2020 WORLD CONGRESS SPEAKERS

AGUS SUDJIANTO

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, HEAD OF CORPORATE MODEL RISK

Wells Fargo & Company

Machine Learning Model Risk Management: Explainability and Robustness

Agus Sudjianto is an executive vice president and head of Corporate Model Risk for Wells Fargo, where he is responsible for enterprise model risk management.
Prior to his current position, Agus was the modeling and analytics director and chief model risk officer at Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom. Before joining Lloyds, he was a senior credit risk executive and head of Quantitative Risk at Bank of America.
Prior to his career in banking, he was a product design manager in the Powertrain Division of Ford Motor Company.
Agus holds several U.S. patents in both finance and engineering. He has published numerous technical papers and is a co-author of Design and Modeling for Computer Experiments. His technical expertise and interests include quantitative risk, particularly credit risk modeling, machine learning and computational statistics.
He holds masters and doctorate degrees in engineering and management from Wayne State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

JIM BALSILLIE

FORMER CHAIRMAN AND CO-CEO

Research In Motion (BlackBerry)

Digital Transformation and its Implications for Canada

Jim Balsillie’s career is unique in Canadian business. He is the former Chairman and co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry), a technology company he scaled from an idea to $20 billion in sales globally. Mr. Balsillie’s private investment office includes global and domestic technology investments and was part of the consortium that recently purchased the Canadian space technology leader MDA.

He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York, the Council of Canadian Innovators based in Toronto, the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, the Centre for Digital Rights; and, the CIO Strategy Council. He currently chairs the boards of CCI, CIGI, and co-Chairs CIOSC. He is also the founder of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Arctic Research Foundation; a member of the Board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Advisory Board of the Stockholm Resilience Centre; an Honorary Captain of the Royal Canadian Navy and an Advisor to Canada School of Public Policy.

Mr. Balsillie was the only Canadian ever appointed to US Business Council and was the private sector representative on the UN Secretary General’s High Panel for Sustainability. His awards include: several honorary degrees, Mobile World Congress Lifetime Achievement Award, India’s Priyadarshni Academy Global Award, Canadian Business Hall of Fame, Time Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential People and three times Barron’s list of "World’s Top CEOs.”

HAMID TIZHOOSH

PROFESSOR

Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo

AI In Medical Imaging

Dr. H.R. Tizhoosh is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo since 2001 where he leads the KIMIA Lab (Laboratory for Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis). Starting in 1993, his research activities encompass artificial intelligence, computer vision, and medical imaging. He has developed algorithms for medical image filtering, segmentation, and search. Presently, he is the AI Advisor of Huron Digital Pathology, St. Jacobs, ON, Canada. As well, he is a faculty affiliate to the Vector Institute, Toronto, where he leads a pathfinder project on using AI in radiology.

ZAKARIYA MUQTADIR

FOUNDER

ZL Technovation

AI in Healthcare Innovation

Zack is a digital health entrepreneur. He has worked with a leading Canadian hospital, a diverse range of healthcare teams to solve some of their biggest challenges. He has received national media coverage for his impactful work with Crohn’s and Colitis Canada where he created a patient focused application which was endorsed by the Mayor of Calgary in July 2015. He is a graduate from McMaster University with a Bachelor's of Health Studies and a Certified Clinical Researcher. He is also an active participant in entrepreneur mentorship programs in the Hamilton to Toronto Corridor.

SAQIB MUHAMMAD

CO-FOUNDER

Resemble AI

AI in Entertainment

Saqib is a McMaster alumni who graduated from the commerce program and co-founded Resemble AI. His company creates Custom Voices using proprietary Deep Learning models that can produce realistic Speech Synthesis. Resemble AI enable brands, media companies, creative agencies, and gaming companies to clone any voice and create dynamic, iterable, and unique voice content. Him and his team secured $2 million in funding from Craft Ventures, Betaworks, AET Fund, and firstminute Capital on December 9, 2019. A few days before the funding announcement, Resemble AI launched Resemble Clone to replicate voices, additionally they offer Rezemblyzer to detect and prevent deep fakes.

HUBERT ETIENNE

PHILOSOPHER SPECIALIZED IN AI ETHICS

Ecole Normale Supérieure

The only right way to address the moral dilemmas deriving from autonomous vehicles

Hubert Etienne is a philosopher specialised in AI ethics completing his PhD at Facebook AI Research and Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a research associate at the Centre for Technology & Global Affairs at Oxford University and a lecturer in AI Ethics at Sciences Po and ESCP Europe. His research is dedicated to the ethics of autonomous vehicles and the new forms of governmentality emerging from machine learning solutions. His publications are available on his personal page (www.hubert-etienne.com)

REY REZVANI

PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR, AI RESEARCH

National Bank of Canada

Women in AI

I graduated in experimental high energy physics in January 2013, from University of Toronto, and did 3 years of post-doctoral research at université
de Montréal. My research at university has been in collaboration with the ATLAS experiment at CERN. I also gained teaching experience through the roles of supervisor of physics graduate students at the university, physics private tutor, physics lab demonstrator, and volunteer teaching assistant in physics and mathematics for high school students.
My past experience also includes working as a senior data scientist at TD Bank and SSENSE Inc. As a lead AI scientist at the National Bank of Canada, I have been responsible for the AI projects in IT and cyber-security, credit risk, and finance sectors. As a senior AI manager, apart from AI model development, I am also responsible for defining methodologies/guidelines for fairness and transparency of AI/AA models at the bank, as well as AI model governance and validation.

SIMONA GANDRABUR

LEAD AI STRATEGY, WEALTH MANAGEMENT

National Bank of Canada

Women in AI vs. Being an AI professional who happens to be a woman

Simona Gandrabur has been working in the general field of AI for close to 20 years, most notably in areas related to processing of human languages – such as automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, machine translation and conversational reasoning. Her experience ranges from many years in research, in the development of smart assistant applications, to defining strategy of AI-based offers. She is currently the head of AI strategy within the Wealth Management division of the National Bank of Canada.