Keynote Speakers

We build our conferences around top-quality keynote speakers chosen to fit the theme of the conference. These are experienced speakers with international reputations and deep knowledge of their fields. These include:

Stephen Lewis Association of Canadian Court Administrators (ACCA) National Conference 2005, Changing World Changing Courts, Fairmont Empress and Victoria Conference Centre, November 13-16 2005 Veteran Diplomat and UN Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Changing Society: Effective Justice with a Social Conscience. Formerly Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations and a prominent labour relations arbitrator, Lewis is a respected advisor and commentator on public issues.

Gwynne Dyer Association of Canadian Court Administrators (ACCA) National Conference 2005, Changing World Changing Courts, Fairmont Empress and Victoria Conference Centre, November 13-16 2005 Award Winning Independent Journalist; Changing World: Impacting Justice and the Courts. Gwynne Dyer is a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs. He is known internationally for his twice-weekly syndicated column on international affairs, which appears in 175 papers in 45 countries.

Gary Locke 8th Annual Strategies for Public Sector Transformation 2005 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2005 Gary Locke was elected Washington's 21st governor on Nov. 5, 1996, making him the first Chinese-American governor in U.S. history. On Nov. 7, 2000, Locke, a Democrat, was re-elected to his second term.

George J. Tenet International Strategies for Public Safety Transformation, Technology & Counterterrorism. March 14-15, 2005 - San Francisco, California, USA. Tenet was sworn in as the 18th Director of Central Intelligence on July 11, 1997, following a unanimous vote by both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the full Senate. In this position, he led the United States Intelligence Community, a team of fourteen foreign intelligence organizations and presided over the daily activities of one of its members, the Central Intelligence Agency.

Stephen E. Flynn International Strategies for Public Safety Transformation, Technology & Counterterrorism. March 14-15, 2005 - San Francisco, California, USA. Dr. Stephen Flynn is Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. A retired U.S. Coast Guard commander, Flynn is an expert on homeland security, transportation security, border control, and international crime. His book "America the Vulnerable" points out shortcomings in America's homeland security, and outlines his own bold yet practical plan.

Jonathan Zittrain Security and Privacy 2005: Synergies in an e-Society February 10-11, 2005 - Victoria, British Columbia Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of HLS's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000. His research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom.

David Ticoll Strategies for Public Sector Transformation 2004 - Governments and Industry: Working Together for the Public Good. October 6-7, 2004 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. David Ticoll is Chief Executive Officer of Convergent Strategies, an independent professional consulting firm providing technical and strategic services. He is a compelling speaker with a must-hear message for organizations that want to thrive in today�s transparent world: Transparency, sustainability and �the new integrity� are fast becoming the basis for competition, innovation and cost reduction.

Richard A. Clarke Strategies for Public Safety Transformation - Technology & Counterterrorism Prevention-Protection-Pursuit. April 26-27, 2004 - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Clarke served the last three US Presidents as a senior White House Advisor. Over the course of a record-setting 11 consecutive years of White House service, he held the titles of : Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs, National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security.

Kevin Mitnick Strategies for Public Safety Transformation - Technology & Counterterrorism Prevention-Protection-Pursuit. April 26-27, 2004 - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Security and Privacy: Friends, Foes or Partners. February 11-12, 2004 - Victoria Conference Center, Victoria, B.C. Known as the "world's most famous former hacker" Mitnick will share his perspective on the threat of "social engineering" a highly effective type of attack that exploits the human element of corporate security. Mitnick has gained unauthorized access to computer systems at some of the largest corporations on the planet and penetrated some of the most resilient computer systems ever developed. He has been the subject of countless news and magazine articles published throughout the world. Kevin is the co-founder and President of Defensive Thinking, a firm that provides professional security consulting services. His book The Art of Deception was published in October 2002.

Frank McKenna - see biography Strategies for Public Sector Transformation Conference and Exposition, Victoria Conference Centre, September 8-9, 2003 Frank McKenna made political history, and transformed the social and business face of New Brunswick. As premier from 1987 to 1997, he brought in innovative and aggressive policies, setting the pace for the rest of Canada.

