Victoria Conference Centre
Victoria, BC, Canada

Keynote Speakers

Jennifer Stoddart
Jennifer Stoddart has been Canada's Privacy Commissioner since 2003. In her role, she has overseen a number of important investigations, including a massive data breach at U.S. retail giant TJX and the disclosure of Canadians' financial information to U.S. authorities by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Commissioner Stoddart has led efforts to help private sector organizations understand their obligations under new federal private sector privacy legislation and she is also working to promote online privacy for youth through the Office's new website, www.youthprivacy.ca.

Commissioner Stoddart has been a leader on global privacy through her work with international organizations which are examining ways to protect and enhance privacy rights on a global scale. In 2007, she hosted an international data protection conference which brought together some of the world's foremost data protection experts.

Commissioner Stoddart was previously President of the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec. She has held several senior positions in public administration for the Governments of Québec and Canada, including at the Canadian and the Québec Human Rights Commissions.

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Nicholas Carr
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His intriguing 2003 Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn't Matter,” was an instant sensation, setting the stage for the global debate on the strategic value of information technology in business. His 2004 book, Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, published by Harvard Business School Press, was a bestseller and kept the worldwide business community discussing the role of computers and IT in business. His new 2008 book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the future of computing and its implications for business and society. The Wall Street Journal says The Big Switch is “destined to influence CEOs and the boards and investors that support them as companies grapple with the constant change of the digital age. ”

In Spring 2008 CIO Insight named Carr's Does IT Matter? book one of the all-time “Top 15 Most Groundbreaking Management Books” and Ziff Davis included him as one of only a handful of IT management thought leaders on their “100 Most Influential People in IT” list.

A prolific business thinker, Carr has written more than a dozen other articles and interviews for Harvard Business Review and writes regularly for the Financial Times, Strategy & Business and The Guardian. His articles have also appeared in the New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired, Business 2.0, Boston Globe, Industry Standard, The Banker, Director, BusinessWeek Online as well as in his blog, Rough Type. He also edited The Digital Enterprise, a book of HBR writings on the Internet. Carr is a member of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's editorial board of advisors.

Carr has served as a commentator on CNBC, CNN, and other networks and has been a featured speaker worldwide at industry, educational, and government forums. In 2005, Optimize magazine named Carr one of the leading thinkers on information technology, and in 2007 eWeek named him one of the 100 most influential people in IT.

Earlier in his career, Carr was a principal at Mercer Management Consulting. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A., in English literature, from Harvard University.

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Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. An avowed believer in the role that technology can play in protecting privacy, Dr. Cavoukian's leadership has seen her office develop a number of tools and procedures to ensure that privacy is protected in Ontario - and around the world. Dr. Ann Cavoukian was appointed Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner in 1997, and is the first to be reappointed for a second term.

Noted for her seminal work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies in 1995, her mantra of "privacy by design" seeks to embed privacy into the design specifications of technology, thereby achieving the strongest protections.

Dr. Cavoukian's published works include Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World (1997), written with Don Tapscott, and, The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust (2002), written with Tyler Hamilton.

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David Loukidelis

In November of 2005, British Columbia's Legislative Assembly unanimously appointed David Loukidelis to a second six-year term as Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. An independent officer of the Legislature, he oversees compliance with British Columbia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and Personal Information Protection Act.

David's experience in access to information and privacy issues goes back to 1990. Since becoming Commissioner in 1999, he has written hundreds of access to information appeal decisions, privacy complaint decisions, public reports and policy materials. He has also participated in privacy and access to information policy development both nationally and internationally through a variety of working groups and forums. He also teaches access to information and privacy law at the University of Victoria's Faculty of Law.

David, who qualified as a lawyer in 1985, clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada, has a graduate law degree from Oxford University and has an M.A. from the University of Edinburgh.