Cyber resilience is the focus of this session, setting the stage for how organizations can strengthen stability amid growing complexity. Attendees will explore how resilience improves when human judgement is paired with the practical use of artificial intelligence, rather than being treated as its replacement. The discussion will show how AI can support everyday decisions, sharpen detection and response, and strengthen long-term planning.

The session also addresses rising third-party and supply chain risk, outlining why greater visibility and assurance are now essential. With clear governance and continuous assessment, AI becomes a tool that enhances oversight and builds confidence in critical dependencies.

Attendees will leave with an understanding for combining human insight, AI enablement and robust supplier management into a cohesive model for resilient, sustainable growth.

Security operations are being reshaped by an environment where threats evolve faster than human teams can track them. This session explores how AI is transforming the SOC into a more adaptive, efficient and resilient function. It examines how intelligent systems can reduce alert fatigue, enhance threat detection, accelerate investigation and support faster, more confident decision-making. The talk also highlights the importance of keeping human expertise at the centre, showing how AI can augment analysts rather than replace them. Attendees will gain practical insight into building a SOC approach that aligns with the human–AI era: one where technology amplifies capability, strengthens response and enables teams to stay ahead in a landscape defined by speed and complexity.

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Every digital interaction begins with an identity, and that now covers employees, contractors, partners, customers, applications, machines and AI agents. This session examines how identity became the primary route into critical systems, why credential theft, MFA bypass, session hijacking and privilege escalation let attackers operate as legitimate users, and what it takes to govern access across environments spanning on-premises systems, cloud platforms, SaaS and third parties.

The session also turns to the fastest-growing part of the problem. Applications, APIs, service accounts and AI agents hold extensive privileges and are frequently governed far less rigorously than human users. Attendees will learn how organizations are extending ownership, lifecycle and access governance to non-human identities, why Zero Trust depends on continuously verifying who or what is requesting access, and what a practical route forward looks like for teams managing fragmented identity estates.

The view that operational technology sits safely isolated from the corporate network no longer holds, and threat actors have been quick to work with that. This conversation looks at how industrial incidents now begin in IT environments before moving laterally into OT, why the systems on the other side of that crossing behave nothing like their IT counterparts, and what that means for organizations running pipelines, power, water, and manufacturing.

OT environments prioritize availability, integrity, and the safety of physical processes first, which inverts much of what IT security assumes. Equipment runs for decades, proprietary protocols and real-time systems leave little room for patching, and governance is often less settled than on the IT side. Attendees will hear where the common exposures sit, from segmentation and remote access to asset inventory and monitoring; how responsibility for OT security is being settled between engineering and security teams; and how operators are preparing for regulatory expectations that are still taking shape for Canadian critical infrastructure, including what is worth putting in place before the details are confirmed.

Amy is a digital transformation and cybersecurity leader known for leading organization-wide change as a Chief Digital Officer and Chief Digital Transformation Officer in complex regulated environments. Recently named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 for 2026, Amy has spent her career at the intersection of technology, transformation, security, and organizational change.Having held C-suite roles with enterprise accountability for digital and technology operations, including oversight of CIO, CTO, and CISO functions, she knows how to carry the security mandate and the transformation mandate at the same time, and how to reconcile them.

Today, she serves as Chief Cyber Resilience Officer at C3SA, advising organizations on cyber resilience, digital trust, AI adoption, and enterprise transformation across government, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and the private sector. Technical and non-technical audiences alike appreciate Amy’s energizing style as she shares practical, first-hand experience on how to engage with institutional complexity rather than simplify it away, along with translating systemic challenges into decisions people can act on. 

Resilience in the Human-AI era is what this conference is built on. It also happens to be where Amy thrives.