John Walsh - see biography Strategies for Public Safety Transformation - Technology and Counterterrorism. March 10-11, 2003 - Bal Harbour Florida, U.S.A. John Walsh is widely recognized as a tireless advocate for victim's rights and missing children as host of the nation's number-one crime-fighting show, America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back and also his own daily talk show.

Richard C. Holbrooke - former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations - see biography Strategies for Public Safety Transformation - Technology and Counterterrorism. March 10-11, 2003 - Bal Harbour Florida, U.S.A. Richard Holbrooke secured his reputation as the world's premier negotiator by arranging an unprecedented multi-party agreement bringing the U.S. back into good standing with the United Nations.

Tony Coles, former deputy mayor of New York City, USA. - see biography Strategies for Public Safety Transformation - Crisis Management: An Alberta Perspective Conference & Trade Show, Calgary, Alberta, November 6-7, 2002 Under Rudolph Giuliani, Coles was responsible for the city's emergency response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Coles' insight into the capacity of the city to respond, and the intelligence that preceded the attacks, will shed light on the need for clear planning and preparation.

Dr. Stan Davis - see biography Strategies for Public Sector Transformation Conference and Exposition 2002, Victoria Conference Centre October 16 & 17, 2002. Stan Davis is an independent author and speaker based in Boston as well a research fellow at Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation.

Janet Reno - Attorney General of the United States of America (1993-2001) - see biography Strategies for Public Safety Transformation: "Terrorism & Technology" - Prevention, Protection and Pursuit April 29-30, 2002, Whistler, B.C., Canada Ms. Reno graduated from Cornell University and Harvard Law School, and served for 15 years as the State's Attorney for Dade County, Florida. On becoming the United States' first female attorney general in 1993, she headed the world's largest law office (125,000 employees) for nearly eight years, and defending the government in court. During her watch, crime was dramatically reduced and heightened professionalism became the order of the day in the law enforcement community. She was the longest serving attorney general since before the civil war.

Louis Freeh - Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1993-2001 Strategies for Public Safety Transformation: "Terrorism & Technology" - Prevention, Protection and Pursuit April 29-30, 2002, Whistler, B.C., Canada Mayor Rudolph Giuliani called Louis Freeh the singularly best-suited person in America to run the FBI. As Director from 1993 to 2001, Freeh dramatically changed the bureau's mission as crime became globalized. He more than doubled the number of FBI branches around the world and focused on counterintelligence, cybercrime, DNA technology, state-of-the-art electronic surveillance, and building relationships with the private sector to tap cutting-edge scientific and technical expertise.

George Gilder - see biography Strategies for Public Sector Transformation 2001- September 27, at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, B.C., Canada President of Gilder Technology Group Inc. and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, Gilder posits that all future businesses will need to focus on one scarce resource ... their customer�s time. He contends that businesses will succeed to the extent that they use the abundant resources of silicon. He explains that just as all businesses of the industrial era were forced to come to terms with steam and oil, businesses of the information era will have to come to terms with the growing power of the silicon in computer chips and the silica in fiber optics.

Alvin Toffler - see biography Strategies for Public Sector Transformation 2000- September 27, at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, B.C., Canada A formidable business thinker and passionate speaker, Alvin Toffler's global audience impact comes not simply from spotting changes in advance or projecting unrelated trends, but from setting them into a coherent intellectual framework, providing readers and listeners alike with powerful tools for thinking about and preparing for the future.

Roger W. Ham - see biography Strategies for Public Sector Transformation 2000- September 27, at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, B.C., Canada In August of 1998, Roger W. Ham accepted the position of Chief Information Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. As a Deputy Chief, Chief Ham manages five divisions with over 900 staff members, 400 million dollars in technology projects, and an annual operating and project budget of over 100 million dollars. Chief Ham is developing these divisions into centers of competency with speed, maneuverability, responsiveness, flexibility, and accountability.

Dr. Nicholas Negroponte - see biography Strategies for Public Sector Transformation 1999 - September 23, 1999 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Dr. Nicholas Negroponte has been called the world's pre-eminent speaker on information technology, and he's been described as a visionary who foresees completely new ways for accessing and understanding information.

Don Tapscott - see biography Strategies for Public Sector Transformation 1998 - September 22, 1998 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Don Tapscott, Chairman of Alliance for Converging Technologies, is best known as the author of The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence. This book became an international best seller within one month of its release.