About the Speaker
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    Steve Magowan
    Director, Data Protection and Resiliency, Royal Bank of Canada

    Steve Magowan is Director of Data Protection with the Royal Bank of Canada. A Veteran of the Canadian Airforce, since retiring Steve has spent the past 20 years engaged in a wide assortment of Risk Focused, Data Protection, Security Architecture & Enterprise Risk Management initiatives.

    Including the remediation of active security threats under live security breach conditions, Architecting a multi-petabyte, field level enterprise data encryption and data protection program for RBC, as well as developing leading edge Data Protection, Data Governance, Governance as a Service and Risk Management tactics through the power of Big Data, using Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to enable solutions to previously unsolvable problems with adaptive, effective strategies, that align with the business and enable their goals.

    Steve has experience leading Innovation and Forward Thinking Progress across multiple industries including aviation, large energy, mining, automotive, telecom and banking.