Partner Consulting Services, Ernst & Young LLP

A discussion with BGen David Anderson (Ret’d), Chief of Staff, Canadian Armed Forces, Tom Moore, Co-founder, WithYouWithMe and Jamie O’Hare, Associate Partner, Consulting Services, Ernst & Young LLP, about examples of how government departments have accessed and mobilized talent to fill cybersecurity needs.

10:05 – 11:00

Networking Break  

11:00 – 12:00

Panel 3

Moderator:
Zahra Jadavji, Managing Director, Technology Health & Public Service Lead in Canada, Managing Director, Inclusion & Diversity in Canada, Accenture

Panelists:

Dr Julie Cafley, Vice-President, Communications & External Relations, New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization
Marie-Daphné Laguerre, A/Director, Task Force - Anti-racism, Workplace Culture & Equity, Strategic People Management Sector, Human Resources Branch, Public Services and Procurement Canada

Tari Ajadi, PhD, Dalhousie University

Leveraging Digital Qualities, Capabilities and Behaviours to Achieve a Specific Result – Achieving Equity and Inclusion Goals
The Clerk of the Privy Council has recently released a called to action on this, so how should federal departments respond and what guidance do they need? How can we recruit, appoint, and support Indigenous, Black, and other racialized employees? What is the role of data?

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch & Networking

13:00 – 13:30

Presentation 3

Kardam Tiwari, Program Director for DevOps, Benchmark Corp.

Best Practices Using a DevSecOps Model in Order to Move Applications Faster and More Securely to the Cloud

13:30 – 14:00

Networking Break

14:00 – 14:30

Presentation 4

Nicholas Rowe, Security Solutions Architect, BriteSky Technologies
Robert Medina, Account Executive - Federal Government, NetApp

Proactively Reactive: Continuous Improvement and Continu-ous Development, A Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation Approach that Makes Business Sense

14:30 – 15:00

Networking Break

15:00 – 16:00

Panel 4

Moderator:
Robert Osborn, Chief Technology Officer, Global Governments, ServiceNow

Panelists:

Dr Sara Filbee, Public Servant in Residence in the Dalhousie School of Public Administration

Jeffrey Roy, Professor, Public Administration, Dalhousie University
Neil Bouwer, Vice President, Canada School of Public Service

Future of Work and Response to Vulnerable Sectors

What are the implications of greater numbers of people working remotely? How has digitization supported the shift to remote work? What else needs to be done? What are the security concerns and how can they be mitigated?   How can we help employers across sectors identify future needs? How can we train, re-train, educate employees to be able to meet the needs of the future work force? What skills (i.e. agile procurement) are needed?

16:00 – 16:10

Closing Remarks

Recap of the day’s discussions

16:00 – 17:00

Networking

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