Speaker Biographies
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Adams, Carlisle
Carlisle Adams is an Associate Professor in the School of
Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University of
Ottawa. Prior to his academic appointment in 2003, he worked for 13 years
in industry (Nortel, Entrust) in the design and standardization of a variety of
cryptographic and security technologies for the Internet. His research
and technical contributions include the CAST family of symmetric encryption
algorithms, secure protocols for authentication and management in Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) environments, and a comprehensive architecture and policy
language for access control in electronic networks. Dr. Adams is
co-author of Understanding PKI: Concepts, Standards, and Deployment
Considerations, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2003). He is a Senior
Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a
member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the International
Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), and is licensed as a Professional
Engineer (P.Eng.).
Amouroux, Arnaud
Arnaud
Amouroux is Project Coordinator in the Office of the OSCE Representative on
Freedom of the Media since February 2004. He has been engaged in a number of
activities with regard to promoting media freedom, fighting undue speech
restrictions and monitoring press violations in the OSCE region (Balkans,
Turkey, Southern Europe). Arnaud holds a master's degree in International
Administration Law from University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris and a BA in
Political Science from Toulouse's Institute for Political Studies. He has also
studied in Cardiff and Milan.
Bailey, Jane
Jane Bailey joined the Faculty of Law at Ottawa University
in 2002. She teaches regulation of Internet communications, civil
procedure and contracts. Professor Bailey completed her LL.M. at the University
of Toronto in 2002, supported by a Centre for Innovation Law and Policy
scholarship and an Ontario Scholarship. She was a co-recipient of the Howland
Prize for outstanding performance in the LL.M. programme. She served as a law
clerk to the Honourable Mr. Justice John Sopinka at the Supreme Court of
Canada. Before returning to legal studies, Professor Bailey practised law in
Toronto with Torys, where she was an associate in the litigation department.
Her litigation experience included acting on matters relating to unlawful
search of political protesters, and to the application of existing laws
governing hate speech to an Internet website.
Her primary areas of interest relate to the intersections between law, evolving
technology and equity. Professor Bailey's LL.M. research related to the
potential for regulation of Internet hate speech. Her ongoing research focuses
on the impact of evolving technology on significant public commitments to
equality rights, freedom of expression and multiculturalism, as well as the
societal and cultural impact of the Internet and emerging forms of private
technological control, particularly in relation to members of socially
disadvantaged communities.
Bendrath, Ralf
Ralf Bendrath is a political scientist and a researcher on privacy policy at
the University of Bremen. He is active in groups like European Digital Rights
(EDRi), Working Group against Data Retention (AK Vorrat) and the UN Internet
Governance Forum's Dynamic Coalition on Privacy.
Website: http://bendrath.blogspot.com/
Bennett, Colin
Colin
Bennett received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of
Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Victoria, where he is now Professor. From 1999-2000, he was
a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In 2007 he was a
Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at University of
California, Berkeley. His research has focused on the comparative
analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy protection policies at the
domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper
articles, he has published three books: Regulating Privacy: Data
Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States (Cornell
University Press, 1992); Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the
Digital Age (University of Toronto Press, 1999, with Rebecca Grant); The
Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in the Digital Age (Ashgate
Press, 2003; MIT Press, 2006 with Charles Raab).
Blaze, Matt
Matt
Blaze teaches computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the architecture and
design of secure systems based on cryptographic techniques, analysis of secure
systems against practical attack models, and on finding new cryptographic
primitives and techniques. This work has led directly to several new cryptographic
concepts, including: "Remotely-Keyed Encryption," which allows the
use of inexpensive, low-bandwidth secure hardware to protect high-bandwidth
communication and stored data, "Atomic Proxy Cryptography," which
allows re-encryption by un-trusted third parties, and "Master-Key
Encryption," which provides a systematic way to design (and study) ciphers
with built-in "back doors." He is famous for having discovered a flaw
in the "Clipper Chip" during the 90's, and has a keen interest in public policy
issues related to cryptography and computing.
He has a PhD and an MA in computer science
from Princeton, and an MS in computer science from Columbia.
