Upside Foundation | Why is it important to build social responsibility into your business?12/4/2019  Our team joined The Upside Foundation of Canada in the fall, to support for Dixon Hall by packing 500 hygiene kits. We also took part of a video!
We are joined by Wattpad, Nudge.ai, TribalScale, Zoom.ai xocial.com, Willful, SpaceiShare Inc., and us! ODAIA who contributed to the video! Upside Foundation is helping scaling Canadian startup founders make a difference in the world by giving back to the charities of their choice through donating equity instead of cash. Check out this Forward video to hear directly from some of the amazing founders who having pre-committed equity in their businesses. https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17846116396728043/ #TheUpsideFoundation #ODAIA #PhilipPoulidis #HelenKontozopoulos #GivingBack #Canada
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 Panel: Creative Ways to Collect & Use Data for AI Helen Ngo, ML Engineer, Dessa Sarah Sun, Chief Data Strategist, GoldSpot Discoveries Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-Founder, ODAIA.AI Moderator: Rogayeh Tabrizi, CEO, Theory & Practice Date: November 22, 2019 Time: 2:30pm Location: The Carlu, Toronto, Canada Link: https://torontomachinelearning.com/2019-conference/#schedule  #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ProductDevelopment #AIsaas #Toronto #Canada #WomeninTech #TMLS2019 #HelenKontozopoulos
 Ensuring Diversity & Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence Date: November 14, 2019 Time: 6 - 9pm Location: Element AI, Toronto, Canada Host: AI4Good, Element AI, Real Ventures About the panel: “Ensuring Diversity and Inclusion in AI” is an opportunity to learn about the need for diversity throughout the technology sector, with a focus on the effects of a lack of representation in advanced technology sector such as AI. The event will feature a panel of founders and research leaders who are working towards bringing representation to the technology that shapes are lives. Discussion will center around the effects of the current status quo, how to change the face of technology, and what can be done to overcome the biases already in the system. The event will be hosted at Element AI and will provide time to network with those driven towards inciting change throughout the technology sector. Panelists: Anna Klimbovskaia is the COO & co-founder of Diversio, a technology company that leverages data to analyze, improve, and track diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She was formerly Director of Research for the Office of the CEO at the Royal Bank of Canada, where she led RBC’s thought leadership on the Future of Work and developed RBCUpSkill, a digital tool helping Canadians build resiliency in an age of AI and workplace automation. Anna is an Advisor for the Pan-Canadian K-12 Computer Science Education Framework, a joint initiative between Canada Learning Code, Amazon and the Government of Canada. Helen Kontozopoulos is the co-founder of ODAIA.ai a consumer journey predictive analytics platform created out of The University of Toronto in 2018. She is an Adjunct Professor at the UofT, where she teaches product development, design, and entrepreneurship. She also co-founded an innovation lab out of the Department of Computer Science, where she helped students use AI and emerging technology to create commercial ready products. Lara O'Donnell is the Director of Research at Element AI, a Canadian AI software and solutions provider that has deep roots in conducting fundamental and applied research. At Element AI, Lara focuses on building relationships with academic and research organizations that share common research interests and values and turning these relationships into tangible activities. Prior to this, Lara was a Senior Director of Research at CIFAR, an organization dedicated to tackling questions of global importance such as diversity and inclusion, through the creation of global, interdisciplinary teams of the world's top scholars. Kishawna Peck is the Founder of Toronto Women in Data Science, an organization that holds an annual conference and events that demonstrate the broad applications of data science across different industries and sheds light on the career journeys of women in data science. Everyone is invited to participate in the conference, which features exclusively female speakers. She is also an analytics professional currently working as a Manager of Financial Data Analytics at HomeStars. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology and for building diverse talent pipelines for data science and other advanced technology fields.  #AI #Speaker #Diversity #ArtificialIntelligence #ElementAI #ODAIAai #Toronto #Canada #AIinEthics #Ethics #HelenKontozopoulos
