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125 talks

Why the World's Top AI Talent Choose Canada

Panelist · Upper Bound · Edmonton AB · 20 May 2026

From Data to Impact: Governance, Analytics, and AI in Precision Medicine

Panelist · Dive into AI: Ethics · Halifax NS · 4 November 2025

All Hands on Deck: Towards a Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

Invited speaker · ALL IN 2025 · Montreal QC · 25 September 2025

AI in Health: Threading the needle

Invited speaker · HealthCanada: Federal, Provincial, and Territorial AI for Health Working Group · Halifax NS · 13 June 2025

Dive into AI: Ethics

Panelist · CIOOS · Halifax NS · 13 May 2025

The AI Advantage: Driving Growth and Innovation Across Industries

Panelist · Business Transitions Forum · Halifax NS · 29 April 2025

Responsible AI in healthcare

Invited speaker · Canada Health Infoway Webinar · Halifax NS · 24 April 2025

The Ethical Age: Responsible AI for growing businesses

Invited speaker · Springboard Atlantic’s AI Webinar · Halifax NS · 6 March 2025

NLPrimum non nocere: Avoiding harm in AI for health

Invited speaker · RIDSAI Seminar · Fredricton NB · 12 February 2025

AI in the Ecosystem

Panelist · PIER AI Lunch & Learn · Halifax NS · 5 December 2024

Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

Panelist · WorkForward · Halifax NS · 26 November 2024

Connecting through information

Panelist · BRIC NS Primary Care Research Day · Halifax NS · 9 October 2024

NLPrimum Non Nocere: First, tokenize no harm

Invited speaker · Workshop on NLP at Mila · Montreal QC · 3 October 2024

A Dialogue Between Machine Learning, NLP, and Cognitive Sciences: A Scientific and Societal Perspective

Panelist · Workshop on NLP at Mila · Montreal QC · 2 October 2024

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

Invited speaker · Royal Canadian Navy, Naval Technical Seminar · Halifax NS · 6 June 2024

L’IA soins: opportunités et risques

Invited speaker and panelist · Nuit des Idées · Halifax NS · 24 April 2024

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

Invited speaker · Royal Canadian Navy, Naval Warfare Officer Symposium · Halifax NS · 1 March 2024

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Invited speaker · Responsible Language Models Workshop (ReLM) at AAAI · Vancouver BC · 26 February 2024

Future Directions and Biggest Obstacles

Panelist · Machine Learning for Cognitive and Mental Health (CMH) Workshop · Vancouver BC · 26 February 2024

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Invited speaker · First Vector NLP Workshop · Toronto ON · 16 February 2024

Working dynamics between humans and automated methods

Invited speaker · An Introduction to AI in Health Care · CADTH · 15 February 2024

Cognitively assistive robots for dementia care

Moderator · AI for Good · UN ITU · 28 November 2023

The chatbot will see you now

Invited speaker · Institute for Comparative Genomics Biodiversity Symposium · Halifax Nova Scotia · 14 November 2023

Artificial intelligence in Long-Term-Care

Invited speaker · Care by Design · Halifax Nova Scotia · 13 October 2023

When the axe came into the forest

Invited speaker · Absolutely Interdisciplinary · Toronto Ontario · 22 June 2023

Generative AI

Keynote · Vector Generative AI workshop · Toronto Ontario · 21 June 2023

ChatGPT, machine learning and generative AI in healthcare

Panelist · MaRS Impact Health · Toronto Ontario · 4 May 2023

Digital Phenotyping and Markers

Moderator · The Landscape of Early (Neuro)Psychological Changes in AD/ADRD webinar series · NIH · 17 January 2023

AI in Healthcare panel

Panelist · bioTEC 2022 · Toronto Ontario · 19 November 2022

Panel on AI Deployment

Panelist · Mind the Gap: Enabling AI Deployment in Health · Toronto Ontario · 18 November 2022

The Allegory of the OR: Interpreting automated analysis

Invited speaker · World Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery 2022 · Seoul Korea · 4 September 2022

