IAPP Canada Symposium 2026: Privacy | AI governance | Cybersecurity law
TORONTO
4-7 May
Speakers
The IAPP is policy neutral. We see it as our responsibility to showcase a broad spectrum of voices and perspectives. Please enjoy the luminaries we have assembled from Canada and beyond as they speak about current issues in privacy, AI governance and cybersecurity law.
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Keynote speakers
Philippe Dufresne
Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Peter Mansbridge
Journalist; Former Chief Correspondent, CBC News
Melanie Woodin
President
University of Toronto
Session speakers at IAPP Symposium 2026
Helene Ammar
CIPP/C
Vice President, Enterprise Risk and Privacy Officer
Zafin Labs
Natasha Anzick
Director, Legal; Chief Privacy Officer
Wealthsimple
Ali Arasteh
Managing Director, Canada
Mandiant Consulting
Alex Cameron
Co-Chair, Privacy and Cybersecurity Group, Partner
Fasken
Noemi Chanda
CIPP/C
Partner, Data Protection and Privacy
Deloitte
Marc Chénier
Deputy Commissioner and Senior General Counsel
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Guillaume Clément
Partner, Cybersecurity Services
KPMG; Founding President, Egyde Conseils
Sara Clodman
Chief Public Affairs and Governance Officer
Canadian Marketing Association
Brett Cook
CIPP/US, CIPT
Senior Privacy and Security Counsel
Motorola Solutions
Laura Crestohl
CIPP/C
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Elizabeth Denham
Chair
Jersey Data Protection Authority
Jonathan Dewar
Chief Executive Officer
First Nations Information Governance Centre
Marie Catherine Ducharme
Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity Senior Associate
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Khaled El Emam
Scholar-in-Residence, Professor, University of Ottawa
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Anick Fortin-Cousens
CIPP/C
Director, Global Privacy and AI Compliance
TELUS
David Fraser
Partner
McInnes Cooper
Ibrahim Gedeon
Executive Director
Guardian SafetyNet; CTO Emeritus, TELUS
Lise Girard
Commissioner
Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec
Eloïse Gratton
Partner, National Co-Chair, Privacy and Data Management
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
Stacey Gray
AIGP, CIPP/US
Senior Director for U.S. Policy
Future of Privacy Forum
Antoine Guilmain
CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP
Partner, Co-leader, Cybersecurity and Data Protection
Gowling WLG
Shreya Gupta
Director, Legal Counsel - Technology, AI and Privacy
Loblaw Companies Limited
Sinziana Gutiu
CIPP/C
Director, Data Strategy and Partner Services
TELUS
Angelique Hamilton
CIPP/C
Privacy Consultant
Alliance for Healthier Communities
Michael Harvey
Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
Anne-Marie Hayden
Privacy Consultant
nNovation, Hayden PR
Patrick Hayden
Physics Professor, Distinguished Research Chair
Stanford University, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Kristen Holman
Senior Counsel
Sephora Canada
Frédérique Horwood
AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPT
Senior Counsel, Privacy and AI Regulation
Cohere
Jennifer Jin
AI and Data Policy Analyst
Centre for Information Policy Leadership
Constantine Karbaliotis
AIGP, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP
Counsel
nNovation
Simeon Kanev
CIPP/C
Privacy Officer, Business Lead
Alliance for Healthier Communities
Courtenay Kipp
Associate General Counsel, Employment and Privacy
WestJet
Patricia Kosseim
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Jason Kotler
Founder, CEO
CyberSteward; Founder, CYPFER
Jessica Gan Lee
Assistant General Counsel, Head of Privacy Legal
OpenAI
Mandy Lit
CIPP/C, CIPM, FIP
Director, Privacy and Compliance, Global Enterprises and High-Growth Tech
Vance Lockton
CIPP/C, CIPM
Senior Technology Policy Advisor
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Andrea Maciejewski
Associate Attorney
Greenberg Traurig
Michael Maguire
Executive Director
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Gabe Maldoff
Associate
Goodwin Procter
Ruth Marks
Access and Privacy Analyst
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Newfoundland and Labrador
Ellie Marshall
CIPP/C
Associate
Blake, Cassels & Graydon
Sarah McIntosh
Policy Analyst
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
Nicole Minutti
Senior Health Policy Advisor
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Birinder Narang
President Elect
BC Family Doctors
Christopher Parsons
Acting Director of Technology Policy
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Caitlin Pencarrick Hertzman
CIPP/C, CIPM, FIP
Privacy Consultant
Maciej Piszcz
AIGP, CIPP/C, CIPP/E
Senior Assurance Program Manager, AI and Global Privacy
TrustArc
Jordan Prokopy
Partner, Data Trust and Privacy
PwC
Alexandra Quigley
Senior Counsel, Privacy and Litigation
Dentons
Jen Rees-Jones
CIPP/C, CIPP/E
Global Privacy and Data Policy Manager
Meta
Dominic Rochon
Chief Information Officer
Government of Canada; Deputy Minister of Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Andréa Rousseau
Chief of Staff to the Associate Deputy Minister, Artificial Intelligence
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Tina Saban
CIPP/C
Associate, Privacy and Data Management
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
Teresa Scassa
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy
University of Ottawa
Mark Schaan
Associate Deputy Minister
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Pamela Snively
Vice President, Chief Data and Trust Officer
TELUS
Florence So
AIGP
Counsel
nNovation
Divya Sridhar
Vice President, Global Privacy Division and Privacy Initiatives Operations
BBB National Programs
Nada Tamim
Advisor, Information Security Governance
RAMQ
Kirsten Thompson
Partner and National Lead, Privacy and Cybersecurity Group
Dentons
Nic Wall
CIPP/C
Senior Associate
Torys
Bridget Walshe
Associate Head
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
David Young
Principal
David Young Law
Cobun Zweifel-Keegan
CIPP/US, CIPM
Managing Director, D.C.
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