AI Stream at Elevate 2019 Conversations about artificial intelligence are often focused on future promise – the world that AI will build. But what does AI mean in 2019? Date & Time: Wed, Sept 25, 10:00AM-4:00PM Location: MaRS Centre, Toronto, Canada About: Elevate AI will investigate the commercialization and practical application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning right now. At Elevate AI, academics, startup founders, and corporate leaders will discuss the AI-powered products that are being built, shipped, and sold today. Guests should expect sessions where today’s AI leaders show their work and speak openly about the ethical and practical challenges they face in their industry. Event link: https://elevate.ca/events/ai/ Media: U of T researchers, entrepreneurs to showcase work at Elevate 2019 tech festival https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-entrepreneurs-showcase-work-elevate-2019-tech-festival     #Elevate2019 #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MADMEN #MATHMEN #Marketing #Sales #Speaker #Toronto #Canada #Elevate
 September 14, 2019 @ FITC.CA
Toronto, Canada Overview What do you think of when we say “AI team”? Does it include you? This presentation will discuss how an AI digital transformation within an organization requires various stakeholders from data scientists and machine learning engineers, creative, business, marketing, sales, and customer service to work together. To successfully create and integrate artificial intelligence services into applications will need diverse teams with various backgrounds who can understand and empathize with their diverse customers and users. https://fitc.ca/presentation/building-ai-products-for-humans-why-math-men-still-need-mad-men/ ObjectiveTo talk about the battle between the AI Team and the rest of us. Target Audience Business, marketing, sales, creative Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
September 13, 2019
Overview A new format for Web Unleashed, the roundtable sessions are a group discussion used to workshop ideas, solve real-world problems, and allow for all voices to be heard. Helen Kontozopoulos will lead a discussion on the practical uses of AI, especially in the creative and marketing fields. https://fitc.ca/presentation/roundtable-practical-ai-ml-applications-in-creative-and-marketing/ Topics Discussed
 Hosted by UX/D Toronto and FITCJoin us for this networking lunch for the Toronto UX community as part of the FITC Web Unleashed 2019 conference.
Date: Friday, September 13 Time: 1pm - 2pm Location: Hilton, Toronto Share experiences, discuss solutions to tough problems, and discover new opportunities with attendees and speakers from FITC Web Unleashed 2019. This is a great opportunity to meet designers, developers, directors, and students who are building and developing the exciting field that is UX. As the UX field continues to grow, the opportunities are numerous for building your career or joining the field. This is the lunch for you to connect and learn more. Your host - Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-founder, ODAIA FITC Web Unleashed speakers who will be attending: Catt Small, Senior Product Designer, Etsy Carl Sziebert, Staff UX Engineer, Google #UX #CustomerJourneys #UXDesign #UXCareers  Technology is changing and evolving, and with it, there is more data being collected about us and the world in general. Public and private lives are available in databases, but what is being done to safeguard our privacy? Are we exchanging our digital lives for something worthwhile, and is the data being used ethically?
 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2019 Building on the 2019 theme of International Women’s Day, “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change,” the Law Society of Ontario, in partnership with the Barbra Schlifer Clinic, Women Lawyers Forum Section of the Ontario Bar Association, Women’s Law Association of Ontario, Canadian Association of Women Executives and Entrepreneurs, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund and the Criminal Lawyer Association, is hosting an event focused on Artificial Intelligence, unconscious bias and social change. Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Program: 5:45 – 7:15 p.m. Networking Reception: 7:15 – 8:30 p.m. Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen St. W., Toronto Please enter through the east-side doors facing Nathan Phillips Square. This program qualifies for 1.5 EDI hours. RSVP (Please indicate on your registration form that you are with WLAO.) https://lawsociety.forms-db.com/view.php?id=135399 equityevents@lso.ca| 416-947-3413 | 1-800-668-7380, ext. 3413. Photographs and video taken at this public event will be used in Law Society and partner organization print and online publications. Speaker Biography:Valentine Goddard (Moderator) Valentine Goddard is a recognized expert on the ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence (AI). She founded the AI on a Social Mission Conference, an event designed to facilitate a cross sectoral and multidisciplinary dialogue on the ethical and social implications of AI. She is also the founder of Artificial Intelligence Impact Alliance (AIIA), a non-profit aimed at empowering civil society organizations with machine learning as well as driving policy towards an ethical and sustainable implementation of AI. As a lawyer and certified mediator, she has practiced refugee, labour, social and administrative law in addition to lobbying for a better access to justice. She has taught comparative law in Japan as well as initiated and funded cultural mediation projects aimed at