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Meet the AI Brains 2021

JOELLE PINEAU
Associate Professor, William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science, McGill University
McGill University


JOELLE PINEAU
Associate Professor, William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science, McGill University
McGill University

ALEXANDER 'SANDY' PENTLAND
Professor of Mediate Arts and Sciences, Toshiba Professor, Media Lab Entrepreneurship Programme Director
MIT


ALEXANDER 'SANDY' PENTLAND
Professor of Mediate Arts and Sciences, Toshiba Professor, Media Lab Entrepreneurship Programme Director
MIT

FOTEINI AGRAFIOTI
Chief Science Officer, Head of Borealis AI
Royal Bank of Canada


FOTEINI AGRAFIOTI
Chief Science Officer, Head of Borealis AI
Royal Bank of Canada
Dr. Foteini Agrafioti is the Chief Science Officer at RBC and Head of Borealis AI, a RBC research institute dedicated to advancing ethical AI capabilities within RBC and our broader society. Foteini oversees a team of over 100 machine learning researchers and engineers in Labs across Canada.
Prior to joining Borealis AI, Foteini founded and served as Chief Technology Officer at Nymi, a biometrics security company and maker of the Nymi wristband.
Foteini is the inventor of HeartID, the first biometric technology to authenticate users based on their unique cardiac rhythms. She is a TED speaker and serves on the editorial review boards of several scientific journals. Foteini was named “Inventor of the Year” in 2012 at the University of Toronto where she received a Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and was named one of Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40” for 2017.
Foteini serves as Co-Chair of the Government of Canada’s Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence, advising the federal government on how to build on Canada’s strengths and global leadership in AI.

ADRIEN GAIDON
Machine Learning Lead
Toyota Research Institute


ADRIEN GAIDON
Machine Learning Lead
Toyota Research Institute
Adrien Gaidon is the Machine Learning Lead at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Los Altos, CA, USA. Adrien is working on open research problems in world-scale learning for automated driving, especially self-supervised learning and other techniques to go beyond supervised learning. He received his PhD from Microsoft Research – Inria Paris in 2012 and has over a decade of experience in academic and industrial Computer Vision, with over 40 publications, top entries in international Computer Vision competitions, multiple best reviewer awards, international press coverage for his work on Deep Learning with simulation, and was a guest editor for the International Journal of Computer Vision. You can find him on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrien-gaidon-63ab2358/) and Twitter (@adnothing).

LINDA AVERY
Senior Vice President - Chief Data & Analytics Officers
Verizon


LINDA AVERY
Senior Vice President - Chief Data & Analytics Officers
Verizon
Linda is the strategic voice and visionary for data and analytics at Verizon, focused on making Verizon an AI powerhouse. Linda joined Verizon in September 2019.
Prior to this role, Linda was the first Chief Data Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She shaped the Central Bank’s data strategy, establishing a new Data Science organization from the ground up, and cultivating the use of AI by economists and central bankers in monetary and supervisory policy and research.
Additionally, Linda both transformed and led the Federal Reserve function that is responsible for the collection and data quality assurance of the complex data sets received from the world’s largest financial institutions, which play a mission-critical role in the work and decisions of the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury.
Previously, Linda had a 20-year career at Goldman Sachs, where she was a Managing Director of Technology. At Goldman her career took many forms, ranging from standing up the Bank’s first electronic trading ventures, to the governance and controls needed to support highly sensitive data, to the design of the data architecture needed to support high speed algorithmic trading. Linda also led the establishment of several start up joint ventures for Goldman Sachs. She co-chaired the Women in Technology Global Network, and the IT Career Development Committee.
In April 2019, Linda was awarded the honor of “U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year” by the CDO Club.
Linda earned her Bachelors’ from Bucknell University. She is married with one daughter, and lives in Summit NJ. She enjoys sailing out of New York Harbor.

MATT GALVIN
Global Vice President, Ethics & Compliance
Anheuser-Busch InBev


MATT GALVIN
Global Vice President, Ethics & Compliance
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Matt Galvin is the Global Vice President of Ethics and Compliance for AB InBev, the world’s leading brewer. Matt’s team covers anti-corruption, competition, litigation, sanctions, anti-money laundering, data privacy, human rights and internal investigations. He is recognized as a leader in the application of data analytics to solve compliance problems and streamline compliance systems and processes. Matt is a New York and Hong Kong qualified lawyer who spent ten years in private practice before joining AB InBev in 2015.

PASCAL WEINBERGER
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer
Augustus AI


PASCAL WEINBERGER
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer
Augustus AI
Pascal Weinberger is an AI researcher and entrepreneur. He started his career working at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience, building algorithms that more closely mimic the human brain. Subsequently, he joined Google Brain as an engineer on a number of the company’s AI projects. After then founding and successfully exiting a company operating in the AgTech space, he moved to Telefonica Alpha, where he founded and led the company’s AI team. Most recently, Weinberger co-founded Augustus Intelligence to create the products and services that will be necessary to bring scalable AI to enterprise environments. He is currently based in New York and is also actively investing and advising various AI companies as a venture partner in a deep tech AI fund and personally

DANNY LANGE
VP and AI and Machine Learning
Unity Technologies


DANNY LANGE
VP and AI and Machine Learning
Unity Technologies
Dr. Danny Lange is VP of AI and Machine Learning at Unity Technologies. As VP of AI and Machine Learning, Danny leads Unity’s efforts around AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning. He joined from Uber, where he was Head of Machine Learning. At Uber, Danny led the efforts to build the world’s most versatile Machine Learning platform to support Uber’s hyper growth. Previously, Danny was General Manager of Amazon Machine Learning — an AWS product that offers Machine Learning as a Cloud Service. Before that, he was Principal Development Manager at Microsoft where he led a product team focused on large-scale Machine Learning for Big Data. Danny spent eight years on Speech Recognition Systems, first as CTO of General Magic, Inc., then through his work on General Motors OnStar Virtual Advisor, one of the largest deployments of an intelligent personal assistant until Siri. Danny started his career as a Computer Scientist at IBM Research.
Danny holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society and has several patents to his credit.

CHOON NG
Co-Founder & CEO
Vertex.AI ( acquired by Intel)


CHOON NG
Co-Founder & CEO
Vertex.AI ( acquired by Intel)

YVES BOUSSEMART
Head of QuantumBlack Canada
QuantumBlack Canada


YVES BOUSSEMART
Head of QuantumBlack Canada
QuantumBlack Canada
Yves leads QuantumBlack in Montreal. Since joining the firm in 2013, he has been supervising and leading the delivery of large-scale, technology-based transformation projects for clients in a wide range of industries, both in Europe and North America.
Combining data science, engineering, and design expertise in a value-added fashion, Yves helps businesses transform their operations and become more efficient by leveraging advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies. Examples of his recent work include the development and implementation of a full AI-driven transformation at an airline company across all aspects of operations; the end-to-end, AI-based overhaul of a major bank’s operations from customer acquisition to back-office activities; the identification and quantification of main drivers of performance for randomized clinical trials at a pharmaceutical company; and the development of predictive maintenance algorithms supporting incipient failure analyses and increasing safety at a major mining company.
Yves holds a PhD in Systems Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from McGill University.

JODIE WALLIS
Managing Director, Applied Intelligence Canada
Accenture


JODIE WALLIS
Managing Director, Applied Intelligence Canada
Accenture
Jodie Wallis is Managing Director for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Applied Intelligence at Accenture in Canada. Jodie is responsible for expanding Accenture’s business presence in the AI ecosystem, attracting top talent, and bringing innovation and global AI expertise to Canadian clients across all industries.
In her role, Jodie works with clients to develop AI strategies, discover sources of value and implement AI solutions. She also leads Accenture’s collaboration with business partners, government and academia and oversees Accenture’s investments in the Canadian AI ecosystem, including its sponsorship of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Through more than 25 years at Accenture, Jodie has developed deep expertise in management and technology consulting. She is a frequent speaker and contributor on the implications of AI for society and the future of work. Recent engagements include Collision (May 2019), the G7 Multistakeholder Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Enabling the Responsible Adoption of AI (Dec. 2018) and the Canada-UK Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence & Society: Choices, Risks and Opportunities (Nov. 2018).
Jodie is also co-host of Accenture’s award-winning podcast series “The AI Effect,” and was named one of the “10 Toronto artificial intelligence experts you should know” by ITBusiness.ca. Capping off an incredible year, she was recognized as Digital Leader of the Year at Canada’s Women in IT Awards.
Jodie earned her Bachelor of Mathematics with Honours from the University of Waterloo, where she majored in Operations Research and minored in Statistics and Computer Science. She actively volunteers in the Toronto community, serving as co-chair of the organizing committee for the Covenant House Guts + Glory Corporate Challenge, which raises funds for Canada’s largest agency serving at-risk, homeless and trafficked youth.

RAMPRAKASH RAMAMOORTHY
Product Director AI
ManageEngine


RAMPRAKASH RAMAMOORTHY
Product Director AI
ManageEngine

SAEED AGHABOZORGI
Sr. Solutions Architect - Machine Learning Specialist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)


SAEED AGHABOZORGI
Sr. Solutions Architect - Machine Learning Specialist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Saeed Aghabozorgi Ph.D. is senior ML Specialist in AWS, with a track record of developing enterprise level solutions that substantially increase customers’ ability to turn their data into actionable knowledge. He is also a researcher in the artificial intelligence and machine learning field.

JONATHAN DION
Senior Technical Evangelist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)


JONATHAN DION
Senior Technical Evangelist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jonathan Dion is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services focusing on machine learning, serverless and architecture. In this role, he helps customers discover AWS services along with emerging technologies and industry developments by delivering presentations, developing and running product demos and leading discussions.
With more than 12 years of IT industry experience, Jonathan has worked across broad technology areas including cloud, application architecture and development, security and networking. He started at AWS by helping customers develop and optimize their cloud application as part of the Solutions Architecture team. Realizing his passion for sharing knowledge in technology, he joined the AWS Training team to develop the skills of thousands of customers on machine learning, architecture, development and security in AWS.

CONRAD LARIVIERE
Director and Strategic Services and Innovations - Public transport and rail
SNC Lavalin


CONRAD LARIVIERE
Director and Strategic Services and Innovations - Public transport and rail
SNC Lavalin

DR MALLORY FREEMAN
Director of Data Science and Machine Learning
UPS


DR MALLORY FREEMAN
Director of Data Science and Machine Learning
UPS

MARI JOLLER
Founder & CEO
Snackable AI


MARI JOLLER
Founder & CEO
Snackable AI

KAMRAN KHAN
Founder & CEO
Blue Dot


KAMRAN KHAN
Founder & CEO
Blue Dot

CARINA DE PELLEGRIN
Senior Legal Counsel - Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)


CARINA DE PELLEGRIN
Senior Legal Counsel - Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Carina practises in all areas of intellectual property litigation, with a focus on IP litigation and applications under the Patented Medicines Notice of Compliance Regulations. She has an in-depth knowledge of Canadian administrative law and practice, including judicial review.
Carina’s background in computer engineering allows her to be of particular assistance to technology clients in patent, copyright and intellectual property licensing matters.
She has appeared before the Trademarks Opposition Board, the Federal Court, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the Federal Court of Appeal.
Carina served for two terms as a Tribunal Member for the Military Grievances External Review Committee, adjudicating disputes in the federal government context.
Prior to her legal career, she was an aeronautical engineering officer with the Canadian Forces and an engineering contracting officer and project manager for the Department of National Defence.
Carina is fluent in English and French

SOLON ANGEL
Founder, Chief Impact Officer
MindBridge


SOLON ANGEL
Founder, Chief Impact Officer
MindBridge

CHRISTIAN WEEDBROOK
Founder & CEO
Xanadu


CHRISTIAN WEEDBROOK
Founder & CEO
Xanadu
Christian Weedbrook is the Founder and CEO of Xanadu, a photonic quantum computing and advanced artificial intelligence company, based in Toronto. Christian has over a decade of industry, government and research experience in quantum computing. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Queensland and was a postdoc at MIT and the University of Toronto. Follow him on Twitter @_cweedbrook

NATHALIE MARCOTTE
President Process Automation
Schneider Electric


NATHALIE MARCOTTE
President Process Automation
Schneider Electric

DEBBIE GAMBLE
Chief Officer, Innovation Labs and New Ventures
Interac. Corp


DEBBIE GAMBLE
Chief Officer, Innovation Labs and New Ventures
Interac. Corp
Debbie Gamble is the Chief Officer, Innovation Labs and New Ventures at Interac. A seasoned digital commerce executive, entrepreneur and thought leader with over 30 years of experience, Debbie has been involved in early iterations of the digital economy including crypto currency, mobile commerce and digital ID on an international scale. Recipient of numerous industry awards including, ‘FemTech Leader of the Year’, ‘Most Influential Women in Payments’, ‘Top 50 Women in FinTech’ and ‘Distinguished Payments Professional’, Debbie is passionate about digital innovation and business transformation.
Debbie sits on the Board of Communitech and holds advisory roles at MaRS Discovery District, Luge Capital, Women in Payments, FINCA and is a founding member of Verity Women’s Club in Toronto

JEREMY BORNSTEIN
Senior Vice President, Payments and Loyalty
Mastercard


JEREMY BORNSTEIN
Senior Vice President, Payments and Loyalty
Mastercard
Jeremy Bornstein leads Mastercard’s Data & Services business in Canada leading a team of 65 professionals helping partner banks, acquirers and merchants identify and execute loyalty, payment strategy, marketing, analytics and digital initiatives to enhance their business. Jeremy also serves as an Advisory Board member to four fintech companies in Toronto, San Jose, CA and Barbados. Prior to joining Mastercard, Jeremy was a Managing Director in Accenture’s Financial Services practice; the Head of Payments Innovation at RBC; and the Managing Director of Corporate Strategy at RBC. He holds a MBA and HBA degree from The Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario.

ALEJANDRO CORREA BAHNSEN
VP Artificial Intelligence
Rappi


ALEJANDRO CORREA BAHNSEN
VP Artificial Intelligence
Rappi
Meet the AI Brains 2020

CELESTE KIDD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
UC Berkeley


CELESTE KIDD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
UC Berkeley
Celeste Kidd is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where her lab investigates learning and belief formation. The Kidd Lab is one of few in the world that combine technologically sophisticated behavioral experiments with computational models in order to broadly understand knowledge acquisition. Her lab employs a range of methods, including eye-tracking and touchscreen testing with human infants, in order to show how learners sample information from their environment and build knowledge gradually over time. Her work has been published in PNAS,Neuron, Psychological Science, Developmental Science, and elsewhere. Her lab has received funding from NSF, DARPA, Google, the Jacobs Foundation, the Human Frontiers Science Program, and the Templeton Foundation. She is a recipient of the American Psychological Science Rising Star designation, the Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science Society Computational Modeling Prize in Perception/Action. Kidd was also named as one of TIME Magazines 2017 Persons of the Year as one of the “Silence Breakers” for her advocacy for better protections for students against sexual misconduct.

YOSSI MATIAS
Vice President, Engineering


YOSSI MATIAS
Vice President, Engineering
Yossi Matias is Vice President, Search & AI, at Google and the founding Head of Google’s site in Israel. He is leading efforts in Search (Google Autocomplete, Search Live Results, Google Trends, Search Console), Conversational AI (Google Duplex, Call Screen, Live Caption, Live Relay, Euphonia, Recorder, Pronunciation practice and Read It), and Research initiatives (from foundations to applications in Health). He is the global lead for Crisis Response (SOS Alerts, Public Alerts, Flood Forecasting) and the founding co-lead of Google’s AI for Social Good initiative. He is the founding executive lead of Google’s Launchpad program.
In addition to his experience as entrepreneur and executive, Prof. Matias is on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, and previously a Research Scientist at Bell Labs and visiting professor at Stanford. He published over 100 papers and is the inventor of over 50 patents. He pioneered some of the early technologies for the effective analysis of big data, internet privacy, and contextual search, and is a member of a national committee about strategy for AI.
Yossi is a recipient of the Godel Prize and is an ACM Fellow.
See also https://yossimatias.net/

DEEPAK AGARWAL
VP of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence


DEEPAK AGARWAL
VP of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
Deepak Agarwal is a vice president of engineering at LinkedIn where he is responsible for all AI efforts across the company. He is well known for his work on recommender systems and has published a book on the topic. He has published extensively in top-tier computer science conferences and has coauthored several patents. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served on the Executive Committee of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). Deepak regularly serves on program committees of various conferences in the field of AI and computer science. He is also an associate editor of two flagship statistics journals.

STEVE ASTORINO
VP of Development, Data and AI, Hybrid Data Management and Canada Lab
IBM


STEVE ASTORINO
VP of Development, Data and AI, Hybrid Data Management and Canada Lab
IBM
Steven is a member of the IBM Canada senior leadership team. He is the VP of development for our Data and AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Hybrid Data Management and Business Analytics technology. He also leads the IBM Canada Labs for all of Canada and is located in the Markham location, which is one of our IBM Global labs supporting a number of our development products used by clients around the globe. Most recently Steven has been leading the Machine Learning and Data Science strategy for IBM’s Data and AI group, has delivered key strategic solutions including IBM Machine Learning, Watson Studio and is a Co-Author of Artificial Intelligence Evolution and Revolution. Steven is recognized for his expertise in leading large enterprise development teams. He’s worked with Clients and IBM teams as an experienced change agent to drive improvements and efficiency in how technology is used. He is recognized for being able to combine the deep technical knowledge with a Business lens, as clients work through their next chapter in digital reinvention and transformation journeys.

