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7:00 – 8:15

Registration

8:15 – 8:30

Welcome  

Master of Ceremonies: Rear-Admiral Casper Donovan, RCN (Ret’d)
Terri Pavelic, Editor in Chief, Vanguard

8:20 – 8:25

Platinum Sponsor – General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada

Speaker:

Joe Milligan, LC4ISR Field Support Manager, General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada

Lieutenant-General Michael Rouleau (Ret’d), Senior Advisor, Accenture

8:30 – 8:45

C4ISR and Beyond 2024 Update

Lieutenant-General Stephen Kelsey, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff

8:45 – 9:15

Opening Keynote

9:15 – 10:25

Panel 1

Moderator:

Brigadier Edward Sandry, Defence Adviser, Canada

Panelists:

Lieutenant-General Michael Wright, Commander Canadian Army

Major-General Dave Yarker, Commander, Canadian Armed Forces Cyber Command

Major-General Jeff Smyth, Chief Fighter and NORAD Capability

Commodore Jason Armstrong, Director General Naval Force Development

Service Chiefs

Modernizing the Force

10:25 – 11:05

Networking Break  

11:02 – 11:05

Silver Sponsor – Palo Alto Networks

Speaker:

Jamie Marcantonio, Account Manager, Canada Federal - Defence, Palo Alto Networks

11:05 – 12:15

Panel 2

Moderator:

Kevin Newman, News Anchor and Journalist

Panelists:

Lieutenant-General Blaise Frawley, Deputy Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command

Major-General David Abboud, Commander Canadian Forces Intelligence Command and Chief of Defence Intelligence

Major-General Simon Bernard, Deputy Commander, Canadian Joint Operations Command

Brigadier-General Richard Schmidt, Deputy Commander, Canadian Special Operations Forces Command

Operational Commanders

Adapting to the contemporary operating environment

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch & Networking

13:30 – 14:30

Panel 3

Moderator:

Christiana Cavazzoni, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Digital Officer, Fisheries Oceans Canada, and the Canadian Coast Guard

Panelists:

Dominic Rochon, Deputy Minister and Chief Information Officer of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat

Major-General Peter Dawe, Chief of Combat Systems Integration

Ross Ermel, Assistant Deputy Minister (Digital Services) and Defence Chief Digital Officer, Department of National Defence

Digital Services/Experimentation Update

An update on policies, procedures and experimentation in the digital space

14:30 – 14:33

Silver Sponsor – Blackberry

Speaker:

Keith Balasingham, Director, Security Product Portfolio, Blackberry

14:30 – 15:10

Networking Break  

15:10 – 16:20

Panel 4

Moderator:

Dave Perry, President & CEO, Canadian Global Affairs Institute

Panelists:

Wendy Hadwen, Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy Industry, Department of National Defense

Major-General Nancy Tremblay, (Ret’d), Assistant Deputy Minister (Materiel), Department of National Defense

Siobhan Harty, Assistant Deputy Minister, Defence Procurement Review

Simon Page, Assistant Deputy Minister, Defence and Marine Procurement, Public Services and Procurement

Marc Watters, Cyber Lead, Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries

Evolution of Procurement

Changing the approach to defence procurement

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16:20 – 16:30

Closing Remarks

Rear-Admiral Casper Donovan, RCN (Ret’d)

16:30 – 18:00

Reception

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