MAX Cybersecurity: AI & the Future of Governance

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026

Start Time: 5:30 pm

End Time: 10:00 pm

Location: Fasken Office, Bay Adelaide Centre, 333 Bay St, Suite 2400, Toronto, ON M5H 2R2

AI is already running inside most organizations, often without anyone approving it. Security teams are asked to sign off on tools they did not buy, and legal teams are asked to work against regulations that are not finished yet. When one of those systems causes a breach, who answers for it?

MAX Cybersecurity: Governance in the Age of AI puts that question to the people who make the call at their own organizations.

Event Agenda

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Registration, Dinner, Maghrib Prayer, Networking

6:30 PM – 7:00 PM Introductory Remarks, Qur'an Recitation + Overview of MAX

7:00 PM – 7:20 PM Keynote Speech

7:20 PM – 8:45 PM Panel Discussion + Q&A

8:45 PM – 9:00 PM Closing Remarks

9:00 PM – 10:00 PM Networking

Note: Dinner and refreshments will be served.

Speakers:

Samer Adi - Vice President, Cyber Strategy and Industry Engagement, Bell Cyber

Imran Ahmad - Partner, Canadian Head of Technology and Co-Head of Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, Norton Rose Fulbright

Kashif Parvaiz - VP, Consulting and CISO, Arancia

Mahy Ahmed - Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Security, MNP

Christopher Ferguson - Partner, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Privacy and Cybersecurity Law, Fasken

Why should you attend?

• Understand who is responsible for AI governance and who is accountable when things go wrong.
• Learn how to identify AI tools being used across your organization, including those that were never formally approved.
• Explore what incident response looks like when AI systems can act autonomously.
• Hear real-world lessons from AI policies that looked good on paper but failed in practice.
• Connect with cybersecurity, legal, and technology professionals from across industries.