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
Speakers: Amanda 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