Venue
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Palais des Congrès de Montréal, 201 Av. Viger O, Montréal, QC H2Z 1X7, Canada

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Event Date Wed Apr 19 EDT - Thu Apr 20 EDT (over 1 year ago)
Location Palais des Congrès de Montréal
201 Av. Viger O, Montréal, QC H2Z 1X7, Canada
Region Americas
Details

This year is an opportunity to join the brightest AI brains and leading industry speakers and influencers from business, science and technology to discuss the hottest topics in AI. The full AI ecosystem will be joining us, including start-up’s, academics, investors, business leaders, and all the big tech companies. Through the conference, interactive workshops, networking and expo there are plenty of opportunities to achieve your objectives.

With higher AI adoption rates expected in 2023 across major industry sectors, this is the opportunity to learn, share and debate globally critical AI challenges and topics that will help your business in key areas such as regulation, safety and ethics, trust, privacy, scalability. You will also have the opportunity to hear the latest use cases and see where AI is being applied to solve real world issues across finance, deep tech to healthcare, climate change and many more.

Speakers

2023 Speakers

Yoshua Bengio
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Full Professor, Samsung AI, Professor, Université de Montréal

Dr Athina Kanioura
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, PepsiCo

Dr Luc Julia
Chief Scientific Officer, Renault Group

Joëlle Pineau
Vice President of AI Research, Meta

Sol Rashidi
Former CDAO, Royal Caribbean, Sony Music, Merck Pharmaceuticals; CAO Estée Lauder

Simon Lacoste-Julien
Co-Founding Member and Associate Scientific Director, Mila

Sherry Marcus
Director of Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services

Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist, Google

Ozanan Meireless
Director MGH, Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL)

Abha Dogra
Chief Digital and Technology Officer Member of Executive Management Committee CAE

Philippe Rambach
Senior Vice President, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Schneider Electric

Geeta Nayyar
SVP, Chief Medical Officer, Salesforce

Luc Rabouin
Executive Committee Member responsible for Economic, Commercial and Design Development, City of Montréal

Marc-Etienne Ouimette
Global Lead, AI Policy (AWS), Amazon

Tal Arbel
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, MILA

Dr Sonny Kohli, Md Frcpc
Vice President, Medical & Regulatory Affairs, Roche Canada Pharma, Internal Med/critical Care, Halton Healthcare

Dr Sheela Agarwal
Chief Medical Information Officer, Diagnostic Imaging and AI, Nuance Communications

Krish Banerjee
Canada Managing Director, Data, Analytics & Applied Intelligence, Accenture

Roxana Sultan
Chief Data Officer and Vice President, Health, Vector Institute

Dr Ola Ahmad
Chief AI Scientist, Thales Digital Solutions

Mark Fernandes
Civil Aviation Chief Information Security Officer, CAE

Dr Teodor Grantcharov
Professor of Surgery, Stanford University, Associate Chief Quality Officer for Innovation and Safety, Stanford Healthcare

Alyssa Lefaivre
Director of Partnerships and Market Development, Responsible AI Institute (RAII)

Dhruval Shah
Director of Intelligent Automation, Chief Data Office, AT&T

Anneke Olvera
Director, Programs and Operations, Standards Council of Canada

Danilo Bzdok MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Lab director, McGill and Mila

Jack Klejka
VP of Product Management, IVADO Labs

Constanza Gomez Mont
Founder, C Minds and AI for Climate

Jesslyn Dymond
Director of Data Ethics, TELUS

Philip Dawson
Head, Global AI Policy & Advisory, Armilla AI

Dr Sahar Hashmi
CEO, Myriad Consulting LLC

Dr Jennifer A. Eckhoff
MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory;

Marcelo Cabrol
Chief of Scalability, Knowledge and Impact, IDB Lab – Innovation Laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group

Azra Dhalla
Director, Health AI Implementation

Dr. Matthew E. Taylor
Fellow-in-Residence, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute; (Amii)

Deval Pandya
Member of task force for Digitalisation of Energy, UN Economic Commission of Europe

Cari Covent
Head of Data, Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Canadian Tire

Pamela Gupta
CEO, CO-PRESIDENT, Trusted AI™ an OutSecure Inc company

Prasad Garigipati
Head of Ericsson Global AI Accelerator – AI Hub Canada & Head of Montreal Site, Ericsson

Sarah Porter
Founder & CEO, Inspired Minds!

