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[[Image:Valerie Gideon photo.png|150px|Valerie Gideon]]

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[[Image:Gina-headshot-610-cropped.jpg|150px|Gina Wilson]]

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<h2>Speakers</h2>

<h2>Speakers</h2>

[[Image:Kara Beckles.png|150px|Kara Beckles]]

[[Image:Kaveh AFSHAR-ZANJANI photo.jpg|150px|Kaveh Afshar-Zanjani]]

<h3>Kara Beckles</h3>

<h3>Kaveh Afshar-Zanjani</h3>

<p class="jobtitle">Director General, Data Integration, Privy Council Office</p>

<p class="jobtitle">Executive Director, Data Strategy, Chief Data Office, Canada Border Service Agency </p>

<p>Kara Beckles is Director General of Data Integration at the Privy Council Office, a position she took on during the summer of 2020. Kara previously held several positions across the Government of Canada, most recently at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as Director General of the Economic Research and Analysis Directorate and Departmental Data Lead. Kara holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in economics and business from the University of Winnipeg and a Master of Arts from Dalhousie University. </p>

<p>Kaveh is the Executive Director, Data Strategy, at Canada Border Service Agency’s Chief Data Office, where he leads strategic planning and implementation of enterprise data and analytics for the Agency. He joined the Agency in Spring 2020 as the Director, Data Science. His expertise is in use of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence to support and drive policy and operational decision making. He has been involved in analytics and data science for over ten years in both academia and government. </p>

<p><strong>[https://wiki.gccollab.ca/Data_Conference_2022_Agenda Emcee for Data Conference 2022]</strong></p>

 

<p>Before joining CBSA, Kaveh worked at Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Chief Data Office, where he led the development of Departmental Data and Analytics Strategy. He has worked at a number of other Government of Canada departments, including the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Employment Social Development Canada. He is a graduate of McGill, uOttawa, and Queen’s University. </p>

 

<p class="jobtitle">Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Specialist, Legal Innovation, Blue J</p>

<p>Benjamin Alarie, M.A. (Toronto), J.D. (Toronto), LL.M. (Yale) is an expert in tax law, judicial decision-making, machine learning, and the future of law and technology. Before joining the Faculty of Law, Professor Alarie was a graduate fellow at Yale Law School (2002-2003) and a law clerk for Madam Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada (2003-2004). Over the years his publications have appeared in numerous academic journals, including the British Tax Review, the Canadian Tax Journal, and the American Business Law Journal. His research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. He is coauthor of several editions of Canadian Income Tax Law (LexisNexis) and was awarded the Alan Mewett QC Prize for Excellence by the JD class of 2009. He is co-author (with Andrew J. Green) of the leading study of comparative empirical supreme court decision-making practices, Cooperation and Commitment on High Courts (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is an affiliated faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. </p>

 

<p>Professor Alarie is co-founder and CEO of Blue J, a leading North American legal tech company specializing in artificial intelligence, legal prediction, and intelligent diagramming. He combines academic scholarship with legal technology through his monthly column in Tax Notes, entitled Blue J Predicts, where he analyzes recently decided and pending U.S. tax cases using machine learning. An educational Hot Docs / uDocs documentary, The A.I. Taxman, recounts the early Blue J story and outlines a vision of how artificial intelligence is likely to affect tax law in the coming decades. </p>

 

<p>Professor Alarie is co-author (with Abdi Aidid) of The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better (University of Toronto Press, 2023), available from Amazon and the University of Toronto Press. See some of the book’s pre-publication press: Law360, the University of Toronto. </p>

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<h2>Moderators</h2>

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[[Image:S_Burt.jpg|150px|Stephen Burt]]

[[Image:S_Burt.jpg|150px|Stephen Burt]]

<h3>Stephen Burt</h3>

<h3>Stephen Burt</h3>

<p class="jobtitle">Assistant Deputy Minister, Data, Innovation, Analytics, Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces</p>

<p class="jobtitle">Chief Data Officer of Canada, and Assistant Deputy Minister of Digital Policy and Performance</p>

<p>Stephen Burt is the Assistant Deputy Minister (Data, Innovation, Analytics) for the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces. He is also an active member of data community of the Government of Canada, and led the creation of the Chief Data Officer Council. As an organization, ADM(DIA) works to ensure that data are leveraged in all Defence programs to enhance capabilities and decision-making, and to provide an information advantage in military operations. Mr. Burt holds an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Ottawa, and a Master’s in Public Administration from Queen’s University. </p>

<p>In March 2022, Stephen Burt was appointed Chief Data Officer for the Government of Canada, at the Treasury Board Secretariat.  His mandate is to provide leadership within the federal government across all aspects of managing information and data.  This includes protective policy elements for privacy and responsible use of data-driven technologies, and policy elements related to transparency such as access to information and open government, including GC enterprise tools for data and information sharing.  The CDO also oversees policy and guidance for data-enabled digital services and programs, including foundational information management and data governance practices across federal departments. </p>

<p>Participating in <strong>[https://wiki.gccollab.ca/Data_Conference_2022_Agenda#Information_enabled_data_sharing Information-enabled data sharing]</strong></p>

 

<p>Prior to this appointment, Mr. Burt was the functional authority for data governance and analytics capability for the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF). He drove the analytics adoption and maturity throughout DND/CAF, and led the department-wide initiative to establish analytics and data governance. </p>

 

<p>Mr. Burt began his career in the Government of Canada in 1997 with Revenue Canada.  In 1999, he joined DND, where he worked in a variety of policy, operational and defence intelligence roles, including two years as Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister. </p>

 

<p>Mr. Burt moved to the Privy Council Office (PCO) in 2007 to work in the Security and Intelligence Secretariat as Senior Advisor on National Security.  In that role, he was secretary for the committees of the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister.  In 2009, he joined the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat (IAS) at PCO, and held positions as Director for Afghanistan and, later, for Asia.  Mr. Burt was appointed Director of Operations for the IAS in January 2012, and took on the position of Assistant Secretary on an acting basis in March 2014. </p>

 

<p>In April 2015, Mr. Burt assumed the role of Assistant Chief of Defence Intelligence at Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, where he led the federated production of intelligence within DND/CAF, and oversaw defence intelligence policy. </p>

 

<p>Mr. Burt has an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Ottawa, as well as a Master’s in Public Administration from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. </p>

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