HEADLINER: What is missing from current AI and how we may bridge the gap

Yoshua Bengio

Canada CIFAR AI Chair;  Full Professor, Samsung AI;

Professor, Université de Montréal;

Scientific Director, Mila & IVADO

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HEADLINER AI for Good: harnessing AI to create a better future for all

Krish Banerjee

Canada Managing Director, Data, Analytics & Applied Intelligence

Accenture

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HEADLINER DIANA: A multinational accelerator for emerging and disruptive technologies

Prof Deeph Chana

Managing Director

NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)

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HEADLINER: From Theory to Practice: Accelerating AI/ML innovation

Sherry Marcus

Director of Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Amazon Web Services

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HEADLINER Finding the Path: Deploying Health AI Solutions in a Complicated World

Roxana Sultan

Chief Data Officer and Vice President, Health

Vector Institute

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HEADLINER Deploying AI models at scale - Digital twins for industrial heating grids

Victor Pereboom

Co-Founder and CTO

UbiOps

Tanja Crijns

Digital Twin Engineer 

Gradyent

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HEADLINER Applied AI for a sustainable and safe future in Aviation and Defence

Abha Dogra

Chief Digital and Technology Officer

CAE

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HEADLINER Why Artificial intelligence doesn't exist…yet!

Dr Luc Julia

Chief Scientific Officer

Renault Group

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HEADLINER: How PepsiCo puts humans at the center of our digital transformation

Dr Athina Kanioura

Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer

PepsiCo

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HEADLINER AI for smarter energy decisions and efficiency

Philippe Rambach

Senior Vice President, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Schneider Electric

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HEADLINER USE CASE Harnessing the power of AI to improve the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services in a rapidly changing and resource-limited world

Constanza Gomez Mont

Founder, C Minds and AI for Climate;

2021-2022 Chair, AI for Humanity Global Future Council, World Economic Forum

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HEADLINER Speechbrain: An Open-Source toolkit for Conversational AI

Mirco Ravanelli

Adjunct Professor, Université de Montréal; Mila associate member;

Assistant Professor, Concordia University

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HEADLINER Advancing multimodal vision-language learning

Aishwarya Agrawal

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal

Core Member and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Mila, Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

Research Scientist, DeepMind

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HEADLINER Challenges and opportunities for keeping AI open

Rajiv Shah

Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago;

Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face

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HEADLINER USE CASE Building the hospital of the future

Natalie Mayerhofer

Associate to the Chief Learning Officer (CHUM), Co-Founder, CHUM School of AI in Healthcare

Pascal St-Onge

Manager, Centre for the Integration and Analysis of Medical Data (CITADEL); Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), CHUM Research Centre

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HEADLINER AI in Healthcare - Trends and Intrapreneurship

Dr. Helia Mohammadi

Chief Data Scientist and Health & Life Sciences Industry Lead

Microsoft Canada

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HEADLINER Learning Causal Representations

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

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK: Separating coherence from knowledge with Retrieval-Augmented Generation — anchoring Generative LLMs in domain-adapted semantic search

Chau Tran

Software Engineer

Glean Technologies

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK Unlock your mind to command your devices: the Next Frontier of Brain-Computer Interface

Dr. Naeem Komeilipoor

Founder and CTO

AAVAA

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK Rules and methods for managing risks and ensuring the reliable deployment of AI within your critical industrial operations

Guillaume Hervé

CEO, Co-Founder

Zetane

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK Running up that HILL: How Human-in-the-Loop Learning Leads to Better AI

Dr. Matthew E. Taylor

Fellow-in-Residence, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii); Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Director, Intelligent Robot Learning Lab, and Associate Professor of Computing Science, University of Alberta;

Research Director, AI Redefined (AIR)

François Chabot

Co-Founder, Technology,

AI Redefined (AIR)

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK Addressing Social Injustices through Tech (Rise of No-code & SaaS tools)

Amna Habiba

Founder

BloomED Foundation

Quratulain Hussain

CEO

BloomED Foundation

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK Driving AI Quality - achieving higher performance with ML testing and monitoring

Anupam Datta

Co-Founder, President, and Chief Scientist

 TruEra

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK How to use Natural Language Processing to power everyday apps and experiences

Alex Wang

Manager, Data and Evaluation

 Cohere

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STARTUPS SHOWCASE

Mike Leslie

Co-founder, Business Lead

Revela Systems

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STARTUPS SHOWCASE

Kevin Poirier

Product Manager

Nuvoola AI

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STARTUPS SHOWCASE

Louis A.Young, II

Founder & CEO

Healthmetryx, Inc.

