Samer Adi

Samer Adi

IT Security Leader, Green Shield Canada

Adi is a strategic IT operations executive with expertise in driving information security programs within business units. He is a big-picture visionary who delivers business continuity while ensuring best-in-class security systems and implementing new technologies and process improvements to ensure up-to-date technology platforms. Adi leads by example, modeling accountability, ownership and clear and consistent communication. He is an adaptable leader who builds and fosters talented teams and champions excellence and innovation. He is an author, public speaker and motivator, and he is passionate about information security and data privacy.

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Tim McCreight

Managing Director, Enterprise Security, Canadian Pacific Railway and former CISO, City of Calgary

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Dan Wolff

Director of Product Management and Marketing. BigFix

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Samer Adi

IT Security Leader, Green Shield Canada

Adi is a strategic IT operations executive with expertise in driving information security programs within business units. He is a big-picture visionary who delivers business continuity while ensuring best-in-class security systems and implementing new technologies and process improvements to ensure up-to-date technology platforms. Adi leads by example, modeling accountability, ownership and clear and consistent communication. He is an adaptable leader who builds and fosters talented teams and champions excellence and innovation. He is an author, public speaker and motivator, and he is passionate about information security and data privacy.

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Hadas Cassorla

CISO, M1 Finance

Hadas Cassorla, JD, MBA, CISSP has a lot of letters after her name, but the three letters she cares the most about are Y-E-S. Marrying her business, legal, IT and improv backgrounds, she is the CISO of M1 Finance and has built her career helping organizations create strong, actionable and implementable security programs by getting buy-in from the entire company through to the board. She focuses on helping companies enable scaled, thoughtful security, has built corporate security offices from the ground up and has helped develop them into departments of Security as a Service. She likes to find the fun in security enablement to make it more approachable.

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Chris Schweigert

Senior Director of Cybersecurity Operations, TrueBlue Inc.

Dr. Chris Schweigert has been in the security space for over 20 years. He was a security professional in the United States Air Force for 12 years before making his move into the private sector. Dr. Schweigert has held several positions and different multi-national companies over the years. During his tenure Dr. Schweigert has built out several Managed Security Operations Centers and is currently the Director of Cloud Security for TrueBlue. Dr. Schweigert also teaches at the graduate school for Northcentral University and University of Maryland University College. One of Dr. Schweigert’s moto’s is “There is no secure bottom line in business, there is just the bottom line.”

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Zaki Abbas

CISO and SVP, Brookfield Asset Management

Zaki Abbas is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Brookfield Asset Management. Zaki joined Brookfield in 2017 and has over 15+ years in the Information Security field. Before joining Brookfield Asset Management, Zaki was the AVP - Information Security & IT Planning at Economical Insurance. Previous, to Economical, Zaki worked as an Information Security Officer at Great-West Life for over 8 years and an Information Security Advocate at IBM for 10 years

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Samer Adi

IT Security Leader, Green Shield Canada

Adi is a strategic IT operations executive with expertise in driving information security programs within business units. He is a big-picture visionary who delivers business continuity while ensuring best-in-class security systems and implementing new technologies and process improvements to ensure up-to-date technology platforms. Adi leads by example, modeling accountability, ownership and clear and consistent communication. He is an adaptable leader who builds and fosters talented teams and champions excellence and innovation. He is an author, public speaker and motivator, and he is passionate about information security and data privacy.

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Ireen Birungi

CISO, Interac Corp.

Ireen Birungi is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Interac Corp., where she leads the technology and business security strategy and implementation. This includes operationalizing enterprise-wide cybersecurity program that supports continuous improvement; managing security risks and compliance with business, client, legislative and regulatory requirements; reporting and containing security incidents and breaches; identity and access management and privilege access management; and monitoring threats and taking preventative measures. Ireen has over 20 years of experience helping organizations excel in the areas of cybersecurity, risk and vulnerability management and IT architecture in a variety of industries across and Public, Private and Consulting sector. She began her career in the security operations centre for a major Canadian bank, managing processes around network devices and systems, administering cryptographic keys for ABMs and conducting vulnerability assessments on varying technologies. She then progressed to senior roles in governance, risk management and compliance providing consulting advisory services, including recommendations for improving security posture to a number of clients in the healthcare sector and telecommunications and ultimately ending back in operations, where she led the establishment of a cybersecurity operations centre for a major engineering organization. Ireen holds a degree in Economics from the University of Toronto and cybersecurity designations: CISSP, CISM, and CRISC and an active member of Evanta (A Gartner Company) CISO community, International Security Forum (ISF) and advisory board for siberX

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