SAMY BENGIO
Distinguished Research Scientist
Google Research, Brain Team


SAMY BENGIO
Distinguished Research Scientist
Google Research, Brain Team
Samy Bengio (PhD in computer science, University of Montreal, 1993) is a research scientist at Google since 2007. He currently leads a group of research scientists in the Google Brain team, conducting research in many areas of machine learning such as deep architectures, representation learning, sequence processing, speech recognition, image understanding, large-scale problems, adversarial settings, etc.
He was the general chair for Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2018, the main conference venue for machine learning, was the program chair for NeurIPS in 2017, is action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and on the editorial board of the Machine Learning Journal, was program chair of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2015, 2016), general chair of BayLearn (2012-2015) and the Workshops on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interactions (MLMI’2004-2006), as well as the IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP’2002), and on the program committee of several international conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ECML and IJCAI.

JODIE WALLIS
Managing Director, Applied Intelligence Canada
Accenture


JODIE WALLIS
Managing Director, Applied Intelligence Canada
Accenture
Jodie Wallis is Managing Director for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Applied Intelligence at Accenture in Canada. Jodie is responsible for expanding Accenture’s business presence in the AI ecosystem, attracting top talent, and bringing innovation and global AI expertise to Canadian clients across all industries.
In her role, Jodie works with clients to develop AI strategies, discover sources of value and implement AI solutions. She also leads Accenture’s collaboration with business partners, government and academia and oversees Accenture’s investments in the Canadian AI ecosystem, including its sponsorship of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Through more than 25 years at Accenture, Jodie has developed deep expertise in management and technology consulting. She is a frequent speaker and contributor on the implications of AI for society and the future of work. Recent engagements include Collision (May 2019), the G7 Multistakeholder Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Enabling the Responsible Adoption of AI (Dec. 2018) and the Canada-UK Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence & Society: Choices, Risks and Opportunities (Nov. 2018).
Jodie is also co-host of Accenture’s award-winning podcast series “The AI Effect,” and was named one of the “10 Toronto artificial intelligence experts you should know” by ITBusiness.ca. Capping off an incredible year, she was recognized as Digital Leader of the Year at Canada’s Women in IT Awards.
Jodie earned her Bachelor of Mathematics with Honours from the University of Waterloo, where she majored in Operations Research and minored in Statistics and Computer Science. She actively volunteers in the Toronto community, serving as co-chair of the organizing committee for the Covenant House Guts + Glory Corporate Challenge, which raises funds for Canada’s largest agency serving at-risk, homeless and trafficked youth.

CESAR A. HILDAGO
ANITI Chair, University of Toulouse;
Founder & CEO, Datawheel
University of Toulouse


CESAR A. HILDAGO
ANITI Chair, University of Toulouse;
Founder & CEO, Datawheel
University of Toulouse
César A. Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American physicist, author, and entrepreneur. He currently holds a Chair at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI), an is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester and a Visiting Professorship at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
From 2010 to 2019, Hidalgo lead MIT’s Collective Learning group, and was an Associate Professor at MIT. Prior to joining MIT, Hidalgo was a research fellow at Harvard.
Hidalgo is also a founder of Datawheel, an award winning company specialized in the creation of data distribution and visualization systems.
Hidalgo holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor in Physics from Universidad Católica de Chile.
Hidalgo is known for creating the field of Economic Complexity, which uses high resolution data and network methods to explain and predict patterns of industrial and economic development. Hidalgo is also known for the creation of multiple data visualization and distribution systems, and for advancing ideas on the use of Artificial Intelligence in democracy.
Hidalgo’s contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2018 Lagrange Prize, multiple Webby Awards (DataUSA, DataAfrica, & Streetchange), an Information is Beautiful Award (DataUSA), and the Bicentennial Medal of the Chilean Congress, among others. Hidalgo’s is the author of Why Information Grows (Basic Books, 2015), which has been translated to over ten languages and was a finalist for the Hayek Prize. Hidalgo is also a lead author of The Atlas of Economic Complexity (MIT Press, 2014), a highly cited book on the basic principles and methods used in economic complexity.

DAVE CASTILLO
Managing Vice-President of Machine Learning
Capital One


DAVE CASTILLO
Managing Vice-President of Machine Learning
Capital One

AJUNG MOON
Assistant Professor (ECE)
McGill University


AJUNG MOON
Assistant Professor (ECE)
McGill University
AJung Moon is an Assistant Professor at McGill University (Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering). She is an experimental roboticist specializing in ethics and responsible design of interactive robots and autonomous intelligent systems. She studies how our interaction with machines influence people’s behaviours and decisions and investigates different ways to integrate our societal values in the design and deployment of autonomous systems. Prior to joining McGill, she served as a Senior Advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, a taskforce that investigated the need for improved technology governance and policy across national borders. She also ran a start-up AI ethics consultancy, Generation R Consulting and founded the Open Roboethics Institute, a Canadian nonprofit that investigates societal and ethical implications of robotics and AI.
She completed a BASc (University of Waterloo) in Mechatronics Engineering, and a MASc and a PhD (University of British Columbia) in Mechanical Engineering. She became a Vanier Scholar in 2013 and developed interactive robot behaviours that allows for a human and a robot to nonverbally negotiate their way out of conflicts that arise in human-robot teamwork. She currently serves on the Government of Canada Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence among others.

JOSE MURILLO
Chief Analytics Officer
Grupo Financiero Banorte


JOSE MURILLO
Chief Analytics Officer
Grupo Financiero Banorte
Jose A. Murillo established and leads the Analytics Business Unit at Banorte –the second largest financial group in Mexico. His group has been recognized as a success story within the data and analytics industry. The value created with analytics on 2018, the third year of operations of his group, exceeded 700 million USD–during his tenure the value created has exceeded 1.7 billion dollars. This case was published at Harvard Business Review as an example of a company which made its analytics investments pay-off (2018). Also, his team obtained the Lafferty Global Award on Credit Card Excellence for the impact of analytics on customer equity (2016). Jose was named among the top analytics and data professionals in North America by Corinium in its first and second edition. He has been published in several industry and refereed journals, he is a frequent speaker at analytics forums and he is a member of Queen’s University Advisory Board for the Masters in Management Analytics.
Prior to Banorte, Jose was a top-ranking official at Mexico’s Central Bank and participated for more than a decade at the Monetary Policy Committee holding the staff’s view on inflation –a key variable for policy decision. Also, he was an advisor to the International Monetary Fund on statistics and led missions to Ecuador and Chile. At the academia he taught economics at Rice University, ITAM and El Colegio de Mexico. He holds a PhD in economics from Rice University and graduated from ITAM (Cum Laude and received national prizes from the Chamber of Commerce and Tlacalel Prize).

CONSTANZA GOMEZ MONT
Founder and CEO
C Minds


CONSTANZA GOMEZ MONT
Founder and CEO
C Minds
Constanza is interested in achieving an inclusive Fourth Industrial Revolution in emerging countries. This led her to found and direct C Minds (www.cminds.co), an impact technology agency based in San Francisco and Mexico City. From C Minds, Constanza works with governments and institutions in the development of public policy and programs on issues of digital transformation, seeking to enhance the benefits of new technologies in emerging countries. She also leads initiatives to explore the power of technology to accelerate financial innovation, sustainable mobility, safety, health and education, among other issues. Other initiatives that C Minds coordinates, such as the AI for Good Lab, seek to deepen the ethical debate on the social and labor consequences of the technological transformation we are experiencing, particularly in Mexico. C Minds is also collaborating with the Jalisco Government and Tec de Monterrey University to develop a first AI center in Guadalajara as part of a regional network to be built.
Constanza has been a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank and national and local governments. Her work has been recognized in international media and she was named Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, Gifted Citizen by City of Ideas, British Government’s International Leader by the Government of the United Kingdom, winner of the SU Global Impact Challenge in Mexico and a Singularity University GSP graduate, among other recognitions.

MINA J HANNA
Co-Chair, IEEE-SA Global Initiative on Ethics of AI Systems' Policy Cmte;
Chair IEEE-USA AI & AS Policy Cmte
IEEE


MINA J HANNA
Co-Chair, IEEE-SA Global Initiative on Ethics of AI Systems' Policy Cmte;
Chair IEEE-USA AI & AS Policy Cmte
IEEE
Mina Hanna is the Chair of the IEEE-USA Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems Policy Committee, the current Co-Chair of the Policy Committee of the IEEE Standards Association’s Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and the current Vice Chair of the IEEE-USA Research and Development Policy Committee. He serves as Editor of the Science Policy Column and member of the editorial board of IEEE Computer magazine. He is also a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology and IEEE TechEthics and is a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum.
Mina is also a senior software consultant at Synopsys, Inc. Prior to joining Synopsys, he worked for 6 years at Intel Corporation in the Platform Engineering Group on the Intel Atom Processors and SOCs, having contributed to 10+ design tapeouts. Mina received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. His research interest lies in evaluating the impact of artificial intelligence, autonomous & intelligent systems and disruptive technologies on public safety, national security, responsible governance and social inclusion, and in exploring the political economy and policies surrounding the development of AI.

ADRIEN GAIDON
Machine Learning Lead
Toyota Research Institute


ADRIEN GAIDON
Machine Learning Lead
Toyota Research Institute
Adrien Gaidon is the Machine Learning Lead at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Los Altos, CA, USA. Adrien is working on open research problems in world-scale learning for automated driving, especially self-supervised learning and other techniques to go beyond supervised learning. He received his PhD from Microsoft Research – Inria Paris in 2012 and has over a decade of experience in academic and industrial Computer Vision, with over 40 publications, top entries in international Computer Vision competitions, multiple best reviewer awards, international press coverage for his work on Deep Learning with simulation, and was a guest editor for the International Journal of Computer Vision. You can find him on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrien-gaidon-63ab2358/) and Twitter (@adnothing).

PRAKHAR MEHROTRA
Senior Director, Machine Learning
Walmart


PRAKHAR MEHROTRA
Senior Director, Machine Learning
Walmart

TOBIAS REES
Founding Director, Transformations of the Human Program, Berggruen Institute;
Reid Hoffman Professor of Humanities, The New School
The New School


TOBIAS REES
Founding Director, Transformations of the Human Program, Berggruen Institute;
Reid Hoffman Professor of Humanities, The New School
The New School
Tobias Rees is Founding Director of the Transformations of the Human program at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles; Reid Hoffman Professor at Parsons/the New School in New York; and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Previously he held positions at the University of Zurich/Switzerland and at McGill University in Montreal/Canada, where he served as William Dawson Chair.
He holds degrees in philosophy (Heidelberg/Germany); anthropology (Berkeley/USA); and neurobiology (Paris/France).
Rees is a globally recognized expert on the history of thought – on how the categories that silently structure our ways of thinking and doing emerged and changed over time.
His research focuses on how events –– the sudden or slow and accumulative emergence of the unanticipated –– undermine such categories of though and transform the previously taken for granted into questions no one has answers for.
More specifically, he is interested in how such events reconfigure or render obsolete the categories of the human, of nature, and of technology.
Alone and together with colleagues Rees has sought to build new conceptual and institutional possibilities for rendering visible the philosophical, aesthetic, and political stakes of contemporary technology and science.
He has worked as advisor to many North American and European Universities on how to re-invent the human sciences and has collaborated with curators and museums around the world.
Rees has a long-standing history of working with artists.

CRAIG MARTELL
Head of Machine Learning
Dropbox


CRAIG MARTELL
Head of Machine Learning
Dropbox
Craig Martell is the Head of Machine Intelligence at Dropbox. Prior to joining Dropbox, he led a number of AI teams and initiatives at LinkedIn, including the development of the LinkedIn AI Academy. Before LinkedIn, Craig was a tenured computer science professor at the Naval Postgraduate School specializing in natural-language processing (NLP). He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is the co-author of the MIT Press book Great Principles of Computing.

DR SUJOY KAR
Chief Medical Information Officer & Vice President
Apollo Hospitals


DR SUJOY KAR
Chief Medical Information Officer & Vice President
Apollo Hospitals
Dr Sujoy Kar is the Chief Medical Information Officer & Vice President at Apollo Hospitals. Previously, he was the Director Medical Services at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals Kolkata. He obtained his post graduate MD in Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Disease and is an alumnus of MIT Sloan School of Management (EPGM). He is a Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt (Indian Statistical Institute) and member of professional organisations like ACHE, VRARA (Member – Healthcare Sub Committee), CHIME, Harvard Square (LE) and very recently was selected as Member Task Group for Centre for Innovation for BioMedical Design (CIBioD) – a joint initiative of ICMR and PGIMER Chandigarh.
Sujoy is currently associated with IIT Kharagpur & IIM Calcutta as Adjunct Professor for Healthcare Analytics and Management. He has led teams in multiple award winning Patient Safety & Process Improvement projects. His current and ongoing research interests are in adoption of Clinical Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare setting, Living Labs, Digital Health Platforms and Design Thinking in Healthcare.

JANA NOVOHRADSKA
AI Consultant to Deputy Prime Minister's Office of Slovakia;
Gender Equality Rapporteur CAHAI Council of Europe


JANA NOVOHRADSKA
AI Consultant to Deputy Prime Minister's Office of Slovakia;
Gender Equality Rapporteur CAHAI Council of Europe
Jana is a consultant for the Slovakian Government, Deputy Prime Ministers Office, on two agendas, AI and Women in Digital. She was appointed a Gender Equality Rapporteur for CAHAI, and has a legal and technical background.
She focuses on work related to AI regulatory frameworks within Council of Europe, the European Commission and the domestic Slovakian regulatory framework. She collaborated on Slovakian Digitalisation Strategy 2030 together with the Action plan focused on measures targeting design and deployment of artificial intelligence. These two documents came into effect mid-2020.
Prior to this, Jana’s most recent work in private sector was leading work on a rulebook of Robotics Process Automation (RPA) governance within a tier 1 investment bank within their technical architecture team, and establishing comparison and feasibility study on RPA vs. RDA implementation in large legacy technology stacks corporate environments. A designed instance of RPA and deployed into production environment became a software robot which can be used across multiple industries, and thanks to process engineering and AI functions, like Optical Character Recognition, automates repetitive and manual error prone mundane human tasks.
Jana’s extra curriculum work has involved setting up coding weekends for girls at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, and volunteering for CodeFirst:Girls London General course. She is passionate about activities promoting and supporting girls and women in their interests and uptake of STEM related fields of study and career.

YVES BOUSSEMART
Head of QuantumBlack Canada
QuantumBlack


YVES BOUSSEMART
Head of QuantumBlack Canada
QuantumBlack

BRIAN CANTWELL SMITH
Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human
University of Toronto


BRIAN CANTWELL SMITH
Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human
University of Toronto
Brian Cantwell Smith is Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human, as well as being Professor of Information, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and a Senior Fellow at Massey College.
Smith holds BS, MS and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1981 to 1996 he was a Principal Scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He was a founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University (CSLI), a founder and first President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and President (1998-99) of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP). From 1996 to 2001 he was Professor of Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Philosophy at Indiana University, and from 2001 to 2003 was Kimberly J. Jenkins University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and New Technologies and professor in the departments of Philosophy and Computer Science at Duke University.
Smith moved to the University of Toronto in 2003, initially to serve as Dean of the Faculty of Information (2003–2008).

DAN BAKER
Executive Director, Customer Experience Product Management
Comcast Cable


DAN BAKER
Executive Director, Customer Experience Product Management
Comcast Cable
As Executive Director of CX Product Management for Comcast, Dan oversees the strategic planning and roadmap development for the Xfinity Assistant – Comcast’s virtual assistant, which uses machine intelligence and natural language understanding to deliver informed, personalized customer service solutions while reducing cost and increasing efficacy.
Prior to Comcast, Dan worked in Amazon’s Kindle group where he developed the innovative KDP Select program for independent authors and publishers. He has also served as Partner and President of Absinthe Pictures, the Emmy award-winning marketing production group, where he oversaw operations, business development and shared in creative responsibilities. Dan joined Absinthe Pictures after two years with online film network, IFILM, as VP of Product Development where he ran the company’s strategic planning initiatives, production and creative. During his career before Comcast, he served as the VP of Programming for CNET, where he was part of the founding team and responsible for developing CNET’s slate of television programs and heading their on-air promotions.
Dan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 to receive his MBA from the Wharton School.