Rajiv Shah
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr Anthony Rhem
Ambassador, AI Time Journal, CEO/Principal Consultant, A.J. Rhem & Associates, Inc

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

Guillaume Herve
CEO and Co-Founder, Zetane

Paul Patras
CEO and Co-Founder, Net AI

Mario Cantin
CEO & Chief Data Strategist, Prodago

Youssef Loudiyi
Chief Artificial Intelligence and Founder, Inspect AI

Hobivola A. Rabearivelo
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, BIEX Health

Mirco Ravanelli
Adjunct Professor, Université de Montréal; Mila, Associate Member; Assistant Professor, Concordia University

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

Dr Jason Behrmann
Senior Director of Marketing & Business Development, Zetane

Taehyun Kim
Chief Strategy Officer, POZAlabs

Patricia Thaine
CEO and Co-Founder, Private AI

Dr Chris Moore
Technology Sector Specialist, UK Department for International Trade (DIT)

Anupam Datta
Co-Founder, President, and Chief ScientistAnupam Datta, TruEra

Amna Habiba
Founder, BloomED Foundation

Quratulain Hussain
CEO, BloomED Foundation

Jeremie Farret
CEO/CTO, Mind in a Box

Victor Pereboom
Co-Founder and CTO, UbiOps

Parasvil Patel
Partner, Radical Ventures

Sarah Blair
Manager of Outreach and Engagement, Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)

Wade Mccallum
CEO, Ogma-Tech

Bruce Gustafson
President and CEO, Developers Alliance

Patrick Seguin
Outreach and Marketing, Innovative Solutions Canada

Keith Griffis
Executive Director of Marketing, Surgical Endoscopy and Systems Integration, Olympus Corporation of the Americas

Dennis Mcwilliams
Partner, SANTÉ

Georgios Depastas
Co-founder & CEO, Lerna AI

Eddie Zhou
Software Engineer, Glean Technologies

Francois Chabot
Co-Founder, Technology, AI Redefined (AIR)

Bruno Morel
CTO, OROHealth

Dhanya Sridhar
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Core academic member

Pascal St-Onge
Manager, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal - CHUM

Aidan Gomez
Co-Founder & CEO, Cohere

Jordan Jacobs
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Radical Ventures

Mike Leslie
Co-Founder, Business Lead, Revela Systems

David Van Bruwaene
Founder and CEO, Fairly AI

Stuart Maiden
Product Manager and Lead Data Scientist, Fairly AI

Giovanni Leoni
Head of Business Development, Credo AI

Peter Hallinan
Leader, Responsible AI, AWS

Kristine Pearce
Principal ML Business Development Manager, AWS

Meena Thandavarayan
AI/ML Specialist, AWS

Michael Hwang
Co-Founder, Datumo

Sponsors & Partners

2023 Partners

HEADLINE CITY HOST PARTNER:
• Ville de Montréal

CITY PARTNER:
• Tourisme Montréal

HEADLINE AI INNOVATION PARTNER:
• AWS

HEADLINE STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• Accenture

HEADLINE NLP PARTNER:
• Cohere

GOLD EVENT PARTNERS:
• Zetane Systems
• CAE

SILVER EVENT PARTNERS:
• UbiOps
• TruEra
• UK Government
• Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)
• Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC)

BRONZE EVENT PARTNERS:
• Standards Council of Canada
• POZAlabs
• Private AI
• Prodago
• Ogma
• CLIKA
• Developers Alliance
• AI Redefined (AIR)
• FAIRLY AI
• Mind in a Box
• Glean

START-UP EVENT PARTNERS:
• Net AI
• BIEX Health
• InspectAI
• Datumo
• Revela Systems
• AAVAA
• Credo AI

BRANDING PARTNER:
• keyrus