1. Inaugural
Big Data &Government
Analytics
March 24 & 25, 2015, Ottawa
Workshop Included:
Data-Driven Decisions: Managing Information For Big Data
Analytics
ADMs, DGs, Directors, Managers, Senior Public Servants for: IT, IM,
knowledge management, information services, data analytics, data
intelligence, innovation; IT/IM Consultants & personnel at all levels in
the government and public sector level
who should attend
Course Leader
Simon Castonguay,
KPMG LLP
Course Leader
Bruce Langevin,
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Steve Benteau,
MNP LLP
Michael Doucet,
Security Intelligence Review Committee
Khaled El Emam,
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Speakers&ParticipatingOrganizations
• Find out how to leverage big data to improve services and
processes
• Take advantage of new data sharing opportunities across
organizational boundaries
• Discover ways to transform your overall data strategy in order to
maximize its potential
• Explore big data’s potential for increasing security, accountability,
and your ability to anticipate and fend off criminal threats
• Learn how to establish and implement an information governance
framework for maintaining policies for data quality, standards and
privacy
course highlights
Nick Desbarats,
Perceptual Edge
Pierre Ferland,
Natural Resources Canada
Kal Ghadban,
BNuvola Solutions
Unlocking the potential of big data for improving
processes and cutting costs
Two-Day Event!
Hassan Qureshi,
A Hundred Answers Inc.
James Smith,
Lojikon
Aron Feuer,
Grant Thornton LLP

2. SIMON CASTONGUAY
Simon Castonguay is Senior Manager,
Forensic Data Analytics at KPMG LLP. He
has leveraged his audit experience and IT
background to build a strong expertise in
data analytics in conjunction with forensic
accounting and investigations, including
proactive fraud risks assessments and anti-
bribery and corruption.
BRUCE LANGEVIN
Bruce Langevin is Director, IT Strategy &
PMO at Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corporation. He has two decades of expe-
rience navigating change, guiding process
and personnel improvements, and introduc-
ing new standards to establish a new model
for today’s workplace.
STEVE BENTEAU
Steve Benteau is the National Leader of
Business Intelligence and Analytics at MNP
LLP. He is an executive architect who has
domain speciality in delivering large data
management and analytic solutions.
NICK DESBARATS
Nick Desbarats is Senior Consultant at
Perceptual Edge. For over 20 years, he has
been designing information dashboards, data
visualizations and reporting products for se-
nior stakeholders within federal and provincial
political parties, Fortune 500 retailers and
global telecom carriers.
MICHAEL DOUCET
Michael Doucet is Executive Director at Secu-
rity Intelligence Review Committee. He joined
SIRC from the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, where he held the positions of Chief
Information Officer and Chief Technology
Officer.
KHALED EL EMAM
Dr. Khaled El Emam is Senior Scientist at
the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Research Institute, Director of the Electronic
Health Information Laboratory team, founder
and CEO of Privacy Analytics Inc.
PIERRE FERLAND
Pierre Ferland is Chief Information Officer at
Natural Resources Canada.
ARON FEUER
Aron Feuer is Vice President of Privacy
and Security Consulting Services at Grant
Thornton LLP. He has over 20 years of
information technology and security expertise.
KAL GHADBAN
Kal Ghadban is a Partner at BNuvola
Solutions. He brings over 17 years of
innovative and results driven analytics
leadership in the public and private sectors.
HASSAN QURESHI
Hassan Qureshi is Principal at A Hundred
Answers Inc. His practice focuses on helping
clients with corporate strategy, enterprise risk,
business architecture, enterprise reporting,
technology strategy, IT governance and data
privacy.
JAMES SMITH
James Smith is Managing Partner at Lojikon,
a data governance and analytics company. He
has over 30 years’ experience in technology,
operations, and information management,
and he was previously director of digital data
assets and lead for enterprise data gover-
nance at Canada Post.
GOVERNMENT BIG DATA: LEVERAGING DATA
Government departments and agencies continue to accumulate a
wealth of data. At a time when governments are being asked to do
more with less while providing new services to citizens, forward-
thinking big data strategy can be used to transform this vast amount
of data into a deeper understanding of citizens’ as well as cost-effec-
tive ways to meet those needs. This session will look at best prac-
tices for leveraging data in government.
