Kate Armour

Information Security Program Specialist | Enterprise Information Security

Export Development Canada

Sessions

Disasters, emergencies, technology, and citizen resilience (1/2)

05/11/2019 13.30 - 15.00

Workshop Track BBlack stageWorkshop

Disasters and emergencies are a fact of life. Climate change raises oceans and displaces millions; wildfires burn huge tracts of land; global travel can spread pandemics overnight. And while modern technology can help mitigate emergencies, our reliance on that technology can also make society more vulnerable.

In this workshop, we’ll dive into the challenges governments face, and the...

Disasters, emergencies, technology, and citizen resilience (2/2)

05/11/2019 15.30 - 17.00

Workshop Track BBlack stageWorkshop

Disasters and emergencies are a fact of life. Climate change raises oceans and displaces millions; wildfires burn huge tracts of land; global travel can spread pandemics overnight. And while modern technology can help mitigate emergencies, our reliance on that technology can also make society more vulnerable.

In this workshop, we’ll dive into the challenges governments face, and the...

Circlesquare

06/11/2019 15.20 - 17.00

CirclesquareGreen stageInteractive session

We surveyed people to find the critical technologies and departments. And we chose these to create four concurrent half-hour discussions, four times over. It’s a choreographed dance of experts, ideas, and disruption.