AI Squared Forum

AI Squared is a forum for facilitating dialogues across boundaries in the AI industry, such as academia and industry boundary, startup / incumbents boundary, and geographical boundary. In 2019, with the theme "AI In Action", the forum encouraged collaborations between incumbents and startups in following areas: Theme 1 - How startups and incumbents... faced/solved different AI challenges Theme 2 - The latest AI research trends that might be commercialized Theme 3 - How AI talents and enterprises can work seamlessly together In 2018, under the theme of "AI opportunities for research collaboration and partnerships", we engaged innovators, entrepreneurs and academia to across Canada and China to discuss a wide ranges of AI topics, and received great responses from all participants (Click here for details ) 2019 Speakers and Exhibition Participants from Universities and Companies: 2019 Invited Speakers Graham Taylor Graham Taylor is a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Guelph. He directs the University of Guelph Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical AI and is a member of the Vector Institute for AI. He has co-organized the annual CIFAR Deep Learning Summer School, and trained more than 60 students and researchers on AI-related projects. In 2016 he was named as one of 18 inaugural CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars. In 2018 he was honoured as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40. In 2019 he was named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. He spent 2018-2019 as a Visiting Faculty member at Google Brain, Montreal. Graham co-founded Kindred, which was featured at number 29 on MIT Technology Review's 2017 list of smartest companies in the world. He is the Academic Director of NextAI, a non-profit accelerator for AI-focused entrepreneurs.Read More