What is information warfare?
Information warfare refers to operations carried out with the aim of obtaining an informational advantage over an opponent. It consists in controlling one's own information space and protecting access to one's own information, while seeking to obtain and use that of the adversary, destroying its information systems and disrupting the flow of information. The phenomenon is not new, but it is evolving, technological innovations favoring and accelerating the dissemination of information.
Program
08:00 | Welcome of the participants
08:10 | Opening
- Professor Anessa Kimball, director of the Centre on International Security (CSI) at Université Laval
- Brigadier-General (ret.) Richard Giguère, president of the Military Institute of Quebec (IMQ)
08:15 | Welcoming remarks
- Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, Honourable Michel Doyon
- Yan Cimon, deputy vice-rector for external, international and health affairs and director of international affairs and the Francophonie as well as full professor of strategy at the Faculty of Administration Sciences of Université Laval
08:30 | Opening conference
- Lieutenant-General (ret) Steve Bowes, Senior Mentor, Canadian Forces College Toronto, Commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command (2015-2018)
09:15 - 10:15 | Panel 1: The information war: What is it all about? An academic point of view :
Chaired by Mme Colette Brin, full professor and director of the Centre for Media Studies at Université Laval
Speakers:
- Brandon Valeriano, Ph.D. et Bren Chair of Military Innovation at Marine Corps University, Washington, DC
- Gabrielle Bardall, Ph.D. University of Ottawa, Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS-CÉPI), Vice-President in charge of external relations at the Parliamentary Center.
10:45 - 11:45 | Panel 2: A Canadian military perspective
Chaired by Professor Anessa Kimball, director of the Centre on International Security at Université Laval
Speakers:
- Mme Stéphanie Bordeleau, École supérieure d'études internationales (ESEI) – International Security, Université Laval
- Major Mathieu Proulx, Canadian Joint Operations Command, CJOC
- Brigadier-General Eric Laforest, Canadian armed Forces
11:45 - 12:00 | Question and answer period
13:00 - 14:00 | Panel 3: The allied point of view
Chaired by Air corps general (ret.) Jean-Marc Laurent, Sciences Politique, in charge of the Bordeaux support area
Speakers:
- Lcol Yves Desbiens, NATO Center of Excellence for Strategic Communications (NATO StratCom COE)
- Lcol Caroline Lamarre, CENTCOM
- Mme Maud Quessard, director of the Euratlantic Space domain, specialist in information warfare at the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (IRSEM)
14:15 – 15:30 | Panel 4: Civil society and information: the competition for the truth
Speakers:
- Professeure Marie-Ève Carignan, Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, Université de Sherbrooke
- Mme Valérie Gaudreau, reditor-in-chief of the newspaper Le Soleil
- M. Justin Ling, investigative journalist
- Alexandre Sirois, La Presse
15:45 - 16:15 | Closing conference
- The cognitive war: Mr. François du Cluzel, Head of the Innovation Hub, NATO Allied Command Transformation, Norfolk
16:15 - 17:00 | Plenary Session — Question and Answer Periode
- Chaired by Brigadier-General (ret.) Richard Giguère, president of the Military Institute of Quebec (IMQ)
16:30 | Closing remarks
- Professor Philippe Bourbeau, Director of École supérieure d’études internationales (ESEI), Université Laval
