Venue
Chelsea Hotel
Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard St W, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z4, Canada

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Event Date Wed Dec 11 AST (4 days ago)
In your timezone (EST): Tue Dec 10 11:00pm - Tue Dec 10 11:00pm
Location Chelsea Hotel
33 Gerrard St W, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z4, Canada
Region Americas
Details

Get together with Toronto's top CISOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
• Increasing sophistication of cyber threats and the critical need to protect sensitive data
• Reducing the risk of security breaches and enhancing overall organizational security
• Providing clear, actionable insights to stakeholders to ensure informed, secure decision-making

What to Expect
Interactive Sessions:
• Hear from CISO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking:
• Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Toronto CISO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings:
• Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Speakers

2024 Speakers

CO-CHAIRS:

Nagesh Chawla
VP, Enterprise Technology and Cybersecurity, Foresters Financial

Joanne Coles
Managing Director, Enterprise Technology, Onex

Manas Giri
CISO, WestJet

Sandra Liepkalns
VP, Information Security & Data Governance, Choice Properties REIT

Mike Melo
VP Technology Shared Services & CISO, LifeLabs

Ragulan Sinnarajah
VP, CISO, Sobeys

HOSTS:

David Porter
Head of Customer Value & Transformation Advisory, Google Cloud

Peter Ling
VP, Global Cybersecurity Partnerships, RiskRecon - A Mastercard Company

Nicole Galang
Director Information Security (CISO), BGIS

Iain Paterson
CISO, WELL Health

Nadeem Hussain
Director, Information Security (CISO), Grant Thornton LLP (Canada)

John Barkla
General Manager, Canada, Lenovo

Juan Valbuena
Director Cybersecurity, Allied Gold

Lior Yaari
CEO and Co-Founder, Grip Security

Nilesh Shastri
CISO, Canadian Institute for Health Information

Mick Leach
Field CISO, Abnormal Security

Denis Villeneuve
Cybersecurity & Resilience Practice Leader, Kyndryl Canada

Shakeel Sagarwala
AVP, CISO, Canadian Tire Bank

Brent Thomas
AVP, Security Architecture and Consulting, Co-operators Insurance and Financial Services

David Jones
Vice President, North America Solutions Engineering, Dynatrace

Mark Pryce
Manager Cybersecurity, Toromont

Linda Barratt
Director, Enterprise Architecture, Toronto Community Housing

Ian Hassard
VP, Product Management, Okta

Assaf Afek-Levy
CISO, GFL Environmental

Keith Benedict
Director IT Security, Audit and Compliance, Postmedia Network Inc

SPEAKERS

Rod Hynes
Director, Information Security, Bell Canada

Agnelo Dias
VP, Information Security & IT Risk, IGM Financial

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Partners

GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADER:
• Island

CISO THOUGHT LEADERS:
• Google Cloud
• Riskrecon

KEY PARTNERS:
• Dynatrace
• Grip and Abnormal
• WIZ

PROGRAM PARTNERS:
• Contrast Security
• Cyberhaven
• Cyera
• Digital Boundary Group
• Kyndryl
• Intel+Lenovo
• Nagomi Security
• Okta
• Snyk