ADI ECKHOUSE BARZILAI
Co-Founder & CEO
Realface


ADI ECKHOUSE BARZILAI
Co-Founder & CEO
Realface
Before founding Deeda:DO, a company reinventing the classic board game experience for the DOers of tomorrow using cutting edge technology to reintroduce games that have been proven through history to nurture logic thinking and emotional skill in kids, starting with chess, Adi was the co-founder and CEO of RealFace, a startup company specializing in mobile authentication products using revolutionary face recognition and liveness algorithms. RealFace was acquired in 2017 by the largest US corporation.
In the years before founding Realface, Adi was the VP of Marketing and Business Development at Syneron Beauty and was part of the founding team within Syneron Medical (Nasdaq: ELOS) to open the Home-Use device unit, that later was acquired by Unilever.
Adi is a marketing executive that started her career in brand management at Procter & Gamble. She holds an MBA from Columbia University and a B.Sc. in Computer Science (graduate of the Zell entrepreneurship program) from IDC Herzliya and was also the captain of the IDC Chess team.

JOHN HAVENS
Executive Director, The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
IEEE


JOHN HAVENS
Executive Director, The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
IEEE
John C. Havens is Executive Director of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems that has two primary outputs – the creation and iteration of a body of work known as Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and the recommendation of ideas for Standards Projects focused on prioritizing ethical considerations in A/IS. Currently there are fifteen approved Standards Working Groups in the IEEE P7000™ series.
He is also Executive Director for The Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI) that was created to proliferate the ideals of responsible participant design, data agency and metrics of economic prosperity prioritizing people and the planet over profit and productivity. CXI is a program founded by The IEEE Standards Association and MIT whose members include representatives from the EU Parliament, the UK House of Lords, and dozens of global policy, academic, and business leaders.
Previously, John was an EVP of Social Media at PR Firm, Porter Novelli and a professional actor for over 15 years. John has written for Mashable and The Guardian and is author of the books, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity To Maximize Machines and Hacking Happiness: Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World.

DEVAL PANDYA
Lead Data Scientist - Digital Accelerators
Shell


DEVAL PANDYA
Lead Data Scientist - Digital Accelerators
Shell
Deval is Data Science Lead for Assets and New Energies at Data Science CoE in Shell and one of the 100 Global Future Energy Leaders at World Energy Council. He holds a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Aerospace engineering. He is passionate about the role of digitalization in Energy Transition and is co-founder of Future Energy Lions network in Shell. Deval advises PandataTech, a Houston based startup as a board member and co-leads Data science sub-committee for Houston Exponential. Outside work, he enjoys cooking, traveling and reading.

JEAN-SIMON VENNE
Co-Founder & CTO
BrainBox AI


JEAN-SIMON VENNE
Co-Founder & CTO
BrainBox AI
Jean-Simon Venne is a co-founder and CTO of BrainBox AI. As a technology expert specializing in the fast and efficient migration of technological innovations to commercial applications, Jean-Simon has over 25 years of experience developing and implementing new technology to solve long-standing commercial issues in the fields of telecommunications, biotechnology, and energy-efficiency.
Prior to joining BrainBox AI, he was responsible for the successful integration of M2M technology in over 200 Smart Buildings across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Jean-Simon holds a B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal and a Certificate in Logistics from the University of Georgia Tech.

ALICE XIANG
Head of Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Research,Partnership on AI
Partnership on AI


ALICE XIANG
Head of Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Research,Partnership on AI
Partnership on AI
Alice Xiang is the Head of Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Research at the Partnership on AI, where she leads a team of interdisciplinary researchers. Core areas of her research include bridging technical and legal approaches to algorithmic bias, assessing explainability techniques in deployment, and examining risk assessment tools. Alice’s work sits at the intersection of social justice and AI; she seeks to tackle the ways in which algorithmic decision-making can further entrench societal biases and inequalities.
She recently taught a course on “Algorithmic Fairness, Causal Inference, and the Law” at Tsinghua University’s Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, where she was a Visiting Scholar. She has also given lectures and speeches at events hosted by the AAAS, IEEE, Simons Institute, Harvard Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Tsinghua Statistical Sciences Center, RE•WORK, and others.
Alice’s research has been published in peer-reviewed machine learning conferences, statistics journals, and law reviews. She has also been quoted in Axios, Mercury News, and VentureBeat, among others, for her work on algorithmic bias and transparency, criminal justice risk assessment tools, and the limitations of AI.
Prior to joining PAI, Alice worked as an attorney at Gunderson Dettmer, representing startups and venture capital firms. She has also worked in civil appellate litigation at the Department of Justice, econometrics research at the Federal Reserve, and data science at LinkedIn. Alice holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, a Master’s in Development Economics from Oxford, a Master’s in Statistics from Harvard, and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Harvard.

FIONA MCEVOY
Tech Ethics Researcher/Writer & Founder
YouTheData.com

FIONA MCEVOY
Tech Ethics Researcher/Writer & Founder
YouTheData.com
Fiona J McEvoy is an AI ethics writer, researcher, and thought leader based in San Francisco, CA. She was named one of the 30 Women Influencing AI in San Francisco by RE•WORK and one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics You Should Follow in 2019 and beyond by Lighthouse3.
Fiona is the founder of tech ethics blog, YouTheData.com, and has had numerous articles published in media outlets including Slate, VentureBeat, All Turtles, Chatbots Life, and Becoming Human. She is also regularly asked to present her ideas to AI conferences, most recently speaking to the eWear Symposium at Stanford University, the world’s largest business AI Summit, and the 2019 RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit.
Fiona holds a graduate degree in Philosophy, with a special focus on ethics and technology. Her thesis paper, “Decisions, decisions: Big Data and the Future of Autonomy” has been published by the Annals of the University of Bucharest as part of their series on emerging technology. The research was also presented at Stanford University to the International Association of Computing and Philosophy.
Before returning to study, Fiona spent nearly ten years working as a campaigner, PR and Public Affairs specialist in the UK, dealing with a range of agencies, think tanks, charities and trade associations. She also holds two Bachelor’s degrees in English Lit & Drama and Classical Studies.

ARTASH NATH
Co-Founder
HotPopRobot.com

ARTASH NATH
Co-Founder
HotPopRobot.com
Artash Nath has been working at the interface of space, robotics and artificial intelligence for the last few years. He is interested in deep space exploration and has been applying machine learning models to space challenges, including – predicting risk index of an asteroid collision with Earth and detecting atmospheres of exoplanets using simulated data from space telescopes. His ongoing project is on creating curious and intelligent machines that learn by being placed in an immersive environment. They make efforts to understand cause and effect and are not hesitant to ask “why”.
Artash has presented his projects at several conferences including at the 2020 ARIEL Science Mission and community Conference in the Netherlands, the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in Washington DC, the 2019 Montreal Space Symposium, and the 2018 Toronto Machine Learning Summit. He regularly participates in Kaggle and citizen science challenges on astronomy and machine learning. Artash was the winner of NASA Space Apps Challenge Toronto 2018, 2017, 2014, and the 2017 Jesse Ketchum Award of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada for his astronomical equipment related to Solar Eclipse. In 2014, he co-founded his organization: HotPopRobot.com to bring space and astronomy education to the next generation.

RAUL POPA
CEO, Co-Founder & Data Scientist
TypingDNA


RAUL POPA
CEO, Co-Founder & Data Scientist
TypingDNA

ISABELLA GRANDIC
Program Success Manager and Activator
The Knowledge Society


ISABELLA GRANDIC
Program Success Manager and Activator
The Knowledge Society
Isabella is on a mission to leverage tech to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. She’s an activator at The Knowledge Society, and olympic level training program for problem solvers. She focuses on food and housing innovations. She’s an advisor for Aleph Farms, and has worked on food and biotechnology projects. Her other passion for the future of living lead her to work with organizations like Sidewalk Labs and IKEA. She studies, and builds projects with emerging technologies like 3D printing, gene-editing and Artificial Intelligence.

ALEXANDRE ALLE
Advanced Analytics Specialist
IBM


ALEXANDRE ALLE
Advanced Analytics Specialist
IBM
As an Advanced Analytics Specialist, Alexandre helps organizations in Quebec and in the federal government to solve their business issues by using Data Science and AI.
Spécialisé en analytique évoluée, Alexandre aide les organisations au Québec ainsi qu’au gouvernement fédéral à résoudre leurs problèmes d’affaires par l’utilisation des sciences des données et de l’intelligence artificielle.

STEVEN GREEN
Senior Information Management Technical Specialist, IBM
IBM


STEVEN GREEN
Senior Information Management Technical Specialist, IBM
IBM
An analytics and information software technical specialist, Steven holds a degree in computer science, a master’s degree in Business Administration, and over 20 years of experience in information management, integration, quality and governance initiatives. With extensive skills in information management strategies, Steven creates successful solutions across hybrid deployments, and varying architectures collaboratively with Enterprise Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Data Management and Infrastructure teams.
Spécialiste technique en logiciel et analytique de l’information, Steven détient un diplôme en informatique et une maîtrise en administration des affaires, possèdant plus de 20 ans d’expérience en initiatives de gestion, intégration, qualité et gouvernance de l’information. Grâce à ses compétences étendues en stratégies de gestion de l’information, il crée des solutions efficaces destinées à des déploiements hybrides et différentes architectures, en collaboration avec les équipes d’architecture d’entreprise, d’intelligence d’entreprise, de sciences des données, de gestion des données et d’infrastructure.

PABLO DAVALOS
Director of Data Science
Kueski


PABLO DAVALOS
Director of Data Science
Kueski
Pablo Dávalos is in charge of developing data-based intelligence to automate and streamline processes such as credit or fraud risk assessment, generating an optimal offering for clients, ensuring resource optimization in the collections process, among other responsibilities.
Pablo is convinced that cutting-edge science and technology can generate a positive impact on Mexico. He is thrilled to see that Kueski is driving this change through its financial product offering. He was part of the team that won the Datatlón, an event organized by Epicentro and the Government of Zapopan, in 2014. Furthermore, Pablo is a member of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT).
Pablo has a major in Mathematics by the Universidad de Guadalajara. He also has a masters by the Center for Mathematical Research (CIMAT), which is located in Guanajuato, and a PhD in Mathematics by the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Additionally, he was part of a research stay at the University of Paris VI in France, and at the Technische Universität in Dresden, Germany. Pablo spent a Post-PhD research sojourn at the Universidad de São Paulo in Brazil.

MARI JOLLER
Founder & CEO
Snackable AI


MARI JOLLER
Founder & CEO
Snackable AI

PASCAL WEINBERGER
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer
Augustus AI


PASCAL WEINBERGER
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer
Augustus AI
Pascal Weinberger is an AI researcher and entrepreneur. He started his career working at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience, building algorithms that more closely mimic the human brain. Subsequently, he joined Google Brain as an engineer on a number of the company’s AI projects. After then founding and successfully exiting a company operating in the AgTech space, he moved to Telefonica Alpha, where he founded and led the company’s AI team. Most recently, Weinberger co-founded Augustus Intelligence to create the products and services that will be necessary to bring scalable AI to enterprise environments. He is currently based in New York and is also actively investing and advising various AI companies as a venture partner in a deep tech AI fund and personally

GREGORY DUDEK
Professor, School of Computer Science, James McGill Chair, McGill University;
VP Research & Lead Samsung AI Center Montreal


GREGORY DUDEK
Professor, School of Computer Science, James McGill Chair, McGill University;
VP Research & Lead Samsung AI Center Montreal
Gregory Dudek is Lab Head and VP Research at the Samsung AI Center Montreal. He is also a Chaired Professor at McGill University’s School of Computer Science (on leave of absence), a member of the McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) and an Associate member of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering. From 2008-2016 he was the Director of the McGill School of Computer Science. He is the former Scientific Director of the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN) and is the director of its successor the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network. He is also the former Director of McGill’s Research Center for Intelligent Machines, a 25-year-old inter-faculty research facility. In 2008, he was made James McGill Chair. In 2010 he was awarded the Fessenden Professorship in Science Innovation. In 2010, he was also awarded the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Award for Research Excellence and also for Service to the Research Community. In 2019 he was the General Chair of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. He is co-author of over 250 refereed scientific publications.

YANNICK MENECEUR
Policy Advisor on Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence
The Council of Europe


YANNICK MENECEUR
Policy Advisor on Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence
The Council of Europe
Yannick Meneceur is a French judge, seconded to the Council of Europe, assigned as an advisor in digital transformation and artificial intelligence. He is also an associate researcher at the IHEJ (Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice) and a former student of the IRA (Institut Regional d’Administration – specialised in computer science). As a magistrate, he has carried out criminal functions, particularly in the fight against cybercrime and counterfeiting. He also managed a major national IT project at the Ministry of Justice. At the Council of Europe, he contributed to the comparative analysis of European judicial systems and developed an expertise in digital transformation, in particular with regard to the regulation of artificial intelligence. Occasional speaker at the School of Judiciary (Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature) and the University of Strasbourg, he is also a member of the scientific councils of the digital poles of the Club des Juristes and the PRESAJE Institute.

HAYDAR TALIB
Cloud and AI Product Manager- Security and Biometrics
Nuance Communications


HAYDAR TALIB
Cloud and AI Product Manager- Security and Biometrics
Nuance Communications
Haydar has been with Nuance Communications for nearly 10 years, where he became an expert in applied AI technologies for speech and language processing, as well as biometrics for authentication and fraud prevention. Haydar is a leader in the adoption of biometrics systems by enterprise organizations, ensuring that these systems are set up and deployed to surpass business objectives and help secure people’s identities. He has worked directly with many of the world’s largest financial institutions, telco providers, and companies in other industries.
Haydar is also the inventor of ConversationPrint – a new, AI-based biometric capability that analyzes people’s use of language towards improving authentication and increasing security in voice or written interactions.
He holds a Biomedical Engineering PhD from the University of Bern, specializing in Medical Image Analysis and surgical technologies.

MATT GALVIN
Global Vice President, Ethics & Compliance
Anheuser-Busch InBev


MATT GALVIN
Global Vice President, Ethics & Compliance
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Matt Galvin is the Global Vice President of Ethics and Compliance for AB InBev, the world’s leading brewer. Matt’s team covers anti-corruption, competition, litigation, sanctions, anti-money laundering, data privacy, human rights and internal investigations. He is recognized as a leader in the application of data analytics to solve compliance problems and streamline compliance systems and processes. Matt is a New York and Hong Kong qualified lawyer who spent ten years in private practice before joining AB InBev in 2015.

RAMPRAKASH RAMAMOORTHY
Product Director AI
ManageEngine


RAMPRAKASH RAMAMOORTHY
Product Director AI
ManageEngine

COLLEEN MCDOWELL
Associate Partner, Cognitive Process Transformation, IBM Services
IBM SERVICES


COLLEEN MCDOWELL
Associate Partner, Cognitive Process Transformation, IBM Services
IBM SERVICES
Colleen McDowell is an experienced Associate Partner in Cognitive Process Transformation. She is focused on helping clients build solutions that leverage cognitive solutions including AI + Analytics, Data Platforms, Automation. She has a strong proven record in project management, operations management, global delivery, IT strategy and PMO services. Ms. McDowell is actively involved in mentoring programs, PMI certified, and is passionate about supporting both the IBM LGBTA Employee Diversity Network Group Advisory Committee and the IBM Mental Wellness Executive Advisory Committee.

DANNY TARLOW
Adjunct Professor in Computer Science, McGill University; Associate Member, Mila Quebec AI Institute; Research Scientist, Google Brain
Google Brain


DANNY TARLOW
Adjunct Professor in Computer Science, McGill University; Associate Member, Mila Quebec AI Institute; Research Scientist, Google Brain
Google Brain
Danny is a Research Scientist at Google Brain in Montreal, Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at McGill University, and an Associate Member of the Mila Quebec AI Institute. His research interests are in the application of machine learning to problems involving highly structured data, with a particular interest in the intersection of machine learning and programming languages. He holds a Ph.D. from the Machine Learning group at the University of Toronto.
Previously Danny was a Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge UK and Research Fellow at University of Cambridge. His work has appeared broadly in the press (NPR Morning Edition, TechCruch, Wired, VentureBeat, Slate, Quartz) and has won awards at several conferences, including a Best Paper award at NeurIPS.

FLORIAN MARTIN-BARITEAU
Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section & Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society
University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society


FLORIAN MARTIN-BARITEAU
Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section & Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society
University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society
Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is an Assistant Professor of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, the Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and the Scientific Director of the AI + Society Initiative. As a legal scholar, his research focuses on Technology and Intellectual Property Law; with a special interest in Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Secrets and Whistleblowers.

FRANCOIS-WILLIAM CROTEAU
Borough Mayor – Rosemont La Petite-Patrie & Executive Committee, City of Montreal
City of Montreal


FRANCOIS-WILLIAM CROTEAU
Borough Mayor – Rosemont La Petite-Patrie & Executive Committee, City of Montreal
City of Montreal
François Croteau completed his bachelor’s degree in history, art history and sociology at the Université de Montréal. He continued his studies at ESG-UQAM, where he received an MBA in 2007, and a doctorate in urban studies in 2017 under the supervision of Pierre Delorme. His thesis focused on the urban governance of Montréal and the management of stakeholders.
He was first elected as Mayor of the borough Rosemont− La Petite-Patrie in 2009, and was re-elected in 2013 and 2017. He is known for his innovative environmental policies, particularly in the areas of urban agriculture, sustainable transportation, urban planning and effective management of public services. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the City of Montréal, responsible for Information Technologies, Innovation, Smart City and Higher Education.

