World Summit AI Americas 2024 | World Summit AI | 24 April 2024 | Montreal Convention Center, 1001 Pl. Jean-Paul-Riopelle Montreal, QC H2Z 1H5 Canada

The world’s leading AI summit for the Americas brings together the global AI ecosystem. World Summit AI is the only AI summit in the world that matters, and we showcase the world’s brightest AI brains on our stages with innovative, cutting-edge, topical content, tackling the most burning AI issues right now.

This is the summit you simply can’t afford to miss:
• The biggest global thought-leaders in AI and technology, healthcare and ethics
• Topical conversation and deep-dive tech-talks around the ‘Quantum Apocalypse, Cybersecurity, Encryption and Privacy-Preserving Data, Multimodality, Generative AI and LLMs…and so much more!
• Demos from the leading tech companies at our bustling expo
• More editorially-curated content and big-name speakers from our partners Mila and SAIIL
• Innovation insights from some of the most-groundbreaking startups who are genuinely disrupting the status quo and changing lives

Who’s coming?
• Tech companies, AI Tech Startups & Scaleups, Academics, Investors & Students.
• CEOs, CTOs, COOs, Founders, Chief Data Officers, Chief Information Officers & Chief Digital Officers.
• VPs, Directors, Heads of AI Machine Learning Data Science Technology Innovation Applied AI
• Scientists, Engineers & Developers
• Investors – progressively minded VCs, Seeds and Angels
• Clinicians and Healthcare professionals

Key 2024 themes include
• AI adoption: What drives successful AI adoption in enterprise?
• Human-centered AI: How will the rise of Generative AI drive the conversation around the need for human-centered AI?
• Maximizing the AI Opportunity: Should we sprint towards an AI-powered future or take a careful walk, balancing innovation and safety?
• Cybersecurity: How will LLMs and AI impact the cybersecurity landscape?
• AI and the workplace: How should we prepare for the era of an augmented workforce?
• Democratising AI knowledge: Can we democratize knowledge around AI and Responsible AI so people can meaningfully understand the impacts, harms and opportunities of the single biggest technological innovation in a generation?

Why attend?
The world’s brightest #AIBrains are coming together to learn, rework the future and collaborate.
• Meet new connections and business partners
• Source the latest AI solutions and technologies
• Keep in touch with existing clients and connections
• Share ideas and user case stories
• Find investors, venture partners and source capital
• Meet potential acquirers and new business opportunities
• Connect with founders, recruit staff, and meet up coming rising stars
• Connect with AI ethicists, data scientist talent and developers
• Participate in an interactive workshop and earn professional development points

2024 Speakers

Yoshua Bengio
Full Professor, Samsung AI

Joëlle Pineau
Vice President of AI Research, Meta

Sebastien Rozanes
Global Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Carrefour

Gary Marcus
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University

Lambert Hogenhout
Chief Data, Analytics and Emerging Technologies, United Nations

Foteini Agrafioti
Head, Borealis AI & Chief Science Officer, Royal Bank of Canada

Dr Yannick Lallement
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Scotiabank

Marc Mathieu
Co-Founder, Salesforce Emerging Studio, SVP AI Transformation & Vice Chair, Salesforce Global Advisory Board, Salesforce

Darren Martin
Chief Digital Officer, AtkinsRéalis

Doina Precup
FRSC, Canada CIFAR AI Chair McGill University & Mila; Research Director, Google DeepMind

Nicolas Dube
Senior Fellow and Chief Architect, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Dr Roman v Yampolskiy
Author; Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Louisville

Andrew Zolli
Chief Impact Officer, Planet

Elissa Strome
Executive Director, Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, CIFAR