Say 'ah': Speech and language in medicine

Invited speaker · UofT AI Conference · Toronto Ontario · 19 February 2022

Unconventional pathways in Science and Medicine

Panelist · University of Ottawa Healthcare Symposium · Ottawa Ontario (ostensibly) · 29 January 2022

Say 'ah': Speech and language in medicine

Keynote · NeuroSphere Healthy Brains Healthy Lives · Montréal Québec (ostensibly) · 26 January 2022

The Allegory of the OR: Interpreting automated analysis

Keynote · Surgical Safety Network 7th annual meeting · Palm Beach Florida (ostensibly) · 8 January 2022

11th Annual Ori Rotstein Lecture in Translational Research

Panelist · 11th Annual Ori Rotstein Lecture in Translational Research · online · 2 November 2021

Say 'ah': Speech and language in medicine

Invited speaker · Rotman Research Institute Rounds at Baycrest · Toronto Ontario · 1 November 2021

Why did you do that? Will AI systems ultimately explain their decisions to us?

Debater · Robotics and AI symposium, hosted by Ingenuity Labs and Queen's University · Kingston Ontario · 12 October 2021

The Allegory of the OR: Ethics and anaesthetics

Invited speaker · Machine Learning in Healthcare, hosted by Toronto Machine Learning Society · Toronto Ontario · 21 July 2021

Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP, NAACL-21

Panelist · Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP, NAACL-21 · Mexico City, Mexico · 11 June 2021

The allegory of the OR: ethics, anaesthetics, and cybernetics

Plenary · Canadian Healthcare Optimization Workshop (CHOW) at Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) · Waterloo ON · 7 June 2021

Ask your doctor if NLP is right for you

Keynote · 2nd Workshop on NLP for Medical Conversations (NLPMC) at NAACL2021 · Mexico City, Mexico · 6 June 2021

Beyond Patents: Canada's Intellectual Property Puzzle

Panelist · Innovation Economy Council · online · 3 June 2021

Natural Language Processing

Invited speaker and panelist · Deloitte AI Institute Canada · Toronto ON · 6 May 2021

Natural Language Processing

Invited speaker · Microsoft/UTMIST Discover AI Upskilling Journey · Toronto ON · 3 May 2021

Machine Learning in the Operating Room

Invited speaker · Future Gazing at Northwell Health · New York, USA · 18 March 2021

The allegory of the OR: ethics, anaesthetics, and cybernetics

Invited speaker · Schwartz Reisman Seminar Series · Toronto Ontario · 3 March 2021

AI and the ethical challenges

Invited talk · Innovation Centre Denmark · Copenhagen, Denmark and Silicon Valley, USA · 11 February 2021

Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare (CUCOH)

Panelist · Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare (CUCOH) · Kingston Ontario · 23 January 2021

Decision Making in an Age of Uncertainty

Panelist · Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) Symposium · Virtual · 10 November 2020

Machine Learning in the Operating Room

Invited speaker · Canadian Conference for the Advancement of Surgical Education (C-CASE) · Montréal Québec · 29 October 2020

Artificial Intelligence: Changing How We Practice Surgery: Natural Language Processing

Invited speaker and panelist · Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES 2020) · Cleveland Ohio · 11 August 2020

Towards explainable AI in the OR

Invited speaker · Medical Professional Liability Association CEO/COO meeting · Scottsdale Arizona · 12 March 2020

Machine Learning In and Out of the OR

Keynote · Harold and JoAnn Hoffman Lecture - 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons · Nassau Bahamas · 27 January 2020

AI in healthcare and surgery

Invited speaker · University Rounds - Ben Alman Research & Science Lecture · Toronto Ontario · 10 January 2020

Neural models of language

Keynote · Manulife AI & Advanced Analytics Conference · Toronto, Ontario · 3 December 2019

OR BlackBox AI: Safe Surgery with Safe AI

Invited speaker and panelist · Ontario Medical Association, Physicians in the 21st Century · Toronto, Ontario · 22 November 2019