JONATHAN DION
Senior Technical Evangelist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)


JONATHAN DION
Senior Technical Evangelist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jonathan Dion is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services focusing on machine learning, serverless and architecture. In this role, he helps customers discover AWS services along with emerging technologies and industry developments by delivering presentations, developing and running product demos and leading discussions.
With more than 12 years of IT industry experience, Jonathan has worked across broad technology areas including cloud, application architecture and development, security and networking. He started at AWS by helping customers develop and optimize their cloud application as part of the Solutions Architecture team. Realizing his passion for sharing knowledge in technology, he joined the AWS Training team to develop the skills of thousands of customers on machine learning, architecture, development and security in AWS.

NEAMA DADKHAHNIKOO
Technical Lead
AI XPRIZE


NEAMA DADKHAHNIKOO
Technical Lead
AI XPRIZE

SAEED AGHABOZORGI
Sr. Solutions Architect - Machine Learning Specialist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)


SAEED AGHABOZORGI
Sr. Solutions Architect - Machine Learning Specialist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Saeed Aghabozorgi Ph.D. is senior ML Specialist in AWS, with a track record of developing enterprise level solutions that substantially increase customers’ ability to turn their data into actionable knowledge. He is also a researcher in the artificial intelligence and machine learning field.

SEAN PERRYMAN
Director of Social Impact Policy and Counsel, The Internet Association
The Internet Association


SEAN PERRYMAN
Director of Social Impact Policy and Counsel, The Internet Association
The Internet Association
Sean Perryman is the Director of Social Impact Policy and Counsel at Internet Association. He is responsible for leading IA’s policy efforts around artificial intelligence (AI), diversity, inclusion, and immigration-related policies at the local, state, and federal level.
Prior to joining IA, Sean served as Counsel on the House Oversight Committee, Democratic staff where he conducted investigations and advised on technology policy including AI, cybersecurity, and privacy issues. Before working on the Oversight Committee, Sean practiced civil litigation both in Texas and D.C.
Sean is passionate about issues of equity and inclusion. He serves on the FCC’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment. Outside of work, he is the President of the Fairfax County NAACP–the youngest President in the branch’s 101-year history. He also regularly writes about issues related to race, policy, and equity.
Sean earned his B.A. from City University of New York- Baruch College. He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.

ZEMFIRA KHISAEVA
Vice President, Technology and Enterprise Strategy
Scotiabank


ZEMFIRA KHISAEVA
Vice President, Technology and Enterprise Strategy
Scotiabank

ANDREW DONISAN
Sr Manager AI Platform, Bell Canada
Bell Canada


ANDREW DONISAN
Sr Manager AI Platform, Bell Canada
Bell Canada
Everyone knows that AI decision making is important, but how do we support data scientists and AI models to ensure accurate data is available at the right time to make the correct decisions? Andrew is a Business Solution Architect and a member of Bell Canada’s IT team. He leads an AI/ML infrastructure team with the goal of building an end-to-end AI/ML enterprise platform to facilitate development and operationalization of AI models. This platform will bring together historical and real-time data to support AI decision making, and support transparency and accountability.

CARINA DE PELLEGRIN
Senior Legal Counsel - Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)


CARINA DE PELLEGRIN
Senior Legal Counsel - Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Carina practises in all areas of intellectual property litigation, with a focus on IP litigation and applications under the Patented Medicines Notice of Compliance Regulations. She has an in-depth knowledge of Canadian administrative law and practice, including judicial review.
Carina’s background in computer engineering allows her to be of particular assistance to technology clients in patent, copyright and intellectual property licensing matters.
She has appeared before the Trademarks Opposition Board, the Federal Court, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the Federal Court of Appeal.
Carina served for two terms as a Tribunal Member for the Military Grievances External Review Committee, adjudicating disputes in the federal government context.
Prior to her legal career, she was an aeronautical engineering officer with the Canadian Forces and an engineering contracting officer and project manager for the Department of National Defence.
Carina is fluent in English and French

ETIENNE PLANTE-DUBE
Director Advanced Analytics, Desjardins
Desjardins


ETIENNE PLANTE-DUBE
Director Advanced Analytics, Desjardins
Desjardins
Étienne is an actuary who spent most of his career in property and casualty insurance, doing pricing and research initiatives. At the turn of the millennium, he quickly realized the potential of predictive models and machine learning to improve his work. At Desjardins General Insurance Group, he founded the Modelling and Research Excellence Center to develop AI applications in Marketing, Distribution, Claims and Underwriting functions. In 2018, he took the role of Director Advanced Analytics at Desjardins Group the largest cooperative financial institution in Canada. Étienne leads a team of more than 25 data scientists to deliver machine learning initiatives which provide fresh customer insights to better serve the needs of Desjardins members and clients and contribute to improving the economic and social well-being of people and communities.

JAY STANLEY
Senior Policy Analyst, ALCU
ALCU


JAY STANLEY
Senior Policy Analyst, ALCU
ALCU
Jay Stanley is Senior Policy Analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, where he follows new technologies and helps the organization anticipate, explain, and reduce their potential impact on our privacy, free speech and other civil liberties.
Stanley has authored and co-authored hundreds of blog posts as well as a variety of influential ACLU reports and policy papers on new and emerging technologies, most recently “The Dawn of Robot Surveillance” on the implications of AI video analytics. Stanley is also an experienced media strategist and spokesperson who regularly appears on and is quoted in major broadcast and print outlets.
Before joining the ACLU in 2001, Stanley was an analyst at the technology research firm Forrester, where he focused on Internet related policies, including online privacy, taxation, and antitrust issues. Before that he did graduate work in 20th century American History at UVA, worked as a newswriter and editor for a New York publishing company, and held several technology-oriented jobs. He is a graduate of Williams College and holds an M.A. in American History from the University of Virginia.

MONA WANG
Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation


MONA WANG
Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mona Wang is a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
fighting for Internet security and against corporate and government
surveillance. She maintains encryption projects promoting and explaining
Internet security technologies like STARTTLS Everywhere and Certbot, the
official Let’s Encrypt client. She also consults on impact litigation
and technology policy initiatives.
As the technical advisor on EFF’s AI and algorithmic decision-making
working group, Mona fights against the deployment of poorly designed
technologies that threaten to entrench societal inequities. She also
researches the spread of censorship and surveillance technologies across
the world as a member of EFF’s International policy working group.
Mona has a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, where she
researched computer security and distributed systems.

ELEONORA VELLA
Program Director& Principal Scientist, TandemLaunch
TandemLaunch


ELEONORA VELLA
Program Director& Principal Scientist, TandemLaunch
TandemLaunch
TandemLaunch is a unique startup foundry and seed fund based in Montreal, that works with driven entrepreneurs to turn research from the world’s best universities into exceptional technology companies. Their portfolio includes a mix of hardware and software companies with high value offerings in the fields of artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, video processing, advanced sensors, computer vision, and audio technology. Eleonora joined TandemLaunch in 2015 to help talented entrepreneurs turning cutting edge research into consumer technology products. As Program Director, Eleonora manages TandemLaunch Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, where she supports and guides entrepreneurs into their journey into the foundry, from their venture ideation to their graduation from the program. A scientist at heart, Eleonora is an experimental physicist and holds a PhD in Physics.

SASHA LUCCIONI
Director of Scientific Projects and Postdoctoral Researcher
Mila AI Institute


SASHA LUCCIONI
Director of Scientific Projects and Postdoctoral Researcher
Mila AI Institute
Dr. Sasha Luccioni is researcher working on AI for Humanity initiatives at the Mila AI institute, using Machine Learning to propose and develop solutions for key problems in areas such as the environment, health, education and ethics and bias.
Sasha got her PhD in Cognitive Computing from UQAM university in 2018, developing an Intelligent Tutoring System for language learning. After spending two years working in applied AI research, specifically in applying Deep Learning in industries such as customer service and banking, she decided to dedicate her skills in AI to making a difference in the world, joining Mila as a postdoctoral researcher in early 2019.
Since then, she has worked on research projects spanning Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing, in areas such as Climate Change awareness and education, as well as ethics and health. She has co-organized and participated in many conferences and workshops. She is also highly involved in community initiatives, serving on the Research and Policy Committee of Women in Machine Learning (WiML), as Chair of Content for Climate Change AI, and on the Advisory board of Kids Code Jeunesse.

ASHLEY CASOVAN
Executive Director, AI Global
AI Global


ASHLEY CASOVAN
Executive Director, AI Global
AI Global
Ashley is an engaged and innovative leader who has always had a deep interest in advancing the public good. Recently leaving her long-standing career in the public service where she was last Director of Data and Digital for the Government of Canada, she has now taken on the role of Executive Director of AI Global, a non-profit dedicated to creating practical tools to ensure the responsible use of AI. Throughout her career she has worked at the intersection of innovative technology and data, and its impact on providing better information and services.

AMANDA PARKER
Vice President Innovation, FundThrough
FundThrough


AMANDA PARKER
Vice President Innovation, FundThrough
FundThrough

ASHEE SARIN
Firm Director - Artificial Intelligence & Greenhouse, Deloitte Canada
Deloitte Canada


ASHEE SARIN
Firm Director - Artificial Intelligence & Greenhouse, Deloitte Canada
Deloitte Canada
Ashee is the Regional Market Leader for Omnia AI – Deloitte’s Artificial Intelligence practice. She also heads the Montreal Greenhouse program, an immersive think thank that helps clients to resolve complex business challenges, fast.
For over 17 years, Ashee has helped hundreds of clients and executives to drive innovation, strategic transformation and to integrate emerging technologies in an era of constant flux.
As a leader for AI, she is passionate about bridging the gap between the science and the business needs while bringing to bear the combined talent of the Global firm. Devoted to helping clients and the Montreal ecosystem be world class in the field of AI, she works with cross-functional teams to separate the hype from the practical, to develop transformational journeys that are aligned to long-term business goals, and to bring Deloitte Cognitive Advantage value to the industry.

AUDREY BOGUCHWAL
Senior Product Manager, Samasource
Samasource


AUDREY BOGUCHWAL
Senior Product Manager, Samasource
Samasource
Currently a Senior Product Manager at Samasource, Audrey guides cross-functional teams to create thoughtful product solutions. She has guided teams of designers and engineers at HUGE Inc. and NBCUniversal, and monitored user analytics at the Wall Street Journal. With a BA in history from Harvard, an MA in anthropology from Columbia and an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill KFBS, Audrey is passionate a using technology and data analytics facilitate social impact and environmental solutions through technology.

CAITRIN ARMSTRONG
CTO, Aifred Health
Aifred Health


CAITRIN ARMSTRONG
CTO, Aifred Health
Aifred Health
Caitrin holds a BA&Sc in Cognitive Science and an MSc in Computer Science, both from McGill University. She has extensive expertise in applying computational techniques to new domains with complex human data, including work in software development for mental health, and as a researcher in computational social science. She is thrilled to put this knowledge to work and lead Aifred’s development efforts to produce a revolutionary evidence-based AI tool.

CARA JONES
Co-Founder & CEO, Marinus Analytics
Marinus Analytics


CARA JONES
Co-Founder & CEO, Marinus Analytics
Marinus Analytics
CEO and Co-Founder of Marinus Analytics, Cara is passionate about high tech implementations that maximize the efficiency, and by extension, impact, of agencies. She has managed the commercialization of Marinus Analytics’s Traffic Jam software from its research incubation at Carnegie Mellon University to its operational role in supporting law enforcement throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Traffic Jam is a digital policing tool which aids investigations into sex trafficking, organized crime, and missing persons cases. She has a wealth of experience ranging from computer engineering, social entrepreneurship, and best practices for victim-centered policing.

Cesar Fetiveau
Territory Account Manager, Qumulo
Qumulo


Cesar Fetiveau
Territory Account Manager, Qumulo
Qumulo
For 15 years Cesar has been helping organizations of all sizes embrace Digital Transformation, enabling them to achieve business outcomes and reach their full potential through technology, while reducing cost and complexity. Prior to joining Qumulo, he worked at Rubrik and Dell EMC in Canada, at Lenovo in France and at Hewlett-Packard in Switzerland, giving him a very good understanding of the IT industry. Cesar is based out of Montreal and supports the province of Quebec at Qumulo.

DEREK REOBERTI
VP of Technology, Cognigy
Cognigy


DEREK REOBERTI
VP of Technology, Cognigy
Cognigy
As the VP of Technology at Cognigy, Derek delivers insights and understanding of Conversational AI and Chatbots as the next level of Automation. For the past 15 years, Derek has focused on bringing innovation to the enterprise, a place where it doesn’t easily fit. He uniquely combines a passion for technology with an honest dialog about its possibilities and limitations in real-world organizational contexts. Derek graduated with a PhD and JD from Stanford University and immediately entered the technology industry, working with startups from initial funding through public offerings and acquisition.

EVAN HENRY
Co-Founder, Nectar Technologies
Nectar Technologies


EVAN HENRY
Co-Founder, Nectar Technologies
Nectar Technologies
Evan is Nectar’s co-founder and Chief Science Officer. He holds MSc. in Bioresource Engineering from McGill University, where he prototyped beehive sensor networks in Dr. Adamchuk’s precision agriculture lab. Before Nectar, Evan interned at NASA developing machine learning drought prediction models. At Nectar, Evan oversees all model development, research and development activities and collaborations, as well as manages Nectar’s 10 beehives.

JOANA BAPTISTA
Teen Entrepreneur, Tech Enthusiast and Youth Engagement, InspiredMinds
InspiredMinds


JOANA BAPTISTA
Teen Entrepreneur, Tech Enthusiast and Youth Engagement, InspiredMinds
InspiredMinds
18-year-old founder of three startups, tech podcast and economics magazine, Joana is a social entrepreneur and public speaker, all whilst studying towards her Economics & Management Degree at the University of Oxford. Her social enterprise, She Dot, works to reverse social prejudice and bridge the socio-economic gap for young women through a series of children’s picture books reaching over 15 countries and having received key endorsements from the likes of Peter Tatchell and Miriam Margolyes OBE. Her knowledge of young people has led to her becoming an advisor for the Institute for the Future of Work, which is formed within the House of Commons, and was fully funded by the US embassy to attend a female leadership and empowerment conference hosted by Harvard, Babson and Converse. Joana is a 2-time TEDx speaker, with other notable talks including speaking at Facebook’s International Women’s Day 2018, for both Oxford and Cambridge University, and to HRH Princess Anne. She is humbled to be the winner of several awards including the WeAreTheCity Rising Stars Entrepreneur & Startups Award, InspiringJuniors 2018, Women in Tech Most Promising Junior 2018, and the youngest ever recipient of the Women of the Future Young Star Award.

PASCAL FILION
Systems Architect, Qumulo
Qumulo


PASCAL FILION
Systems Architect, Qumulo
Qumulo
Pascal Filion brings more than 20 years of Systems Architecture experience in high performance production environments. Prior to Qumulo, Pascal was the CIO of Moment Factory, where he helped redefine the future of Content Creation workflows and Information Management strategy. Before joining Moment Factory, Pascal led the IT infrastructure renaissance at the National Film Board of Canada.

YANG WANG
CTO, Element Inc
Element Inc


YANG WANG
CTO, Element Inc
Element Inc
Yang Wang is the CTO of Element, focusing on the research and development of deep learning and computer vision technology for mobile-based digital identity solutions. He holds a Ph.D. (Stony Brook University) and M.E. (Tsinghua University) in Computer Science. At Siemens Corporate Research, he led a global engineering team to develop learning-based solutions to automate object detection, tracking, and modeling in medical image analysis for improved diagnosis. Prior to that, Dr. Wang conducted his research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop learning-based detection and recognition algorithms in a large interdisciplinary project to facilitate mental health diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Wang published more than 30 publications and served as a referee in multiple top-ranked conferences and journals in the computer vision and machine learning field.

