Invited and featured speakers from the Canadian AI Conference, the Conference on Robots and Vision, and AI/CRV workshops.
Canadian AI Conference
Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown
University of British Columbia
Algorithm synthesis with theoretical guarantees
More info (CAIAC)Conference on Robots and Vision — Keynotes
Conference on Robots and Vision — Symposium Speakers
Data and Model Protection in Generative AI — Invited Speakers
Jekaterina Novikova
Vanguard Group
Yangyi Liu
Vanguard Group
Sirisha Rambhatla
University of Waterloo
Mathias Lécuyer
University of British Columbia
Linyi Li
Simon Fraser University
Sébastien Gambs
Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal; Canada Research Chair in Privacy-preserving and Ethical Analysis of Big Data
Elliot Creager
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Data and Model Protection in Generative AI — Student Speakers
Mohammadreza Maleki
Toronto Metropolitan University
Zhihao Li
Western University
Eliott Baltz
Université du Québec (ÉTS); Mila
Vaishali Meyappan
Toronto Metropolitan University
AI and Biology
Wyeth Wasserman
Professor, Medical Genetics; Vice Dean Research, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Jiarui Ding
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Archer Yang
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Bahareh Tolooshams
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta; Amii Fellow
Amin Emad
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Michael Hoffman
Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (UHN); Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Qihuang Zhang
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
Lazar Atanackovic
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta; Amii Fellow
AI Strategy and Governance in Business
Blaize Reich
Simon Fraser University
Terri Griffith
Simon Fraser University
Samantha Seto
Simon Fraser University
Aishwarya Deep Shukla
Simon Fraser University
Beyond the Hype: Building AI Strategy for the Future
Rachel Barker
Co-Founder & CEO, Novametra
Rob Goehring
Executive Director, AI Network of BC; CEO & Founder, Wisr AI
Vineel Nagisetty
Research Engineer, RBC Borealis
Chaitanya "CK" Kaligotla
Assistant Professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
AI in Banking and Financial Services
Thibaut Duprey
Senior Director, Financial Stability Department, Bank of Canada
Hossein Hajimirsadeghi
Principal Researcher, RBC Borealis
Industry Track
Kris Krug
BC + AI Ecosystem
Annie Ying
GitLab
Robert Barton
Cisco Systems
Eric Brochu
Microsoft
Eric Oosenbrug
BC Public Service
Annika Rosanowski
Mitacs
Jekaterina Novikova
Vanguard Group
Alka Tandan
Reframe & Refine
Mitu Mann
Interact Corp.
Karsten Kreis
Principal Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research
Newvick Lee
GitLab
Responsible AI Track
Hila Gonen
University of British Columbia
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
University of British Columbia
Nick Vincent
Simon Fraser University
Ife Adebara
University of British Columbia
Alissa Centivany
Western University
Mo Chen
Simon Fraser University
Peter West
University of British Columbia
Kevin Leyton-Brown
University of British Columbia
AI for Science and Sustainability
Angel Chang
Simon Fraser University
Andrew Shao
Hewlett Packard
Kelsey Doerksen
Arizona State University and University of Cape Town
Saifuddin Syed
University of British Columbia
Iuliia Zarubiieva
Vector Institute
Lindsey Heagy
University of British Columbia
AI Policy Forum — Keynote Speakers
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Arizona State University; former Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation
Arvind Gupta
University of Toronto; former President of UBC; former CEO of Mitacs; Member of the Government of Canada's AI Strategy Task Force
AI Policy Forum — Panel Speakers
Daniel Schwanen
Senior Vice President, C.D. Howe Institute
Jing Yang
Managing Director, Bank of Canada
Greg Mori
VP, AI Research and Innovation, RBC Borealis; Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University
Guy Dulude
Vice President, Portfolio Development & Sales Acceleration (Canada), Siemens
Andrew Donaher
Vice President, CGI Vancouver
Justin Watts
Distinguished Engineer, Telus
