Cyber Identity Summit Speakers
5 – 6 May 2026
Ottawa Conference and Event Centre
Alan McCafferty
Cyber Security Program Director
University of Ottawa, Professional Development Institute
Arnold Villeneuve
CMMC Lead Assessor and Instructor
Ben Steeves
Co-Founder and Chief Security Officer
Beauceron Security
Bill Dunnion
Chief Information Security Officer
Mitel
Birket Foster
President
Storm Internet
Blair Canavan
Senior Director, Alliances – PQC Portfolio
Thales
Bruce Playfair
Leader, Defence and Security Systems
Automotive and Surface Transportation, National Research Council Canada / Government of Canada
Bruno Couillard
CEO and Co-founder
Crypto4A Technologies Inc.
Dan Nitta Mackey
AI Ecosystem Acceleration – Public Sector / Federal Government of Canada
NVIDIA
David Damo
Chief Security Architect
Long View
Deborah Clark-Forster
Senior Account Executive, Cybersecurity Advanced Technologies Branch / Innovation and Economic Partnerships Division, Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation & Trade
Ontario Public Service
Frederic Letourneau
Cyber Security Health & Public Service Lead
Accenture
Gary Cooper
Acting Senior Director of Cyber Security
Network and Satellite Procurement at the Government of Canada
George Al-Koura
Chief Information Security Officer
Ruby Life
Guillaume Winters
Account Executive
Arctic Wolf
Hyelim Juliana Kim
Senior Advisor
Mitacs
Imraan Bashir
Partner, Cyber Security, National Public Sector Cyber Leader
KPMG Canada LP
Dr. James Lindsay
CTO
Cyber Niner
Honourable Jenna Sudds
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Government Transformation
Public Works and Procurement and Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State (Defence Procurement)
JF Provost
CEO
Malvik Security Inc.
John Weigelt
National Technology Officer
Microsoft Canada
Justin Dunnion
Senior Associate
GreenSky Ventures
Kevin de Snayer
VP Canada, IT & Cyber Solutions, Defence and Space
Calian
Kevin Ford
Exec Director
Ford and Associates
Mathieu Lemay
Partner
Digital Ubiquity Capital
Matt Davies
Senior Advisor
StrategyCorp
Marlene Conway Diel
Board Chair
Canadian Marine Industries and Shipbuilding Association (CMISA)
Meyer Mechanic
CEO
Vaultie
Michelle Robitaille
CEO
Digital Trust Canada
Mike Berthold
Senior Solutions Architect, Team Lead
Okta
Mina Movahedi Shakib
Cyber Threat Investigator
Bell Canada
Natasha Gagnon
CEO
Ontario Aerospace Council
Neal Kushwaha
Chairperson
National Security Centre of Excellence (Canada)
Numaan Huq
Senior Threat Researcher
Trend Micro Research
Richard Chamberland
Presales Security Expert
Fortinet
Richard Lefebvre
Senior Product Manager
Rogers Business
Robbie Gharib
Senior Solution Architect
Thales
Sandeep Panesar
AI Quantum and Cybersecurity Evangelist
Scott Levac
Direct, Technology Strategies
Office of the Chief Technology Officer of the Government of Canada Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat / Government of Canada
Sean Keleher
Principal Solutions Engineer, Team Lead
Okta
Serge Dansereau
Senior Sales Engineer
Arctic Wolf
Shruti Mukherjee
Director of GRC
GlobalVision
Stephan Cronier
Regional Sales Engineer
CrowdStrike
Steve Borza
CEO
Bluink
Steve Giguere
Principal AI Security Advocate
Check Point Software
Talha Iqbal
Senior Director
Cyber Intelligence Centre, Bell Cyber
Tyson Macaulay
Deputy Director
National Center for Critical Infrastructure Protection, Resilience and Security (NC-CIPSeR)
Vanessa Courville
Senior Solutions Architect
NVIDIA
Vincent Fortier
Manager, Field Engineering, Public Sector Canada
DataBricks
Yama Saadat
Principal Solutions Engineer
TrendAI
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