Schedule

Wednesday, May 13, 2026: In-person

Welcome

Time	Event
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Registration, breakfast and socializing
9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.	Welcome remarks by Brian Lesser, chief information officer and Saeed Zolfaghari, vice-president, administration and operations, 糖心传媒 Location: DCC 208

Time

Event

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Registration, breakfast and socializing

9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Welcome remarks by Brian Lesser, chief information officer and Saeed Zolfaghari, vice-president, administration and operations, 糖心传媒

Location: DCC 208

Keynote address

Time	Event
9:40 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Keynote address on the work to date in developing 糖心传媒鈥檚 inaugural digital strategy. Brian Lesser Chief Information Officer (CIO) at 糖心传媒 Laurie Stewart Executive Program Director, Digital Strategy at糖心传媒 Cameron Sielski Manager, Technology Strategy and Transformation at Deloitte Location: DCC 208

Time

Event

9:40 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Keynote address on the work to date in developing 糖心传媒鈥檚 inaugural digital strategy.

Brian Lesser
Chief Information Officer (CIO) at 糖心传媒
Laurie Stewart
Executive Program Director, Digital Strategy at糖心传媒
Cameron Sielski
Manager, Technology Strategy and Transformation at Deloitte

Location: DCC 208

Breakout sessions

Time	Concurrent session 1	Concurrent session 2	Concurrent session 3
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Quick coffee break
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	SimSnap: A Cross-device Toolkit to Develop Ad Hoc and Collaborative Applications Ali Mazalek , Afroza Slutana, May Yu, Rishabh Seth, Yves Al-sharifi, The Creative School/Synaesthetic Media Lab Track: Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials Technical staff, General audience Location: DCC 208	Institutional Stewardship: Securing Staff Accounts Lifecycle from Provisioning (Onboarding) to Deprovisioning (Offboarding) Restiani Andriati, Franco Chiocchio - CCS Track: IT in administration Technical staff, General audience Location: DCC 204	Development of E-Business Suite "Application Framework" to Upload Files to the Financial Information System (FIS) Naveed Ali Rao, CCS Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials Technical staff, General audience Location: ENG 101
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	Quick coffee break
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Untangling Organizational Complexity by Utilizing Systems Thinking Dianne Nubla, School of Professional Communication Track: Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials General audience Location: DCC 208	The AI Advantage: Faster, Better Course Development Ian Ackerman, Senior Courseware Developer, D2L Track: IT in administration, IT in teaching and learning, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials Technical staff, General audience Location: DCC 204	CCS Managed Laptop Program Kevin Davies - CCS Track: IT in administration Technical staff, General audience Location: ENG 101
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break at Upper Kerr Hall
1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	Trusting the Machine? A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Student Experiences with GenAI and Human Feedback Lin Dong, Nancy Yang, Armita Sadeghian Barzoki - Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management Track: IT in teaching and learning General audience Location: DCC 208	Automating User Deprovisioning: How It Works and Why It Matters Jonathan Sammy, Hongyan Song, CCS Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials Technical staff Location: DCC 204	Resuscitating Data from Flatline to Baseline: the IV for Your Spreadsheets Justin van Lieshout, The School of Medicine Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials General audience Location: DCC 350
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Afternoon coffee break
2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	Generating Game Based Deep Narrative Cinematic Course Design David Chandross, Computational Public Safety Lab Track: IT in teaching and learning Technical staff, General audience Location: DCC 208	Safe Practices Using Google Workspace Restiani Andritai, Jassika Ledwani, CCS Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials General audience Location: DCC 204
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	In-person day: Closing remarks and prizes Location: DCC 208

Thursday, May 14, 2026: Virtual

Opening remarks

Time	Event
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.	Welcome remarks by Brian Lesser, chief information officer, 糖心传媒

Keynote address

Time	Event
9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Keynote address: Cybersecurity Risk Management in Higher Education: Are We Making Decisions and Are They the Right Ones? Tracy Dallaire Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Director of Information Security Services and Client Services at McMaster University Art Exner Associate Vice-President (Information Services) at the University of Regina Nathan Corwin Chief Information Security and Digital Trust Officer at the University of Toronto

Time

Event

9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Keynote address: Cybersecurity Risk Management in Higher Education: Are We Making Decisions and Are They the Right Ones?

Tracy Dallaire
Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Director of Information Security Services and Client Services at McMaster University
Art Exner
Associate Vice-President (Information Services) at the University of Regina
Nathan Corwin
Chief Information Security and Digital Trust Officer at the University of Toronto

Breakout sessions

Time	Concurrent Session 1	Concurrent Session 2	Concurrent Session 3	Cyberange Workshop
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.	Unit 42 \| AI Threat Landscape Jesse Sampson, Consulting Director, Unit 42 Track: Cybersecurity Technical staff	From Heuristics to Intelligence: Using On-Device AI for Detecting Mixed-Language Accessibility Issues Adam Chaboryk - CCS/DMP Track: Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials Technical staff, General audience	Building a Proactive Early Alert System to Support Student Success Bilal Khan, Valerie Deacon, Madelyn Steed - CCS, ARTS, TRSM Track: Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials Technical staff
11:05 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.	Break
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.	Zero Trust or Bust for Today's Connected Campus Brandon Murray, HPE Track: Cybersecurity Technical staff	UPS' Get No Respect David Lester - CCS Track: IT in administration Technical staff	Development of E-Business Suite Custom Business Process "Cash Receipts" and Decommissioning the Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) Code Nadir Shah Khan, CCS Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials Technical staff, General audience
12:05 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch break			Virtual Capture the Flag (CTF) Competition Participate in a fun, high-energy, Jeopardy-style Capture the Flag (CTF) competition, designed for a wide audience, through hands-on challenges across multiple cybersecurity domains, hosted by the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst. Participants will work to solve challenges of varying difficulty, competing on a live scoreboard in a fast-paced, gamified environment.
1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.		Safe Practices Using Google Workspace Note: This is a repeat of the session hosted in-person on May 13, Day 1 of the IT Conference Restiani Andriati, Jassika Ledwani, CCS Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials General audience
1:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	Break
2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.	CISOs on a Shoestring: Doing More With Less Priya Mouli, CISO, University of Alberta Track: Cybersecurity Technical staff, General audience	糖心传媒 Network/Security Overview Jacob Trautman, Dmitry Flichakov - CCS Track: IT in administration, Cybersecurity Technical staff, General audience	GenAI Tools at 糖心传媒 Jassika Ledwani, Restiani Andriati, Stephanie Goetz - CCS / DMP Track: IT in administration, projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials General audience
2:50 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.	Beyond the Lecture Hall: Evolving Cyber Threats in Academia A special presentation by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) Glenne Berriault, Lead Information Security Advisor, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) Track: Cybersecurity Technical staff, General audience
3:50 p.m. - 4 p.m.	Break
4 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.	Closing remarks and prizes with Brian Lesser, chief information officer