Jared Spataro
Corporate Vice President, AI at Work, Microsoft

Onyinye Enyia Daniel
Vice President, Data & Analytics Strategy, Highmark Health

Krish Banerjee
Managing Director - Data & AI Lead, Accenture Canada

Chantal Guay
CEO, Standards Council of Canada

Riccardo Cosentino
Senior Vice-President, AtkinsRéalis

Pamela Snively
Chief Data & Trust Officer, Telus Communications

Marinela Profi
Head of Global Product AI Strategy, SAS

Sreedhar Sistu
Vice President, AI Offers, Schneider Electric

Joanna Lepore
Global Foresight & Capabilities Exploration Director, McDonald’s Corp

Fatih Nayebi
Vice President, Data and AI, Aldo Group

Marna Ricker
EY Global Vice Chair – Tax, EY

Mar Carpanelli
Head of AI & Skills Research, LinkedIn

Elena Fersman
VP Head of Global AI Accelerator & Head of Silicon Valley Site, Ericsson

Irina Rish
Artificial Intelligence Institute, Université de Montréal

Alyssa Lefaivre Škopac
Head of Global Partnerships and Growth, Responsible AI Institute

Larry Heck
Professor of ECE and Interactive Computing, Executive Director, AI Hub and Machine Learning Center, Georgia Tech

Dr Colleen Lyons
Ethicist, Large Government Agency

Pauline Camus
Principal Data Scientist, Rio Tinto

Miriam Price
Principal Data Strategist, AtkinsRéalis

Miriam Price
Principal Data Strategist, AtkinsRéalis

Yog Domlur Seetharama
Director of Data Science, Walmart Global Tech

Tony Deng
Tech Lead, Senior Data Scientist, Rio Expert, Rio Tinto

Abigail Beaumont
Head of Data Strategy & Data Management, AtkinsRéalis

Eklove Mohan
Sr. Director, CTO Office, Synechron

Merve Hickok
President & Research Director, Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)

Marc G Bellemare
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Reliant AI

Davood Shamsi
Executive Director of AI, JPMorgan Chase & Co

David Barnes
Founder & CEO, David Barnes, LLC

Alka Roy
Alka Roy, Product & Technology Leader, Founder, RI Labs & The Responsible Innovation Project, Guest Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley

Adriana Romero Roriano
Research Scientist, Meta

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

Glen Berseth
Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Core Academic Member, Mila - Quebec AI Institute; Canada CIFAR AI Chair; Co-Director, Robotics and Embodied AI Lab (REAL)

Dr. Kevin Jones
Director Center for Teaching and Learning/Associate Professor of Management, Indiana University Columbus

Blake Richards
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science

Justin Osmond
Senior Policy Analyst, Regulatory Affairs, Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

Guillaume Lajoie
Core Academic Member, Mila; Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (DMS), Université de Montréal

Rohan Goswami
Director - Heart Transplant Research and Innovation, Mayo Clinic

Jacquelyn Maccoon
Senior Project Manager, Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

Anjinkya Malasane
Senior Director, AI Product Strategy, Telus International

Kevork Belgen
Director - Security Architecture and Research, Scotiabank

Natalie Mayerhofer
Co-Founder, Chum School of AI in Healthcare

Steve Mellgren
Sr Solutions Architect, Data Ethics Practice, SAS

I-Sah Hsieh
Principal Program Manager, Data Ethics Practice, SAS

Ahmed Abdellatief
Head of Data Analytics, Sidra Medicine

Philip Dawson
Head of AI Policy, Armilla AI

Patrick St-Amant
Co-Founder & CTO, Zetane Systems

Jon Magoon
Chief Product Officer, Zetane Systems

Max Murphy
Data Scientist, Overwatch Data

Sheila Beladinejad
CEO, O Canada Tech;President, Women in AI & Robotics

Charles Morgan
Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Martin-Guy Richard
CISO - Chief Information Security Officer, Ville de Montréal