human rights education. In short, human dignity is at the heart of her multidisciplinary approach to nurturing the development of AI for Social Good. Helen Kontozopoulos (Panelist) Helen Co-Founded ODAIA, an AI SaaS sales optimization and customer journey analytics platform for enterprise companies. ODAIA is a startup out of the University of Toronto. She teaches at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Computer Science (St.George campus) and Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (Scarborough Campus), where she teaches product development, design, and entrepreneurship. Since being on the UofT/IBM Watson teaching team in 2014, she has been working on researching the relationship between human behaviour and artificial intelligence. To Anh Tran (Panelist) To Anh Tran is a senior corporate digital executive with more than 15 years of industry experience and an impressive record of accomplishment as Global CIO, Managing Director, SVP of Global Business Transformation, Global VP of Operations and Head of Digital Client Experience in powerhouse organizations like General Electric Power Systems, DundeeWealth Corporation, ForStar Group, OANDA FX and Future Electronics. Most recently To Anh has been operating her own Strategic Advisory Management Consulting practice and currently assisting the Canada federal government in the advisory capacity in driving innovation and investing in Canadian start-ups, SMEs and global corporations. Her current portfolio clients consists of a mix of incubators, accelerators and high growth in : Fintech, Manufacturing, Telecom, Legal, and Healthcare covering emerging technologies : Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, AI, Virtual Reality(VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Quantum and Cloud Computing/SaaS and Digital Mobile Payments. Anh graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of in Computer Science in Software Engineering and from College de Maisonneuve with a degree in Pure and Applied Science. She graduated from Canadian Board Education program and is servicing several Boards for the last 8 years.    Photo: Nathan Taback, Helen Kontozopoulos, Mark Girolami, Nancy Reid  Event: Industry Day: Data Science and AI (Part of the Statistical Inference, Learning and Models in Data Science Conference) Date: September 28, 2018 Location: MaRS Discovery District (101 College St, Toronto) Agenda: 9am Opening Remarks Nancy Reid, University Professor of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory and Applications, Director, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-Founder, Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab, University of Toronto. 9:10am Opening Keynote, Mark Girolami, Imperial College London and The Alan Turing Institute 10:10am Plenary talk, Hilary Parker, Stitch Fix 10:40am Panel: Training Talent for Data Science Moderator: Nathan Taback, Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto Panelists: Matt Medland, Director, Professional Programs & External Relations Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Melissa Sariffodeen, Co-Founder & CEO, Canada Learning Code Javier Moreno, Senior Data Scientist, Rubikloud 11:20am Plenary talk, Jonathan Briggs, CPPIB 1pm Plenary talk, Peter Misek, Framework Venture Partners 1:30pm Panel - Startups: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Science and AI Moderator: Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-founder/director, DCSIL, University of Toronto Panelists: Nahim Nasser, CTO, STACK Periklis Andritsos, CTO, ODAIA.ai 2:20pm Plenary Talk, Mads Mihailescu, CTO, Georgian Partners 3pm Plenary Talk, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University, Apple 3:40pm Closing Keynote, Garth Gibson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vector Institute 4:20pm Closing Remarks Nathan Taback, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Departments of Statistical Sciences and Computer Science, University of Toronto Organising Committee: Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-founder/director, DCSIL, University of Toronto Nathan Taback, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Departments of Statistical Sciences and Computer Science, University of Toronto Nancy Reid, University Professor of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory and Applications, Director, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute Matt Medland, Director, Professional Programs & External Relations Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto  Mark Girolami, Imperial College London and The Alan Turing Institute  Moderator: Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-founder, DCSIL, University of Toronto Panelists: Nahim Nasser, CTO, STACK Periklis Andritsos, CTO, ODAIA.AI  Garth Gibson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vector Institute  Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University, Apple  Mads Mihailescu, CTO, Georgian Partners  Nathan Taback, Nancy Reid, Jonathan Briggs, CPPIB, Helen Kontozopoulos #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Industry #DataScience #UofT #Toronto #HelenKontozopoulos
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