RAMI WEHBE
Co-Founder & CTO, GlobalDWS
GlobalDWS


RAMI WEHBE
Co-Founder & CTO, GlobalDWS
GlobalDWS
Rami Wehbe is the Co-founder and CTO of GlobalDWS (Digital Workplace Solutions) He is a senior technology strategist and program lead with more than 20 years of experience in IT strategy formulation, business strategy transformation, business scenario development, and innovation. He has profound knowledge of service architecture development, IT governance design, new technology evaluation, and IT risk management. Rami holds B.S. Electrical & Electronic Engineering from METU (Turkey), Mini-MBA from McGill University, Master certification in Strategic Leadership & Innovation from York University, as well as technical certifications from Microsoft (43), Cisco, PMI, Harvard and University of Toronto (Rotman)

ALEXIS HANNART
Chief Scientific Officer, Axionable
Axionable


ALEXIS HANNART
Chief Scientific Officer, Axionable
Axionable
Alexis Hannart holds an engineering degree from École Polytechnique Paris (1997), a master’s degree in data science from ENSAE Paris (1999) and a PhD in environmental statistics from Sorbonne University (2010). He joined Axionable in January 2020 as Chief Scientific Officer and partner, for this consulting firm specialized in sustainable AI. He leads all the R&D activities of the company, with the goal to develop innovative, sustainable and relevant AI solutions for businesses, in close collaboration with its customers and academic partners. A data scientist throughout his twenty years career, he has an extensive experience in the innovative application of his expertise to concrete problems originating from various fields. He participated in the design and implementation of data-driven systems aimed at environmental and climatic applications, in risk management, in finance, or in economic intelligence. Having held research positions in the academic sector (CNRS, McGill) as well as the private sector (Capital One), he has an in-depth knowledge of the specific challenges associated to applied research and technology transfer.
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YOSHUA BENGIO
Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research
University of Montreal
YOSHUA BENGIO
Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research
University of Montreal
Yoshua Bengio is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning. Following his studies in Montreal, culminating in a Ph.D. in computer science from McGill University in 1991, Professor Bengio did postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.
Since 1993, Yoshua Bengio has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the Université de Montréal. In addition to holding the Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms, he is also the founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence, the world’s largest university-based research group in deep learning. He is also the Scientific Director of IVADO.
His contribution to research is undeniable. In 2018, Yoshua Bengio is the computer scientist who collected the largest number of new citations in the world, thanks to his three reference works and some 500 publications.
His ultimate goal is to understand the principles that lead to intelligence through learning and his research has earned him multiple awards. In 2017, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in addition to receiving the Prix Marie-Victorin and being named Scientist of the Year by Radio-Canada. In 2018, he was also awarded the 50th Anniversary Medal by Quebec’s Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie. These honours reflect the profound influence of his work on the evolution of our society.
Concerned about the social impacts of this new technology, he actively contributed to the development of the Montreal Declaration for Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.
GARY MARCUS
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
New York University
GARY MARCUS
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
New York University
Gary Marcus, scientist, bestselling author, and entrepreneur, was CEO and Founder of the machine-learning startup Geometric Intelligence, recently acquired by Uber, and is known for his provocative and bold claims in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Trained by Steven Pinker, he received his PhD at MIT at age 23. His professional research, published in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence, has focused on the foundations of cognition in humans, animals and machines, spanning fields from developmental psychology to neuroscience to genetics to artificial intelligence. A special interest has been on the challenge of endowing machines with common sense.
He is also well-known for his writing for the general public, including frequent essays and op-eds for The New Yorker and The New York Times. His books include The Algebraic Mind, The Birth of the Mind, Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind, The New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero and The Future of the Brain: Essays By The World’s Leading Neuroscientists.
In a 2012 essay for The New Yorker, he was perhaps the first person to publicly criticize deep learning, drawing on arguments he developed in his 2001 technical book The Algebraic Mind. More recently, in a 2018 arXiv article, Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal, he asked whether deep learning might be “approaching a wall.” The challenges he laid out there were covered everywhere from The New York Times to Wired to The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.
In another provocative 2012 essay, Moral Machines, Marcus was the first to adapt “trolley problems” to driverless cars, anticipating much recent research on the ethics of AI. His next book, REBOOT: Getting to AI We Can Trust, to be published by Pantheon in Fall 2019, co-authored with Ernie Davis, calls for a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to artificial intelligence.
DAPHNE KOLLER
CEO and Founder
insitro
DAPHNE KOLLER
CEO and Founder
insitro
Daphne Koller brings to insitro her many years of experience in the areas of machine learning, statistical modeling, computational biology, and computational medicine. She was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she was hired as the first machine learning professor in 1995 and served on the faculty for 18 years. Her work in machine learning spans a broad range of topics, including probabilistic graphical models, structured prediction, active learning, time series modeling, reinforcement learning, and many more. She was also one of the pioneers in applying machine learning to biomedical data sets and has worked on topics such as reconstruction of regulatory networks, phenotypic effects of genetic variation, and interpretation of microscopy images in cancer. She is the author of over 200 refereed publications appearing in diverse venues such as NIPS, ICML, Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics, and has an h-index of over 120. She is also the author of the leading textbook on Probabilistic Graphical Models.
Daphne co-founded Coursera in 2012, where she served as the company’s Co-CEO until 2014, and then as President until 2016. Coursera is the world’s largest online education platform with over 30 million learners worldwide, and over 150 university partners in six continents. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Coursera Board. Most recently, Daphne served as the Chief Computing Officer at Calico Labs, an Alphabet (Google) company that is using advanced technology to understand aging and design interventions that help people lead longer, healthier lives.
Daphne was recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2012 and Newsweek’s 10 most important people in 2010. She has been honored with multiple awards and fellowships during her career including the Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1996, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2001, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004, and the ACM Prize in Computing in 2008. Daphne was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and of the International Society of Computational Biology in 2017.
CAROLINA BESSEGA
Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder
Stradigi AI
CAROLINA BESSEGA
Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder
Stradigi AI
Carolina can best be described as an established academic with an entrepreneurial mindset, who also happens to have 25+ years of experience in research, development and broad programming.
After obtaining her PhD in fundamental physics from the Universidad de los Andes, she went on to become an award-winning university professor who worked closely with the government of Venezuela to predict everything from avalanches to life-threatening diseases. After teaching computational physics and astrophysics for nearly a decade, she decided to move to Canada, which ultimately led to her rise as Stradigi AI’s Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder in 2017. Since then, she oversees all projects from both a scientific and business perspective, leads her team of 30+ research scientists, works closely with top executives to build relationships with clients and proudly offers guidance and mentoring to students.
Carolina is a member and advocate of the Montreal Artificial Intelligence Ethics group. She is passionate about ensuring that the benefits of AI are democratically available, the prevention of the weaponization and/or malicious use of AI, issues relating to privacy and the quantification and correction of bias in datasets. More recently, her focus has been on interpretability. Her belief in simplifying the way humans can understand the processes in which an algorithm arrives to its predictions is crucial for building trust, gaining executive buy-in and the early adoption of this technology in various industries. Carolina is also actively involved with the Vector Institute which has Dr. Geoffrey Hinton as its Chief Scientific Advisor, a man described as the “Godfather of Deep Learning”. As such, she serves on a panel for the 1000 AIMs initiative reviewing Ontario University programs seeking Vector Institute recognition.
Having conducted extensive AI research since 2002, she is a highly sought-after public speaker and has worked alongside renowned advisors and business pioneers in the industry enabling her to continuously create, innovate and develop new solutions to help organizations with their complex business problems.
HASSAN SAWAF
Director, Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services
HASSAN SAWAF
Director, Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services
Hassan Sawaf has worked in the automatic speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and machine translation fields for 20+ years. In 1999, he cofounded AIXPLAIN AG, a company offering speech recognition and machine translation services to enterprises, before “cloud” was yet a mainstream concept. His startup was acquired by AppTek in 2004, where he served as COO and Chief Scientist till SAIC acquired AppTek’s assets in 2010. Hassan was then Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow in SAIC with focus on Human Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence. In 2013 he joined eBay as senior director and head of AI, growing the Artificial Intelligence capability that is now enabling a large parts of the business. Since September of 2016 he joined Amazon to lead the Applied Science for Amazon AI, building up the science foundations for various AWS AI services.
KATHRYN HUME
Director of Business Development
Borealis AI
KATHRYN HUME
Director of Business Development
Borealis AI
Kathryn Hume
oversees the application of research for RBC’s artificial intelligence institute, helps guide company strategy, and assists in supporting Borealis AI’s brand profile among its audience.
She was previously VP of product and strategy at AI-powered software platform integrate.ai, which has raised $50 million to date, including a $39 million Series A round in September 2018. She was also previously the director of sales and marketing at machine-intelligence research company, Cloudera Fast Forward Labs. Hume frequently speaks and writes about AI and teaches courses on enterprise adoption of AI, law and ethics at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and the University of Calgary.
NAVEEN SINGLA
Data Science Center of Excellence Lead, Crop Science
Bayer
NAVEEN SINGLA
Data Science Center of Excellence Lead, Crop Science
Bayer
Naveen Singla leads the Data Science Center of Excellence for Bayer. His team is passionate about driving better decisions using data and analytics. The Center works to develop strategies and solutions for solving real-world issues, such as food security, by delving into how machines learn structure from data.
Singla has more than a decade of experience finding meaning in data for applications in the areas of biometrics, high-frequency stock trading and agriculture. During his tenure at Bayer, he has served as the director of analytics, where he helped grow the value realized from data science and establish a data-driven mindset by developing strategies, influencing leaders, and implementing solutions for improving food security. Prior to that, Singla led Predictive Analytics and was a strategic scientist working to improve decision-making processes in the R&D pipeline. He also established a learning program and culture for Bayer’s data science community of 500 employees.
Singla holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.
RUSLAN SALAKHUTDINOV
Associate Professor of Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University
RUSLAN SALAKHUTDINOV
Associate Professor of Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University
Ruslan Salakhutdinov received his PhD in machine learning (computer science) from the University of Toronto in 2009. After spending two post-doctoral years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab, he joined the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics. In February of 2016, he joined the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University as an Associate Professor.
Ruslan’s primary interests lie in deep learning, machine learning, and large-scale optimization. His main research goal is to understand the computational and statistical principles required for discovering structure in large amounts of data. He is an action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and served on the senior programme committee of several learning conferences including NIPS and ICML. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Machine Learning, a recipient of the Early Researcher Award, Connaught New Researcher Award, Google Faculty Award, Nvidia’s Pioneers of AI award, and is a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
MARC G BELLEMARE
Research Scientist
Google Brain
MARC G BELLEMARE
Research Scientist
Google Brain
Marc G Bellemare is a research scientist at Google Brain in Montreal, Canada; CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brain Fellow; adjunct professor at McGill University; and was recently awarded a Canada CIFAR AI chair, held at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta where he studied the concept of domain-independent agents and developed the highly-successful Arcade Learning Environment, the platform for AI research on Atari 2600 games. From 2013 to 2017 he was a research scientist at DeepMind where he made major contributions to the field of deep reinforcement learning. He is known for his work on reinforcement learning, including approximate exploration, representation learning, and the distributional method.
JACOMO CORBO
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
QuantumBlack
JACOMO CORBO
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
QuantumBlack
Jacomo Corbo is Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of QuantumBlack, a McKinsey Company. He focuses on the problem of applying AI and other technology to improving the quality and scalability of QuantumBlack’s client delivery. He is passionate about helping organizations adopt AI at scale to radically improve their performance and is responsible for architecting and overseeing work at some of QuantumBlack’s most important clients to ensure they do just that.
Jacomo’s specific focus is on methodological innovations on the most complex challenges that QuantumBlack works on across industries, from manufacturing quality on sparse machine data to price and demand forecasts to pharmacovigilance problems and working capital problems.
Since 2011, Jacomo has served as a Senior Fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
For five years previously, he served as the Canada Research Chair in Information and Performance Management (2011 – 2015). Prior to this, he was a visiting scholar and research fellow in the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School (2008 – 2010). Between 2006 and 2008, Jacomo was the Race Strategist for the Renault F1 Team Ltd. and was subsequently the Chief Race Strategist for the Lotus Renault F1 Team.
Jacomo holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, an S.M. in Applied Mathematics from the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.
JOSE MURILLO
Chief Analytics Officer
Grupo Financiero Banorte
JOSE MURILLO
Chief Analytics Officer
Grupo Financiero Banorte
Jose established and leads the Analytics Business Unit at Banorte –the second largest financial group in Mexico. His group has been recognized as a success story within the data and analytics industry. The value created with analytics on 2018, the third year of operations of his group, exceeded 700 million USD–during his tenure the value created has exceeded 1.7 billion dollars. This case was published at Harvard Business Review as an example of a company which made its analytics investments pay-off (2018). Also, his team obtained the Lafferty Global Award on Credit Card Excellence for the impact of analytics on customer equity (2016). Jose was named among the top analytics and data professionals in North America by Corinium in its first and second edition. He has been published in several industry and refereed journals, he is a frequent speaker at analytics forums and he is a member of Queen’s University Advisory Board for the Masters in Management Analytics.
Prior to Banorte, Jose was a top-ranking official at Mexico’s Central Bank and participated for more than a decade at the Monetary Policy Committee holding the staff’s view on inflation –a key variable for policy decision. Also, he was an advisor to the International Monetary Fund on statistics and led missions to Ecuador and Chile. At the academia he taught economics at Rice University, ITAM and El Colegio de Mexico. He holds a PhD in economics from Rice University and graduated from ITAM (Cum Laude and received national prizes from the Chamber of Commerce and Tlacalel Prize).
HALLIE BENJAMIN
Senior Strategist, Ethical Machine Learning
HALLIE BENJAMIN
Senior Strategist, Ethical Machine Learning
Hallie Benjamin is a Senior Strategist with Google AI, where she had led inclusive product and user testing for fairness. She was also an Assembly Fellow with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and the MIT Media Lab. Her applied research with Assembly focused on empowering startups to responsibly and ethically build, procure, and use advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence.
She has spent the last decade working at the intersection of social justice and business, and is currently pushing for the design and development of inclusive technology that works for everyone. Before joining Google, she spent several years in management consulting where she led cross-functional teams using data visualization to envision the future of business.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Hallie has an MA in Economics and Global Affairs from the Munk School at the University of Toronto, and a BA in Economics and Political Science from McGill University.
MASON VICTORS
CPO and CTO
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
MASON VICTORS
CPO and CTO
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Mason Victors earned his MS in Mathematics from BYU, where he focused on developing new approaches to identifying individuals at-risk for chronic kidney disease. After an internship with the NSA, being unable to decide between becoming a spook or pursuing a PhD he chose the obvious route: join a start-up instead. As part of a small team of data scientists at Red Brain Labs and later Savvysherpa, he developed algorithms to mine unstructured medical records, analyze human behavior through cell phone logs, and simulate complex call centers. Apart from work, he loves spending time with his wife and two daughters.
CONSTANZA GOMEZ MONT
Founder and CEO
C Minds, and AI for Good Lab, Latam
CONSTANZA GOMEZ MONT
Founder and CEO
C Minds, and AI for Good Lab, Latam
Constanza Gomez Mont is interested in achieving an inclusive Fourth Industrial Revolution in emerging countries. This led her to found and direct C Minds (www.cminds.co), an impact technology agency based in San Francisco and Mexico City. From C Minds, Constanza works with governments and institutions in the development of public policy and programs on issues of digital transformation, seeking to enhance the benefits of new technologies in emerging countries. She also leads initiatives to explore the power of technology to accelerate financial innovation, sustainable mobility, safety, health and education, among other issues. Other initiatives that C Minds coordinates, such as the AI for Good Lab, seek to deepen the ethical debate on the social and labor consequences of the technological transformation we are experiencing, particularly in Mexico. C Minds is also collaborating with the Jalisco Government and Tec de Monterrey University to develop a first AI center in Guadalajara as part of a regional network to be built.
