Managing Digital Privacy for Your SME

Your take-away

This workshop will empower you to:
• Introduce yourself to the Privacy-By-Design method to ensure that privacy management is “built-in” from the start.
• Familiarize yourself with how internet-connected personal devices, online systems and platforms enable the overt and covert collection of personal information.
• Get introduced to the principle tech tools and approaches used to protect online systems, data and users.
• Learn about the key Canadian and international privacy-protection laws, including PIPEDA and CASL.
• Gain insight into the key components and steps in the implementation of a Privacy Management Program for an SME.
• Learn the causes and impacts of 3 high-profile privacy breaches that affected Canadian businesses and their customers.

Our approach

This workshop is based on an optimized practical approach that mixes active learning with instructor-led and individual exercises. In short, you’ll learn by doing and sharing.

Who benefits the most?

• Employees of SMEs who want to become privacy protection officers or who work in HR and must manage employee PI.
• Business and systems analysts who want to implement processes and systems that collect and leverage PI.
• IT professionals who want to gain a better understanding of the business and legal ramifications of systems implementations.
• Marketing professionals who want to ethically leverage customer PI for their businesses.

We're flexible. That means workshops can be customized for corporate groups and offered on the date of your choosing, remotely or in your office

Important details

1) Registration fee includes course materials, lunch and refreshments.
2) In the event we don’t have enough participants, the workshop will be cancelled and you will, of course, be reimbursed in full.
3) This workshop meets the requirements for the 1% Conformity Law (in accordance with the Workforce Skills Development and Recognition Act).
4) If you wish to pay for this workshop via invoice, please write directly to cce@concordia.ca and our service staff will assist you.

Concordia CCE Loyalty Discount

All students who meet at least one of the following conditions, will receive a 10% discount on their CCE course or workshop tuition fees:

1)   Have completed a CCE, Undergraduate or Graduate course at Concordia University in a prior academic term;

2)   Have completed a language proficiency test (IELTS) at CCE;

3)   Have completed a CCE Professional Development Seminar/Workshop.

This discount is based on the information maintained in the Concordia University student information system.

NOTE: This discount does not apply to a language proficiency test enrollment (IELTS) nor to application fees for admission to a CCE program of study.

 

Your trainer

Corinne Charette, Senior Fellow, John Molson School of Business, PhD (Honoris Causa)

Before her retirement from federal public service, Corinne held many senior roles in both government and the private sector including that of Chief Information Officer for the Government of Canada, a position she held for six years. Prior to that, Corinne was CIO of FINTRAC, Canada’s financial intelligence unit. Her private sector experience includes roles as CIO for Transat A.T., a Partner in KPMG Consulting’s e-Business practice and Senior Vice President for Internet retail banking at CIBC. Corinne is an engineering graduate from Concordia and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Concordia in 2011. She currently is a board member of the SAAQ (Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec ) and ENCQOR 5G.