Dr Raul v Rodriguez
Vice President, Woxsen University

Mark Kurtz
CTO, Neural Magic

Joel Gallant
CEO & Co-Founder, CLIC Labs

William Caron
COO & Co-Founder, CLIC Labs

Mario Rodriguez
SVP of Product, GitHub

Ankit Virmani
Data and ML Leader, Google

Utkarsh Contractor
VP of AI, Aisera

Mathieu Fortier
Director of ML/NLP, Coveo

Annik Carson
Adaptive Learning Product Lead, AI Redefined (AIR)

Mike Jones
Director of Engineering Services, Systems Technology, Inc.(STI)

Annie Cyr
CEO & Co-Founder, Tengiva

Dan Adamson
Co-Founder, AutoAlign AI

Rodrigo Scotti
Founder & CEO, Nama

Alison Cossette
Founder, Patrun

Philip Alm
CEO, VISS.AI

Aaron Franks
Research Lead, Data Sovereignty Research Collaborative, First Nations Information Governance Centre

Mariana Catz
Senior Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer, Kids Help Phone

Simone Vazzoler
AI Technical Specialist, British Standard Institution

Sarah Mathew
American Regulatory Lead, BSI’s AI Conformity Assessment Body

Andrea Sanino
Senior AI Product Manager, BSI

Sasha Przybylski
TKS Activator

Krishiv Thakuria
TKS Activator

Amrita Ghag
TKS Activator

Jojo Ye
Associate - Technology Investment, Sixty Degree Capital

Taha Mubashir
Principal, Inovia Capital (VC)

Sonny Tahiliani
Exec. Director & Tech. Lead, RTX Ventures (Venture Capital)

Michel Zgarka
President & CEO, Hitlab Inc

Colin Clark
Director of Design and Technology, Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society

Golnoosh Farnadi
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McGill University; Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Montréal; Canada CIFAR AI Chair

David Ifeoluwa Adelani
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McGill University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Catherine Régis
Professor of Law, University of Montréal; Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Geoffrey Cheng
Investment Manager, Comcast SportsTech

Rebecca (bex) Evans
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Responsible AI, OneTrust

Darine Ameyed
AI Lead Sr Research, Baüne

Sushma Niwalkar
Senior Director AI/ML Strategy, Northwestern Mutual

Dora Jambor
Co-Founder & CEO, Mohana

Suman Phogat
Director, Detection Engineering & Automation, Bank of Montreal

2024 Partners

HEADLINE CITY HOST PARTNER:
• Montréal

HEADLINE STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• Accenture

CITY PARTNER:
• Tourisme Montréal

GOLD PARTNERS:
• AtkinsRéalis
• Standards Council of Canada
• Salesforce
• SAS Institute

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Zetane
• CLIC Labs
• Coveo
• Neural Magic
• GitHub
• AI Redefined
• Telus International
• BSI Group
• Aisera
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• Ericsson
• McCarthy Tétrault
• OneTrust
• Synechron

OFFICIAL NETWORKING PARTNER:
• Montréal International

OFFICIAL REGISTRATION PARTNER:
• Narratize

EXHIBITION PARTNERS:
• SimWell
• Ayming
• SGS
• Experience AI Solutions
• Kolena
• Ingeno
• Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security
• Mind in a Box
• Meta
• KW4 Ontario Health Team
• University of Waterloo

ACCELERATOR PARTNERS:
• Cette AI
• Shellbots.ai
• Wassati
• AutoAlign AI
• Beaucoup Data
• Covalent
• Patrun
• Cloud Code AI
• HealthPartners Canada
• Daesys
• Hitlab
• LatenceTech
• VadiMAP
• Valital Technologies
• Alter Climate
• Binder
• Élance
• Homeric
• Trampoline AI
• Cyberdefense.AI
• Envision.ai

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• TKS
• AI Work And Skills Forum
• Electronic Specifier
• Women in AI & Robotics
• Responsible AI Institute
• Ivado
• Women in AI
• FemTech Lab
• Louis-François Bouchard
• DevITJobs
• CSBJ
• AllConfsBot
• CIOCoverage
• The Leaders Outlook
• CB43Media