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK Algorithmic Fairness: A Pathway to Developing Responsible AI Systems

Golnoosh Farnadi

CIFAR AI Chair holder;

Core Academic Member, Mila

Assistant Professor at HEC Montréal

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK The Promise of AI for Personalized Medicine based on Medical Images

Tal Arbel

Canada CIFAR AI Chair, MILA;

Full Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, McGill University

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DEEP DIVE TECH TALK Going Beyond Prediction: Causal Inference from Text with Machine Learning

Dhanya Sridhar

Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal

Core Academic Member of Mila

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INNOVATION INSIGHT Governing AI Projects Without Killing Innovation – A Use Case

Mario Cantin

CEO & Chief Data Strategist

Prodago

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INNOVATION INSIGHT Reducing the burden of maintaining a building with AI: What new technologies can bring to building management and their stakeholders?

Youssef Loudiyi

Chief Artificial Intelligence and Founder

Inspect A

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INNOVATION INSIGHT How can AI improve organ donation?

Hobivola A. Rabearivelo

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

BIEX Health

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HEADLINER AI eats software: The next wave of AI commercialization

Parasvil Patel

Partner

Radical Ventures

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INNOVATION INSIGHT Revolutionising the management of virtualized mobile networks via AI-driven traffic insights

Paul Patras

Associate Professor at The University of Edinburgh

CEO and Co-founder, Net AI

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INNOVATION INSIGHT Generating Music with AI - How to create controlled, high quality music

Taehyun Kim

Chief Strategy

Officer POZAlabs

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INNOVATION INSIGHT ISC and IDEaS: Government programs providing funding, support and guidance to Canadian innovators

Patrick Seguin

Outreach and Marketing

Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC)

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INNOVATION INSIGHT ISC and IDEaS: Government programs providing funding, support and guidance to Canadian innovators

Sarah Blair

Manager of Outreach and Engagement

Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)

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INNOVATION INSIGHT Beyond the buzz: bringing practical AI to all businesses

Wade McCallum

CEO

Ogma-Tech

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INNOVATION INSIGHT Data-centric AI: How to improve your AI using feature space

Michael Hwang

Co-Founder

Datumo

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HEADLINER: Surgical Artificial Intelligence

Ozanan Meireles

Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital;

Director MGH Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL);

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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Humans & AI - on the Road and in the Operating Room

Dr. Guy Rosman

Associate Director of Computation, Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital;

Manager, Human Aware Learning team within the Human Interactive Driving (HID) division, Toyota Research Institute (TRI)

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INNOVATION INSIGHT Surgical Data Governance

Keith Griffis

Executive Director of Marketing, Surgical Endoscopy and Systems Integration

Olympus Corporation of the Americas 

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HEADLINER Financial Market and Investment Outlook of Surgical AI

Dennis McWilliams

Partner

SANTÉ

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HEADLINER SAGES and AI - Surgical Society Initiative

Ozanan Meireles

Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital;

Director MGH Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL);

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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INNOVATION INSIGHT Surgical Data Challenges and the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

Dr. Jennifer A. Eckhoff, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston;

Surgical Resident, Department of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Cologne, Germany

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WORKSHOP Accelerate ML Innovation with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Kristine Pearce

Principal ML Business Development Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Meena Thandavarayan

AI/ML Specialist

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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WORKSHOP On-prem and Hybrid/Edge Computing practices for new generation NPM and APM, by Mind in a Box and Accedian

Jérémie Farret

CEO/CTO

Mind in a Box

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WORKSHOP Three Practical Steps To Handle Future Regulations

Bruce Gustafson

President and CEO

Developers Alliance

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WORKSHOP AI in the UK: Opportunities for collaboration and partnership

Dr Chris Moore

Technology Sector Specialist, UK

Department for International Trade (DIT)

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