{"id":18,"date":"2026-07-19T21:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/maple-shield\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:01:12","slug":"maple-shield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/maple-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"nscoesn-mapleseq nscoesn-mapleseq--backdrop\" data-model=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/nscoesn\/assets\/models\/shield-web.glb\" data-tunables=\"{&quot;lastAt&quot;:0.4}\"\n     role=\"img\" aria-label=\"A faint grid of shields wired together by a glowing lattice of energy, held behind the page\">\n  <div class=\"nscoesn-mapleseq__stage\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n    <canvas class=\"nscoesn-showpiece__canvas\"><\/canvas>\n    <div class=\"nscoesn-showpiece__fallback\" style=\"background-image:url('\/wp-content\/themes\/nscoesn\/assets\/img\/nscoesn-arms.png')\"><\/div>\n    <div class=\"nscoesn-mapleseq__scrim\"><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n    <div class=\"nscoesn-mapleseq__leadrow has-cta\">\n    <p class=\"nscoesn-mapleseq__lead\">Canada and its allies, convened once a year, under the Chatham House rule.<\/p>    <a class=\"nscoesn-mapleseq__cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeffy.com\/en-CA\/ticketing\/maple-shield\">Register now<\/a>  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maple Shield is the Centre&#8217;s annual flagship conference. It convenes practitioners, analysts, researchers, advisors, and senior decision-makers from Canadian and international partner organisations for substantive dialogue on the security challenges facing Canada and its allies, through panels, keynotes, and invitation-only sessions on sensitive topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sessions run under Chatham House rule unless a speaker agrees otherwise: participants may use what they hear, but may not identify or quote speakers or their affiliations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"nscoesn-mapleseq__reveal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"height:1000px\" data-start-op=\"0\" data-peak-op=\"1\" data-end-op=\"0\" data-rise-pct=\"45\" data-fall-pct=\"60\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who attends<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practitioners, analysts, researchers, advisors, and senior decision-makers from Canadian and international partner organisations. Members receive preferred access and registration priority. Student researchers and volunteers attend at no cost, part of the Centre&#8217;s commitment to the next generation of national security professionals. Accredited media may attend designated sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Annual summit<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maple Shield is paired with the annual summit, a closed strategic planning forum held about six months later, where the Centre sets the priority issues for the following conference year. It is not open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Registration<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members receive preferred access and registration priority, and individual membership includes a Maple Shield registration benefit. Registration is handled through the Centre&#8217;s ticketing partner.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"margin-top:10px\"><a class=\"gglink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeffy.com\/en-CA\/ticketing\/maple-shield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maple Shield registration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"margin-top:10px\"><a class=\"gglink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeffy.com\/en-CA\/ticketing\/nscoesn-canadas-memberships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Become a member<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maple Shield is the Centre&#8217;s annual flagship conference. It convenes practitioners, analysts, researchers, advisors, and senior decision-makers from Canadian and international partner organisations for substantive dialogue on the security challenges facing Canada and its allies, through panels, keynotes, and invitation-only sessions on sensitive topics. Sessions run under Chatham House rule unless a speaker agrees otherwise: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nscoesn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}