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=== Karen Eltis ===

=== Karen Eltis ===

'''Awaiting TItle'''<br>

'''Law Professor, University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society'''<br>

Karen Eltis is a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society and a Full Professor of Law within the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. She is a past Affiliate with Princeton’s CITP (Center for Information Technology Policy) 2016-2018. A past director of the uOttawa Human Rights Centre, Karen Eltis specializes in artificial intelligence/ innovation law and policy and cybersecurity from a comparative perspective. She served as Senior Advisor to the National Judicial Institute and has taught at Columbia Law School. Fluent in French, English, Hebrew, Spanish and Romanian and proficient in German and Italian, Karen Eltis holds law degrees from McGill University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Ottawa, Karen was a litigation associate in New York City. Her research was twice cited by the Supreme Court of Canada (in the landmark case A.B. v. Bragg, 2012  and in '''Quebec (Attorney General) v. 9147-0732 Québec''' inc. 2020 SCC 32) and other Canadian and foreign courts. Karen’s latest book is titled “Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age: Second Edition” (Irwin Law, 2016) supported by the CIRA grant. Her research on Artificial Intelligence and Expression is supported by the Foundation for Legal Research.

Karen Eltis is a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society and a Full Professor of Law within the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. She is a past Affiliate with Princeton’s CITP (Center for Information Technology Policy) 2016-2018. A past director of the uOttawa Human Rights Centre, Karen Eltis specializes in artificial intelligence/ innovation law and policy and cybersecurity from a comparative perspective. She served as Senior Advisor to the National Judicial Institute and has taught at Columbia Law School. Fluent in French, English, Hebrew, Spanish and Romanian and proficient in German and Italian, Karen Eltis holds law degrees from McGill University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Ottawa, Karen was a litigation associate in New York City. Her research was twice cited by the Supreme Court of Canada (in the landmark case A.B. v. Bragg, 2012  and in '''Quebec (Attorney General) v. 9147-0732 Québec''' inc. 2020 SCC 32) and other Canadian and foreign courts. Karen’s latest book is titled “Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age: Second Edition” (Irwin Law, 2016) supported by the CIRA grant. Her research on Artificial Intelligence and Expression is supported by the Foundation for Legal Research.

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=== Ray Wang ===

=== Ray Wang ===

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'''Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman, Constellation Research Inc.''' <br>

R “Ray” Wang (pronounced WAHNG) is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., a research and advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential technology trends.

R “Ray” Wang (pronounced WAHNG) is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., a research and advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential technology trends.

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=== Abhishek Gupta ===

=== Armughan Ahmad ===

'''AI Ethics Researcher, McGill University''' <br>

'''Managing Partner and President, Digital Solutions, KPMG''' <br>

Abhishek Gupta is the Founder and Principal Researcher at the [https://montrealethics.ai Montreal AI Ethics Institute] and a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft where he serves on the CSE Responsible AI Board. He is representing Canada for the International Visitor Leaders Program (IVLP) administered by the US State Department as an expert on the future of work. He is the author of the forthcoming book titled [https://atg-abhishek.github.io/actionable-ai-ethics Actionable AI Ethics] that will be a practical and hands-on guide for operationalizing AI ethics.

Armughan Ahmad is a President & Managing Partner, Digital at KPMG. He leads the  

 

commercial and public sector clients. KPMG is bridging the consulting services with

He additionally serves on the AI Advisory Board for Dawson College and is an Associate Member of the LF AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation. Abhishek is also a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum and a member of the Banff Forum. He is a Faculty Associate at the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at the Goethe University, an AI Ethics Mentor for Acorn Aspirations and an AI Ethics Expert at Ethical Intelligence Co. He is the Responsible AI Lead for the Data Advisory Council at the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. He is a guest lecturer at the McGill University School of Continuing Studies for the Data Science in Business Decisions course on the special topic of AI Ethics. He is a Subject Matter Expert in AI Ethics for the Certified Ethical Emerging Technologies group at CertNexus. He is also a course creator and instructor for the Coursera Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist courses. He's the Founding Editorial Board Member at the Springer Nature AI and Ethics Journal.  

mainstream and exponential technologies to deliver business function level

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customer experiences. Before joining KPMG, he served as the Senior Vice President 

 

& General Manager at Dell Technologies, where he led the company’s Global Cloud,  

His research focuses on applied technical and policy methods to address ethical, safety and inclusivity concerns in using AI in different domains. He has built the largest community driven, public consultation group on AI Ethics in the world that has made significant contributions to the Montreal Declaration for Responsible AI, the G7 AI Summit, AHRC and WEF Responsible Innovation framework, PIPEDA amendments for AI impacts, Scotland’s national AI strategy and the European Commission Trustworthy AI Guidelines. His work on public competence building in AI Ethics has been recognized by governments from North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. More information on his work can be found at https://atg-abhishek.github.io

Solutions and Alliances organization with a team of engineering, sales, marketing

and customer success organization across North American, European and Asian 

markets. Before Dell Tech, he held executive positions at Hewlett Packard, Huawei 

3Com and other technology firms. <br><br>

Armughan serves on the advisory board of Future Skills Center, Queens 

University’s AI and Analytics board, and the Dean’s Advisory Council for University 

of Waterloo. He is a passionate promoter of girls’ STEAM education, mental health 

awareness and homelessness resettlement programs.  

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=== Vernon von Finckenstein ===

=== Taki Sarantakis ===

'''Executive Director, Core Services Advisor – Core Services Enablement Team (CSET), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat''' <br>

'''President, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>

Vernon has over twenty years’ experience in the Information Technology Industry within Government Central Agencies and core and large departments (National Defence, Public Works and Employment and Social Development Canada) where he has performed a variety of large multi-year transformations and implementations of large digital platforms. Due to his deep background in transformation and data, Vernon was recruited to the policy center of Federal Government start a project to develop “a whole of government” interoperability platform which further lead Vernon, as the Chief Architect of the Government of Canada, to explore disruptive technologies such as AI, Blockchain and Open technologies culminating in the GC Digital Standards. Recently, Vernon lead the NextGen initiative where he began the adventure of developing an Agile Procurement to approach to collaboratively work with Industry to develop a Digital Solution to replace the failing Phoenix system. Currently, Vernon acts as the Core Services Advisor helping the largest transformation initiatives develop new practices that leverage or challenge existing policy through a dedicated committee of Deputy Ministers.

Taki Sarantakis has been President of the Canada School of Public Service since July 2018, having previously served as Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Mr. Sarantakis spent most of his career at Infrastructure Canada, including as Assistant Deputy Minister of Policy and Communications. <br><br>

 

In 2011 Mr. Sarantakis was awarded Canada's Public Service Award of Excellence in Public Policy, and in 2013 he was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. <br><br>

 

Prior to joining the federal government, Mr. Sarantakis was a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. from York University in Toronto, as well as an Executive Certificate in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a graduate of the Rotman School of Management's Institute of Corporate Directors Education Program, holding the ICD.D designation.

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