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My Name Is Wendy Broad Programme Designer, Managing Director & Board Advisor

About me I am dedicated to building great products that make people’s personal and professional lives easier. I have worked and lived in virtual environments for almost 25 years.

I grew up in Atlantic Canada and I have studied in the United States, Canada and virtually in India. After spending most of my management career in Toronto, Ontario; I now am travelling across Canada while building content for Broad Virtual OďŹƒce and advising on a number of boards.

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The Information Resource Management Association Of Canada Director of Programming for the Information Resource Management Association Of Canada from January 2019 to July 2020.

Designed and managed monthly general meetings and the annual luncheon for the association and members.

Forget about science experiments that are now left in the dust by real time analytics solving real business problems in real time.

The Insight Driven Organization (IDO) relies on strategy, people, process, data and technology.

Implementing an Analytics Capability in a Business Context About Tom Peters

The IDOs’ success hinges on building purple teams that combine the strengths of red and blue teams. In other words -business and communications aligned with technical capabilities by seamless purple team translations/communications.

What are the ďŹ ve keys to up your security game?

People, processes, systems & defences, software and regulations.

Attacks and threat assessment challenges.

What are black and white hats in the context of bounty and ransoms? What are enemy and friendly hackers and what do they do with successful hacks?

Shift left. In other works, work ďŹ rstly and quickly on your design phase and risk assessments early on.

5 steps to up your security game About Helen Oakley & Nitesh Hejmdi

Is data the new oil?

Bad data practices cost 10-25 % of the company's’ revenue.

What and who is driving bad data?

Looking at effective data management governance frameworks, and its’ 8 categories and 36 capabilities along with the over 100 sub-capabilities architecture.

What are the costs,benefits,savings and outcomes of data quality and data governance?

Building An Effective Data Governance Focused On Quality About Varinder S. Sembehi

Data governance is how and what are the rules of engagement for the policies and procedures to enhance data quality, architecture and governance.

When does ROI become risk of incarceration rather than return on investment?

Everyone must love data.

Breaches, fines and imprisonment for data theft.

What’s the difference between a data breach and insider theft; or bad actors inside of a company or institution?

Wait and see what happens with phishing and malware attacks or take action before legislation overwhelms?

Must improve on documenting data and metadata in particular.

What skills are required to protect data?

Data Modeling For Privacy & Security About Karen Lopez

The Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange provides an overview of the cybersecurity landscape and their organization in collaboration with TD bank.

What can you glean from 9 trillion lines of data? A big data perspective isn’t always understood as the big picture analysis that it actually is.

What is a data-centric strategy for data protection and data governance for protecting data at rest, data in use and in motion.

Securing Data At Rest, In Use, And In Motion About David Carroll & MJ Couldridge

Classification starts asking where is the data, where is it going and what is its’ value?

Annual luncheons are closed to the IRMAC membership and therefore not recorded for public consumption or third party distribution.

No recording of the panel discussion is available for sharing.

Please learn more about the panelists from the “About Link” below.

Defining & Securing Data Assets In Health Care About The Panel

What is General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

Think of GDPR in a Canadian context and what that means for other nations doing business in the European Union.

In Canada we have PIPEDA and CASL? Canadian regulations on anti-spam legislation and Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act.

GDPR: The New Rules For Canadians Doing Business In the EU About Derek Lackey

Like Europe's GDPR rules, Canada attempts to deďŹ ne and design legislation that protects individuals, business and institutions against harmful crimes.

Fines are gaining much attention as is the push to get individuals and organizations to change practices to comply with regulations.

How do we understand what it means to be a smart city from the analysis of a building and its efficiency and effectiveness?

Sidewalk Labs is energy efficient and can provide energy to other buildings. At a micro-level, what does this mean for the interconnectedness of our communities and becoming smarter?

How can Artificial Intelligence assist in the development of smart cities?

Is it possible to improve on public safety, utilities, transportation, education and healthcare with a focus on smarter cities development?

Smart Cities and The Future Of Living In Them About The Panel

The right data, information and people to manage cybersecurity threats at the speed of cloud.

Education, dev ops, using the right technique at the right time and agility are all keys for faster detection and response.

Dealing With Data And Identity About Albert Kramer

A deeper understanding at the application and application development level seemed ďŹ tting given a detailed talk on cybersecurity attacks and threats.

With the pace of cybersecurity we are all needing to become like software companies focusing on devops and agile practices.

An excellent introduction to computer science and a brief history of the last 2o years of computing and application development.

IBM Cloud Pak For Applications About Tim Deboer

What is a data operative? You go in to a company, get something done and get out.

In terms of business metadata; its’ definition, ownership, classification, policies and restrictions; getting in and out is not a simple or quick task.

The Data Governance Platform Enablers About Ron Klein

Most financial organizations data goals are to have easily accessible data that is easy to understand and to trust. They want reliable and accurate insights from data to make decisions. They want to reduce compliance and regulatory risks and effort while boosting employee productivity.

Auto Insurance Fraud has driven Ontario drivers insurance premiums higher than any other province in Canada.

Organized fraud, premeditated fraud and opportunistic fraud are not interchangeable.

Data pooling, network analysis and increasing stakeholder collaboration are all essential to detecting and stopping fraudulent auto insurance activity.

Fraud Analytics Using Cross Insurer Data About Ben Kosic

Value stream mapping looks at many human and technology factors in how and when work gets done and to what level of quality.

Taking a detailed look at what gets in the way of people, tools and processes delivering value -- data capture and automation are some of the themes touched on in this presentation.

Of course, identifying changes within data operations would not be complete without a discussion on change management and change leadership.

Data Ops & Change Management About Steve Pereira, Yvonne Ruke Akpoveta & Deborah Henderson,

What are the dierences between change management and change leadership?

Kotter's’ 8 step model of change is explained here in detail.

What is the state of the union for AI? Is AI the new electricity?

What is AI and why should we be talking about AI now? What is the business leadership perspective and data journey perspective of AI? A discussion about common pitfalls of AI and case studies for considering what AI can do within your organization.

The Real Work Behind AI About Aditya Sriram

Money laundering is not a simple process as the sophistication levels of organized crime, criminal activities and evasion techniques advance; so to must detection techniques.

What are the activities and techniques used in money laundering practices locally and at large?

A discussion on challenges and limitations of AML -- What tools and techniques might be introduced to enhance AML detection?

Data Detective Work: Emergent A.I. Practices & Anti-Money Laundering About Roger Vandomme & Dr Fiona Browne

Advisory Role Association of Cyber Security Professionals (ACSP) Phoenix, Arizona July 2020 - Present

Current Board Advisory Roles

Advisory Role Edition - edition.co.uk is an exclusive management consulting ďŹ rm specialising in DSS. United Kingdom September 2020 - Present Advisory Role Quench Innovations - is a atmospheric water technology.

Lakeland, Florida September 2020 - Present Advisory Role Prototype IoT -accelerate the development of their IoT prototype, avoid common pitfalls, and get to market fast.

Boone, North Carolina September 2020 - Present

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