Voices Shaping the Field
April 2026 Speakers
Meet some of the leaders, researchers, founders, investors, and industry experts who joined our April summit.
The November 2026 speaker lineup will be announced soon.
Alvin Wang Graylin
Standford HAI丨MIT
Digital Fellow丨Lecturer丨ex-President, HTC
Jamie Ulrich
Head of AI Services
Fateme Mirshahi
Electronic Arts
Technical Director (AI & Machine Learning)
Marc Low
KPMG
Partner, Advisory (Innovation and Emerging Tech)
Stella Lin
Microsoft
Principal PM Lead, Microsoft Teams AI
Colin Knight
City of Vancouver
CFO
Sam Hashemi
Prenuvo
Vice President
Jacob Colker
AI2 Incubator
CoFounder
Gayathri Narayana
SAP
Lead Product Manager
Arun Gomatam
Bain & Company
Expert Associate Partner
Adina Gray
PurpleOwl AI
Founder
Mark Schmidt
Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC
Professor, Computer Science
Kris Krüg
BC + AI Ecosystem
Executive Director
Jeremiah Marble
Playbook Work
CTO
Gokhan Basaran
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Strategic Advisor
David Niu
Delight Labs PR
Founder
Diraj Goel
GetFresh Ventures
Founder & CEO
Ke Li
SFU
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Fernanda Ave
Upskill Marketing AI
CEO
Krista Richmond
Electronic Arts
Director of Analytics
Andrea Barrios
Sandpiper Ventures
Senior Associate
Vivian Wang
VEF
Board Member
Elizabeth Thorsen
Elle Thorsen Consulting
Founder