CPI is pleased to announce a new public outreach lecture series titled CPI Talks. CPI Talks will feature well-known experts speaking on cybersecurity and privacy topics that concern the general public as a whole. The talks are intended for people from all walks of life, and thus will be designed so that they are accessible to members of the general public without any pre-requisite background or knowledge in cybersecurity and privacy. In our increasingly digital world, cybersecurity and privacy concerns affect everyone. Everyone is therefore welcome to attend CPI Talks. We welcome high school students and new undergraduate students. We hope the talks will inspire some of these students to pursue careers in cybersecurity and privacy.
Cybersecurity and privacy span multiple different disciplines including information technology, engineering, social sciences, and the law. We plan to feature speakers from a variety of disciplines. We hope that people who are already working in cybersecurity and privacy will also benefit from these talks allowing them to better understand and appreciate the interdisciplinary considerations involved in cybersecurity and privacy challenges.
You can find recordings of past CPI Talks on our YouTube channel. The recordings include timestamps and captions
Past Events
Thursday Dec. 5 from 2:30 - 4:00pm in SRADM EC5-1111 Enterprise Theatre , taking place in person.
Title: Ontario's Bill 194 and Forthcoming Changes to Provincial Cybersecurity and AI Governance
Speaker: Christopher Parsons - Manager, Technology Policy at the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Thursday Nov. 28th from 2:30 - 4:00pm in SRADM EC5-1111 Enterprise Theatre, taking place in person.
Title: Privacy through Contextual Integrity: From Theory to Applications
Speaker: Yan Shvartzshnaider - Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering at York University, Director of the Privacy Rhythm research lab
Thursday Nov. 21 from 2:30 - 4:00pm in SRADM EC5-1111 Enterprise Theatre , taking place in person.
Title: Simultaneous-Message and Succinct Secure Computation
Speaker: Akshayaram Srinivasan - Faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.
Thursday Nov. 7 from 2:30 - 4:00pm in SRADM EC5-1111 Enterprise Theatre, taking place in person.
Title: Understanding and Addressing Fairwashing in Machine Learning
Speaker: Sébastien Gambs - Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Privacy-preserving and Ethical Analysis of Big Data, Professor in Computer Science, Université du Québec à Montréal
Thursday Oct. 31 from 2:30 - 4:00pm, taking place virtually.
Title: Spikes and dominoes...Can dark net tremors predict the next data breach?
Speaker: Steve Thomas - Founder and CEO at HackNotice
Thursday Oct. 24 from 2:30 - 4:00pm, taking place virtually.
Title: Choosing Privacy in the Real World
Speaker: Carlisle Adams - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Thursday Oct. 3 from 4:00 - 5:30pm in SRADM EC5-1111 Enterprise Theatre, taking place in person.
Title: Demystifying and Detecting Bugs in AI Infrastructure Software
Speaker: Song Wang - Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University
Monday, June 20th from 10:30am - 12:00pm in Arts Lecture Hall Room 113
Title: Characterizing Machine Unlearning through Definitions and Implementations
Nicolas Papernot - Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Toronto
Thu. Oct. 26th from 10am - 12:00pm EST
Yash Vardhan Pant - Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo
Monday, December 5, from 12pm - 1:30pm EST
Title: Subversion – From Spies to Hackers
Lennart Maschmeyer - Center for Security Studies
CPI & Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo
Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo
Crypto for the People (Wednesday, April 13 at 6:30 pm)
Brown University
Are We Ready For the Quantum Era? (Monday, February 28 at 6:30 pm)
Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh
CPI, University of Waterloo
Privacy Research that Matters (Thursday, October 21 at 6:00 pm)
