ONLY FOR OFNEDA MEMBERS

Objectives

Our goal is for participants to gain a foundational understanding of the Microsoft 365 environment, with a focus on SharePoint document management.

Introduction  

·      Plain‑language overview of Microsoft, thecompany and Office 365

·      How everyday actions like email, clouddocuments, and logins, intersect with digital risk

·      Why security awareness is essential forindividuals, organizations, and Nations

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SharePoint: Getting Started

·      What SharePoint is and when to use it

·      Differences between SharePoint and OneDrive

·      Creating sites, groups and setting permissions

·      Setting up navigation and how to structure sites

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SharePoint: Libraries, Lists and Documents

·      Organizing files using libraries, columns,metadata and views

·      Managing files effectively: creating, uploading,deleting, finding, and sharing

·      Understanding versioning, deleting, and backups

·      Creating alerts and automation.

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Office Integration and Use

·      Creating documents from within desktop apps(Word, Excel)

·      Integrating and linking document libraries withOneDrive

·      Setting up templates within document libraries

·      Using Teams

·      Advanced document search

·      Logging, audits and conditional access

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Wrap-Up & Q&A

·      Key takeaways for staying secure and organized

·      Encouragement to practice new skills within your teams and communities

·      Reinforcement of tech confidence and on going learning

About the Presenters

Angie Saltman  

President, Saltmedia, Visionary Leader, Indigenous Business Leadership Executive MBA, over 20 years’ experience in design and management

Angie is the founder of Saltmedia, and the co-founder of IT Horizons. She's an Indigenous innovative leader who believes in supporting the Indigenous economy and giving back to the community. Her friendly attitude makes working through any difficult issues much easier.  

She has over 20 years of experience in technology and design, and her specialties include team collaboration, leadership, the internet, design, and client services. Angie holds a Diploma in IT, an MBA in Indigenous Business Leadership (IBL) from Simon Fraser University and is currently working on her Plain Language Certificate from SFU to level up her visual and written communications.

Jarret Martyniuk

Jarret handles IT Horizons' clients' advanced technical needs and makes tech easy for them to use. He also oversees daily operations and leads the technical team. Whether clients are experiencing email issues or servers and advanced networking problems, he always finds the best solution for each client’s unique challenges. Jarret is an IT veteran with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a Diploma in Electronics Engineering.

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About the Meet-up

Many First Nations face daily transportation barriers that affect access to health care, school, jobs, groceries, and community events. In rural and remote regions, distance, winter conditions, and limited local services can turn simple trips into major challenges.

This session is designed for Chiefs and Council, Band administration, health, education, social services, lands, and economic development staff who want clearer options and a realistic path forward. We will share what we are learning across many Nations about what works, what costs more than expected, and how to avoid common planning mistakes. The focus is practical: service models that fit community life, vehicle choices that match climate and roads, and a step by step approach that starts small and grows safely.

Indigi Solutions and Pantonium have been working side by side with First Nations and regional partners to build stronger transportation plans and unlock funding for community led projects. This includes helping communities define needs, gather the right data, build budgets, and prepare supporting materials that funders expect, while keeping community control of information and decisions. We also bring real examples from feasibility studies and pilot planning, including how communities coordinate existing health, school, and program vehicles so more members get rides without needing a large new fleet on day one.

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You will leave with a clearer picture of:

• The real value transit adds, including better access to care, education, work, and community connection
• The main service models, including on demand and hybrid service, and when each is a good fit
• Strengthen access to essential services, education, and employment through better local transit
• The steps to move from “we need better rides” to a fundable plan and pilot”

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About the Presenter

Asennnaienton Frank Horn is the Principal of his own consulting business Indigi Solutions working on projects meeting community infrastructure needs.    

For 25 years, Asennaienton has worked with indigenous communities across Ontario and Quebec and understands first-hand the economic gap that cuts across all sectors. Building upon his experience in indigenous housing and indigenous broadband, he now works with trusted partners including transit on innovative and proven solutions to positively impact indigenous communities and drive their own economic futures forward.

Asennaienton is a proud Kanien’keha:ke (Mohawk) from the sister communities of Kahnawake and Kanesatake in Quebec and has dedicated his professional career & volunteerism to indigenous community including raising over 1000 hockey bags each year for indigenous youth across Canada.

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For Indigenous Entrepreneurs Only

This session will provide First Nation leadership and economic development staff with a practical overview of Indigenous Participation Plans (IPPs) as they are increasingly used in major infrastructure and procurement processes. The session will focus on how IPPs function as economic tools , not consultation or rights agreements, and how communities can engage with them strategically to advance employment, business participation, training, and long-term capacity building.

Using real project examples, the discussion will highlight why early preparation and clarity of community priorities matter, how IPPs might be scored within competitive bid processes, and what communities can realistically influence within tight procurement timelines. The session will also emphasize readiness: understanding community assets, workforce and business capacity, internal governance roles, and how to position a First Nation to move from reactive engagement to informed, community-driven participation.

Our featured speaker, Michael Jacobs of CIPS, will lead an important discussion on how IPPs support community‑driven economic participation.

FOR OFNEDA MEMBERS ONLY

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Why this matters to your community and organization: how cyber issues can disrupt services, delay programs and projects, interrupt business operations, and affect trust with citizens, customers, partners, and funders.

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• What’s actually happening “out there”: the most common ways organizations and small businesses are impacted, explained in plain language.
• Where your biggest risks usually are: the few areas that most often impacted
• How to use AI without creating new problems: understanding the associated risks.
• What to do when something goes wrong: how to recognize an incident early, coordinate roles, and respond calmly and quickly.
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This workshop helps our members understand what cybersecurity means in day-to-day operations, without technical jargon. Lester will cover the most common ways organizations and small businesses are impacted, how to identify the areas of highest risk, and practical steps to strengthen baseline security. Lester will also discuss how to use AI safely and help you understand the associated risk. Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, Toronto Metropolitan University, experts will share insights to help participants leave with a clearer approach to recognizing incidents early, coordinating a response, and maintaining continuity of services and business operations.

About the Presenter

Lester Chng is a cybersecurity and crisis management professional and he has extensive experience in establishing large-scale exercise programs in the North American financial services sector as well as the military. He was the financial institution’s lead representative in international and industry exercises, notably CISA’s Cyber Storm, NATO Locked Shields, Canadian Financial Sector Resiliency Group (CFRG), and Resiliency of the Wholesale Payment System (RWPS) exercises.

Lester is a former Naval Surface Warfare Officer of the Republic of Singapore Navy where he ran the Naval Wargaming & Simulation Centre. He was also the Squadron Head of Training and designed a turn-key training program to operationalize 8 brand-new warships. He has leveraged his experience in military wargaming to build cyber and crisis exercise programs. Lester holds the CISSP and PMP certifications and consults on Cyber and Crisis Exercises and personal branding for Cybersecurity professionals.

He has recently authored The Essential Cybersecurity Exercise Playbook.

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You are invited to OFNEDA’s Annual General Meeting in Sudbury on

March 12, 2026.

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March 12, 2026.

Hilton Garden Inn Sudbury

475 Barrydowne Road

Sudbury, Ontario

Canada P3B0A3

Reservation: 1-877-504-5120

RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW

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Thursday, March 12, 2026

9:00 AM - 4 PM ET – OFNEDA’s Annual General Meeting
(Breakfast and Lunch provided)

Friday, March 13, 2026

11:00 a.m.– Guest departure and hotel check‑out

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Click the link below to book your rooms

Available Rooms - Hilton Garden Inn Sudbury

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