The World Summit AI Americas 2020 | World Summit AI Ltd | 25 March 2020 |

An exclusive gathering of the major influencers in AI globally across business, science and tech for two full days of mind-boggling innovation, heated discussions on AI4good, applied solutions for enterprise, hands-on workshops and the development of plans for advancing the application of AI in the coming year.

Brought to you by the organisers of the World Summit AI, the global series made up of the world’s largest and most active AI community of over 40,000 members from the global AI ecosystem of enterprise, big tech, startups, investors and science from 161 countries worldwide. The WSAI Global community gathers every October at World Summit AI in Amsterdam to set the global AI agenda.

2020 Speakers

Celeste Kidd
Assistant Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley

Yossi Matias
Vice President, Engineering, Google

Deepak Agarwal
VP of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, LinkedIn

Steve Astorino
VP of Development, Data and AI, Hybrid Data Management and Canada Lab, IBM

Samy Bengio
Distinguished Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team

Jodie Wallis
Managing Director, Applied Intelligence Canada, Accenture

Cesar a. Hildago
ANITI Chair, University of Toulouse; Founder & CEO, Datawheel, University of Toulouse

Dave Castillo
Managing Vice-president of Machine Learning, Capital One

Ajung Moon
Assistant Professor (ECE), McGill University

Jose Murillo
Chief Analytics Officer, Grupo Financiero Banorte

Constanza Gomez Mont
Founder and CEO, C Minds

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

Adrien Gaidon
Machine Learning Lead, Toyota Research Institute

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

Craig Martell
Head of Machine Learning, Dropbox

Dr Sujoy Kar
Chief Medical Information Officer & Vice President, Apollo Hospitals

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

Yves Boussemart
Head of QuantumBlack Canada, QuantumBlack

Efrat Rapoport
Co-Founder & CEO, Bonobo AI

Brian Cantwell Smith
Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human, University of Toronto

Dan Baker
Executive Director, Customer Experience Product Management, Comcast Cable

Adi Eckhouse Barzilai
Co-Founder & CEO, Realface

John Havens
Executive Director, The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Deval Pandya
Lead Data Scientist - Digital Accelerators, Shell

Sarah Porter
Founder & CEO, InspiredMinds

Christoph Auer-welsbach
Partner, IBM Ventures

Jean-simon Venne
Co-Founder & CTO, BrainBox AI

Alice Xiang
Research Scientist, Partnership on AI

Yoav Schlesinger
Principal, Ethical AI Practice, Salesforce

Fiona Mcevoy
Tech Ethics Researcher/Writer & Founder, YouTheData.com

Artash Nath
Co-Founder, HotPopRobot.com

Raul Popa
CEO, Co-Founder & Data Scientist, TypingDNA

Isabella Grandic
Program Success Manager and Activator, the Knowledge Society

Alexandre Alle
Advanced Analytics Specialist, IBM

Steven Green
Senior Information Management Technical Specialist, IBM

Pablo Davalos
Director of Data Science, Kueski

Mari Joller
Founder & CEO, Snackable AI

Pascal Weinberger
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer, Augustus AI

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

Yannick Meneceur
Policy Advisor on Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence, the Council of Europe

Haydar Talib
Cloud and AI Product Manager- Security and Biometrics, Nuance Communications

Matt Galvin
Global Vice President, Ethics & Compliance, Anheuser-busch Inbev

Ramprakash Ramamoorthy
Member Leadership Staff - Machine Learning & Analytics, Zoho Corporation

Colleen Mcdowell
Associate Partner, Cognitive Process Transformation, IBM Services

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

Florian Martin-bariteau
Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section & Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society

Francois-william Croteau
Borough Mayor – Rosemont La Petite-Patrie & Executive Committee, City of Montreal

Jonathan Dion
Senior Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Neama Dadkhahnikoo
Technical Lead, AI XPRIZE

Saeed Aghabozorgi
Sr. Solutions Architect - Machine Learning Specialist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Sean Perryman
Director of Social Impact Policy and Counsel, the Internet Association, the Internet Association

Zemfira Khisaeva
Vice President, Technology and Enterprise Strategy, Scotiabank

2020 Sponsors and Partners

HEADLINE SPONSOR:
• IBM

NETWORKING SPONSOR:
• Cymru Wales

FOUNDING PARTNER:
• stradigi AI

SPONSORS:
• Quantum Black
• Accenture
• Amazon
• ManageEngine
• Montreal International
• Cognigy
• Axionable
• CloudFactory
• DRW
• Korem
• Zetane
• Cloud Constable
• Brain Box
• REMmedy
• Borden Ladner Gervais
• City of Montréal

PARTNERS:
• Media Planet
• Startup Sesame
• Techno Montreal
• Find Courses
• District 3 Branding
• TOURISME MONTREAL

FOUNDING PARTNER:
• Stradigi AI

LEAD LEGAL PARTNER:
• BCF