The 5th annual “PIPA Conference" will be held on November 2nd & 3rd, 2010 at the
Hotel Arts in Calgary, Alberta. The conference - aimed at assisting organizations in BC and Alberta be privacy compliant  - is now in its fifth year. Last year's conference was held in Vancouver.

The title of this year's conference is "PIPA Conference 2010: Getting through the Privacy Jungle - How to see the Forest and the Trees”. The conference agenda is as follows:

Workplace privacy issues

• employee information issues
• unions
• managing employee health information

Tools for creating a culture of privacy

• auditing
• metrics
• staff training
• monitoring compliance

Emerging technology

• cloud computing
• social networking
• biometrics
• street-level images
• surveillance
• electronic health recordsinformation systems

Planning for and avoiding disaster

• breach response and notification
• business continuity planning
• pandemic planning

Data management

• cloud computing
• records management
• responding to access requests - including locating responsive records
• information classification systems
• information systems
• electronic health records