The world’s leading AI summit for the Americas
24th – 25th April, 2024
Montréal, Canada
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About World Summit AI Americas
The world’s leading AI summit for the Americas will return to Montréal and bring together global AI leaders from enterprise, big tech, startups, academia, law, government and investment to hear the world’s brightest AI brains deliver innovative, cutting-edge, topical content, tackle the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda.
Who’s coming?
🧠 Tech companies, AI Tech Startups & Scaleups, Academics, Investors & Students.
🧠 CEOs, CTOs, COOs, Founders, Chief Data Officers, Chief Information Officers & Chief Digital Officers.
🧠 VPs, Directors, Heads of AI Machine Learning Data Science Technology Innovation Applied AI
🧠 Scientists, Engineers & Developers
🧠 Investors – progressively minded VCs, Seeds and Angels
🧠 Clinicians and Healthcare professionals
View AttendeesThe world’s leading AI summit series welcomed Mila as Content Partner at World Summit AI Americas 2023!
Mila, – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute is the world’s largest deep learning research institute. Mila will bring its academic expertise to our world-renowned AI Summit, offering first-rate headliners and panels.
Yoshua Bengio, Mila Founder and Scientific Director and Turing prize winner, delivered the opening remarks on the state of AI in 2023 and on the challenges and opportunities that come with a rapidly changing technological lansdscape.
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World Summit AI Americas partnered with SAIIL in 2023 to bring you the BIGGEST Intelligent Heath stage in Montréal.
SAIIL, the Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory in the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital focuses on the use of artificial intelligence to reimagine the way surgery is performed. SAIIL is a multidisciplinary group composed of surgeons, engineers and data scientists who are passionate about redesigning the delivery of surgical care.
The Intelligent Health Track on 20th April 2023, was chaired and editorially curated by Ozanan Meireles, Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital; Director MGH SAIIL; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, a globally-renowned expert in this sector.
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🧠Previous AI Brains🧠

YOSHUA BENGIO
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Full Professor, Samsung AI
Professor, Université de Montréal
Scientific Director
Mila & IVADO


YOSHUA BENGIO
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Full Professor, Samsung AI
Professor, Université de Montréal
Scientific Director
Mila & IVADO
Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.
He is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.
In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize and in 2022, became the computer scientist with the highest h-index in the world. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and Officer of the Order of Canada.
Concerned about the social impact of AI and the objective that AI benefits all, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.

DR ATHINA KANIOURA
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer
PepsiCo


DR ATHINA KANIOURA
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer
PepsiCo

DR LUC JULIA
Chief Scientific Officer
Renault Group


DR LUC JULIA
Chief Scientific Officer
Renault Group

JOËLLE PINEAU
Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science
McGill University
Vice President of AI Research
Meta


JOËLLE PINEAU
Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science
McGill University
Vice President of AI Research
Meta
Joelle Pineau is a faculty member at Mila and an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where she co-directs the Reasoning and Learning Lab. She is also co-Managing Director of Facebook AI Research, where she oversees the labs in Montreal, Seattle, Pittsburgh, and Menlo Park.
She holds a BASc in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and an MSc and PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Pineau’s research focuses on developing new models and algorithms for planning and learning in complex partially-observable domains. She also works on applying these algorithms to complex problems in robotics, health care, games and conversational agents. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and the Journal of Machine Learning Research and is Past-President of the International Machine Learning Society. She is a recipient of NSERC’s E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2018), a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists by the Royal Society of Canada, and a 2019 recipient of the Governor General’s Innovation Awards.