Constanza has been a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank and national and local governments. Her work has been recognized in international media and she was named Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, Gifted Citizen by City of Ideas, British Government’s International Leader by the Government of the United Kingdom, winner of the SU Global Impact Challenge in Mexico and a Singularity University GSP graduate, among other recognitions.
LIONEL PIMPIN
Senior Vice President, Digital Channels and P&C Strategies
National Bank of Canada
LIONEL PIMPIN
Senior Vice President, Digital Channels and P&C Strategies
National Bank of Canada
Lionel Pimpin: As Senior Vice President – Digital Channels and P&C Strategies, Lionel Pimpin is in charge of the management, performance and transformation of NBC digital channels. This encompasses defining strategic directions, developing and successfully implementing digital and emerging payments strategies and managing multi-year investment portfolio of digital and self-service channels.
From January 2014 to June 2016, Mr. Pimpin held the position of Vice President – Client Experience, Strategy and Performance, with a mandate to structure, oversee and integrate all strategic and financial planning activities, portfolio management of business initiatives, overall performance in the Marketing, Customer Experience Management and Marketing research sectors.
Recognized for his ability to work in changing environments and specialized in the management of major transformation programs, Mr. Pimpin has a solid background in the service sector through the various roles he has held for 15 years as a managing director of the international
consulting firm, Accenture.
Mr. Pimpin holds a Master’s degree in Business from EDHEC Business School in France and an MSc in Marketing Management from the University of Aston in the United Kingdom.
MINA J.HANNA
Co-Chair IEEE-SA Global Initiative on Ethics of AI Systems’ Policy
IEEE
MINA J.HANNA
Co-Chair IEEE-SA Global Initiative on Ethics of AI Systems’ Policy
IEEE
Mina Hanna is the Chair of the IEEE-USA Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems Policy Committee, the current Co-Chair of the Policy Committee of the IEEE Standards Association’s Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and the current Vice Chair of the IEEE-USA Research and Development Policy Committee. He serves as Editor of the Science Policy Column and member of the editorial board of IEEE Computer magazine. He is also a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology and IEEE TechEthics and is a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum.
Mina is also a senior software consultant at Synopsys, Inc. Prior to joining Synopsys, he worked for 6 years at Intel Corporation in the Platform Engineering Group on the Intel Atom Processors and SOCs, having contributed to 10+ design tapeouts. Mina received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. His research interest lies in evaluating the impact of artificial intelligence, autonomous & intelligent systems and disruptive technologies on public safety, national security, responsible governance and social inclusion, and in exploring the political economy and policies surrounding the development of AI.
ALEJANDRO SAUCEDO
Chief Scientist
The Institute for Ethical AI and Machine Learning
ALEJANDRO SAUCEDO
Chief Scientist
The Institute for Ethical AI and Machine Learning
Alejandro is currently leading the research and development at the Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning as their Chief Scientist. With over 10 years of software development experience Alejandro has held technical leadership positions across hyper-growth scale-ups and tech giants including Eigen Technologies, Bloomberg LP and Hack Partners. Alejandro has a strong track record building departments of machine-learning engineers from scratch, and leading the delivery of large-scale machine learning system across the financial, insurance, legal, transport, manufacturing and construction sectors (in Europe, US and Latin America). Alejandro has given multiple talks at international scientific, technical and business conferences, and has chaired panels & events with government ministers, senior executives and domain experts.
JOLEEN LIANG
Partner
Squirrel AI Learning
JOLEEN LIANG
Partner
Squirrel AI Learning
Joleen Liang is a Partner at Squirrel AI Learning, the leading AI+ education innovator at the forefront of K12 AI revolution. Within 4 years, Squirrel AI Learning has established more than 1,800 learning centers in China and hosted the first series of human-vs-AI competitions in the Asia-Pacific region and proved the AI’s success. Squirrel AI Learning is included in the TOP 20 Chinese artificial intelligence Unicorn companies in 2018.
After joining Squirrel AI Learning, Joleen created the “Squirrel AI” brand and successfully put the brand under the spotlight globally. Joleen is also a founding member of Artificial Intelligence + Adaptive Education (AIAED) Conference, an international conference focusing on important trends emerging from AI technology that applied to next-generation education and how these advances can impact adaptive human learning at scale and in various contexts.
Joleen is also a successful serial entrepreneur who built a number of brands and raised over 100 million RMB. She was a main guest for the famous TV programe “Only you” and “Virtual Business School” of CCTV2. She was invited to speak at EdTech and AI conferences, such as ACM Singapore UMAP, IJCAI, KDD, Tsinghua University in Beijing, Tech Crunch and a number of other conferences. Joleen is an Oxford graduate in Business Management.
MAURICIO MARCOS MERA
CIO
Ministry of Social Development of Chile
MAURICIO MARCOS MERA
CIO
Ministry of Social Development of Chile
Mauricio Marcos Mera is the Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Social Development in Chile and lead the Digital Transformation and Big Data Unit in the Ministry. Previously, he led an Artificial Intelligence Unit for a LATAM consulting firm, developing projects in both the public and private sectors, such as The Ministry of Education, the Tax Office, to name but a few. He holds a Computer Engineer degree and also has a MBA with a specialization in Digital Transformation and Innovation.
RAVIN JESUTHASAN
Author, and Managing Director and Global Practice Leader
Willis Towers Watson
RAVIN JESUTHASAN
Author, and Managing Director and Global Practice Leader
Willis Towers Watson
Ravin Jesuthasan is a recognized global thought leader and author on the future of work and human capital. He has led numerous research efforts on the global workforce, the emerging digital economy, the rise of artificial intelligence and the transformation of work. Ravin has lead numerous research projects for the World Economic Forum including its ground breaking study; Shaping the Future Implications of Digital Media for Society and the recently launched Creating a Shared Vision for Talent in the 4th Industrial Revolution. He is a regular participant and presenter at the World Economic Forum’s annual meetings in Davos and Dalian/Tianjin and is a member of the forum’s Steering Committee on Work and Employment.
Ravin has been a featured speaker on the aforementioned topics at conferences in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America. He has also been featured and quoted extensively by leading business media including CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNBC, Fortune, FT, The Nikkei (Japan), Les Echoes (France), Valor Economico (Brazil), Business Times (Malaysia), Globe and Mail (Canada), South China Morning Post, Dubai One TV and The Australian among others.
He has been recognized as one of the top 25 most influential consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine. He is the author of Transformative HR and Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment. He is also the lead author of the upcoming book Reinventing Jobs, which will be published by Harvard Business Review Press. Ravin has authored over 50 articles including 7 for HBR and his article in the HR People and Strategy Journal entitled Performance Management as a Business Discipline received the 2014 Walker Award for the most original and valuable contribution to the HR profession.
WILL THOMPSON
Publisher, Forbes AI and Managing Director of Thought Leadership
Forbes AI
WILL THOMPSON
Publisher, Forbes AI and Managing Director of Thought Leadership
Forbes AI
Will Thompson is Group Vice President and Managing Director of Forbes Insights, the research and technology analyst practice of Forbes Media, and the Publisher of Forbes AI, a new magazine dedicated to the business and technology of artificial intelligence and machine learning. An expert in the ways technology is transforming business strategy, Mr. Thompson came to Forbes from the Economist Intelligence Unit where he helped advise Global 2000 corporations and venture-backed start-ups on using research to position themselves as thought leaders. Prior to joining the Economist, he served as CEO of a boutique hedge fund communications consulting firm and launched two niche publications. A classically trained operatic singer, Will has a degree in music and a masters of business administration, both from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
JOSHUA PANTONY
Co-Founder and CTO
Maluuba
JOSHUA PANTONY
Co-Founder and CTO
Maluuba
Joshua Pantony was a Co-Founder and CTO at Maluuba, a machine learning company specializing in natural language processing which powered 50 million devices and was later sold to Microsoft. He was also a Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Bloomberg for 4 years spearheading some of their most important initiatives. Today he is the CEO and founder of Boosted.ai a platform for investment managers to add customized, low-cost, high alpha artificial intelligence to their investment decision making process.
JAVIER BARREIRO
CTO of AGESIC
Presidential Agency for e-Government and Information Society of Uruguay
JAVIER BARREIRO
CTO of AGESIC
Presidential Agency for e-Government and Information Society of Uruguay
Javier Barreiro is the Chief Technology Officer and leads the design and implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Digital Government at AGESIC, the Presidential Agency aimed at promoting the development of e-Government and Information Society in Uruguay. Previously, he led the conceptualization and implementation of the Uruguayan Public Software initiative and was in charge of the evolution of the State Interoperability Platform. He holds a Computer Engineer degree awarded by the University of the Republic in Uruguay, with specialization studies in Technology Management and Innovation.
ASHLEY CASOVAN
Director for Data Architecture and Innovation
Government of Canada
ASHLEY CASOVAN
Director for Data Architecture and Innovation
Government of Canada
Ashley Casovan was curious about how new technology has an impact on the delivery of public services and so has worked in progressively challenging positions at all levels of government. Since 2010, she has been actively involved in Canada’s Open Data and Open Government Community both as a community champion and implementer. Her new role as Director of Data Architecture and Innovation at Treasury Board Secretariat, has led her to expand her knowledge and engage others to discover the world of Open. Her passionate and innovative character drives her to help lure in and shine a new light on the world of Digital Government. With ongoing projects relating to GC data strategy, AI policy instruments, AI procurement tools, and Leading Open First initiative, she hopes to bring that same passion to those around the GC.
HAO LIU
Research Scientist at Business Intelligence Lab
Baidu Research
HAO LIU
Research Scientist at Business Intelligence Lab
Baidu Research
Dr Hao Liu is currently working as a research scientist at Business Intelligence Lab, Baidu Research. He is the core member of the intelligent transportation
product of Baidu Maps. His research interests are in the areas of large-scale data mining and big data processing. Hao received his BSc degree from the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2012 and his PhD degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2017, respectively.
FREDDY LECUE
Chief AI Scientist at CortAIx
Thales
FREDDY LECUE
Chief AI Scientist at CortAIx
Thales
Dr Freddy Lecue is the Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scientist at Thales’ cortAIx (Centre of Research and Technology in Artificial Intelligence expertise) site in Montreal, Canada. He is also a research associate in the Web-Instrumented Man-Machine Interactions, Communities and Semantics (WIMMICS) team, at the INRIA institute in Sophia Antipolis, France.
His research team is working at the frontier of learning and reasoning systems, with a strong interest in Explainable AI, referring to AI systems, models and results which can be explained to human and business experts.
Prior to joining the new research and technology lab of Thales dedicated to AI, he was AI R&D Lead at Accenture Labs in Ireland from 2016 to 2018. Prior to joining Accenture, he was a research scientist and lead investigator in large-scale reasoning systems at IBM Research from 2011 to 2016, a research fellow at the University of Manchester from 2008 to 2011 and a research engineer at Orange Labs from 2005 to 2008.
DRAGOS MARGINEANTU
AI Chief Technologist/Technical Fellow
Boeing Research & Technology
DRAGOS MARGINEANTU
AI Chief Technologist/Technical Fellow
Boeing Research & Technology
Dragos Margineantu is the AI Chief Technologist and a Technical Fellow of Boeing Research & Technology. His research interests include robust machine learning, anomaly detection, reasoning and planning for decision systems, human-in-the-loop learning, validation and testing of decision systems, cost-sensitive, active, and ensemble learning.
Dragos was one of the research pioneers in ensemble learning and cost-sensitive learning. At Boeing, he designed and developed machine learning and AI based solutions for airplane maintenance, autonomous systems, surveillance, and design.
Dragos is the Boeing AI lead for the DARPA “Assured Autonomy” program, focusing on robust machine learning techniques for autonomous systems. He also served as PI of DARPA’s “Learning Applied to Ground Robots” and “Bootstrapped Learning” programs.
Dragos serves as the Editor of the Springer book series on “Applied Machine Learning” and as the Action Editor for Special Issues for the Machine Learning Journal (MLj). He serves on the editorial board of both major machine learning journals (MLj and JMLR) and served as senior program committee member of all major machine learning and AI research conferences. He was the chair of the KDD 2015 Industry and Government Track.
Dragos received a Ph.D. in machine learning in 2001 from Oregon State University where he was advised by Tom Dietterich.
KYLE TATE
Senior Data Science Lead
Shopify
KYLE TATE
Senior Data Science Lead
Shopify
Kyle Tate is a senior data science lead at Shopify. He leads the teams responsible for building the data products that power Shopify Capital, Fraud Protect for Shopify Payments and Shopify’s internal risk management. Kyle is interested in taking the ideas and techniques from the pages of machine learning textbooks and papers and bringing them to life in the real world.
ANDY PEART
CMSO
Artificial Solutions
ANDY PEART
CMSO
Artificial Solutions
Andy Peart is CMSO of Artificial Solutions, an international business that “Makes Technology Think,” believing that people should be able to interact with technology intelligently, using their own voice, in their own terminology and across whatever channel they choose. Using a form of AI referred to as ‘Conversational AI’, Artificial Solutions allows people to talk to applications, websites and devices in a human like, intelligent and conversational way. Its Teneo platform enables non-specialists to rapidly build and deploy enterprise strength, conversational applications and deliver customer insight and personalization using conversational data. Andy has over 25 years marketing experience within the IT and natural language industry, successfully helping build innovative, technology driven organizations.
DANIEL MONTEIRO
R&D Leader
TV Globo
DANIEL MONTEIRO
R&D Leader
TV Globo
Daniel Monteiro is an Electronic Engineer from UFRJ and has an MSc. in Digital Signal Processing from Coppe / UFRJ, specializing in the area of video compression as a research topic. He has been working in the Research and Development / Innovation area of TV Globo’s technology since 2000, where he currently serves as the sector manager. In 2002 he worked in the research center of Japanese TV NHK conducting research with the H.264 compression standard, at the standardization stage.
Daniel is passionate about emerging technologies, applied innovation and innovation management, with many years of experience in software development and leadership. Today, he leads an innovation laboratory with a multidisciplinary team that mixes the creativity of product design with the research on new technologies, creating innovative products that solve business problems through digital transformation and disruptive innovation.
DAMIEN TARDIEU
Co-Founder and CEO
Niland
DAMIEN TARDIEU
Co-Founder and CEO
Niland
Damien Tardieu is a machine-learning engineering manager at Spotify. He is working on recommender systems and on ways to improve the Spotify user experience with machine learning. He joined Spotify with the acquisition of Niland, the company he created with Christophe Charbuillet and Johan Pages. Niland was developing and selling a music search and recommendation API based on the analysis of the audio content of music. Before creating the company, Damien was a researcher at IRCAM, a research lab based in Paris, working on machine learning applied to music content analysis. He has a PhD in Music Technology from IRCAM/UPMC in Paris.
ELLIOT TURNER
Founder & CEO
Alchemy API
ELLIOT TURNER
Founder & CEO
Alchemy API
Elliot Turner is a serial entrepreneur and early stage investor who has been building companies for the past 20+ years. Currently CEO of Hologram Communications, Elliot previously founded two other technology companies (both acquired) — one in the artificial intelligence space (AlchemyAPI, acquired by IBM Watson Group, 2015) and the other in the information security space (MimeStar, acquired by ODS Networks, 2000).
As founder and CEO of AlchemyAPI, Elliot created one of the world’s most popular cognitive AI platforms, with over 60,000 developers in 36+ countries and 6 continents using the service, as well as over 200 universities worldwide. AlchemyAPI processed billions of API calls every month, providing natural language understanding, computer vision, and question answering capability to a wide variety of companies across more than one dozen industry verticals. After being acquired by IBM, Elliot ran IBM’s Watson Discovery efforts and was responsible for overseeing product management of the full Watson API portfolio of vision/speech/NLP/translation/conversation products. He also worked with the M&A team to evaluate potential acquisitions and served on IBM’s internal EIR (entrepreneur-in-residence) board.
JONATHAN WARD
Head of Research
Fetch.AI
JONATHAN WARD
Head of Research
Fetch.AI
Jonathan Ward is an innovator, scientist and developer in the fields of complex systems, machine learning and blockchain. He is currently the Head of Research at Fetch.AI where he leads a group of Machine Learning Researchers, Economists, Engineers, Cryptographers and Mathematicians in designing the infrastructure and applications for Fetch’s digital marketplace. These applications include deployment of multi-agent systems in the transportation and energy markets.
Before joining Fetch, Jonathan completed a PhD in Machine Learning at University College London, where he worked on the protein folding problem, which uses techniques from statistical physics, machine learning and sequence evolution to understand how long polymers fold into a well-defined three-dimensional structure. These technologies were successful at international competitions. This was followed by research positions in Academia and industry where he was involved in applying machine learning algorithms to time-series and machine vision problems.
DR GEOFF BENTON
Director, Health R&D
23andMe
DR GEOFF BENTON
Director, Health R&D
23andMe
Geoff Benton joined 23andMe in 2010 and leads a team focused on developing the next generation of data-driven health products for 23andMe customers. This team works to keep 23andMe at the forefront of science and technology, driving the development of interventional studies and predictive models for human health that utilize genetics, lifestyle, and environment. Previously, he was a venture capital intern at Burrill and Company. Geoff earned his PhD in Cell Biology from the University of California, San Francisco.
AMIR BANIFATEMI
General Manager of Innovation and Growth
XPRIZE
AMIR BANIFATEMI
General Manager of Innovation and Growth
XPRIZE
Amir Banifatemi began his career at the European Space Agency, prior to joining XPRIZE, and then held executive positions at Airbus, AP-HP and the European Commission division for information society and media. He managed two venture capital funds and contributed to the formation of more than 10 startups with emphasis on Predictive Technologies, IoT, and Healthcare.
Mr. Banifatemi is a guest lecturer and an adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris.
He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne, a Doctorate in System Design and Cognitive Sciences from the University Paris Descartes, as well as an MBA from HEC Paris.
CHRIS KAKKANATT
Data Science Team Leader
Pfizer
