Security Day - November 21-22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence: Are You Ready?

November 21, 2023

Time

Presentation

Speaker

9-9:05 am

Welcome and Logistics

Host - Laura Whitehorne

9:05-9:10 am

Opening Remarks

Minister of Citizens' Services Lisa Beare

9:15-10 am

Cyber Warfare 2023: AI, ChatGPT and Beyond

Emerging technology is rapidly developing, especially OpenAI, with AI ethics policy and governance for Human Centered AI training far behind and threat actors/groups rarely concern themselves with ethical use of technology. With the exciting advent of ChatGPT and Microsoft’s $1b investment in OpenAI, cybersecurity professionals need to know about utilization of OpenAI by cybercriminals on the Dark Web to develop malicious code and launch automatic campaigns and prepare for battle of the AIs.

Micki Boland, Office of the CTO Architect and Evangelist, Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.

10-10:45 am

Generative AI Without Destroying Your Budget: How Consumption IT / Everything-as-a-Service can Accelerate AI Adoption

As organizations begin to develop AI strategies and deploy their first AI enabled applications, they are quickly discovering a new and complex ecosystem of hardware and software that differs significantly from their traditional enterprise data center. At the same time, organizations are reporting that 80% of their valuable data scientists’ time is being spent on infrastructure related administration, not on the problems AI is trying to solve. In response to these challenges, original equipment manufacturers and business partners alike have adopted as-a-Service programs and offers that now include both the on-premise on hosted hardware infrastructure, combined with the software and services do deliver an elastic, production ready infrastructure to enable your data scientists to focus on AI, not AI Infrastructure.

Dan Goodman, Consumption Practice Architect, Advizex

10:45-10:55 am

Break

10:55 am -11:40 am

Panel: AI in the Public Service

AI in the public service? Is there an app for that? This panel will explore opportunities, risks and challenges associated with using AI in the public service from a provincial and federal perspective.

Moderator:  Alex MacLennan, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Technology Officer, Government of BC

Archana Nirad, Chief Information Officer, BC Financial Services Authority, 

Benoit Deshaies, Director of Responsible Data and Artificial intelligence, Treasury Board of Canada, and

Brad Payne, MScIS, Senior Application Architect, Government of BC

11:40 am-12:25 pm

Blue-Sky Thinking or AI-Thinking?

How does AI impact the ways we think and act? This presentation will examine our evolving relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) and how the integration of AI affects the ways we think and behave in our daily lives and at work, offering guidance for people interacting with machines like computers and robots.

Janet Stewart,

Cyberpsychologist and Strategic Communications Management Consultant

12:25-12:30 pm

Closing Remarks

Alex MacLennan, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Technology Officer, Government of BC

Workshop Day

November 22, 2023

9-9:10 am

Welcome and logistics

Host - Aryan Sahel

9:10-10:10 am

Workshop 1: ChatGPT 101

What's the ChatGPT hype all about? This workshop will outline: the difference between AI and machine learning, resources, examples of web-user interface use, examples of web-application programming interface use. In addition, this workshop will demonstrate AI's impersonation abilities, outline tools and logistics for a quick Security, Threat and Risk Assessment, and tools and logistics for people to identify AI-generated content.

Ram Dulam, Ministry Information Security Officer, Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction

10:10-10:15 am

 Break

10:15-11:15 am

Workshop 2: Deepfakes

“Hi, it’s your mom calling. I’m in trouble.” Or are they? This workshop will explore how cybercriminals conduct AI voice cloning and strategies you can implement to better protect yourself from voice scams.

Richard Henderson, Director, Privacy and Security Design, OCIO Enterprise Services Division, Ministry of Citizens' Services

11:15-11:20 am

 Break

11:20 am-12:20 pm

Workshop 3: Pictures, Music and Words, Oh, My: Sensational AI

A picture’s worth a thousand words, but what about a picture that generates music? There’s an AI app for that. Want your daily horoscope? There's an AI app for that. This workshop will explore the creative opportunities of multimedia-based AI platforms, and discuss the risks associated with using these platforms.

Tariq Chatur Systems Programmer Analyst, Government Enterprise Network Services, Ministry of Citizens’ Services

12:20-12:30 pm

 Closing

Host - Aryan Sahel