Speakers

Nicole Brockbank is an award-winning investigative reporter with CBC Toronto’s enterprise unit. Her work generally includes digging into a wide range of topics impacting the GTA and Ontario. Over the last several years she has dedicated significant time to reporting on both individual fraud cases, including breaking the story of Ontario’s Crypto King; as well as systemic issues with how fraud is policed and prosecuted, and how crypto ATMs are being exploited to defraud Canadians.

Angelina King is an award-winning investigative reporter with CBC Toronto’s enterprise unit. She focuses on visual storytelling and files stories for CBC’s television, digital and radio platforms. Angelina spent the first half of her career covering crime and the courts in Saskatoon. In more recent years, Angelina, along with her colleagues, has published two investigative series on fraud. She hopes the reporting helps bring to light systemic issues that allow fraud to persist and the life-changing impact it has on victims.

Detective David Coffey, of the Toronto Police Service, has been assigned to the Financial Crimes Unit since 2020. His primary duties are supervising the Central Fraud Intake Office and promoting Community Engagement through fraud presentations, media relations and social media presence. He joined the TPS in 1999 and has spent the majority of his career in investigative units including divisional Criminal Investigative Units, Fraud offices and the Intelligence Unit. He’s a fervent believer in educating the public to make them aware of potential threats from fraudsters and providing best techniques on how not to be victimized. He feels strongly that the most impactful weapon in the war against fraud is knowledge and awareness.

Michael Tran - A Detective Constable with the Ontario Provincial Police, member since 2019 and specializes in Clearnet and Darknet investigations. Enjoys Long walks on the beach and longer motorcycle rides

Cam is a Vice President with the Vidocq Group which specializes in risk consulting for large corporations, government, financial services and investment entities. Prior to working at Vidocq he was with the Toronto Police Service for 32 years and managed such areas as Corporate Crimes, Investigative Training and Behaviour Analysis Sections. After leaving policing he joined BMO as the head of Intelligence Liaison and Operational Effectiveness in the Anti-money Laundering Office. He has authored academic papers, articles and chapters on financial crime and money laundering and speaks internationally.

Cpl. Erin Power has been a member of the RCMP’s Cyber team since 2021. Prior to coming to the Cyber team, she helped create and worked in Nunavut’s first child exploitation unit and prior to this, worked general duty, policing a reservation in Labrador. Cpl. Power believes collaboration in any aspect of her policing career, has always been and still remains the key to successful investigations. She has worked with law enforcement all around the world and hopes to capitalize on collaboration with private industry expertise in an ever changing and developing criminal cyber ecosystem.”

Jesse has over 20 years of Information Security leadership experience in both private and public sectors. In his role as Consulting Lead, Cyber Strategy, Jesse is responsible for helping clients solve complex cyber security challenges by delivering innovative solutions aligned with their unique industry vertical and threat profile.

Jason has over 20 years experience across multiple technical domains, including 5 years as an incident responder in multiple consulting orgs. In his current role as Principal Security Consultant on the strategic consulting team, Jason helps clients effectively prepare for, proactively mitigate, detect and respond to cyber security threats.