Francis Castonguay | Director General | Partnerships and Risk Mitigation | Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

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Francis Castonguay is currently the Director General, Partnerships and Risk Mitigation CSE’s IT Security Program. Upon establishment of the Canadian Centre of Cyber Security, Francis will maintain in his existing role and responsibilities as Director General, Engagement and Risk Mitigation . The Engagement and Risk Mitigation directorate will be responsible for providing IT Security advice, …

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The Electronic Recycling Association (ERA)

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The Electronic Recycling Association (ERA) is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 to address the growing problem of e-waste and the increasing ‘digital divide’. For over ten years, ERA has offered simple solutions to help individuals and organizations prevent operational equipment from premature destruction. With a focus on recovery, refurbishment, and reuse, ERA continuously supplies …

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Tony Buu | Director, Mobility Network & Technology Strategy | TELUS

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With over 20 years of broad experience in technology strategy and implementation, Tony has held a number of senior management positions at TELUS in various areas of the business. Currently, Tony works closely with mobility network implementation, network operations and technical client support to deliver leadership and visionary thinking. A fierce advocate of next-generation network deployment …

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Andrew Mccormack | Chief Information Officer | Payments Canada

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Andrew McCormack is the Chief Information Officer at Payments Canada. He is responsible for Canada’s core payment systems as well as Payments Canada’s technology strategy and emergent technology agenda. Andrew brings more than ten years business experience with a focus on enterprise software design and development. With a comprehensive perspective of the evolving payments ecosystem, …

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Lydia Lee | Partner | KPMG

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Lydia Lee, is a Partner at KPMG Canada and National Lead for Digital Health. She has over twenty years of experience in healthcare administration and consulting focused on health system design, large-scale business transformation and jurisdictional digital health leadership. She leads KPMG’s Digital Health Practice focusing on digital health strategy, clinical systems and infrastructure renewal, …

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Microsoft

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At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is …

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Ricoh

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Every day, for 80 years, Ricoh has been helping customers empower digital workplaces for individuals to work smarter. We help companies to not just imagine change but realize it as well. Ricoh understands its customers and provides digital workplace solutions to address an organization’s unique pain points. We identify four primary elements in an organization’s …

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Irving Tyler | Research Vice President | Gartner

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Irving Tyler is a Research Vice President with Gartner’s CIO Research team focusing on strategy and innovation. Mr. Tyler’s work is directed towards enabling CIOs and other executives understand and navigate the complex challenges of business design, strategy development and innovation management to advance business value. His work examines business concepts and tools such as …

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Marcel van Hulle | Senior Vice President | Info-Tech Research Group

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Marcel van Hulle is a Senior Vice President with the Info-Tech Research Group, a Toronto based research and advisory firm.  In this role, Mr. van Hulle is responsible for Info-Tech’s sales and business development with customers and business partners. Over the past 10 years, Marcel has delivered consistently substantial double digit growth to Info-Tech and …

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Dr. Ann Cavoukian | Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence | Ryerson University

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Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, …

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Zaynah Bhanji

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Zaynah is a 15-year-old machine learning and virtual & augmented reality developer from Toronto, Ontario. She began her journey developing neural networks as well as virtual reality experiences at 13 and is now the founder of Vital XR, an augmented reality platform to educate students about human body systems and organs. Throughout her journey, companies …

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Poppy Crum | Chief Scientist | Dolby Laboratories

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Poppy Crum works to bridge the gap between technology and insightful, effective human interaction. As a multi-dimensional advocate of empathetic technology, she builds technologies that best leverage human physiology to enhance our experiences and how we interact with the world. Poppy serves as the Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories and as an Adjunct Professor at …

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