Artificial Intelligence World Forum 2017 | AI World Forum | 27 November 2017 | The Carlu in Toronto, 444 Yonge Street, 7th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The AI World Forum is a prestigous 2-day Conference being held in Toronto, Canada this year.

The AI World Forum is an annual event that brings together top global thought leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to advance the dialogue on the AI Revolution. North America is a leader in finance, technology and law – the key elements necessary to built an inclusive AI global ecosystem that supports responsible innovation.

The AI World Forum explores leadership trends in Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Infrastuture, Health Care, Cyber-Security, Self-Driving Cars, Chatbots, Law & Ethics, Banking, Defence, Food Security and Diversity in AI and its impacts on the global economy.

2017 Speakers:

Alejandro Perdomo-ortiz
Senior Research Scientist at Nasa Ames and Usra

Honourable Reza Moridi, Mpp
Minister of Research, Innovation and Science, Government of Ontario

Ryan Janzen
Co-founder & Cto Transpod Inc

Christine Duhaime
Founder & Ceo, Digital Finance Institute

Dr. Gong Fengmin
Head of Didi Labs, Didi Chuxing

Mike Sigal
Partner at 500 Startups

Tania Hoque
Senior Digital Advisor, Westjet

Dipayan Ghosh
Fellow, New America

Mark Stephen Meadows
Founder & Ceo, Botanic Technologies

Sonia Israel
Co-founder & Director of Scientific Partnerships at Aifred Health

Steve Holder
Strategy Lead, Sas Canada

Rizwan Khalfan
Executive Vice President & Chief Digital and Payments Officer at Td

Ellis Odynn
Chief Ai Officer, Digital Finance Institute

Peter Sloly
Partner, Deloitte Canada

Heiko Schmidt
Managing Partner, Joey Capital

Matt Sergeant
Cto of Ideal

Robert Zhang
Co-founder and President, Cloudminds Technology

Chelsey Colbert
Student-at-law at Fasken Martineau

Gabriel Musso
Cso at Biosymetrics

Christopher Bishop
Chief Reinvention Officer, Improvising Careers

Jahanzaib Ansari
Co-founder & Ceo, Knockri

Dr. Sergi Santos
Founder, Synthea Amatus

Sarah M. Kaufman
Assistant Director for Technology Programming, Nyu Rudin Center for Transportation

Nicolas Cloutier
Co-founder & Ceo, Kryptopy

Tess Posner
Executive Director at Ai4all

Benjamin Alarie
Ceo & Co-founder, Blue J Legal

Abhishek Gupta
Ai Ethicist, District 3

Alexandra Posadzki
Business Reporter, the Globe and Mail

Stephen Piron
Co-founder and Co-ceo of Deeplearni.ng

Hilary Carter
Director of Faculty, Blockchain Research Institute

Chris Horlacher
Ceo of Equibit Group

Richard Yim
Co-founder, Demine Robotics

Gideon Rosenblatt
Writer, the Vital Edge

Ridwan Howlader
Executive Director & Senior Engineering Designer, University of Toronto Aerospace Team

Lyndsay a. Wasser
Co-chair of Privacy & Data Protection Group, Mcmillan

Everett Kohl
Executive Associate, Digital Finance Institute

Olivia Essen
Expert in Environmental Ai, Digital Finance Institute

Benji Sucher
Chief Operating Officer, Layer 6 Ai

Raymond Vankrimpen
Risk Performance and Technology Partner, Richter

Madeline Cooper
University of Toronto

Nish Bhalla
Founder & Ceo, Security Compass

Gavriel State
Senior Director, System Software, Nvidia

Claire Brownell
Features Writer, Financial Post

Dan Adamson
President of Ddiq and Global Head of Cognitive Computing at Exigertech

Doug Aley
Cro, Ever Ai

Dr. Alex Wilner
Assistant Professor, Carleton University

Sharn Kandola
Co-founder, Cto Boost

Ian Bernstein
Founder and Head of Product, Misty Robotics

Feroz Balsara
Founder & Team Captain, Ryerson Rams Robotics (R3)

Alessia Sacco
Vp, York University Robotics Society

James Haga
Vice President Strategy and Investment, Engineers Without Borders

Heath Ahrens
Creator of Dating.ai

Kris Schulze
Chief Marketing Officer, B2b News Network

Andre Vashist
Director, Social Enterprise & Social Finance, Pillar Nonprofit Network

2017 Sponsors:

GOLD:
• CPA Chartered Professional Accountants Ontario
• Duhaime Law
• SAS
• ACT Canada
• AI & ChatBot News
• Center for Social Innovation
• Chillwall
• Daxx
• Finacan
• Impact Hubb Ottawa
• Innovate Calgary
• ITAC Information Technology Association of Canada
• KD Nuggets
• Next AI
• RFI Group
• SheEO
• Toronto Financial District
• Tractica
• Unshackled Ventures
• Women Who Code Toronto