Sharon Polsky
President, Project Scope Solutions Group
National Chair, CAPAPA, Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators
Clagary, Alberta, Canada
Sharon Polsky is the National Chair of the Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators (www.CAPAPA.org ), and the President of Project Scope Solutions Group (www.projectscope.com), a Canadian company specializing in privacy and information risk management. She is one of few non-lawyer members of the Canadian Bar Association — Privacy and Access Law Section, a member of the National Advisory Committee for the University of Alberta’s Information Access and Protection of Privacy Certificate Program, and Past President of the Disaster Recovery Information Exchange in Western Canada.
Ms. Polsky has spoken before the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on the privacy implications of proposed federal legislation. She has been invited to participate in Public Policy Forum workshops addressing the modernization of federal privacy and access laws, and has been invited to speak at local, national, and international conferences about privacy, information security, and the privacy impacts of RFID and other emerging technologies.
Ms. Polsky has been a sessional and guest instructor at the University of Calgary, SAIT Polytechnic, and for Insurance Institutes across Canada since 2001. She hosted the CBC radio series “Keep it Secret,” and was a key contributor to the Canadian Professional Insurance Broker national certification program. Ms. Polsky has designed, developed, and delivered training and awareness programs related to privacy legislation, identity theft, anti-money laundering legislation, information risk management, and Internet security, and advanced telecommunications technology.
With over 25 years of firsthand experience as a speaker, trainer and business consultant, Ms. Polsky offers a unique blend of insight that make her presentations engaging, informative, and thought provoking. She takes a refreshingly practical, pragmatic, and realistic approach that has been embraced by a who's who of organizations across North America including Kraft Foods, Suncor, Nexen, Husky Energy, ATB Financial, the Alberta Cancer Board, Government of British Columbia, and the Disaster Recovery Institute of Canada.