• Developing a big data strategy: recognizing & utilizing data as a
strategic asset
• Integrating and sharing data for analysis
• Leveraging data to improve services, cut costs and increase
transparency
• Analysis and visualization that leverages real-time data correlation
• Investing in data enrichment, integration & management
• Governance frameworks to ensure high quality data sets
• Overcoming barriers to data sharing
• Data analytics to improve existing processes and operations
• Changes needed to effectively pull together big data
• Role of open data in unlocking the potential of big data
MAXIMIZING EFFECTIVE DATA SHARING ACROSS
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
This session will explore strategies and practices for the effective shar-
ing of data across government departments and agencies, including
personal information about citizens, employees and other stakeholder
groups. Specific questions to be addressed are as follows:
• Why share data across organizational boundaries – what makes this
compelling?
• What are the challenges to data sharing and what strategies,
practices and methods can be employed for overcoming barriers to
data sharing?
• What are the minimum requirements of an effective data sharing
operational model that is practical, implementable and sustainable?
• How do you manage the cultural change needed within organizations
for effective data sharing: avoiding information silos while addressing
security and privacy regulations?
• What are readily implementable solutions and technologies that can
help to address barriers to information sharing?
FACULTY
COURSE PROGRAM
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new database containing at least 25 interactive multimedia presentations
by leading experts and approximately 20 hours of lectures on the topics
covered by this course, including all slides and speakers’ papers. See the
list of presentations on page 4.

3. WORKSHOP
INCORPORATING BIG DATA INTO OVERALL DATA
STRATEGY
To maximize its potential within government, big data must be looked
at as part of a broader organizational data strategy that takes into
consideration issues such as data governance, access, manage-
ment, integration, retention, security & quality. This session will
explore best practices for developing an organization data strategy
that incorporates big data.
• Establishing an all-encompassing data strategy
• Key components of data strategy for both a big data project as
well as an organizations overall data strategy
• Developing and deploying an enterprise data strategy
• Incorporating practices to sustain the program
• Ensuring the high quality of strategically important data: data
mining processes
• Foundational strategies for delivering high quality data
• Enterprise data integration to coordinate all the data managed
within organization
BIG DATA AND CYBERSECURITY
This session will examine effective measures that can be taken for
protecting your organizations critical information and achieving com-
pliance with data security requirements in this era of big data.
• Addressing data security, privacy, compliance and ethics
considerations: ensuring your organization has an accountability
framework
• Key principles of information security
• Ensuring administrative, physical and technological controls
• Compliance requirements and managing risk with data breach
detection
• Ensuring that sharing of personal information complies with
applicable laws
• Effectively preserving and archiving electronic documents
• Data protection challenges and risks: mobile devices and cloud
computing
INFORMATION GOVERNANCE BEST PRACTICES FOR BIG
DATA
A comprehensive approach to information governance that ad-
dresses issues associated with the collection, analysis, and storage
of sensitive, multi-jurisdiction data is required to fully realize the
value benefits of big data initiatives. This session will examine how
to develop a comprehensive approach to information governance for
big data.
• Establishing and implementing data governance policies for big
data: IG framework
• Effective strategies for dealing with information governance in big
data context
• Developing and processing standardized and interoperable data
• Creating policies and practices for enabling discovery, access and
sharing of data
• Managing information quality and standards
• Sharing data while maintaining privacy compliance and security
LATEST DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR GOVERNMENT
In government (and virtually all organizations), most charts and dash-
boards are poorly designed. They require unnecessarily high amounts
of effort for audiences to interpret, fail to communicate key insights
and relationships in the data, or -worse- sometimes misrepresent the
underlying data. While those who create charts and dashboards may
have strong technical skills, they often have little knowledge of how the
brain interprets visual information, and have had little or no training in
how to represent information visually in simple, effective and accurate
ways. This session will discuss:
• Examples of common data visualization mistakes, with solutions.
• Impacts of poorly-designed data visualizations.
• Links to additional training resources
BIG DATA FOR PREVENTING THREATS & CRIMES
Advanced, real-time analytics that transform data into insightful infor-
mation can be used by government to predict and prevent increasingly
complex forms of crimes & threats. This session will look at the latest
approaches to combat crimes and threats using big data.