CHRIS KAKKANATT
Data Science Team Leader
Pfizer
Chris Kakkanatt leads the Data Science Team within Customer Analytics at Pfizer. At Pfizer, he has led a diverse set of global projects ranging from Real World Evidence to Personalized Marketing. His focus currently is democratizing data science at scale through reproducible pipelines and analytical products. Prior to joining Pfizer in 2010, he spent 8 years at IBM where he led the design and development of large-scale analytical solutions for life science and retail clients. Chris holds a BA in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. His interests lie in augmenting human decision making with machine intelligence to improve health outcomes.
VALENTINE GODDARD
CEO and Founder
Artificial Intelligence Impact Alliance (AIIA)
VALENTINE GODDARD
CEO and Founder
Artificial Intelligence Impact Alliance (AIIA)
Valentine Goddard is a recognized expert on the ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and a lawyer, artist and social impact strategist. She is a member of the United Nation’s Expert Group on the Role of Public Institutions on the Impact of New Technology. She founded the AI on a Social Mission Conference, an event designed to facilitate a cross sectoral and multidisciplinary dialogue on the ethical and social implications of AI as well as steer its use towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. The recommendations issued at the AI on a Social Mission Conference are shared globally.
She is also the founder of Artificial Intelligence Impact Alliance (AIIA), a non-profit aimed at empowering civil society organizations with AI as well as driving policy towards an inclusive and equitable implementation of AI. AIIA is a member of 3 international organizations on the Governance of AI including a founding member of the International Observatory on the Ethical and Social Impact of AI.
As a lawyer and certified mediator, she has practiced refugee, labour, social and administrative law in addition to lobbying for a better access to justice. She has taught comparative law in Japan as well as initiated and funded cultural mediation projects aimed at human rights education. In short, human dignity is at the heart of her multidisciplinary approach to nurturing the development of AI for Social Good.
MEHRSAN JAVAN
Co-Founder and CTO
Sportlogiq
MEHRSAN JAVAN
Co-Founder and CTO
Sportlogiq
Mehrsan Javan is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sportlogiq, the intelligent sports analytics platform. He holds a PhD in computer vision and machine learning with several years of experience in building intelligent systems for different applications, including security and surveillance.
He is an adjunct faculty member at McGill University’s ECE department, has published numerous research articles, and holds several patents and patent pending applications.
JULIEN LACHERE
Partner, Patent Agent, Engineer
BCF Avocats
JULIEN LACHERE
Partner, Patent Agent, Engineer
BCF Avocats
Julien Lacheré specializes in advising companies on IP matters relating to software, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence. He is a software and telecommunications engineer who completed is Master of Research in datamining at GERAD, a multi university research center regrouping experts from HEC Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal, McGill University and Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also a registered patent agent in Canada and the United States.
Julien has a vast experience in the building of patent portfolios for companies of various sizes, from start-up ventures looking to attract funding, to multinational organizations preparing to enter new markets, which enables him to develop strategies consistent with his clients’ commercial and corporate objectives.
GWENDAL BIHAN
CEO
Axionable
GWENDAL BIHAN
CEO
Axionable
Gwendal Bihan started his career by advising companies on technological innovation topics and then on strategic marketing, before creating a digital publishing start-up. Then, he joined Accenture to assist major advertisers and European media in the improvement of their performance thanks to digital and data. Gwendal co-founded Axionable to provide a pragmatic end-to-end solution to the data challenges of major brands. He helps several players in the banking, insurance, media and luxury industries to achieve their data objectives. Gwendal is an engineer graduated from EFREI.
BRUNO MORENCY
Managing Director
Techstars Montreal AI
BRUNO MORENCY
Managing Director
Techstars Montreal AI
Bruno Morency is the Managing Director of the Techstars Montreal AI accelerator program. Before joining Techstars, Bruno was EiR at iNovia Capital which lead to him Poka, which he joined as the team expanded beyond the two co-founders. Working in tech startups is basically what he’s been doing since graduating from McGill Engineering in 2001. His first startup developed a web application for knowledge management and was acquired by ISACSOFT in 2003. He then held development and product management roles in small tech companies before founding DokDok. The work behind DokDok turned into Context.IO which was one of the first investments from Real Ventures. Context.IO was acquired by Return Path in 2012. Bruno has also been an active mentor with both FounderFuel and Founder Institute.
KURT BUSCH
CEO
Syntiant Corp.
KURT BUSCH
CEO
Syntiant Corp.
Kurt Busch is the Chief Executive Officer of Syntiant Corp. He has extensive experience in product development, having driven the successful launch of new products, ranging from SAS and semiconductors for telecom and broadcast video to consumer electronics and data center systems. Prior to Syntiant, he was president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors at Lantronix (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global provider of secure data access and management solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) and information technology (IT).
He also served as a senior vice president and general manager of high performance analog business unit at Mindspeed Technologies, acquired by MACOM. Prior responsibilities include technical sales and marketing roles at Analog Devices, Intel, Digital Equipment Corporation and two start-ups. Mr. Busch is an engineering hall of fame inductee of the University of California at Irvine, where he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and biological science. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
THIERRY PAUL
Director, Intellectual Property
Element AI
THIERRY PAUL
Director, Intellectual Property
Element AI
Thierry Paul has been in the field of IP for nearly 20 years. He currently leads the Element AI’s IP strategy and focuses on patents, industrial designs, and technology trade secrets as well as diligent reviews of IP assets. Prior to joining Element AI, he led the global intellectual property department of a worldwide leader in simulation and training.
FIONA McEVOY
Tech Ethics Writer/Researcher & Founder
YouTheData
FIONA McEVOY
Tech Ethics Writer/Researcher & Founder
YouTheData
Fiona McEvoy is an AI ethics writer, researcher, and thought leader based in San Francisco, CA. She was named one of the 30 Women Influencing AI in San Francisco by RE•WORK and one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics You Should Follow in 2019 and beyond by Lighthouse3.
Fiona is the founder of tech ethics blog, YouTheData.com, and has had numerous articles published in media outlets including Slate, VentureBeat, All Turtles, Chatbots Life, and Becoming Human. She is also regularly asked to present her ideas to AI conferences, most recently speaking to the eWear Symposium at Stanford University, the world’s largest business AI Summit, and the 2019 RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit.
Fiona holds a graduate degree in Philosophy, with a special focus on ethics and technology. Her thesis paper, “Decisions, decisions: Big Data and the Future of Autonomy” has been published by the Annals of the University of Bucharest as part of their series on emerging technology. The research was also presented at Stanford University to the International Association of Computing and Philosophy.
Before returning to study, Fiona spent nearly ten years working as a campaigner, PR and Public Affairs specialist in the UK, dealing with a range of agencies, think tanks, charities and trade associations. She also holds two Bachelors’ degrees in English Lit & Drama and Classical Studies.
MYRIAM COTE
Director of AI for Humanity
Mila
MYRIAM COTE
Director of AI for Humanity
Mila
Myriam has been with Mila since 2009. She was Executive Director from 2015 to June 2018, and Director of Mila R&D and Tech Transfer team from January 2017 to September 2018. Myriam is now Director of AI for Humanity. Myriam has over 15 years of professional experience in artificial intelligence, project management and software development, in the industrial as well as in the academic research environments. She holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics Engineering.
As Director of AI for Humanity, her goal is to put into actions, Mila’s humanitarian mission in collaboration with both its partners of the local ecosystem and its international allies, by promoting an ethical and socially responsible usage of AI.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science and Competitiveness to
The President of the Republic of Haiti
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science and Competitiveness to
The President of the Republic of Haiti
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher of science and innovation expert with a practice at the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship and ideas. He is the CTO of Cloud Constable, a Toronto-based startup developing AI-powered virtual assistants.
He recently completed two years as the inaugural Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science and Competitiveness to the President of the Republic of Haiti. In this role he launched Alpha Haïti – the country’s first full-feature tech incubator and the largest of its kind in the Caribbean region. He also led the development of a first national innovation policy in support of increasing the competitiveness of key sectors of the economy by more intensive use of technology.
His broad experience includes producing live events, managing performing artists, contributing to the Ontario Innovation Agenda, launching Clinical Trials Ontario, and co-creating Digital Tech by Genius Lab – a pre-employment training program to prepare unemployed youth for a first experience in tech.
Jean-Jacques holds a B.A. in Law and B.A.(High Honours) in Philosophy from Carleton University, MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University and PhD from the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.
He is currently Chair of the Board at CARE for Internationally Educated Nurses, Member of the Groupe Média TFO, Member of the World Summit AI Board of International Government and UN Advisors, and Past Chair of the Board of the Obsidian Theatre Company.
GUILLAUME SALOU
Machine Learning Services Team Leader
OVH
GUILLAUME SALOU
Machine Learning Services Team Leader
OVH
Guillaume Salou is the machine-learning services team leader at OVH, where he focuses on extracting high value from specific data science applications in order to make it available to all. Previously, he was a data engineer, where he helped to build OVH’s datalake.
DAVID MASSON
Director of Enterprise Cyber Security
Darktrace
DAVID MASSON
Director of Enterprise Cyber Security
Darktrace
David Masson is Darktrace’s Director of Enterprise Cyber Security and has over two decades of experience working in fast moving security and intelligence environments in the UK, Canada and world-wide. With skills developed in the civilian, military and diplomatic worlds, he has been influential in the efficient and effective resolution of various unique national security issues. Dave is an operational solutions expert and has a solid reputation across the UK and Canada for delivery tailored to customer needs. In recent years he has advised many government institutions on Insider Threat, helping them to reduce their vulnerability and level of risk. He holds a Master’s degree from Edinburgh University.
MILAD ALUCOZAI
Founding Partner
Good AI Capital
MILAD ALUCOZAI
Founding Partner
Good AI Capital
Milad Alucozai is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur and an inventor, with a unique blend of experiences in academia, research, startups and large organizations that span across fields in artificial intelligence(AI), nanotechnology, enterprise software, life sciences and healthcare. He is a Partner at Good AI Capital, a venture fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Montreal that invests in early-stage AI companies. He is currently serving as VP of Business Development at Mekonos, a portfolio company focused on developing a silicon chip architecture to deliver engineered therapies. Milad also holds the appointment of Visiting Scholar in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center. He is an Associate at Creative Destruction Labs, mentor for TechStars AI, advisor for Holt Accelerator and on the board of advisors for Living On One, the LA-based film production company. He recently served as the Chief Business Officer at Corstem, a machine learning and AI software developer specialized in cardiac imaging analysis that was acquired by Circle Cardiovascular Imaging. Prior to this, he was a leader in Accenture’s Global R&D and Incubation Hub where he helped launch new global products and innovative services for some of the leading pharmaceutical companies by combining design thinking methodologies with emerging technologies such as AI, Advanced Analytics and IoT. Milad has multiple publications from his time as a researcher at Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center and Interfacial Multiphysics Laboratory. As a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Milad graduated Phi Beta Kappa with his BS (distinction) in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program. As a George J. Mitchell Scholar, he completed his Masters of Science in Immunology & Public Health.
JOCELYN AUGER
Partner
BCF Avocats d’affaires
JOCELYN AUGER
Partner
BCF Avocats d’affaires
Jocelyn Auger advises technology companies and start-ups on commercialization, intellectual property protection, and financing. With over twenty years of experience as a business executive and lawyer, he combines a detailed knowledge of law with a deep understanding of the realities, challenges, and dreams of innovative companies.
A member of BCF from the early days, Jocelyn spent nearly five years as Vice President, Legal for a fast-growing energy technology company. There, he gained a different perspective and new experience in practising law. Since returning to BCF, he assists clients with licensing, joint ventures, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and various business transactions.
Jocelyn has spoken and written at multiple occasions on the topics of licensing and open source and his expertise and experience also are a valuable asset in the deployment and success of BCF Imagine, a support program for innovative start-ups of which he is co-manager, and BCF Ventures, a venture capital fund aimed at financing start-ups at the pre-seed stage.
DAN BELCHER
Co-Founder
mabl
DAN BELCHER
Co-Founder
mabl
Dan Belcher was a Co-Founder at mabl, a venture-backed startup that is using machine intelligence to make software testing easy. Prior to mabl, Dan worked in the Cloud Platform team at Google, which he joined through its acquisition of Stackdriver, a company that he also-co-founded. Dan spent his early career in product and technical leadership roles at VMware, Sonian, and Microsoft. He lives in Boston with his wife and three children.
ELSA AGOSTINHO
Lawyer
BCF Avocats d’affaires
ELSA AGOSTINHO
Lawyer
BCF Avocats d’affaires
Elsa Agostinho is a member of BCF’s Business Immigration group and specializes in Canadian immigration. She is recognized for her professionalism, broad expertise and ability to respond to the changing and growing needs of enterprises operating internationally.
Since 1997, Elsa has practiced exclusively in the field of professional mobility, work permits and global immigration. Elsa’s clients primarily include SMEs and multinational companies based in Canada and internationally. She advises and counsels many enterprises on all matters pertaining to immigration during mergers and acquisitions or any other major transaction. She also counsels individuals and their families through various stages of their establishment in Canada, either on a temporary or a permanent basis.
CHRISTOPH AUER-WELSBACH
Partner
IBM Ventures
CHRISTOPH AUER-WELSBACH
Partner
IBM Ventures
Christoph Auer-Welsbach is an experienced founder, investor, product manager, venture community builder, and speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Infrastructure & Cloud and Internet of Things. He focuses on Deep Technology as a partner at IBM Ventures, and applied Artificial Intelligence as the initiator of City.AI.
CHRISTINA KARADIMOS
Lawyer
BCF Avocats d’affaires
CHRISTINA KARADIMOS
Lawyer
BCF Avocats d’affaires
Christina Karadimos is a member of BCF’s Business Immigration group and specializes in Canadian immigration. She is recognized for her professionalism, broad expertise and ability to respond to the changing and growing needs of enterprises operating internationally.
Since 2004, Christina has practiced exclusively in the field of professional mobility, work permits and global immigration. Christina’s clients primarily include SMEs and multinational companies based in Canada and internationally. She advises and counsels many enterprises on all matters pertaining to immigration during mergers and acquisitions or any other major transaction. She also counsels individuals and their families through various stages of their establishment in Canada, either on a temporary or a permanent basis.
THOMAS REID
Head of AI, Advanced Technology Office
Bombardier
THOMAS REID
Head of AI, Advanced Technology Office
Bombardier
NIMISH RADIA
Head of Global AI Accelerator – North America
Ericsson
NIMISH RADIA
Head of Global AI Accelerator – North America
Ericsson
Nimish Radia is an experienced executive in the IT, mobile, telecom, and finance industry with a strong combination of technology expertise and business acumen. He has proven leadership in transforming technology into multi-million dollar profitable vertical and horizontal solutions spanning Web Scale Service and Architecture, Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) for next generation communication and collaboration services, Identity and Context-Aware Services, Mobile Computing, Targeted Advertising, Big Data, and Cloud computing.
Dr. Radia is currently North America Head of Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accelerator (GAIA). He is leading Ericsson’s R&D and innovation efforts in Silicon Valley for next generation 5G and AI-driven Products, Services and Software for telecommunication and other industry verticals. He is also responsible for Global Ecosystem Strategy and Execution for GAIA. Before this role, he was responsible for 5G for Industries – an ecosystem centric approach to crate 5G based value for Media, IIoT and other industries and leading various groups within Ericsson Research including AI and Service Computing.
Before joining Ericsson, he was Advanced Technology Executive at Sun for US Communications, Media, and Entertainment Sales. In this role, he led cross company virtual R&D team accountable for creating revenue-generating solutions using Open Source Software stack (LAMP, OpenID/Liberty, Open Social, etc.) for mobile broadband providers ecosystem. Prior to Sun, Nimish was senior member of IBM Research and Advanced Software Technology Group driving R&D projects with customers globally.
Nimish has been recognized several times for his technology and sales achievements. He holds 8 patents and 15+ invention disclosures and industry publications.
BAHMAN BAHMANI
Director of Data Science
Rakuten
BAHMAN BAHMANI
Director of Data Science
Rakuten
Bahman Bahmani is a Director of Data Science at Rakuten (7th largest internet company in the world), managing an AI organization with engineering and data science managers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data engineers, globally distributed across 3 continents and in charge of the end-to-end AI systems behind the Rakuten Intelligence suite of products. Bahman has built and managed engineering and data science teams across industry, academia, and the public sector in areas including digital advertising, consumer web, cybersecurity, and non-profit fundraising, where he has consistently delivered substantial business value. He has also designed and taught courses, led an interdisciplinary research lab, and advised several theses in the Computer Science department at Stanford University, where he also did his own PhD focused on large-scale algorithms and machine learning, topics on which he is a well-published author.
ERKIN ADYLOV
CEO & Founder
Behavox
ERKIN ADYLOV
CEO & Founder
Behavox
Erkin Adylov is Founder and CEO of Behavox, a pioneering AI data analytics firm, which he founded in 2014. Mr. Adylov held leadership positions at Man GLG and Goldman Sachs early in his career and is a graduate of the London School of Economics.
Founder and CEO of Behavox, a pioneering AI data analytics firm, which he founded in 2014. Mr. Adylov held leadership positions at Man GLG and Goldman Sachs early in his career and is a graduate of the London School of Economics.
CEO of Behavox, a pioneering AI data analytics firm, which he founded in 2014. Mr. Adylov held leadership positions at Man GLG and Goldman Sachs early in his career and is a graduate of the London School of Economics.
MARC MICHEL
Managing Partner