Boa, Krista
Krista Boa's research focuses on how technology-based
identification systems, such as machine-readable travel documents and national
ID cards, are framed in public debate and the implications of these discursive
constructions for public policy decision-making and the deliberative process
generally. She is also interested in how these discourses (and the design of
the systems themselves) transform conceptions of identity, anonymity, and
privacy. Other related areas of interest which inform her research include:
security and border policy, surveillance, access to information, and
conceptualisations of privacy, particularly legal and theoretical arguments
about reasonable expectations of privacy in public. She is part of the SSHRC INE-supported
Digital Identity Construction project and the SSHRC INE-supported On the
Identity Trail project. Her doctoral studies are supported by the SSHRC Canada
Graduate Scholarship program.
Bonnet,
Bobbi
Bobbi Bonnet is currently the Compliance and Security
Officer for Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, the electronic health record
system for Kaiser Permanente (KP). Kaiser Permanente is an organization
comprised of three distinct entities, the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation
Health Plan, Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and the for-profit
Permanente Medical Groups. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan serves 8.6 million
members in nine states and the District of Columbia, making it the largest
non-profit HMO/integrated health care organization of its kind in the United
States. KP operates 32 hospitals and over 430 medical office buildings in the
jurisdictions where it operates. The range of services provided includes all
medical specialties and ancillary services such as pharmacy, lab and diagnostic
imaging, home health, hospice and skilled nursing care. KP has 12,000 +
physicians and 150,000 + employees in the organization. KP HealthConnect is the
largest initiative to automate medical records, outside of the US government,
in the world. Ms. Bonnet has extensive (35+ years) clinical and operational
experience in health care delivery and administration that includes emergency
management, performance improvement, regulatory compliance, project management,
strategic and disaster planning, compliance and investigative experience, and
care delivery operations. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Bobbi worked in a
variety of health care settings, including acute care hospitals and clinics,
tertiary trauma center, pre-hospital care administration, ambulatory and long
term care, and regulatory agencies. She has a Diploma in Nursing, a
Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing from the University of North Florida, and a
Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco.
Bouma, Tim
Tim
Bouma is the Acting Director, Identity Management, TBS CIO Branch. Mr.
Bouma is
leading the efforts to develop a Government of Canada-wide Identity
Management
Strategy. Prior to joining TBS, Mr. Bouma was an Executive Management
Consultant with CGI. He also held senior
management positions within the software industry with Open Text and
Hummingbird. Mr. Bouma has an Executive MBA from the University
of Ottawa, and a B.A. Sc. from the University of Waterloo.
Boudreau, Denis
Denis Boudreau manages WebConforme, a business
that works to provide consulting services on accessibility and standardization
processes for Web sites development. After 4 years spent as chair of W3Québec,
he was part of the founding of Coopérative AccessibilitéWeb (Web Accessibility
Coop), for which he now acts has director and expert. At the international
level, he is a member and invited expert to the HTML Working Group of W3C
(World Wide Web Consortium) and of some working groups of ISO (the
International Standards Organization) on topics such as interface accessibility
. He is chair of the board of Communautique, an organization that has the
mission to facilitate the appropriation of information technologies by the
people. He participates in a working
group on Online democracy, CEDEL (comité d'étude sur la démocratie en ligne),
formed by experts interested in the social repercussions of the online
governance project in Québec.
Bowden, Caspar
Caspar
Bowden leads the privacy pillar of the Trustworthy Computing initiative across
Europe, Middle-East and Africa for Microsoft. His goal is to ensure that users
of Microsoft products and services are in control of their personal data and
that fair information practices are respected. He is a specialist in data
protection policy, privacy enhancing technology research, identity management
and authentication. He was formerly director of the Foundation for Information
Policy Research, an independent think-tank that studies the interaction between
computers and society, and promotes public understanding and dialogue between
UK and European civil society and policy-makers in the fields of e-commerce,
copyright, law enforcement and national security, e-government, cryptography
and digital signatures. He was appointed expert adviser to the UK parliament
for the passage of three bills concerning privacy issues, and was co-organizer
of the influential Scrambling for Safety public conferences on UK encryption
and surveillance policy. His previous career over two decades ranged from investment
banking (proprietary trading risk-management for option arbitrage), to software
engineering (graphics engines and cryptography), including work for Goldman
Sachs, Microsoft Consulting Services, Acorn, Research Machines, and IBM.
