CIO Public Sector Canada Virtual Summit Agenda - Event Schedule & Session Topics

Welcome Address

11:00 AM - 11:05 AM

Panel: Critical Business Topics for the Office of the CIO and CISO

11:05 AM - 11:25 AM

Join us for a panel discussion covering Critical Business Topics for the Office of the CIO and CISO and Talent Attraction vs Employee Retention.

Kevin Pashuk

AVP - Digital Transformation & Technology

Sheridan College

Salman Ashraf

CISO

Manitoba Public Insurance

Milad Armeen

Director, Information Technology, Retail

BC Liquor Distribution Branch

Sumon Acharjee

Chief Information Officer

City of Markham

Executive Boardroom: Let’s Create in the new era of digital transformation

11:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Technology and transformation have always gone hand-in-hand, but the pace of transformational change accelerated over the last 2 years in every organization. IBM Canadas CMO Jay Badiani will get our creative juices flowing as he shares stories and best practices sourced from thousands of IBM digital transformation engagements with the “new creators” - the change agents and forward thinkers in every organization - including yours. He’ll cover a wide-range of areas, from cybersecurity to AI and data-driven transformations, how to use hyper-automation to make your business supersonic, and give you the tools to get creative to solve your organization’s biggest challenges. Welcome to today's IBM.

Jay Badiani

CMO

IBM Canada

Executive Boardroom: Charting Cyber Threats in the Public Sector

11:45 AM - 12:05 PM

Operating a security program has never been more challenging. Threat actors of today, including ransomware operators, are continuously adopting new and novel techniques and organizations are searching for ways to mitigate the associated risks. Mandiant Canada will share insights into who is targeting the public sector today and best practices for building a cyber resiliency framework.

Jesse Jordan

Senior Managing Consultant

Mandiant

Executive Boardroom: AI-Based Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management Workflows

12:05 PM - 12:25 PM

Traditional GRC tool providers have long described their solutions as automated, however, when you dig deeper into the workflows and business logic, you suddenly realize those same workflows are manual and require a significant amount of clicking to obtain the desired outcome. Regulations continue to plague companies, an increase in enterprise risks is requiring a massive number of resources to mitigate, and there is an inability to monitor internal controls continuously. Even though the benefits of automation are realized, their taxonomy is still grossly misunderstood. AI-based technologies have valuable applications, ranging from automating regulatory compliance workflows and legal interpretation of requirements; cross-mapping to other regulations; to cybersecurity management in attended and unattended forms.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

This presentation demonstrates the power of artificial intelligence in managing enterprise risks when the models are integrated into the GRC ecosystem. We will shed some intelligence on where automation works best when managing enterprise risks and mitigating controls to improve compliance outcomes. Additionally, we will focus on the following:

· Process mining to show GRC outliers;

· Automating workflows and approval packages;

· Continuously monitor enterprise control processes;

· Identify principles on how to utilize Watson to enhance the regulatory change process;

· Automate the risk analysis and predictive behavior processes;

· Automate report generation, metrics reporting, and operational analysis.

Dr. James Sayles

GRC Fellow and Professional

IBM

Closing Remarks