• Big data analytics to anticipate and preempt emerging threats
• Data strategies and analytics to predict and prevent threats & crimes
• Leveraging & sharing vital information across government
departments and organizations
• Challenges to threat and crime prediction and prevention
• Need for high-volume management of numerous data types
• Maintaining the currency of information
• Use of real-time social media, sensor, video, audio and gepspatial
data for the purposes of threat
DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS: MANAGING INFORMATION FOR
BIG DATA ANALYTICS
Governments amass enormous amounts of data, the challenge is how
to derive meaningful insight from it in order to inform improved decision
making. This session will examine the techniques, methods and tools
that government has at their disposal to leverage its data in order to
make decisions that drive positive, valuable outcomes.
• Building capability for big data analysis and the use of analytics tools
• Assessing situations and options based on analytics
• Latest tools to sort through, analyze and draw insights from
government data
• Visualization & animation of big data to inform strategic
decision-making
• Leveraging latest technology and tools available to government
organizations
• Integrating analytical capability into organization decision-making
culture and processes
• Evaluating the effectiveness of data-driven decisions
• Data sharing practices to enhance data driven decisions
COURSE PROGRAM

4. Cancellation: Please note that non-attendance at the course does not entitle the registrant
to a refund. In the event that a registrant becomes unable to attend following the deadline for
cancellation, a substitute attendee may be delegated. Please notify Federated Press of any
changes as soon as possible. Federated Press assumes no liability for changes in program
content or speakers. A full refund of the attendance fee less 15% administration fee will be
provided upon cancellation in writing received prior to March 10, 2015. No refunds will be
issued after this date.
Applying Data Analytics and Continuous
Controls Monitoring
Shawn D. Hendry
Sunera Canada ULC
Collecting the Right Data
Tzvetanka Dobreva-Martinova
Department of National Defence
Establishing a Baseline Analysis: Collecting
Data to Identify Key Factors
Barry Nelson
Practical Management of Canada Inc.
Legal and Corporate Governance Challenges
in a Social Media Era
W. Ian Palm
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Workshop: Addressing Data Ownership,
Privacy, Security and Compliance Concerns
Steve Cimicata
Volaris Group Inc.
Developing Governance Strategy, Policies and
Protocols to Manage Social Media Legal Risks
Giuliana Marinelli
Royal Bank of Canada
Solving the Privacy Paradox: How to Protect
Personal Information While Building Client
Relationships
Claudiu Popa
Informatica Corporation
Open Data & Crowdsurfing: E-Discovery
Managed for or by the Public
Raphael Sussman
Ministry of Natural Resources
Data Protection Law Requirements
Bernice Karn
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Data Analytics
Shawn D. Hendry
Sunera Canada ULC
Reducing Risks from Electronic Data
Thomas Sutton
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Knowledge Sharing: Breaking Down the Silos
Maggie Hejazi
Linde Canada Ltd.
Cloud Computing & Information Management
Stephen R. Donahoe
CGI Information Systems & Management
Consultants Inc.
Place-Based Data: Metadata Management
Raphael Sussman
Ministry of Natural Resources
Bridging the Gap Between Data Protection & IT
Fariba Anderson, MBA, CMC, CGEIT
Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation (OLG)
Protecting Personal Data from Inside Threats
John Jager
Nymity Inc.
Data Security & Compliance:The Legal
Framework
Anita Fineberg, LL.B., CIPP/C
Anita Fineberg & Associates Inc.
Reducing Risks from Electronic Data
Melanie Schweizer
Bell Canada
ED Patient Privacy, Information Sharing and
Accessibility
Alona S. Burman
West Park Healthcare Centre
Federal, Provincial and Territorial Information
Sharing Agreement as a Case Study in
Horizontal Management
André La Prairie
Office of Public Health Practice, Public Health
Agency of Canada
Cyber-Security Risks
Eugene Ng
NCI
Online Privacy and Security
Anna C. Forgione
Open Text Corporation
Social Media and Damage Control: Managing
Threats, Maximizing Opportunities
Mike Spear
Genome Alberta
Fraud Prevention and Internal Controls: Ensuring
Fairness and Transparency in the Procurement
Process
Michael Ingram
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Case Study: Developing Good Quality
Information so Risks can be Addressed Before
They Become Intolerable
Charles Brown
Ministry of Transportation
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