Canada's security environment is under simultaneous pressure from threats to borders, critical infrastructure, and democratic institutions, while the federal government is being asked to deliver more at speed. This session will give you the shared operating picture for 2026 and the priority decisions you need to make in the next 12 to 18 months to strengthen national resilience across physical and digital domains.

• Align on national priorities and what they mean for operational focus across public safety, intelligence, border, and cyber
• Ground your planning in Public Safety Canada's 2026–27 priorities: border integrity, threat detection, law enforcement capability, and emergency management
• Connect security decisions to sovereignty measures in the Spring Economic Update, including strengthening domestic capability in critical sectors
• Strengthen democratic resilience by understanding the latest signals on foreign interference and influence-transparency measures
• Accelerate collaboration without duplication by clarifying where coordination is essential vs where agencies should act independently

Modernizing security operations is harder than standard transformation: risk tolerance is lower, approvals take longer, and mission continuity cannot slip. This session will walk you through one real modernization program from problem to delivery, with patterns you can apply to your own agency.

• Assess what good looks like before you start: how one agency defined success, identified failure points, and set measurable targets
• Understand the operating model that worked: decision rights, governance cadence, and how approvals were handled without stalling delivery
• Apply a sequencing approach that protects mission continuity while modernizing platforms and workforce capability
• Measure what moved the needle: the performance, readiness, and risk reduction metrics that actually told the story
• Take away practical moves you can apply within 90 days

Threat actors are moving faster, blending tactics across physical and digital domains, and exploiting seams between mandates. This moderated plenary stress-tests what readiness actually means in 2026—and focuses on the practical operating model leaders need to collaborate without duplication or compromise.

• Identify the fastest-moving risk areas across people, process, technology, and geopolitics and what they mean for your mandate
• Understand what new authorities and legislative changes mean for operational readiness and cross-mandate coordination in practice
• Align on the shared threat set Public Safety Canada is prioritizing: critical infrastructure, espionage, terrorism, organized crime, and foreign interference
• Define readiness in measurable terms: capabilities, thresholds, and response expectations your teams can execute against
• Agree on collaboration patterns that work, including roles, decision rights, and escalation paths, and identify where they are currently breaking down

Roundtable One - Agentic AI & Machine Based Decision: Are You Ready?

Roundtable Two - Continuing the Conversation: Securing Canada’s Critical Infrastructure – Embedding Mission-Critical Cyber Defence

Roundtable Three - Stay Ahead of the Threat: Operationalizing Real-Time Intelligence for Government

Roundtable Four - Sharing and Operationalizing Data

Roundtable Five - Staying Left of Boom to Reduce Canada's Threat Risk Profile

Roundtable Six - AI Frontier: Harnessing GenAI and Delivering Trustworthy Public Service Delivery

Roundtable Seven - The Road to Mobile PBMM: Operationalizing Compliance and Overcoming the Policy Hurdles for a Secure Mobile Workforce

Across public safety, cyber defense, border security, and emergency management, Canada is actively building capability: the programs, platforms, and partnerships that are reshaping how agencies deliver national security in 2026 and 2027. This session will show you where investment is flowing, which programmes are at scale or in build, and what it means for your agency's operational planning.

• Map the active capability investments across public safety, cyber defense, border security, and emergency management that are reshaping what federal security delivery looks like
• Understand which modernization programs are at scale, which are in build, and where coordination with your agency is expected
• Connect ongoing Northern and Arctic infrastructure investments to operational readiness outcomes your teams need to plan around
• Identify where industrial capacity is being built across defense production, domestic technology, and secure supply chains, and what procurement implications follow
• Clarify the interoperability commitments already in motion and what they require from agencies that haven’t yet aligned

The identity attack surface in federal government has expanded dramatically: thousands of privileged accounts, an explosion of non-human identities from APIs and automation, and accountability frameworks that were not built for this complexity. This session will explore what modern identity governance looks like in practice, so your agency can reduce over-privileged access, manage machine identities, and maintain the audit trails that government accountability demands.

• Understand the scale of the non-human identity problem: service accounts, API keys, and automation credentials that are rarely reviewed, often over-privileged, and frequently forgotten
• Assess how agencies are modernizing privileged access governance, moving from checkbox compliance to continuous, risk-based access review
• Understand the accountability and audit trail requirements that make identity governance in government distinct from the private sector, and what tooling needs to support them
• Identify the highest-risk identity gaps common to federal environments and the prioritization models that address them without stalling operations
• Define what a mature identity governance program looks like at 12 months, 24 months, and beyond

A strong agenda only matters if it changes what happens next. This closing keynote turns the day into a 12‑month action plan—what to prioritize, how to measure progress, and what success by next year should look like for leaders responsible for Canada’s security outcomes.

• Commit to a 12‑month priority set that balances prevention, readiness, and resilience building
• Define success measures leaders can track (capability delivery, readiness thresholds, resilience outcomes)
• Align stakeholders early on roles, decision rights, and collaboration expectations
• Leave with next steps you can take immediately—what to start, stop, and accelerate