Language and machine learning as a lens into cognition

Invited speaker · Machine Learning in Medicine Symposium · Toronto, Ontario · 21 November 2019

What we did last summer: Research at SPOClab

Invited speaker · Huawei Annual NLP & Speech symposium · Montréal, Québec · 15 November 2019

Opening the black box with explainable AI

Invited speaker and panelist · Techna 2019: Machine/Human Interfaces · Toronto, Ontario · 25 October 2019

Opening the black box with explainable AI

Invited speaker · Samsung Medical Centre lecture · Seoul Korea · 4 October 2019

Neural models of language

Invited speaker · University of Toronto Scarborough Psychology Seminar Series · Scarborough Ontario · 26 September 2019

Don't drink the Kool-Aid (just sip it), Taking Responsibility for Responsible AI

Invited speaker · Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy meeting · Toronto Ontario · 26 August 2019

Interpretability, Humans in Loops, Policies and Politics

Invited speaker · Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine · Jülich Germany · 25 July 2019

Explainable AI in healthcare

Invited speaker · Element AI speaker series · Toronto Ontario · 3 July 2019

AI in Healthcare and Surgery

Keynote · 74th annual meeting of the Canadian Urological Association · Québec City, Québec · 29 June 2019

Regulation and standards for AI in healthcare

Invited speaker and panelist · CIHR-Health Canada Best Brains Exchange - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Medical Devices · Ottawa Ontario · 22 February 2019

Natural language processing in clinical systems

Invited speaker · Smith School of Business seminar at Queen's University · Toronto Ontario · 19 February 2019

Machine learning in healthcare

Invited speaker · Cancer Care Ontario Analytic Rounds · Toronto Ontario · 5 February 2019

AI in the OR

Keynote · Surgical Safety Network 4th annual meeting · Palm Beach Florida · 5 January 2019

The Future of AI in healthcare

Invited speaker and panelist · Future of Work forum at Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy · Toronto Ontario · 6 November 2018

Will AI revolutionize suicide prevention?

Debater · Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology · Toronto Ontario · 26 September 2018

Media

Recent media and public commentary

24 May 2026

Maritime Connection

CBC Radio · radio · national

24 January 2026

N.S. doctors welcome AI note-taking tool, expert says public transparency important

CBC News · blog · national

23 October 2025

Information morning with Portia Clark

CBC Radio · radio · national

3 June 2025

Maritime Noon with Bob Murphy

CBC Radio · radio · national

25 April 2025

Information morning with Portia Clark

CBC Radio · radio · national

24 March 2025

Information morning with Preston Mulligan

CBC Radio · radio · national

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Maritime Connection

CBC Radio · radio · national

N.S. doctors welcome AI note-taking tool, expert says public transparency important

CBC News · blog · national

Information morning with Portia Clark

CBC Radio · radio · national

Maritime Noon with Bob Murphy

CBC Radio · radio · national

Information morning with Portia Clark

CBC Radio · radio · national

Information morning with Preston Mulligan

CBC Radio · radio · national

L'actualite avec Julien Lecacheur

Radio Canada (CBC Radio; en français) · radio · national

Information Morning with Portia Clark

CBC Radio · radio · national

Radio Morning with Hallie Cotnam

CBC Radio Ottawa · radio · national

ReBootHealth

Spotify · blog · international

Why robots are the way of the future, especially for the elderly

The Sun · newspaper · national

Elder-entrepreneur collaborations spark innovation in care design

Globe & Mail · newspaper · national

InnerSpace

Space · TV · national

Episode 22

POLCast · podcast · international

News

Fairchild TV News · TV · international

Evening News

Global News · TV · national

San Francisco, Morning news with Stan Bunger and Holly Quan

KCBS Radio · radio · international

HitchBot

Various (e.g., CBC, Global/ABC/NBC/CBC/CTV News, Toronto Star, National Post, UofT...)

The Morning News with Bruce Kenyon

News Talk 770 (CHQR) · radio · national