Events & Speakers

Registration is open for our June Symposium!
AI: A Double-Edged Sword—Securing Tomorrow While Strengthening Today

Date: Monday June 16, 2025
Manulife Conference Centre, 200 Bloor Street East, Toronto
West A Room
11:30am – 4:00pm

RIE Toronto wants to welcome our newest partner - IAEM Canada (International Association of
Emergency Managers) - Thank you for joining us!

This session is free for all RIE and IAEM members in good standing, please select the appropriate
package when registering.

Register Here

Join us on Monday, June 16 at Manulife’s Head office for our highly anticipated half day symposium "AI: A
Double-Edged Sword—Securing Tomorrow While Strengthening Today” “.

Registration and lunch start at 11:30 - be sure to bring your appetite. We have secured “The Portuguese
Chicken Guy” again for this event (Churrascos at the St. Lawrence Market). IAEM Canada is generously
providing the lunch today.

Lunch will be followed by our guest speakers and a panel discussion.

Session Details:
Session 1 – Kenrick Bagnall, CEO & Founder KONCYBER
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the nature of cyber threats—making attacks faster, more targeted,
and harder to detect. This session will explore how AI is being used by cybercriminals to disrupt
operations, manipulate data, and compromise critical infrastructure

Session 2 – Mark Hoffman
Augmented Intelligence for Your Resilience Program
This presentation explores how generative AI and augmented intelligence can be used to transform
resilience —from emergency management and data analytics to exercise development and plan
evaluation. By integrating human expertise with AI capabilities, we can enhance decision-making, simplify
complexity, and build more adaptive, and relevant programs.

Bios:

Kenrick Bagnall, CEO & Founder KONCYBER

LinkedIn profile: (27) Kenrick Bagnall | LinkedIn
Cybersecurity Consultant & Advisor | RCMP Contractor/Instructor | Keynote Speaker & Panel Moderator |
Published Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Writer | Detective Constable, Toronto Police Service Cybercrime
(Ret.)

Kenrick is the Founder of KONCYBER and President, CISO and Co-Founder of startups; RB-Cyber
Assurance Inc. and The CyberKIDS Project Inc.

Kenrick Bagnall is a former Detective Constable with the Toronto Police Service (TPS) with almost 18
years of service. Kenrick started his policing career as Class Valedictorian and Ontario Police College
Student Speaker. After completing his training program, Kenrick went on to become a Scenes of Crime
Oï¬cer, a divisional fraud investigator and in 2015 Kenrick transferred to TPS Intelligence Services
Division to join their Cybercrime Unit (C3).

During almost 9 years at C3, Kenrick was a senior investigator, case manager and OIC (Oï¬cer in
Charge) for many high profile and complex cybercrime cases. Kenrick also participated on many
interagency cybercrime projects with Europol, Interpol, FBI, The United States Secret Service, Homeland
Security investigations, and many other domestic and international agencies, participating in-projects in
the USA, the Netherlands, and Qatar.

Prior to police work, Kenrick has a background in Electronics Engineering Technology and spent two
decades working in the Information Technology industry, primarily in financial services. During this time
Kenrick held various technical and leadership roles including Systems Analyst, Senior Network Analyst, IT
Manager and Senior Vice President of Information Technology.

Kenrick has instructed and lectured on cybersecurity, cybercrime investigations, cyber incident response
and open-source investigations at George Brown College, Centennial College, The University of Toronto
and the Toronto Police College.

More recently Kenrick has provided advisory and consulting services to tech startups, universities,
regional municipalities, volunteered at not-for-profits, been retained as an expert witness on cyber breach
civil cases, and is a contract civilian member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) instructing
the Federal Cyber Crime Investigators Course at the Canadian Police College in Ottawa, Canada.

Kenrick’s background in Information Technology combined with his Law Enforcement experience has
uniquely positioned him as an investigator, instructor, consultant/advisor, entrepreneur, and presenter on
technology, information security and cyber investigations.

Mark Hoffman, CBCP, MBCI
LinkedIn Profile: (27) Mark Hoffman, CBCP, MBCI | LinkedIn
World-class resilience and crisis management consultant. Multi-award-winning Global Continuity &
Resilience Consultant of the Year. Industry Hall of Fame Inductee 2022. Host: The Resilient Journey
podcast.

Mark Hoffman is an award-winning business continuity, resilience, and crisis management consultant.

He is a two-time winner of Business Continuity Institute's Americas and Global Consultant of the Year and
was inducted into the BCI Hall of Fame in 2022.

Mark has worked with clients throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean. Industries include
trucking, cross-border brokerage, transportation, communications, insurance, utilities and banking.

Mark is the host of The Resilient Journey Podcast, which is available wherever you enjoy podcasts.