Runway Venture Partners
MARC MICHEL
Managing Partner
Runway Venture Partners
Marc Michel has had a long career as both a venture investor and founder of a successful technology company. Marc started his career as a tech banker at Merrill Lynch before moving into Merrill’s middle market buyout business. After Merrill exited the business, Marc returned to his first passion and founded Eos Partners’ venture fund. He then built and ran TD Capital USA, TD Bank’s venture and growth equity arm in NYC. In 1999, Marc became co-founder and visionary of Precyse Solutions, now one of the country’s leading clinical health data capture and management companies that serves over 4,000 health facilities. In 2008, Marc co-founded Metamorphic Ventures (renamed Compound) as one of NYC’s first Seed venture funds. Marc has backed many successful companies such as Peapod, Brooks Fiber, Mountain Union Telecom, Insite, Coinstar, IndieGoGo, MovableInk, Appboy, Transactis, Thrive Market, Tap Commerce, Tapad, and many others.
Marc is originally a Canadian citizen who moved to Cleveland, Ohio as a boy and calls himself a Clevelander at heart. Marc is an avid tennis player and fan and anyone who knows him, knows he will be at the US Open come the end of August!
SOPHIE FOREST
Managing Partner
Brightspark Ventures
SOPHIE FOREST
Managing Partner
Brightspark Ventures
Sophie Forest – Prior to joining Brightspark Ventures, Sophie was a partner at CDP Capital Technology Ventures, a subsidiary of la Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec. Sophie met Mark in 1997 when she became the lead investor in his start-up, Balisoft. They ended up collaborating on this exciting venture for three years and sold the company to Kana Software in 2000.
Since joining Brightspark in 2003 as a managing partner, Sophie has led and overseen more than 50 investments in technology companies. Notably, she has played a pivotal role in the investment, growth and exit of Radian6, leading to a 23x multiple on capital invested, and becoming one of the most successful technology exits in Canadian history.
Sophie was involved in the creation and growth of Jewlr.com and iStopOver.com. She is still an active board member of Jewlr inc., a leading online personalized jewelry company.
She sits on the Board of Directors of a number of companies, including Hopper, nGUVU and Jewlr. Sophie works closely with the startups she invests in and is known for her nurturing and listening qualities. In October 2017, Sophie was awarded the NACO Angel of the Year Award.
Sophie is a member of the Science and Technology Council of Canada, which provides external advice to the federal government in the domain of science, technology and innovation.
She is the proud mother of three teenage daughters and is passionate about opening up doors for women to the VC and tech world. Through her career, she has often been the “only woman in the room” and wants to continue to facilitate the entry for other women.
JEAN SEBASTIEN COURNOYER
Partner
Real Ventures
JEAN SEBASTIEN COURNOYER
Partner
Real Ventures
Jean Sebastien (JS) Cournoyer has been an entrepreneur, investor and builder of innovation ecosystems since 1999. JS is co-founder of Real Ventures, the venture capital firm behind projects like Founderfuel, Canada’s leading accelerator and not-for-profit startup hub Notman House. He is also a co-founder and board member of Element AI, a company incubated by Real Ventures and the world’s fastest growing artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides the Global 2000 an AI platform to redesign their business with AI at the core.
Some of JS’s active investments include Element AI, Blockstream (turning the bitcoin blockchain into the platform for digital commerce and society), Tenstorrent (next-gen AI semiconductors), Xanadu (full stack Quantum Computer powered by light) Integrate.ai (AI first customer journey platform), and Insight Engines (AI first network security).
JS is passionate about helping mission-driven entrepreneurs use deep technologies to improve the level of human consciousness.
AMIR BELKHELLADI
Lead Partner, Risk Advisory, Eastern Canada
Deloitte Canada
AMIR BELKHELLADI
Lead Partner, Risk Advisory, Eastern Canada
Deloitte Canada
MAHDI AMRI
National AI Services Leader
Omnia AI, Deloitte Canada’s AI practice
MAHDI AMRI
National AI Services Leader
Omnia AI, Deloitte Canada’s AI practice
Mahdi Amri is the National AI Services Leader of Omnia AI, Deloitte Canada’s AI Practice. He has 17-plus years of consulting and industry experience in financial markets, possessing specializations in financial instrument valuation and risk management implementation. Mahdi supports external and internal audit teams in valuing complex derivatives and structured products for Deloitte’s largest financial institution clients and multinational clients in Canada. He also provides financial risk management advisory services to a wide range of clients, including banks, insurance companies and multinational corporations. M. Amri has significant regulatory experience and led several commitments related to compliance with the new IFRS9 standard. Before joining Deloitte, Mahdi held several treasury and risk management positions with financial institutions and multinational corporations in Canada.
PHIL MITSOPOULOS
Head of Partnerships
Stradigi AI
PHIL MITSOPOULOS
Head of Partnerships
Stradigi AI
Phil Mitsopoulos is Head of Partnerships at Stradigi AI, a company that transforms businesses with an industry-leading artificial intelligence platform. Since 2016, Phil has held a number of high-level operational and marketing positions within the company, playing a key role in its growth from a 25-employee startup to a rapidly-scaling company with over 120 employees. He is responsible for managing a portfolio of partnerships that promote the company’s strategic and business objectives, including brand awareness, business development, scientific research and recruitment. Prior to joining Stradigi AI, Phil’s work experience included 15 years at Bell and TELUS, two of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers where he held a wide array of management positions. Powered by this wealth of experience, he focuses on driving business development and marketing initiatives that reinforce the value proposition of Stradigi AI. Phil promotes the company’s core beliefs as a speaker and panellist in Canada and abroad.
SHAGUN MAHESHWARI
Innovator
The Knowledge Society
SHAGUN MAHESHWARI
Innovator
The Knowledge Society
Shagun Maheshwari is a 16-year-old machine-learning developer passionate about leveraging artificial intelligence for use in a multitude of applications. She recently spoke at BETT, a British education and technology conference, about how her innovative use of AI helped her to calculate the probability of a person being diagnosed with cancer as well as improved cancer detection through the use of human genome data. Shagun’s use of AI isn’t limited to the medical field, as it has also helped her create artificial neural networks that can accurately predict churn rates at financial institutions as well as develop AI models that improve object detection in computer vision systems. She has recently delved deeper into the field of computational biology as she hopes to leverage her programming and AI knowledge to make waves in that space!
JAIME CAMACARO
Chief Innovation Office and Co-Founder
Stradigi AI
JAIME CAMACARO
Chief Innovation Office and Co-Founder
Stradigi AI
Jaime Camacaro is a mathematical Physicist by profession and now Stradigi AI’s Chief Innovation Officer. He is passionate about the development of new technology. Not only does he generate new ideas in the fields of big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence and recommender systems, he also successfully recognizes and guides Stradigi’s research scientists to do the same. Launching his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela, Jaime quickly reapplied his skills into programming. Upon his arrival in Montreal, Jaime accepted the position at Stradigi as a Web Developer. Eight years later, Jaime now leads the company in all innovation initiatives.
CHADI HABIB
Executive Vice President Information Technology
Desjardins Group
CHADI HABIB
Executive Vice President Information Technology
Desjardins Group
MURAT KRISTAL
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems
Schulich School of Business
MURAT KRISTAL
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems
Schulich School of Business
JASON GARAY
Vice President, Analytics and Informatics
Cancer Care Ontario
JASON GARAY
Vice President, Analytics and Informatics
Cancer Care Ontario
MICHEL DUBOIS
Vice President, QA and Artificial Intelligence
Newtrax Technologies Inc.
MICHEL DUBOIS
Vice President, QA and Artificial Intelligence
Newtrax Technologies Inc.
Michel Dubois is Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Newtrax, a company that integrates the latest IoT technologies to provide insights on hard rock underground mining operations, creating a unique detailed dataset about people, machines and the environment.
A startup in 2008, Newtrax quickly became a multi-national success story, achieving an 80% yearly average revenue growth and inaugurating offices in Santiago, Perth, Moscow and London, with its HQ in Montreal.
Michel leads his team to deliver fast and impactful Artificial Intelligence solutions to customers by leveraging his experience in the technological, academical, business, Intellectual Property and partnership dimensions of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of a patent on mathematical optimization of high bandwidth signal switching.
In the last 25 years, Michel built his versatility in high growth global business environments such as Banking, IT services, Urban Transit Optimization, Telecommunications, the Energy sector and the Underground Mining industry through a rich blend of positions such as research analyst in mathematics, embedded and server software programmer, software process improvement consultant, followed by managerial roles in IT security, quality assurance, electronics manufacturing and Vice President of Artificial Intelligence.
Motivated by multidisciplinary environments, Michel is active in fostering collaboration across industries, across roles, and more, which can also explain his implications in numerous volunteer work in the community for the past 30 years.
Michel holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics and he’s a PhD candidate in Engineering (Machine Learning).
YOUNES ZEROUALI
Research Scientist
Stradigi AI
YOUNES ZEROUALI
Research Scientist
Stradigi AI
Younes Zerouali is currently an applied research scientist at Stradigi AI. He’s passionate about all forms of cognition, from human neurobiology to machine learning. He’s currently developing algorithms to allow machines to learn how to make better decisions in sports and marketing.
SHANE BLACK
Business Development Director
Stradigi AI
SHANE BLACK
Business Development Director
Stradigi AI
Shane Black is a seasoned sales professional with over 8 years’ experience developing new business and managing a winning sales team in the B2B space. His desire to help organizations solve complex problems coupled with his passion for relationship building has enabled him to excel in the field.
His 4 years prior to joining Stradigi AI were spent growing a sales team in the digital marketing space where he worked with numerous eCommerce brands across North America.
MARC-ANTOINE DILHAC
Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy
Université de Montréal
MARC-ANTOINE DILHAC
Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy
Université de Montréal
Marc-Antoine Dilhac is professor of philosophy at the Université de Montréal and holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Ethics and Political Theory. In 2017, he instigated the project of the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of AI and chaired its scientific committee.
Since 2013, he has been Director of Ethics and Politics at the Centre de recherche en éthique (Center for Ethics, Montréal). He specialized I theories of democracy and social justice, as well as in questions of applied ethics. His current research focuses on the ethical and social impacts of AI and issues of governance and institutional design, with a particular focus on how new technologies are changing public relations and political structures. Marc-Antoine Dilhac has recently joined Mila as associate member and is director of Deliberation at the Observatory on the social impacts of AI and digital technologies. He holds a PhD in political philosophy from the Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne.
SARAH PORTER
CEO and Founder
Inspired Minds
SARAH PORTER
CEO and Founder
Inspired Minds
Sarah Porter has launched 21 b2b and b2c technology products in 11 countries since 1996 and has a renowned reputation for taking ideas from concept to market with subsequent significant growth globally.
Emerging tech / AI / Medtech / Singularity / existentialism is where her core experience lies and she has over 20 years of commercial experience.
As a board executive for i2i events (parent company The Guardian Media Group / Apax – Ascential – previously Top Right Group) with the specific remit to rapidly grow the business whilst leveraging operational costs and prepare pre IPO. She sat on the i2i mergers and acquisitions committee identifying, analysing and approaching target businesses and accelerated growth by 22% within 12 months.
Achievements include the launch and acquisition of Money2020 – a leading fintech product. This included negotiation, 3 stage due diligence, its subsequent integration, and the long term geo-adaption into a global portfolio worth over $40m. The launch of World Retail Congress in 10 countries, the re-launch of Cannes Lions festival.
Sarah is a regular keynote speaker on start-ups, business and women / equality related issues and is an ambassador for the Royal Marsden where she champions the use of AI tech in oncology advances.
SARA CONEJO CERVANTES
Spokesperson on Gender and Equality
Inspired Minds
SARA CONEJO CERVANTES
Spokesperson on Gender and Equality
Inspired Minds
Sara Conejo Cervantes, born in London of spanish origins is an enthusiast in the advancement of technology. Having graduated from Coloma Convent Girls’ School with GCSEs in the core subjects, Computer Science and Economics, Sara is currently studying for her A Levels in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Computer Science, continuing on from GCSE, at King’s College London Mathematics School. With two years of experience in coding, Sara regularly takes part in Hackathons and has she won a number of them. She recently took part in Alexa Bootcamp where she led her team to develop and publish an Alexa skill called Optimus Maths. She did a two-week placement at Codex, a city-based data analytics firm where she wrote a piece of code used now in the platform. As well as this, Sara has accreditations from the Royal Institution in both Maths and Engineering. She has taken part in many MUN conferences and debates in and out of school. Her background of coding in Python and other languages has helped her to complete the task of building an AI with the ability to play smartphone games. Despite her strong background in Computer Science, Sara is currently undecided on what her path will be post-KCLMS, however she has indicated an interest in possibly studying Maths and Computer Science at university. She is currently part of Artificial Intelligence Task Force at Teens in AI and has recently written her response to Lord Clement Jones AI Report.
BOBBY
PREVOST
Research Scientist
Stradigi AI
BOBBY
PREVOST
Research Scientist
Stradigi AI
Bobby Prévost is a well-respected Research Scientist at Stradigi AI, who graduated with a Ph.D. in Physics. Driven by his interest in the technology industry, he quickly gravitated towards artificial intelligence. Rapidly moving into his second year at Stradigi AI, Bobby is one of the company’s most valued researchers. As a researcher, he currently works at developing innovative ideas and algorithms, particularly in the field of recommender systems. Having participated as lead researcher at Stradigi AI’s presence at SXSW and spokesman with all Franco-Canadian news, Bobby has brought much-added value to the Stradigi AI family.
TUBA YAMAC
Partner
BCF Avocats d’affaires
TUBA YAMAC
Partner
BCF Avocats d’affaires
Tuba Yamaç: A
registered patent agent in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe, Tuba Yamaç manages the intellectual property strategies of technology clients ranging from start-ups to larger corporations and research institutions. Tuba’s industry experience and international outlook make her a highly valued advisor to many businesses.
Tuba holds a Ph. D. in biomedical materials and a M.Sc in intellectual property management, both from the University of London. She is recognized for her technical expertise in medical technologies including biomaterials, medical devices and connected health technologies, as well as cleantech. Tuba advises clients in relation to building intellectual property portfolios including international filing and procurement strategies, IP partnering support, preparing for investment, commercial transaction support, patentability landscaping, freedom to operate, and due diligence particularly for investors. Before joining BCF, she was intellectual property director of a medical device company in Montréal building their IP portfolio and supporting the business through a number of strategic business liaisons.
Tuba is trilingual, and regularly represents the Québec life sciences business ecosystem in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Scandinavia. She also teaches patent law, and is an invited speaker at the annual LifeSciences UK Patent attorney conference (CIPA), the McGill/IPIC patent course in Montreal, and has contributed to a book chapter in “Life Sciences Law in Canada”, Carswell.
NATHALIE DE MARCELLIS-WARIN
President and CEO
CIRANO
NATHALIE DE MARCELLIS-WARIN
President and CEO
CIRANO
Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin holds a doctorate in Management Science (specialized in risk management and insurance) from the École Normale Supérieure in Cachan (France) and is a full professor at Polytechnique Montréal in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering and Visiting Scientist at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
In 2008, she created the RISQ + H network, a network for raising awareness and sharing experiences on risk management, patient safety and the quality of care in health facilities (www.risqh.net).
Since 2011, she has been leading the CIRANO Barometer project on risk perception in Quebec, which annually collects data on Quebeckers’ concerns.
HUBERT BOLDUC
President & CEO
Montréal International
HUBERT BOLDUC
President & CEO
Montréal International
Hubert Bolduc holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Université du Québec à Montréal, a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Stirling in Scotland, and an MBA from HEC Montréal.
In January 2016, Hubert Bolduc was appointed President and CEO of Montréal International, Greater Montréal’s economic development agency whose mission is to attract and retain foreign investment (companies and startups), international organizations, skilled workers and international students.
Before becoming the head of Montréal International, Mr. Bolduc worked as Deputy Secretary General, Government Communications, ministère du Conseil exécutif, and as an international affairs manager for Investissement Québec.
From 2004 to 2012, he was Vice-President, Communications and Public Affairs, at Cascades. He also worked as a Press attaché to the Québec Premier from 2001 to 2003, as an Advisor for public relations firm NATIONAL from 1998 to 2000, and as a communication lecturer at UQAM. Mr. Bolduc has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jour de la Terre and of Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Fondation de l’Entrepreneurship du Québec. He also sat on the Board of Directors of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montréal, Fondation de l’UQAM and Forces Avenir.
He has been presented with the Prix Reconnaissance award by Université du Québec à Montréal and the Prix Relève d’excellence award, Large Business category, by Réseau HEC Montréal. Mr. Bolduc also made Marketing Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list in 2001.
CHARLES ROBERTS
Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer
Freenome
CHARLES ROBERTS
Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer
Freenome
Charles Roberts: A clinician by training, Charlie is Freenome’s Chief Partnership Officer, focusing on mid- and longer-term relationships that will help define the company’s future directions and revenues and works closely with the business development team in managing corporate client accounts and institutional collaborations.Prior to co-founding Freenome, Charlie co-founded a company that uses circulating cell-free (cf)DNA from maternal blood samples to diagnose chromosomal abnormalities during pregnancy. The resulting in-vitro diagnostic, IONA, has been marketed successfully across Europe and the Middle East. Charlie studied medicine and neuropsychology in the UK, earning a Masters degree from Oxford with a focus on immunotherapy. He has worked in some of the UK’s leading oncology centers, including the Royal Marsden.
PAVLOS PAPACHRISTOPOULOS
Business Development Director
Stradigi AI
PAVLOS PAPACHRISTOPOULOS
Business Development Director
Stradigi AI
Pavlos Papachristopoulos is a seasoned sales executive with over 9 years of Sales and Business Development experience. As a Business Development Director. he is tasked with meeting new clientele, explaining the Stradigi AI methodology and growing Stradigi’s reach across the world.
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