Deep Learning pioneer and award winning AI researcher. Scientific Director, Mila-Quebec AI Research Institute.

Founding Chair, Program Architect of the AI on a Social Mission Conference. Lawyer, member of the AI Advisory Council of Canada.

A/ Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Policy, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development. Leads files on Data and AI and policy with a diverse background environmental, economic, and national security policy.

First Counsellor at Consulate General of the Republic of Kenya (acting her personal capacity), diplomacy, intergovernmental relations and multilateral policy development, founder of Adaptive Leadership Foundation.

Lawyer, Resposible AI Strategy Director, Borealis AI

Industry expert and advisor in Data, Data and AI Governance, Applied AI, Emerging Technologies and Innovation. Member of the ISED Economic Strategy. Data and IP strategies.

Indonesia’s Public Policy Independent Advisor (Technology and Telecommunication)

Associate researcher of GobLab, Chile

Director, Institute of Future and Innovation Studies. John Cabot University, Rome. Focus on international collaboration, transdisciplinary research, and dialogue on emerging and future innovations.

Senior Policy Analyst for Internet Policy Unit, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Policy and advocacy specialist, UNICEF Canada, director at the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children. Steering committee of Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty

Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Her main area of research focuses on the impact of new technologies on human rights

Senior researcher, UN University in Macau

Attorney-at-law, admitted in Japan (bengoshi) and New York, Partner with Atsumi & Sakai, and Guest Professor at Osaka University, Japan.

Manager, Institute for Co-operative Education, Concordia, Serious Game Designer

AI & Ethics. Diversity. Social Enterprise. I Founder, Ethically Aligned AI I Host of AI4Society Dialogues podcast

Foresight Studio, imagines transformative industry futures, providing perspectives on perimeter technological possibilities, and developing tools to help decision-makers navigate change and uncertainty

Research Scientist, Hugging Face, WG Member on AI ethics and SDGs, Canada Commision for UNESCO

President and CEO at Frontier College / Ambassadrice du Groupe des Trente / 2022 CBC Black Changemaker

Banting Postdoctoral Fellow and sociocultural anthropologist, Concordia University. Social relationality and Boasian anthropology of Interior Salish St‘át‘imc fisheries and water governance, Indigenous rights, decolonial research methods

20 years + in natural resource industries in 20+ countries, building bridges between Brazil and Canada with a focus on sustainability

Intellectual Property and Investment Law Specialist

Senior Research Fellow at Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Food & Agricultural Law, Intl Trade, Gender

Diplomat and public servant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya with 20+ years in diplomacy, intergovernmental relations and multilateral policy development

PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information. They study the governance and ethics of artificial intelligence, with a particular interest in how stakeholder values and value chains influence AI governance outcomes

Accepted proposal on AI and Data Governance of Oil and Gas Production

Advocacy and gender coordinator, International Financial Institutions, Advocacy & Gender Coordinator, Oxfam (acting as a respondent in her personal capacity)

Senior researcher, UN University in Macau

Lawyer, Certified Mediator, Inter-arts professional, AI Policy and Governance Advisor

Co-Founder, INQ Law

President Private Investment, Axelys

Chief of Staff to CEO, Microsoft

Associate CEO, Executive Office, CHUM (Montreal University Hospital Center)

Professor & Director, Center for Research in Computation and Society, Harvard University

Research Chair and Professor, Social Media Analytics and Social Information Retrieval, Toronot Metropolitan University

Senior Full Time Lecturer, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management & Author, Purposeful Empathy

Fellow on Arts and Society, Metcalf Foundation, Artistic Director, Gros Morne Summer Music

Professor, Responsible AI, Umea University, Director, Wallenburg Program on Humanities and Society for AI

Founder, Code F., Member Advisory Group, Canadian Securities Administrators

PHD Student and Researcher, Future of Work, HEC, Research Award Fellow in Networked Economies, IDRC

Co-Founder, CEO, Nectar Technologies

VP, Digital Investments Technology, Royal Bank of Canada

Director, Granting and Philantropy, Montreal Arts Council

Founder, AI4Nomads, AI Ethics Researcher

Full Professor, Software Engineering and IT Department (NLP), Ecole de Technologie Supérieure,

CEO, Benefits Data Trust

Professor, Law Faculty, Montreal University, Director, Cyberjustice Laboratory

Portfolio Strategist, Competitive Market Analysis, IBM

Executive Director, Chantier de l’économie sociale, Co-Director, Territoires innovants en économie sociale et solidaire

Intellectual Property and Investment Law Specialist, Senior Consulting Advisor, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Lawyer, Technology Specialist, Senior Legal Counsel, RenoRun

Head, Borealis AI, Co-Chair, AI Advisory Council of Canada