Student Event | Join us for our first Discussions on Defence of the academic year, as we meet the new Defence Fellows for 2026-27
Upcoming Events
Oct 16, 2026
EVENT | Join CIDP at Queen's Homecoming for - Defending Canada: A Conversation with General Wayne Eyre
Oct 26, 2026
Event | Col (ret'd) John Blaxland will deliver an afternoon talk discussing the poly-crisis from an Australian perspective.
Oct 27, 2026
Event | Sarah von Felten joins our IDP lunch discussion with an international perspective on Military Leadership in Extreme Situations.
Nov 18, 2026
Registration is now Open! | The 2026 edition of the KCIS Conference Returns | Theme: Transformative Technologies: Reshaping Defence and Security
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
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
Mar 24, 2026
Student Event | Our next Discussions on Defence will tackle your burning questions.
Feb 27, 2026
Event | Our February IDP Speaker Series will take a look at Lessons Learned from Russo-Ukrainian sUAS for Military Readiness.
Feb 10, 2026
Feb. 24, 2026 | Conference Videos now available | SITREP-Q: Quantum Readiness in a Changing Global Security Environment
Jan 30, 2026
Event | Our January IDP Speaker Series looks at securing Canada's Arctic with CIDP Fellow Robert Martyn
Jan 27, 2026
Student Event | Our next Discussions on Defence will tackle military psychological operations led by Col. Nicolas Gauthier.