Brandon, Travis
Brands, Stefan
Dr. Stefan Brands is the founder and president of
Credentica, a Montreal-based startup that delivers innovative identity and
access management solutions. He holds a Ph.D. in cryptography from Technical
University of Eindhoven and a M.Sc. in mathematics from University of Utrecht.
Stefan is an Adjunct Professor in modern cryptology at McGill's School of
Computer Science. In this capacity he co-supervises several M.Sc. and PhD
students who are conducting cryptographic research in the area of digital
identity and privacy. Stefan is a principal member of "On The Identity
Trail" as well as of ADAPID, a Belgian R&D consortium that is
designing a next-generation ID chipcard. Prior to joining Credentica, Stefan
was a senior cryptographer at two pioneering privacy technology companies:
Zero-Knowledge Systems (anonymous data transport) and Digicash (electronic
cash). Stefan served in 2004 and 2005 on the external advisory committee of the
Federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and is the author of a book on
multi-party secure electronic authentication, published by The MIT Press
(Available for download from www.credentica.com/the_mit_pressbook.php.)
In the early nineties, Stefan designed the core e-cash protocols of a chipcard
system that was implemented and piloted by two European consortiums that
included Gemplus, Siemens, and several European banks. Stefan maintains a
personal blog on identity management and privacy at www.idcorner.org.
Bronskill, Jim
Jim Bronskill is a reporter in the Ottawa bureau of The
Canadian Press news agency, specializing in security and intelligence, policing
and justice-related issues including civil liberties and human rights. He has
considerable experience using information laws to uncover stories. Before
joining CP in November 2003, Jim was a reporter with Southam News (now CanWest
News Service). He previously held various positions at CP and has also worked
for the Ottawa Citizen, the Owen Sound Sun Times and TVOntario. Jim holds a
master's degree in journalism from Carleton University, where he has been a
sessional lecturer since 2003. He is a co-founder and steering committee member
of Open Government Canada, a national coalition formed to guard against undue
government secrecy. In 2002, he received two Canadian Association of Journalists
Awards, including one for best overall investigative report, for a series he
co-wrote with David Pugliese of the Citizen about the crackdown by security
agencies on public dissent.
Jim Bronskill is a reporter in the Ottawa bureau of The
Canadian Press news agency, specializing in security and intelligence, policing
and justice-related issues including civil liberties and human rights. He has
considerable experience using information laws to uncover stories. Before
joining CP in November 2003, Jim was a reporter with Southam News (now CanWest
News Service). He previously held various positions at CP and has also worked
for the Ottawa Citizen, the Owen Sound Sun Times and TVOntario. Jim holds a
master's degree in journalism from Carleton University, where he has been a
sessional lecturer since 2003. He is a
co-founder and steering committee member of Open Government Canada, a national
coalition formed to guard against undue government secrecy. In 2002, he
received two Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, including one for best
overall investigative report, for a series he co-wrote with David Pugliese of
the Citizen about the crackdown by security agencies on public dissent.
Burkell, Jacquie
Jacquelyn Burkell is Associate
Professor, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information and Media
Studies. Dr. Burkell's research focuses on
the empirical study of the interaction between people and technology, with a
particular emphasis on the role of cognition in such interactions. Specific
aspects of this research include the impact of presentation on information use
and understanding, the design of human-computer interfaces, and the social
impact of technology. With respect to this latter topic, she is interested in
the impact of computer mediation on communication and the perception of self.
Much of this work focuses on anonymity in online communication, examining how
the psuedonymity offered by online communication is experienced by online
communicators, and how this experience changes communication behaviour and
interpretation. Dr. Burkell is also involved in research on the credibility of
online information and information sources. Part of this work will focus on
intelligent agents and virtual representatives as information sources,
examining whether the credibility of these sources is assessed according to the
same criteria used to establish the credibility of human information sources.
