​ISACA Vancouver’s SheLeadsTech is hosting an event to celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, intended to bring together professionals from diverse sectors and backgrounds to reflect on leadership, technology, gender balance and the human dimensions of an AI-driven future.

​Event Schedule (Speakers To Be Announced):
5:00 - Arrival, registration, and networking
5:30 - Opening remarks & moderated panel discussion with audience Q&A
7:00 - Networking reception

​Speakers

​MC

​Julie Le Hegarat is an Instructional Designer at the UBC Career Centre and the Associate Director of SheLeadsTech (ISACA) Vancouver. She works with AI and technology to deliver the best learning experiences for all.

​Opening

​Sunny Jassal is the Chief Information Security Officer at BCIT and the Vice-President and elected board member of ISACA Vancouver. Recognized for bridging the gap between business and technology, he applies deep expertise in cybersecurity and corporate governance to champion a strong, enterprise-wide “security by design” culture.

​Keynote

​Rochelle Grayson is a serial entrepreneur, AI educator, and founder dedicated to empowering diverse leaders through practical, accessible technology strategy. Recognized among Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, she translates complex AI and innovation concepts into clear, actionable leadership insights.

​Moderator

​Thais Ramos is Director of Governance, Risk & Compliance at Simon Fraser University, where she builds pragmatic, people-centered governance ecosystems that turn strategy into execution. A systems thinker and community leader, she also serves as Director of SheLeadsTech Vancouver, advancing women in technology and digital leadership.

​Panelists

​Laleh Mosadegh leads enterprise digital transformation and AI enablement at UBC, driving large-scale modernization that strengthens institutional resilience and innovation. With over two decades of global experience, she combines strategic ambition with disciplined execution and a deeply human-centered leadership approach.

​Sandeep Sidhu is CIO at Emily Carr University, where she leads digital strategy, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation initiatives that strengthen innovation across higher education. A recognized sector leader, she shapes provincial technology governance through board and council roles across Canada’s higher-ed ecosystem.

​Sonali Sharma is a systems strategist and author of The 90% Code, a forthcoming book exploring leadership and governance in the age of AI. She challenges traditional power structures by translating real-world transformation experience into systemic frameworks. Her work lives where big ideas meet real systems — and real people.

​Sponsors (Alphabetical Order)

​CrowdStrike

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​CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company on a mission to stop breaches. Built cloud-native and powered by AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform delivers unified protection across endpoints, identity, cloud, and data from a single agent and console. Falcon helps organizations prevent and detect threats, investigate and respond faster, and reduce risk through continuous threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, managed detection and response, and automated workflows that scale across modern, distributed environments.

​Everpure

​Siloed storage stacks give way to a single, intelligent storage and data management system. Storage is virtualized across on-prem, cloud, and edge into a global fabric. Centralized intelligence automates provisioning, governance, and optimization. Built-in cyber resilience protects data everywhere. All delivered through storage-as-a-service with business guarantees that keep systems agile and ahead of business demands, without disruption.

​Rubrik | AWS

​Rubrik and AWS are strategic partners helping organizations stay cyber resilient on AWS. Together, we deliver Zero Trust Data Security across AWS workloads, including EC2, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB, ensuring organizations can recover fast and confidently from clean recovery points when cyberattacks strike. Rubrik's integration with Amazon Bedrock extends that same resilience to AI, giving enterprises the ability to monitor agent actions, govern behavior, and recover from mistakes before they spread. Rubrik and AWS help organizations stay secure, operational, and resilient in the cloud.

​Zscaler

​Zscaler is a cybersecurity company focused on securing the way people and workloads connect in a cloud-first world. Built on a Zero Trust architecture, the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange helps organizations replace legacy perimeter security with secure, direct connections between users, applications, and workloads. The platform enables secure internet access and private application access, reduces attack surface by hiding apps from the internet, inspects traffic for threats and data loss, and provides consistent policy enforcement and visibility across users, devices, branches, and cloud environments.

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