2009 Spring Workshop Series—It Starts Here…

Access to Information and Privacy Training—By professionals, for professionals.

Monday, June 8 - The Toronto Renaissance Hotel (attached to Rogers Centre)
Registration at 8 am
Full- and Half-Day Workshops run concurrently from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

W5 - Privacy, Security and Federated Identity Management

The internet is no longer just a communications network -- it is becoming a platform for computing that is so vast and interconnected that it presents complex security and privacy challenges. Interoperable digital identities are a means to realize the full potential of the next generation of the Internet, however, we will need to establish ways to protect privacy. The goal of a flexible user-centric identity infrastructure must be to allow the user to quickly determine what information will be revealed to which parties and for what purposes, how trustworthy those parties are and how they will handle the information.

The Information and Privacy Commissioner's Office of Ontario recently published the New Federated Privacy Impact Assessment: Building Privacy and Trust-enabled Federation. The Office's work in this area of identity management and privacy in a digital world is the focus of this workshop.

Workshop participants will walk away with:

a good understanding of on-line identity management and associated privacy issues and privacy enhancing approaches
an introduction to federated identity management and use case scenarios to better understand the risks to privacy and security
knowledge on early considerations to assessing privacy risks in a federated environment

About Your Workshop Facilitator

Michelle Chibba, Director, Policy Department, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, is head of the Policy Department at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), the independent body that oversees the privacy and access laws in Ontario. She has over two decades of professional experience, most of it in the Ontario Public Service (OPS), where she was responsible for several strategic policy projects both at Management Board and Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Early in her career, she worked in the private sector as well as for a non-governmental policy research organization in the U.S. Michelle received her Masters degree from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. with a focus on ethics and international business.

Vance Lockton, Policy Analyst, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, has been an active researcher within the fields of privacy and access for a number of years. He has an M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia's Department of Computer Science. He is also a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University's Master of Public Policy program.

Peter Villeneuve, Business Lead, User Registry Project, Identity Access & Privacy Program, eHealth Ontario, is currently responsible for building out the eHealth Identity Federation and implementing the technologies and processes to support federation management. He has been involved in the development and deployment of various health care initiatives and has been a management consultant for the last 15 years.

Jason Lin, Business Analyst, User Registry Project, Identity Access & Privacy Program, eHealth Ontario, has been engaged in the Healthcare sector for nearly a decade developing and implementing clinical technology solutions in both organizational and provincial settings. He has an M.Eng from the University of Toronto's Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering with a focus on Healthcare Productivity.