March 25, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM ET, registration & refreshments at 9:00 am

SYNOPSIS

A half day event examining how the CAF can develop and adopt a secret cloud that would enable modernization and mission success.

PROGRAM

09:30 Opening Remarks

• David Perry, Triple Helix
• Alex Maheu, Amazon Web Services

0935 -10:20 A View from the End Users

• Aaron Luhning, Canadian Army
• MGen Jeffery Smyth, Royal Canadian Air Force
• Cdr Félix Rancourt, Royal Canadian Navy
• Moderator: Dr. David Perry, Triple Helix

10:25 – 11:10 Industry Perspectives

• Nathan Beach, Amazon Web Services
• Andrew Daly, Blue Voyant (virtually)
• Sreenivas Sivasubramanyam, Oracle
• Representative from SAP
• Moderator: Geordie Jeakins, Triple Helix

11:10 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 12:15 Guidance from the Five Eyes

• Joeseph Jarnecki, Royal United Services Institute
• Andrew Horton, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• Daniel Chenok, IBM Center for The Business of Government
• Moderator: Dr. Alexander Salt, Triple Helix

12:15 Closing

SPONSORS

This event is made possible thanks to a Department of National Defence's Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) grant, as well as CGAI's strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics, Hanwha Defence and Ocean, BAE Systems, AWS, Cenovus, BAE Systems, AWS, Pathways Alliance, Tourmaline Oil, and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. 

The view expressed during this event do not necessarily reflect those of CGAI, the Department of National Defence, and our sponsors.