SIMON LACOSTE-JULIEN
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Université de Montréal
Co-Founding Member and Associate Scientific Director
Mila
Part-time Director
SAIT AI Lab Montreal from Samsung


SIMON LACOSTE-JULIEN
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Université de Montréal
Co-Founding Member and Associate Scientific Director
Mila
Part-time Director
SAIT AI Lab Montreal from Samsung

OZANAN MEIRELESS
Surgeon
Massachusetts General Hospital
Director MGH
Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL)
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School


OZANAN MEIRELESS
Surgeon
Massachusetts General Hospital
Director MGH
Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL)
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School

PHILIPPE RAMBACH
Senior Vice President
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
Schneider Electric


PHILIPPE RAMBACH
Senior Vice President
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
Schneider Electric

GEETA NAYYAR
SVP, Chief Medical Officer
Salesforce


GEETA NAYYAR
SVP, Chief Medical Officer
Salesforce

Luc Rabouin, Executive Committee Member responsible for Economic, Commercial and Design Development
City of Montréal


Luc Rabouin, Executive Committee Member responsible for Economic, Commercial and Design Development
City of Montréal
Luc Rabouin was elected mayor of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal in October 2019. Since December 2019, he has been responsible for economic and business development, and design on the city’s executive committee. Prior to that, Mr. Rabouin was the director of strategic development at the Caisse d’économie solidaire Desjardins, where he held the position for three years. He has also led several organizations, including the Centre d’écologie urbaine de Montréal, Communauto France, as well as the Corporation de développement économique communautaire (CDEC) Centre-sud/Plateau-Mont-Royal, now known as PME MTL Centre-ville.

TAL ARBEL
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
MILA
Full Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
McGill University


TAL ARBEL
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
MILA
Full Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
McGill University
Tal Arbel is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where she is the Director of the Probabilistic Vision Group and Medical Imaging Lab in the Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University. She is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Associate Member of MILA (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms), and an Associate Member of the Goodman Cancer Research Centre. Prof. Arbel’s research focuses on development of probabilistic, deep learning methods in computer vision and medical image analysis, for a wide range of real-world applications, with a focus on neurological diseases. She is a recipient of the 2019 McGill Engineering Christophe Pierre Research Award. She regularly serves on the organizing team of major international conferences in computer vision and in medical image analysis (e.g. MICCAI, MIDL, ICCV, CVPR). She is currently the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the arXiv overlay journal: Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA).

DR SONNY KOHLI, MD FRCPC
Vice President, Medical & Regulatory Affairs, Roche Canada Pharma
Internal Med/Critical Care, Halton Healthcare
Assistant Prof (adjunct.)
McMaster University


DR SONNY KOHLI, MD FRCPC
Vice President, Medical & Regulatory Affairs, Roche Canada Pharma
Internal Med/Critical Care, Halton Healthcare
Assistant Prof (adjunct.)
McMaster University
Dr. Sonny Kohli is a practicing Physician in Internal Medicine and Critical Care and is faculty at McMaster University in Canada. He is also the VP of Medical and Regulatory Affairs for Roche Canada Pharma. In 2008/09, Sonny was a top 40 Astronaut Candidate in the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) recruitment campaign. He is also an alumnus of the International Space University, a trained flight surgeon with the Canadian Forces, and was awarded a CSA scholarship to Johnson Space Center & Wyle Labs. While studying at ISU, he helped deploy the Image Reversal In Space (IRIS) experiment on the International Space Station.
In 2010, while volunteering in post-earthquake Haiti, Sonny experienced first-hand the perils of inadequate health care faced by Earth’s most marginalized peoples. Intrigued by space-age and digital solutions to the world’s health problems, Sonny co-founded Cloud DX to create a fully autonomous ‘digital doctor’ called Vitaliti. Sonny and Cloud DX were bestowed as XPRIZE’s first ever ‘Bold Epic Innovator’ as part of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition.

