OWASP Ottawa Day 2026 Speaker Track

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

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. Please do not sign up for both the workshop and the speaker track. If we find duplicates we will delete both tickets.

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 ticket gives you access to the speaker track only. If you wish to attend the OSINT Workshop then reserve a ticket here. Please do not sign up for both the workshop and the speaker track. If we find duplicates we will delete both tickets.