Registration is now Open! | The 2026 edition of the KCIS Conference Returns | Theme: Transformative Technologies: Reshaping Defence and Security
Upcoming Events
Nov 24, 2026
Event | Phillpe Frowd is our November IDP Speaker. His talk draws on existing work in critical security studies on the turn towards digitally mediated forms of bordering, identifying existing modes of critique around the (non-)functioning, peripheral impacts, and ethical lapses of technology.
Jul 1, 2050
Events | Visit our events page for more details on all our past and upcoming events.
Past Events
Oct 28, 2026
Student Event | Discussions on Defence - Mission Possible - Special Ops in the Canadian Armed Forces
Oct 27, 2026
Event | Sarah von Felten joins our IDP lunch discussion with an international perspective on Military Leadership in Extreme Situations.
Oct 26, 2026
Event | Col (ret'd) John Blaxland will deliver an afternoon talk discussing the poly-crisis from an Australian perspective.
Oct 16, 2026
EVENT | Join CIDP at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Homecoming for - Defending Canada: A Conversation with General Wayne Eyre
Sep 24, 2026
Student Event | Join us for our first Discussions on Defence of the academic year, as we meet the new Defence Fellows for 2026-27
Sep 18, 2026
Event | Our first event of the academic year will be a virtual roundtable discussion on Building our Defence Industrial Base
Jul 14, 2026
Summer Workshop | The Agenda details including Panels and Speakers has now been posted.
May 12, 2026
Partner Event | Governing for Readiness: Health System Leadership in an Era of Sustained Conflict
Apr 24, 2026
Event | Our final IDP Speaker Series of the year will be with Col Dave Forbes on the limits of drone warfare evolution...
Mar 27, 2026
Event | Our March IDP Speaker Series will take a look at Individualized Deterrence: Hyper‑Personalized Dissuasion in the Information Age with Col Nicolas Gauthier