DHRUVAL SHAH
Director of Intelligent Automation, Chief Data Office
AT&T


DHRUVAL SHAH
Director of Intelligent Automation, Chief Data Office
AT&T
Dhru is a technology innovator with responsibilities for AT&T’s robotics program and automation investments for AT&T and its affiliates. Dhru is driving multiple AT&T organizations through an enterprise-wide implementation of artificial intelligence & advanced cognitive solutions with Robotics Process Automation.
Dhru began his career with AT&T in 1996 and has held various positions in Customer Service, Network Engineering, Research, Sales, and Technical Marketing. Prior to his current role, he served as Director Strategy Planning for Platform Investments with responsibility for over $450M in investments. He also served as Director of Innovation and led the creation of new products and services as part of AT&T’s largest global bid at the time. He has also served as General Manager of various managed services engagements.
Dhru is a seasoned expert in creating and scaling organizations to offer new products and services. He sits on several boards of directors for national non-profit charities. He has received multiple Presidential Volunteer Service Awards and is currently part of AT&T’s National Disaster Recovery team. He resides in Dallas and his daughter, Puja, is a surgical researcher and future surgeon currently studying at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas

ANNEKE OLVERA
Director, Programs and Operations
Standards Council of Canada


ANNEKE OLVERA
Director, Programs and Operations
Standards Council of Canada

JACK KLEJKA
VP of Product Management
IVADO Labs


JACK KLEJKA
VP of Product Management
IVADO Labs

CONSTANZA GOMEZ MONT
Founder
C Minds and AI for Climate
2021-2022 Chair, AI for Humanity Global Future Council
World Economic Forum


CONSTANZA GOMEZ MONT
Founder
C Minds and AI for Climate
2021-2022 Chair, AI for Humanity Global Future Council
World Economic Forum
Constanza is a mechanism design strategist and entrepreneur. She focuses on harnessing the potential of emerging technologies, such as AI and digital tokens, and models of collective intelligence to amplify social and environmental impact. For the last 16 years, she has taken the role of a mission-driven entrepreneur, founding C Minds, a pioneering action-tank in Latin America; and the global initiative AI for Climate, focused on creating awareness and policy action on how emerging technologies can amplify nature-based solutions; among other ventures. Her trajectory has enabled her to be an advisor and partner to governments and multilateral organizations such as the InterAmerican Development Bank, GIZ, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Huawei, and United Nations. Moreover, she has led diverse high-level global processes such as the co-development of the first AI ethics global agreement led by UNESCO, and was invited to Chair the AI for Humanity Global Future Forum of the World Economic Forum, among other global processes.

JESSLYN DYMOND
Director of Data Ethics
TELUS


JESSLYN DYMOND
Director of Data Ethics
TELUS
Jesslyn Dymond is the Director of Data Ethics at TELUS, leading their world-class approach to responsible data-driven innovation. She is recognized for her leadership in data enablement and an advocate for creative solutions to building customer trust with emerging technology, drawing on a background of privacy and information management expertise. Jesslyn completed a Master of Information from the University of Toronto’s iSchool, is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada (CIPP/C) and Data Ethics Professional from the Open Data Institute.
Why attend?
The world’s brightest #AIBrains are coming together to learn, rework the future and collaborate.
🧠 Meet new connections and business partners
🧠 Source the latest AI solutions and technologies
🧠 Keep in touch with existing clients and connections
🧠 Share ideas and user case stories
🧠 Find investors, venture partners and source capital
🧠 Meet potential acquirers and new business opportunities
🧠 Connect with founders, recruit staff, and meet up coming rising stars
🧠 Connect with AI ethicists, data scientist talent and developers
🧠 Participate in an interactive workshop and earn professional development points
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Intelligent Health Global Summit Series
24-25 May 2023
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In partnership with our Innovation Partners NHSX, NIHR, The Health Innovation Network, AHSN Network and DigitalHealth.London, we will once again bring together the UK health community in April to focus on what matters the most, to break down the barriers between tech and healthcare to #SaveLivesWithAI.
13-14 September 2023
Basel, Switzerland
Intelligent Health AI will once again bring together the global AI and health community next September to advance discussions on how AI can be used to prevent and solve some of the world’s greatest healthcare problems, and improve the health of the human race. tech and healthcare to #SaveLivesWithAI.
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