HEADLINER - Open Science and AI Foundation Models: Allies in the Pursuit of Knowledge

Joelle Pineau

Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science, McGill University; VP, AI Research, Meta

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HEADLINER - Human at the helm: Leading in AI today, preparing for the AI of tomorrow

Marc Mathieu

Co-Founder, Salesforce Emerging Studio, SVP AI Transformation & Vice Chair, Salesforce Global Advisory Board, Salesforce

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HEADLINER - Human by design: How AI unleashes the next level of human potential

Krish Banerjee

Managing Director – Data & AI Lead, Accenture Canada

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HEADLINER - Reinforcement learning for therapeutics

Doina Precup

FRSC, Canada CIFAR AI Chair McGill University & Mila; Research Director, Google DeepMind

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HEADLINER - AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy

Author; Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Louisville

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HEADLINER - How to use AI for sustainable impact

Sreedhar Sistu

Vice President, AI Offers, Schneider Electric

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HEADLINE TECH TALK - Towards AGI: Predicting scaling behaviors and training Large Foundation Models on Supercomputers

Irina Rish

Core Member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute; Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Autonomous AI; Professor, Université de Montréal

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HEADLINER - AI and SuperComputing: the hottest new couple in tech

Nicolas Dube

Senior Fellow and Chief Architect, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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HEADLINER - Crisis or Cure: The divisive debate on AI’s role in modern healing

Rohan Goswami

Director – Heart Transplant Research and Innovation, Mayo Clinic

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HEADLINER - Thrive in the modern market: Mastering Generative AI for enterprise prosperity

I-Sah Hsieh

Principal Program Manager, Data Ethics Practice, SAS

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HEADLINER - AI for an Age of Planetary Transition(s)

Andrew Zolli

Chief Impact Officer, Planet

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HEADLINER - Why a different approach is needed to monetize the value of generative AI capabilities

Darren Martin

Chief Digital Officer, AtkinsRéalis

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HEADLINER - Generative AI integration and Financial Services: a balancing act

Foteini Agrafioti

Head, Borealis AI & Chief Science Officer, Royal Bank of Canada

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HEADLINER - Carrefour: how AI and Gen AI are boosting the retail giant’s operational efficiency and customer experience

Sebastien Rozanes

Global Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Carrefour

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HEADLINER - Revolutionizing innovation at the speed of thought

Larry Heck

Professor of ECE and Interactive Computing, Executive Director, AI Hub and Machine Learning Center, Georgia Tech

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HEADLINER - AI: The catalyst for business reinvention

Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President, AI at Work, Microsoft 

Marna Ricker, EY Global Vice Chair – Tax, EY

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HEADLINER - Responsible Generative AI and societal impact

Merve Hickok

President & Research Director, Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)

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HEADLINER - Unleashing the power of data & AI to drive business value and innovation

Fatih Nayebi

Vice President, Data and AI, ALDO Group

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HEADLINER - Data and AI: With great power comes great responsibility

Lambert Hogenhout

Chief Data, Analytics and Emerging Technologies, United Nations

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HEADLINER - AI in business: Revolutionizing efficiency – a choice between leading the future or lagging behind

Davood Shamsi

Executive Director of AI, JPMorgan Chase

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USE CASE - Gen AI at scale for B2B2C insurance

Sushma Niwalkar

Senior Director AI/ML Strategy, Northwestern Mutual

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USE CASE - Training the next generation of pilots with AI Adaptive Learning Applications

Annik Carson

PhD. Adaptive Learning Product Lead, AI Redefined

Mike Jones

Director of Engineering Services, Head of Department, Systems Technology, Inc.(STI)

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USE CASE - Digitizing the supply chain: the path to AI empowerment

Annie Cyr

CEO & Co-Founder, Tengiva

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USE CASE - Generative AI - LLMs Applications in Mining Industry

Pauline Camus

Principal Data Scientist, Rio Tinto

Tony Deng

Tech Lead, Senior Data Scientist, Rio Expert,  Rio Tinto

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TECH TALK - Sparsify Open-Source LLMs for Accelerated Inference

Mark Kurtz

CTO, Neural Magic

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HEADLINER - Responsible AI Governance: accelerated technological transformation, “Bet-the-Company’ litigation and crystallized AI legislation combine to raise the stakes

Charles Morgan

Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP

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HEADLINER - AI ethical leadership is obsolete: VUCA 2.0 gives rise to humility

Dr Colleen Lyons

Ethicist, Large Government Agency

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TECH TALK - Generative models as queryable world models

Adriana Romero Soriano

Adjunct Professor, McGill University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair; Research Scientist, Meta

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TECH TALK - A brain-inspired measure for assessing the quality of pretrained representations

Blake Richards

Core Faculty Member, Mila; Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

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TECH TALK - In-context learning: how large models learn to learn on the fly

Guillaume Lajoie

Core Academic Member, Mila; Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (DMS), Université de Montréal

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TECH TALK - Building transformative software with Generative AI: Potential and pitfalls

Marc G. Bellemare

Core industry Member, Mila; Canada CIFAR AI Chair; Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Reliant AI

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INNOVATION INSIGHT - AI at the edge and in the field

Jonathan Binas

CTO, Vivid Machines 

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INNOVATION INSIGHT - Unlocking innovation through responsible use of data

Rebecca (Bex) Evans

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Responsible AI, OneTrust

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INNOVATION INSIGHT - Necrobotics 360: Innovating tomorrow's healthcare landscape

Dr Raul V. Rodriguez

Vice President, Woxsen University

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INNOVATION INSIGHT - Real-time RAG in LLM applications

Ankit Virmani

Data and ML leader, Google

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INNOVATION INSIGHT - Building mindfully: Managing scale and responsibility in AI tool development

Mario Rodriguez

SVP of Product, GitHub

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INNOVATION INSIGHT - Kids Help Phone - AI trailblazers changing the youth mental health ecosystem

Mariana Catz

Senior Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer, Kids Help Phone

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STARTUPS SHOWCASE - AutoAlign AI

Dan Adamson

Co-Founder, AutoAlign AI

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STARTUPS SHOWCASE - VISS.AI

Philip Alm

CEO, VISS.AI

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WORKSHOP - AI adoption – making the right decisions for your organization

Workshop Hosts:

Miriam Price, Principal Data Strategist, AtkinsRéalis

Abigail Beaumont, Head of Data Strategy & Data Management, AtkinsRéalis

Hunter Song, Director, Business Development, AtkinsRéalis

Josh Weisbrod, Machine Learning Engineer, AtkinsRéalis

Lisa Brown, Vice-President Transformation and Digital, Canada, AtkinsRéalis

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WORKSHOP - Can it Be Done? 1 Hour to Ship a Robust and Explainable Real World AI Product

Workshop Hosts:

Patrick St-Amant, Co-Founder & CTO, Zetane Systems

Jon Magoon, Chief Product Officer, Zetane Systems

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WORKSHOP - Concerned about regulatory compliance? Examine how upcoming certification requirements, such as AIMS, affect conformity assessment bodies, AI developers and users?

Workshop Hosts:

Jacquelyn MacCoon, Senior Project Manager, Standards Council of Canada (SCC) 

Justin Osmond, Senior Policy Analyst, Regulatory Affairs, Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

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WORKSHOP - What do sea turtles, wildfires and nursing homes have in common? Ethical AI

Steve Mellgren, Sr Solutions Architect, Data Ethics Practice, SAS

I-Sah Hsieh, Principal Program Manager, Data Ethics Practice, SAS

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