A full day of application security learning hosted by the OWASP Ottawa chapter. The day includes three parts: a speaker track, a hands-on OSINT workshop, and a mentoring session.

This ticket is for the Speaker Session ONLY. This ticket gives you access to the speaker track only. If you wish to attend the OSINT Workshop, then reserve a ticket here.

If, for whatever reason, you cannot attend, please cancel your ticket so someone on the waitlist can attend.

General Day Schedule

Time Session

8:00AM Doors open — Registration
8:45AM Opening remarks — STEM 117
9:00AM Speaker track sessions — STEM 117
OSINT workshop begins — STEM 564
Mentoring begins — STEM 464
12:00PM Lunch
1:00PM. Sessions Continue
5:00PM Closing Remarks — STEM 117
5:10PM Tech2Step: Walking Mentorship — STEM 117
Tech2Step Signup: https://luma.com/g7j2yqhq
6:00PM The AfterParty at The Nelson Pub

Speaker Schedule

8:45-9:00 AM Garth Boyd
Welcome
9:00-9:55 Farshad Abasi
Your Threat Model Is Lying to You: Why Modeling the Design Isn’t Enough in 2026
10:00-10:25 Sabrina Lavi
People-Powered Security: Scaling AppSec Through Champions, Community, and Culture
10:30-11:25 Alexander Rudolph
Canadian Digital Sovereignty in a Zero-Trust World: Unpacking Socio-Economic Dimensions of Digital Sovereignty
11:30-11:55 Kayode Olabisi
Your LLM App Passed the Checklist. Now What?

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:55 Ben Gardiner
Tractor ECU RE: When a “Noise Triggered” Recall is also a Security Patch
2:00-2:25 Magno Logan
Nobody’s Mining Crypto Anymore: What Attackers Actually Want From Your CI
2:30-2:55 Kishan Nagendra
Agentic AI Design Patterns and Their Security Implications
3:00-3:55 Faustin Bouchard
Stop Policing Words. Govern Authorization.
4:00-4:25 Pavel Shukhman
Who Wrote This Code? A Forensic Whodunit in the Agentic Era
4:30-4:55 Logan MacLaren/Fennix
50 Shades of Red – Red Teaming & Pentesting in Practice
5:00-5:10 Garth Boyd
Closing

More Information:

https://owasp.org/ottawa – select the OWASP Ottawa Day tab

https://github.com/OWASP-Ottawa/chapter-guide/blob/main/OwaspOttawaDay2026.md

This event is not affiliated with Invest Ottawa and is independently organized by a third party.