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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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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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