CALL FOR PAPERS

NKST SUMMIT CANADA 2025

The Next Threat Horizon: Building Trust and Security in an AI-Driven World

Opening Date: June 20, 2025 09:00 UTC
Closing Date: August 11, 2025 00:00 UTC

Registration form: Paper Call NKST Summit 2025

SUGGESTED TOPICS

Some suggested topics or you’re welcome to choose your own:

  • Defending Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats: What the Next Generation of Attacks Looks Like
  • Building Trustworthy AI: Governance, Explainability, and Ethical Design
  • Securing the AI Supply Chain: From Training Data to Deployment
  • Prompt Injection, Model Poisoning, and LLM-Specific Threats
  • The Role of Zero Trust in an AI-Augmented Security Architecture
  • Deepfakes, Disinformation, and Synthetic Media: The Security Crisis of Trust
  • Incident Response in the AI Era: New Threat Models, Tools, and Playbooks
  • The Future of Global AI Regulation: Security, Sovereignty, and Standards

TYPE OF TALKS

  • Lightning: 5-10 mins
  • Other: 15 – 20 minutes talk
  • Keynote: 20-30 mins

Talk Tags: AI, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data and Privacy, Governance, CISO

Expected attendees:

  • Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
  • Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
  • Chief Data Officer (CDO)
  • Vice President of Cybersecurity / Information Security
  • Director level or above in the fields of cybersecurity, AI governance, data and privacy, information technology

Additional Information:

If you require travel assistance, special meal accommodations, hotel stay or accessibility accommodation, please reach out to events@thenkst.com

Code of conduct

Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organisers.

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the aforementioned code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We are expecting cooperation from all participants to help ensuring a safe environment for everybody.

For any other queries contact events@thenkst.com