Forum Agenda

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Monday, May 4, 2026

  • Human Factor – The Weakest Link or First Line of Defence?

    Speakers:Ioannis Nikolaidis, PhD (Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science, University of Alberta)Jonathan "Troll" Clow, CD2, BA, MDS, LCol (Ret'd) RCAF (1 2 3 Cyber)Andrea Oh (CEO at Savvy Knowledge) 
    Moderator: Kassie Burkholder (Executive Director, Corporate and Continuing Education, NAIT)

    10:00-10:45

    Salon 5

  • Integrated Architecture for the Protection of Critical and Defence Infrastructure

    SpeakersAmanda Lockhart, Founder & CEO at Canada Security CollectiveSteve Porter, CEO/Founder at Secured Net Solutions Inc.Michael Spaling, CISO at MacEwan University
    Moderator: Sehrish Ali, Sr. Management Consultant (Enterprise GRC) at Edmonton Police Services

    13:00-14:00

    Salon 5

  • Cybersecurity in Energy & Critical Infrastructure

    Speakers:Hadis Karimipour, Ph.D., P.Eng., SMIEEE (Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Secure and Resilient Cyber-physical SystemsAssociate Professor, University of Calgary)Martin Higgins (Associate Professor at Concordia University)Cara Wolf (CEO, Ammolite Security)
    Moderator: Yuliia Marcinkoski (Director at UCan Brave Tech)

    14:45-15:30

    Salon 5

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

  • Speaker Series: Cloud & Data Protection for Alberta Industries

    Presenter: Sergii Karpenchuk (Managing Parter, NordAlign)
    Moderator: Mykola Holovetskyi (Head of Government Special Delivery at the Ministry of Technology and Innovation)

    10:00-10:45

    Salon 5

  • Cybersecurity in Financial Services

    Speakers: awesome speaker list to be revealed 

    11:00-12:00

    Salon 5

  • Decision Superiority in the Age of Adaptive AI

    Speakers:Cory Janssen (Co-Founder and CEO at Alta ML)Martin Dinel (Chief Information Security Officer at CyberAlberta and Assistant Deputy Minister, Cybersecurity Division at the Ministry of Technology and Innovation of Alberta)Megan Lee (Managing Director at Quantum City)
    Moderator: Medaline Hann, Senior Manager at KPMG

    13:00-13:45

    Main Stage 

  • Speaker Series: Getting Defence Ready: Security & Compliance

    Presenter: Jonathan "Troll" Clow, CD2, BA, MDS, LCol (Ret'd) RCAF (1 2 3 Cyber) 

    14:00-15:00

    Salon 5