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Hero

Charu Pujari

Senior Vice President, Engineering & Data Science

Loblaws

Erica Ren

CDO

Shared Services Canada

Ozge Yeloglu

VP, Advanced Analytics & AI

CIBC

Erika-Kirsten Easton

Chief Data Officer

Transport Canada (Public Sector Track Chair)

Luciano Miranda

Vice President , Analytics & Insights with AI | Global Enterprise Operations

Medtronic

Tezbir Singh

Managing Director and Head of Data & Analytics Capabilities

BMO Financial Group

Eugene Wen

VP & Global Chief Data Science Officer

Manulife

Maurice Leon

Director, Data Assets & Management

CIBC Mellon

Andre Rekhtine

Former Head of IT, Alpha Auto Group. Enterprise Governance & Digital Transformation Advisor

Alpha Auto Group

Kerry Khoo Fazari

Head of Data Science and Engineering, Chief Data Office

RBC

Ben Kosic

Chief Information Officer

Alberta Securities Commission

Alexandra Flatt

Executive Vice President, Health System Intelligence

Provincial Health Services Authority

Nabarun Lahiri

Head of Data Management

TD Securities

Mona Hassanzadeh

Director, Data Science and Innovation, Enterprise Analytics & Data

Meridian

Fartash Haghani

Director of Enterprise Data & AI

City of Toronto

Sandeep Agarwal

Sr. Director of Technology

Scotiabank

Samuel Collins

Director of AI Fabric

Bell

Manish Verma

Digital Excellence Manager

EMD Serono

Jean Gardy Victor

Research Partner

Export and Development Canada

Iyyad Jariri

Associate Vice President, Data Engineering

Interac Corp

Ramila Peiris

Global Head, Data Management, ML & AI Platform

Sanofi

Alex Chan

Senior Director, Head of Analytics

RBCX (Analytics & BI Track Chair)

Vera Cvetkovic

Head of Marketing Operations, Data & Analytics

Canada Post

Ross Gadzella

Business Intelligence Manager

Great Western Brewing Company

Sayantan Ghosh

Senior Engineering Manager, Feed Data Platform

LinkedIn

Ayush Aggarwal

Director, Data Architecture & Analytics

Gateway Services

Taufiq Hakim

Director, Data Governance

Capreit

Juan Carlos Cabanillas

Senior Manager, Workforce Analytics & Strategic Planning

Cenovus

Murugan Boominathan

Senior MES Analyst

Magna International

Nidhi Sharma

Senior Manager of Software Engineering

Cox Automotive

Maliha Sultana

Senior AI Engineer, Centre for AI

AstraZeneca

Thimantha Vidanagamage

Senior Data Engineer

OMERS

Diponkar Paul

President

Toronto Data Professionals Community

Alexander Chernov

Associate Principal Data Engineer

AstraZeneca

Ali Jilani

Senior Product Manager

Bell

Ashraf Ghonaim

Analytics Consultant

City of Toronto

Nipun Sharma

Lead, Product Risk-Enterprise Risk Management

Interac

Dr. Hassan Baz Chamas, MSc, PhD

Associate Dean, Master of Data Analytics

University of Niagara Falls Canada

Dan Bordenave

CEO

Niagara Innovation Hub

Doug Harrison

Head of Canada

Daitaku

Richard Wing

Senior Director, Strategy, Innovation & Enterprise Analytics

LCBO

⁠Neha Balooja

Sr. Manager Channel Performance and Marketing Analytics

Rogers Bank

Dave Skura

AVP Data Technical Architecture

IGM Financial

Robert Burns

Commissioning and Operations Director

Crosslinx

Furkan Kaya

Commissioning Data Manager

Crosslinx Transit Solutions Constructors

David Dichmann

VP Product Marketing

Cloudera

Santhosh Sharma Ananthramu

Vice-President, Data Sciences and AI Lab

Sagen

Abhinav Narayanan

Team Lead, Data & AI Advocacy

Geotab

Tim Morton

Co-Founder

Prompta AI

David Gloyn-Cox

Director

DAMA-Vancouver BC Chapter

Dragos Capan

AVP, Data Analytics, Audit and Advisory Services

Manulife

Daniel Capriles

Director Advanced Analytics & AI

BDC

Andrea Yzeiri

Chief Data & Analytics Officer and Lead AI Engineer

Picsume

Chris Patterson

Head of Enterprise AI Platforms and Solutions

CIBC

⁠Everett Moseley

Director of Data Engineering & AI

Bell Canada

Diane Johnston

Director, AI Strategic Planning

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Beatrice Bu

Staff Engineer of AI/ML

Telus

Dr. Patty Zakaria

Associate Professor in the Master of Data Analytics

University of Niagara Falls Canada

Dima Spivak

VP Product

IBM watsonx

Josh Good

Vice President, Strategy & Market Development

Qlik

Julia Olmstead

Senior Customer Engineer

Collibra

Terry Dorsey

Senior Data & AI Evangelist

Denodo Technologies

Adam Gunther

Vice President and General Manager, Vertica

Rocket Software

Dr Gurpinder Dhillon

Head of Data & AI Ecosystem

Senzing

Kristi Boyd

Senior Trustworthy AI Specialist

SAS

Jan Kestle

President and Founder

Environics Analytics

Ali Sheraz

Director of Engineering

OpsGuru

Hillary Guillaumin

Senior Sales Engineering Manager

Rocket Software

Professor Ayesha Ali

Director, Master of Data Science

University of Guelph

Yatharth Sejpal

CEO

Knowidea

Farid Sheikhi

Sr. Manager, Analytics

RBCx

Gopi Balasingam

Chief Architect and Head of Engineering

Manulife

Edward Thommes

Director of Strategy and Operations

AI4Casting Hub

Professor John Wilder

Teaching Professor & AI Faculty Lead

Northeastern University

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