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Headlines about cybersecurity attacks at Canadian hospitals have highlighted the potential for breaches to threaten an already vulnerable health care system. The advent of online doctors’ visits, the digitization of patient data, and health-adjacent apps being widely adopted by consumers means Canadian health care data is more vulnerable than ever before.
Join The Globe and Mail for a webcast on why Canadian health care data is particularly vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks, and what needs to be done to mitigate the risks.
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Byron Holland
President and CEO, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
Huda Idrees
Founder & CEO, Dot Health
Steven Tam
Chief Data Governance & Privacy Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health
Jeff Curtis
Chief Privacy Officer,
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Temur Durrani
Technology Reporter, The Globe and Mail,
CIRA manages the .CA top-level domain on behalf of all Canadians. CIRA also develops technologies and services that help support its goal of building a trusted internet for Canadians. The CIRA team operates one of the fastest-growing country code top-level domains (ccTLD), a high-performance global DNS network, and one of the world's most advanced back-end registry solutions.
Byron Holland (MBA, ICD.D) is the president and CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the national not-for-profit best known for managing the .CA domain and developing new cybersecurity, DNS, and registry services. Byron is an expert in internet governance and a seasoned entrepreneur. Under Byron’s leadership, CIRA has become one of the leading ccTLDs in the world, with over 3 million domains under management. Over the past decade, he has represented CIRA internationally and held numerous leadership positions within ICANN. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for TORIX, and is a member of the nominations committee for ARIN. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, two sons, and their Australian shepherd, Marley. You can find Byron’s latest commentary here.
In September 2022, Steven became Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) first Chief Data Governance Officer. In this role, he aims to transform how data is strategically governed and managed in order that higher quality data is made accessible at a faster pace to clinicians, researchers and administrators to deliver better care and improve our healthcare system, while enhancing data security and ethics.
Steven also serves as VCH’s Chief Privacy Officer, a role in which he has spent the last 12 years finding ways to facilitate the use of innovative technologies that enhance healthcare service delivery while addressing privacy and security risks. He led the development of the General Health Information Sharing Agreement (GHISA), an overarching agreement signed in 2013 between the BC Ministry of Health and all BC health authorities. Today, the GHISA continues to be the foundational legal, policy and governance framework that governs almost all sharing of health information across the province for provision of care, research, quality improvement and healthcare planning. He played a key role in influencing recent changes to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act that reformed its data residency provisions to better support health innovation and technology adoption.
Prior to assuming the Chief Data Governance Officer role, Steven led the Legal Services team at VCH as its General Counsel for over 12 years. In addition to a Bachelor of Laws degree from UBC, Steven holds a Masters in E-Business law from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UBC.
Huda is the Founder and CEO of Dot Health, a real-time personal health data platform. With a background in engineering from the University of Toronto and a prolific career at some of Toronto's best known startups including Wattpad, Wave, and Wealthsimple, her latest venture is transforming the way people access and control their own health information for good. Huda's work has been featured in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Metro News, CNBC, and Metro Morning. She has been recognized amongst the Top 5 CEOs in Toronto Life, a Top 25 Women of Influence in 2017, and named Top 30 under 30 by the Bay Street Bull in 2018. Huda serves on the Business Innovation and Development committee at Sinai Health System and on the Canadian Federal Economic Strategy Table for Health and Biosciences.
Temur Durrani is a technology reporter for the Report on Business at The Globe and Mail, based in Toronto.
His coverage focuses on technology news and issues related to cryptocurrencies, the presence of “Big Tech” in Canada, the evolution of Web3, and the country’s burgeoning creator economy.
Temur joined The Globe in early 2022 after most recently working at BNN Bloomberg, where he reported national enterprise stories and business features for broadcast and digital audiences. Prior to that, he was a reporter at The Winnipeg Free Press, The Toronto Star, iPolitics (Ottawa) and the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He’s also written for Maclean’s Magazine, The Financial Post and The Hamilton Spectator.
A globe-trotting newshound originally from British Columbia, Temur has covered protests in Hong Kong, graffiti art in India and Pakistan, crashes in Alaska, crime in the GTA, federal politics in Ottawa, small business in the Maritimes, finance on the Prairies, and even the Raptors’ historic run to the NBA final.
A juror for the Dalton Camp Award, which grants young writers with a $10,000 prize for the best essay on the link between media and democracy, Temur frequently appears on live-audience and broadcast panels to provide analysis about the Canadian economy.
He speaks six languages fluently or conversationally (guess which ones!) and loves a good meme, especially before that meme becomes a fungible or non-fungible token.
Dr. Jeffrey Curtis is the Chief Privacy Officer for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, one of Canada’s preeminent acute care, research and teaching hospitals located in Toronto.
Jeff is a Director responsible for Sunnybrook’s information privacy assurance and freedom of information compliance. Jeff was Chief Privacy Officer and a Director in the hospital’s information services group responsible for information technology governance and risk management, and corporate strategic planning activities. Jeff was also seconded as the Privacy and Security Officer for the Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Repository Services (HDIRS) in Ontario, a diagnostic imaging repository for 35 hospitals across four local health regions.
Jeff was the Privacy and Security Lead for eHealth Ontario’s Diagnostic Imaging Common Services project, was a member of eHealth’s Identity, Access and Privacy Advisory Panel and has consulted to Canada Health Infoway on its Consent Management Advisory Panel and its Blueprint Refresh Committee. Jeff was a member of eHealth Ontario’s Connecting Ontario Privacy Committee.
Jeff has been a member of the Advisory Panel and a guest lecturer for the Osgoode Hall Law Society’s Certificate in Health Law and regularly presents in public forums on I.T. governance, information technology risk, and the privacy and security implications for health care providers and patients. Jeff was a member of the Steering Committee to establish the Health Sector Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Security Network in conjunction with the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Office of Emergency Response Services. Jeff is also currently Vice-Chair for the Canadian Mirror Committee for development of the proposed ISO 31700 standard for “Consumer protection: privacy by design for consumer goods and services”.
Jeff has worked in the information technology sector for the past 25 years and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), is a Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), is Certified in the Governance of Enterprise I.T. (CGEIT) and is Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC). In 2013 Jeff was recognized as a “Privacy by Design Ambassador” by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.
Dr Curtis has an undergraduate degree in Economics and an MBA from the University of Toronto, a MSc. in Business Management Research and a DBA from the University of Reading, U.K. He was a professor for privacy and security studies in the Health Informatics Program at George Brown College in Toronto