Dr. Burkell teaches a variety of courses relevant to her research methodology
expertise and her research interests. She teaches research methods at both the
graduate and undergraduate level, with a focus on both qualitative and
quantitative methods. In addition, she teaches courses on the social impact of
technology, human-computer interface design and information design.
Cameron, Kim
Kim Cameron is Architect of Identity and Access in the Connected
Systems Division at Microsoft, where he drives evolution of Active
Directory, Federation
Services, Identity
Integration Services, CardSpace and
Microsoft's other Identity
Metasystem products. Kim
joined Microsoft in 1999 when it bought the
ZOOMIT Corporation. As VP of
Technology at ZOOMIT, he had invented metadirectory technology and
built the first shipping product. Before that he led ZOOMIT's development team
in producing a range of SMTP, X.400, X.500, and PKI products.
Kim grew up in Canada, attending King's College at
Dalhousie University and l'Universite de Montreal. He has won a number
of industry awards, including Digital
Identity World's Innovation Award (2005), Network Computing's Top 25
Technology Drivers Award (1996) and MVP (Most
Valuable Player) Award (2005), and Network World's 50 Most
Powerful People in Networking (2005). Kim blogs at identityblog.com, where he published the Laws of Identity.
Chan, Yim
Yim Chan is the Global Privacy Executive for the IBM
Corporation as well as the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) for IBM Canada. Her responsibilities include developing and
implementing programs at the enterprise level for IBM's global privacy
management system and embedding privacy into relevant business processes. In her capacity as the CPO for IBM Canada,
Yim is responsible for guiding information handling policies and practices
across IBM Canada. Managing both roles
reflects the increasing complexity of the privacy requirements demanded of
globally-integrated organizations such as IBM and the steps that must be taken
to maintain recognition as a technology and business leader.
Yim is a member of the Canadian and U.S. CPO Councils and
is on the Advisory Board for the International Association of Privacy
Professionals' (IAPP) which developed the Canadian certification program for
privacy professionals (CIPP/C). She is a
regular speaker at privacy-related conferences and is sought after for privacy
related interviews.
During her 28 years with IBM, Yim has held several middle
management and executive positions in software compiler development, industry
solutions, and was formerly the CIO for IBM Canada. Her career at IBM has also
included international assignments to the Far East. Yim holds two patents for a
Business Application Dialogues Architecture and Toolset in the privacy
assessment environment and has obtained CIPP/C certification.
Yim graduated from the University of Waterloo with a
Bachelor of Mathematics/Computer Science degree and earned a Master's
Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. She has participated in the Women in Technology
mentoring program in the Greater Toronto Area.
Chandler, Jennifer
Jennifer Chandler is
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
Jennifer Chandler joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in
2002, where she is currently teaching 'tort law' and 'technoprudence-legal
theory in the information age'. The
overarching theme of Professor Chandler's research is law, science and
technology, particularly with respect to the social and environmental effects
of emerging technologies and the interaction of emerging technologies with law
and regulation.
In addition to work fitting within this broad theme, Professor Chandler has
also written extensively in the areas of cybersecurity and cybertorts.
Other recent articles have addressed the adequacy of the Canadian regulation of
GMOs, pharmacists and conscientious objection, the ethics of non-financial
incentives to donate organs, and liability for online reputation systems.
Chartrand, Monique
Monique Chartrand is the Director General of
Communautique, a non profit organization in Montreal dedicated to fostering the
appropriation of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Communautique offers organizations, in
Montreal and in the regions, a wide spectrum of training activities. These
training activities aim to enable community groups, community workers and
citizens to make strategic use of the information highway.
Ms. Chartrand holds a BA in Sexology from the University
of Québec in Montréal. She also has some background training in specialized
education and is currently pursuing her masters degree at the University of Montréal. She has many years of experience
in social intervention and popular education in community groups.
Chester, Jeffrey
CDD founder and executive director, has been working on public-interest
electronic media issues for more than twenty years. His